Ooh.... new stuff at Claire's!

Man, I can't get over how much I love the polish they have at Claire's! It is worth braving the horrible music that sounds like a parody of itself and the feeling like you're a few decades too old to shop there to get these. Claire's isn't so bad though. I like a lot of their jewelry- they have slap bracelets!

Anyway, I went into Claire's the other day to see what kind of new polish they had and wow! I saw these. Love at first sight. Had to have them. Go Claire's. Woo!


Chunky Blue. Blue glitter and silver hexagon glitter in a blue jelly base. Right off the bat I'm going to say that this isn't a Starry Starry Night duplicate. Kind of a similar feeling with all the glitter in the blue jelly base, but that's where the similarity stops. Anyway... this is super gorgeous. The blue is such a pretty deep color without looking black or navy (I have never really liked navy blue). The glitter is a blue-tinted silver so it's nice and shiny, and I think there's also just plain silver in there too but I can't tell because of the blue base. The larger glitter is sparse and comes out kinda randomly. This is two coats. This also comes in a few other colors, such as....


Chunky Green. Oh man. Just look at it! Look! Grassy green glitter!!! With a hand full of silver hexagons thrown in! Exclamation points!!!! This was three coats.

Here's Chunky Green over black. It doesn't need it. I thought it was going to be more sheer than it actually was so I preemptively did a base of black... bleh. I don't care for it over black.

Chunky Purple. I dunno if this really looks purple to me. Looks like a really dark pink. Maybe a drop of purple. Oh well, it's still pretty. It reminds me a lot of Claire's Rock, except I don't remember that one having any silver hex glitter. This was two coats.

I think there were a few more colors in the "Chunky" style but I didn't grab those. I might go back for them sometime. I did get the gold and silver holo versions (Goldmine and Hollywood) a long time ago, but I think I saw a kinda light bronzy one and another silvery one when I was there too. There was a neon pink one in the same style...

Glitz And Glam. Holy waffles. I love this so much. I can't even tell you how giddy this polish makes me when I look at it. It is NEON PINK with HOLO GLITTER!!! It kinda looks like there's a little bit of a blue flash to it too, but it's very subtle. There's also a sprinkle of very big hexagon glitter in there too and they come out very randomly, I actually had to intentionally fish a few out so that each nail would have one. The base color of this is similar to China Glaze Shocking Pink, it's a little lighter and waaaaaaaay brighter in real life.


I also picked up a new green-

Dream Catcher. I'm not really into the whole jade/mint green trend. I don't like the way it looks on me, it gives me big red lobster claw hands.

Me wearing jade/mint green polish:



Anyway... Dream Catcher is actually surprisingly nice. It has a little shimmer to it. It has a more yellowy-toned green look than most of the pale greens I own, which I think helps a bit when it comes to making my hands look red. This is a very pale shade and I find it very calming and dreamy looking. I have heard that it's similar to Chanel Jade, but I don't own it so I can't really say. Some people have also told me that they thought the formula was horrible... however... I found it to be quite lovely. This picture is two coats, no topcoat, no basecoat. I did not have any streaking or anything, it went on perfectly for me. If you are having a lot of trouble with polish streaking, you should try using more polish on the brush and using a lighter touch on the brush.

So... yeah. I love Claire's. The polish seems to be permanently on sale for buy one, get one 50% off, cause every time I go there that's how it is. Which is kinda dangerous cause it forces me to buy polish in pairs. I can't just get three, I have to get four. But if I see a fifth one I like I have to get six! They're tricky, man. They know how to get me.