Alchemy Lacquers Lab Report Part Two – Spring Collection

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Soooo remember how I told you that one post could not hold all the Epic that I had received to review from Alchemy Lacquers?  Well this is part two of my “Lab Report!”  Today I have three beautiful polishes that are just so pretty and perfect for Spring!  Rebecca calls these her “Shimmer Crellies” which is a perfect description!

First up I have Crocus!

Crocus

Crocus

Crocus is a lovely light pink-leaning purple crelly base filled with a pearly shimmer.  It also has glitter!  And lots of it!  I see metallic dark purple squares, satin pale pale purple squares, tiny golden yellow hexes, and teensie metallic dark purple dots.

Crocus

Crocus

These are crelly bases so they are a bit sheer but they build up beautifully or you can layer them over a base color.  I much prefer to build them up because it creates a depth that you just don’t really get with them layered over a color.  Pictures show three coats with topcoat!

Polishes used:  Glisten & Glow – Stuck on Blu;  Alchemy Lacquers – Crocus; Carpe Noctem – Glitterslayer; Glisten & Glow – HK Girl Topcoat.

Next up is the first of my two favorites.  I totally could not decide which one I liked best!  This one is Nasturtium!

Nasturtium

Nasturtium

I really wasn’t sure how I was going to feel about this one because I tend to shy away from yellows and oranges but this one is just lovely!  The crelly base is the precise color of an Orange Julius and it’s filled with red, orange, and yellow glitter in various finishes, shapes, and sizes.

Nasturtium

Nasturtium

This one was very sheer in the first coat and I was worried slightly that I might have to do more than three coats or that I’d have to layer it but I was wrong!  Just three coats and it was fully opaque!

Polishes used:  Glisten & Glow – Stuck on Blu; Alchemy Lacquers – Nasturtium; Carpe Noctem – Glitterslayer; Glisten & Glow – HK Girl Topcoat.

Next up is one that I received a prototype lab sample of quite awhile ago…I have been pestering Rebecca ever since over these shimmer crellies because I knew then before it was even finalized that I loved them!  This is Borage (the final version).

Borage

Borage

O.M.G.  I love blue polishes, I love crelly based glitter polishes, I’m feeling the more subtle smaller glitter, and shimmer and sparkle?  Why yes sign me up for more of these shimmer crellies!!!  Borage is a sky blue shimmer crelly base filled with teeeensie tiny satin barely blue squares, tiny metallic purple squares, small satin barely blue dots, small matte blue hexes, and small holographic deep teal hexes.

Borage

Borage

I don’t know if it’s because this one I just love so much or what but I think that in this one the glitter went on even easier than the other two I reviewed.  Either way the formula on all of them was really stellar!

Polishes used:  Glisten & Glow – Stuck on Blu;  Alchemy Lacquers – Borage; Carpe Noctem – Glitterslayer; Glisten & Glow – HK Girl Topcoat.

All of these and so many more are available RIGHT NOW over at Alchemy Lacquers.  Trust me you want these and so much more!

You can keep up with all the news and happenings on Alchemy Lacquers’ Website and Facebook page.  You can see sneak peaks, swatches, and other fun pictures on their Instagram.  Most importantly you can BUY your very own piece of Spring from their Etsy Shop!

 

Lab Report – Alchemy Lacquers’ Spring Release – Part One!

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Oh My Heck!  The EPIC cannot be contained in one post so I am going to break it into two posts.  Rebecca over at Alchemy Lacquers has outdone herself this time!  The amount of awesome polishes that she is releasing tomorrow is enough to send anyone into a Spring related frenzy of happiness.  Trust me there is something (or lots of somethings) for everyone!

First up is a beautiful speckled cream polish.  It’s not like the different freckled and speckled polishes we’ve seen before though.

Wisteria

Wisteria

This is Wisteria.  Wisteria is a pale pale lavender cream with a silver microshimmer and the TINIEST metallic purple microglitter I have ever seen.  This polish is awesome on it’s own, or it would pair nicely as an undie or with other polishes from the Spring Collection as an accent.  Very versatile!

Wisteria

Wisteria

Picture shows two coats.  First coat was sheer and the tiniest bit streaky but the second coat leveled everything out and I could not be more happy about this polish.

