Colors By Llarowe: Let's Head to the Beach

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Leah Ann loves the beach and daydreams about it until she can visit again, so she's created this beach inspired collection "Let's Head to the Beach". Perfect for days spent dreaming of and at the beach!




Let's Boogie
turquoise green crelly with super shiny finish.





Azure Thing
light azure blue crelly.





High Quality H2O
ocean blue crelly.

These first three crelly polishes are nothing short of beautiful, super squishy, no streaks, super shiny polishes. I need every color of the rainbow in these now.





Surf's Up
azure blue based multi chrome that shifts azure to aqua to purple to pink.






Moonlight on the Water
royal blue based multi chrome that shifts royal blue to aqua to purple with added Aurora pigment that shifts aqua to purple.

The shift in this one is subtle and difficult to capture. What I saw in low light was mostly a deep teal shade which was beautiful.






High Tide
azure blue crelly base with Aurora pigment that shifts bright aqua to pink to bright sky blue.





And now for the jelly toppers!! These have both the original red to green shifting pigment known as unicorn pee plus the current replacement known as aurora pigment. They're all very pretty and do amazing things to the polishes above! Below are descriptions for each of them, and then photos of them in use. The bottles under each photo are in the same order as what's on the nail.

Building Sand Castles
white crelly base with UP and Aurora pigment that creates an intense shimmer against the crelly that shifts red to gold to green.

Hang Ten
Blurple crelly with UP pigment and Aurora pigment creates an intense shimmer off the blurple crelly that shifts red, to gold to green.

This Side of Heaven
turquoise blue crelly with UP pigment and Aurora pigment creates an intense shimmer against the turquoise crelly that shifts red to gold to green.

Banana Smoothie
soft yellow crelly with UP and Aurora pigment that creates an intense shift of red to gold to green.

Base: Let's Boogie


Base: Azure Thing


Base: High Quality H2O


Base: Surf's Up


Base: Moonlight On The Water


The formulas for all of these polishes is fantastic as we have come to expect from CBL polishes. For all the base shades shown is two coats which was plenty opaque for them. The base shades were then topped with one coat each of the toppers shown. It is amazing how a simple topper can completely transform the base color. Just think of the possibilities of these over red, orange, purple, green or yellow polishes too. I thoroughly enjoyed playing with them!

You can find Colors by Llarowe at Girly Bits and Color4Nails.

KBShimmer: A Roaring Borealis

KBShimmer created a facebook group exclusive a long while ago and I've been looking forward to wearing it.
Finally, the time came where I was able to choose a polish I've purchased to wear. It was totally worth the wait, in fact I wish I could have worn it sooner. The blurple jelly-ish base is packed with holo glitter and teal/green shifty shimmers.

This polish is galaxy nails in a bottle!






The formula was fantasstic as with all the KBShimmer polishes I've worn prior. I wore two coats with topcoat and it lasted almost a week without any chips!

The polish is no longer available, I purchased it on June 6th last year. But you should join the facebook fan group if you haven't - maybe Christy will do another group polish at some point!

Awesome Sauce Box: Lisa Frank

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The Awesome Sauce box is a collaboration between several indie Nail Polish brands who bring you a box full of awesome! The current box includes 4 polishes as well as several other fun products, all with a Lisa Frank theme.



Different Dimensions~StarGazer
Holo glitterbomb with an array of shapes in bright colors and it comes with a heap of loose neon star glitters! Who doesn't like extra glitters, in star shapes!? The holo rainbow and candy colors of this polish made me grin while at work. I wore just one coat over the Anonymous Lacquer and it is almost opaque. I added a coat of gelous and a coat of top coat for a smooth glossy finish.





Anonymous Lacquer~Dream Like A Unicorn
Bold blue with a flash of purple shimmer and linear holo, and it comes with a mini "Butta Balm" for cuticle care.
This polish is so electric and vibrant, teetering right on the edge of being called purple! I don't think I have anything like it in my collection, happy to give it a home!
I wore two coats, although I could have gotten away with one.





Ever After Polish~Let's Be Frank
A bright, almost neon pink with peach tendencies super loaded with blue and purple micro flakes. If you're a pink lover, you won't want to miss this one. I wore two coats and topcoat.





Lavish Polish~Chasing Rainbows
A vibrant purple holo packed with blue and pink shimmer. I freaking love this shade, raspberry is just so yummy! I wore two coats with topcoat.





The box also includes a sheet of Lisa Frank inspired water slide decals and a rainbow nail file! The file is awesome, and I haven't had a chance to try out the decals but they are super cute! The box is available now at http://awesomesauceindies.bigcartel.com/. It comes in both full and mini sizes, shown here is the full sized box.