The Great Misa haul 2010 - part 3

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So here's the deal.  I am becoming more hostile toward my new Misas by the day. Last night I sat and scowled at them while surfing the net for over an hour. I want to punch them in the face. I should have let it go by now but all I keep thinking about is what I could have gotten instead of these crappy Misas. With all the new collections coming out containing polishes I HAVE TO HAVE it's easy to get overwhelmingly bitter about this bad purchase. 

It's not like I can sell them now. I already told the world how much they suck ass. So what am I supposed to do, try and peddle them off on you guys for a dollar a pop and ruin my ability to sleep at night? Yeah right. I can't make up my mind what to do with them.  They certainly can't stay sitting here on my new desk rack starring at me and ruining my day each time I glance over at them. I have thought of emptying them and saving the bottles for frankens and such but that idea pisses me off because it just emphasizes what a waste of money this was.  I am not sure what to do on this one guys. I also thought about pouring them out and pouring in other polishes I love but hate the bottles, like Milanis. I can't freakin STAND gold handles! I hate gold so much I want to buy it all up and throw it in the ocean never to be seen again. But then some jerk would just find it all and get rich selling it back to everyone all around me and I would be stuck looking at it again. 

I wish Misa did a polish exchange...

Extreme frost and brush stroke alert. This was 2 coats. This is just so ugly, so very ugly.  I have renamed it "wet hairball".

Super brush strokey pinkish coral shimmer. 3 coats.

Medium tone berry red with loads of gold shimmer. Why does this have to be so PRETTY in the bottle? This was 3 coats.

Check out this masterpiece. Misa really did a great job on this gem. WTF? This is a yellowish clear base with pink shimmer. Seriously? This is FOUR coats of polish.

Okay. I actually kinda like this one. It was a 2 coater and even though it's frosty it isn't too brush strokey. I might actually wear this. MIGHT.

WHY? What is the purpose of these super sheer polishes Misa? This is FOUR coats once again...Is it just me or does the name tick you off?  Because guess what, when my nails look like this I am not going to be LOUNGING anywhere. I am going to be working feverishly on a new freakin manicure! "lounging by the pool" sounds care free and dreamy. What the hell is carefree about a polish that is still sheer after 4 coats?  This should be called "lounging in the salon" while I get a new freakin polish put on, or maybe "lounging in a dark corner" because I don't want anyone to see my hideous nails. God I wanted to like this one SO BAD.

I absolutely adore this. This is a creamy coral that borders being a jelly. This was 2 coats. So glad I got this one.

Another good one. It's still not as pretty on the nail as it is in the bottle but guess what chickas?  This is one single coat! HURRAY!

Love, MM

The Great Misa haul 2010 - part 2

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In light of how incredibly negative and disappointing yesterdays swatches were I decided to go ahead and swatch some of the better Misas today. Of course this leaves me with basically nothing but crap to swatch for the next two posts, but whatever.  I'm going against my better judgment by not saving these to mix in with all the stank swatches, but I'm in a good mood today and I don't feel like complaining so here are most of the "good ones" from my haul. 

I'm totally in love with this.  It's a well pigmented berry colored jelly.  It looked AWESOME on my very pale skin. This isn't just a boring berry polish, there is something about it, something unique I can't quite describe.  This was 2 coats.

Aqua shimmer that has a greenish flash.  This was 3 coats. It's a super sheer and overdone color but still a pretty polish.

This is a horrible photo.  This polish is actually a true orange with redish shimmer but my camera just wanted to pick up the red in the shimmer and ignore the orange. This is a pretty unique color IMO and one of the only oranges I own because I freakin hate orange.

Gorgeous medium purple shimmer. But guess what cowgirls, it took 4 coats to get my nails to bottle color, FAIL.

This is a dark nude shimmer. I like it.  It's a little brush strokey but manageable.  This was a 2 coater, but aren't koalas GREY?

