Hihihihihi!  I’m super excited today!  I’m bringing you a lovely lovely polish from Jindie Nails – yes that’s two Jindie Nails posts in a row but I really adore Jindie Nails!  Plus we’re nearing the end of October and Breast Cancer Awareness month and I wanted to showcase Jen’s gorgeous BCA limited edition polish – Hope.

This beauty is a lovely baby pink crelly filled with multi-sized circle glitters in dark pink, white, silver, and gray – some of them are matte and some are metallic and some holographic.  Also sprinkled throughout is a dark pink microglitter.  Furthermore it glows in the dark (I’m afraid I was unable to capture this phenomenon, but trust me it’s very cool!)  Unfortunately Hope is sold out but I still wanted to show it off!

Just look at that.  I just love how pretty and feminine this polish is!  Now I will say that the crelly base is very sheer so if you are concerned with VNL (Visible Nail Line for my nail polish newbies) then you would definitely need three coats.  This swatch is two coats with one dabbed coat.  I did have to manipulate and place glitters for this polish but it wasn’t that difficult and really didn’t bother me in the least.  Because the crelly base is sheer on this formula the glitters do tend to “float” above the polish and Nail Pattern Boldness Glitter Food was absolutely necessary to smooth out the roughness and protect the glitters from popping off the nail. I topped the whole thing off with my favorite HK Girl topcoat.

You can keep up with all the news about Jindie Nails on facebook to find out about upcoming limited editions, new lines, and restocks.  You can buy Jindie Nails in their shop, and also at Llarowe, and Harlowe & Co.  Also since I posted this Jindie announced that they are have a restock on Friday October 25, 2013!  You can check out the colors that will be available here, including a special edition, Clearly Blinded!

There you have it – this is probably my last BCA mani for the month as I will be focusing on Hallowe’en next week!!!  As always show me your Jindie or BCA manis on my facebook page!

Hi ya’ll!  I’m super stoked because today we have one of my favorite brands.  This was the second indie brand I ever owned and I own more of this brand than any other indie so far.  I bought these some time ago and they’ve just been begging me to swatch them

Jindie Nails is a great brand but it is understandably a little intimidating to folks who are new to the brand.  I think the type of lacquer that Jindie does better than just about anyone are her crellies.  A crelly polish is a cross between a jelly (a translucent based polish that looks like a gel or jelly on the nail) and a cream polish.  The effect is a cream polish that allows glitters to also be involved without being overpowered by an opaque cream polish.  She also does some amazing glitter toppers and some jelly polishes as well, but I will admit the ones I love the best are the crellies.

What I have for you today are Jindie’s Anniversary polishes, I called them a duo and she sells them as a duo but they are really two different celebrations of what she represents in the indie polish world!  There is a stunning crelly based polish called Anniversary Seaquins and a lovely squishy jelly based polish called Purple Universary and they are tons of fun!

So I’m going to start with Purple Universary.  I will be utterly honest in saying that this polish I got in the mini size and is in her old mini bottle which are a royal pain in the toosh.  I did have difficulty getting the lovely glitters out onto the nail.  I do not experience this same issue with her regular sized bottles and she has recently changed her smaller sized bottles to a bottle that is less difficult to work with than the old minis.    I loved the polish though which is a deep purple jelly absolutely packed with circle glitter (my favorite) in different colors and finishes (some shift, some are holographic, some are metallic).  I like the sort of squishiness I got by not going fully opaque with the polish, but a third coat would have definitely been fully opaque.

Next up is hands down my favorite – when she showed swatches of this on her facebook page I KNEW I had to get it!!!  It’s her signature crelly base in a gorgeous medium blue shade and it is packed with glitter.  There is multi-colored square and dot glitters along with hexes and it’s a total feast of glitter on your nails.  This polish gave me no trouble whatsoever with application.

Both polishes show two coats.  There was more of the dab method being used with Purple Universary whereas Anniversary Seaquins went on smoother with a better glitter spread, I do think that this is mainly due to the mini bottle and I will probably at some point acquire a full sized bottle of Purple Universary to make my life easier because I do love the polish.

I will say that I find that Nail Pattern Boldness Glitter Food is a MUST with these polishes.  Because they are so full of chunky glitter they can be a bit “hungry” and when applied have a very chunky texture.  I then top the whole thing off with a super shiny quick dry top coat (HK Girl FTW!).

You can find Jindie Nails here and on facebook and she is also on instagram!  You’ll definitely want to follow on Facebook so that you will know when restocks are happening as her polishes tend to go very fast.  Jindie Nails is also available at Llarowe and Harlow and Co.

So do you have any Jindies?  What are your thoughts about these gorgeous polishes?  Wanna show off your Jindie Manicures?  Come see me on facebook I would love to share your pics!