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L is for London...

It's time for another A,B,C polish! I'm super excited to bring you this one for today because it's also part of the brand new Zoya Pixie collection!! These are Zoya's textured glitter polishes. I've already showed you a few of the OPI Mariah Carey textured polishes and I have one more to show you tomorrow so this is the perfect time to give you a little comparison of the two! London is sort of a foggy grey polish and all of the Pixie's have tiny glitter in them, this one has silver. My first impression of these was that they were super sparkly and pretty in the bottle. They spread easily, like the OPI and are just as easy to control while polishing as any other Zoya polish. One thing that's great about the textured polishes is that after the initial coat is dried you can easily apply other layers since the texture gives you a really great grip! Second impression? These are super duper thin. The OPI's I got away with two coats on...three at most. These I was doing four of and they were THICK coats. Thick coats equals ridiculous dry time since you can't just throw some quick dry top coat on there and call it a day.With thin coats the dry time is fairly quick but then you end up using five or six coats on some. The first coat of this one barely made my nails a grey tint so it's really necessary to build them up. I did like the finish better on these than the OPI but mostly because I thought the uniform glitter gave them a nicer overall look. I also didn't think these were as obvious as the OPI textured polishes were. Mostly they just look like a matte glitter and its not super apparent that your nails are sandy. They had a similar feel to them though, like a fine grit file. Not enough to catch on anything but enough that it's apparent when you touch your nails. Here's a close-up of London...

This is three thick coats of London and you can see that it's still a bit transparent in the close-up. I'm not entirely sure how I feel about the Pixie's yet...but I have a few more to show you soon!!

Don't forget to check out Emma and Kerrie's polishes for the letter "L"!!

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E is for Elle's Spell

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Well with the holidays and the unforunate tragic events around the world over the last week, I guess my fellow bloggers, Kerrie, Emma, and myself, got a bit distracted from our A,B,C challenge. But fear not because we're back this week with the letter "e". This is Barielle Elle's Spell. It's the only Barielle I own and really, I don't know if I'll keep it. I bought it amid a torrent of blogger lust over it and don't get me wrong, it IS pretty. But this is FIVE coats. FIVE. I know it's a jelly and I love jellie's but I feel like in order to really see the flakies it's important that this is built up a little more and it took quite a few coats to get to that point. It's also lovely layered over darker colors but I really don't get into layering polishes much. I have a million and I rarely use them. Anyway Elle's Spell is a red/cranberry jelly with color shifting flakies. I believe it's still available to purchase and runs about $7.99. :) Do you have Elle's Spell?

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D is for Dangerous...

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It's time for the letter "D"!! I'm trying to use this challenge as a way to work through polishes I've either never worn or haven't worn in a very long time. This polish falls into the latter category. I wore it once a million years ago and haven't since. Now that I have it on I can't for the life of me figure out why I only wore it that once! It's stunning! This is P2 Dangerous. It's a shimmery magenta leaning purple. This is two coats and it's opaque but it also has a sort of jelly like quality to it. It's VERY shimmery in real life and it dried very shiny as well. It reminds me a lot of Illamasqua Baptiste but I ended up swatching them together after I realized that and it turns out that Baptiste is much more of a true purple than this one. An extra pic for good measure!