♥ I L♥VE YOU MOM- Sally Hansen - 'Iris Opal' {layered over black} ♥

1 coat of Sally Hansen 'Iris Opal' over black false nails

PINKY is 3 coats

This is not my greatest polish job- but I had to get this on my nails as soon as possible. I love how this polish looks over black, it is clearly a blue sheer iridescent polish in the bottle, but over black it is this in-describable eggplant bronze, a coppery pink, and a few different shades in between. Way to go MOM!

Every time I go to my Mom's she has a drugstore stunner waiting for me. This is Sally Hansen 'Iris Opal' 1 coat over black false nails. I added 2 coats of my cheap Billie brand Top Coat. This polish definitely needs to be thinned out a little, possibly by adding some clear polish to it. I love the iridescence and duo-chrome this polish has. I think that it the color was watered down, I could use 2 to 3 coats and get the same effect - minus the streaky-ness....

On my nails is 1 coat of Sally Hansen 'Iris Opal' followed with 2 coats of T.C. - My pinky has 3 coats, followed with two thin coats of T.C. As with all sheer duo-chromes and shimmery polish's, I wear them over a deep dark color to really bring out their beauty. No true sheer polish for this girl! 

I have like 20 polish's like this = sheer iridescent or sheer duo-chromes waiting to be swatched, and so I thought I would cheat by wearing BLACK false nails to swatch on. However these nails are not reacting well to nail polish remover, and so I will be going back to my trusty Fing'rs brand un-painted false nails, painting them black, and swatching.

Hopefully in the photo below - the blue-ness as well as the iridescence is coming across. On the left is 2 coats of Sally Hansen 'Iris Opal' over 2 coats of black polish, while on the left is 2 coats of Sally Hansen 'Iris Opal' over an acrylic false nail.  Each nail has 2 coats of T.C.

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 L-1 coat over black R- 3 coats over black

~ Indoors ~

 ~ Indoors ~

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♥ 'M' Color Cosmetic #06 - Toronto Polish ♥

- 'M' Color Cosmetic's #06 -

2 coats & 2 coats of Nailene Acrylic Strong T.C.

- applied over Fing'rs acrylic nails -

Wow- I was a little worried about these polish's I picked up in Toronto, but they have all turned out to be lovely.The pigmentation is normal  and I was surprised that I only needed 2 coats of this. The brush is fine, there is 16 ml in this bottle - but it seems so much smaller than an average bottle.. This was a 7 on the 'aroma' scale..... meaning~  out of a scale of 1 to 10 these are bearable but pretty smelly.

I loooooove this glowey blue, too bad it's -30 degrees outside because I think that I would benefit from some sunshine for these photos. I am not sure yet what type of nail art I will add to this, I can't stop gazing at my nails and may just leave them plain........

IRL this polish is this glowey, I wish I picked up one more of this blue, if it wasn't so stinky I would replace Wet n' Wild 'Blue Sapphire' with this as my 2nd favirote blue. I will definitely do some skittles whenever I wrap up swatching & wearing all my vacation haul polish's.

-Most of my photos are indoors under fluroescent lighting-

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♥ Vacation Polishs - A loooooong post with 1 million photos ♥

~  Yep - that's it... I thought I would purchase more, too! ~

 #1 I got to see my family and hang out with people special to me......

So here is a looooong post of some great finds that i picked up during a visit to my family in Ontario, Canada. If you have visited my blog before you know I am in love with these super cheap Billie polish's that I find at my favorite store in my town, the .99 cent store ( of course ).

The very first 'bargain' type store I walked into had every single one of these polish's that this Billie brand makes..... every - single - one - that - this - company - makes!!!!!!

@ Dollar plus at Walker place 3530 Upper Middle Road in Burlington Ontario.

There is more photos from this store further on in this post. Alot of the little discount stores in Burlington, Ontario as well as Toronto & Hamilton had these super cheap & awesome polish's as well. From this store I only bought 3 black polish's as well as 1 black glitter polish. In my town, they only seem to order a few shades at a time which is fine, but I am totally jealous that there is a store 1 Provence over with all these goodies in stock! Dang!!!!

So spotting this was a real treat. If these polish's were readily available to me as they are for chicks in Ontario - I would be trading away for Pure Ice and Sinful in a heartbeat♥

Anyhoo - I have included the addresses of where I took all these photos and where I found the polish's - I also visited Sally Beauty supply and Cosmetics world on Young Street, Toronto - as well as a few smaller Nail salons who also distribute nail supply products - and still NO Nail Wheels for me.

