REVIEW of Confetti Long Wearing Nail Color in 95 Black Tie

Hi chickadees,

Today's review is going to be very quick. I picked up a bottle of Confetti Long Wearing Nail Color in 95 Black Tie at CVS a while ago just because I needed a bottle of black polish. I am really impressed with how it performed, especially for the price. If it's part of the permanent collection, I'll probably pick up another bottle for nail art. I won't bore you with yet another discussion of my black polish wearing goth/non-goth high school phase.

Color: Confetti Long Wearing Nail Color in 95 Black Tie is a black creme polish. It is very dark and has a lot of natural shine even without top coat.
Formula: It has a very thin but opaque formula. It's almost like ink, but not that thin and watery.
Application: Application was incredibly smooth because of the consistency of the polish. I only needed two medium thick coats to get the polish to full opacity.

 

SWATCHES (The swatches are all indoor lighting without top coat as I used this polish as a base for a nail art look.)

REVIEW of Confetti Longwearing Nail Color in 93 Debutante

Happy Thanksgiving chickadees!

I have a headache. And a ton of work I need to catch up on. But I wanted to share my latest experience with Confetti nail polish with you. This time it's 093 Debutante. Now, if you've read my review of Confetti polish in Rhapsody in Blue, you'll know that I was very impressed with Confetti polish... so much so that I haven't painted my nails with that polish again because I can't find another bottle in stores. But I don't have that same problem with Debutante. I usually see at least a few bottles at CVS. Enough chatter. Let's get into the review, shall we?

Color: Debutante is a light gold nail polish. I'd say it's somewhere between a shimmer and a frost. It can go from a lighter yellow gold to a darker more true gold in dimmer lighting. When I think of debutantes, I think of that fateful episode of Gossip Girl. I'm not quite sure Debutante is as posh as all that but it's a nice gold polish. I think it would look gorgeous on medium and dark skintones. Lighter skintones, especially ones with yellow undertones like me, may run into some problems.
Formula: I think the formula was a bit on the thin side. It looked opaque in 3 coats but it didn't hold up to the light test where you hold you nails up to the light and see if light passes through. However, I personally didn't feel like adding layers of polish to see how many I would need to get it truly opaque. After wearing it for a few days, the opacity or lack thereof didn't bother me.
Application: Appliation was very smooth. I thought the polish was very easy to work with though once it has tried, you can see some overlapping brushstrokes if you look at it closely.

CONCLUSION: I don't think this polish would meet the exacting standards of Blair Waldorf, but I thought it was a perfectly fine gold polish from the drugstore. If the color is right for your skintone, I would recommend checking it out.

SWATCHES (Excuse the second finger from the left. I removed a thread of lint when the polish was semi-dry and didn't bother to fix it because I did my feather nails design on top of it.)

Mini Assorted Haul: Drugstore and Forever21

Hi chickadees!

I feel like I haven't done a haul in forever. Partially it's that I'm not buying as much now and the other issue is that when I am buying things I will usually just get a handful of things and I forget to put them all together in one big haul. But anyway, these are all the items I picked up recently from CVS, Duane Reade, and Forever21. Let me know if you'd like me to do more haul posts or just stick to reviewing the items one by one once I've tried things out.

Let's start with Forever21. I have been looking at this online for some time due to my new obsession with Tiffany key necklaces but I wasn't sure if it would look as nice in person or if I'd be happy with the size. Cut to a few days ago when I went into Forever21 on a mission and happily found this necklace and fell in love with it. I definitely recommend going to the Union Square store to check it out or purchasing it online. I might even go back and pick up more as gifts. DidI mention it's only $5.80?

http://www.forever21.com/Product/Product.aspx?BR=f21&Category=acc_necklace&ProductID=1019572390&VariantID=

Another necklace I saw online and decided to pick up while at Forever21. I like slightly unconventional jewelry.

 

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