Thrifty Thursday! Starring Pure Ice Moonlight

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Thrifty Thursday

Pure Ice

Moonlight

Have you  missed Thrifty Thursdays? I have and I've been really lax about posting them for the last couple of months, but it's a new year, so I wanted to start if off right!

Pure Ice was bought out by Revlon, which is no longer Cruelty-Free, unfortunately.

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Thrifty Thursday! Starring Pure Ice Kissing Cupid and First Party

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How is it possibly Thursday again already?? I'm pretty sure the underpants gnomes are starting to steal days from me now too.

But it IS Thursday which means it's Thrifty Thursday! Tonight I have two polishes from Pure Ice to show you: Kissing Cupid and First Party.

Kissing Cupid is a vampy red crelly (creme/jelly hybrid) that applies easily, is opaque in two coats and dries to a SUPER shiny finish. The photos of Kissing Cupid are with NO top coat.

Pure Ice Kissing Cupid

Pure Ice Kissing Cupid

Pure Ice Kissing Cupid

And with an accent nail of Pure Ice First Party.

First Party is a clear-based glitter polish with medium and small red hexes. Application and formula were great and I had no issues. One coat of Poshe top coat for photos.

Pure Ice Kissing Cupid with First Party Accent Nail

Pure Ice Kissing Cupid with First Party Accent Nail

Finally, it was so blingy and sparkly that I just did a full mani with First Party...

Pure Ice First Party (over Pure Ice Kissing Cupid)

Pure Ice First Party (over Pure Ice Kissing Cupid)

Pure Ice First Party (over Pure Ice Kissing Cupid)

Pure Ice First Party (over Pure Ice Kissing Cupid)

What do you think of these two? 

Pure Ice polishes are available in the US at Walmart stores for $1.97 or on Bari Cosmetic's website for around $3.00. Also, be sure and check out their new website, Pure Ice Cosmetics (they have all the links there for Twitter, Instagram and Pinterest, too!) and be sure and like them on Facebook for more information, swatches, giveaways and contests.








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Thrifty Thursday! With Pure Ice En Vogue and Call Me

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I'm back with Thrifty Thursday! Tonight I have a couple of Pure Ice polishes for you: En Vogue - possibly my favorite Pure Ice - and Call Me, a glitter polish.

En Vogue is a rust-colored creme polish that applies like butter - creamy and smooth. Two coats for complete opacity. Photos shown are with NO top coat. In fact, after I took the photos I noticed that you can see my fingers holding the camera reflecting in them. Sorry!

After those photos, I've included some photos of this mani with a glitter gradient on top using Pure Ice Call Me.

Call Me is a clear-based glitter polish with orange/rust/copper hex micro-glitters and small silver hexes. Application on it was great and all the glitters came out easily and laid perfectly flat on the nail. Those photos have one coat of Poshe top coat.

Pure Ice En Vogue

Pure Ice En Vogue

Pure Ice En Vogue

Pure Ice En Vogue

Pure Ice En Vogue

And with Pure Ice Call Me glitter gradient...

Pure Ice En Vogue

Pure Ice En Vogue

Pure Ice En Vogue

Pure Ice En Vogue

Pure Ice En Vogue

What do you think of these two? 

Pure Ice polishes are available in the US at Walmart stores for $1.97 or on Bari Cosmetic's website for around $3.00. Also, be sure and check out their new website, Pure Ice Cosmetics (they have all the links there for Twitter, Instagram and Pinterest, too!) and be sure and like them on Facebook for more information, swatches, giveaways and contests.





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Pure Ice All Night Long

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Good Morning! Today I have another "thrifty" polish to show you: Pure Ice All Night Long.

All Night Long is a great navy blue shimmer polish. It went on smoothly and easily and I used two coats for full opacity - no top coat for photos! No issues to report. The formula is fantastic. This isn't one I won from the recent #NailBasel and #PureYou contests Pure Ice has been having on their Facebook page, but be sure that I will be showing you those on the blog over the next few months.

Pure Ice All Night Long

But before I show you more of All Night Long, I want to show you what I received yesterday! A HUGE box yesterday with my winnings...can you even believe this?

I used 16 Pure Ice polishes to create the #NailBasel winner...

Freehand Butterfly Wings

And the winning photo for the #PureYou contest...

Okay, so here are the rest of the All Night Long photos...

Pure Ice All Night Long

Pure Ice All Night Long

Pure Ice All Night Long

Pure Ice All Night Long

Pure Ice All Night Long

Pure Ice All Night Long

Pure Ice All Night Long

What do you think of this gorgeous blue?

Pure Ice polishes are available at Walmart stores and retail for around $1.98 each. You can also purchase them from their Bari Cosmetics website here.



