A England — Princess Sabra (Tristam's Eyes)

I have another A England polish for you guys today. These pictures are unfortunately not nearly as fantastic as my ones for Dragon were, but the polish itself is still gorgeous!

Today I have Princess Sabra (Tristam's Eyes) from the A England The Legends Collection.

This is a sort of nude / beige / golden / olive holographic polish. It's beautiful and its second name came from Adina's cat Tristam who has those beautiful golden-olive eyes.

 

Formula on this was like butter. 2 thin coats to full opacity. I thought I would need 3 but that second coat sealed it.

All of the A England polishes I've worn so far have done amazingly well for days with no chips. I haven't worn top coat with any of them either and I can go up to 4 days with only a bit of tip wear. Granted, I change my polish so often 4 days is a long time for me! Lol.

Anyway my dears, I have a couple more A Englands to post this week, so look forward to those!

Until next time~ :)

Haul post!

Happy Saturday! I finished my first week ever of full-time work yesterday. It's a new experience for me and goodness, does it exhaust the crap out of you. So this weekend I'm just kind of hanging around the house and only running a few errands. Unless that all changes, of course, which wouldn't surprise me. Heh.

Today's post is just a haul post! I've received a lot of different polishes over the last week and a half that I just haven't had a chance to post here.

Firstly, I have 3 little mini polishes from PrettyandPolished on Etsy.

L-R: Born Again, Martian Salad, Party On My Yacht

You've probably seen Party On My Yacht on several nail blogs and that's part of the reason I got it. It looks like Mardi Gras or cupcake icing for the nails. Martian Salad is a grassy green holographic polish, and Born Again is a pretty shimmery navy blue base with large and small glitters throughout.

Then I have 3 glitter polishes from AllThatGlitters on Etsy.

L-R: Don't Pinch Me, Dear Hearts, Very Peacock-ish

Don't Pinch Me and Dear Hearts are two of her "seasonal" polishes so I picked them up especially since the heart glitters for Dear Hearts may not be available until next year and despite not being a pink person, I think this polish is so pretty.

Click on the below link to see more because this post is going to be too big to just have out on my blog. Lol.

A England — Dragon

I honestly couldn't tell you what took so long for me to finally wear this amazing polish I'm posting today.

A England Dragon from the Legends collection.

I'll let the pictures speak for themselves (not literally, of course).

Dragon is a mossy forest green with a slight golden duochrome and a bit of a scattered holographic effect. The holographic isn't as strong as I thought it would be but I also don't have direct sunlight to test this out with.

The colour and application is just amazing. This is two coats, if I were more careful (shaky hands today) I would have been able to do one good coat.. Adina does some amazing things with polish and I'm happy to be able to own a handful of these polishes.

You can purchase A England polishes directly from their website and from Llarowe.

Until next time, my lovelies~ :)

Nostalgic Lacquer — Andie

Hey guys! First off I want to thank my new followers — AmyGrace from The Polished Perfectionist, Rachael of The Perky Polisher, and Frances! I know it's only a few of you but I really do appreciate you following my blog. I hope to someday make it greater than what it is now. :)

Now! Today I have the last in line from Nostalgic Nail Lacquer's Bizarre Teenage Love Triangle, Andie. Andie is a pastel pink base packed with 4 shades of pink glitters. I'm not usually a pink fan but I really loved this polish.  For the below pictures I layered 2 thin coats of Andie over China Glaze Go Go Pink.

I'm super excited that Erin will be opening her shop again soon! Hopefully by the end of the week I'll be able to get my hands on more of her wonderful creations! :D You can check out her blog for more information on when she'll be opening shop again.

Until next time~ :)

Nostalgic Lacquer — Blane

Hey guys! I have another lovely polish from Nostalgic Lacquer for you today. It's the second of the three from the Bizarre Teenage Love Triangle.

Blane is a sheer pastel purple base packed with navy, purple, and sky blue glitters.  

Unfortunately, unlike Duckie, I did not have a light purple to layer this over so I used OPI Funky Dunkey and it didn't come out the way I'd like for it too. I didn't do a good base coat so my layers of Blane came out looking kind of streaky. That's also the downside of layering a light sheer colour over a dark colour.  I still love this colour and hopefully I'll be able to get my hands on a light purple that will match with Blane's base more in the future but for now this is what I got!

Also because of the darker base the polish itself overall is darker. I still think this is a gorgeous colour and polish. Application was just as lovely as Duckie. I used 2 thin coats over my base and didn't have to fish for glitter. The glitter in Blane is a bit more dense than Duckie.

Anyway, hope you guys enjoy this! I did a ton of swatching yesterday so I hope to have the next couple of weeks full of posts (at least every other day). I also have my China Glaze Capitol Colors coming in today so I'll be super excited to swatch those!

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~ :)

Nostalgic Lacquer — Duckie

 Hello lovelies! Today I have an absolutely fabulous polish for you today. 

Duckie from Nostalgic Lacquer! This is a part of the Bizarre Teenage Love Triangle collection. I did get all 3 in the collection but today I'm just showing you this one. The other two will be in their own posts. :)

Artificial light, no flash.

"Duckie is a combination of chartreuse, holographic teal, and pastel green glitters in varying sizes floating in a semi-sheer pastel teal base."

I did kind of have to mess around with some colour correcting to show the true colour but it's still not perfect. The above picture is a bit more green than this polish is in person but I was just having a time of it trying to capture the colour. It's a lovely teal/minty green though. It was a dream to work with. 3 thin layers over ORLY Gumdrop. I really didn't have any problems with the large glitters either. I didn't have to fish them out like a lot of polishes do.

And here is a picture of ORLY Gumdrop on it's own. Again the colour is not TTL, but it's close (excuse the weird skintone if you notice it).

 

Nostalgic Lacquer retails $9 USD each. These are full .5 fl oz bottles so no minis here. I think they are definitely well worth it. :D She's actually moving from Etsy and going to be setting up shop elsewhere, but you can check out her blog for updates.

Until next time~ :)