Polish Combo of the Week: OPI and Nubar 2010!

I finally got Nubar 2010 for my birthday, even though I've been wanting it all year. I love Nubar, but sometimes I don't order from them often because the shipping is pricey, the polishes themselves are kind of pricey, etc. It doesn't seem worth it if you're only ordering a few polishes. But let me tell you, Nubar 2010 is absolutely worth the expense!!!

with flash

I wore two coats of OPI William Tell Me About OPI to a fancy dinner party this week. The morning after the party, I decided it would be the perfect base for Nubar 2010. I was SO right. The flakies really pop against such a dark background. I LOVE the way these flakies are reddish/orange sometimes and green depending on how you look at them. I tried to capture the green in the photo below, sorry for the blurriness.



I am wearing two coats of William Tell Me About OPI and two coats of Nubar 2010 in all of these pictures. You can see William Tell Me About OPI alone here. I didn't want to take this combination off, but by the time I put 2010 on, I had been wearing William Tell for a few days, so there was some tip wear and a few chips going on. I'll definitely be wearing this combo again soon!





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Barielle Fall Sale!

In case you haven't heard, Barielle.com is having a 20% off sale site wide. Now is your chance to pick up some of their beautiful polishes. Are you hauling from the Barielle sale?

Also, I have a Sephora by OPI polish to review for you tomorrow! I would have done it today, but I got a spray tan for a recent dance competition and it left my cuticles a bit orange! See ya tomorrow!

Polish of the Week: Ulta Total Eclipse

I have a couple of Ulta polishes to review for you over the next few days. I'm starting with a really cool super dark grey called Total Eclipse. It looks almost black in some lights, but is way more flattering than harsh black polish. This picture does not do the polish justice, as it was raining and cloudy when I took it.

This is my first experience with Ulta's own brand of polish and it was a pretty good one! I love this color and the formula was easy to work with. This is three coats, but you could easily do two. I am not the biggest fan of Ulta's wear time. This polish seemed to chip quickly, about one day after application.

I'll definitely try to get a better picture of Total Eclipse when I post the next Ulta polish!

Ulta polish retails for $7.50, but they always have sales and deals on it. Right now, Ulta polish is buy one get one free on Ulta.com.

MAC Venomous Villains Polishes

I got a seriously GIGANTIC amount of make-up from MAC's Venomous Villains collection. I am a huge MAC fan, but I also really love Disney movies and the villains in them. I wish this collection had included Jafar from Aladdin and Ursula from The Little Mermaid (my two favorite villains). However, the collection still rocked and it contains something for everyone.

Let's move on to what you want to see-- the nail polishes! FYI, I've read about the Orly dupes for MAC Formidable! and Mean and Green, but after my Orly Cosmix experience, I decided to go for the MAC versions.

MAC Mean and Green, three coats, sunlight

First up is Mean and Green. I LOVE this!!! This is what I wished Orly Space Cadet was, but for me, Space Cadet did not work out. I'm over it now though, thanks to Mean and Green. This is a gorgeous pink/green/gold-ish multichrome. It is a bit sheer, but three coats looked just beautiful. It looks more sheer in the sunlight pictures than it did in real life. This is one of those polishes you can't stop staring at.

MAC Mean and Green, three coats, shade

MAC Formidable!, three coats, no flash

Formidable! is another winner in my opinion. This is the one that has the other Orly dupe. Formidable! is a brown and blue duochrome that was really hard to capture in pictures. It kinda looks more like sparkly brown in my pictures, but look at the bottle-- it's blue! That's how this polish is in person, it's brown, then changes to blue-brown when you move your hand. If you own MAC blue-brown pigment, Club eye shadow or even Burmese Beauty eyeshadow, you have an idea of what this polish is like. Very cool for fall and super interesting to stare at.

MAC Formidable!, three coats, no flash

MAC Bad Fairy, three coats, shade

Bad Fairy is the polish in this collection that has no purported dupe. It was also very hard to take a good picture of. The weather was cloudy and starting to rain when I took these, so I might try to retake them in sunlight. If you look at the bottle, you can see the gold flashes in the polish. This is such a pretty red/pink/gold multichrome. I'm never a huge fan of reds and pinks, but the gold flash in this really makes it special.

MAC Bad Fairy, three coats, shade

MAC Bad Fairy, three coats, kind of sunlight

Overall, I love these three polishes together. I hated my bottle of Orly Space Cadet, so these satisfied my lemming for the Orly Cosmix. Bad Fairy definitely has no dupe, so grab that if you can find it! I think these are sold out online though, so check your MAC counter/store or websites like Macy's and Nordstrom.

