Rainbow in the S-kylie

Happy Veteran's Day everyone!  Also, happy Saturday!  I hope it was good for someone out there.  I've been sick with a weird head cold the past week and the only joy I've been getting out of anything is my nail polish and Netflix.  I'm so excited for holiday shades to come out, but I really want to take every holiday in its proper turn.  Never mind the holiday music in the background.

I'm completing the four-part series of my first round of the Kardashian Kolors today.  Last but not least is Rainbow in the S-kylie.  This one is strictly your traditional glitter.  To get best results, I suggest putting it as your pre-top coat over a solid color (I used It's All About The Glam).  It's a multi-color, multi-shape glitter floating in a clear polish.  It's also large enough to really be more like confetti than glitter.  With the white base, for some reason it made me think of the circus.   But I think with black or a navy it would be more fashion forward and seasonally appropriate. More Cirque du Soleil than circus.

The pictures I have are bad.  I'll just say it.  They're bad.  I was trying to show the difference between two coats and one all on the same hand, but it looks like a drunk toddler did my nails.

Index and middle fingers have two coats, and ring and pinky have one coat.

You can see all the different colors in the bottle much better here.

This was actually really difficult to remove.

Edit:  This is actually a prefect dupe for OPI Rainbow Connection that just came out, if you were debating over the two.  If price was your main decider, go with Nicole.  If anything else, go with OPI.  Either way, this is a really great happy glitter.  Although, I've never seen a glitter that isn't happy; I mean, it's glitter.  But this one is definitely a good one to have in your collection.

Nicole by OPI Rainbow in the S-kylie is available only at Wal-mart for a limited time and retails for $7 US.

Disco Dolls

Hey guys!  So excited that the weekend's almost here.  I did break a nail so far down that now it looks like a little stub on my hand.  It is a freak of nail and an outcast, to be shunned by my other nails.  But then all of them started breaking (like they do) so I'm going to have to start taking biotin or something.  Boo.

I'm almost finished with the Kardashian Kolors that I picked up, just one left after this post.  So, Disco Dolls is one of Khloe's shades and is absolutely perfect to ring in the holiday season.  Nicole by OPI has a short article on their site with a full description and a manicure suggestion for this shade and I really want to try it.  Khloe describes it as a disco ball exploding on your hands, and while I love the colors and effect of it, that description confused me a little.  Almost every disco ball I have ever laid eyes on has been silver, not gold.  But whatever, that's not what's important.

What is important is that I am going to tell you exactly what I thought of it.  Disco Dolls is a gold micro glitter base with multicolored, round, slightly larger glitters in it for dimension.  It applied completely opaque in two coats.  Not, "there's lots of little glitter and some bigger glitter floating around in a clear polish."  This shade is almost entirely glitter.  It looked absolutely fabulous on my hands, was very coarse because of all the textures, so load up on the top coat.  However, it chipped in huge flakes the very next day.  This mani didn't even last me 24 hours.  I was so sad.  I was so excited about wearing this color and then it fell flat on me.

But, all is not lost with this fabulously shiny shade.  I'm going to try it again during the holiday season and report back.  So far, I would recommend it as a one nighter party shade for New Year's or some other big shindig going on this winter.

In direct sunlight with the bottle

In the shade/natural light

Indoors, under artificial light

Direct sunlight

A very bad attempt at a close up with a 3.2 MP camera phone

Nicole by OPI's Kardashian Kolors Disco Dolls is available only at Wal-mart for a limited time and retails for $7 US plus sales tax.

It's All About the Glam

The second of the Kardashian Kolors I tried out was It's All About the Glam, another one of Kim's colors.  This would be a great holiday color, since it looks like a snowball.  It's a sheer shimmery white with what looks like micro glitter in it that gives a multidimensional shine to it.  You know how snow looks when the sun light hits it just right?  Where it practically glows?  That's what this polish reminds me of.  

It seems very fitting that I'm listening to Christmas music while posting this.  I'm usually the holiday nazi too--I like to have my holidays in the calender order, but I'm getting into the holiday spirit early this year.   I'm definitely wearing this color again this holiday season, possibly with a gold or white glitter top depending on the outfit and the party.  

In direct sunlight with the bottle

Natural light

Indoors under artificial light

These pictures I used three coats plus a quick dry top coat to make as opaque as I felt it was going to get.  Kim's colors are very sheer and almost delicate, so even with the extra coats you can still see the tips of your nails for that extra white tip.  But they hold up very well and don't chip easily.  The last one took three days of hitting my hands on stuff at work to even start to chip on one finger.  Twin also requested to borrow Kim-pletely In Love the day after I posted that color.

I already loved the Kardashians, this polish line just makes me love them more.

Nicole by OPI's It's All About The Glam is available only at Wal-mart for a limited time and retails for $7 US

Kim-pletely In Love

Bonjour, mes amies!  I saw last night that the Kardashians have released a polish line with Nicole by OPI called Kardashian Kolors.  So naturally I went out and bought some of them this morning on my day off and did some swatches.  I love that entire crazy family, they are so entertaining, and they always look fabulous.  It also makes me happy that they don't look like stick figures and that they're savvy business people.

Today I'm wearing one of Kim's colors called Kim-pletely In Love.  It's a sheer shimmery baby pink that is just to die for.  I did three coats plus a quick dry top coat to get it opaque.  I don't normally like lighter colors, but this is so pretty!  This goes perfectly with your LBD as a nice soft touch and is a perfect "day polish."  If you like to coordinate your polish with your outfit and event, this would be perfect for a baby/bridal shower or (as my gran would probably like) Easter Sunday.  This one isn't exactly a holiday color, in my opinion, but it's still great for any time of year.

In natural light.

In the shade

With the bottle for comparison. 

Nicole by OPI's Kardashian Kolors, including Kim-pletely In Love, are available only at Wal-mart for a limited time.  Kim-pletely In Love retails for $7 US plus sales tax.