Oooh, I have a sexy polish to show you today!
This is M.A.C. Formidable from their Venomous Villains collection. Two coats.
This is such a love deep plum polish with a teal blue shimmery sparkle. Love it!
Now I just need Bad Fairy and that will complete the collection. Can anyone hook me up? 
Em
Essence is the bomb, we all know that. Affordable polishes with an awesome range. How can you go wrong?
I picked up this beauty the last time I was in Adelaide (about three months ago now!!) and have only just gotten around to wearing it.
This is Where is the Party?:
Pretty purple!
But wait… what’s that!?
Here’s some green!
Seriously?
Yup! This duochrome shifts from purple to green quite obviously. It’s hard to capture it but it’s there. This was two easy coats. No issues with the formula and it wore quite well.
I’m not sure if this colour is available anymore since Essence switched to their new shaped bottles, so if you can snap it up I’d highly recommend it!
Em
Oh how I love you, China Glaze. Their recent Bohemian Lustre Chrome collection has caused many people to complain about how non-duochromey the polishes are, but I still love them. They are still beautiful colours which simply glow from within.
Enough of my babble, here’s Deviantly Daring:
Two coats of beautifulness over an existing mani (a dark teal creme). How gorgeous is it!? See what I mean about glowing from within!?
The formula on this was pretty good. A little runny, but nothing unmanageable at all.
Here’s another photo which shows its dark side a little:
Nyommmmmm!
Do you love DD?!
Em
Here we go, my first Chanel. *dreamy sigh*. This polish is just frickin’ unbelievable.
I got this polish from Ozsale for $15 a few months ago. I saw it and leapt on it because it was an awesome prize. I was deliberately saving it for when I went to Adelaide for a weekend so I could test how long I could get out of it and so I didn’t have to put up with chipping, yuck nails.
What a perfect polish to wear when you can’t change your polish.
Honestly, isn’t that just spectacular? This polish, as you all know, is a gorgeous duochrome which flashes from gold to green in the light. I actually preferred this polish in the shade because it just glowed. How I love glowy polishes!!
This was two coats which were a pretty good formula. I had a few problems with dragging but I just waited a little longer for each coat to dry and I was fine!
Now, the wear-time.
Amazing.
I applied this polish on a Thursday night and went to Adelaide on the Friday afternoon. I got back the next Monday night. The only reason I changed my polish was because I had time to and I knew I wouldn’t have time the next night. My polish still looked amazing. I had a little bit of wearing on a couple of the corners. Not chips, just a bit of wearing. But you could only notice if you looked closely.
I must say this polish has certainly fuelled my want for more Chanel polishes, including the Les Jeans collection. Hrmmm…
Em
I’ve been using my OPI DS polishes sparingly lately. I like to bring them out on a special occasion, like when I’m feeling a little blue and need cheering up.
This stunner is enough to brighten up anyone’s day!
This is OPI DS Magic:
Oh, and it truly is magic. A beautiful glittery, shimmery blue/purple duochrome. I found it really hard to get the purple to pop in the photo but you can see it a little in the bottle. It is a real stunner. It’s very bling bling without being over the top.
I think this is my favourite out of all the DS’ I have 
Which is your favourite?
Em
Don’t you love it when you get polish as a present and the person just completely hits the nail on the head? My partner’s mother got me a few polishes for my birthday which I got during my last Adelaide trip. And honestly, one of the polishes is the most beautiful I’ve ever seen.
This is Chi Chi Everyday I’m Shufflin’:
Droooooool! Look at that BEAUTIFUL blue/green duochromey goodness? it is so, so gorgeous. This was two coats and the formula was amazing.
Chi Chi, you are amazing.
Here is another shot of the gorgeousness:
Ahhh. Doesn’t it just make you happy? No? Only me? I’m okay with that 
Have you tried Everyday I’m Shufflin’?
Em
I’m so feeling the duochromes lately. And what better duochrome to try then one of the Model’s Own Beetlejuice collection, Violet Blue.
This is a stunning polish. I’ll let the photos do the talking:
Two coats. I was worried it would be really sheer but two coats covered well.
I did some cute Konad-ing with the m27 plate on my thumbs:
Cute lil shark and seahorse. I did some bubbles in silver with a cheap Japanese image plate I got off eBay.
Blue and purple flashes in the sunlight:
Purple dominates the nails in some light:
More colour shifting:
And again, half-half blue and purple nails:
Love this blue:
Gorgeous 
Em
Ah, finally. I received the Model’s Own Beetlejuice collection in the mail last week and I had to try one straight away. Or, like, the world would end. Seriously. Haha 
This is Pinky Brown:
Drool! Excuse my crappy photos … I am terrible at capturing duochromes. I’m not sure why they call this Pinky Brown, because it clearly has a lot of gold in it! And it is also a crap name. I mean, honestly, if you’re going to name a collection something as awesome as Beetlejuice, at least put some effort into the polish names! Don’t think your work is done when you choose the collection name.
Here are some more photos:
So sparkly! I love that these are glittery duochromes. It adds so much depth!
More pretty gold!
Dodgy photo but it was the best that I had to show you the colour shifting! So beautiful.
I can’t wait to try the others in the collection. I’m thinking I’ll have to try the Aqua Violet next. Two of my favourite colours at once? Yes please!
Have you succumbed to the Beetlejuice collection yet? I was literally out at dinner and had my phone out watching the countdown and I jumped on to buy straight away. How sad is that?! I think that’s when I realised I have a nail polish problem
Em
I’ve got a double whammy for you guys today! I wanted to try one of my new OPIs and I chose Not Like the Movies from the Katy Perry collection. I’ve heard there are two versions of this: one that is duochrome and one that is not. I’m happy to report that I definitely got the duochrome one 
First, I painted on two coats of BYS Hunter Green. This is a super dark green and it’s almost black.
The formula was great and I loved how glossy this was even without a top coat.
Then I did two coats of Not Like the Movies:
Gorgeous, huh? Let’s see some more of that gorgeous green and purple duochrome:
So, so pretty! I truly love this polish. I know I’m a bit late on the bandwagon with it but I’m so glad Kate got this in the US for me. I’m getting more and more addicted to duochromes and multichromes!
Do you love a good duochrome?
Em
The lovely Shatter Me Claire was kind enough to go shopping for me at the Chemistry warehouse last week. I gave her a budget and told her to go nuts! I love her polish choices so I knew she’d pick some awesome ones. And oh, she did!!!
I was disappointed when I got home and there was nothing in my letter box, but then I walked up to my front door and there, tucked away in the corner, was a box addressed to meee!
I literally squealed when I opened my goodies.
Pretty, pretty polishes.
601, 609, 618. Goooorgeous scattered holos. I love these!!
730 & 506. Stunning duo and multichromes.
Look at itttt!! I may just have to try this one first!!
216 & 201 Oh my, I looooooooove 201. A blue sparkly with bar glitter. I love it, love it, love it!
Apparently there aren’t any swatches of the 200 series online, so *sigh*, I suppose I can swatch them for you guys. If I have to. Heeheeheee 
Ms Shatter Me made some amazing choices. Thank you so much for doing this for me!!!
Be watching for some swatching 
Okay, that was a terrible rhyme …
Em
