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Wednesdays We Wear Pink – Featuring Alchemy Lacquers

Jul16

Nothing to Disclose

This is going to be a quickie Wednesdays We Wear Pink post!  I didn’t want to leave ya’ll wishing for a manicure revolving around one of the most awesome colors on the planet!  I also have some exciting stuff coming up in the next few days so keep your eyes peeled for that!

Today I’m showing you a manicure I did using some Alchemy Lacquers, stamping, and jelly polishes!  How much fun is that?  Oh yes and some polymer clay slices because I clearly don’t know how to leave things alone!

Alchemy Lacquers with China Glaze You Drive me Coconuts (Stamped with MoYou London Pro - 13)

Alchemy Lacquers – Sea Sparkle with China Glaze – You Drive me Coconuts

So here’s what I started with – a little mani with a jelly stampwich with China Glaze – You Drive me Coconuts and a double accent nail of the gorgeous Alchemy Lacquers – Sea Sparkle.   I used MoYou London Pro – 13 for the stamp.  So I looked at this and I though “Oh Yay!  I love this…let me add MORE!”

Alchemy Lacquers – Sea Sparkle with China Glaze – You Drive Me Coconuts

 

Alchemy Lacquers - Sea Sparkle with China Glaze - You Drive Me Coconuts

Alchemy Lacquers – Sea Sparkle with China Glaze – You Drive Me Coconuts

So here I added another stamp on the top of the jelly stampwich off of the Pro – 13 plate and a cute little polymer clay heart!  I loved everything about this mani – it’s over the top, it’s girly, and it’s PINK!

Alchemy Lacquers - Sea Sparkle with China Glaze - You Drive Me Coconuts

Alchemy Lacquers – Sea Sparkle with China Glaze – You Drive Me Coconuts

Here’s another shot of the finished mani!  I really liked the China Glaze for the jelly stampwich though I wish I had a more opaque white so that it showed through a bit better!

Products used:  Sally Hansen – Complete Care 4-in-1 Treatment; Alchemy Lacquers – Sea Sparkle; China Glaze – You Drive Me Coconuts; Sally Hansen – White On; Digital Nails – Ain’t Nobody Got Time for That Topcoat; Polymer Clay Heart

 

 

Wednesdays We Wear Pink – Featuring Alchemy Lacquers

Jul9

Nothing to Disclose

Oh my dearest readers I bet you thought that I forgot about you and Wednesdays We Wear Pink but no I assure you that I have not!  In fact I’m wearing pink right now in honor of our little tradition!  Today I’m going to bring you a review and swatches of some delectable Alchemy Lacquers polishes that feature our color of the day!

First up Sea Sparkle:

Alchemy Lacquers - Sea Sparkle

Alchemy Lacquers – Sea Sparkle

Now Sea Sparkle is part of the Bioluminescent/Neon Quartet!  This is a GORGEOUS neon blue shimmery crelly polish filled with matte neon pink hexes and dots in varying sizes along with satin white hexes, squares, and dots in varying sizes.  As if this wasn’t enough awesome for one polish there a blue microshimmer as well!

Alchemy Lacquers - Sea Sparkle

Alchemy Lacquers – Sea Sparkle

I mean how could I not fall in love with this?  Crelly based?  Check!  Bright summer colors?  Check!  Tons of glitter? CHECK!  Oh yes I love it for certain!  The formula is what I’ve come to expect from Alchemy Lacquers – awesome!  This picture shows three thin coats plus just topcoat (not a glitter smoothing toppie).  Even though it’s packed with glitter (required no fishing I actually had to scrape some glitter off) it still dried relatively smooth and only a topcoat was needed.

Products used:  Glisten & Glow – Stuck on Blu; Alchemy Lacquers – Sea Sparkle; Digital Nails – Ain’t Nobody Got Time for That Topcoat.

Next up is my Holy Grail of nail polish.  Honestly it’s like Rebecca crawled into my brain and picked out what I would want the most (shockingly not teal) in a nail polish.  This polish is upcoming and she says it will be released soonish!  I’m sorry to tease you with it but I can’t help it!

Alchemy Lacquers - Night Fire

Alchemy Lacquers – Night Fire

Oooo  Aaaah!  This polish is a stunner in every sense of the word!  This is a HOT pink jelly with a blue duochrome finish!  It gives it a sort of purple feel along the edges as the blue and the pink interact.  It has pink iridescent glitters and flakes buried within the gorgeous jelly polish!

