What I Wore 11/16-11/20

I'm debating how I should continue these "What I Wore" posts.  I've been tempted to wear some of the previous polishes again, but don't want to have redundant posts.  Silly to even be tempted, I have over 150 polishes, so there's plenty of new material for the blog.  Still, I'm undecided if I'll keep describing what I wore or if I'll just switch to a polish review format.

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.

What I Wore 11/09-11/13

I started this week with Hare Polish's Damn Fine Coffee from her original Twin Peaks Collection.  I ADORE Hare Polish so much.  It is by far my favorite indie brand.  The creator has been ill, so her store is out of stock right now, but she's working on a restock and a new release.  You can find information about her shop HERE.

I purchased DFC in the spring and have been eagerly waiting for fall to wear it.  It is a stunner!  My photo doesn't do it justice. It is a brown jelly base packed with copper and gold flaky and round glitters.  It also has a gorgeous gold shimmer and in strong lighting, there is a sprinkling of vibrant red glitters that look like sparks of fire in the polish.  I could not keep my eyes off of my nails while I was wearing this.  Most Hares are 3 coaters, but this one was an easy 2.  Removal is a pain though-I had to use the tinfoil method and even then it didn't get all the glitter off.

After 3 days of brown nails, I opted for some color.  My Ulta had a sale on Zoyas (buy 2 get 1 free) and I can never resist even though I have a ridiculously sized Zoya collection.  I picked up Zoya Talia from this year's Island Fun Collection.

Talia is a bright yet dusty turquoise.  It is nearly a one-coater, but two-coats were needed to even it out.  What I loved about this year's summer collections is that the colors are bright and bold, yet deep and slightly dusty which makes them very wearable in the fall as well as the spring or summer.  I thought this color was gorgeous, but it is a bit of a stainer and requires careful removal.  (All of Zoya's medium-dark blues seem to stain my nails.  None of their other colors do.)

At the end of the week, I wore another color that I was eagerly waiting for fall to wear-Zoya India.  India is from last year's Ignite Collection.  Just look at how gorgeous it is!

India is a deep burgandy base with gold flaky shimmer.  It is dark and vampy but the shimmer softens it and adds interest.  It definitely is a stunner for fall.

What I Wore 11/02-11/06

I started the week wearing Zoya Yves from this year's Matte Velvet Collection.  All the reviews I have read have raved about this one, but it seemed really flat while matte.  I don't really like flat matte nails, which is why the matte velvets appeal to me, They've got some shimmer/texture when matte.  Yves is not like that though.  I rarely wear the Matte Velvets matte though, I always topcoat to bring out that breathtaking shimmer.  Yves has it, but it's pretty hidden unless you are under strong lighting.

I am unsure how I feel about this one.  I'm disappointed in the look of it matte, and I wish the shimmer was more prominent.  It has a fantastic formula but stains really bad.  It looks very similar to OPI Yoga-ta Get This Blue, but the OPI is metallic and this one looks like a navy cream unless the lighting shows the shimmer.  It might go in my destash pile, I haven't decided yet.

After being disappointed in Yves, I decided that I wanted to wear a truly sparkly Zoya.  I opted for Zoya's Gilda from the Sparkle Collection.

Gilda is a bright nearly hot pink jelly loaded with gold flaky glitter.  The glitter takes on some of the pink color making it look orange.  Gilda is very very sheer and when I put 3 coats on, you could still see the dark blue staining from Yves.  So I ended up wearing it over a berry cream color (Zoya's Areej).  Areej is a nice 2 coater cream which I topped with 2 coats of Gilda.  Gilda is the color of the bottle in the picture, my nails are cooler toned because of the berry base.  I ended up getting really busy and wore this for 4 or 5 days.

After bright pink, I wanted to wear a fall-esque color and chose OPI Green on the Runway from last year's Coca Cola Collection.  It is a emerald green/copper red duochrome.

Green on the Runway is a 2-3 coater with a fantastic color shift.  It's probably my favorite duochrome.  Although metallic, it doesn't leave obvious brushstrokes.  This was my favorite polish of the week.

Halloween Nails

I did some very simple nail art for Halloween-candy corn nails.  There are plenty of YouTube tutorials out there for these.

I used Wet'nWild Doh, Butter London Silly Billy, and Sinful Colors Snow Me White for the ring finger.  Zoya's Serenity is on the rest of my nails.