I have posted this before but it deserves a repost.  Listen up! If you are pale like me and cannot wear light purples and lavenders because they make your hands look red and disgusting THIS IS YOUR PURPLE.  This color complimented my light skin tone and is absolutely gorgeous.

I want to call this a dark coral creme but it leans more towards a berry tone.  This one is also very pigmented and required only 2 coats. Love.

Your basic metallic silver.  This is a 3 coater. It was brush strokey when wet but they seemed to settle out as it dried. I'm glad I got this one.

I hope you enjoyed these swatches because it's gonna be rough waters from here on out people.

Love, MM

The Great Misa haul 2010 - part 1

Actually there really isn't anything all that great about the huge freakin' Misa spree I went on last week.  Since I ordered online and my mission was to haul ALL the older Misas I have been eyeballing for months, I basically had nothing to go by but those USELESS color dots.  I did my homework and googled each and every polish I bought but there aren't really any swatches out there of round label Misas...I looked at this as sort of a good thing because, " hey, I'm going to swatch them, so maybe I can be a resource and help out some people looking to haul old Misas as well".  All I can say about that ridiculously STUPID idea is YOUR WELCOME.  I once again have taken one for the team.

I basically ended up with a huge pile of polishes that looked 100% NOTHING like what I *thought* I had ordered.  I was almost in shock as I sat and looked at the wreckage that was and is my saddest haul to date.  Somehow my order consisted mainly, like 80%, of two colors,  dark redish brown and light brown. 

I had no idea Misa had so many liquidy, sheer ass, light freakin brown polishes, but somehow I bought them ALL. 

Don't even get me started on the pile of nearly identical dark reds I ended up with... 

I am trying to stay positive as I swatch all these disappointing polishes but it's very hard.  I think Misa must have gotten a new quality control department since these older polishes came out. I adore current Misa polish but these older ones are SUPER SUCKY batman. OMG some of them are so sheeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeer I could barely swatch them. 

I hauled some newer Misa as well so I am going to mix them in randomly to try to keep the SUCK at a minimum as I post all these older pieces of junk. I'm just a little bitter. Can you tell?  It might be hard to pick up on. I even bought a special acrylic table rack JUST for all my pretty new Misas..Awww how sweet of me. I have to admit there were a few diamonds amongst the rough, just not enough of them to outweigh all the crap.

I know what you're thinking. I am being totally over dramatic about this. You're right by the way. It's not all that bad and overall I'm glad I got what I got... kinda.  I just can't help myself from blowing things way out of proportion, it's my nature. 

Gah, this is so pretty in the bottle and in swatches I've seen of it.  Just check out how freakin sheer this is at THREE COATS. So annoying.

Again, super gorgeous in the bottle but at three coats it's just "ok".

I kinda like this. It was sheer and took three coats though.

What about this polish says "chocolate"? Oh yeah, NOTHING. This "gorgeous in the bottle but boring on the nail" crap is about to drive me nuts. I swear these aren't all the SAME polish just pictured under different lighting, even though that's what it looks like. 

I like this one despite it's misleading name.  I think this one was a 2 coater.

This was one of the "diamonds" I ended up loving.  It's a watermelon colored jelly. This is three freakin coats.

At least this one is named properly. It's a pinkish nude with blue and pink shimmer. A 2 coater, FINALLY.

What a piece of crap this is.  Three coats of this polish and I can barely tell I'm wearing anything at all. Super disappointing as I was really looking forward to this one based on the color dot. Lesson learned.

What do you all think about these 8 Misas? Am I crazy or Amirite? 

Love, MM

Summer nails and FAILS

I've been feeling a bit off lately so naturally my nail painting patterns have followed suit. This has resulted in me painting my nails all sorts of summery pastels and impulse buying all kinds of super girly rhinestones and nail art thingies on ebay. One of the things I got is a nail art stamping kit. Yeah, I've had konad before and gave up after 3 tries but I bought it AGAIN to give it another go. Before we get into the horrific FAILS I have captured on film let me get all these cutesy summer pictures out of the way. 

