I started the week wearing Butter London Dubs from the Brick Lane Collection. I first saw Dubs in the holiday Steampunk collector set in my Ulta and it has been a lemming since. I couldn't find it for sale individually and really thought that it was a set exclusive. But then, two weekends ago, I found it in TJ Maxx. It was even clearanced to only $2.99 instead of the usual $4.99. Heck, I would've been willing to pay the normal Butter London $15 price tag for this one.
Dubs is a rosy nude textured polish with silver shimmer and larger blush hex glitters. It is so pretty. It's very subtle and office appropriate, but is still a fun sparkly texture. I've heard lots of people say that textures are out right now, but I really don't care. I love textured polish and will continue to rock it even if it's not in style right now. Dubs had a slower dry time than the OPI liquid sands but dried faster than the Zoya Pixiedusts. It wore really well and I had no chipping or tip wear, but I only wore it for 2 days.
Next, I wore Zoya's Charla from the Sparkle Collection. I know that it is the classic Zoya color, but I didn't own it for the longest time. After wearing and loving Gilda 2 weeks ago, I decided to order Charla, Mimi, and Ivanka. I passed on Alegra because when I layered Gilda over a berry polish, it looked just like the pictures I've seen of Alegra.
Charla is a turquiose glass fleck packed full of gold flaky shimmer. The gold shimmer is tinted by the blue polish and makes it look very green toned. It is very pretty. Every time I looked at my nails, I caught my breath. It is that stunning! It has one major problem though-it is a STAINER! Not just any stainer, Charla might just be the worst staining polish that I've ever tried. I had on 2 layers of basecoat and it still colored my nails greenish blue. Seriously, I removed it 5 days ago and my nails are still stained. It took 2 days of major scrubbing before my fingers weren't smurf-like, but the nails still are. I'm pretty upset about it, when a polish stains badly, I rarely wear it again, but Charla is so pretty. Anyone know how to avoid staining?
I had to choose a dark polish to hide the blue mess left from Charla, so I chose to wear another Zoya of mine, Yara. Yara is an olive green with gold shimmer. It's from the Mirrors Collection. It is a 1-coater! The shimmer is Yara stands out in the bottle, but is super subtle on the nail. That normally wouldn't be a problem, but I needed some glittery bling to distract from the smurf hands. (You hopefully can't see it in the picture-yes I used a photo editing program to make my hands flesh-toned again.) So I layered Superchic Nail Laquer's You Don't Know Jack About My Beans on it.
YDKJAMB is from Superchic's Into the Wood's Collection. It is an artichoke green with an ultra strong copper shimmer and a very subtle holo. It is super sheer-it's still sheer at 4 coats, so I only wear this layered over another green. 1-coater Yara is the perfect layering polish to this. YDKJAMB is very blingy and was perfect for distracting me from the blue cuticles.
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