All that glitters is gold!

     Back to the polish finishes, with an old standard- the glitter! A glitter polish is generally made up of lots and lots of flecks of glitter, suspended in some sort of base color. In this case, gold glitter is sitting in a gold-toned but mostly translucent base.
     Here is wet n wild's The Gold and the Beautiful:

      While this was 4 coats, it was nowhere near as troublesome as, say, the Laffy Taffy fail. Each coat dried relatively quickly, and the formula wasn't too thick, as glitters can be.

     Interestingly, I'm having trouble telling what polish this collection is from- it appears that wet n wild has two different "The Gold and the Beautiful" polishes- one from a fall 2010 Craze collection called Pixel Perfect, which is a straight metallic, and this one, which is from a Fast Dry, not a Craze collection. Damn you, wet n wild...why must you be so confusing. But for $1.99, I'll live with it. I'll have to try this as a layering mani too- one or two coats over another color to add some sparkle.

     In the above picture I have a bit of tipwear on my ring finger- but considering this was after 4 days wear, which included a barbecue and the associated dish-washing, that's pretty darn good. Both images are clickable!
     How do you like the glitter?

Five Below haul!

We interrupt the polish finish primer to show you the results of a shopping trip!

For those of you who haven't heard of the store Five Below, I like to call it the Target of dollar stores. Everything sells for $5 or less. Some of it is most definitely bottom-of-the-barrel stuff ( i.e. crap...) but if you sort through it you can find some great deals and fun little gifts. My favorite section is (DUH) the "nail" section, where files and pumice stones meet gift sets and Funky Fingers nail polishes. Depending on the season/current availability, some Maybelline, Wet'n'Wild, and other mystery brands I haven't heard of or tried can be there too. On a recent trip, I had a little mini 'haul', as nail polish junkies call it.

I may or may not have done a little happy dance in the store- it's Laffy Taffy! They're scented! Aaaah! ( I borrowed this image from here since mine were stupidly deleted in the blog changeover).

Colors (scents?) include strawberry, watermelon, grape, banana, cherry, and blue raspberry.

While these are small (0.25 oz compared to the average 0.5 oz bottle of OPI) , I couldn't pass up the novelty for $5.  In future posts I'll test these out and see if they really do smell like sweet sugary goodness.

Next, I picked up these four:

wet n wild The Gold and the Beautiful - $1.99
Funky Fingers Snakeskin- $2.00
Funky Fingers Dark Knight- $1.00
Mood Struck Teal to Turquoise- $3.00
Price per polish = $2.00

Even though I have 150 polishes (shh...don't tell my mom), I only have one gold and it's much cooler toned than TGatB. Snakeskin just looked cool. I'm always on the lookout for new black polishes, since they're nice to use for layering sparkly polishes on top of, so for a dollar I figured I'd try Dark Knight...and it has a Batman reference. Obviously I'd buy it. And the Mood Struck is my first mood polish! (meaning the polish changes color under different temperatures). Not a bad haul for $13 total, right?

What would you like to see first?