Nostalgic Nail Lacquer — Rayanne

Late post is late today! I hope you guys are having a great Memorial Day weekend! I have no plans really so I'm just bumming around the house and if something comes up then I'll be down with going somewhere. Hehe.

Today I have an indie polish that I haven't posted from in a while.

Nostalgic Nail Lacquer Rayanne is "a purple based jelly with bright purple, lavender, burgundy, gunmetal, and pink glitters in various shapes and sizes." It's really a beautiful polish!

 

 

This is 2 coats of Rayanne over 2 thin coats of OPI Funky Dunkey (which is my default purple underwear!).

I had no issues with formula on with this polish and it went on very well and the wear time on this was great. I've been wearing it since Tuesday/Wednesday with only a bit of tip wear. I plan on taking it off today though. Hehe.

You cab buy Nostalgic Nail Lacquer polishes from Erin's bigcartel site. Currently everything is sold out but you can check her blog for updates.

Until next time~ :)

Rainbow Gothic Lolita Fish!

Today I have just a quick post. I never did get around to swatching the Electropop collection that China Glaze put out, but today I am showing you one of those polishes along with another Nailventurous polish I have!

I did this mani to last only 2 days since I had something special planned for the Ponchatoula Strawberry Festival and I didn't want to fight with glitter (since that's all I've been buying recently!).

So here we have 2 coats of China Glaze Gothic Lolita with an accent nail of 2 coats of Nailventurous Rainbow Fish. (I need to file my nails down so bad!!)

First lightbox pictures!

I love how Rainbow Fish looks like it's floating on top of the polish. It creates a really cool 3D effect all on it's own!

Formula on GL was a little bleh to work with but I did this really fast so it's probably just that I was doing my nails quick and with horrible lighting so I didn't see how streaky I was putting this on. 2 coats leveled everything out though.

I'm still trying to perfect my lightbox technique. I really need to get a better lamp so that I can light the box from the top instead of the side so it creates more even lighting and less shadows.

Anyway, until next time~ :)

Lynnderella — Nosegay

Good Friday everyone!

I have a late post for you today, mostly because I've been stuffing myself with crawfish today. Lol.

Nom nom nom, so tasty! :DD

So today I have the first Lynnderella polish for the blog. It's called Nosegay.

Nosegay is a sheer shimmery violet base with purple and lavender microglitter and square glitter. I think there's some hex glitter in there too but I didn't get but one piece on my nail.  I layered this over Elixir Lacquers Bad Kitty, which I'll be showing you guys soon!

This is 2 coats of Nosegay over 3 coats of Bad Kitty.

Hope you guys like!

Have a wonderful Easter/Passover (just) weekend!

Until next time.

A England — Ascalon

Happy Wednesday! Today I have another from the A England The Legends Collection.

Ascalon is a grey holographic with a bit of a lavender duochrome to it. This really is a beautiful color. Unfortunately I wasn't able to capture the duochrome flash with my camera but it is there!

 

A bit out of focus to show the holo more.

Again the formula on this was perfect. 2 thin coats to full opacity. If you're more careful with your application you can get away with 1 good coat of this.

A England polishes can be purchased from their website (free worldwide shipping!), Llarowe, and Ninja Polish also offers them now.

Until next time~ :)

Color Club Backstage Pass over Zoya Megan

Another oldie from January. I never got around to taking a good shot of the base colour Zoya Megan, but I did get it after I layered on Color Club Backstage Pass.

Megan is a light/medium greyed out lavender. Even though Zoya calls it "a taupe gray cream". There is nothing "taupe" about this colour. This went on like a dream. It was a bit uneven with the first coat but the second coat covered everything and it leveled out wonderfully.

Backstage Pass is a large silver and purple hex glitter with smaller silver glitter in a clear base. This was so difficult to apply and if you look close enough you can see all the billions of bubbles I got with layering this glitter. You just seem to get tons of clear base before you get any glitter. Next time I'll just pour some out on a paper and stick the glitter on by hand. Lol.

Overall a fun and funky combination. Removal of that huge glitter was a complete pain in the rear and it doesn't sit well on the nail. Though for something a bit different and full of flair for a night out, this is a pretty good choice in my opinion.

Until next time~ :)