SWATCHES - BARRY M & HOT TOPIC

Good morning all!! I have a short day here at work, so I don't have much time to do many posts. I have a few swatches for you all, and yesterday's NOTD. Later I will post today's NOTD. I have a couple of Hot Topic polishes and a couple of my Barry M's that I won a few weeks ago.


HOT TOPIC - PINK GLITTER 3 COATS
This is a sheer, jellyish pink with lots of glitter in it. The glitter mostly flashes blue which makes this color really cool. As usual with these, they are difficult to handle due to the useless handles on the brushes. Also this was thick, so paired with the bad brush application on this isn't perfect.






HOT TOPIC - HOLOGRAPHIC SILVER SHRED 4 COATS
This is a clear black base with lots of silver holo shreds in it. This applied much nicer since the formula was much thinner. I was hoping by four coats the base color would have built up a little better, but it didn't. This needs to be used over another base color I think to get maximum joy out of it :)






BARRY M - NAVY BLUE 2 COATS
This applied vary nice, and I just loved this blue color! I have really started to like me some blue polish! Blue is something I wouldn't have bought say, 3 years ago. But now I have two shoe boxes of blue polish now!! Navy Blue is really nice, and is great for those who want a dark blue that doesn't look black.






BARRY M - BRIGHT PURPLE 3 COATS
I wanted to like Bright Purple so bad, and I did, just not on me. This purple has a Strong blue base to it and I think that is what I just didn't like about this one. I did wear this for my NOTD yesterday, but the more I wore it the more I decided I didn't particularly like it on me. Love it in the bottle just not for me I guess!





The 3 pics below are the most color accurate to this shade. You can see how dark the purple is, which is funny since it is named Bright Purple!

HELLO KITTY - GLITTERFIED

Here is my NOTD - a sparkly, glittery, Hello Kitty stamped masterpiece, lol. This came about after sitting at the dining room table for at least an hour with NOTHING working out! I tried several things and they just weren't turning out how I imagined, so I went with my no fail Hello Kitty stamp.

I used Sally Hansen polish for the base colors and then used red and blue Hot Topic glitters for the top. I just LOVE how the hot pink Sally Hansen with the red Hot Topic glitter came out looking bright cherry red, instead of dark red. These are super sparkly and just look awesome! Enjoy :)

**EDIT**

The HELLO KITTY stamp I ordered from Ebay - it isn't Konad brand. Here is a link to some for sale.

PREGNANT NAILS. . . . .

I guess I should say, nails on a pregnant tummy! I did my sister's nails last night, and I thought what would be a better prop to use than her tummy! She just cut her nails down short, so we decided to go with just a plain polished nail. I used the purple glitter polish from Hot Topic. I kept telling her that the color is amazing in the sun. Today she im'd me and said how much she loved the color and kept looking at it. Of course I gave her the old "i told ya so" response!

I also did her feet last night too. I didn't get many pics because she was getting ready to leave and my poor BF was standing outside her car holding a recliner, waiting to load it.

Due date of Aug 4th

SPARKLY GRAPE

For today's NOTD, I used one of my Hot Topic polishes. Most of you know Hot Topic doesn't name their polishes (grrrrrr, pet peeve!), so I am calling this Sparkly Grape. As usual, purple is one of the hardest colors to photograph properly, so this looks much darker and bluer than it is in real life. Think of the quintessential grape purple color and that is what this is. It also has cool flaky shimmer in pink and purple. I love this color, the bottle and brush suck, but the color is gorgeous

The following are all outside sun and shade shots: