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OPI Starlight Collection Holiday 2015

OPI Starlight Collection Holiday 2015

Posted on by Cynthia

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Happy Friday everyone! I am so looking forward to the weekend because I am going to try to get all my Christmas shopping done (hopefully online), and I want to do a major cleaning session. It’s probably not the best time of the year to do this, but I’ve been wanting to paint my bedroom forever. I want to do a light blue or light green with white accents–it’s going to look awesome. Anyway, today I have the OPI Starlight Collection for Holiday 2015 to share with you. This is a pretty typical holiday collection so let me show you my swatches before I give you the rundown.

OPI Guys & Galaxies 1

OPI Guys & Galaxies 2OPI Guys & Galaxies

OPI Two Wrongs Don't Make a Meteorite 1

OPI Two Wrongs Don't Make a Meteorite 2OPI Two Wrongs Don’t Make a Meteorite

OPI Love Is In My Cards 1

OPI Love Is In My Cards 2OPI Love Is In My Cards

OPI Infrared-y To Glow 1

OPI Infrared-y To Glow 2OPI Infrared-y To Glow

OPI I'm In The Moon For Love 1

OPI I'm In The Moon For Love 2OPI I’m In The Moon For Love

OPI Let Your Love Shine 1

OPI Let Your Love Shine 2OPI Let Your Love Shine

OPI Give Me Space 1

OPI Give Me Space 2OPI Give Me Space

OPI Cosmo With A Twist 1

OPI Cosmo With A Twist 2OPI Cosmo With A Twist

OPI Center of the You-niverse 1

OPI Center of the You-niverse 2OPI Center of the You-niverse

OPI No More Mr. Night Sky 1

OPI No More Mr. Night Sky 2OPI No More Mr. Night Sky

OPI Press For Silver 1

OPI Press For Silver 2OPI Press * For Silver

OPI I Drive A Supernova 1

OPI I Drive A Supernova 2OPI I Drive A Supernova

OPI Is This Star Taken 1

OPI Is This Star Taken 2OPI Is This Star Taken?

OPI Comet Closer 1

OPI Comet Closer 2OPI Comet Closer

OPI By The Light Of The Moon 1

OPI By The Light Of The Moon 2OPI By The Light Of The Moon

OPI Ce-less-tial Is More 1

OPI Ce-less-tial Is More 2OPI Ce-less-tial Is More

OPI Super Star Status 1

OPI Super Star Status 2OPI Super Star Status

Well, this is a huge collection! There are some really great shades here, but I can honestly tell you that I can live without all the metallic shades. Some of them are downright ugly, but then you see others like Give Me Space and Cosmo With A Twist and you just fall in love. Despite all the misses with the metallic shades, the cremes, shimmers and jelly glitters are just gorgeous and definitely worth picking up. What are some of your favorites? Let me know what you think. Thanks so much for stopping by today, and have a fantastic weekend!

 

Essie Virgin Snow Collection Winter 2015

Essie Virgin Snow Collection Winter 2015

Posted on by Cynthia

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Can you believe that in less than 4 weeks, 2015 will be behind us? It’s such a weird feeling to realize how quickly this year has blow by. I was thinking today, that if you have followed my blog for a while now, I feel like I’m in such a different mindset now than I was a couple of years ago and I hope you have noticed it and that you also think it’s something positive. I think that the biggest change in my life is that I now have a job that I actually like. If you guys can remember how much I used to complain about the job I had 2 years ago, I’m sure you can agree that it’s night and day. Anyway, I am just grateful for the positive changes in my life. Even though I still have my struggles, I just feel fortunate to be where I am now. Moving on to more important things like, ahem, POLISH! I’ve been totally lazy about my blogging lately only because…well, I’ll say the holidays is my excuse. I’ve had these swatches done for a few weeks, but I just haven’t had the energy to even put this post together. As you may know, I have this weird obsessions with purchasing all Essie collections hoping that they are awesome. I won’t tell you know many times I end up being disappointed, but let’s just say it’s a lot. Despite this, I just keep coming back for more. Currently I’m waiting with bated breath to see what the 6th polish for their anniversary collection will be. Rumor on the streets is that it’s Starry Starry Night but I’m just going to wait and not spaz out just yet. I think I am forgetting why we are here today. Oh yeah! I have swatches of the Essie Virgin Snow Collection for Winter 2015! Let me show you my swatches before I give you the rundown.

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Essie Peak Show

 

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Essie Virgin Snow

 

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Essie Shall We Chalet?

 

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Essie Altitude Attitude

 

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Essie Haute Tub

 

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Essie Apres-Chic

 

Let me get this out of the way and just say that this collection gets a big fat MEH from me. Ok, so there is nothing really wrong with this collection, but it’s so boring. I was super deluxe looking forward to Haute Tub, but it ended up disappointing once on the nail–it’s like an Essie trademark: gorgeous in the bottle, fail on the nail. (Hey, I should coin that phrase!) Both of the reds have a great formula and the two lightest shades are kind of a PITA but they are so glacial and perfect–like Catherine Deneuve in a bottle. I won’t even bother to mention the silver because we all know how much I dislike the 5 million silvers that have come out this year. So all in all I can say it’s a very boring collection made up of nice polishes. Since I’m not in love with this collection, it’s going up on my blog sale. If you want a good price, you can buy this collection and the Luxeffects collection for a decent price. Anywho, check out my blog sale here if you’re interested. I’m interested to hear what you think of this collection so let me know in the comments below. Thanks so much for the visit, and I will talk to you soon.