China Glaze 'Tis the Season Preview

Ahhhh! Look at the adorable China Glaze Holiday collection!!! Cute little sets, glitter, peppermint cuticle oil! This has everything!
Read on for details from China Glaze:

"“TIS THE SEASON TO BE NAUGHTY AND NICE”

Celebrate the Holiday Season with Sugar, Spice and Everything In Between

Los Angeles, CA – (September 2010): Ring in the holidays this year with 16 brand new colors from China Glaze that are sure to bring festive cheer to your hands and feet!

Naughty and Nice: Deeply rich wine crème.
Sugar Plums: Plum shimmer.
Mommy Kissing Santa: Deep cherry red shimmer.
Phat Santa: Red crème.
Ruby Deer: Bright red crème.
Mrs. Claus: Red glitter.
Party Hearty: Green, gold and red chunky glitter.
Mistletoe Kisses: Green glitter.
Jolly Holly: Forest green shimmer.
Peace on Earth: Olive green shimmer.
Little Drummer Boy: Navy blue shimmer.
Jingle Bells: Champagne shimmer.
Midnight Kiss: Gold shimmer.
Cheers to You: Silver shimmer.
Frosty: White frosty shimmer.
Snow: White crème.

Certain colors will also be available in the following gift sets:

Celebrate in Style Collection: Includes Little Drummer Boy, Peace on Earth, Mommy Kissing Santa, Jingle Bells and a holiday necklace.
Merry Mint Set: Includes Naughty and Nice, Mrs. Claus and a complimentary China Glaze Peppermint Oil.
Rejoice Set: Includes Mistletoe Kisses, Mrs. Claus and a special red holiday candle.
Cheers to You: Includes Midnight Kisses, Cheers to you and a China Glaze shot glass.
Dreamin’ of a Green Christmas: Includes Mistletoe Kisses, Midnight Kiss and Jolly Holly.
Oh, Ruby Deer: Includes Sugar Plums, Ruby Deer and a stuffed animal.
Peppermint Kisses with Holiday Wishes: Includes Mrs. Claus, Phat Santa, Snow and Frosty.

The 16 seasonal colors will be available for a limited time only, so catch them fast before the holidays are over. "

Polish of the Week: Essie Sew Psyched

Essie Sew Psyched, three coats, with flash

Whew! Sorry about the lack of posts this last few days, it was a crazy week and I have a horrible cold as well. My polish on both my fingers and toes was looking a little beat up by late last night. But thank goodness it's the weekend and I can do a nice mani/pedi today!

I was so busy this week that I actually rocked the same polish from Monday til about midnight last night! Shocking for me! But Essie Sew Psyched definitely earned it's Polish of the Week status because I got loads of compliments on it all week and I never got tired of it. Sew Psyched is a cool green/grey color that really looks different depending on the lighting and probably depending on the skin color of the wearer. When I first put it on, I thought it was really just grey. But when I started to see it in different lights, I saw more green to the polish (as you can see in the pictures with flash). In fact, on Thursday I was complimented on my green polish! Sew Psyched has a teensy little bit of shimmer to it, but it mostly looks like a creme.

Essie Sew Psyched, three coats, no flash

The formula on this was good, not too thick like some other Essie polishes. It was maybe a tad streaky on the first coat, but that cleared up with the second coat. I can actually comment on the wear of this polish for a change! After 5 days of wear, I had some tip wear (not horrible though) and only one chip. I used China Glaze Fast Forward top coat too, which isn't the most long-lasting top coat in the world. Overall, I really like this grey/green beauty!

Giveaway Winner!!!!

Congratulations to Nicole, the winner of our China Glaze Awakening giveaway!!!

Thank you all for entering and reading Never Enough Nails! You can be sure there will be another giveaway soon enough!

Polish of the Week: Color Club Revvvolution

Color Club Revvvolution, three coats, no flash

As promised, Polish of the Week this week is a fall appropriate color, Color Club Revvvolution! Revvvolution is one of my all time favorite fall and winter colors, so it was an obvious choice for me to wear for one of my first fall manis. Check out the gorgeous black/charcoal holo goodness.

Color Club Revvvolution, three coats, blurry with flash to show holo

I'm sure most of you have seen this before, but I'm betting not all of you own it. If you don't own it, it is a serious MUST HAVE! It is more holo than the bad versions of OPI My Private Jet, so even if you already own a bottle of that, you still need Revvvolution! The formula on this one is great as well, and whenever I wear it, I can't stop staring at my nails!

Color Club Revvvolution, three coats, no flash

Color Club Revvvolution is a little hard to find, but Transdesign has it in stock! Just click on "Color Club Polishes A-Z"

Remember to enter my 300 Follower Giveaway!!!

300 Follower GIVEAWAY!!!!!

It's time for my 300 Follower Giveaway!!!!! And I'm giving away one of my personal favorites of this fall!

