Spring Colors from Kokie

Products provided for review

 

Well hello again. I'm recently back from my not officially summer yet vacation, a road trip from Idaho to Illinois and back again. In a bold move, I left my laptop at home, which meant, among other things, that I was able to wear longer fake nails than usual, but that's a story for another day. The story for today is that Kokie kindly sent me some polishes in colors perfect for spring. Left to right: Iris, Rock Star, Crown Jewel, Classic, Georgia Peach, All the Envy.

 

I started with Classic, a pale milky peach crelly. This was buildable; I did four coats but could have stopped at three for a faux French mani look. This is indeed classic. I wore similar polishes for years early in my career as an accountant when I was trying to fit the mold of a serious businesswoman.

 

Nothing like dots to quickly add color, so I decorated with Georgia Peach, Iris, and All the Envy before adding clear topcoat.

 

Iris is a light lilac creme. This one covered in two coats.

 

I topped Iris with Crown Jewel, which has blue and holographic blue glitter in a sheer gold shimmer base. (I knew this would work because I swatched a different bottle of it over another light cool creme back in 2019. Because I was craving sparkle, I used two coats of Crown Jewel and added clear topcoat to bring out the bling even more.

 

All the Envy is a medium green creme. I used two coats for my swatch.

 

I put one coat of Crown Jewel on top of All the Envy and added topcoat to that. The somewhat deeper base brought out the gold in Crown Jewel more than Iris had.

 

I combined Rock Star, a warm lavender flecked shimmer, and Georgia Peach, a light red-leaning orange creme, into a funky French look alternating with Georgia Peach alone. Rock Star took three coats and Georgia Peach two. I did add topcoat to the funky French nails to smooth the line between the polishes. This look does say spring to me. If you want to see Rock Star on its own, I swatched a bottle I bought myself back in 2019 (and also topped it with another Kokie shimmer/glitter topper).

 

Given that Rock Star was three coats, I wondered if it would work as a topper, so I laid down a base of two coats of Iris and added one coat of Rock Star to all but my index finger. I really liked the combination. Rock Star warmed up Iris just a tiny bit, and Iris brought out the pale golden shimmer in Rock Star.

 

These are all nice polishes; good basic cremes and some bling to liven them up. It's nice that Kokie doesn't seem to discontinue things too quickly, given that I got two of these colors four years ago and you can get them today. The polishes shown in this entry were provided free for review purposes. The content of the entry was not dictated by the provider, and I get to keep the polishes for my own use.

Wheel D16: Turquoise Blue Cremes

I was travelling last week and gave myself permission to just focus on that. I'm home now and have soft turquiose blue cremes for Nail Wheel Wednesday.

 

1. SinfulColors Believe in Love (2 coats)
2. Wet 'n' Wild Wild Shine Gyp-sea Green (4) [really a jelly, not a creme; looking up old blog posts, this one was never really green]
3. Sally Hansen Xtreme Wear Big Teal (2) [teal in my head is greener than this]
4. Luxvisage Defile 105 (2)
5. Rimmel 60 Seconds Too Cool to Tango (2)
6. Sally Hansen Complete Salon Manicure Lady Libra-ty (2)
7. Kiko Power Pro 37 Ocean (2)
8. China Glaze Capacity to See Beyond (2)
9. Nails Inc. Milner Street (2)
10. Orly Color Blast Nose in a Book (2)
11. Studio M Evolution (2)br /> 12. Color Club Evolution (2)
13. Milani Peacock (2)
14. Frida Kahlo 37 (2)
15. Deborah Lippmann On the Beach (2)
16. SinfulColors Sweet Nothing (2)
17. Maybelline Color Show Turquoise Paradise (2)
18. Zoya Rocky (2)
19. Cover Girl Outlast Stay Brilliant Glosstinis Blue Hawaiian (2) [such a long name for such small bottles]
20. Sally Girl Candy Coated (3)

Bottles 1 through 5:

 

6 through 10:

 

11 through 15:

 

16 through 20:

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Wet 'n' Wild Potassium-Rich and Miami Mami

Today I have some photos from ages ago that I never got around to posting, of two of the Wet 'n' Wild Fast Dry AF colors. Potassium-Rich (yes, the name has a hyphen; no, I do not know why), a mustard yellow creme, and Miami Mami, glitter topper with pastel matte hex glitter in various sizes and colors: yellow, orange, blue, and pink. I did three coats of the creme and topped with one of the glitter on all but my index finger.

