A Jewel of a Find

Hello :)

Today I have some swatches of Sephora+Pantone Universe Jewel Lacquers. I have Parachute

Purple and Evergreen for you! They are beautiful colors with different shimmers, but

unfortunately, you can't see the shimmer on the nail as much as you can in the bottle. Here are

some bottle shots:

First up, let me just tell you that the formulas were pretty much the same. Very opaque, I could get away with one coat on my shorter nails. The other nails varied, some of them were two and some of them were three. So basically most of the nails are 2 ½ coats. Or 2 2/4. 2 3/6. 2 4/8. 2 5/10. 2 10/20. 2 20/40. 2 40/80. And so on. The brushes were very nice as well, thick and sturdy and stay where you want them to. The bottles are pretty as well, I always love the polish bottles that are glass. Oh, and the packaging was magnificent!!! Look at those boxes!!!! Accchhhhhh!!!
* dies * OMGRR. Also, these polishes wore very well. I had it on for four days! Most people could get way more out of these polishes because I have unusually soft nails…So onto the swatches me mateys!

Parachute Purple- A purple with subtle blue and green shimmer. 

Evergreen- A deep Christmas green with subtle green and blue shimmer.

Well then, that's it for today. You can purchase these polishes at Sephora stores (idk how much got them as a gift and nothing on website :( ).

Thanks for reading!

-Kiki

Hello :) 

 Welcome to A Polished Life! This is our nail polish blog (plus a little something extra here and there) and we are ready to get started! 

 For my first mani, I originally wanted to try out some new BeautyUk polishes that I bought in a mini-pack at Ross. They were all unnamed so I emailed them, and Emma, the customer service agent I spoke with, was very nice and told me that they hadn't actually been from their nail range and didn’t have names :(. But, she did say that if they ever brought them out as single shades she would email me :)! 

NOW ON TO THE MANI! 

 So, since I had six new BeautyUk polishes, and ten fingers, I decided, you know, maybe I should paint those other four nails as well. I was playing around with the idea of bright, neon colors and eventually came up with an inspiration point. 

Rave gloves. 

 So, some of you may not know what these are, but I know some of you do…(ahem-hem you know who you are) and basically they are gloves with tiny flashing bright lights at the fingertips. 

So…that’s what I did!

 

Now, I've done my research, and learned that blogging is equally parts awesome: bright, vibrant, fun, fantabulous, and supercalifragilisticexpialidocious, and fail: epically horrible, terrifying, awful and bleggghhh. I feel I have captured both of those aspects in my first mani. I kept messing up my right hand and eventually got my pointer and middle finger all screwed up. Eh, whatever. I used two coats of each polish and then 1 ½ coats of Wet n' Wild Kaleidescope. Then I sealed it all in with the world's greatest top coat- Seche Vite. 

 Thanks for reading! -Kiki 

Polishes used on right hand 

 Dark blue- BeautyUk (?) 

Light pink- BeautyUK (?- possible dupe for L'oreal I Pink I'm In Love) 

Bright green- OPI Did It On Em' (Nicky Minaj Collection) 

Light blue- BeautyUk (?) 

Dark Pink- BeautyUK (?) 

 Polishes used on left hand

 Peach- BeautyUk (?) 

Green (it looks teal for some reason)- China Glaze In The Limelight 

Purple- BeautyUk (?) 

Neon coral/pink- China Glaze Flip Flop Fantasy 

Yellow- OPI Need Sunglasses?