Polishes used:  Glisten & Glow – Stuck on Blu; Alchemy Lacquers – Wisteria; Glisten & Glow – HK Girl Topcoat

Next up I have the first of two new additions to the overall Alchemy Lacquers lineup.  When Rebecca does a “special” polish that has some neat effect but may not figure in a permanent core line she calls it an Elixir.  The following glitter toppers are also special but don’t have the special color shiftiness of the Elixirs and are thus called Potions!  This is Potion #1.

Potion #1 (over Alchemy Lacquers - Wisteria)

Potion #1 (over Alchemy Lacquers – Wisteria)

Now ya’ll know me…I adore glitter, I adore glitter toppers.  This one is no exception.  I adore this polish.  Potion #1 is an amazing small-gauge glitter topper filled with tiny metallic raspberry hexes, matte goldenrod dots, satin goldenrod squares, satin baby pink dots, and teensie tiny satin white dots and hexes.  I’m pretty sure that’s it but I could be wrong!  I absolutely could not resist adding the bow because it is the perfect color to go with the little goldenrod glitters!

Potion #1 (over Alchemy Lacquers - Wisteria)

Potion #1 (over Alchemy Lacquers – Wisteria)

Oh yeah that’s one amazeballs glitter topper!  The pictures show one coat over Alchemy Lacquers – Wisteria.  No formula issues whatsoever.  It was literally swipe and go!

Polishes used:  Glisten & Glow – Stuck on Blu; Alchemy Lacquers – Wisteria; Alchemy Lacquers – Potion #1; Carpe Noctem – Glitterslayer; Glisten & Glow – HK Girl Topcoat

So what should follow Potion #1?  Why Potion #2 OF COURSE!

Potion #2 (Over Butter London - Yummy Mummy)

Potion #2 (Over Butter London – Yummy Mummy)

Potion #2 is just lovely and springy!  You want sparkle?  Well you’ll get it with this!  This glitter topper is filled to the brim with metallic silver and pastel glitters in various shapes, colors, and sizes!

Potion #2 (Over Butter London - Yummy Mummy) - Intentionally Blurred to show colors.

Potion #2 (Over Butter London – Yummy Mummy) – Intentionally Blurred to show colors.

Potion #2 (Over Butter London - Yummy Mummy)

Potion #2 (Over Butter London – Yummy Mummy)

Now, my bottle was a mini bottle and I think I *might* have exposed it to too much air but mine was a little bit thick.  I thinned it easily though with a couple of drops of polish thinner (I use Beauty Secret).  Once I did that it was just perfect.  Pictures show one coat over undies!

Polishes used:  Glisten & Glow – Stuck on Blu; Butter London – Yummy Mummy; Alchemy Lacquers – Potion #2; Glisten & Glow – HK Girl Topcoat

Last up on the docket today is my absolute favorite.  If you’ve been following Alchemy Lacquers for awhile you might have noticed the specialty polishes she has.  They started in February with Gilded Rose Hips, then in March there was Gilded Clover, and now for this month we have Gilded Hyacinth!

Gilded Hyacinth

Gilded Hyacinth

Oh.My.Heck.  My pictures cannot even begin to capture the sparkle factor on this baby.  Gilded Hyacinth is a periwinkle polish with a gold-silver switch and as if that wasn’t enough she added holographic and metallic glitters in a variety of spring colors, I see teal, blue, rose pink, and a light copper.  The periwinkle plays hide and seek with you because the gold-silver switch is SO sparkly!  When you’re looking at your nails right on it has a sort of platinum look to it but when you shift your fingers that periwinkle comes out to play!

Gilded Hyacinth

Gilded Hyacinth

Gilded Hyacinth

Gilded Hyacinth

This is not a glitter topper.  It is most definitely a standalone polish though I’m interested in putting over some different undies to see what kind of looks I can come up with.  Formula was good on this, it also runs a touch on the thick side, but I think that it’s because it’s just so packed with goodness.  A drop or two of thinner worked that out!  Pictures show TWO COATS that’s it.   I probably could have gotten away with one but I wanted to make sure I didn’t have any bare spots at all!  I did smooth it out with topcoat but in all actuality it would be a uber-cool texture polish too!

