Finger Paints Catwalk Queen

I know that this color will probably not be popular - in fact, it really doesn't even suit my skintone at all. But I love it. It goes into the uglyawesome file, and although I look at it on my nails and think why am I wearing this? - I also am strangely attracted to it. Unlike the funky yellow greens, I don't think this compliments me at all. No matter, I'll keep wearing this. And I know I'll find a way to play with it, I think it would make a great base for a plaid manicure, if I could ever master those.
This was not as easy to apply as the other colors I picked up from Finger Paints fall, but still smoothed out after a couple of coats. It was a tad thicker, but it finally laid down right and settled out. It's definitely a dijon mustard shade on me, predominantly yellow with a touch of brown and green.

Strangely fascinating or just ugly, y'all??

China Glaze Trendsetter

China Glaze Trendsetter is the uglyawesome color to end all uglyawesome colors. Seriously, this is ugly. And so awesome! This will probably not appeal to a wide audience, but it's perfect. Last year, I was hoping Classic Camel was more like this. Classic Camel only worked on a few people, but if you're remotely interested in this shade, I think it will work with a much wider range of skin tones.
So, Trendsetter. This is a yellow with a lot of green. As a matter of fact, this pulls much more green on me than yellow. Very olive toned! It is chock full of gold shimmer, so that's just an added bonus in my opinion. Swampy. When I think of swampy, this definitely fits the nail polish bill! Formula was perfect, I only needed two coats and could almost have gotten away with one.

Oh ye Gods, I love that. It's so cool! So, time to weigh in. Would you wear this? Do you hate it? Do you love uglyawesome as much as I do?

Focus On Yellow: Revlon Electric

For the last day of Focus On Yellow, I have Revlon's Electric - apparently it's a pretty close dupe to Chanel Mimosa, I've read! This has been out for a little while, but I picked it up in a recent sale on Revlons at Walgreens.
I find this aptly named! It's definitely an electric lemon yellow creme, with metallic yellow shimmer. This is AWESOME. I love it, and the application is divine. You can easily see the shimmer, but I've got a macro for you. This is two coats. I think this might be the brightest of all the yellows I've shown you.

So. Thoughts on yellow polish? Love it, hate it, terrified to try it? Obviously, I have a ton of yellows - I've always liked them. I figured I'd pick just a few of my yellows to showcase during the Focus On, but I'll definitely be showing more - I haven't gotten sick of them yet!
I'm thinking of putting up a poll to see if y'all will help me pick my next Focus On color.

Focus On Yellow: NYC Taxi Yellow Creme

Okay, day six of Focus on Yellow!
Today I've got NYC's Taxi Yellow Creme. This cheap little polish has been around since I started blogging, back when I had MM. I just kept passing it up. Then one day, not too long ago, it disappeared from the stores in my area. I decided I better hunt it down while I could! It showed up in a Dollar Tree not long after.
This is a pretty bright lemon yellow, with gold shimmer. LOVE the color. As you can see, it's really streaky and the formula is thin. I read that if you left the bottle open for a few hours, it might help thicken it up and make the application better - I'm willing to try that because I love the shade and the shimmer. Three coats didn't seem to want to even things out! This is a little paler than Maybelline Sunshine and Sally Hansen Mellow Yellow.

Focus On Yellow: L.A. Colors Shock

Only a couple of days left in my yellow focus! This is...amazing. This is a bright, goldenrod yellow - a bit deeper than Finger Paints Psychedelic Sunshine - and it's JELLY. Shock went on pretty smooth - three coats filled out any streaks I had initially, and gave me a pretty good opacity for a jelly. This is nice and shiny, and super squishy. I've worn this before with amazing results, not a chip anywhere after four days. I found this at a Dollar Tree, along with a couple other L.A. Colors jellies I wanted.

This is actually the closest to a taxicab yellow color I've found, by the way.

Focus On Yellow: Maybelline Sunshine

Maybelline Sunshine is part of the LE Express Finish line - this is one from the summer collection this year. It's a straight up yellow creme, a bit deeper than yesterday's Mellow Yellow. It was definitely more problematic, as you can see from the photo - streaks ahoy! This is three coats. I could probably part with this one, because it IS similar to Mellow Yellow, only a bit darker, and I'm not a fan of the formula.

The formulas on this collection of LE Maybellines have been very hit or miss. I'm sad about that because I loved the colors.

Focus On Yellow: Sally Hansen Xtreme Wear Mellow Yellow

Day three of Focus On Yellow! I lovelovelove Sally Hansen Xtreme Wears. They come out with some really awesome shades. Mellow Yellow is anything but mellow; it's a bright lemon yellow creme. It has flawless application for a yellow: a bit streaky on the first coat, but evens out nicely at three. I probably could have done it with two if I were more careful. This is such a fun color!

On top of being a well rounded line, the Xtreme Wears have a very nice price point. I've never seen these for over $4 and I usually find them for $2.99 at Walgreens.

Focus On Yellow: Revlon Sunshine Sparkle

Sunshine Sparkle (it's just funny to me how so many yellows have the word sunshine in them, kind of like red glitters and "ruby pumps") is a very soft cream yellow - like a pale lemon shade. It has fine silver shimmer in it.
Today's color is a perfect choice to talk about the problems we encounter when loving yellow polishes. This is streaky as hell. I used three coats to try to even it out, but you can still see patchiness/balding on my nails. Sometimes yellows will just be streaky in the first coat, but even out after a second or third. Sometimes, like Sunshine Sparkle, they NEVER even out. I love this color despite that, and I'm going to keep it to see if I can get it to level again. Seriously, this is one of the most pretty pale yellow shades I've ever seen.

