Sunday, September 30, 2012

Sephora by OPI - Who Let the Dorks Out?

I used to be a huge fan of Glee.

Glee, if you don't know, is this horrible show about some caricature of a highschool where everyone gets together and sings. The Glee club is higher on the social totem pole, it seems, than any other extracurricular activity, but somehow the gleeks are still tortured and made fun of.

I used to be a huge fan of Glee. It was my favorite show in it's first and second seasons, but then it got weird. The head cheerleader had the baby with the hot one on the football team, and got kicked off the cheerleading squad, so... what, so Fran Drescher jr's freaky witch mom could adopt the baby? It got really weird, really fast.

All that aside, there are a few parts of Glee that I really enjoy. For one, I enjoy drinking slushies. Every time I see an ad for glee, they make a big deal out of slushies.


Who Let the Dorks Out is a perfect bluey-green slushie in a bottle. It's seriously making me thirsty just writing about it. It's a green jelly base, with all sorts of teal and blue micro-glittery shimmery stuff that all sorta blends together in about 3 coats. 


I used 2 coats here and could have definitely used a 3rd. Of course, I realized this after I'd slapped a coat of Seche Vite on top and took several pictures. You can see some of my nail line, and definitely the green base.


Here it's a lot easier to see how blue the shimmer is. I love this color, but honestly it was sort of a pain to work with. The first coat went on super smooth, but I had trouble making the 2nd even, and the skinny brush wasn't helping too much either.


How awesome is this color? It almost reminds me of China Glaze's Passion In the Pacific, but this one actually dries and it's a little more sheer.

Overall, I like it - and of course it was on sale. I scored this one on clearance at Sephora for $3. 




China Glaze - Hook and Line

I might as well do all these now - I have a couple mini-reviews done and it's probably worth it to just finish them all now. Prepare yourselves for a ton of posts!

This one's for China Glaze - Hook and Line. A color that came out in the Hunger Games collection months ago, I've been totally psyched about reviewing this polish. I didn't even see The Hunger Games - I wanted to read the book but never found the time. By the time I finally saw the movie (read: lasty week) I already knew half the story because everyone was so hype about it.

Just like I missed the book and the movie, I pretty much missed the nail polishes too. When China Glaze came out with the Capitol Colors, I thought they were pretty meh. People started reviewing them though, and by the time I made my way over to Sally's all I found was this one hiding in a clearance bin. I'm kicking myself for missing Luxe and Lush, and especially Stone Cold - they're gorgeous.
I fell in love with Hook and Line though, and I was dead set on it. I've been totally excited to do this review - before I even had a blog, I wanted to write about this one!

Here it is, the moment I've been waiting for...


Hook and Line is a frosty, greyish, maybe taupe, almost purpley frosty color. There is really no good way to describe this color, besides GORGEOUS. 


In the shade, you can see how bronze it looks. Many people said they had a problem with lots of brush strokes, but I didn't have any sort of issue - for me, application was a dream. 2 coats is what you see here, plus Seche Vite on top. 


Here it is in the sun. The frost is super apparent in this photo, but it's not frosty in a bad way. Hook and line is super flattering with my skin tone, so maybe I'm just really partial to it.

I got this on clearance at Sally's. I think I paid something like $2.99 for it, but China Glaze will normally cost you $6.49.


Color Club - Insta-This

Alright! My first actual review of a polish.

I'm starting off with something I got in my Birchbox last month. If you're not familiar with Birchbox, It's a company that sells little sample packs of beauty supplies. You pay $10 a month, and you get a surprise box in the mail filled with goodies. Usually, there are 5 or 6 "deluxe sized" samples. For September, one of my samples was this mini bottle of Color Club's Insta-This.

Insta-This is a color from the Birchbox & Color Club Custom Collection. It's a mouthful, isn't it? There are 3 other colors in the collection, but I haven't got the chance to review them.


Isn't that bottle so cute and tiny? It's 7ml, so a little bigger than your traditional "mini" bottle. It's a really pretty color in the bottle, and it translates just as well to the nail.


Here it is in the shade. I used 2 coats, plus Seche Vite on top. I apologize for the mess - This was the first time I ever actually swatched a color and I have no clue what I'm really doing! 


In the sunlight, Insta-This comes out almost neon. It's so bright I was having a tough time capturing the color, but this picture is pretty true to the color in real life. The formula on this color was awesome, and it was basically opaque in one coat. Everything just came together really nicely.

The only problem I had with Insta-This was that it stained my cuticles pretty terribly when I took it off. I had a real issue with getting myself totally clean without messing up my hands and drying them out.

All in all, I'd give this color a 8/10 - This is the only true blue creme like this in my collection, and aside from the staining issue everything was awesome! For those of you who got any of the Birchbox colors this month, how did you like them?

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Hi!
I'm Weezy.
I have a lot of nail polishes, and a lot of free time. Here's where I'll be posting swatches and reviews of those polishes!

A little about me: I'm a 20 year old girl from New York. I'm going to school, and I work full time also. My favorite color right now is tan, and I'm very into girly things.

I can't wait to get started - Here's to an awesome new hobby.

Cheers,

Weezy <3