OPI Lincoln Park After Dark and Sinful Colors Faceted

When I saw Faceted in the Sinful Colors Halloween Display I immediately snatched it up and planned to put it over black. But then when I got home I saw Lincoln Park after Dark sitting on my shelf, still untried, so I decided to pair the two together. I think it looks so awesome!

The pictures really don't do this justice. You have to see it in real life out in the daylight to get the full effect.

I started out with two coats of the cult classic OPI's Lincoln Park After Dark. It's a super dark purple that looks black in practically every light. It's a great vampy shade. It was opaque in two coats but I had a bit of an issue with application. I know everyone raves about OPI, and the formula is nice, but I am not a huge fan of the brush. It's too round or something. It will take some getting used to. But the color is fantastic, and the formula is really nice!

When that was dry I added two coats of Sinful Colors Faceted. It's a stunning glitter polish. It's got small pieces of purple glitter, as well as iridescent bar glitter in a clear base. Unlike some bar glitter, I didn't have any issues with application with this one. It applied relatively evenly and none of the bar glitter curled up on me, which was amazing. Overall I was very impressed with this nail polish, and I just adore the finished look!

OPI Lincoln Park After Dark is part of OPI's permanent collection and can be purchased wherever OPI polishes are sold for around $9.00. .

Sinful Colors Faceted is a limited edition polish that was most recently released with Sinful Color's Halloween Collection. I purchased mine at Walgreens for $1.99

What are you wearing on your nails currently? I would love to hear from you! You can leave me a comment below, or use the contact card on the side bar of the blog to get in touch!!

Fall 2013 Nail Polish Picks

I feel like I just shared with you my summer picks (technically I did, I was wayyy late to that party) and here it is time to share with you all my fall polish picks. These are the polishes from my nail polish collection that I am most excited about wearing this fall. These are some pretty classic fall shades. I love dark, vampy shades in the fall as well as those sort of ugly pretty cement colors, and some darker glitters. So without furthur ado, let's get into it! You can check out my video if you want to hear more about these polishes!



OPI "Color so Hot it Berns"- This is a gorgeous true red that makes it one of those classic reds that are fantastic all year round, but I find myself wearing reds MUCH more often in the fall, of course into the winter/holiday season! "Color so Hot it Berns" is a polish that I currently only own in a mini size, but would love to have it in the full size at some point. The formula is good, the color is gorgeous! The only not so great thing is the price point. I really never like shelling out more than 5 bucks for a polish, and OPI's full size polishes run around 9 dollars. But this one is so pretty, it might just be worth the investment!

(swatch coming soon!)

Revlon Top Speed "Stormy"- This is one of those ugly pretty colors I was referring to. It's a gorgeous sort of  mushroom taupe-y color. Sort of the color of wet cement. I just love this sort of color in the fall. I feel like it's a great darker neutral! The formula on this polish is great! It applies easily, with no problems, is opaque in two coats and dries at top speed!

Sinful Colors Sinfulshine "Steel Reserve" This is a great dark steel gray polish that looks amazing on my skin tone! The sinfulshine polishes are amazing because they dry to a super shiny finish that just looks flawless! You don't even need a top coat! Of course, I always add one to keep my polish lasting a little longer, but you could totally skip that step. These polishes are super affordable, and available exclusively at walgreens, if I am not mistaken. They cost just $2.99!

Revlon "Scandalous"- This is one of my all time favorite polishes! It's a sheer black jelly base with large pieces of fuchsia glitter! This one was originally released under the name "Facets of Fuchsia" and it's just stunning. The base is a bit sheer, so I layer this one on top of a black polish for best results! The glitter in this one keeps it lasting AGES! It's a pain to get off the nail, but I don't mind because once I get it on I am never in a hurry to take it off!

(swatch coming soon)


Ulta "Material Girl" This is one of the newer polishes to my collection. I picked it up in a haul with about 7 other Ulta polishes back when they were on sale for just 2 bucks a piece. I am so glad I did because this is stunning. It's sort of a wine/berry shade with a TON of small holographic glitter in it that is just so pretty! I can't even tell you how much I adore this polish!

(swatch coming soon)

Sally Hansen Hard as Nails Xtreme Wear "Blue It" This is another super affordable polish that you NEED in you collection if you don't have it already. It's a darker blue, but it is also a bit bright, and it has sort of a metallic finish. Ok, yeah, I am terrible at describing colors, but I think the swatch speaks for itself. It's stunning, and a great fall polish on days when you want something less vampy, but still not too bright. This one is opaque in just one coat! Can't beat that!

(swatch coming soon)

E.L.F. "Copper" This is my favorite Elf polish. I love copper and bronze shades especially in the fall. It's that color of leaves turning color and it's a great polish for my skin tone. Elf's copper is a great formula and a great finish and the color is just right, in my opinion. I don't have anything else to say about it. I will just let the swatches speak for themselves!