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Comparison Request: Dior Nirvana vs Pure Ice Internationally Known

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I haven't even blogged about Pure Ice Internationally Known yet and I've already had a couple of requests about how it compares to Dior Nirvana - LOL! Well they're not dupes by any stretch but I'll show you anyhow. The photos say it all.

Dior Nirvana vs Pure Ice Internationally Known

Dior Nirvana vs Pure Ice Internationally Known

Dior Nirvana vs Pure Ice Internationally Known

Dior Nirvana vs Pure Ice Internationally Known

Honestly, even though the colors are vastly different, I have to say that the formula on the Pure Ice was every bit as good as the Dior. Both had perfect, creamy, smooth formulas and were easy to apply. Two coats of both, not top coat on either.

What do you think?




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Butterfly Wings starring Pure Ice

Tonight's mani is my first attempt at Butterfly Wings and I used all Pure Ice polishes for
The Great Pure Ice #NailBasel Challenge.

#PureIce #NailBasel Challenge Mani: Butterfly Wings

Here's what I used:

First Row (L) Pure Ice Jaguar, Twinkle, Hot Tamale and Siren
Second Row Pure Ice Wild Thing, Free Spirit and Trust Me
Third Row Pure Ice Home Run, Internationally Known and All Night Long
Fourth Row Pure Ice Grunge, Touch Me Softly, Temptress and No Means No
Pure Ice Superstar (white) and Black Out

First I did a quick sponge gradient using different colors on each finger and with a nail art brush, I free-handed the black. Then with a dotting tool, I applied the white dots and finished off with a coat of Poshe top coat.

Butterfly Wings Manicure

Butterfly Wings Manicure

It's not the best I have ever seen of course, but I'm pretty pleased for my first try. What do you think?





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Pure Ice Monte Carlo - Swatches and Review

My NOTD is a jelly. A Pure Ice jelly! Regular readers will already know that I am not a fan of jellies for myself because I'm just too lazy to build the color with all those tedious coats and long dry time. But 1) I didn't know this was a jelly until I had the first coat on, 2) the color was so pretty I decided to go ahead with it and 3) I'd never actually tried a jelly sandwich, so I seized the opportunity - but only on an accent nail.

There are lots of new Pure Ice polishes in an elusive (so far to MY Walmart) display - called The Runway Nail Trends and they are supposedly Limited Edition. There are 55 new polishes divided into five collections: Velour Finish, Diamond Couture, French Trends, Metro Chic and Party Glam. (See my post about some of the Velours here.)

Monto Carlo is one of the new ones. Not sure which "collection" though. It's a pretty violet/violet pink jelly. I used three coats and one coat of Poshe. On the accent nail, I used one coat of Monte Carlo, one coat of Sticks and Stones glitter polish and one more coat of Monte Carlo. It builds nicely, but I'm SO not good at applying jellies, so it doesn't really look even to me.

Pure Ice Monte Carlo

Pure Ice Monte Carlo

Pure Ice Monte Carlo

Pure Ice Monte Carlo

And yes, I do polish my right hand too!

Pure Ice Monte Carlo

What do you think of this one? Do you jelly?

Pure Ice polishes are (usually) available at Walmart stores (and some Walgreens now I hear) nationwide and retail for $1.97. You can also order online at Bari Cosmetics.






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Pure Ice Velours

There are 11 new Pure Ice "Velours" in the display that STILL hasn't made it to my Walmart. There are also lots of other new ones in a couple of other Pure Ice collections in that elusive display - called The Runway Nail Trends and are Limited Edition. There are 55 new polishes divided into five collections: Velour Finish, Diamond Couture, French Trends, Metro Chic and Party Glam.

Thanks to my friend Ashley at Ashley is PolishAddicted, I now have the four Velour Finish ones I knew I was going to want for sure. Those are what I'm going to show you really quickly tonight. (Yes, I'll be calling them "mattes" and "velvets" from now on rather than velours. Won't be able to help it.)

Firstly, the velours consist of eleven polishes:

Ruffled Sheets - silver
Femme Fatale - forest green
Black Velour - black
Blue Midnight - blue
Over the Top - gilded/bronzed gold
Crushed - gold
Grunge - silvered pink
Touch Me Softly - mulberry/red-violet
Stunning - hot pink
Draped - coral
Temptress - purple with gold flecks


I have Blue Midnight, Touch Me Softly, Grunge and Stunning to show you.

Pure Ice Velours

The application on these was really great. No issues AT ALL! I used two coats and no top coat, of course, and they seem to adhere well and so far, no chips or even tip wear.

Pure Ice Velours

Pure Ice Velours

Pure Ice Velours

Pure Ice Velours

Pure Ice Touch Me Softly

My favorite, of course, is Touch Me Softly. It's my favorite nail polish color family. Pure Ice polishes are available at Walmart and baricosmetics.com for just under $2 each. 



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