New Polish from Alchemy Lacquers!

Provided for Honest Review

Greetings and Salutations! I come bearing pictures of a NEW Alchemy Lacquers Shade! As you may know I am a Lab Assistant for Alchemy Lacquers. I love it that I get to try out several different polishes that are in various stages of development it’s tons of fun!

Today I have a lovely lovely polish and the best news is that it’s out now so you can go and snag your own bottle! Here is Elixir No. 3

Elixir No. 3

Elixir No. 3 is a charcoal gray jelly with a blue to purple iridescent shift. Oh yeah and it’s filled with holographic sparkle glitters! It’s so pretty! Here you can see the sort of icy blue shine that it has!

Elixir No. 3

Here you can see a little more of the blue to purple shift! As I expected with Alchemy Lacquers I’m delighted with the formula on this polish. It is a bit sheer but this is two coats with no undies!

Polishes Used: Glisten & Glow – Stuck on Blu; Alchemy Lacquers – Elixir No. 3; Glisten & Glow – HK Girl Topcoat

I really love Alchemy Lacquers and I really hope that a lot of people go and check out this up and coming indie brand! You can visit their site, Facebook, or Instagram to get all the gossip. Don’t forget to go get your bottle of Elixir No. 3 (or any other of their amazing polishes) at their Etsy Store.

Pretty and Polished – Country Girl Swag

Feb16

Provided for Honest Review

Lovely readers! I have some exciting polishes to show you. I’m excited because they are so lovely and springy and I am SO READY for warmer weather. I have never in all of my *coughclearsthroatmumblecough* years have seen so much ice and snow and winter weather in South Carolina…seriously. To add to my excitement Pretty and Polished sent me two of their polishes from their Country Girl Swag collection! I am SO a country girl. I live in a town with a population of less than 900…no stoplight…no grocery store. Yup, I’m a country girl!

Now that you’re bored let me liven things up! Both of these will be available on March 1st. First up we have Barefoot in Dixie:

Barefoot in Dixie

Barefoot in Dixie is a lovely spring green crelly based glitter polish. There are pink, purple, and green hex glitters in varying sizes. This color SO reminds me of Easter grass and Easter eggs and just puts me right in the mood for Spring, well whatever it is we call the day between winter and summer around here!

Barefoot in Dixie

Application was really stellar. I have a lot of experience at this point with crelly based glitter polishes (since they are my FAVORITE) and I had no problems with this one at all. I didn’t have to dab or fish and the glitter spread very nicely without a lot of manipulation!

Polishes used: Glisten & Glow – Stuck on Blu; Pretty and Polished – Barefoot in Dixie; Carpe Noctem – Glitterslayer; Glisten & Glow – HK Girl Topcoat

Next up we have my favorite…it’s a shock to me that this one is my favorite of the two. As I may have mentioned, I do not like yellow. Yellow does not like me. Yellow USUALLY looks absolutely horrid on me…and yet…none of that applies here! Here is Sugar in a Sundress

Sugar in a Sundress

Isn’t she lovely? I definitely now want a little blonde puppy, I want to call her Sugar and dress her in little doggie sundresses! Wait…was that too much information? Also, yes I am the kind of person that would dress her little lapdog…well when she lets me. My puppy won’t let me put her in clothes…she protests mightily. Oh yes nail polish…sorry you just have to knock me back in line now and then! This is a lovely pale pale pale yellow shimmery crelly base filled with blue and purple glitters.

Sugar in a Sundress

I had the same wonderful application with this polish as I did Barefoot in Dixie. Both manis were two coats with no undies! They did need a glitter smoothing topcoat but that really wasn’t an issue. I already keep that kind of thing on hand as a matter of course…you know because I’m the glitter gal! I also wore this polish as accent for a full week and let me tell you it wore like iron. Super pleased with the formula on these polishes!

Polishes used: Glisten & Glow – Stuck on Blu; Pretty and Polished – Sugar in a Sundress; Carpe Noctem – Glitterslayer; Glisten & Glow – HK Girl Topcoat

Let me wrap up by saying that Pretty and Polished has just started a new Beauty Box subscription. I am like…kermit-arms excited about it and unfortunately I hadn’t gotten my paycheck so I wasn’t able to sign up for the first month it sold out quickly…so as soon as I can I’m signing up for the 3 month subscription and I definitely recommend checking it out as these boxes are going to have 2 Full sized exclusive Pretty and Polished polishes, a mini polish from the current line up, and other fun goodies!

