Hello my lovelies! I have a guest post today over at Nail Art Novice! I’m very excited to be guest posting for her and I hope that you will go and show her some love! If you want to see MY guest post then you should…
head on over there!
You can find Nail Art Novice right here!
Giveaway Prize
Dearest readers! I know that you thought I fell off of the planet, but alas, no I am here. I’ve just been exceptionally busy and I feel terrible about neglecting a midweek post! The first part of the semester is always hectic as I try to get into my routines and balance my work load.
Today I’m going to show you an amazing polish by Carpe Noctem Cosmetics! I won it in a giveaway and I was beyond excited as I have had them on my list to try for a long time! Without further ado I have for your viewing pleasure…Sapphire Abyss:
Isn’t she lovely? Did you totally just sing that phrase in your head? Just me huh…ok moving on! Sapphire Abyss is a lovely dusty purple shimmer polish with a PROMINENT blue flash. Seriously I kept just shifting my fingers under the lamp because I was mesmerized!
I mean it’s just so pretty! I need more polishes like this in my collection as I tend to gravitate to glitters…but glitters need undies! Nail art is something else I need good solids for and this one is a good solid. The formula is good! Nice even opacity in two coats without any dragging or balding. The only thing is that I noticed that you can sort of see brushstrokes so I was very careful with my second coat. Nothing that a little patience doesn’t take care of! Overall I’m really delighted with this polish!
Polishes Used: Glisten & Glow – Stuck on Blu; Carpe Noctem Cosmetics – Sapphire Abyss; Glisten & Glow – HK Girl Top Coat.
I promise not to take off again for so long without warning! Do you want your OWN bottle of Sapphire Abyss? I know where you can find it! Carpe Noctem is available in her Etsy Shoppe. If you want to keep up on all the news and happenings then definitely check out her Facebook Page!
Provided for Honest Review
Hello my fellow polish addicts. I am here again to enable your addictions, nay, not to just enable them but to encourage and inflame them!
I’m really pleased to say that I have a couple of just lovely Ruby White Tips polishes for your viewing pleasure today! They are part of her new American Horror Story Collection that will be debuting TOMORROW, January 26! You really will need some of these polishes I’m telling you!
First up we have Constance…
Constance is a lovely nude/mauve creme polish with a sneaky red microshimmer. I think that this is extremely appropriate if you will allow me to explain. Constance on AHS is on the surface very genteel and sophisticated but she has a dangerous and nasty side! As all Doctor Who fans know, mauve is the universally accepted highest level of danger alert! She’s MAUVE and DANGEROUS! Yes I just crossed fandoms. No I’m not sorry.
You can see a bit of that shimmer here, the formula on the polish is amazing. The picture shows ONE COAT – that’s right folks it’s a ONE COAT nude-esque polish. It looks thick and opaque without any problems and without the actual polish being thick and hard to work with.
Polishes used: Glisten & Glow – Stuck on Blu; Ruby White Tips – Constance; Glisten & Glow – HK Girl
Next up we have my favorite of the two I was sent. Murder House!
Murder House is a ominous dusty metallic purple polish with a suprise pink shimmer. Just like the Murder House itself this polish is murky and ominous but impossibly beautiful. I am really loving this trend of purple polishes right now!
Again the formula on this is just lovely. It did take two coats, but as you can see even though it’s shimmery it is not brustrokey and it went on extremely smoothly. Picture shows two coats plus topcoat.
Polishes used: Glisten & Glow – Stuck on Blu; Ruby White Tips – Murder House; Glisten & Glow – HK Girl Topcoat
As usual I’m pleased as punch over the delightful quality of the RWT polishes! You should definitely get down to her shop and find you some! You can keep up to date and sign up for the newsletter at the Ruby White Tips site, you can purchase RWT polishes in their Etsy Shop. You can also get all the latest news plus flash giveaways and sales at their Facebook page!
Nothing to Disclose
Let me just say hello quickly and then get quickly into this post because I’m so excited!
Over the years I have frequented message boards and forums and chatrooms. Usually these forums related to scrapbooking or gaming although nowadays it seems that most of my internet activity revolves around nail polish. However, I digress, the important thing is that I became very fluent in netspeak, OMG, WTH, KWIM, and the ever popular WTF. Then one day I was scrolling along (har!) and I saw someone say Whiskey Tango Foxtrot. Now, I’m very familiar with the military phonetic alphabet I use it at work daily (you know: alpha, bravo, charlie, delta, echo, foxtrot…) and I immediately commandeered it and started using it myself. Fast forward to several months ago when I became *really* serious about nail polish, first I saw Scofflaw’s David Bowie’s Bulge and I thought wow that’s an awesome polish so I went to check out more of their stuff and LO and BEHOLD…
Whiskey Tango Foxtrot which my nail bestie (GlamourGranny) sent me for Christmas!
Whiskey Tango Foxtrot is a beautiful turquoise crelly base filled with small metallic red hexes, medium matte white hexes, small matte brown and white hexes, and a gold micro-glitter. I find this to be a refreshing and unique color combination that just works well together. I’ve always been a fan of turquoise and red together but I never would have thought of the brown or the gold micro-glitter! Those choices really modernized a palette that has been done before!
Application was good on this one. It does seem sheer at first but it built up nicely in two coats without overpowering the glitter or losing that slightly jelly-like effect. The glitter spread nicely and isn’t overpowering, it’s a lovely balance. I didn’t have to fish or dab the glitter at all.
It makes me happy when I manage to fulfill a long time lemming and I hope that you will go out and grab you one of these. It’s actually currently in stock at Llarowe. You can also keep up to date on all things Scofflaw by following their Facebook and visiting their Site. You can also buy Scofflaw on their Big Cartel Siteas well.