Beauty Tips for Women: Revlon – Rainforest / St. Patrick’s Day Manicure

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I would like to share a review of Revlon – Rainforest and a simple St. Patrick’s Day Manicure.

Revlon Rainforest is a dark green base with light green and gold flecks or flaky.  The color is stunning especially when it hits the light in the right angle.  The formula was average.  I used two coats because with one it was streaky and patchy.  I did want to make a note about the brush; it is the wide paddle style and I guess the shape was supposed to be rounded but instead it seemed like it wasn’t cut right so it had a weird triangle semi rounded shape.  This made application a bit difficult.  Leave it up to me to pick a bottle with a defective brush.

Being that we are in February, I couldn’t pass up not giving this gorgeous green a St. Patrick’s Day flare.  I opted for a simple shamrock stamp using Maybelline – Bold Gold, which picked up the golden flecks so beautifully in the polish.  The shamrock image was from Winstonia W105.

I give Rainforest, 4 brains.

Beauty Tips for Women: Orly – Melodious Utopia Manicure

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I wanted to share a manicure I did using Orly’s Spring 2013 Hope and Freedom Collection – Melodious Utopia.  I’m still working my way through all polishes in this lovely collection.

I have a bit of a love hate relationship with yellow polishes.  I like them but never like how they look on me.  Plus formulas tend to be kind of wacky.  So I was bit skeptical about how this yellow would fare on me.

Melodious Utopia is a creamy yellow shimmer polish.  It was hard to capture a good picture that showed off the gold/orange/pink shimmers it has throughout.  I used two coats.  I had no issues with the formula at all.

I was pleasantly surprised by how Melodious Utopia looked on me.  I was inspired to do some stamping and what came to mind was honeybees.  To achieve this look I used Winstonia plate W113, which has a cool honeycomb like pattern.  For the honeybee, I used Shany plate SH05.  I stamped with Konad special black polish.  

I give Melodious Utopia 5 brains.

Beauty Tips for Women: Orly – Miss Conduct

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If by chance you still haven’t laid eyes upon Orly’s Holiday 2012 Naughty Or Nice Collection, you should and pronto before they disappear. They are all lovely, but the one that knocked my socks off is Miss Conduct.

Miss Conduct is unlike any holographic polish I’ve seen or own; it truly is unique.  It is a magenta/pink/raspberry color with scattered holo effect.    The formula was great, very easy to apply. I had no issues at all.  I did two coats but with one coat it would have been fine. I tried my best to capture just how wonderful this shade-shifter is, but pictures don’t do it justice. I tried to capture a picture with and without flash.  I couldn’t stop starring at my nails and showing off the holographic effect to anyone who came my way.  

I give Miss Conduct 5 brains.