Why yes, that IS a bubble. Anyway, I also snagged a macro, hoping you could really get a good look at that fine silver shimmer.
Five more days of yellows, coming up!

Focus On Yellow: Finger Paints Psychedelic Sunshine

I've decided that this week's posts will be all yellow polishes. This gives me a chance to showcase some colors, and at the same time clear through some of my untrieds.
So, starting off with Finger Paints Psychedelic Sunshine, from the summer collection. This is the other polish I picked up from that collection, the first being Outta Sight Orange. I mentioned on twitter that this was really, really gloopy for me. I mean, super gloopy. So much so, that the first time I tried to apply it, it was like applying hair gel to my fingernails.
I added thinner. Probably, 15-20 drops of thinner. It's STILL goopy. Slightly less so, but the bottle is slam full, so I can't thin it any further. This is a jelly, so I don't want to dilute it any more with clear, because the opacity is already thin. A couple ladies mentioned that they had the same problem with this!
The good news is that the second time I applied it, it went on better. More manageable. You'll see that the polish on my pinkie is still pretty "gooped up" - it looks like bad acrylics. But on the rest of my nails, it self leveled. Weird.
Application issues aside, this is three coats of a goldenrod yellow jelly, with holographic glitter. It's not a top coat eater, because one coat of CND Air Dry had this smooth and shiny. It stayed that way, too! This is an AWESOME shade, so I'm going to see if I can just empty out a little of the bottle and add more thinner. I don't want to purge it, because the shade is seriously amazeballs.

Annnnd, a good macro! If you click on the first picture, you'll see the pretty sparklies - and that built-up pinkie.

China Glaze Electric Pineapple

Electric Pineapple is the second of the cremes in Island Escape. Another uglyawesome color, it's a dirty yellowish green. This one applied better for me than Papaya Punch, in that it wasn't as thick. This was more typical of what I expect from China Glaze - their formula for me is usually immaculate. This is two coats.

What do you guys think of the uglyawesome shades? Do you love them, like me, or would you never ever buy them?

Sinful Colors Neon Melon

Okay, so if you've seen Sinful Colors in Walgreen's over the last couple of years, you'll know they often put out a summer display of neons. Well, this year, there is a big display - looks like an endcap! Pretty awesome. I'm going to try to get some photos snapped of the display. It has art stripers, too! Pretty cool. Some are repromotes, but I am not sure if all of them are.
Anyway, I picked up a couple, and tonight I have for you Neon Melon. This is an eye searing highlighter yellow color - AWESOME. I can't wait to slap this onto my toes! This dries flat, chalky matte - well, it IS a neon! I used a white polish for a base, to make it really pop, and I used two coats of Neon Melon. I am showing you this with top coat, because I can't abide it flat.

Two shots in shade, one in direct sunlight. You all probably know by now how infamously hard it is to capture a neon properly, but this will give you some idea! I've got a few more of these to show you. Has anyone else seen the big Walgreen's display??

Wet N Wild SPAM

I recently picked up a bunch of Wet N Wild polishes, because you know, they're cheap, and often they're awesome. They had some new ones, and some ones I had before, so rather than do a series of posts on them, I figured I would just show them all at once. You know, me being the wiz of efficiency, and all that. *cough* NOT.

First up is this squishy spring green with a secret shimmer - I want to say it's blue? VERY hard to tell and doesn't really translate to the nail. This is what I'd call a jelly creme. I really love this one, the shade is unusual. Umm, it's called Toss Me a LIFESAVERS.

This blue is similar in finish to "Lifesavers" in that it's a squishy jelly creme with a secret shimmer - this one is purple, it seems. Pretty sky blue - NERDS Need Love Too.

Easy Peasy LEMONHEAD Squeezy. By the way, the caps are what's printed on the bottle, if you don't have any of these and are wondering. This one gave me major trubs. This is three coats, and it never evened out for me. I'll give it a whirl again, as this one is somewhat warmer and deeper than my NYC Lemon Cream, and I love all yellows, so the shade is amazeballs.

Sunny Side Up is one I had before, and picked up again. I LOVELOVELOVE this dusty orange shade, it gave me no trouble. Again, a jelly creme finish.

Blazed seems to have been around for a while. It's an awesome, juicy coral. I'm repetitive, but this is a jelly creme.

So, as I mentioned - the formula on most of these was fantastic. But I guess everyone who tries yellows knows they can sometimes be problematic, right? I love all the colors though.

Nail Art: Polka Dot FAIL.

This is Orly Ancient Jade and NYC Lemon Cream - and I love the color scheme of this SOOO freaking much. But as you can see, I have by no means perfected my dotting skills. I'm working on it though. You can see some of my blobs, and then my dots are uneven - but this is such a cute idea for an Easter/spring mani! I definitely want to try again.

Too bad I am le suck at nail art. I have so many ideas. I did finally do my lace nails, I'll be posting those soon.

NYC Lemon Cream

I picked up three of these new NYC polishes - are these LE? - and I'm showing you Lemon Cream first. The bottles are shaped completely different from the other NYC polishes I have.

I know yellows can be problematic, but I love them SO freaking much. This is a yummy shade, perfectly named. It definitely went on streaky for the first coat, but leveled out nicely at coat number two, which is where I left it for this photo.

I hate that when blogger shrinks my image to fit into my posts, it almost looks distorted and blurry. /endOTrant

Have you tried any of these new NYC polishes?

OPI Banana Bandanna

Are there really two n's at the end of bandanna? I thought it was one.

I LOVELOVELOVE this yellow. It's soft, buttery and squishy. This is three coats for this level of opacity and it applied so easy! Of course the first coat was streaky, but it leveled so easy.

Yellow polishes are made of awesome. What are your favorites? Do you wear yellow?