Double Review: Orly Prim and Proper and OPI Absolutely Alice

First up, Prim and Proper.

This polish..oh, this polish. I wanted to like it. I really, really did. But it just looked weird with my skintone, and it was brushstrokey, and it just was weird overall. I put it on because I was really in the need for something girly and feminine. I think this was almost too feminine, haha. It's a light, light, light metallic lavender frost. The formula was pretty good, and it dried well, but it's just too..something. Not my style.

I don't know. I guess I'm just not really into this finish of polish. It was pretty, sure. Just..not for me. (By the way, the pictures are color-accurate.)

Next, Absolutely Alice.

Sadly, I only have one picture for you. This polish is so gorgeous, but I had so many problems with it. First of all, the formula was gloopy. I expect that with glitter polishes but this one was overly gloopy. Dry time was amazing, though I had to use three coats for full coverage. I needed this polish to last for a week, since I wanted to wear it for the Alice in Wonderland midnight premiere. Now, I'm not stupid. I knew I'd have to touch it up a little bit before going to the premiere. But this polish.. It peeled off in huge chips on the second day. By the fourth day, it was even worse. I had to touch it up so many times, sometimes having to completely redo some nails. I ended up just chipping it all off on Friday morning. It's frustrating, because it's so pretty. My picture really does not do it justice.

It's a gorgeous cobalt blue glitter with gold glitter dispersed throughout. First of all, I'm sorry about the state of my cuticles. Second, I'm sorry about the fact that I'm only showing three nails. I had already started chipping if off by this point. Third, I'm sorry for the raggedy edges on my nails. In addition to the polish chipping off, my nails also started breaking like crazy. It was just not a good week, haha. So, overall, love the color, hate the formula. But it's a glitter. What can you do?

Review: Milani Key Lime Shine

Today is my birthday! It's been an excellent day, full of browsing through a massive antique mall, visiting my favorite vintage store, and eating a delicious lunch of fish tacos from a little California-style Mexican restaurant we have in town that uses all-natural and organic ingredients.

For my birthday, I originally was going to use Revlon Sublime Strawberry. However, it just would. Not. Dry. It was so frustrating. I'm going to have to try it again when I have more time/patience. Well, since I didn't have much time to redo my nails after attempting Sublime Strawberry twice, I knew I needed something that would dry quickly. First I reached for Orly Iron Butterfly, but changed my mind, deciding it wasn't quite festive enough. I finally settled on Milani Key Lime Shine, and I'm so happy I did.

Key Lime Shine is a pretty metallic light green that really reads more as a silver with a light green tinge. It's quite frosty, but it didn't really bother me, because the brushstrokes weren't too terribly obvious. Coverage is absolutely amazing. Two coats, one coat Poshe. I actually could have only done one coat of polish, but I'm a bit OCD about that sort of thing, and had to do two, for sanity's sake. However, it does not wear well. I painted them yesterday afternoon, and by 10:00 tonight, it was peeling off in strips. Alas. It was still a wonderful polish to wear for my birthday, though.

My skin color looks all crazy in both of these pictures. It's just the lighting. The color of the polish is pretty much spot-on, though.

Also, my first "week" of classes went pretty well. My classes are going to be hard, but they're all required, so I might as well get them over with, right? They should all be pretty interesting, though. For the most part, anyway. I'll probably have changed my mind about this when I've got three papers due on the same week, haha.