One lucky winner will take home the China Glaze Awakening Halloween set! This set includes one bottle each of Zombie Zest, Mummy May I, Ick-A-Bod-Y!, and Fast Forward Top Coat. For swatches of these polishes, see my review of this collection.

To enter this contest, you must be a follower via Google Friend Connect OR a follower on Twitter. If you are a follower both on Twitter and Google Friend Connect, you are entered twice! Additional entries will be given for:
1. A comment on this post telling me which fall polish you are loving
2. Adding Never Enough Nails to your blog roll
3. Posting about this contest on your blog
(for numbers 2 and 3, please leave a comment on this post with a link to your blog, so I can verify)

The contest will end on Sunday, September 19, at midnight EST.



The amazing pictures in this post were taken by my photographer boyfriend. He wanted to do one picture with the red lighting to go with the whole vampire/zombie theme. Cool, huh? If you're into photography, go check out Behind the Lens, his brand new photography blog.

Good luck and thanks so much for reading Never Enough Nails!!!!

Lazy Blue Ombre Mani

with flash

I call this a "lazy" ombre mani because I just did all different shades of blue shimmer polish on each nail, not a true ombre where the polish transitions from dark to light on each nail. But I think it still came out cool and I'm enjoying wearing it right now.



This mani is OPI Russian Navy on my thumb, Lancome Indigo Paris on my pointer, China Glaze Blue Paradise on my middle, China Glaze Frostbite on my ring finger, and Sally Hansen Salon Calypso Blue on my pinkie finger. OPI Ink is a good substitute for Lancome Indigo Paris. I think these manis work best when you keep all of the polishes in a similar finish (i.e. all cremes, or all shimmers/pearls like I did).




I also think that ombre manis are a cool way to move from wearing summer polishes to winter. Right now, I'm trying to hold onto the last bits of summer, so I'm not ready to rock dark nails. This way, I have dark nails mixed in with some summery colors!

China Glaze Awakening Halloween Collection

Ahhhhhhh, finally, a polish collection that lives up to my exceedingly high expectations—China Glaze Awakening. I was pretty excited about this one when I saw the preview pictures awhile back, and my excitement has only grown since then. Fortunately, these “ghoulish glitters”, as China Glaze calls them, did not disappoint.

Zombie Zest, three coats, no flash

First up we have Zombie Zest. Zombie Zest is a swampy green jelly base polish with super fine glitter. In this polish, the glitter is almost suspended under then surface, so it has a very smooth finish. Aside from being one of those ugly/beautiful colors that I happen to looooove, Zombie Zest is one of the coolest polish names FULL STOP. I have read that one of the Orly Cosmix polishes is a dupe for this. You know why I bought this one instead? Because it’s named Zombie Zest. It’s also cheaper, but mostly because it’s named Zombie Zest. The formula was good, nice and even on the application. There is a little VNL, but the base is really a jelly, so VNL is kind of unavoidable.

Zombie Zest, three coats, no flash

Zombie Zest, three coats, no flash

Mummy May I, two coats, no flash

Next up is the beautiful Mummy May I. Another fabulous polish, another fantastic name. Mummy May I is a deep purple crème with hot pink medium-sized glitter. The glitter comes out pretty evenly spaced, so that no one spot seems bare. Application was good. I suggest using only three stokes to apply this polish though. It seemed like it was drying so quickly that if you went back over an area, the polish ended up streaky. I love this kind of dark, vampy color in the fall. The fact that it contains hot pink glitter makes it that much better.

Mummy May I, two coats, no flash

Mummy May I, two coats, with flash

Ick-A-Bod-Y!, two coats, no flash

Last, but I think possibly my favorite of this collection, is Ick-A-Bod-Y!! I say possibly my favorite, because I love them all so much! I guess a lot of people don’t get the name of this, but I think it’s another awesome name. The classic Legend of Sleepy Hollow, featuring Ichabod Crane, was always a Halloween favorite of mine. The other reference here is more amusing, as in “Ick! A body!” LOL. So I think this might be my favorite name of the three actually. Now, about the actual polish! This is a green crème base loaded with medium-sized orange glitter. The glitter really takes over the polish, not that I mind, of course. Application was great, and it was perfect glitter packed in only two coats! If you’re thinking this sounds similar to last year’s Sally exclusive, Fortune Teller, think again! I took a comparison picture for you. Fortune Teller has two different sizes of orange glitter, a black base, and less glitter than Ick-A-Bod-Y! Ick-A-Bod-Y! clearly has a green base and TONS more glitter!

Ick-A-Bod-Y!, two coats, no flash

left to right: Fortune Teller, Ick-A-Bod-Y!, Fortune Teller, Ick-A-Bod-Y!

