Nail Polish
 

I love nail polish. I wear many different colors and brands. Right now, many companies are doing polish like OPI's Black Shatter. Check out the pic, it gives nail polish a cracked texture. I'm mostly into brights and pastels since Spring is finally here. Anyone loving nail polish like I am?


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I remember seeing something about this a while ago, and thinking it was really cool. A couple of my friends have this polish. The cracked look doesn't really go with my style, but if you can rock it, more power to you! My favorite polish trend of the moment is all of the spring colors. I love the mint, lavender, dark purple, and hot coral colors. I wear a lot of pastels, so these colors work for me.

A good website to help build you nail polish collection: eyeslipsface.com. At first glance, it seems a little sketchy, since everything is a dollar, but those nail polishes are really good. They don't chip off easily, they don't need a lot of coats, and they have a great selection of colors. It beats most of the other brands I've tried (excluding OPI and Essie). If you go to retailmenot.com, you can find some coupon codes that will get you free shipping so you will only have to pay for the polish (or makeup) you buy. I have the mint and light purple colors from here, and I love them :)

Hi victoriana, I love ELF for inexpensive makeup and beauty items. Some of their makeup brushes are great. I've never tried their nail polish though.

I own a full set of their professional brushes, they are all fantastic! I also own many of the mineral eye shadows. I got them on a sale of buy one get one free. You should definitely try the polish. The sparkly red color is my hands-down favorite though, it reminds me of red velvet cake.

I really want to try the Sally Hansen nail polish strips this summer when I'm not teaching. They look pretty fun, especially the patterns. I tried a similar product from Avon a year or so ago. The nail strips were tricky to put on. They were kinda wrinkly. But they didn't chip and were pretty difficult to remove with nail polish remover. Hopefully the SH kind are easier to use.

I really, really want to try the "laced up" version of the nail polish strips. I suck at doing detailed nail art and can't really afford to go to a salon. If anyone has used these let me know!
http://dailyvarnish.files.wordpress..../lacedupd1.jpg

A lot of my FB friends have been nuts lately over a product line called Zoya. To the point that some of them ordered 8 - 10 bottles of polish.:eek:

http://www.zoya.com/content/category...il_Polish.html

I guess I'm just an old-fashioned girl ... nail polish patterns never really appealed to me (aside from a brief phase in high school where I would apply a bottom coat, a color, a clear polish with gold sparkles, and then a top coat). I hardly even wear nail polish any more. I've grown my fingernails long, and shape them, and I type wicked fast despite the long nails (probably upwards of 80wpm) because I learned to touch-type after I grew out my nails. I keep my toenails well trimmed. And that's it. To me, the "cracked" look just looks like you or your manicurist made a mistake.

Patters look awful on my nails... I have big hands, long fingers, big nails. I'm loving the colors that are in this spring though. I had robin's egg blue for a couple weeks but it was cheap polish (Wild Thing or something brand from Forever 21) so I dished out the money for Essie's Sugar Daddy, which barely shows up on my nails after two coats, but I love the subtle hint of pink. I'll probably get one shade up, Pink Diamonds, next though, for a little more color. Or I may go back to robin's egg blue for Easter because it does look very Easter eggy :D I'll probably go back to Sally Hansen's Truffle for summer.

I'm kind of an outspoken nail polish enthusiast :o

I've seen this nail polish and it's very nice. Though I've never tried it, I still thank you for this thread! My favorite nail polish (CG Nail Slicks in Cherry Brandy) was long ago discontinued but this thread gave me the idea to search for it online. I just ordered 4 bottles. :)

Last weekend I got this color at ULTA and totally love it. The flash washed out the color a little bit, it's like a opalescent turquoise:
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That is my favorite thing right now. I absolutely adore it. Also the "teenage dream" from the OPI Katy Perry line is great. So much glitter!

^^^I have seen it and I love that polish, but can't find it!

My past several color changes have all been reds & corals, and it's about time to switch it up - anyone have any recs for good summer-y blue creme polishes? I love blue polishes for spring & summer, but I *hate* sparkle on my nails & it seems like every blue I find is all shimmery.

Try Essie, they do great non-shimmery blues.

My favorite blue is by Mavala, its called Cyclades
http://img-2.fruugo.com/product/4/28/1117284_max.jpg
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