You can find out everything you want to know about Pretty and Polished and buy their polishes on their website, don’t forget to sign up for the newsletter! They are also on Facebook and Instagram, I’m sure they’d love for you to come and say hi to them there!

Digital Nails Delight!

Feb11

Nothing to Disclose

Have I told ya’ll just how much I love Digital Nails? I may have mentioned before, but just in case I haven’t or for my new readers out there, Digital Nails was my first ever Indie Polish! It is entirely Raphaelle’s fault that I am an Indie Polish addict…and it’s entirely Mishka’s (Accio Lacquer) fault that I found out about Digital Nails to start with!

As I type this I have one of these polishes on and I literally cannot stop staring…you’ll know why soon. You’re going to get to see my first ever VIDEO today! No cheating and skipping ahead though…I will KNOW! Besides it’s not like ALL of the polishes I’m going to show you today aren’t AMAZING. Yes there are a lot of caps going on but I’m just that excited!

First I will show you two new additions to Digital Nails’ Magical Gasses collection. The collection itself is a series of color-shifty flakie-goodness topcoats. They may be a little unassuming in the bottle but you get them over a solid color and OH.MY.HECK. they come to life. I finally broke down and bought a solid black creme polish just so I could show off these polishes!

First up is Kracken Quacks!

Kracken Quacks

Kracken Quacks is a delightful topper that shifts from emerald green to purple. As mentioned it will do best layered over a darker color to really show off that shift!

Kracken Quacks

Kracken Quacks – Matted

Picture shows one coat of Kracken Quacks over black. I’m not the biggest fan of matted polishes however these topcoats just beg to be matted. Love love love! There were no application issues at all and the shimmer really coats all the nail perfectly. ***No Krackens were harmed in the making of this polish***

Polishes Used: Glisten & Glow – Stuck on Blu; Sally Hansen – Black Out; Digital Nails – Kracken Quacks; Glisten & Glow – HK Girl; Julep – Matte Top Coat

Next up we have Pixie Toots!

Pixie Toots

Pixie Toots is a blue to pink shifty microflakie topcoat. It’s AH-MAZING. I love everything about this polish. It’s girly and fun and frankly I’m addicted to flakies right now.

Pixie Toots – Matted

You can really see the flakes here and the color shift. Again like Kracken Quacks, Pixie Toots will come alive over a dark color. This is one coat over black. ***No Pixies were harmed in the making of this polish***

Polishes Used: Glisten & Glow – Stuck on Blu; Sally Hansen – Black Out; Digital Nails – Pixie Toots; Glisten & Glow – HK Girl; Julep – Matte Top Coat

Last but CERTAINLY not least we have what must be the most awesome polish I have ever worn. I’m beyond in love with this polish.

Supernova

Supernova is a GINORMOUS amount of silver holographic glitter in a clear base. Even though it’s in a clear base you can easily build this to opacity. The rainbows that you will see are stunning. While it looks amazing in most lights, trust me when I tell you to use caution while driving if you wear this on a sunny day. It is nearly blinding with its holographic sparkle!

Supernova

Because of the insane amount of holographic goodness going on it’s nearly linear in nature. This picture shows two coats…TWO COATS with no undies! As you can see you can’t see any nail line or anything like that because the sparkles cover up any minor sheerness! Application was a breeze but I will say as you can see the little sparkles tried to collect around my cuticles and they were very tenacious and I finally gave up trying to get every single one. After a shower though they went away!

Now because as you can see my camera basically FREAKED out over all the sparkle I did upload a video…enjoy and try not to drool on your keyboard!

Polishes Used: Glisten & Glow – Stuck on Blu; Digital Nails – Supernova; Carpe Noctem – Glitterslayer; Glisten & Glow – HK Girl

Seriously if you like sparkly stuff you must get over to Digital Nails – she does glitter and sparkle SO well. My wish list for her store is a mile long…trust me they are so worth getting! You can follow Digital Nails on Facebook and Instagram. You can buy Digital Nails polishes in her Etsy Store. I cannot recommend this brand enough.