Overall, this is my favorite collection of the fall. No questions about it. I think I mentioned before how much I love Halloween, so naturally the names are great for me. The colors are also exactly what I like to wear in the fall- a weird swamp-like green, a vampy color, and plenty of glitter. I know some of you might be cringing about the removal process for these, and to you, I say, GO BUY ZOYA REMOVE+. Seriously. I soaked a cotton pad, let it sit on the nail for 10 seconds and all the glitter just wipes right off. This whole Awakening set is a MUST HAVE!!!!! for me personally. By the way, if you buy this collection as a set, it comes with China Glaze Fast Forward Top Coat, which is really great! I hadn't tried it before getting this set, but I really like it so far. Expect a review on it soon.

China Glaze Awakening is available online at Victoria’s Nail Supply and should be arriving at Sally Beauty Supply stores sometime in September.

OPI Halloween News

The OPI Halloween mini set is available now if anyone is interested! It looks cute! I may be picking it up.

Also, I have swatches of MAC Ming Blue from MAC's Fall Nail Trend coming up soon. I might get them up later tonight, but if not, I'll do that tomorrow.

OPI Swiss Fall 2010 Polishes

I learned a lesson today when I was swatching the three OPI polishes I got from the Swiss collection. A lot of times, I look at big collections like the Swiss collection, and I'm disappointing when I don't LOVE every single one of the polishes. BUT... I got three from the Swiss collection and absolutely am obsessed with all three!! So, maybe companies can't crank out collection after collection where every person loves every polish, but if you find three real gems in a collection, maybe it's still a winner.

OPI Diva in Geneva, two coats, no flash

On to the goods! First up we have my favorite, Diva in Geneva. GORGEOUS!!!!! This is a stunning pinky-purple shimmer that is a little bit blackened-looking. It's purple, but definitely has a healthy dose of magenta thrown in there. I think this is one of my favorite OPI polishes since last year Holiday collection (I'm looking at you, Merry Midnight). I can not WAIT to rock this polish in the fall and winter. It would even still look hot in Spring. Shown is two coats. Application was perfect. LOVE. This is a MUST HAVE!

OPI Diva in Geneva, two coats, no flash

OPI Diva in Geneva, two coats- this is kind of a bad picture, but I think it captures the slightly blackened feeling I mentioned

OPI William Tell Me About OPI, two coats, no flash

William Tell Me About OPI is another winner, in my opinion. It's a blackened purple/red creme. I have heard that it's close to Lincoln Park After Dark, but I actually don't own that. From what I've seen of LPAD, this is slightly less black-looking. You can actually tell that this polish is not black, but deep deep wine colored. Again, application was great and it only needed two coats. This is a Must Have if you don't own LPAD.

OPI William Tell Me About OPI, two coats, no flash

OPI Glitzerland, three coats, no flash

Finally, we have Glitzerland. Gold shimmer polish isn't exactly groundbreaking, but I love gold polish. Glitzerland is also slightly different than some other gold shimmers I own. The shimmer looks like individual pieces almost, instead of all mixed in, or something I can't describe. I had to do three coats of this one, but I think it's worth it. Very pretty. If you like gold polish, Glitzerland is a Must Have.

OPI Glitzerland, three coats, no flash

Overall, OPI just has the best formula, in my opinion, and I am REALLY happy with these three polishes. They're unique in my collection and all colors I love to wear in the fall. I think I might pick up Lucertaine-ly Look Marvelous and Yodel Me on My Cell also. They sat on my dresser during the 200 Follower Giveaway, and I was sad to mail them away LOL. Anyway, I think my opinion of the OPI Swiss Collection is more favorable than it was in the beginning. It's a solid collection, with something for everyone, so check it out!

The OPI Swiss Collection is available at your local Ulta store.

Sephora by OPI Fall Collection: Just a Little Dangerous

Sephora by OPI Just a Little Dangerous, two coats, no flash


Just a Little Dangerous is definitely the polish that caught my eye when I saw the promo pics for this collection. It's described as a dramatic eggplant purple and has plenty of shimmer, as you can see from the picture taken with flash.

Sephora by OPI Just a Little Dangerous, two coats, no flash

This isn't the most unique polish I own, but it's definitely a beautiful fall/winter purple. I'll be wearing it a lot when the weather gets a little more fall-like! Application and formula were both good, as you can expect from a polish made by OPI. I did two coats here and the polish is nicely opaque. I do like this because it never looks black, and while I like black polish, I think we need purples that always look purple!

I would call this a Must Have if you don't own anything like it already!

Sephora by OPI Just a Little Dangerous, two coats, with flash

Sephora By OPI Just a Little Dangerous is available online at Sephora or at a Sephora near you!