China Glaze "Harvest Moon" is similar in color to Elf's Copper, but different enough that I felt it necessary to include this one as well, because it is so pretty! It's got tons of shimmer in it which makes it so beautiful. It's also a bit more bronze-y rather than copper. China Glaze makes some really amazing polishes, and I highly recommend you check them out if you haven't already. Especially this shade! It just screams FALL to me!


Rimmel London 60 Seconds "Sage all the Rage" I just did a nail of the day post on this polish. It's so pretty. I love a light, sage green, and this polish did not disappoint. I picked it up for just a dollar fifty, which is an amazing price. This polish dries super fast, and the color is just so pretty. I'd consider it a nice neutral for the fall time, because even though it's green, it's a pretty neutral shade of green and I feel like it would go with anything!

E.L.F."Chocolate" Beware of this polish because it will stain your nails if you are not careful and apply the proper base coat. But I think it's worth the risk because this beautiful, chocolate brown color is perfect for fall. It's a great alternative to black, in my opinion. Brown matches with everything, so it's a great neutral, but this deep chocolate shade isn't boring. I think it's so pretty. It dries to a nice shine, but I love adding a matte top coat to it because the color handles that finish so well.

Elf's chocolate topped with a matte top coat

OPI "Lincoln Park After Dark" This is such a cult classic color and is always included in people's fall polish picks, so I almost left it out, but I can't. It's the newest polish in my collection and I just love it. It's a so dark it's almost black purple that is just gorgeous. Purple is my favorite color, so of course, I would love this, and the dark dark nature of this makes this the perfect vampy autumn color! I haven't even worn this one yet and I already know it's going to be one of my all time fave polishes. OPI's formula is notoriously good and this color is just so "me"

(swatch coming soon)

Sinful Colors "Calypso" This might be my favorite out of all the polishes I have "picked" for fall. Seriously, if you only get one polish from this list, make it be Calypso! This color is a gorgeous, deep green that looks almost black in some lighting. It's so pretty. The formula on this polish is amazing. It is completely opaque in one coat, and this polish did not chip on me for 5 days! Not bad at all considering this polish will run you just $1.99! And I was lucky and caught it when it was on sale at walgreens for just 99 cents! Score!

January Nail Polish Picks!

Hello everyone! I hope you all had an amazing January! I cannot believe how quickly this month flew by! Seems like we were just ringing in the new year and now we're just weeks away from Valentine's day! Anyway, I decided to start a new series of videos/blog posts! This is where I will show you all of the nail polishes that I wore each month. So, this time, I will be showing you all of my nail polish picks for January. I go into full detail about each of the polishes and my reasons for picking them here in this video. But, I thought I would give you all a closer look of what the polishes looked like on my nail. Of course, if you follow me on instagram (which you should! My username is jwhackers) you will already have seen most of these. But I figured I'd show em again, since it's been a while since you have seen them!

So, the very first time I painted my nails after the ball dropped and we rang in the new year, I went with Sinful Colors Folly. This is a beautiful bright berry pink color. And then for fun, I added some sparkle with Sally Hansen Xtreme Wear polish in Strobe Light on my ring fingers and thumbs for a gorgeous accent nail!

Next, I went for a darker, more winter appropriate shade. I pulled out one of my Elf mini polishes in the color Violet Velvet. This is a deep purple that I found incredibly difficult to photograph. It seemed to either turn out blue in photos or black. This was as close to it's true, deep purple as I could get!

Purple is my all time favorite color, but for whatever reason I just wasn't feeling this one of my nails. It only lasted a couple of days before I took it off. And it was quite a pain to get off, I must say. It took a lot of scrubbing on my nail. But the next mani I chose was worth all the trouble to get the purple off. I chose to do a color blocking theme. I used Sally Hansen Xtreme Wear in Pacific blue for half my nails, and Wet n Wild Megalast polish in I need a refreshmint for the other half. I gotta say, I really LOVED this manicure! I think the colors worked fantastic together!

After the brightness of the blues, I decided to take it down a little and go for a darker, a bit more of a classic winter nail. So I went with a couple more polishes from the 14 piece nail cube from Elf. This time I chose Misty Haze for my main nail color. This is a dark sort of hazy blue-grey color. It leans more towards grey than blue. And then for an accent nail I went for a very similar color called Dazzle Diva. Like I said, the color is very similar to Misty Haze, but it's got some sparkle. I thought this nail combination looked quite good together. Just a subtle accent which I thought looked pretty classy. Unfortunately, this chipped like crazy, and this mani only lasted a couple days.

