MollyHell's Grab Bag! - Color Club Electronica

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Color Club Electronica:

Color Club Wonderland Mini Polish Set

Another terrifically inexpensive set of mini polishes from Color Club. Christmas themed, they are three glitters and a topcoat. A silver glitter in clear polish, a silver glitter in cranberry red, and a nice silver glitter in foresty green. All have a nice amount of glitter and applied nicely. These are two coats, no topcoat. I think this is an excellent holiday set, in great colors, and you can't beat the price. I'll get a lot of use out of these!


Color Club Wonderland:


Color Club Under the Mistletoe:


Color Club Yule Love It:

Color Club Dark Romance Matte Collection

Frankly I hate these. There are three polishes in this set of mini bottles, a black, a white, and a silver shimmer, and you are also given a matte topcoat. The black and white are not really matte, they are kinda just dullish, like old car paint. They never get totally matte. The matte topcoat produces much the same effect, a kind of half shiny half dull look. In my opinion the silver is the only one worth anything, it's kind of neat. But using say, Essie's matte topcoat over a silver polish will do the same thing. But I don't know of any silvers quite the same as this one, though I am sure one exists. The set is so cheap it may be worth it just for the silver if you like it.


Color Club Dark Romance Matte


Color Club Alabaster Matte


Color Club Smoke and Mirrors Matte

Color Club Master of Disguise Halloween Themed Mini Nail Polish Set

You know I'm behind minis all the way, especially for Polish Monkeys with tons of polish. There's always a new polish being released somewhere, so why not try a bunch of them as inexpensively as possible? Especially when dealing with themed polishes, such as Halloween sets. I like this set just fine. Only $5.95 at Victoria Nail Supply, that's cheaper than one bottle of OPI bought in a brick and mortar store.

This set gives your obligatory white and black, but the orange is so much more fun than the creme oranges, and they add in a great blue shimmer.


Color Club Master of Disguise, your standard glossy black. Formula just fine.


Color Club Ghost of Chance. Hmm is this Chance's Ghost, or did they leave out the "a"? Anyway this one was gluey and hard to deal with.


Color Club Abracadabra is a great orange jelly with big ol' gold glitter, so much funner than a creme! So much more holiday oriented! Love this one!


Color Club TaBoo! is very much like OPI Ink, which I featured today, except it is lighter and much more cobalt than Ink's navy blue. It has the same great deep purple shimmer, again, like Ink, my camera was unable to capture it. A great alternative polish to throw in this set, and very lovely.


The funny thing about this set is it lists the four colors as TaBoo! Abracadabra, Ghost of Chance and "Witchy Woman" not Master of Disguise. I am ASSuming it's just a mistake, and perhaps they decided not to name the black Witchy Woman, but Master of Disguise.

Color Club Japan Only?? Glitters!

I dunno anything about these glitters. I think they are a Japanese exclusive. They aren't even on Color Club's site, and frankly I am too lazy to email and ask them. Imagine that, being too lazy to email.

They have varying amounts of that beautiful, soft opalescent glitter I really love, and are pretty shades. The major drawback I found was these are MAJORLY gloppy. They're like spreading jelly with a nail polish brush. One of these took about THIRTY drops of polish thinner before I could even apply it. Maybe I got bad bottles. But these were a nightmare. A pretty, shiny, glittery nightmare. They're all sheer bases, with the darkest being the least sheer. All of these are three to FOUR coats, no topcoat. They dried pretty fast, though.

From lightest to darkest:

Color Club Limited Edition Pink Glitter. This is basically just glitter in a base so lightly tinted it makes no difference. The thing it's here for is the glitter. Tons of opalescent glitter. This was the thickest of the polishes.


Color Club Sakura Glow has the least amount of glitter, and only a small wash of pink. Would be nice as a layering glitter.


Color Club Strawberry Sharbet. Yes I know it's sherbEt, it's not my error. Slightly more glitter than Sakura Glow, and a bit more color to the jelly.


Color Club Strawberry Candle is the darkest of the pinks and it's a keeper, in my opinion.


Color Club Too Violet. It has the most opacity, and I think it's very pretty!


Not sure this collection is a must have. I really like the two darkest ones, though. I found these at Victoria Nail Supply.

Color Club Wild At Heart Fall 2009 Collection

FINALLY I have these. I am in love with this set. It's got great vibrant colors, a healthy helping of holographic glitter, and only one boring color. Even the boring color has glitter! The formula is good, Color Club formula is nice and manageable for the most part, though frosts are almost always streaky and the ones in this set are pretty much no exception.

Onto the colors!

Color Club With Abandon is a strangely named black jelly with large grain brown shimmer. It manages to be dark but STILL be brown!! Would OPI please take notice?? Easy to apply since it's a jelly, needs two or more coats. I woulda named this one Do It In the Dirt.


Color Club On the Wild Side... ah here's that aforementioned streaky frost. What a waste of a gorgeous shade. Pure frosts like this look so old-fashioned and messy. But what a color!


Color Club Wild at Heart, well, I don't think I have ever taken a better picture. It applies like a dream, and looks like it was sprayed on by a professional. Trust me, this one will look just as good on you. It's not a holographic, but it has enough holo glitter to pack a very nice punch and to look sleek and shiny. And what a great, deep purple.


