OPI Skyfall 007 Red and Gold Mani

 I hadn't planned on really getting anything from the OPI Skyfall 007 collection but when I saw them in person there were a few I just couldn't resist. Since I haven't had much time lately I paired three together to show you today: The Spy Who Loved Me, a gorgeous red with gold shimmer; Goldeneye, a beautiful gold glitter/flake and the gold leaf top coat The Man With The Golden Gun. Picture is two coats of the The Spy Who Loved Me followed by a touch of Goldeneye on the tips and one coat of The Man With The Golden Gun on the ring finger with top coat.

 What do you think of the Skyfall collection? Are you a Bond fan?

Color Club SCI-FI

 Hey everyone, I hope you are doing great! We just finished up visiting with family last week, we had a great time, and are now back to what will be our new home. Hopefully, we will be moving into our house soon but until then we are staying in a hotel. Since most of our things are still being shipped I don't have a light box to take pictures in and haven't had a chance to take pictures while the sun is out so I am using a picture I took a while back but never posted.
 Today I have a Color Club magnetic polish. This is SCI-FI, it's an olive green with gold glitter and what looks like gold flakes, which probably makes this one my favorite magnetic polish. On my middle and ring finger I turned the magnet backwards and sideways for different designs. Picture is two coats. I had no problems with the formula, it was bumpy without top coat but I think that is from the glitter and flakes in the polish.

 This is SCI-FI before the magnet.

 Are you loving magnetic polishes? I know I am but at the same time I can't wait to get back into doing nail art in the next few days!

Cult Nails Seduction

 Hey guys, I hope you all had a great weekend! My mother-in-law will be visiting at the end of the week for two weeks so I have been working on making sure I have posts ready before she arrives. I will still be around, checking in and all that but I don't want to be writing posts every few days instead of just enjoying the time she is here. 

 Anyways, a few weeks ago when Cult Nails had their $5 sale, for hitting 5,000 likes on FB, I finally made my first order. I got it in over the weekend and I am very pleased. The shipping was quick, the polishes were beautiful and everything was excellently packed. I couldn't be happier!  

 Today I have Seduction to share, it's a purple jelly packed with red and blue flakes. Basically, it is Unicorn Puke, AKA Clairvoyant, without the green. I had the opportunity to get Unicorn Puke back when Maria first made it available but didn't and I have regretted it since. When I heard about this one I knew I had to get it and I don't regret it at all, I love it! The flakes in Seduction do shift a bit green in some lights but it's very different from having the green mixed in with it like Unicorn Puke has. 

 The picture below is three coats of Seduction alone, no topcoat. You could wear this one alone but I think it is a much better layering polish.     

 Here is one coat of Seduction over black. In these two pictures you can see a bit of the green shift around the edge of my middle and ring finger.

 I came across a green flake polish here in Japan, Pa AA42, and thought if layered over Seduction it would be similar to Unicorn Puke. It seems close, but with the PA layered on top the green shows the most. Next time I might try it underneath. Though, in the end I am happy with it.

 You can pick up Seduction from Cult Nails but if you are thinking about it don't wait too long, it is limited edition.
 Have you tried any Cult Nails polishes? Which is your favorite?

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OPI I Lily Love You vs Island Girl Mahalo Dream

 These two looked so similar in the bottles that I had to compare them and they are close but not closes enough to be dupes. I Lily Love You is more sheer but is packed with glitter and flakie pieces while Mahaolo Dream has a darker more opaque base but less glitter and flakies. 

 Here is two coats of I Lilly Love You alone, all of the pictures are with no topcoat.  

 This is two coats of Mahalo Dream alone. 

 Here they are, two coats each, next to each other. Mahalo Dream is on my index and ring finger and I Lilly Love You is on my middle and pinky finger. You can clearly see the difference. 

 I also tried layering them over white and black. This is one coat each, ILLY on my index and middle and MD on my ring and pinky. 

 Finally, two coats each layered over white and black. 

 I Lily Love You layered over black reminds me so much of the pictures of outer space. 

 If I had to pick one I would probably go with I Lily Love You just because it is so packed with stuff and I can easily layer it over white or pink to get the pink color or layer it over another color for a nice effect but Mahalo Dream is still beautiful. 

OPI Shim-Merry Chic

  I passed on this one last year and I am glad I did. The first time I saw Shim-Merry Chic it didn't seem special, that was before I started blogging and realized I kind of like brown polishes now, really any color polish now. One perk of passing on it the first time was when I found it in Guam it was on sale so that was a plus and I think I appreciate it for what it is now more than I would have a year or two ago. 

 Shim-Merry Chic, from the 2009 Holiday Wishes collection, is a golden bronze of a brown shade but what makes is so special is the flakies and just the touch of green and blue/purple glitter it has. It isn't too sheer, I used two coats for the pictures below but it could have used a third.

 What do you think of polishes with flakies? Do you have any polishes that you appreciate more now than you did when you first saw them?