About the time my pretty grey manicure bit the dust, I received my ipsy bag in the mail and one of the items inside was a nailtini nail polish in the color frappe, which is a pretty super light pinky-nude. So I figured I would give it a shot. It was pretty sheer, and it took about 4 coats to get completely opaque. I really liked the color, but I decided to jazz it up a bit, and go for some triangle accents on the nails. I used the Wet n Wild Megalast nail polish in Wet Cement. I really liked the finished look. It was the first time I had ever attempted this sort of nail design, and so it wasn't perfect, but I thought the color combination was nice, and the overall design was pretty good. (other than my thumb, I pretty much really messed up my thumb haha)

I really hated to take the triangle accent manicure off, but when it started to chip after a few days (I am pretty hard on my nails, so I change polish pretty often, in case you haven't noticed) I decided to just to go with a simple, quick manicure. I chose OPI Lucerne-tainly look marvelous. It's a little mini polish that I have from the OPI swiss collection a few years back, and I quite like the color. It's a metallic gun-metal silver color. I like OPI's formula, and this manicure took two coats, and I was out the door. I was pretty happy with it.

Next, I want to share with you the nail polish that is on my nails right now. It's a Wet n Wild fastdry polish in the color fucshiarama. First of all can I just talk to you guys about how much I love that the fast dry polishes from wet n wild are named after tv shows? I think that is so cute. I am a sucker for marketing like that, what can I say. And I really love the color of this polish too. It's a deep purply pink raspberry color. It's a jelly formula of polish which I don't have a ton of experience with, but it went on pretty sheer and needed to be layered. I did about 3 coats of this polish but I really like the way it looks on the nail. It was difficult to photograph this one, because the flash on the camera made this one look super super sheer on the nail. I guess that's just the nature of this type of polish? But Ir eally am loving it, and I think it's a great polish to round out the month of January!

Lastly, I will just share with you all the base and top coat that I used in the month of January. The base coat I actually just got, so I only used it for the most recent manicure, but I am liking it so far, so I thought I would include it. The top coat is the one I have been using all month and I adore it. The base coat is the L.A. Colors Base and Top Coat. I use it specifically as a base coat, since I already love my current top coat, which is the Sally Hansen Insta-Dri Anti-Chip top coat.

If you wanna see a closer look at each of these nail polishes in the bottle, check out my January polish picks video on my youtube channel!!



So that is going to wrap up my January Polish picks. Let me know if you guys like this sort of post, or if you would rather see me do occasional nail of the day posts instead. Thanks for visiting my blog! Hope you are all having an awesome week! 

My Nail Polish Collection

I just filmed a whole video about my nail polish collection. I figured it would be easier to just do one video rather than take pictures of everything. I could go into detail about the nail polishes, and give color descriptions and all that without having to make a big long blog post about it. Well, the video didn't work out so well. After I spent a good 15 minutes filming, I realized that I was out of the frame for most of the video. Then my cat kept walking in front of the camera, and my 3 year old son, Austin, kept interrupting the filming. So I scrapped the video idea and now here I am bringing you a regular old blog post after all. Well, you know what they say about the best laid plans.
So anyway, I am not going to go into too much detail about my collection. I'll just show you guys the pictures, list the nail polishes I have, and if you want details about a certain nail polish, or you would like to see swatches, leave me a comment and let me know! I don't really have THAT many nail polishes right now, so I just broke them down into two different pictures. The first picture contains all of my NYC Nail polishes. The majority of my nail polishes are that brand. It's good quality nail polish at a great price, and I can't ever resist these when I see them in stores!



First row (L to R): Classic Coral, Broadway Burgundy, Plaza Plumberry, Empire State Blue
Second Row: Cashmere, Taxi Yellow, Black Lace, Starry Silver
Third Row: East Village, Lincoln Square Lavender, Spring Street

This next picture contains all of my other nail polishes. These are just a mixture of a couple of different brands.



First Row: Sally Hansen Hard as Nails Xtreme Wear in the color White On, Revlon Gold Coin, no name pink polish, no name blue polish, Seche Vite Top coat
Second Row: China Glaze Poinsettia, China Glaze Twinkle Lights, China Glaze Holly-Day
third Row: mini China Glaze in Ruby Pumps, mini OPI in Color so hot it Berns, mini OPI in Yodel Me On My Cell, mini OPI in Lucerne-tainly look marvelous, mini OPI Rapidry Top Coat


So that's all the polishes I currently own. Like I said, I don't have a ton, but my collection is constantly growing! If you have any questions about the polishes above, or you want to see swatches of any of them, leave me a comment below. Also, leave any nail polishes suggestions in the comments as well. I am always on the look out for great nail polish brands, deals and colors!

