Kris Primps!

Cotton Candy is a peach cream. Again with the good coverage in two coats, though unfortunately not the best color on me.

Lemonade is a soft yellow cream. I don’t have a lot of experience with yellows, since it is clearly NOT a good color for me, but this was pretty decent for everything I’ve heard about yellows being streaky. While this was definitely not as user friendly as say, Snowcone, this still was pretty nice and even in two coats.

Sweet Spring is a nice collection, and I’m very impressed with the formulas. That being said, I really can only see myself reaching for Snowcone and Gumdrop, which makes me kind of irritated with myself that I keep on compulsively buying the entire collection. Definitely looking forward to the sparkly collection from Zoya for summer – getting sick of all of the pastel creams!

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Lollipop is a pinky purple cream. I’m so bummed because I really do love colors like these in principal, but I really don’t think they do me any favors. Pinks and purples only seem to do well on me if they’re darker. This was two coats, though it barely needs the second.

Pixy Stix is a bright pinky coral cream. This was more sheer than the previous three, making it just a little jellyish, but I got decent coverage in two coats. Looking at the picture, though, three might have been better. Thankfully it’s pink enough to work on me (not too orange).

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Again I’ve got six polishes over three days – on a work trip this week!

Snowcone is a beautiful powdery blue cream. There’s one coat on one nail, two on the others, and I can’t tell the difference. The coverage of this is incredible!

Gumdrop is a lovely mint green. I haven’t been a big mint green fan, but I think this one works more on me than past colors – this somehow just seems less toothpastey. Though I guess I could just be getting used to the look. This was two coats.

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I’m not all about nail polish and makeup – my first love is and always will be shoes. I might be throwing them in now and then.

I just debuted my newest pair at work this week:

These are Charles by Charles David, and I LOVE them. Just enough sophistication to balance the animal print for a professional setting (and intimidate the heck out of junior engineers – just what I like to see!)

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I was pulling OPIs for NOTDs, and realized I was reaching for the France Collection this week. Definitely a good one!

We’ll Always Have Paris is a lovely plummy almost vamp. Very sophisticated! It reminds me of Zoya Casey, but without the slight jelly feel. This was two coats.

Parlez-vous OPI? is a dusty lavender cream. This is a nice and sophisticated color, easy application in two coats.

You Don’t Know Jacques! was a little disappointing to me. This one has LOTS of hype, and I definitely realize the taupes are in right now, but this was maybe just a little too dark and dirty looking for me. This was two coats, good coverage.

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I brought out my old bottle of Pearl of Wisdom, and put it on my index and ring fingers.

The old has two coats, and the new has four. They are definitely not the same polish. The old is milky and white and more of a frost. The new is sheer and a shimmer and has a duochrome finish. I’m definitely glad I got the new one!

It’s gorgeous layered. This was over two coats of Dim Sum Plum, resulting in a very pretty shimmery pink.

Wicked over black (one coat of Wet ‘n Wild Black Cream)! It really shows the green in the polish, with some purple.

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Dim Sum Plum is a bright cheery fuchsia cream. This isn’t incredibly earth shattering, but it’s a nice formula, opaque in two coats and easy to control.

Pearl of Wisdom is a sheer white pearly polish. It’s got a bit of duochrome goodness to it. It’s also a re-release – I have the original bottle from way way pre-nail blogging days. I’ll compare them tomorrow as well as try this layered. This was four coats.

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Suzi Says Feng Shui is a beautiful dusty teal blue. This isn’t the best cream formula, but it’s not the worst. The first coat was a little streaky, and the second one was a little runny. Just a tad annoying, but not enough to be discouraging. This was two coats.

Jade is the New Black is a dusty green, just a bit on the kelly side. This was a little easier to control than Suzi Says Feng Shui, opaque in two coats. I might be using this for St. Patrick’s Day!

Not the norm for OPI, and I like it!

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I’m still recovering from vacation and preparing to be gone all next week for work, so bear with me as I do these two at a time (I only bought half the collection anyway).

Meet Me on the Star Ferry is a gorgeous shimmery mauve. I seriously love this one – it’s work appropriate but interesting. This was two coats.

Lucky Lucky Lavender was more sheer than I expected for the first coat, but evened out with the second. It’s a really pretty pink-ish lavender, but I’m a little bummed out by the way it looks on me. Not so flattering. This was two coats.

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My knitting friend brought a bunch of nail polishes in case I wanted to swatch any of them. We were doing more knitting than nail polishing, but I had to try out LA Girl Flare Dark Purple:

This is one of my favorite types of colors – blue-based purple with lots of shimmer! I was getting really jealous of the color, then remembered that this is pretty similar to Finger Paints Icy Iris and OPI Visions of Sugarplum. This is saving me a search, which is a good thing as I’m pretty sure “Dark Purple” is just what Forever 21 calls this color, not the actual color name. This was two coats.

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