Venus Creatures NOTD: Juliet

(It's valentine's week for the nail board, and although I don't post much on there I decided to participate.)

Come night, come Romeo; come, thou day in night, 
For thou wilt lie upon the wings of night
Whiter than new snow on a raven's back. 
Come, gentle night; come, loving, black-browed night,
Give me my Romeo, and when I shall die
Take him and cut him out in little stars,
And he will make the face of heaven so fine
That all the world will be in love with night
and pay no worship to the garish sun.
(III.ii. 17-25) 

 

 (Three coats of OPI Princesses Rule!, and three coats of Sephora Brand Glittering Blue Sapphire.)

BB Couture, Vampy Varnish

 

Okay, I have serious issues trying to take a picture that's not only color accurate, but also epic and beautiful and cause angels to dance around your vision. 

Why? Mostly because I have a huge gigantic fling with Vampy Varnish (the polish, not the blog, although the blog is quite awesome too). It's beautiful. Let me just show you, since I don't really have words:

 

  

  

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Um, what?Oh, it's a black jelly with an emerald green and gold microglitter interspersed into it, and it's awesome. It looks like the cosmos implanted itself on my fingernails. It took three thin coats, but I'd assume most people would get away with two. It's also very very very shiny, but apparently there is no sun from where I usually take pictures (when I walked out today, though, BAM. the stars came to life. One big glittering, shimmery, shiny black-and-green awesome). Dried gritty, but one coat of seche vite will do! (Except it shrank from the edge of my tips for the first time; what the hell?)

Also also, I experienced no problem with glooping or thick polish at the beginning of my manicure, but by the time I hit the second hand, application was a nightmare.  I'm surprised at that; one would think that it wouldn't dry out so quickly--either way, thinner solves the problem. :)

I should probably work on my paper, but how much do you want to bet I'll just sit there staring at my nails half the time? I wouldn't.

Blush In A Mood Nail Polish, Green

 

Do you feel lucky?

Lucky is the mood today with our last Blush mini (props, nail polish naming company, for not taking the easy way out and naming it Envy like 103148231091 other green polishes) and it is the perfect color of sour apple candy. Like most of the set, it's a jelly three-coater, but three coats gets this one fully opaque. 

Here's a picture of it in sunlight and far off:

 

 Sunlight. 

  

Further off, indoors.

I'm surprised with how much I like this one, like the orange. It's not a color I'd normally wear, but it looks kind of good, don't you think? (Off topic, but I just put Mint Candy Apple on my toes and I have never seen such a terrible case of lobster feet as I see now. I guess that means I'm warm-toned? Funny how nail polish can teach you what makeup cannot. (I'm still a winter, though.)) It also looks juicy, but more in a candy kind of way than the orange, which reminded me of a pulp in a tangerine. This one just makes me want Jolly Ranchers.

I think that this set is a pretty good one! I knew what I liked in polish when I first started out--cool colors, the occasional red, pink, nude--but this makes me branch out a bit and tentatively poke the world of brights. And so far, so good; there isn't anything I hate yet except the sheer yellow that I'll probably end up frankening with. I can't imagine reaching often for the brights, but they'll be a fun alternative at some point during the spring and summer. And during dreary old days in the rain. :) So, yes. Good set, but I'm all color and jellied out. Do you know what that means?

It's glittertime.

Blush In A Mood Nail Polish, Purple

Purple is the only non-jelly color (it has a couple jelly-like properties, which I'll talk about later), but is a perfect two-coater of a medium purple. This baby is gorgeous--and yes, I know it's a purple, but it's pretty accurate. So glossay--I think you can actually see my face in the reflection of this one, yeah. And blue sky? I can totally see the sky.

I'm almost afraid of loving it as much as I do since it's a mini and can't possibly be replaced.And I really have no words to describe the beauty of this one. I guess this means I'm a purple-freak.. or that I'll become one? Hmm.

Oh yeah, the creme-jelliness. It's not a true, flat-out, stark creme, which is probably why it retains so much of its gloss after two coats. But the color is too pigmented to be called a true jelly, which needs a little more translucence. 

Well anyway,  here it is again:

Awesome.

Blush In a Mood Nail Polish, Orange

Look:  I don't like orange. There's a lot of reasons for me not to like orange, but one of them is that they just look horrible on my skin. Another is that my mother spent quite a bit of time under the delusion that orange was one of my best colors and continually decked me out in it until my classmates made fun of me.

I don't like orange, and I don't find it a "funny" color, and it does not evoke moods of humor in me. I'm sorry, Blush's little heart-shaped tagline. Orange is not funny.

I hate orange...but I LOVE this.

Blush's orange is a true jelly color that takes three coats to approach the amount of pigmentation that you see on my nails right there. You'll get visible nail line, slightly, when the sun hits the jelly just so, but y'know what? I don't mind that.  This polish looks so juicy, somehow. Like a tiny pulp of a tangerine, magnified.

(But y'know, you can always put a white base on it.)

Blush In a Mood Nail Polish, Blue

Blue, in the world of Blush, apparently signifies the "mysterious" mood. Stare at that pretty baby for a while and let me know if that's the first thing that comes to ya.

(Three coats, like every other Blush polish--also, it's after two days of wear, so pardon the tipwear and the scratches. Looks pretty good for that long a time, no?)

This color is my favorite so far out of the Blush set, although I disagree with the name. It doesn't remind me of mystery at all, as much as it does ridiculously bright summer skies, pools, beaches. It has all the energy and brightness of the words "summer vacation". I want this color on my toes.

The far-off pic, like usual, depicts the color accurately for being in the shade: there's a tad more of a greeny tint than what's suggested in first picture. Actually, I thought the color was similar to Illamasqua Muse, but I couldn't be more wrong--Muse is decidedly greener, and dustier, than the true-turquoise that's on my nails right now.

I'm really surprised at the wear of these polishes:  when applied properly, they seem to last for days! I have a little bit of tipwear, but no signs of cracks or chips yet.

Three more to go!

Blush In a Mood Nail Polish, Fuschia

Ah. Much better, no?

We're still continuing the Blush set, and I'm currently on Fuschia, which apparently means "Friendly."  Like everything else so far, it's a three-coater jelly (the only one so far not to have VNL, btw) and super glossy. (On a random note:  I predict you can do about 4-6 mani/pedis with one color each.)

More random:  the bow comes from a sticker set I picked up at Forever21.  Note to self:  Seche Vite is NOT a good topcoat for nail art stickers--the rapid shrinking that quickdry topcoats do causes the sticker to wrinkle, bubble, gap. I don't know how that ribbon bit tore off, by the way; when I woke up it was just that way.

I initially thought this color was more Magenta than Fuschia, but--again, sunlight proves me wrong. I had a friend who once told me that if auras existed, mine would probably be magenta.  Wikipedia says that the magenta aura belongs to a highly creative and artistic, openminded person. Isn't that funny? The word just makes me think of Blues Clues.

I should no longer write these entries at four in the morning. Crud. x_o