Cult Nails: Nevermore One-Coat Black Creme Polish

Give me a creme polish and I'll, eventually, look for a way to get glitter on it...

This is a one coat black creme....seriously!!! Maria, owner and creator of, Cult Nails has done what no one else could; make a one-coat black creme. Kari, from Once Bitten Blog, came up with the PERFECT name too: 'Nevermore'. I wore 'Nevermore' for two days before playing with glitter. So, as you may notice, there is hardly any tip wear. 'Nevermore' is so shiny that I didn't even need a top coat either.

Before I removed 'Nevermore', I did four glitter effects on each hand...

 

 On my right hand, I used: NK Nail Enamel in 'Magical' (thumb); Orly in 'It's A Meteor' (index finger); Cult Nails in 'Captivated' (middle finger); Wet 'n Wild in 'Bow In My Presence' (ring finger); and my pinky is bare.


Now on my left hand...

Starting with my thumb: Cult Nails in 'Happy Ending' (thumb); Orly in 'Be Brave' (index finger); China Glaze in 'Luxe and Lush' (middle finger); ring finger is bare; love & beauty in 'Clear/Silver' (pinky). I like how the sunlight bounced off 'Happy Ending'. 

Years ago, when I wore black nail polish, I was so 'goth' about it. It seemed deviant. But today, I don't think anyone thinks twice about seeing it or wearing it. At least for me, I didn't notice anyone pulling their children away from being around me. 

Want to wear a one-coat black creme proudly? You can order yours at Cult Nails. And you can order 'Happy Ending' and 'Captivated', that I used, as well.

Do you take a walk on the wild side...wear black nail polish?

Three Polish Brands; One Big Holiday Polish Haul

These are my recent nail polish hauls. And it's a haulage!!

I got these at Sally's. I wanted to get 'Ingenue' as well, but it was gone!

These two polishes are from Orly's Holiday Soiree collection. On the left, the gawdawesome 'Androgynie'. The one on the right, that's 'Oui'.

Go ahead and take a closer look...

'Androgynie'...the final frontier. The baby lacey nail file is cute but utterly useles.

'Oui' to a gold and silvery-purple duochrome.

Lovely shades. Nothing terribly new, but these are the shades of polish I like. You can see some 'hot damn' swatches of this collection at I Drink Nail Polish's blog.

I was at the right place at the right time to get this collection from China Glaze...

This China Glaze collection is from the one called Eye Candy 3-D. I don't know what the 3-D part is because these polishes have no more or less depth to them than any other glitters. But, maybe I missed getting the free 3-D glasses that should have come with these.  I did get in on the sale at Ulta though. I bought 2 and got 1 free. At first, I was only going to get 5 but since that sixth one was free, I got them all.

The first one above is called 'Lorelei's Tiara.' That's the one that has silver glitter and then some teal glitter swirling around within. That is one of the more unique looks.

Next to that is 'Marry A Millionaire'. Great saying that goes with a medium purple glitter with holo bar glitter. Another rather new look to me.

And then the last one in this line up is a gold glitter; 'Blonde Bombshell.' This is the one I wasn't going to get at first. It's a gold glitter but has these larger sizes of gold glitter as well. I feel I have to get my nose right down into it to see the differences in the sizes, however.



Next set...

From left over to right; 'Material Girl'; 'Some Like it Haute (named after one of my favorite movies); and then 'Love Marilyn.'

 'Material Girl' is a dusty pink glitter with larger sized pink holo glitter.

Next is 'Some Like It Haute.' This one is another favorite. It's a dark, slate gray and has holo glitter suspended in it. Last is 'Love Marilyn' and this is a gorgeous red glitter sprinkled with silver glitter.

There's 'Androgenie' next to 'Some Like It Haute'...

 I know they are not the same and the only similarities can be they are both dark and have holo glitter. However, when you put them side by side, they actually bring out the unique flavor of each other.

Blurred for shimmer, you can see both are full of holographic glitter. 'Androgynie' has the larger hex shaped pieces.

And lastly, I found the Nicole By OPI's Holiday Glitter collection. I picked up just two...

 On the left, 'Orna-ment For Each Other'. Now that's a Santa suit red! It's got speckles of gold glitter within a sea of red glitter. Ho Ho Ho!

 And on the right, that's 'Glitter In My Stocking.' It's a bright gold glitter that has red and copper glitter thrown in for some major holiday awe-ness.

They look like glitter tree ornaments, don't they?

