Revlon - Girly

I picked up Revlon Girly the other day when I was shopping at Walmart as a total impulse purchase. I had heard some good things about it and at first glance I was into it. For all intents and purposes, it's a lovely fun, glittery polish. But I kinda hate it. I think the color of pink just isn't doing it for me. It's almost a lavender type of pink. I dig all the glitter though, way to step out of the box Revlon! This is two coats.

You can buy Revlon nail polish at most drugstores and superstores like Walmart and K-Mart for around $5. Have you picked up Girly? What do you think of it?

Whimsical Cinderella

Sinful Colors has really stepped it up in the last few years on their polish selection. They had the same tired selection for like ever, then suddenly they started producing new colors every so often. Cinderella is one of the new ones, a beautiful glass fleck sky blue lacquer. The shimmer is pink/orange tinted which makes the polish unique, in my collection at least. It is rather sheer but layers up nicely. This is four thin coats. It's got a slightly jelly finish so it can gum up if you layer on coats too quickly.

Next, I decided to put Revlon Whimsical on top of Cinderella. This is a dupe of Deborah Lippmann's Glitter In the Air. It's much cheaper and a smidge less sheer, but otherwise exactly the same. It's a pale blue milky base, small glassy blue glitter, a little bigger round metallic pink glitter, and large metallic pink and blue hex glitter. This is two coats.

Sinful Colors are found in Walgreens for $1.99 each and Revlon nail polish can be found at most large retailers and drugstores for about $4 or so.

Guest Post by Glitta Gloves: Royal Jelly Glitter Sandwich

Please enjoy this guest post from my amazing friend Kirsten from Glitta Gloves!

Hi lovelies! This is an exciting and kind of nerve-wracking post for me! I was so excited and flattered when Kellie asked me to do a guest post for her. Her blog was one of the very first nail blogs I started reading and I have had a very long-standing love affair with her nails. Creepy? Maybe!

So I started thinking really hard about something special I could share on her blog and I decided to do a jelly sandwich. If you read my blog, you know that I'm kind of obsessed with these haha. I was looking at pictures of Lippmann Across the Universe and being depressed about not owning it, so I decided to try and layer something somewhat similar. I used two coats of Revlon Royal, then two thin coats of Essence Edward, then a thin coat of Royal again on top. It's definitely not an ATU dupe by any stretch of the imagination but I think it's still pretty! I wish all polishes had square glitter.

Really fun and simple to do, I think! I hope you guys like it! And to my Kellie love, thank you so much for letting me do this! It was so fun!

Have a lovely day, pretties!

I love my girl :D Thanks so much for writing for me K-dawg *smooches*

Revlon Kiwizing

I bought this from my lovely friend The Asian Girl in a blog sale and I am stoked on it. It is one of my favorite duochromes. I wish there were more polishes like this. I have no idea when it came out or what but I would be surprised if it was still being made. Kiwizing is a crazy name too, not sure what it means, but I know there was a lipstick by Revlon with the same name. The color is really dope, it has a metallic lavender flash on a greenish base. The green reminds me of the color your skin turns when you wear cheap jewelry or the color of old copper. Two coats here.

What are some of your favorite duochromes?

Revlon Streetwear Drab

I'm feeling a bit drab today, so it's only fitting to post the ugly-beautiful Streetwear classic Drab. Olive green before it was cool. Slight shimmer. Non big-3 free. Awesome. Love it. Three coats.

I hope your weekend is going well :)

xoxo,
kelliegonzo

Revlon Emerald City and Fire Fox

Love these matte suede Revlons. I've already shown you Ruby Ribbon, and now here is two others from this collection.

Emerald City is a gorgeous sparkley green, kind of similar to OPI's Matte Suede Here Today...Aragon Tomorrow. This was super easy to apply, but slow to dry. Don't expect these to dry as fast as regular matte colors. Oh well, it looks pretty fab with a top coat too.

 

Fire Fox is a polish I borrowed from my friend Mickelle (actually I borrowed EC too, haha I forgot about that). I wasn't sure if it was really "me" but I might try and find it in stores still because it's actually pretty fab. It's a bright orangey red with a bit of a pink flash, which is cool for it being a matte. Although, these are "suede" and not flat matte or anything.

