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Anyway, remember when I went to  (read: stalked) six or seven Walmarts to find Color Club over the summer? Well, it was a success. Remember when I took a reasonable guess that Color Club would continue to be a staple at Walmart? I was right about that too! Need a refresher? Click HERE.


Unlike the Color Clubs I bought back in August, this collection was found at two Walmart locations near me. It could possibly be in more, but I'm not about to go to six or seven stores to find something that I already found at the two Wally Worlds I frequent the most.



The Meet Your Match Collection consists of 16 nude shades. There is pretty much a nude lacquer for everyone. But I'm the most hype for of the nudes for brown girls like me. Shout out to COlor Club for finally getting a nude nail polish collection right. So many other brands that do nudes don't have the shade range.

With the exception of D.I.D. Nail Paint, there hasn't been a nude collection I was crazy about in, well, ever.


I've been waiting for this collection since I saw it on Instagram during Cosmoprof North America and when I saw this endcap my little heart jumped for joy. While I didn't pick up all 16 shades, I did however, end up coming home with nine of them.



I haven't gotten the chance to use these yet but they will be making an appearance on IG and in the Store Finds highlight.

For individual pics of each bottle, make your way over to @DropOutNails on Instagram.


Nothing To Disclose Are you as excited about this collection as I am? Let's exchange views on nudes in the comments.
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If you follow my new Instagram account *cough* @DropOutNails *cough* you'll see I finally tried out my first thermal polish.

If you haven't already noticed, this shade is pretty sheer; even at three coats--which is shown throughout this post. In fact, I almost gave up completely on this lacquer.

The wear time on this polish is pretty impressive. I wore it for six days with no additional tip wear. I know, "additional tip wear." I say that because within an hour the polish shrank back from my tips a little bit.

My usual base/top coat combination is Duri Rejuvacote & Dazzle Dry Quick Dry Top Coat, which was what I used for this mani.

Maybe this polish doesn't play well with my go to base/top combo. Maybe thermals in general don't go with this combo. At this point I haven't done enough testing either way to find out for sure.


Strawberry Cheesecake retails for $12 on GlamPaintLacquer.com.

Have you tried any thermals? Experience any issues with "shrinking tips"? Let's get hot and cold in the comments.
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It's that time once again folks, time for another round of When Nails Imitate Art!

Pushing around some nail paint. Working on #WhenNailsImitateArt tonight! #NailACollegeDropOut #TuneInDropOutLovePolish #NailArtinUpInThisBitch #browngirlbloggers #browngirlbloggers #nailartist

A photo posted by Nail A College Drop Out (@dropout_nails) on Apr 30, 2015 at 7:38pm PDT

Today's mani was inspired by Dani Michelle's "Self-Destruction"


Per usual, I saw a piece of art, I fell in love with it, and I knew I just had to attempt a nail art recreation.



In no particular order the lacquers I used for this mani are

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The summer season is vastly approaching and summer collections are rolling in! Today I've got Zoya's Summer Magical Pixie Collection.


When I first saw the press info for this collection I thought I would like these so much more than the original Magical Pixies (nail art here), and now that I have them, I've proven myself right

As you may know I have a thing for wearing more than one color per mani and this trio makes it so easy to fulfill my multicolored whims

Shown above is three  thin coats each of  Bar (thumb and index), Ginni (middle), and Arlo (ring and pinky), aka my favorite of the bunch.

The formula on these is thin but easily build-able. If I had to rank the Summer Magical Pixies, they would fall second, right after regular Pixie Dusts and just before the first series of Magical Pixies.

Magical Pixies retail for $10 each or $30 for the trio sampler on Zoya.com.

Are you still on the texture trend? What about for summer? Let's chat in the comments!
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It's that time again! Time to embark on yet another group challenge! Tutorial Tuesday!

Since today is Valentine's Day I thought, "what is Valentine's day without some skin?"


"Did you see nipple? It only counts if you see nipple."
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That's right! I have more goodies of the nail polish kind! On with the pics!

Pucci-licious is a vibrant blue-toned medium purple creme from the Poptastic Collection.
Worth the Risque is sort of a gun mental silver linear holographic polish from the Femme Fatale Collection.
Diamond Drops is from the upcoming Blossoming Collection. The best part is that it's shards of silver holographic glitter!
Artsy Crafty is a really really really dark green from the back to Boho collection. It is much darker on the nail than it is in the bottle.

Today I decided to wear China Glaze Sunset Sail that I bought earlier this week. You can see that mini haul here. It's unusual for me to wear a polish so soon after purchase. I typically buy them, they sit around, and then eventually I use them in my nail art. But this color is so perfect alone I just had to!


It's nude with hints of peach and the shimmer seen in the bottle isn't that noticeable on the nail. Photoed above is three coats. It was kinda streaky, maybe I had a bad bottle. I really love this color and I can't wait to wear this on my toes this summer!

Dear Winter,
Hurry up and be over with.

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Ahoy matey! I went shopping on my lunch break and bumped into an unexpected clearance at Beauty Plus Salon and this is the tale of my findings.

 L-R Sunset Sail, Lighthouse, Starboard. All of these are from China Glaze's Anchors Away collection for spring 2011.
Sunset Sail is the perfect nude with a hint of peach.
Lighthouse is a bright glass flecked yellow. In my opinion it could be worn alone with some visible nail line or layered over another yellow creme, white, or silver.
Starboard is more of a vibrant darker olive green.

I found these on clearance for $3.95 each. They had a few bottles from older collections, but these were the only ones that caught my attention.

Hip hip hooray for clearance polish!!!
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