Polishes used:  Glisten & Glow – Stuck on Blu; Alchemy Lacquers – Gilded Hyacinth; Carpe Noctem – Glitterslayer; Glisten & Glow – HK Girl Topcoat.

Oh so you saw that I mentioned that these PLUS a BUNCH more polishes are going to be released at Alchemy Lacquers TOMORROW!  Seriously plan to be there or be square because these are  some of the most amazing polishes I’ve seen this spring.  I cannot wait to show you what I have for you tomorrow!

You can keep up with all the news and happenings on Alchemy Lacquers’ Website and Facebook page.  You can see sneak peaks, swatches, and other fun pictures on their Instagram.  Most importantly you can BUY your very own piece of Spring from their Etsy Shop!

Aly’s Dream Polish Mania!

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Hello my lovely readers!  I’m so sorry that I have been so quiet lately, I promise that once I am done with this semester you will be all like “man I wish that Relly over at Boom Shaka Lacquer would shut up about nail polish already,” well hopefully not really but I definitely will be much better about keeping up to date here!

So let me tell you, at one time, Tiffanytea by Aly’s Dream Polishes was one of my top lemmings.  I acquired that polish in November and I was just delighted with it.  So imagine my surprise and delight when I received a lovely package in the mail with some Aly’s polishes to review!  There was definitely some jumping around excitedly and perhaps a squeal or two.  Or five, or ten.  Whatever, don’t judge me!  I have three gorgeous polishes to show you today and I hope you love them as much as me!

First up is Garnet Dreams which is part of her Birthstone collection and it is limited edition, it is still available for order but it’s very limited so you better hurry if you want it!

Garnet Dreams

Garnet Dreams

Now, I bet you’re looking at this and thinking, gosh, garnets are red.  You would be right!  I tried four zillion poses and I absolutely FAILED to capture the burgundy/red-purple interference in this polish.  What Garnet Dreams is a deep charcoal gray (black?  Might be just because of the holo that it appeared gray to me) polish with a burgundy/red-purple interference that is simply mesmerizing.

Garnet Dreams

Garnet Dreams

You can *kinda* see the interference up near the cuticle of my ring finger, but not really like I wanted to share with you folks!  Trust me it’s there and it’s beautiful!  Formula on this was simply amazing.  Two coats to perfection.  Seriously nothing to complain about here!

Polishes used:  Glisten & Glow – Stuck on Blu; Aly’s Dream Polish – Garnet Dreams; Glisten & Glow – HK Girl Topcoat

Next up we have Ocean!  Anyone who knows me knows that this polish is right up my alley and I’m already planning what I want to do with it next!

Ocean

Ocean

Oh yes it’s a stunner alright.  This beautiful perfect teal blue/green is just so lovely and perfect for me.  Further I didn’t have a holo polish of this particular shade in my collection.   The holo is definitely present in the polish but it’s more of a scattered holo than linear and it gives the polish a sort of rich and deep look instead of popping off a bunch of rainbows.  It just seems to glow from within.  I am totally in love with this one.

Ocean

Ocean

This beauty, like Garnet Dreams, gave me no problem whatsoever.  Two coats to perfection just like before!  Actually this one and the next one that I’m going to show you were sooo pigmented that I could have gotten away with one coat but I did two out of habit.

Polishes used:  Glisten & Glow – Stuck on Blu; Aly’s Dream Polish – Ocean; Glisten & Glow – HK Girl Topcoat

Last but certainly not least is a polish that is not one I would have likely purchased on my own but now that I have it I am so excited that it is part of my collection!  Allow me to introduce you to Spicy Sriracha!

Spicy Sriracha

Spicy Sriracha

Oh hubba hubba.  This polish is sexy.  It’s a beautiful slightly orange-red with a neon pink interference plus a golden holo shimmer.  Oh yeah, it’s simply lovely.  I like the color red, but it is a color that is significantly absent from my collection.  This is mainly because I have a tendency to be both intimidated and also feel that they don’t look that amazing on me.  While I was intitially intimidated by this one I bit the bullet and put it on and nearly fell out of my chair from being blinded by the awesome.  Plus I think it suited me quite well too!