 

Alchemy Lacquers - Night Fire

Alchemy Lacquers – Night Fire

Every single thing about this polish makes me happy including the amazing formula.  Easy to work with, opaque in three thin coats, and smooth and shiny even without topcoat though I did don one for these pictures.  Trust me as soon as she releases this one you need to be beating down the site to get you a bottle or four (back ups you know?)

Products used:  Glisten & Glow – Stuck on Blu; Alchemy Lacquers – Night Fire; Digital Nails – Ain’t Nobody Got Time for That Topcoat.

I think that these fit the PINK criteria quite nicely!  You can get your own Alchemy Lacquers in her Etsy shop, you can view all the news and sign up for the newsletter at the Alchemy Lacquers Website.  Be sure to follow on Facebook and Instagram for up to the minute breaking news and gorgeous pictures and sneak peaks of upcoming polishes!

 

 

 

Whaaaaat? Another Giveaway?

Jul7

So lovely readers I have another amazing giveaway to tell you about!  My Nail Bestie Glamour Granny just celebrated her 2 Year Blogaversary!  So I decided I had to help her celebrate and contributed a fun nail polish package to her AH-Mazing Giveaway!

So let me tell you a little about the prizes:

From ME:  Polish and Nail Art Prize Pack

Glamour Granny Giveaway

Glamour Granny Giveaway

From Big Spoon Lacquers/The Polished Spoon:  Geirangerfjord and Dream Big!

From Jindie Nails:  Freaks at the Fair (A Llarowe – A Box Indied Exclusive!)

From Emerald & Ash:  Zetus Lapetus and Magic Bananas (10mL) and a Cuticle Oil (7mL) in the winner’s choice of scent!

From Carpe Noctem Cosmetics:  Full Size OOAK Dark Sky Blue Holographic Nail Polish!

From Alchemy Lacquers:  Elixir #4!

From Knockout Lacquer:  VI and Gracie Pride!

From Royal Lacquer:  Nail Polish and Vynails prize package!

From Wingdust:  Surprise prize package!

From Glamour Granny:  $10 Ulta GiftCard!

You know you want to enter!  This giveaway started last night!  Definitely want to get your entries in there are some awesome prizes up for grabs!

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Emerald & Ash – Life in Color! (Plus a giveaway!)

Jul6

Provided for Honest Review

Readers I have some very cool polishes to show you today!  And a review on Cuticle Oil as well!  Emerald & Ash make some really unique and beautiful polishes and I was lucky enough to be chosen as a blogger for this collection!  I have three of the polishes from their upcoming Life in Color collection which is an enormous collection of 13 polishes!  There’s something for EVERYONE in that collection I’m telling you!

Let’s get right down to it then!  First up I have Elevendy Seven.

Emerald & Ash - Elevendy Seven

Emerald & Ash – Elevendy Seven

Elevendy Seven is a beautiful grass green satin finish polish with a strong golden shimmer throughout as well as a smattering of iridescent micro-flakies.  E&A’s description says there’s also a touch of holo as well but unfortunately I live on the Eastern Seaboard so… well…the weather has been pretty dreary the past couple of days therefore I wasn’t able to see the holo but I’m pretty excited to get this one out in the sun and check it out!

Emerald & Ash - Elevendy Seven

Emerald & Ash – Elevendy Seven

The formula on this was lovely.  Two easy coats.  The first coat is slightly sheer but it layer’s up very nicely and is fully opaque at two coats.  I decided that Elevendy Seven and Bees? played really nicely together plus they make me nostalgic as together they are *almost* my high school colors!  I decided to do an accent with the two  of intersecting dots (love this technique it looks so cool but is insanely easy). Products used:  Glisten & Glow – Stuck on Blu; Emerald & Ash – Elevendy Seven, Bees?; Digital Nails – Ain’t Nobody Got Time for That Topcoat; Dotting Tools; Striping Tape

So let’s segue right on into Bees?

Emerald & Ash - Bees?

Emerald & Ash – Bees?

Were you knocked off your seat?  I know I was because Bees? is a OMG KNOCK YOUR SOCKS OFF Neon Highlighter Yellow crelly with a fun fuchsia shimmer!  I’ll be honest and say it’s not normally a color that I would have chosen for myself but I think it will be a nice addition to my collection because doesn’t everyone need a neon highlighter yellow polish?  I didn’t think I did but now that I have it I think I do!