There were a total of 4 shades to this collection. One was a fuchsia glitter ('My Sleigh Is In The Shop) and the other was a bright blue with a rainbow assortment of colored micro-glitter called  'Snowman of My Dreams.' I hemmed and hawed over that one and I think I've convinced myself that I will have to go back and get it.


I better get busy and Holiday Swatch! Do you have any of these or, are there some here that you know you'll get?

An Intoxicating Grog: Witch's Brew

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Halloween is coming up so fast, I'm going to run out of days before I can do all my Halloween looks.

Here's one that is my favorite for this season...

 

 Check out Icing's 'Witch's Brew.' That is some concoction!!

'Witch's Brew' is Icing's 2011 Halloween collection. Out of an jelly orange glitter and a jelly purple with purple glitter, this one out of the bunch is my total, total favorite.

I'm intoxicated by 'Witch's Brew.' If I were not a nail blogger, I would wear this shade all month. It's a black jelly and has dark turquoise micro glitter in it.

I used Seche Vite as the top coat and you'd swear that you are looking up into a midnight sky. I used three coats of polish then one coat of Seche for this mani.

Have you seen this shade before? You probably have. 'Witch's Brew' is a near dupe to a couple of other polishes available...

On the left is Icing's 'Witch's Brew', in the middle Sinful Color's 'What's Your Name?, and last is Cult Nails' 'Living Water.' Can you see how 'What's Your Name' is more of a blue glitter?

And take a closer look at Cult Nails' 'Living Water.' This polish has something the other two do not: luminosity. 'Living Water' has turquoise glitter that looks like it is lit up. Hands down, the best looking of the three. I did a post on 'Living Water.'

It probably goes without saying that I'm a total sucker for clever names and 'Witch's Brew' is one of them.

Next is a couple of random sharings.

Every time I am at a mall that has a Forever 21, I stop by. I'm compelled to! This is what I scored last week...

When I was in high school, there was this saying 'I wouldn't kick that out of bed for eating crackers in it.' How horrible, blech! But that stupid saying came to mind when I photo'd these at the sunny window. I'm saving these for Christmas manis.

And lastly, last week my brother, sister-in-law and niece vacationed at the happiest place on earth, Disney World. I got to hang out with them a few days. I, too, am 12 years old when I'm with my 12 year old niece. It's grand to have someone to play with. :)

This is Karlie...

Trick Or Treat, Smell My Feet, I Found A Polish That Can't Be Beat

If you are scurrying around, trying to get a lot done and the Internet gets wonky, doesn't that just piss ya off?! OK, I guess I need to get into some sort of anger management computer class or, net rage control intervention.

But, this pumpkin soothes my nerves...

I was in St. Petersburg, Florida last weekend for my sister's wedding. I checked G's (Nouveau Cheap) virtual tracking map for Wet 'n Wild's On the Prowl collection. I actually saw 2 spottings marked for the Gulf Coast!

My hubs has got it through his head that yes, we will stop by several Walgreens, when we are out. And I was damn sure we would on our way to the Gulf.

I've given up on the On the Prowl collection. But I did find these...

I have seen and know about Del Sol polishes, however, this is the first one I have ever purchased. I think I've avoided buying any Del Sol because I'm not what you call an 'outside' girl.

I didn't think 'Trick or Treat' was going to fair well all by itself (notice middle finger). And I got out my trusty black creme and went to town. I used Wet 'n Wild's 'Black Out.' I have 2 coats of 'Black Out' and used 2 coats of 'Trick Or Treat.' I didn't do a top coat as I figured it would not work with sunlight-changing polishes.

I wasn't paying any attention and thought this was going to be a just OK polish. No! This is way better than a just OK!

 There is iridescent glitter in this! And the orange glitter plays off the iridescent and creates fireworks. Good grief, I can't get over the look.

Remember, I just stated that I'm not the outdoorsy type, right? I guess I wasn't outdoors enough when I was photographing these shots because 'Trick or Treat' was not changing. Hmmm...what that the trick? Then I got a bright idea (whoo hoo...bright idea is gonna be a pun, hold on). I thought I'd use my UV light box. Word!

And here is the bottle itself. You can actually see the line where the bottle was out of the light spectrum.

 I'm pretty gaga over this polish. It was hard for me to move on to swatch another one.

Have you seen 'Trick or Treat'? How do you like Del Sol polish? Are you hoping to find a Winter Holiday Del Sol polish, like I am?