50 Followers Thank You and a Haul!

First I want to say thank you so much to you, my first 50 followers!! I appreciate you all more than you know and I hope you will stay with me as this blog grows. Thanks for reading and commenting, you make blogging fun!

I wanted to share my latest Trans Design haul with you so that you have a little sneak peak of what's to come on Prim and Polished! I purchased the entire China Glaze Up & Away collection, a bottle of China Glaze "2030", a bottle of OPI "Mad as a Hatter" from the Alice in Wonderland Collection and a wee little bottle of China Glaze "Matte Magic". I am so excited to swatch these for you so be on the out for some fun posts coming soon! (As always, click on images for a larger view.)



My initial impression of these is that they are all beautiful. I adore cremes and China Glaze delivered with this collection. I cannot wait to wear these! Honestly this collection is like an instant nail polish stash, it has something for everyone! I am so glad I went ahead and got the whole thing!!!!! As for "Mad as a Hatter" it looks amazing. I cannot wait to rock that bling-tastic glitter!!!!






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OPI: "Ink"

After Christmas hubby and I went to the mall, and if you knew my husband you'd know this was a rare occasion. He'd had surgery on his foot in early December and he was just finally off the crutches and wanted to walk on his foot a bit before getting back to work so we hit the mall to get him walking. While at the mall I spied one of those discount salon type stores and noticed they had $3.95 OPI polishes (limit two). So I had hubby help me pick some colors and "Ink" was one of his choices. Who knew the man had such great taste?!!?

"Ink" is a beautiful and unique color. It took some work to get it to photograph correctly but I think that I was able to pretty much capture its beauty fairly accurately, especially in the first photograph below. It's a beautiful royal purple which in certain lighting looks blue or black with a really pretty pinkish/red shimmer. The shimmer was difficult to capture in the photograph but if you enlarge the photos you will see it.

I've said it before and I will say it again: I HATE the pro wide brushes on OPI polishes. I make a huge mess, get pooling around the cuticles and dread using them. If OPI didn't have such beautiful colors I'd give up on them all together. IDK if I have small nails or what but that brush is nothing but trouble in my book.

The photos are of three coats but I think you can get away with two if you're neat about it. If you're a purple lover I'd check this color out for sure, it's really pretty. Also, as a side note, I do not own the Suede version of "Ink" but from all of the photos I have seen and the reviews I have read I do not believe that the colors are the same at all. I think the suede version is more blue and bears really almost no resemblance to this color whatsoever.

Do you have "Ink"? What do you think of it?! What do you think about wearing this with a matte top coat? I may have to try it I think it will look great!




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Sinful Colors Haul and Sinful Colors "What's my Name?"

I mentioned on Twitter that I hauled a few Sinful Colors polishes the other day and I thought I'd share them with you.



"Let's Talk" is a gorgeous Royal Purple Frost. It photographed much more blue than it is. I hope when I go to swatch it it come out more true to color.

"What's Your Name" is a really pretty black with teal duochrome. [See below]

"Bleending Heart" is a great blood red creme, I can't wait to wear this one! I think it might be a typo on my label, it's probably supposed to be "Bleeding Heart" but who knows.

Keep your eye out for swatches of those coming soon...

Sinful Colors' "What's Your Name?" is a gorgeous black polish with a subtle teal duochrome. I hope that I was able to capture the color for you because the shimmer in these is very very understated but it's really gorgeous.

The formula is nice on this. Sometimes Sinful Colors polishes can be sheer, requiring many coats, but this is opaque with just two coats.

I love the color but I do wish the shimmer was a bit more noticeable. In most lighting it's almost undetectable which is a shame because it's really a great feature of the polish. That's really my only complaint, I just wish the beautiful teal showed up more.

Sinful Colors polishes are available at drugstores like Rite Aid and Walgreens for just $1.99, which makes them quite the steal if you ask me!





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