Addiction is a Japanese cosmetics line under the Kosi brand umbrella. These are difficult to get in the U.S. As in part-the-red-sea difficult. And if the accessibility isn’t enough to deter you, these are expensive. As in $25/bottle expensive. Not that I don’t encourage you to buy them, but you really, really need to love [...]
Rouge Argent, better known as Metallic Vamp, is a gorgeous dark plum that unfortunately went on more like a pearl than a shimmer. If you take a good look at the swatch, you’ll see the lines in the application. A couple of years ago, I know I saw several places that still had bottles of [...]
I’ve been hunting Orageux, otherwise known as Rain, for quite a while. It came out with a yellow polish called Petillant, or “Shine”, which I am still hunting for. This was definitely a case of the hunt being more exciting than the capture. Orageux was not pleasant going on. It ended up being much more [...]
The Concrete Kiss bottles sport small handles that are a bit difficult to get a good grasp on. However, the brushes were surprisingly and consistantly sound, something unusual for this price range. There were no renegade brush hairs, they splayed beautifully and were evenly cut at the bottom. It made applying some of the metallics [...]
What exactly is a concrete kiss? Is this something you really want your significant other planting on your lips? I think not! Concrete Kiss polishes are a very well priced polish offered by Mandee for $3.00 each. But wait! Buy now and it’s buy one, get one 50% off! Actually… they’ve been on sale like [...]
The market seems to be flooded lately with “metallic” polishes that range anywhere from true metallics to foils to intense shimmer. I’m not complaining as I’m a fan of all of those. But the Metallic collection from Kleancolor is what I’d truly consider “metallic”. Most of these look like sheeted aluminum on the tips. Highly [...]
I know, it’s bad when a bottle shape is what excites you. What can I say, I love polish in square bottles! This collection was not what I expected and at same time, exceeded what I expected based on the color I applied. Sound confusing? Let me explain. I was expecting polishes to lean towards [...]
I was in the CVS the other day and I happened to see the new Sally Hansen pens in chrome. Normally, I don’t pay too much attention to nail pens but the chrome caught my attention. I picked one up, curious as to how well it would work. I pulled this out to do a [...]
Grasshopper and I are about to embark on a week long cruise to the Keys, Grand Cayman and Jamaica! So while our cruise will be full of eating, sun tanning and general lazing about, it won’t include much swatching. So for the next few posts, I’ll be inundating you with some photo spam of older [...]
