Sally Hansen: Plum Luck + Color Club Tru Passion

As much as I adore solid, opaque manicures. I had to throw something on these plum puppies to spruce 'em up a bit. Luckily, I had a bottle of Color Club Tru Passion. I bought this ages ago, for a couple of bucks max and I am so glad I finally got around to using it! This polish applies like a dream. It is made up of small square and larger hex glitter. The glitter is a bright purple, that in some light looks almost pink and in others, looks blue-ish.

1 coat of Tru Passion over Plum Luck mani (I had to show you the glittery gloriousness close up)

The more layers you apply of Tru Passion, the more opaque the coverage gets. I tried to show you this a bit in the pictures. My middle finger has one coat of True Passion while my ring finger has two coats. You can easily get away with wearing this glittery goodness on its own over a base coat - four coats should do the trick. But, I have to warn you - this polish is a PAIN to remove. This should come as no surprise, since each coat is packed with a ton of glitter. But I felt I had a "duty to warn" - that's for the legally educated followers out there, for the rest of you.. be happy you don't get the joke cause torts class was miserable.

1 coat of Tru Passion on middle finger & 2 coats of Tru Passion on ring finger (with flash, to show you the glitteriness), artificial light

1 coat of Tru Passion on middle finger & 2 coats of Tru Passion on ring finger, artificial light

1 coat of Tru Passion on middle finger & 2 coats of Tru Passion on ring finger, natural light

1 coat of Tru Passion on middle finger & 2 coats of Tru Passion on ring finger, natural light

I love this polish that packs a punch. But I will definitely use it (sparingly)! Court is adjourned.

Sony T

Color Club: Revvvolution

As this lovely holo post goes live I'll be nervously scampering around at my new internship with some nice lawyerly government people.  I'll be getting great experience, but I definitely can't wear the outrageous-by-normal-standards polishes that I would like to be wearing.  Especially in the summer time I love to wear attention grabbing polishes.  To ease the pain I swatched Color Club Revvvolution tonight.  Clearly this is polish is everything that a work friendly polish should not be (sparkly, eye catching, holo-ey, black - you name it), so obviously I love it.  I am waiting to acquire OPI My Private Jet (holo version), and this is my go to until that miraculous day arrives.

Revvvolution, like all Color Clubs, is 4-free and comes in a heavy squared bottle.  The brush is relatively thin and pretty firm, but it's easy to use.  This required only 2 coats, and the second coat is just for boneheaded klutzes like myself who never apply the first coat evenly.  It is a black/charcoal scattered holo with a slight linear holo effect in the right lighting.  The holo was hard to capture in my light box, but sadly the only sun I saw today was when I was forced by fire alarm to evacuate my building at 8:30 this morning.  Apparently the building didn't get the memo about this being my last sleep in day before starting work!  Eisenbrat stayed in bed and pretended it was possible to ignore the blaring sound and obnoxious voice coming through the speaker thing in her room until I told her that real fire trucks had arrived.  I still have no idea what that was about. 

Now for some pics!

2 coats Revvvolution, no top coat, artificial light

  The holo was camera shy, so I grabbed a shot with flash to make up for it.

2 coats Revvvolution, no top coat, flash

If you still don't believe me, here is an insanely zoomed in flash shot of my pinky.  There's that holo-ey goodness!

Holy Holo :)

Verdict? Definitely keeping this baby.  This will look beautiful next to my non-existent bottle of MPJ ;)

If anyone is curious, I'm rocking Butter London All Hail the Queen to work.  It has a slight holo, but is so neutral that I dare someone to tell me it is not appropriate.  Hopefully they'll all be too distracted by my new suit to care!  Any suggestions for interesting but not inappropriate polishes to wear to work on Capitol Hill?

-Shbecky