Before I end this, I have a question for you all. How do you store your nail polishes? I currently just have all mine in a little bin, but as my collection grows, I know that I will quickly need to find a replacement method of storage. So I was just curious about how you all store your polishes, or if you have any tips on ways to store or display nail polishes. Leave me a comment and let me know!

Fall Nail Polish Picks

It's another Nail Polish post, but what can I say? I love Nail Polish! I'm not all that great at applying it, but I think that having the right polish on your nails can really enhance any outfit! I am always on the look out for good, inexpensive nail polish brands. Because I change my nail color often, I don't necessarily need my nail polish to be chip proof. As long as I can get a day or two of wear out of the polish, I am good to go. So, I thought I would share my Top 5 Nail polishes for fall. I just grabbed these out of my collection. There are plenty of others still on the store shelves that I am dying to get. I'm sure there will be a nail polish wish list post coming up very soon!

Top Five Fall Nail Polishes (from My collection)

1. New York Color Spring Street
I know what you are thinking. It's got spring in the title, so it's probably not the best polish for fall. However, I am of the opinion that Nail Polish is not seasonal. I know a lot of people choose to wear darker colors in the fall/winter, but I just wear what I like. Besides, Spring Street is a gorgeous Orange color that I think is perfect for the months of October and November. The formula on this one is really great. It's from the "In a new York Color Minute" range. Which basically means It's a quick dry polish. It's literally dry in a minute. And it's very opaque. I can get away with just one coat! (Though I usually do two). The best part about this Polish is the Price. I paid around 2 dollars for it! And it's definitely a color that can be worn all year long (in my opinion)

2. New York Color Lincoln Square Lavender
Here is another color from the same line as the one above. This is a gorgeous pinky-purple shade. I'm awful at describing colors. I wish I had swatches for you, but I don't. I'm positive I will use this color in a nail of the day blog post soon enough, because it's one of my all time favorites (not just for fall!) Again, the formula is great, and the color is another one that I think is perfect all year round!

3. New York Color Starry Silver Glitter
Yet another one from New York Color. But this one is just from their regular line. The big selling points for me with this polish are the price tag (94 cents!) and the shimmer. This is a clear base with tons of tiny silver glitters. There's also some blue and pink larger chunks of glitter. This is definitely a party polish! I wear it either alone, or over any matte nail polish and it looks fantastic!

4. OPI Yodel Me On My Cell
OPI is a fantastic brand of nail polish, but it can be a little pricey. I personally don't like spending 7-8 dollars on a bottle of nail polish when I can spend 2-3 for a color I like just as much. However, I do love the formula of OPI and when I found a collection of 4 mini bottles of OPI (it is the Opi Swiss Collection- Irre-Swiss-Ables Mini Set) for around 4 dollars, on sale, I couldn't pass it up. I am glad I didn't, because now that the fall months are here, I have found that I am really loving the colors! Yodel Me on My Cell (I love the name!) is a sapphire blue color. It's not a true navy, it's lighter. But it's a great color. I love it and I see myself wearing it a lot this fall/winter. I wore this in my recent nail of the day post. Check it out!

5. OPI Lucerne-tainly Look Marvelous
this is another polish from that little set I found on sale. It's a gorgeous gun metal grey with a ton of shimmer in it. I don't know how else to describe it. It's a fun color that goes with everything. And Grey's are really hot this fall if you are worried about following any trends!

So that's it. The Top 5 polishes for fall that I currently have in my collection. What are your favorite Nail Polish colors to wear during the chilly, autumn months?




note: If you want to check out the Opi Swiss Collection- Irre-Swiss-Ables Mini Set you can get it on amazon for anywhere from 3-4 dollars right now. It's a great way to get these awesome colors, and check out the formula of OPI to see if you like it. The nail polishes in the set that I did not mention in my favorites above are "Color So Hot it Berns" (a gorgeous red) and a RapiDry Top Coat, which isn't my favorite top coat ever, but it's not terrible

I am not affiliated with any of these companies. My opinions are my own. can

Nail of the Day

I was originally planning on posting an outfit of the day today, but here in Michigan, it's really chilly. So I opted to just throw on a sweatshirt and jeans today. It's a comfy cozy outfit, but nothing to write home about. So instead, I decided to post a nail of the day. I love nail polish. I think it's a great way to add a pop of color to any outfit, and I tend to change colors often to fit my mood. I really wanted a deep navy blue nail, but I don't have any Navy polish in my collection (yet!) So instead I decided to go with OPI Yodel Me on my Cell. It's from the Swiss collection. It's a really pretty sapphire blue, and while it didn't give me the navy nail fix I was looking for, I really like the color. In fact, this one might just make it into the fall nail polish picks blog I am working on! Look for that to be posted in the next day or two.




What is your favorite nail polish brand/color?