Deep Red Pink & Bright Yellow by GOSH

Deep Red Pink

Bright Yellow

If you live in the GTA & spend any time in the Shoppers Drugmart, you'll have noticed that GOSH's Oh My Gosh line is on sale at $1.99 CDN.  Damn straight that I never say "No" to a $2 nail polish but one would also hope if you name your polish "Oh My Gosh", one would hope that it's something really worth exclaiming about but these polishes are just OK.  Mind you, there's nothing wrong with them: they are perfectly acceptable colours and quality and are worth your money, I just can't get worked up about them...

If you don't hear from me in a while, that means I'm spending way, way, way too much time with my copy of The Avengers.  Or as we like to call it in my house: PORN!!!

I'll Be In My Room...Aaaawwww Yeeeeaahhhh!!!

Raw Rose by Gosh

I must be losing my mind lately but I seem to be really liking pink these days.  I don't know, maybe it's the hot weather and bright sunshine or maybe this is just a really great pink polish!  Raw Rose from Gosh is a super muted dusty pink creme that very nearly borders on being a nuetral, it's so muted.  I like this very much and there was no complaints about the formula either.  It went on smoothly and evenly and had a good dry time as well.  I have noticed that the Gosh counter in Shoppers Drug Mart has gotten a little bit smaller in the last few weeks and I'm really hoping that it's not a signal that the line is leaving the store.  I've become quite fond of the brand: not just the nail polish but the lipstick and blushes are really great too.  I always carry one of their lipglosses with me because there's little flashlights built into the caps.  If the power goes out, I've got a super shiney light to see with and reapply with!

Fossil Grey by Gosh

I had my eye on Fossil Grey for a few months now but I kept holding off hoping for a sale rather than pay full price for it.  Now, that attitude make me a little cheap, as their regular price isn't very high, $6 CDN at the most.  However, once it was reduced it set me back an astronomical amount of $2!

Of all the grey polishes I own, this cool toned grey with silver shimmer reminds me the most of wet cement.  The texture was different as well..  It had shine to it but it appears subdued.  More like a satin finish than a shimmer, Fossils Grey could easily look glossy or flat, depending how the light hit it (which is fairly well illustrated in the above photo).  It applied very smoothly but I'm not sure if it was the polish or the fact that my nails were still sleek from my very first manicure (more on that later) and it wore for 3 days without a nick.  I'm pretty fond of this polish.  I've only got a few items from Gosh, lipstick & blush, but I'm happy with the line so far.   I also like their package design as it mimics some of the higher priced brands without the high price.  It might me hard to find but if you find yourself in a Shoppers Drug Mart and you're thinking about picking it up, remember that a cup of coffee from Starbucks will cost you more but the polish last so much longer than a tall latte.

Spring Colours to Fight Off the Blahs

I have got a serious case of the blahs...I don't know what it is.  Maybe it's the gloomy weather we've been having in T.O. or maybe I'm stressed out about school with a group project and final exam looming on the horizen plus being sick with I don't know what, but I'm just in a funk!  So I thought I'd try to liven things up a little bit with some spring-like colours to try to cheer myself up:

Flamingo

 I think I might have bought Gosh's Flamingo 2 years ago but didn't get around to wearing it until the constant rain and grey skies just wore me out.  I'd call it a candy pink, like strawberry saltwater taffy...mmm, taffy!  It was good in two coats, ended up applying very smoothly and went chip free for 3 days.

One afternoon after being dismissed for the day from jury selection, I stopped by a Toronto institution for salon supplies, Toronto Barber and Beauty Supply, a store that has been in operation since 1937 to check them out since I hadn't shopped there in a few years.  I'm glad I did go back, because even though the only polish lines they carry are OPI, Essie & China Glaze they are priced for a $1 less than other retailers and a lot of polish from their recent lines were discounted too.   I was able to pick up Life Preserver and Lighthouse from China Glaze's Anchors Away Collection for Spring 2011 for $4 CDN.  So if you live in the GTA and haven't visited this store before, I would recommend that you give them a try.

Life Preserver

 Life Preserver is a slightly muted orange creme that I like so much, I was half tempted to chuck out the rest of my orange polishes for being to loud.  Orange is fine but it's actually my least favourite of all colours. But I have a fair amount of cosmetics in orange because it really suits me well and I like how this polish isn't shrieky.  It was good in two coats but there was some rather long lint that was already in the polish which hampered the application.  It's not the first time, I've had lint problems with China Glaze.  It's gotten to the point that I just expect that some straggler is going to be hiding in the bottle just waiting to drag across my nail and muck things up!

Lighthouse

Lighthouse is also from China Glaze's Anchors Away Collection and it's a super shimmery bright yellow that took 3 coats to get it to the opacity that you see in the photo.  Not that it's a complaint from me but it may not suit other peoples tastes.  I find it suits my skin tone well but I also could see that, perhaps if you are more fair skinned, it might make your fingers look a little washed out.  Surprisingly, there was no lint in this polish!

 

I guess one of the things I like about these two polishes is that when I see the two colours together it makes me think of my canaries, Patches & Sherbert:

Awwwww!

Now they brighten a day!

Jury Duty with Sidewalkers by NYC

Jury Duty...it’s more than just the thing that’s keeping me away from posting in the last few days, it’s my “civic duty” people!  It’s more fun than:

• ·         Waiting for a train for 3 months
• ·         Waiting for a bad breakup haircut to grow out
• ·         Talking about the weather
• ·         Driving to an airport in a foreign country for 5 hours only to find that you’ve been going the wrong way the whole time!

Ummm, You Guys...It's The Other Way!

But I digress, nothing says “civic duty” like sitting in a huge room with 300 other bored-ass people waiting to see if your name will be called so you can sit through a trial and decide the fates of all the parties involved...Wooooo! I figured that an appropriate nail colour to go along with bureaucracy would be Sidewalkers from NYC's Quick Dry line:

The price was right for this polish, under $3 CDN so no complaints from me about that.  I also have nothing to complain about in terms of the polish either.  It applies well and dries quickly and colour is a very neutral light grey that goes with everything.  If you're going to spend $3 on a polish, spend it on this one.