Glam Polish Ohana and Hibiscus Swatches & Review

Hey there, how you doing? I'm doing ok, my poor kitty Asher has been sick for a few days and he's still not feeling 100%. Any good thoughts or vibes are appreciated for the little guy. Today I wanted to show you two polishes I bought from the Glam Polish Over the Rainbow flakies collection. These are super special limited edition because some of the ingredients used in them are not longer available, so when they're gone, that's all folks! Let's check them out :)

Ohana is a dark cherry red jelly with subtle holographic particles, red/yellow iridescent flakies, and pink and gold glass flecks. Easy, smooth formula and it was opaque in two coats. Love this! The name reminds me of the movie Lilo & Stitch haha.

Hibiscus is seriously one of the polishes of my dreams! It's a bright orangey coral with subtle holographic particles, rainbow iridescent flakies, and red, peach and gold glass flecks. I wish it leaned a little more pink, but I still am head over heels for this. Two fabulous coats and LOOK AT THE FLAKIES! So pretty!

I purchased these from the Glam Polish website for $12 each. I believe they only ship to Australia and the US, but they have international stockists listed here. Like I said, these are very limited edition so be sure to act quickly if you want any. There are 15 shades in the Over the Rainbow collections (there are three parts) so you should go and check them out, there's bound to be something that you'd love!

Talk to you again soon!

❤ Kellie

China Glaze Road Trip Collection Travel Sized Swatches & Review

Hey! I'm back from vacation and still kinda exhausted haha, but I had a good time. I have a mini version of the China Glaze Road Trip collection to show you today! The collection has twelve shades all together, but I found this set called "Travel Sized" with six of the colors in a "micro mini" size for sale so I purchased it. I wasn't sure if I needed the entire collection, so this was a nice compromise for me.

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I Brake For Colour is a bright orangey coraly red crème. My brush had a lot of wonky bristles so it was difficult to put on, but under regular circumstances I'm sure the formula would've been great. I used three coats here but you'd probably only need two with a non-messed up brush.

This is Dashboard Dreamer, a powder blue crelly with coppery pink shimmer. This one was streaky and patchy, but it's so pretty I almost don't care haha! This is three coats.

Next is Pinking Out The Window, a bright salmon crème. This one was a little streaky and thick. Three coats here.

Now Boho Blues is a must have for sure, a soft periwinkle blue jelly crème (more crème than jelly). It's got a pretty good formula, but this was another one where the brush was all wonky so it was more challenging. This is three coats, but with a normal brush I'm sure you could make do with only two.

My Way Or The Highway is a green-y tealish turquoise jelly crème. I love shades like this. It's fabulous and very shiny, pretty good formula. Two coats.

And last is Trip Of A Lime Time, which is the shade I was least in love with in seeing promo shots for this collection, but in real life it's pretty cool. Chartreuse is a hard color to pull off, but this is almost kinda delicate which makes it prettier to me. It is a jelly crème and was on the streaky side, so I needed three coats.

I purchased this set of minis from Ulta.com for $12. I love that these were offered in a mini size, but I think I prefer their regular minis sized at 0.325 fl oz  instead of these micro mini bottles at 0.125 fl oz, just for ease of application. Especially considering two of the bottles had bad brushes in them. I honestly probably would've returned them if I hadn't purchased these online and/or had an Ulta near me. Did you pick up any of the colors from this collection? If so, what was your favorite?

See ya later!

❤ Kellie

Guest Post by Sassy Shelly: Geometric Holo Gradient

Please enjoy the following post from my friend Shelly!

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Hello beautiful people! I am so excited to be guest posting for the amazing Kellie Gonzo! I've been a huge fan of Kellie's blog for a really long time so I was totally fangirling when she emailed me asking if I'd like to do a post on KellieGonzo.com. It's such an honor to be here today.

For my guest post I chose this geometric gradient stamping mani that I created using 5 shades from the KBShimmer Spring 2015 Collection.


I started with a base of KBShimmer Eyes White Open a perfect one coat white creme. Then using Pueen52 I stamped a gradient with some of the new KBS super holos,Blue-d Lines (blue), Thistle be the Day (lilac), Ins and Sprouts (green) and Blush Money (pink with shimmer). To get the gradient effect I just painted lines of each color onto the plate and scraped a few times to blend them a bit.

I really love these pastel holos! But my dry raggedy cuticles..not so much. :) Hope you liked my design! And thank you so much Kellie for inviting me to your fabulous blog!

If you'd like to visit me you can find me at www.SassyShelly.com, on Facebook at Shelly's Sassy Nails, and at @SassyShelly129 on Instagram, Pinterest and Twitter.

Have a great day polish lovers!

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Many thanks to Shelly! This is such a cool nail art effect, I totally dig it and want you to come put it on my nails k?

❤ Kellie