OPI - Stay The Night

The textured polish trend has been around for a while. I'm late on this bandwagon, but I finally found a textured polish that I had to try. I tend toward glitter in the first place, but if I'm going to take the texture plunge, it's certainly going to be with a glittery polish (the only kind I really like when it comes to this type of nail polish). 

OPI's Stay the Night is part of Mariah Carey's Spring 2013 line (so I'm a year late... what of it?!) but I recently picked this up on sale at TJ Maxx. You might remember me hauling this specific polish.

Stay the Night is a black textured base full of hot pink glitter. This is an amazing color. It looks like lava on the nails! I used 3 coats to achieve full opacity. I thought for sure that this would chip right off, but it stayed surprisingly well, lasting me 2-3 days without chips, and then a few more days with some sizeable chipping. Overall, I was really impressed with wear time.

The sheer beauty and awesome wear time of Stay the Night made me want to try even more textures. I have one more (which you can see in my nail polish haul) but I think I'm going to keep my eye out for even more beautiful "Liquid Sand" colors. 

Are you in to the textured polish trend? Let me know in the comments below!

Color Club - Cloud Nine

It's been awhile since I've done a nail post, eh? This is one hell of a comeback.... take a look at this doozy from Color Club! It's not a new polish, by any means, but Cloud Nine is one of the coolest, most dynamic polishes in my collection and I've been loving every second of it being on my nails.

Cloud Nine is a very light pink/purple that is pure holographic goodness. I'm wearing two coats, topped off with a coat of Sally Hansen Insta-Dri top coat.

While I love this nail polish so much, I do have one gripe; it chips in no time at all. Unfortunately, that tends to be the case with holographic nail polish. They look amazing on the nails, and within 24 hours you've got sizeable chips in each and every nail. As it is a lighter color, the chipping along the tip isn't as noticeable as it might be with a more bold color. 

I think I may get more longevity out of this polish by using it as a pedicure color in the future. I have to say, even though it chipped within 24 hours, I can't even be mad at a polish this gorgeous.