I also have to add, that at Sally beauty Supply - Orly's are $8.49 CAD and  China Glaze were $6.49 CAD, they didn't have the WOO&A Collection yet, and Sally's only had 6 colors from the Glitters & Chromes collection. I was shocked at how expensive Orly has become, as well as Sally Beauty Supply's lack of recent collections of polish's, and some basic's like dotting tools & nail wheels.....

Okay - no more blabber- onto the photos with brief descriptions. I am extremely proud I didn't go nuts with my purchases, because I have sooooo many polish's already and soooo many neat nail art ideas to try out.

 ~ Without Flash ~

First up - a beautiful older Sally Hansen my Mom gave me, 'Iris Opal' I think it is older because I do not recall seeing this in stores recently. This is a gorgeous iridescent duo-chrome that look soooooo cool over black, a mani will definitely be coming up soon.

~ This stunner from my mom! sooooo pretty! ~

~ Sally Hansen 'Iris Opal'

 

 ~ Wooooooooooooooow~

 L- 2 coats of Black w 2 coats of Iris Opal = R - 2 coats of Iris Opal

- Toronto Nail Polish -

These 4 polish's I bought in Toronto - They smell.... interesting, but nothing too offensive. I though they all had really cool bottles, but wasn't so sure about the color pay-off. I am happy to say they are very pretty. The glitter is decent and the colors are rich and vibrant. I did a quickie swatch, 2 coats each with top coat.

I bought these at Dollar Kwik -Young Street & Dundonald

 2 coats each

- Check out the Nubar looking polish's with Zebra handles....cool!

 

 ~ Sooo many neat bottle shapes! ~

These nest two lovely polish's I found at 'Buck n More' 2400 Guelph Line in Burlington, Ontario. I have never heard of this bargain Brand before " Midie"; however they had some seriously pretty colors. I only picked two, a pretty coppery brown and a soft rose silver. I grabbed # 318 & # 374. They are a little on the sheer side, but the # 318 looks really nice layered over black. I thought I would have trouble with the applicator but its workable.

 

 

 

3rd, 4th & 5th =  "Midie # 318 2 coats", "Midie # 318" layered  2 coats & 2 coats of "Midie #374"

 Wow- I never thought I would spot these again,  I have had these on my blog before, "Indulge" mini polish's. I found these at "Dollar Ritch", located at 1505 Guelph Line in Burlington Ontario. { yep it's spelled like that = r-i-t-c-h}That was a rad dollar store. All the dollar stores I went to were awesome!,,, they had such neat and different products. Anyhoo- this place also had 'Billie' Cosmetics and a massive rack of polish,  = however they were charging $ 1.50 CAD! But I found a Billie Brand polish I had been hoping to find  'Midnight smoke' there, as well as these Indulge polish's mini's. They actually had quite an arsenal of Indulge mini's but when i went back to grab THEM ALL, someone else beat me to it, DANG!

Oh well, at least I found  'Midnight Smoke'. Below are some photos of the mani I wore for 9 WHOLE DAYS!!!!! Billie 'Rustic' & Maybelline 'Red Comet'. The Orange polish in this trio is totally messing up my camera!

 

 

 ~ Whew-that is bright!

~The last nail on the right is Billie Midnight Smoke layered over 2 coats of Black polish~

Some older Billies I found at Buck & More I think these are an older bottle because the writing  is black, these are cool colors and look good layered over black, but they need to either be much more sheer or more opaque....I actually asked the man working if I could take a photo and he said yes, which is nice, not like those crabby chicks at Sally's = I  found these at 'Buck n More' 2400 Guelph Line in Burlington, Ontario. 

 

~ a streaky swatch 1 coat ~ 

 

 

 

So this photo is from the first dollar store I walked into -They had like 10 of every color! Dollar plus at Walker place 3530 Upper Middle Road in Burlington Ontario. Wow- another coooool dollar store. Amidst this rainbow of color I only purchased 3 black polish's & a black glitter polish..... Seriously though - this is friggen rad - all these nail polish's were $1.00 CAD!!!!!! They pretty much had every single color this company makes...

 

 

 

 

 ~  I popped into the dollar store in my town when I got back and they also have these neat square 'jordache' brand of polish... anyone else out in blog land try this yet?

  Black polish's I purchased at Dollar Plus

 

The black glitter is from Dollar Plus & the 'Midnight Smoke' is from Dollar Ritch

 

 

Now if you live in these location's you are lucky & I am super jealous!

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