The Polish Jinx: A-England

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Friday, October 5, 2012

NARS New York Dolls, Cult Nails Vicious & A England Elaine Swatches/Comparisons

I looked through my stash and honestly had no purple that I could say was a dupe for this one at all. But I had two emails yesterday asking me how it compared to different polishes so those two messages are the basis for the comparisons today. The first request was to compare it to Cult Nails Vicious and the second email was to compare it to Elaine from A England.

Now these are swatched in the EXACT same order they are pictured above. As you can see both colours are darker than New York Dolls. Vicious is a more red based purple and while in these photos New York Dolls looks much much lighter, its really no more than a shade or two lighter. For some reason it photographs MUCH lighter than it is. Its really much darker than this! Elaine is not as grey or dusty but much closer. And again, these are NOT that much darker at all. But New York Dolls is more blue based purple than Vicious and much more of a blue dusty/greyed bright purple than Elaine is. Elaine is much more the true dark purple!

Tuesday, May 29, 2012

A England Elaine & Tristam

Confession - I am having a love affair. I LOVE LOVE LOVE A-England. It started innocently enough. I tweeted my simple question "What brand of nail polish will have the best chance of lasting a week?" I was heading out of town, I needed ONE manicure that would LAST!! I have about 2 days if I am lucky before I destroy my manicure. Sad but true. I am to manicures what a sumo wrestler is to a buffet table. Really! The overwhelming response was A England. And lets just say they were all right! And thus started my love affair.

Elaine is a gorgeous eggplant purple crème. LOVE!!

Tristam is a royal blue holographic bottle of awesomeness.

One coat each! STUNNING!!! And they LAST!!

Friday, March 30, 2012

Secret Easter Bunny Reveal - TAKE TWO!

Two days ago I got an AMAZING package on my doorstep! My second Secret Easter Bunny package. I LOVE everything and everything I opened was perfect for me! Instead of going on and on about how much I love everything, I will just get to the reveal!

Look how awesome the card is??!! It stands up on its own! I love it!!

The box had three packages in it!

The first was this MASSIVE easter egg!

Opened:

All the contents revealed:

Now I can honestly say if there was ONE Butter London polish I would have liked a back up of, it was this one! The fact that both my bunnies got it for me is fantastic!!

Never even HEARD of this brand before! Let alone tried it! Cant wait!!

I loved each and every polish! Now on to the bag!

OMG!!!!! EUROPEAN SMARTIES!!!!!!!!!! So yummy! I cant believe I went from YEARS of not having any, to having some twice in the last little bit!! YAHOO!!

A super cute nail file.

And are you ready for this??????? I thought I had opened all the nail polish! BUT NOPE!!!!!! Koh Platinum Silver. Oh my gosh is this holographic insanity or what?? AWESOME BALLZ!!!