Belieb Me, I'm Plum Tuckered Out!

 
This was a struggle getting this post together before the night's end. I'm sorry it's nothing exciting. I hardly have anything to say about it.

One thing I will say is that the brushes on CND polishes are awesome! I didn't realize how much I liked them until I looked at my hands after applying Plum Truffle and saw that EUREKA! There was hardly any polish on my actual fingers to clean up! Almost all of it wound up on the nails where it was supposed to. You can try to chalk that up to practice and a steady hand, but the brush was a much bigger factor than I thought it ever would be.

A good brush and a sick formula? CND's pushing its way into my heart. Or at least the part of my heart that supports nail polish. I would say there's a part of my brain that does too, but that's probably been dissolved with the polish fumes by now.

Oh, by the way, the silver glitter on top is a Bieber polish, Make U Smile (Nicole by OPI). (Why the "U" Beibes? Why not just use the other two letters in the word?)

Wet n' Wild Chrome Collection Swatches

Today's a swatch post. Look away now if that's not what you came for.

I'm showing you the Wet n' Wild Chrome collection. I grabbed these 8 polishes at Walgreens for $3.99 a piece. I admit, that's a little pricey for only being 8.5 mL instead of your normal 15 mL, but the colors rock. 

There are 8 colors in the collection and I have to admit something to you guys right now. I did a very true-to-blog thing with these. I bought them solely so I could review them for you. I barely looked at the colors, just saw that there was one of each and grabbed each and every one of them! There I said it! I DID IT FOR YOU GUYS! I LOVE YOU GUYS!

Let's start.

First up is Steel the Spotlight. It's the silver in the collection. This one had the lightest application, which makes sense, so I had to use two coats for this swatch.

Next is A Show at the Palladium, the gold. I had to look up what exactly the Palladium was, and I'm still not sure I know to which one they're referring to. My guess is it's not referring to the Palladium Lounge, one of the public rooms on the cruise ship Carnival Destiny.

Penny for Your Thoughts is the copper. How appropriate that it be named that! On a side note, why does the new United States penny remind me a lot of Captain America?

I can't be the only one thinking it can I?
Source for Captain America poster
and shield penny

Ok now here's Precious Petals. A nice, deep rosy pink.

You're going to love the name for this purple-silver chrome: Hog-Quartz School. Ha ha! Can you imagine going to a school like Hogwarts...but instead of just magic, there's nail polish too? Oh good lord that would be epic.

Would this polish be called Gryffindorable?
Source for Gryffindor crest

Anyone from Baltimore read my blog? If so, you'll like this name: Grew Up in Cobalt-imore.

Stay Outta My Bismuth is another one I like. Now try one thing for me. Read that out loud and try not to sound like you have a lisp. OK, I just tried it. It's actually not hard at all.

I Got a New Com-pewter is a chrome I've never had, or thought I wanted. A lime green chrome requires a special pair of cojones to wear. I guess I have cojones.

My favorite part about these after swatching them is their names.  I Got a New Com-pewter and Hog-Quartz School win in that category.

They also covered really well, most needing at most two coats. So there's that.

I hope you don't mind the occasional swatching, especially if it's an entire collection.  I just really wanted to share these since it's probably a limited edition grab you may kick yourself for missing out on later. Like I said...I love you and I want you to be the first to get them!

Taste This Rainbow

If Skittles started making creamsicle flavored Skittles, I think they would look like this.

And you would so buy them. You'd feel guilty about it, and you would purposfully rip the bag right where the calorie content was listed, but you would still buy them. And you would LOVE THEM!

I used six colors for this creation. My Boyfriend Scales Walls (OPI) for the white, Grape Pop (China Glaze) for the purple, No Room for the Blues (OPI) as my blue which turned into a beautiful softer blue, Just In Lime! (Sally Hansen Insta-Dri) for the lime green, The "It" Color (OPI) for my yellow (with no hint of the red undertones coming through at all) and Tasmanian Devil Made Me Do It (OPI) for the orange/red.