Pahlish's Drink the Sea

Hey everyone. Guess what? I am finally done with my undergraduate career. Yay! That means more blogs! Pahlish has become an indie brand I became very fond of recently. I would say almost half of my indie polishes are from Pahlish. Their formulas never seem to disappoint me and their shades are quite beautiful.

Today I will be reviewing the shade Drink the Sea. This shade came out less than a month ago and I bought it the day it came out. I was trying a lot of turquoise and green polishes at that time and when I saw that Pahlish was going to release this polish I thought it would be awesome to add to my turquoise collection.

Drink the Sea is a turquoise creamy polish with greenish-gold glitter and neon green glitter. The formula is a little bit thick so the first coat comes off kind of uneven with very little streaking. The second coat can be use to fixed the polish if you have careful hands and are patient (sometimes when Im impatient I cant get an even layer). Only two coats is required. The polish did dry a little lumpy because of the large amount of glitter but I like the fact that I did not have to fish for the glitter.
I topped the polish off (only used 2 coats of Drink the Sea) with one coat of Gelous (to even out the bumps from the glitter) and one coat of Seche Vite

The polish is a tad bit lighter than the picture I captured and has more of a blue tint to it in person. I think when I take pictures of polishes that have lots of glitter in it my camera goes crazy and doesn't take accurate pictures. But as you can see the glitters look lovely inside this creamy polish. 

Essie Naughty Nautical Collection: Girls Night Out

Hello everyone! Last week of summer school and I will officially be a graduate of UCR Chemistry. Yay! But now for another polish review before I go study =P.

Lately I been buying a lot of purple polishes. They are quite pretty but so far its just been light purple or pastel purple but I wanted something a bit darker since summer gave me a bit of a tan. When I saw this beauty at Walgreens I knew this was a color I'd like. I resisted the urge to splurge (haha that rhymes), and decided to look up the reviews of the polish before buying it. I always like to read reviews that way I avoid getting polishes with poor formulation and end up either tossing it to the side or returning it. After reading reviews, I got the go for buying the polish.

When I went back to Walgreens there was a deal for the polish where you save $2. Yes that means it was $6 instead of $8. I was so happy. I ended up buying this with Essie's E-nuff is E-nuff but I shall review that one separately. Now time to the details of Girls Night Out

Girls Night out is a pretty fushia color polish. Its not quite hot pink but not quite purple. Its a good balance between the two. In indirect light it looks a little more purple but in the sun or in direct sunlight it looks hot pink. The formulation was amazing. I only applied 2 medium coats. Most of my polishes tend to be a lil thin and require 3 coats so I was almost used to applying 3 coats automatically until I looked at my nails and realized it was already opaque in 2 coats. There was no problems applying it and no annoying lumps. As for the shimmer, there is not a lot of shimmer on the nail when its applied but in the bottle it does look like there is. Definitely has more shimmer than Rock the Boat but not much. Overall I really loved the color and application of this polish. Below are pictures I took of the polish

KBShimmer Fall Collection

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Etude House: in Sweet Recipe Cupcake All Over Color #OR202

Hey guys! I was excited to pick up my Etude package yesterday after waiting about two weeks for it to come in from Korea. My first reactions when I saw the product was "wow, this is smaller than I expected". The product is only 10g or 0.35oz. From pictures most people zoomed in to the product which made it look bigger than the actual product was (Sorry I did that too but it is to show how beautify the casing is).

I have tried Tartes cheek stains before. While the lasting power of Tarte cheek stains were amazing, they always left a sticky residue on my face so sometimes random link or even my own hair would stick to my face. After a while I just got tired of it because since my face is oily, I would slightly break out sometimes. Today I decided to try this little beauty. Here is a pic of it:

This all over color has a very creamy and sheer consistency. I originally got this in #OR202 because I wanted something subtle because Im not the type who wears heavy or noticeable blush ( I usually dont wear blush at all to be honest). This was very sheer as a blush. I had to sweep about 3 layers of it on my face until I saw a hint of peach. However, these were small sweeps of blush on my face so it was definitely not like I was painting my face with this cute little all over color. In the end, it give a really natural look. I was debating whether to take pictures of it but my camera was being lame and the lighting in my house wasn't good so I wasn't able to get a clear picture of the blush.

Overall the product was nice. It gives a nice peachy color to your cheeks and it even smells like peach. However, the smell does fade away so if you are worried about your cheeks smelling like peach all day you are fine =]. Not sure how long the lasting power is for this, but I will update this in a few days to tell you all how the lasting power is. 

Delush: Some Bunny Loves You Review

Hey everyone! Yay my first polish review. Trust me, you will see a lot more of these! A week or two before graduation I purchased this Delush polish and it came in a day before my graduation. Sadly I forgot I had this in my nail polish drawer but today I decided to try this polish. When I first took out Some Bunny Loves You, I noticed that all the glitters were stuck at the bottom of the bottle. I was very sad because of this but after about 1 min of vigorous shaking (probably annoyed my brother with the noise it makes with the steel mixing balls), the glitters successfully mixed throughout the polish.

The first coat of Some Bunny Loves You was kind of sheer for my liking. I'm not going to lie, but because it was more sheer than I expected, I was thinking to remove the polish because I do not like to use more than 3 coats of a polish and I thought that this might be a polish I had to use around 4 coats. However, I decided to wait it out and see how opaque it would be if I applied a second coat. To my surprise, the polish was pretty opaque in two coats. After two coats there was still some visible nail line so I decided to apply a third coat. After the third coat the polish looked really nice.

Even though I am used to glitter bomb polishes this is a polish that is nice if you want a subtle look and a hint of glitter.

Here are two pics:

This one is a picture with medium light (this was the light inside my restroom because my light inside my room tends to wash out the color of my polishes, especially light or pastel polishes like this one)

And here is a picture with less light (to show how pigmented it is) and from here you can see the amount of glitter after three coats. The glitters are all pastel (white, pink, purple and baby blue diamond) so it can get hidden under another coat of polish.

Overall here are the rankings:

Pigmentation: 8.5/10

Texture: 8/10

Application: 4/5

Overall grade: B+

First Blog

Hello. So this is my first blog ever. Not sure how this thing works but I will be posting lots of polish reviews and beauty product reviews on here. Hope you guys like it =].