Spicy Sriracha

Spicy Sriracha

Do you see the slight neon pink over the orange-red?  Oh yeah baby.  So, the formula on this is amazing as the others.  Like I mentioned earlier it is SUPER pigmented.  That being said, I noticed that while I was cleaning up the mani that my cuticles were a bit dry and the color really wanted to cling a bit and it took some time.  I highly recommend that you fully moisturize your cuticles prior to using this polish.  You should anyway but you just want to make sure that you do before this one just to make your clean up a little easier!  Two coats out of habit and stunning perfection!

Polishes used:  Glisten & Glow – Stuck on Blu; Aly’s Dream Polish – Spicy Sriracha; Glisten & Glow – HK Girl Topcoat

Well that concludes my raving over Aly’s Dream Polish.  I have tried four total polishes from them so far and the formulas on all of them are amazing.  They are easy to apply, super pigmented, and lovely!

What’s that you say?  You want to know more about Aly’s Dream Polish…well of course you knew I was going to include stalker links for you!  You can keep up to date with all the news and happenings over on their Facebook page, follow them on Instagram, and you can see all kinds of pictures of Aly’s Dream Polishes on their Pinterest page!  You want to buy some Aly’s?  Well you should definitely get on over to their Shop and get you some!

My First Light It Up Blue Post for April and Autism Awareness Month – Featuring Alchemy Lacquers

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Hello my faithful and loyal readers.  I know that I’ve been a little bit behind this week.  I am going through a lot at school right now but hopefully in the next week or so it will slow down a little so that I can concentrate on extracurriculars a little more.

Right now though I’m going to do the first of my Light It Up Blue for Autism Awareness manis!  This month you’ll see a lot of blue polishes and Autism Awareness manis from a lot of bloggers and I’m delighted to be joining in as well.  April is Autism Awareness and I’m down for anything that I can do to draw attention to this issue!  My bestie has a son who is on the Spectrum and he is a wonderful amazing little boy who has to overcome a lot of challenges.  But with her perseverance and strength and him being just amazing they are able to overcome so many obstacles!  So for them I am going to Light It Up Blue!  I love you Becki and Cole! <3

Today I have a beautiful polish to kick off April and Autism Awareness!  Without further ado I present you Alchemy Lacquers – Santa Rita:

Santa Rita

Santa Rita

This is just shinetastic and sparkle city baby!  My pictures can’t even begin to do it justice because when I walked out into the sunlight I was transfixed!  Santa Rita is a beautiful aqua metallic polish filled with tiny metallic and holographic purple glitters.  They just sparkle and shine in the sunlight!  Santa Rita is a variety of prickly pear cactus which has a sort of seafoam/aqua green/blue body flushed with dark pink/purple.  It’s a beautiful plant and this polish does a good job of representing it!

Santa Rita

Santa Rita

The formula on this is exactly what I’ve come to expect from Alchemy Lacquers…luscious!   While it is a sheer polish it is easily buildable and the pictures above show three thin coats.  They went on easily with no streaking or balding or any other issues whatsoever!  Oh and what’s that, you’ve noticed my nubs have you…yeah I had an unfortunate break and I cannot stand for my nails to be uneven lengths on the two hands so I nubbinized!

Santa Rita - With Polymer Clay Bow Slices

Santa Rita – With Polymer Clay Bow Slices

Last but not least, I couldn’t let it go with just a plain mani since I am actually wearing this one right now so I added these adorable little polymer clay bows!  Aren’t they so stinking cute?  I just used tweezers and dipped them in a tiny bit of topcoat and applied to the nail and pressed them until they were set and then applied topcoat all over to seal them in!

Of course you can stalk Alchemy Lacquers for updates on restocks and sneak peeks and such.  You can find them on Instagram, Facebook, their Website.  You can purchase your OWN Alchemy Lacquers polishes in her Etsy Shoppe!   Her shoppe is currently closed right now while she prepares the upcoming Spring release that is going to be a beautiful line of shimmer glitter crelly polishes which I will be reviewing…just WAIT until you see them they are LOVELY!  Santa Rita will be released at the same time as the Spring Ahead collection.  Keep your eye out as they are set to launch in the early part of this month!

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