From the makers of Color Club: Cosmetic Arts Part 2

 On to round two of Cosmetic Arts polishes, and there are six more that I would like to show you. I forgot to mention on Part 1 of this post that I used a top coat with all of the polishes. I don't want anyone to be shocked when they see that these polishes aren't as glossy in real life.

This is Sprout Your Wings from the Spring Collection. I am showing this one in the sun, because I think that it's brightness is better showcased in the sun. It is such a vivid light green and it almost looks to a be a neon, but it doesn't dry matte like neons do. This was two coats.

This one is Enchanted Forest. The first picture reflects it to be close to Sky High, but it's actually more on the sea green side, which you can see on the second picture. This one took three coats to obtain full coverage.



The last one from the Spring Collection is In Bloom. This is a really pretty lilac shade. It's not so light that it looks white but it's also not as bright as an Easter lilac. It took three coats to get it opaque.

I only have two from the Fall Collection. The first one is called Snow Bunny. It's not just a plain gray color, this one actually has a hint of blue mixed in. The blue tendencies are most noticeable on the second picture. Most grays only take two coats, but this one was really sheer, so I had to use three.

La La Lilac isn't actually lilac, it seems to me that they mixed in some brown because depending on the lighting it can tend to look somewhat brown. Only two coats were needed for this one. I didn't expect to love this one as much as I did, by just looking at the bottle, but I really loved it. It's a very neutral color which would look even better on lighter skintones.

The last one that I have to show you is Limelight, but the website doesn't show a name for the collection. This one is a neon color. I haven't tried all of Color Clubs neons yet, but the one that I tried over the weekend was so sheer that even with three coats I could still see my nail line. I sincerely hope not all their neons are as sheer as that one. This one however, took three coats and it provided complete coverage.

Neons tend to be difficult to photograph and this one was no exception. This one was taken inside and it's color is more accurate than the top one. It's not a limegreen color, rather it's more of a teal neon.

 This concludes my Cosmetic Arts collection. I try to go to Ross every week, to ensure that I won't miss out on any new Color Club collections, so if I happen to find anymore Cosmetic Arts nail polishes I will make a post of those as well. I wanted to do water marbling posts next week, but that might have to be postponed. Instead, I was thinking of swatching either some of my most interesting Sinful Colors, or a few of my Color Club collections. I'm unsure at the moment, however, for the rest of this week I'll be doing random nail polishe swatches that I have worn in the past few days. Hope you enjoyed!

From the makers of Color Club: Cosmetic Arts Part 1

 I had a post lined up to be published yesterday, but when I came home from the hospital, it hadn't been published. I went ahead and published it, and when I took a look at the post, I noticed half of my post was gone! I was really upset, so I decided to just scrap the post, even though it took me about fours to work on.

 My original post was meant to showcase a few of the polishes that I have bought from the Cosmetic Arts collections. However, I was only going to provide pictures of the the the nail polish bottles, and later do swatches of the actual nail polish. Since part of my post mysteriously disappeared, I thought it would be best to go ahead and do the nail polish swatches.

 The first time I came across the Cosmetic Arts display at a Ross, I was really close to not buying them, simply because they have no names written on the bottles, but the colors were too beautiful to not purchase and they were only priced at 1.99. As I mentioned in a previous post, I did pick up three nail polishes during my first encounter with the display. Then, two weeks ago I visited a Ross, and I found the display again, but that time I had more options, so I was able to pick up five more bottles. Three days later I decided to go once more, to see if there were any left. I was able to find two lonely bottles, just waiting to be snatched up. Luckily, those were colors that I had also liked during my previous visit, so I was quite content with my find.

 After checking out their website, I was somewhat able to tell which ones I have, but I'm not entirely sure if I am correct. I have emailed Forsythe Cosmetic Group, which are also the makers of Color Club, to see if maybe they have other pictures or perhaps even swatches that they might email me. If they ever get back to me, I will be sure to edit this post if I am not correct in my interpretation of the names. If you would like to take a look for yourself at their full collections you can click here, and it will take you to the Cosmetic Arts webpage directly.

This is All the Trimmings from the Holiday Collection. Despite how opaque the color looks in the bottle, it's actually on the sheer side. It has purple duochrome, micro glitter suspended in a bluish purple base and even though it was a sheer polish, it only took two coats to get it opaque.

 

The duochrome in this polish, however, isn't strong when applied to nails. It was really difficult to try and capture the duochromeness.

Nonetheless, this polish is an amazing purple and is one of my favorite from all the Cosmetic Arts lacquers that I own.

Another one from the Holiday Collection is You Sleigh Me. This one also only took two coats and it's a slate gray shimmery base with tons of gold micro glitter. I like this color, but I don't think that it looks too great on my skintone.

The last one that I believe to be in the Holiday Collections is New Year's Ball. This is a blue frost and it took only two coats to obtain complete coverage. I thought this was going to be an interesting polish, but the streaking on this polish was as bad as China Glaze's Avalanche.

If only there was a way to get rid of streaks from frost polishes...

I have already shown this polish in a previous post, but I thought I would show it this time when it was freshly applied, instead after a few days wear. This is called Sky High from the Spring Collection. Out of all the polishes, this has the best formula.



 I do want to mention, as well, that the formula in all these polishes is a bit watery and you have to be light on the application to prevent it from running to your cuticles. I don't want to make my posts too long, so I decided to break it up into two parts. Although, I'm not a fan of some of the polishes, I am going to keep them because there is something about the bottles that I just love. When the bottles clink together they make a more sublte clink than any other nail polish I own. I know it's a bit weird for me to be commenting on the noise they make when they clink, but I have a thing for noises... I might be the only person in the world, but I also love the sound of chalk on the chalkboard.. Lol. I promise I'm not crazy. My next post will have the other six polishes that I own from Cosmetic Arts. Hope you enjoy!

*** EDIT***
All the Trimmings looks to be Equinox Fox from the Fall Collection. After doing some research, I was able to find out that All the Trimmings is actually a whole different color, GREEN! That is according to some of the other blogs out there.