Emerald & Ash - Bees?

Emerald & Ash – Bees?

The formula is good for a neon polish in my opinion.  Generally neons are hard to work with and hard to photograph just by nature.  While this one is naturally sheer it does build up and the pictures show three coats plus topcoat.  You could layer it over white and it will pop even more but I found it wasn’t necessary in the same way that it is with other neons.

I will say that before I even swatched it Emerald & Ash had identified an issue with the batch that they send out to bloggers and immediately notified us that there was an issue with some tiny bits of pigment and they are sending out a new bottle.  While mine was very minorly affected I didn’t find it off-putting or an issue at all because topcoat fixed all.  However my respect for the brand doubled because they not only identified a problem but proactively corrected it before everyone even had a chance to test out the polishes.  Anyone who works or deals with indies recognizes that sometimes there are little snafus that happen because these are handmade polishes!  What’s important to me as a consumer is how the brands handle these kinds of little problems that come up.  They are clearly dedicated to quality in their line!  The issue has been identified and future batches will not have this issue.

Products used:  Glisten & Glow – Stuck on Blu; Emerald & Ash – Elevendy Seven, Bees?; Digital Nails – Ain’t Nobody Got Time for That Topcoat; Dotting Tools; Striping Tape

Next up is my favorite of the lot – maybe a little just because of the name…Titty Sprinkles!!

Emerald & Ash - Titty Sprinkles

Emerald & Ash – Titty Sprinkles

This polish is so changeable.  Every time I look at it it seems a little different.  At first I thought it was a lavender base filled with silver and multi-colored micro-flakies but now I’m not so sure about the base!  Anyway it’s so packed with micro-flakies that it gives a sort of foiled effect and it’s so sparkly!  E&A says that it’s got bright blue, pink, yellow, and white micro-flakies!  You all know how I feel about flakies in general…so yeah loving this one!

Emerald & Ash - Titty Sprinkles

Emerald & Ash – Titty Sprinkles

The formula is amazing.  I could have almost gotten away with one coat but I did two coats plus topcoat for the pictures.  It’s so sparkly and filled with flakies that I thought it might have a slight gritty texture but not at all.

Products used:  Glisten & Glow – Stuck on Blu; Emerald & Ash – Titty Sprinkles; Digital Nails – Ain’t Nobody Got Time for That Topcoat

So in the blogger package that I received was a small bottle of their fabulous cuticle oil.  It’s in the Scent of the Month for July – Fresh Cut Grass!  Seriously a wonderful scent that I honestly wasn’t too sure about but it quickly won me over with its fresh clean scent!  I already loved their oils and I took a couple of pictures to show you how nicely it absorbs.  Emerald & Ash have 85 scents but they can be custom blended so the possibilities are truly endless!  Also each one is mixed to order so the scent oils are not sitting in the cuticle oil over time and it always guarantees that you’re going to get a nice fresh bottle.  They’ve specially formulated the oil so that it absorbs quickly without a heavy greasy feeling and I keep a bottle of it at my desk where I apply it obsessively!

Just after application of Emerald & Ash Cuticle Oil.

Just after application of Emerald & Ash Cuticle Oil.

Five minutes after application of Emerald & Ash Cuticle Oil

Five minutes after application of Emerald & Ash Cuticle Oil

As you can see while it’s not yet fully absorbed it’s definitely absorbing quickly and moisturizing my cuticles!  I’m in total love with these and I will probably be expanding my collection of E&A oils extensively.

Now the Life in Color collection will be up for pre-order on July 10th.  You can get your own Emerald & Ash polishes and cuticle oils at their Website.  You can keep up to date on all the happenings and news by following them on Facebook, Twitter, Google+ and Instagram!

But you have a chance to win your OWN bottle of Bees? from me!  Since Emerald & Ash sent out a replacement and I was not fussed with my bottle I decided to go ahead and give one of my lovely readers a chance to win their own bottle of sunshine!  Please enter through the Rafflecopter below.

This contest will end on July 13th.  Prize can only be shipped to a US address, but anyone can win as long as you provide a US address for me to ship to.  Once prize has been shipped I cannot be responsible for any lost or damaged packages.  You must be 18 or Older or have proof that a parent has given you permission to enter.  I will verify entries.

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