Wheel G16: Charcoal and Black Shimmers

Nail Wheel Wednesday is back with charcoal and black shimmers. Some of these seem like they might actually be textured, too.

 

1. Orly Color Blast Hearts of Steel (2 coats)
2. Rescue Beauty Lounge An Accidental Interloper (3)
3. Milani 176 2.0 (2)
4. Wet 'n' Wild Fergie Heels of Steel (3)
5. Jesse's Girl Black Satin (2) [satin finish]
6. elf Metal Madness (2)
7. Zoya Claudine (2)
8. Essie Gel Couture Hang Up the Heels (2)
9. Wet 'n' Wild Megalast Keep Vinyl Alive (2)
10. OPI Queen of the Road (2)
11. Sally Hansen Satin Glam Silk Onyx (2)
12. Sally Hansen Complete Salon Manicure To the Moon and Black (2)
13. Studio M Show Time (2)
14. GOSH Stardust Night Sky (2)
15. 2B Colours Jeans Look Black (2)
16. Formula X for Sephora Black Hole (2)
17. Cover Girl Outlast Stay Brilliant Diva After Dark (2)
18. OPI Center of the You-niverse (2)
19. Essence Twilight Breaking Dawn Part 2 Edward's Love (2)
20. The New Black Gold Grenade (1)

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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 E16: Pewter-ish Shimmers

Today for Nail Wheel Wednesday I have one of those groups that I have trouble describing. These are mostly shimmers but also some are sort of metallic. As for color, I went with pewter, since they're dirtier than silver, and some definitely lean brown/gold/olive. Regardless of what to call them, they all looked like they went together when I was sorting polish. I like these sorts of murky shades. This is the last wheel I've painted and due to other committments it might be a while before I paint more, but I will paint more because I like the process of sorting and swatching and seeing what's in all those bottles I've collected.

 

1. Revlon Carbonite (2 coats)
2. Revlon Rich (2)
3. Chanel (2)/> 4. Sally Hasen Complete Salon Manicure Shoot the Moon (2)
5. Sally Hansen Color Therapy Therapewter (2)
6. Urban Decay Addiction (2)
7. Revlon Colorstay Gel Envy Smoke and Mirrors (3)
8. Funky Fingers Total Eclipse of the Heart (3)
9. Avon Brushed Metals Dusky Copper (1) [this might properly be considered a texture]
10. SinfulColors Aced Out (2)
11. Estee Lauder Chaos (3)
12. L'Oreal Miss Grey (1)
13. 2B Mega Colours Suspicious (1)
14. Pure Ice Pot of Gold (2)
15. Maybelline Express Finish Brown Aluminum (1)
16. Revlon Parfumerie Italian Leather (2)
17. Zoya Tris (3)
18. Pure Silver Pure Silver (2)
19. China Glaze Choo-choo Choose You (3)
20. Avon Nailwear Pro+ Tempted (1) [shimmer is way more subtle on the nail than in the bottle]

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Wheel C16: Silver Chromes

Yes, Nail Wheel Wednesday is back! Today it's silver chromes, mostly. It's hard to know where the line is between some types of finishes, so there are some on this wheel that are more shimmers than chromes, and some that could better be called metallic than chrome, and even a weaksauce holo (though I don't know that weaksauce holo is an officially recognized nail polish finish). I just need to keep chanting "finished is better than perfect" as I continue to work on this massive project of getting all the colors in my stash onto nail wheels.

 

1. Wet Paint Always Buy Platinum (2 coats)
2. Studio M What a Drag (2)
3. Wet 'n' Wild Wild Shine Metallica (2)
4. Sally Hansen Hard as Nails Pumping Iron (2)
5. Bonita unnamed (2) [from a set, but I don't know the name of that set either]
6. Kiko Quick Dry 857 Metallic Silver (2)
7. Kiko Smart Fast Dry 043 Silver (2)
8. OPI Push and Shove (1) [used the special base that came with this)
9. OPI Silver Canvas (2) [silver base that came out with the Color Paints collection of jellies]
10. Sephora + Pantone Universe Lunar Rock (2)
11. Sephora Formula X Shocked (2)
12. Sephora Formula X Platinum Prime (2) [from their Infinite Ombre jellies set]
13. Sephora Formula X Need for Speed (2)
14. Revlon Silver Base Coat (2) [came out with the Color Charge jellies]
15. Revlon Top Speed Sterling (2)
16. Essence Marble Mania Silver Twister (2)
17. Beautifully Disney Drive You Wild (2)
18. Essie No Place Like Chrome (2)
19. SinfulColors Casablanca (1)
20. Finger Paints Chromatic Creation (2) [has a very weak holo effect]

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Wheel A16: Gold Shimmers

More gold shimmers today for Nail Wheel Wednesday, back from the holiday break. I'm using "shimmer" broadly here; some might be more precisely called metallic or foil or chrome, but if I take the time to sort that finely, I'll never get all my polishes on wheels. And I still very much want to accomplish that.

 

1. Kiko Smart Fast Dry 834 Golden Tiffany (3 coats)
2. Zoya Severine (2)
3. Orly On the Dunes (3)
4. Orly Color Blast Golden Chrome Foil (2)
5. Sally Hansen Complete Salon Manicure Wedding Glitters (3)
6. OPI Sand on Your Own Feet (2)
7. OPI Love Angel Music Baby (2) [such a pretty satin finish]
8. GOSH Gold (2)
9. Wet 'n' Wild Fergie Grammy Gold (2)
10. Dior 148 (2) [from the Golden Jungle duo, which I swatched here]
11. Elle Gold n' Glitz (3)
12. Elf Pot of Gold (2)
13. Kiko Quick Dry 859 Metallic Gold (2)
14. LA Colors Color lst Champagne Sapphire (2)
15. Sephora + Pantone Latte (2)
16. Essie Getting Groovy (2)
17. Milani Color Statement Gold Plated (2)
18. Avon Brushed Metals Brushed Gold (2) [looks sort of textured without topcoat]
19. Zoya Peterhof Palace (2)
20. OPI 50 Years of Style (2)

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