Orly - Sunglasses at Night

Having had a search online I can now tell you that Sunglasses at Night is part of the Orly Flash Glam FX Collection, a range of glitters Orly brought out about 18 months ago.  I just found it in TK Maxx (£4.99, bargain!)and thought it was pretty so had to buy in. :)

 

 

These pictures are two coats over a black base.  It's horrible to photograph and the ones I took just don't do it justice, the bottle shot below gives you a better idea of what it looks like, a sheer grey black base jelly packed full of holographic bar glitter.

 

In regular light it isn't amazing but under bright indoor lighting or in sunshine (I'm guessing, we're about 5 months off seeing sunshine in Glasgow at this time of year) it really comes alive and is super sparkly and holographic.

 

It applies nicely, with the usual notes about trying to avoid any of the bar glitter hanging over the edges of your nails as it'll feel rough, and two coats over an opaque base gave a properly sparkly and rather 3D looking effect.

 

Nails Inc Fine Sprinkles - Warwick Street

Earlier in the week I showed you the Fine Sprinkles collection from Nails Inc that I picked up in TK Maxx.  Today I have a full nail of the day post featuring one of those polishes, Warwick Street, a jelly cream base crammed full of multi-coloured micro glitter, or as Nails Inc likes to call them fine sprinkles.

These pictures are just two coats and the polish is wonderfully opaque, you could almost get away with just one it covers so well.

The polish applies smoothly and dries pretty fast too which is an added bonus and although the glitter is a tiny bit rough it's easily smoothed out with a generous coat of top coat.

On first inspection I would say the fine sprinkles are in a white base but in some lights it seems to lean a mauve or lilac sort of colour, I'm not sure if that's the colour of the base or just the sprinkles making it look that way, either way it's very pretty.

The fine sprinkles collection is a softer more subtle little sister to Nails Inc's Sprinkles collection which I posted about HERE.  The fine sprinkles give a more subtle, gentler look than their rather more in your face big sister collection.

I really like this polish, it's a more subtle glitter look with a nod to recent indie collections which feature glitter suspended in creamier bases, I can't wait to try out the other 3 in the set, if they're half as pretty as Warwick Street the set will have been the bargain of the century!

Nails Inc Fine Sprinkles & Special Effects Set in TK Maxx

I popped into TK Maxx at lunchtime to pick up a present for some family we're visiting later for dinner, promising myself I would avoid looking at the nail varnish, and the scented candles, and the cookware too.  Truth be told there aren't many sections of TK Maxx I can be trusted in.  However, sometimes something is such a bargain you just have to buy it which is, funnily enough, what happened today.

 

I'd previously been eyeing up the Nails Inc 4 Piece Fine Sprinkles Collection on QVC which includes:

 

* Market Place - Lilac Sprinkles

* Langham Street - Vanilla Sprinkles

* Little Portland Street - Pink Sprinkles

* Devonshire Place - Mocha Sprinkles

 

So when I spotted a Nails Inc Colour Collection set in TK Maxx that looked very, very similar for just £12.99 I couldn't really resist.  It turns out it's not exactly the same set but very similar, the TK Maxx version includes:

 

* Special Effects in Warwick Street
(which oddly is often described online as a QVC exclusive shade with Blue, Red & Silver sprinkles but mine doesn't match that description.  Mine is the one shown here with multi-coloured sprinkles which I think is even prettier!)

* Langham Street - Vanilla Sprinkles

* Little Portland Street - Pink Sprinkles

* Devonshire Place - Mocha Sprinkles

 

 

I'm slightly sad to have missed out on Market Place as it does look very, very pretty but getting the other three and Warwick Street for such a bargain price will no doubt ease my pain in time. ;)

Poor macro shot of the multi-coloured glitter in Warwich Street:

 

After the excitement of my Nails Inc find I couldn't decide on anything suitable to take as a gift to dinner so it looks like it'll be a stop off to grab a bunch of flowers on the way over there, excellent shopping skills there, I'm sure you'll agree!

Look out for swatches coming very soon.

 

 

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Color Club - Secret Agent

This is Color Club varnish 910, Secret Agent, it's from the Alter Ego set I picked up in TK Maxx the other week.  None of these pictures are even close to the colour it is in real life which is slightly annoying, this bottle shot is the closest thing I could find online to how it really goes onto the nail:

 

 

 

 

It's an almost metallic looking lilac-violet colour in person, super shiny and reflective and quite unusual.  To me it looks like a sort of space aged purple, take from that what you will.  In the photos it's showing as blue though...

 

 

 

This one is closest to the colour it shows on the nail but still not quite right.

 

 

Again the colour if off on this one but it does show the gorgeous glittery shimmer running through the polish.

 

 

Why are purples so hard to photograph?  Any tips on how to do it better?  This polish is so lovely I'd like to be able to show it off properly but no matter how many shots I take of it they all come out with it looking blue, most frustrating.  If you have any idea how to stop it then please let me know in the comments below!

Color Club @ TK Maxx

I've seen a few mentions on various blogs recently that TK Maxx has had some pretty decent nail polish stock in of late, so I decided to go and check it out.  Low and behold the rumours were true, there was a load of polish; Essie, Models Own, Color Club, Bella Pierre, Nails Inc and several other brands which I'd never heard of, all at pretty good prices. 

 

Nothing really grabbed me except this one set from Color Club, I remember when it was released lamenting the fact we couldn't easily get it in the UK so I was pretty chuffed when I got my eye on it today.  Here is a promo shot I found online, Alter Ego - Keep it under cover:

 

Notice a slight difference with the one I picked up today (£7.99, bargain!), no V!vid topcoat in my set instead there was a random green metallic...

 

 

The list on the back suggests I should have had a V!vid topcoat so I'm not sure what happened, one of the joys of a store like TK Maxx, I guess.

 

 

So, here are the polishes that are part of the Alter Ego, Keep it under cover set:

 

 

I took an individual bottle shot of each to try and show off the colour a little better.

 

914 - Masquerading

 

 

 912 - Alias

 

 

 913 - Ulterior Motive

 

 

 911 - Total Mystery

 

 

 910 - Secret Agent

 

 

 909 - Alter Ego

 

 

And my bonus / odd addition which after a little research seems to be Perfect Mol-Ten from the Foiled Collection, out around the same time.

 

 

I'd like to have tried the V!vid topcoat but I'm not too disappointed as it seems like Perfect Mol-ten might stamp quite well so that would be a nice little perk as I don't have a green stamping polish.

 

I'm looking forward to trying these out, some of them seem a little sheer so I think they might work better as topcoats and layering polishes but all in all for under £8 I'm a pretty happy bunny as there are some really lovely, shimmery shades to try out.

 

Have you had any TK Maxx bargains or good finds recently?