Color Club Love 'em Leave 'em, huh? I woulda named this Renegade Attorney, or Slightly Naughty Secretary. It's BEIGE. This needed to be canned and replaced by a rich ruby red with holographic glitter. they could have filled a large need in the polish world but gave us something you could probably get away with at work, but frankly is too boring for anywhere else, despite the nice holo glitter.


Rule Breaker is a gorgeous teal frost but it has so much shimmer added as well that it applies a bit better than On the Wild Side. Beautiful color, just I think it'd be best worn without color coordinating your clothes with it.


Color Club Wild and Willing is not done justice by my picture. It's a slightly sheer golden brown jelly with very vibrant shimmer. It reflects tons of light. it also has a small shot of gorgeous rose/green duochrome. Just fabulous.


So why am I so interested in the names? Who knows. I know no one cares about the names. They just made me go WTF this time. Heh.

Fun Stuff I've Gotten Lately - Mmmmm Glittery!

I got some good stuff the past week or so in the mail and the drugstore.

LOVE this one! Just enough holo glitter to cause that circular oilslick rainbow, but not enough to be a full holographic.
Wet n' Wild Wild Orchid:


From the Color Club Femme Fatale Collection, along with Revvvolution, but I wanted this one far less than Revvvolution. Only bought it because it's a holo. Silvers aren't my favorite.
Color Club Worth the Risque:


This has a gorgeous blue and gold duochrome, and it's a unique one because the blue part of the duochrome is lighter than the blue of the base. It makes it look like it is topped with glass. It's very lovely. I don't enjoy the fake blueberry smell it has. It does fade though.
Revlon Not So Blueberry:


I bought this thinking it might be close to China Glaze's glass fleck No Way Jose. But it isn't really at all. It's too silvery, almost a metallic. But it's pretty, and cheap.
Sinful Purple Diamond:


Gorgeous vampy burgundy with a deep shimmer, both in the base color and a darker purple. I LOVE this.
Sally Hansen Flirt:


But the stars of my acquisitions are the Massinis a friend helped me buy. I utterly adore these!!! They are not holos, just glitters. I wanted these for a very long time and was so excited to have them!

Massini Purple Medallion:


Massini Slamming Red:

Polish of the Day - Color Club Revvvolution

I FINALLY got Color Club Revvvolution. I had no money, then Head2Toe Beauty didn't have it in, then I had no... cycle. Anyway both situations finally came together and now I have CC Revvv. Is it as hot as OPI My Private Jet (original formula)? I say oh heck yes. And even better, CC Revvvolution is AVAILABLE, unlike OPI My Private Jet Original.

Color Club Revvvolution:


OPI My Private Jet (original formula):


I quite like Color Club's formula. Many of the polishes are one coat, true one coat, and they apply well and stay put. Nice and glossy, too! They have some minis, too which is nice, in their One & Done Collection - on Head2Toe Beauty, all of $1.50. Here are three of those:

Color Club Earthy Mama:


Color Club Recycle This!:


Color Club Sign My Petition:

Color Club Electro Candy Collection Summer 2009

Dunno how I missed blogging about my favorite neon collection of the year!? I think I was waiting to talk about all the others first. Yes, this IS the year of the Bright and the Neon. Which is fine with me, as I love both.

Color Club's Electro Candy neon collection for Summer 2009 is unique, even among all of this year's neons. Why? because it does not have a neon formula!!! No chalky streaky drying matte polishes here! Electro Candy's formula is like any other polish. It's somewhat sheer, so you will need a few coats, but you won't get streak or clump.

Best of all? They all have blue shimmer! Neon with shimmer? Wow.

Electro Candy has a nice rainbow color balance. One each of purple, pink, orange, yellow, green and blue. It also has a special "color intensifying topcoat" named Vivid, which I did not try. I also did not try the orange, Tangerine Scream. I may have to buy it though!

IMO, a must have for summer.


Color Club Electro Candy:


Color Club Volt of Light:


Color Club Ultra Violet:


Color Club What a Shock!:


Color Club Pure Energy:

Speaking of Glitter - Non-Holographic!

Let's talk pure glitter polishes. Not holographic, not jellies or cremes with glitter, pure glitter polishes. I really love glitter polishes. Though unless you use pure acetone, they take roughly 6.29 hours to remove! And even if you get them off quick with acetone the flecks love to nestle between my nail and skin, hiding down there for what feels like weeks. YES I do wash my hands! LOL! But those things are sticky!

The sad thing is the ratio of hotness to size is inverse, seems like the smaller the glitter, the more swoonworthy it is. Not talking flake "glitter", which I believe is mica (correct me if I am wrong), but "metallic" glitter. This may not be your feeling, but personally I like micro glitter, and I like it THICK. Clear polish with a smattering of glitter can be useful, but I like a solid, gleaming mass of glitter. Enough to blind.

I will of course post more about glitter in the future, this is just a selection.


Amour Rain Glitter:


NYC Starry Silver Glitter:


Ulta After Party:


Pure Ice Strapless:


Bon Bons Furry Pink Glitter:


Cover Girl City Lights:



Tyler Durden's thoughts on glitter nail polish:
The things you own end up owning you.