Tammy Taylor - Dazzle Rocks Nail Polish

These are her Dazzle Rocks Nail Polishes, various color glitters suspended in a clear polish base.

I can't find them on the painful Tammy Taylor Website, so I don't have a link or prices... Sorry.

They are each labeled with "Dazzle Me Up" red, blue, or black. The silver one is different, it's Dazzle Me Up Stardust and my gold bottle is missing a label, so I don't know if it's called gold, or something fancier.

 

For each of these swatches I used one coat over the colored nail polishes so you could see the opacity. The ring finger nail shows 3 coats of the Dazzle Rocks nail polish over my natural nail.

 

Stardust over China Glaze Laced Up

 

Mystery gold color over Sinful Colors Endless Blue

Blue over Sally Hansen Xtreme Wear Green With Envy

Black over Sally Hansen CSM Lavender Cloud

(I really like how it's a mix of black and silver)

Red over theBalm Mellow Yellow

The glitter polishes were easy to apply and the glitter seems to disperse evenly without any extra effort. Each of them are pretty topcoat hungry in that it looked best with 2 coats of Seche Vite topcoat.



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OPI Liquid Sands - Jinx & Honey Ryder

These are part of the OPI Bond Girls Liquid Sand Collection. 

The gritty texture trend in nail polish was a turn off when I first saw swatch pictures. And when I first applied these I had a big case of the heebie jeebies because it felt so.... wrong! But I wore Jinx for 3 days and by the end I had gotten used to it and felt it was pretty cool after all.

They were provided for review by Beyond Polish.

Jinx

 Can be found for $6.95 here at Beyond Polish.

Bright orange/coral with gold glitter. Being a liquid sand, it's meant to have this gritty texture.

Very easy to apply, just 2 coats, dry time is fast.

Honey Ryder

 Can be found for $6.95 here at Beyond Polish.

Light neutral gold tone. This polish seemed less textured than Jinx. 

Pictured is 2 coats. The formula was equally easy to apply.

 

*These were provided for review*

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Shimmer Polish - Irene + Born Pretty Rhinestone Picker Upper Thingy

Check out Cindy's Etsy shop, website, or facebook for more information on purchasing. Or you can always email her directly with your paypal address and the colors you would like to purchase:

shimmer484(at)gmail(dot)com

The minute I realized that Cindy sent me Irene, I knew I would be recreating this look from Wacky Laki. I loved her idea from the first glance I had of it.

 Here is a bottle shot of Irene and a simple swatch of one coat layered over Zoya Farah.

 I used the same image plate as Anutka, Mash40. The square studs are from this stud wheel sold at Born Pretty. I just put them in this different container. The white pencil thing is actually pretty awesome. It's a rhinestone picker-upper-thingy. It's center is a waxy material, so it gives you just enough grab onto the rhinestones to position them and it releases easily.

 

 The handy dandy rhinestone picker upper thingy is sold here at Born Pretty for $1.99 (for 2 pencils)

They came like this and I just used a standard pencil sharpener that I had in my office to get the point pictured above.

Here is a quick and poor quality (sorry) video to demonstrate just how easily it works.

It works just as well on large rhinestones or decorative items like these big bows. 

(Also a Born Pretty product 10pcs for $3.99)

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Shimmer Polish - Tammy & Candace

More Shimmers!

 Check out Cindy's Etsy shop, website, or facebook for more information on purchasing. Or you can always email her directly with your paypal address and the colors you would like to purchase:

shimmer484(at)gmail(dot)com

 

Tammy is mainly purple, silver, gold, & black. I really like that it has an interesting mix with some bar glitter too. Here I layered one coat of Tammy over Rimmel I Lilac You.

Candace has gold holo pieces and tiny black glitter. Here I layered one coat of Candace over Zoya Ziv.

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Ruby Wing - Poppy & Sunflower

These polishes from Ruby Wing are both SCENTED and COLOR CHANGING. It was quite interesting to find those 2 in one polish. 

Poppy

(Can be found here for $10)

2 coats indoors. It's a vibrant medium pink.

 The little hanging tag that shows the color change and says it's scented. The scent is very strong. I'm not good at describing smells... but the best I can come up with is "grandma put on too much floral perfume again."

Outdoors the polish changes to a deep wine/grape shade.

Sunflower

 (Can be found here for $10)

Fine gold glitter in a clear base indoors. The pinky is 3 thin coats, which results in complete coverage/opacity. The other nails are all just 1 coat of Sunflower layered over white polish, black polish, and Ruby Wing Poppy.

 The tag shows it changing from a pale gold to a brighter yellow gold?
Scent.... I guess it smells like Sunflowers, I honestly don't really know what that smells like. The scent here is quite strong again, and to me it smells almost like a clean cotton/fresh linen manufactured scent.

In sunlight.

In my opinion, I didn't see much of a change. The pinky looks just slightly more bronze colored in sunlight.

The index finger (Sunflower layered over white) shows that the clear base turns yellow.

And of course the ring nail is over Poppy, the other color changing polish, so it looks really different.

 

 

The inside of the tag just has basic directions and a cute quote.

The formula on both of these polishes is really great, dry time is fast, and the brush is standard quality.

*These products were sent for review as part of the Color Society Bloggers Network*

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Pink & Gold

Here I have a design that was quite simple but fun. The nails have a nice gold shimmer that is concentrated on the tips. I used Spoiled Uh, As If! & China Glaze White Cap as a gradient. Then I stamped the star (?) image from Bundle Monster BM311 with China Glaze 2030.

 

What do you think?

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Zoya - Ziv

A recent purchase from Zoya's promo. I wanted a good gold foil, and this fits the bill.

Pictured is 3 thin coats. 

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