NOTD: OPI French Quarter For Your Thoughts & Comps

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The NOTD I have for you today is from OPI's Touring America Collection (Fall 2011). French Quarter For Your Thoughts is said to be inspired by the French Quarter in New Orleans, Louisiana. French Quarter For Your Thoughts is brown/grey creme polish. The best way for me to describe this polish is saying it looks like putty or clay. In some lights it looks more grey and in others it looks more brown toned. I had no application or removal issues. Pictures shown are two coats of French Quarter For Your Thoughts over CND Stickey and topped with China Glaze Fast Forward.

While I was wearing French Quarter For Your Thoughts I kept thinking it looked a little familiar so I decided to comp it with Essie Chinchilly.

Index & Ring Essie Chinchilly

Middle & Pinky OPI French Quarter For Your Thoughts

Index & Ring Essie Chinchilly

Middle & Pinky OPI French Quarter For Your Thoughts

As you can see Chinchilly & French Quarter For Your Thoughts are not completely dupes but they are very close. Chinchilly has a touch more brown but I think for most people they will be close enough. Feel free to judge for yourself. I also left all these pictures huge so you may click them for more detail.

NOTD: Maybelline Cool Couture

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Today's NOTD is a drug store polish. Maybelline Cool Couture. Cool Couture was a limited edition polish. I'm not sure if its still available but if you see it you should definitely pick it up! Cool Couture is a grey creme polish that leans very blue and it is jam packed with bright blue-almost teal- shimmer. Absolutely stunning! Swatches shown below are two coats.

NOTD: Nails Inc. Magnetic Polish Trafalgar Square

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Nails Inc recently came out with magnetic polishes. Can I just tell you how absolutely floored i was to see these? Ive been dying to get my hot little hands on some magnetic polishes since I heard Essence was supposed to release a magnetic line in the US back in May. Those polishes were released elsewhere in the world but never in the US.

Trafalgar Square is a charcoal grey polish in the bottle but once you apply it and use the magnet it turns into a very dark grey if not black base and silver design. This is by far the coolest polish I've used. Watching the magnet work was really cool too. There is a little bit of a learning curve with these magnetic polishes.

Some things I learned are:

• Don't use too thick of a coat- the magnet can actually pull the polish off your nail
• I used a base color to use less product since these polishes are a little expensive
• The longer you leave the magnet over the polish the more pronounced the design is
• If you do not use a base color and you hold the magnet over the polish too long you will have thin/ sheer spots

The picture below is one coat of Trafalgar Square over one coat of Sinful Colors Black On Black (Please excuse my lack of clean up)

The Nails Inc. polish was purchased on Sephora's website. The magnetic polishes retail for $16 but to me they're totally worth it. Don't forget Sephora's Friends & Family sale is going on right now. Go to Sephora's Friends & Family sale page here and enter your email address for a code that gives you20% off your ENTIRE order. Don't worry about writing the code down, they'll email it to you also. If you use the 20% code you can pick up a Nails Inc. magnetic polish for $12.80 (plus shipping).

NOTD: Grey Halloween Skulls

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This NOTD is from awhile back. I got tired of summer colors in August so I decided to do a Halloween themed mani. For this mani I used two plates from the BundleMonster 25 piece set. I also used Love & Beauty (found at Forever21) Grey as the base color, Sally Hansen Xtreme Wear Concrete with BundleMonster image plate BM-201 for the background image and Zoya Kelly with BundleMonster image plate BM-211 for the skull.

I purchased my BundleMonster image plates from Amazon. They're truly a fantastic deal but if you're new to stamping please note they do not come with a stamper or a scraper.