 

Did you guys pick up anything from this collection? I've heard rumors that they are permanent, but I'm not sure. They look like holiday colors to me, but who knows...anyone?

xoxo,
kelliegonzo

AKA Franken: Inception

I am such a bum! Seriously, I hate not posting every day and I feel crummy leaving you hanging for so long without a genuine post. It's the end of the semester for my university career, the last one EVER before I earn my degree. WOW. It's pretty crazy to say that. I have worked a looong time to earn this Bachelor's degree and I am gonna cherish it :)

This is a little baby franken I made, to wear on my nubby nubbins. I can't stand it when my nails are different lengths, so when one breaks or tears, I have to cut them all down :/ I made this out of the Revlon paradoxal dupe, called Perplex. I have wanted a holo color like this forever, so I decided to make my own. I added some of China Glaze's OMG, but not wanting to run out haha I also put in some OPI DS Shimmer. I tried to add flakies, which would make this even more epic, from CND's Sugar Sparkle, but they all fell to the bottom :P Oh well, this is my creation; I named it Inception! (p.s. if you haven't seen that movie, you need to seriously RUN and get it! It's in my top 5 of all time!)

 

Will be back to posting regularly soon soon :)

*P.S.  You may notice that I have discontinued using "Intense Debate" as my commenting system.  It just has too many bugs and makes my site run slower.  Unfortunately, this has made me lose ALL of my old comments from all of my cherished readers :(  This makes me epically sad and believe me, I wrote a very strongly-worded email to the ID people.  Hopefully they will find a way to fix this soon.  I am planning on writing back on the previous posts, answering questions, etc. but they will be on the blogger system.  I apologize for any inconvenience this may cause. 

xoxo,
kelliegonzo

Revlon Ruby Ribbon

Revlon put out Ruby Ribbon in their holiday display this year; a matte ruby red with some shimmer. The shimmer is similar to OPI's Here Today...Aragon Tomorrow that I just showed you, perhaps a little heavier. The color is beautiful, albeit darker than it looks in the bottle. These "satin" finish mattes are way easier to apply than the chalky matte polishes, and that's just fine with me :) Even if they take a smidge longer to dry than most mattes. This is two coats.

flash

lamp light

lamp light w/ top coat

flash w/ top coat

Ooooh simply stunning huh?  Sometimes I just gotta oogle my own nails haha ;)

xoxo,
kelliegonzo

banana puddin' & haul

i have a big wish list. i don't think i'm aspiring too high or something like that, i just like to know what i want! keeping track of them in a spreadsheet is the way i've found to organize them, to help me keep them in mind so eventually i will get to them haha. it's like keeping a goal list or something. because it's easy to say oh yeah i want that one day but then forget about it and then come across it someday and pass it by :P anyway, my point is that i have gotten a few of my "wish list" items recently and i'm pretty excited about it.

perhaps my FIRST lemming since i started blogging is maybelline banana puddin'. it's long discontinued and hard to find. the sexy pale creamy custardy yellow creme is very milky and slightly sheer, but i was prepared for that. this is 5 coats, and you can see the weird imploded trapped bubbles below the topcoat but i don't care haha. this color does not disappoint at all and i feel like it's very flattering on me.

sunlight

(oopsie, smudge!)

flash

lamp light

sunlight

i got some nail mail today and wanted to share some pictures with you. i wanted to mention that these are all from my new camera, which i'm still getting used to. it's a canon sx210 powershot and i am not quite sure if i like it yet, but i'm getting close.

this is another one of my hugest lemmings, opi ds fantasy. a gorgeous dark blue with the diamond dust holo glitter. *siiiiiiigh*

this polish is called opi at your quebec & call, from the canada collection back in the day. another one of my hugest wants! it's an awesome olive golden green with shimmer.

i also got some amazing streetwear polishes from Claudia over at Chromatic Misadventures, thanks girl! i seriously think they should be making more polishes like this, bring back the brand revlon!

i was also VERY happy to see a sweet package on my porch when i got home from CND with some polishes to review. i have to say i love their bottle design, but i haven't tried a lot of their stuff. excited to see how they work out.

welp, that's the all i have to show you today :) did you enjoy? how do the pictures look, i'm still a bit worried about it o_O have a great weekend everyone *kisses*