Still disappointed

It's been a few months since I placed my disastrous order with Yves Rocher.  I was so disappointed with my order that I hadn't tried out any of the polishes until now.  I finally decided to give Mauve Captivant a try.  Here's what it looked like on the website when I ordered it:

It was listed as a 'sparkling' polish and it looks like a duochrome in that photo, or at the very least packed with sparkly glitter right?  And here's what it actually looks like:

This was 4 coats!  Oh and the 3ml bottle is now half empty after one manicure.  But I'm fine with that anyways because I'm not all that impressed with the colour and I despise 4 coaters.  It was pretty much a given that I wasn't going to order from Yves Rocher again anyways so I'm not sure if an amazing polish would have been enough to change my mind.

And just like I do with all the colours I'm not very impressed with, I stamp them with a full nail image.  This is BM19 in Sally Hansen Chrome Moonstone.  The stamping is looking a little green in this photo but it's not at all.  This one came off right away.

Oh and something I thought was absolutely hilarious - I checked out my blog search keywords the other day and one of the them was horny unicorn.  WTF?!  How the heck did my blog come up under that?  I really don't think I want to know why someone was searching for a horny unicorn anyways.  Anyone else have strange or funny search words come up for them?

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That wasn't supposed to happen

I started this one with OPI's What's With The Cattitude - 2 coats and it definitely needed another, but I was only intending this to be a base.  I was surprised how sheer this polish was.

I wanted to layer one of my Tronica polishes and I was surprised how opaque it actually was.  This is 1 coat of China Glaze High Def over top.  Pretty much made the first two coats useless.

I stamped on an angle with plate BM19 using Billie Plutonium Plum.  And then I defined the edge with a silver striper.  Blech, bad colour choices.  I gotta say though that the Billie polish is awesome for stamping!  Can't go wrong for $1.25!

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Green on Green

This is two coats of Sally Hansen Xtreme Wear in Green With Envy.  I had serious issues painting my nails that night...I kept smudging them on everything!  Luckily I knew I was going to stamp over it so I didn't care about my nails so much but my poor shirt didn't fare so well.

To stamp I used plate BM19 and Joe polish in Moss.

Rather than stamp twice, I just filled in the empty space with Joe Moss.

Then I used plate BM05 and stamped only a part of the leaf image in Revlon's Copper Penny and finished it off with a small gold rhinestone.  This is my entry for the Bundle Monster contest.  I don't have near enough voting friends to actually win a set of plates, but it was still fun to create an entry.  The design is a little loud, but it's growing on me.  I'm thinking this basic design would look really good with different colours and stamps so it's likely I will try it out again sometime.

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