It all started out innocently enough as seen above.  I actually really love Jasmine. But sooner or later things always seem to take a turn for the worse when it comes to pastels and me. 

This is Misa Push up bra with craptastic chevron tips in Misa's shake it to the samba.

Here we have Misa Jester ate the king cake with Misa Blame it on fat tuesday.  Borderline fail.

Okay. Now let's see what happens when Manatee Mama feels a little under the weather and is high on dayquil for a week. 

Sweet lord.  This is my first attempt at stamping. Feast your eyes on the fail people. 

If you can see past the neon yellow ring fingernail check out the horrid color combo and terrible stamping application...This was attempt number 2. 

HOLY CRAP.  This is what happens when you get fed up with failing at stamping and try some free hand nail art instead. Notice the smeared ring finger and tacky 3-D flower. Yes, I bought those flowers on PURPOSE in 4 different colors.  I guess four different pastels painted with mix matched chevrons just wasn't QUITE summery enough for me, OH NO. I need a 3-D flower with a little jewel in the center to REALLY say summer with my nails. Sad.

I hope you all learn something from this.  Cheers to summertime nails applied using a healthy amount of RESTRAINT.  

Love, MM

Misa Embroidered Emerald

What a gorgeous gem this is.  I am in love with the unique formula of this polish.  It's a purple jelly loaded with emerald green shimmer. So awesome.  

This is what it looks like in the shade.  

Here it is in the sun.  Check out how the green shimmer shines through the jelly base making it look like a duochrome.  I freakin' love this polish so much. 

The faces of the polish are so incredibly different depending on what lighting your fingers are under, it's amazing.  The amount of green flash is blinding in the sun, yet it somehow still shows it's purple base color. I wish their were more polishes like this available. Urban Decay actually has an exact dupe to this polish but I can't remember the name of it and I'm not sure which is easier to get a hold of.

Love, MM

I love me some Misa!

 They have my very most favorite bottle for a few reasons.  The thing I love most about the bottle is the sound it makes when the handle taps against the glass when you reload the brush. It sounds like crystal wine glasses clinging together.  When you hear that sound each time you dip the brush into the polish bottle it just screams quality.  The bottle design is also spectacular.  It has clean lines but still a subtle detailing around the bottom of the base.  Pair this with the long tapered handle and it makes the design look ever so elegant, while also adding the benefit of control during use.   I also love that the handle has has weight to it, as does the bottle itself.  Misa did it right when they designed their bottles right down to the font they used for the lettering on the front. I am down right smitten with them.

As if the bottle was the only thing to love about Misa. Have you ever applied a Misa creme?  I can't even explain it to you if you haven't. I wont do it justice.  I love Misa polishes overall but their CREMES! OMG their cremes...Did I mention their cremes???  They are almost never two coaters.  One coat almost always does it and the finish and dry time rival and IMO beat out the big dawgs such as RBL.  let's just say they are a severely underrated brand to say the VERY FREAKING LEAST.  

Here are a few samplings of gorgeous Misa cremes.  These are all one coat and as always the long handle made the application effortless.

The whole point of this post wasn't to butter up Misa, it just kinda ended up that way by mistake.  My original point was to tell you guys that I hauled Misa yesterday.  Oh good lawd, did I ever haul. That is all. 

Love, MM

Mmmmm... Misa Spam for breakfast

Oh Misa, how I love thee.  

 Come & get it.

Love, MM

Misa Poisoned Passion collection

My absolute favorite Misa collection Ever. 

This may be in my top 3 collections of ALL TIME, which is why I'm swatching it so long after it was released.  Also because I don't care. It really needed some more swatchin' love people! So what if it was released in 2008?  This collection is nearly perfect.  

The colors are spot ON, they apply very well, the names are awesome, AND they are ALL two coats and you're done. DONE.  I love these polishes so much I even re-swatched some of them just because they are so pretty.   Not to mention this collection holds two of my favorites.  My favorite dark blue shimmer EVER, and my favorite red jelly EVER.

Ahhhhhhh...that was nice.

Love, MM