 

 

 

Mustard is not one of the most flattering colors on me but I keep buying it because I am drawn to the odd and unusual.

Wheel U15: Cobalt to Navy Blue Cremes

Nail Wheel Wednesday has been taking some time off this summer. Might take some time off this fall, too, but it hasn't been canceled. Today I've got blue cremes, some of them slightly purple-leaning.

 

1. Maybelline Color Show Pacific Blues (2)
2. Candies Peri-twinkle (2)
3. Social Butterfly Blue (2) [a friend who had connections at Facebook got this for me]
4. Sally Hansen Insta Dri License to Dri (2) [almost a one-coater]
5. Catrice Pool Party at Night (2) [also almost a one-coater]
6. Girly Bits I've Got High Hoops (3) [
7. Essie Chills & Thrills (3)
8. Studio M In the Limelight (2)
9. Milani Blue Jay (2)
10. Dermelect Phenom (2) [almost 1 coat]
11. Deborah Lippmann I Know What Boys Like (2)
12. SinfulColors My Buoyfriend (2) [almost 1]
13. Wet Paint Bimini Blue (2)
14. American Apparel Mount Royal (2) [almost 1]
15. Essie All the Wave (2)
16. Cult Nails Wack Slacks (1)
17. Joe Fresh Sea Blue (1)
18. Essie No More Film (1)
19. SinfulColors Mesmerize (2)
20. Deborah Lippmann Big Blue Note (2)

Bottles 1 through 5:

 

6 through 10:

 

11 through 15:

 

16 through 20:

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Recent NOTD: imPress Press-On Manicure Happy Pride

I've been continuing to wear fake nails between swatching sessions. For a fair bit of the summer, I wore one design over and over: the limited edition imPress set called Happy Pride.Despite buying at least four of these sets at retail stores, I don't seem to have gotten a photo of the display. No idea what's up with that. Here's the box:

 

These are short and square and have accent nails with soft rainbow colors highlighted with gold on a white background, plain warm pink nails, and crystal iridescent glitter secondary accent nails. The first time I wore them, I just used the rainbow and pink nails.

 

The second time, I used all three varieties:

 

I was tickled at how well the rainbow nails coordinated with one of my favorite tops:

 

Third time I wore them, I went with pink and glitter:

 

 

I haven't seen the display for these in a while since they were for Pride in June, but I did pick up a couple more sets when I ordered from imPress online recently. They just go with so many of my outfits and seeing the colors and the glitter on my nails makes me smile.

Another Kokie Green Trio

Sample provided for review

 

I took a quick trip to Detroit, which accounts for my most recent absence. I'm delighted to report that I didn't get COVID, despite most folks having given up masking. Me, I just ordered more colors of my favorite KF94s. Last month I shared a few polishes Kokie sent me to try from their Green line, and today I have a few more. These are plant-based, bio-sourced, vegan, and cruelty free. Left to right: What Deadline, Eden, and Glass Slipper.

 

What Deadline is a pale green creme. This had a surprisngly thick formula, so I only needed one coat for my swatch.

 

 

Eden is a dark green creme. This one was also one coat, which was less surprising since it's a darker hue and those generally cover better. I did do a thinner coat on my pinky, and you can probably see that if you go with thin coats, you'll probably want two.

 

 

Glass Slipper is a pale blue shimmer. I used two coats plus clear topcoat to enhance the shimmer. There's a very slight visible nail line, which I'm okay with for a color like this.

 

 

Direct light to show the shimmer better:

 

The greens are both solid cremes, but of course my favorite is Glass Slipper. Shimmers are just more interesting to me, and delicate blues like that are a soft spot for me.

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The polishes shown in this entry were provided free for review purposes. The content of the entry was not dictated by the provider, and I get to keep the polishes for my own use.