Wet'n'Wild Craze - The Gold & the Beautiful

A bright, yellow-toned gold polish with lots of shimmer. This is from the collection of new Craze colors that was out earlier this summer, where all the polishes had names derived from tv shows. It's a bit...more brassy in tone than most of the golds in my collection, and the shimmer is really pretty. I think it's a nice fall gold, especially for early in the season, like now. (I don't know what's gotten into me; I never used to care about the seasons when it came to my polishes, and now suddenly, I'm all about the seasonal colors to the point where I actually kind of crave them. Must be some kind of phase I'm going through...Anyway, fall's my favorite season, and there are some gorgeous fall polish colors out there right now, so I'm just going to thoroughly enjoy my latest little obsession!)
This polish applied with no problems. Pics show three coats plus base and top coats.

Thanks for looking, and happy fall polishing! :)

Maybelline Express Finish 50 Second Nail Color - Scene Steeler

A very dark steely gray polish, with a silvery shimmer. I like this; I'm very fond of the darker, more vampy colors, and I think this one makes my nails look like black pearls.

It went on quite nicely, dried very quickly, and wore well (as well as anything ever does for me - I'm really hard on my nails most of the time.) Pics are three coats, plus base and top coat.

Here it is in the sun: (hmmm...looking at this picture I can see that i filed the nail on my third finger really unevenly - dang!)

And in shade:
Incidentally, I stopped by Rite-Aid this evening, and since I can never pass by any nail polish displays without stopping to take a look, I had a quick glance. They had a Sinful Colors Shanghai Nights Display, but they were all out of Bamboo, which is the only one of that collection I was really interested in...Lol, I guess everybody else was, too! I did spot a nearly full Sinful Colors Colors of Darkness display tucked away on a bottom shelf. All of those colors looked verrrry vampy, and I am verrry interested in at least a few of them. (Which means watch this space for swatches...;)

Vampy, dark, and brooding colors (yay! ;D) seem to be quite the trend in Rite-Aid at the moment; I also happened upon a Wet'n'Wild Color Icon Insomnia display, which was all about dark, vampy reds, blues, and purples and glitters in black jelly bases. I am currently quite intrigued by most (ok, all) of them as we speak...There are only two of each color in the display and they seemed to be going fast.

I did notice one thing about the Wet'n'Wild Insomnia collection, though - one of the colors, Prowler, a purple glitter in a dark jelly base, looks to me like an exact dupe of Night Prowl, one of the polishes in the regular Wet'n'Wild display. Since I already bought Night Prowl in the 0.43 bottle for ninety-nine cents, I don't think I'm going to be in a big hurry to pay $1.99 for 0.29 oz of Prowler... Just sayin'... All the other colors in the display, though, looked new and different.

Wet'n'Wild Craze - Rustic

A beautiful shimmery bronzy-rusty-brown color with a golden sparkle to it in the sunlight.

Went on very smoothly; pics show three coats, plus base and top coat. It would have been just fine with two coats, but I almost always prefer three.

In full sunlight:
My camera couldn't fully capture the shimmery bronzy-golden beauty...


In shade:


The bottle had a "new" sticker on it when I bought it the other day, though I'm pretty sure I've seen it in the Wet'n'Wild display for nearly a year now, if not more. I always passed it up, since shades of brown don't usually catch my eye as readily. Lately, though, I've been gravitating towards autumnal colors (maybe, although I'm still enjoying the summertime delights, I'm starting to subconsciously long for my favorite season.) I'm glad I finally went ahead and bought this little beauty.

For many people this might be more of a fall color than a summer one...I have to admit I don't usually wear my nail polish colors seasonally; I just go by what I feel like wearing at the moment. But I will definitely be breaking this one out again on a crisp fall day, when it will match the falling leaves...only more sparkly! ;)