Jessica Iridescent Eye

Happppy Friday! It's my absolute favorite day of the work week lol. I'm so ready for this weekend, it's not even funny. In addition to it being almost 100 degrees in NY the last two days I'm ready to really relax.

Today I have swatches of Jessica Iridescent Eye for you. I'm pretty sure everyone is pretty familiar with this one by now. This is another dupe for Chanel Peridot. I'm happy that we're able to get such great dupes of some of the higher end brands. I wish someone would dupe Chanel Ciel Du Nuit....

The photos below show two coats of Iridescent Eye and a coat of Seche Vite. I picked this up from Ninja Polish for $6.00.

I hope everyone has a great weekend!

Mattese Elite Nutty Hat Guy

Morning! Today's post features what was supposed to be a dupe for the much sought after Mad As a Hatter. I missed out on OPI's Mad As A Hatter when it was originally released, I had a case of glitterphobia. I had read about Mattese Elite coming out with a dupe, and when I saw this at the Ricky's NYC in Astoria I grabbed it.

Nutty Hat Guy (LOL @ the name) is pretty, but it's not a dead on dupe to MAAH. In the bottle the glitter is lavender, silver, red and green. On the nail, it's very bright and the silver/lavender really stand out. Formula was great and easy to work with, it was opaque in 2 coats. It's much brighter than MAAH, and is missing the yellow and blue glitter pieces.

While this is gorgeous, I obsessed over the MAAH swatches and eventually caved in. I'm expecting my package any day now. I paid approximately $37 :::faints:::  I'm hoping that I won't regret it, because I feel like if I don't buy it now I will never get it.

The photos below are 2 coats of Nutty Hat Guy and a coat of Seche Vite.

L'Oreal Waters Edge

Good Morning Ladies. I can rest easy now, I am now the proud owner of L'Oreal Waters Edge....which is a 100% dupe of my one time top lemming Essie Greenport. I don't know what I was doing when Essie released their Northfork Collection in 2009. Being that I'm from Long Island and about 40 minutes from the Northfork, you would think that I would have jumped on it. I didn't, and I regretted it for a long time. After some serious Google investigations I found that I also missed out on L'Oreal's Passport to Paradise collection in the summer of 2010 which was a re-release of the Northfork collection under L'Oreal. Waters Edge is an exact dupe for Greenport. YAY!

Waters Edge is a gorgeous teal/aqua creme. Formula on this took a little getting use to. I dislike how short the L'Oreal brush is and felt I had to really dip deep into the neck of the bottle to get any polish on the brush. The first coat was streaky and I found I had to apply thicker coats to get full color. I was able to get it down pat in 2 coats. I don't mind the extra work, because look at the color!  :)

The swatches below are two coats of Waters Edge and a coat of Seche Vite.