Polish Addict Nail Color

Feb6

Provided for Honest Review

Hello my peeps! That’s right I called you my peeps! Someone mentioned Easter earlier today maybe that’s why I’m thinking about peeps…I digress. I have some super cool polishes for you and let me tell you these are the kind of polishes I dig…full of glitter and sparkle and wonderfulness. Plus how could I not want to get some polishes called Polish Addict?! I *am* the head polish addict around these parts!

First up without further fanfare and without further ado. Keep Calm I’m a Polish Addict!

Keep Calm is a glitter topper of epic proportions. There are so many kinds of glitter in different finishes and colors that I seriously think that it would look amazing over any color. I showed it here over a variety of bases to give you an idea of the variety that can be achieved. Some of the glitters I can pick out are big metallic and holographic dots, big matte dots, medium metallic and matte hexes, tiny hexes and microglitter in a plethora of colors!

These pictures show one dabby coat over undies. I didn’t have any problem coming up with a wealth of glitter at each dip. I did turn the bottle over for a few minutes before hand as some of the heavier glitters (as per my past experience with larger glitters in other brands) tend to just naturally move to the bottom. I lightly dabbed a coat on instead of using strokes so that I didn’t just pull all the glitter to the tip of the nail. I had no problems with the formula on this at all!

Polishes used: Glisten & Glow – Stuck on Blu; Too Fancy Lacquer – Holly; Sally Hansen – White On; Essie – Midnight Cami; Julep – Judi; Polish Addict Nail Color – Keep Calm I’m a Polish Addict; Carpe Noctem – Glitterslayer; Glisten & Glow – HK Girl Top Coat

Next up we have probably the girliest polish I own…and that’s saying something because I really am a girly girl! I <3 Polish

*Squee* it’s so pretty! I <3 Polish is a delightful Barbie pink crelly/jelly polish with another heaping helping of glitter and shreds. Mostly smaller glitters in this one in a ton of different colors. My favorite though are the hot pink hearts!

The formula on this is good. The picture shows just two coats and is fully opaque even though I worried I might need three after the first one. The glitter spread nicely on this one and I managed to get a heart on every nail without even really trying (some nails have two!).

Polishes used: Glisten & Glow – Stuck on Blu; Polish Addict Nail Color – I <3 Polish; Carpe Noctem – Glitterslayer; Glisten & Glow – HK Girl Top Coat

My second favorite of the four is coming up next. I really loved all of these polishes but the next two I was really drooling over! Allow me to present Secret Galaxy:

BOOM. No my friends, that is NOT the night sky on my nails but I can TOTES see how you might think that! I love love this polish so much! Secret Galaxy is a charcoal gray jelly packed to the brim with blue and teal metallic and holographic hexes and microglitter along with a side of big holographic circles and moons!

Know what else I loved about this polish? The formula and application! Really I expected to have to work at this one a little…funny shaped glitter, jelly base…yeah I expected it and I was so wrong! This is three coats without any undies and it went on so well! I did two thin coats and then a lightly dabbled coat mostly to make sure that everything was where I wanted it on the nail.

Polishes used: Glisten & Glow – Stuck on Blu; Polish Addict Nail Color – Secret Galaxy; Carpe Noctem – Glitterslayer; Glisten & Glow – HK Girl Top Coat.

Last but certainly not least is my favorite. Imagine Dragons!

Now…look at it…isn’t it stunning??!! Could it be the shimmery teal jelly base? Could it be the gold metallic and holographic microglitter? Could it be the giant light blue metallic dots? Or is it the little round gold dots? I don’t know but they all just work together so harmoniously!

By this point (this was the last one I swatched) I was hooked and was expecting a really great formula and I was not disappointed! Application on this was easy peasy lemon squeezy and the picture shows three coats without undies!

Polishes used: Glisten & Glow – Stuck on Blu; Polish Addict Nail Color – Imagine Dragons; Carpe Noctem – Glitterslayer; Glisten & Glow – HK Girl Top Coat

All in all…I think I’m in love with Polish Addict Nail Colors! I really want to try some of their white based crellies as well because well…I’m a sucker for a good white based crelly polish and I have no doubt that theirs will be magnificent!

You can buy your OWN Polish Addict Nail Colors in their bigcartel shop. You can also find out all the lowdown on their Facebook Page and you can look at their pretty pictures on Instagram! Tell ’em Boom Shaka Lacquer sent ya!