31 Day Challenge, Day 5! ORLY + Klean Color Chunky Holo Teal!

Ooohh dear I can't believe I even made it to day 5 on this challenge, haha.

For this day I decided to try another polish I haven't used before: ORLY It's Up to Blue topped with Klean Color Chunky Holo Teal!

It's Up to Blue is a little frosty and streaky for me.  It's a fun bright summer color but I don't think I'd wear it any other time, so it was only on for a day!  I had to use three coats to get it semi-smooth looking:

It was getting dark so the color looks ulta bright blue

Inside it's a little tealy looking

I topped this with two coats of Klean Color Chunky Holo Teal.  Pictures for this kind of failed:

Inside picture since I did this at night...but you can still see all the great colors in CHT!

Since I had 900 coats of polish, when I went to take outdoor pictures the next day, it had got all wrinkled :(

Due to wrinkly pictures, here are two of my notoriously weird looking right hand!

Check out those flakies!

Ahhh it's so bright!  I didn't love the brightness of the blue since it's getting colder and I'm kind of bitter, haha--so I'm kind of glad it got messed up so I could take it off and put on a more "autumn" toned color.  Stay tuned for day 6 (violet) tomorrow ;)

<3 Whitney

P.S. I haven't forgot about my promised surprise!

Klean Color Chunky Holo Teal!

Did I leave you all DYING to see what I did over my matte Icing Mood Swing polish yesterday?  No?  Haha, I'm just kidding, I'm not good at cliff hangers. 

Anyhow, as you can tell by the title, I added Klean Color Chunky Holo Teal over top of it which not only made it shiny instead of matte, it also made it glittery!  I had a hard time taking pictures of it, but check them out anyway:

You can still kind of see the color changing polish underneath...it still changes with a glitter top coat over top of it!  Some of the pictures don't do the Klean Color justice, you'll need to blow them up!

I added 2 coats of the Klean Color glitter over top which includes a holographic pink/purple/blue glitter suspended in a light blue clear jelly base.  It goes on real easy and in my opinion, it's not as hard as a normal glitter to get off.  It looks fabulous in the sun, but my camera just wouldn't get a good picture of it!  You can kind of see a small flash of different colors in the bottle in the last picture.  I feel like despite it being teal, this glitter may look better over a different color...or maybe I just needed more coats! 

I still liked how it spruced up my matte mani from yesterday, though :)

What do you guys think? Are you all for Klean Colors?

That's it for now!

<3 Whitney

Another Essie Summer Polish: Meet Me at Sunset + KleanColor Glitter

I recently bought a few Essie polishes from Traci at The TraceFace Philes!  She has a GREAT blog sale going on (and blog), so definitely check her out if you're lemming for some polishes!

One of the polishes I got from her blog sale was Essie's Meet me at Sunset.  I kept seeing this when I went to buy Braziliant and I really liked it!  It's a lovely dark orange cream polish:

Yum!

I think this is a perfect color for the end of summer/beginning of fall transition.  I feel like I could draw on a jack-o-lantern face and it'd be perfect for Halloween :)  I did really like it, especially because it went on opaque in only 2 coats!  Yum!

I don't know why I've been on such an orange kick lately, but I'm so drawn to it when I would normally be drawn to pinks!  Weird!

Anyhow, I ordered some KleanColors polishes from BeautyJoint for only $1.75 each and they came the other day!  I was eager to try them out so I added Chunky Holo Black on top of Meet me at Sunset and I was surprised how well I liked this combination:

My infamous RIGHT hand! *gasp!* My mom wanted to take pictures lol

 I keep my cuticles looking much nicer on my left hand haha...my right is fug.

Up close of the glitters

I added 2 coats of the KleanColor glitter over the Essie polish.  You can see on my thumb that there is a lot of glitter on the end of my thumb rather than near my cuticle.  I would've spread them out more by waiting in between coats, but I wanted to try it out asap!  I thought these colors went pretty well together even though I've seen Chunky Holo Black used mostly with darker colors.  I really liked the different sized glitters and really the only downside was the smell...KleanColors have a weirder smell than normal polish, I think! 

Overall, LOVED the Essie and was pretty happy with the KleanColor.  I'm more excited to try it over darker polishes this fall, though--do you guys have any KleanColors? Do they smell weird to you?

Thanks for reading!

<3 Whitney