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Wednesday, June 14, 2017

What's Your Shine:Trixster and Perfect Storm

Super Impressed!

Jason of What's Your Shine, gave me the opportunity to experience his indie brand. I don't use the word 'experience' lightly. The brand is a complete package from first contact to wearing Whats Your Shine polish on your nails.

Jason exhibits his passion for his brand and his customers with the great amount of care and detail to packaging and product.

In my review package he included a personal thank you letter, product detail sheets, his 'about us' story, and insight to how he creates.
The products arrived displayed on a crisp white foam board backing covered in a designer paper, both custom cut to fit the products and then professionally shrink wrapped. If you look closely around the edges of the product in the below photo, you can see the plastic shrink wrap.
The bottles are also secured to the display board with easy to remove glue, and a nail file which prevents shifting and clanking during shipment.

This is the first time I've received such a nicely packed box from an indie brand. It definitely has a high end boutique or salon feel to it.

xoxoJen's swatches of What's Your Shine

It doesn't stop there though, the overcap on the polish can be removed to reveal a grippy cap for easier polishing, and the brand label is bold and easy to read. The square bottles are quite classy too.

xoxoJen's swatches of What's Your Shine

Both of the polishes below are part of the eight piece Shine Language collection. They are available now at the What's Your Shine store along with many other beautiful polishes to choose from.

Trixter - This one keeps you guessing, you'll never see the same color twice in this shimmering iridescent Dark Pink polish.

Definitely a shifty booger! On me, it looks peachy most of the time and then there's these hidden flecks the shade of pumpkin that you can see in the macro but not apparent on the nail. The holo flecks are subtle and appropriate for most business dress codes. The polish color would also be an amazing compliment to a Henna style tattoo or stamping, I'm sure! I wore two coats with topcoat, formula was excellent and I love that the overcap comes off to make polishing a breeze.

xoxoJen's swatch of Trixter
xoxoJen's swatch of Trixter
xoxoJen's swatch of Trixter

Perfect Storm - Iridescent Dark Gray Polish with a Holographic Sparkling Rainbow effect, that changes in every light.

For a dark shade of polish this one sparkles like fireworks! It's so reflective and beautiful that I ended up wearing it longer than most polishes I review. Two coats and topcoat were worn and again the formula was fantastic and I have to mention that cap again, I love it.

xoxoJen's swatch of Perfect Storm
xoxoJen's swatch of Perfect Storm
xoxoJen's swatch of Perfect Storm

I enjoyed reviewing for Jason from start to finish and have confidence that his brand will do well.
Why not give his brand a try! Visit What's Your Shine's online store.

Thursday, April 30, 2015

Bear Pawlish: Bringing it back and new topcoat!

xoxoJen's collage of Bear Pawlish

Bear Pawlish is bringing back some much requested shades and I had the chance to swatch and share them all with you! In addition to these, she is also launching her quick dry top coat, Oso Quick! She'll be sending a bottle of that to me to try soon as well!

Jabberwocky is a multichrome shifter and she's a little camera shy sometimes, so I took a fourth image which captured all the colors in one image - blue, purple, and a coppery reddish shade. I wore three coats with topcoat for the images. The formula was good - it seemed to dry a little quickly for me so Tennessee is going to do a little tweaking so that the launch bottles will be perfect!

xoxoJen's swatch of Bear Pawlish Jabberwocky
xoxoJen's swatch of Bear Pawlish Jabberwocky
xoxoJen's swatch of Bear Pawlish Jabberwocky
xoxoJen's swatch of Bear Pawlish Jabberwocky

Luscious is also a multichrome shifter with blue, grapey purple and violet purple! I fell hard and fast for this one! The formula on this one is similar to Jabberwocky, but I only needed two coats for opacity and may have gotten away with just one. It's quite pigmented!

xoxoJen's swatch of Bear Pawlish Luscious
xoxoJen's swatch of Bear Pawlish Luscious
xoxoJen's swatch of Bear Pawlish Luscious

Luscious...in holo! Yep this is the same polish as above, but with holographic pigment added and is a new addition to Bear Pawlish's line up. The holo pigment lightens the shade of the polish a hare, beautiful isn't it?

xoxoJen's swatch of Bear Pawlish Luscious holo
xoxoJen's swatch of Bear Pawlish Luscious holo
xoxoJen's swatch of Bear Pawlish Luscious holo

May Flowers is a frosted salmon pearlescent shade that sometimes looks pink and sometimes peach. The close up images do show brushstrokes, but in person this looks like satin on the nail! I wore three coats with topcoat for the photos. The formula on this one was a little challenging in that it wanted to pull up when I ran the brush over the same spot twice. Once I got the first coat on the nail it was more forgiving and easier to apply. I think that perhaps my base coat (yellow stopper) just didn't get along well with it - which happens sometimes. :)

xoxoJen's swatch of Bear Pawlish May Flowers
xoxoJen's swatch of Bear Pawlish May Flowers
xoxoJen's swatch of Bear Pawlish May Flowers

And I've saved my favorite for last, this is Poor Unfortunate Soul, a rich dark teal leaning green with a holographic effect. When I look at this polish it's like looking into something infinitely deep. I am totally wowed by this one and quite smitten by it! The formula is perfect, it practically applied itself. The only clean up I did, was to straighten out the curve near the cuticle just a tad on a couple of nails.

xoxoJen's swatch of Bear Pawlish Poor Unfortunate Soul
xoxoJen's swatch of Bear Pawlish Poor Unfortunate Soul
xoxoJen's swatch of Bear Pawlish Poor Unfortunate Soul

All five of these polishes plus the new topcoat will launch May 1 at 11am Central time in the Bear Pawlish shop!

Please comment and let me know if you've enjoyed the review and photos!

Monday, May 10, 2010

Pure Ice Mint Dream

xoxoJen's swatch of Pure Ice Mint Dream

Application was very smooth, however; I think this is around 5-6 coats and I still have VNL. Eh, its alright though sometimes its nice to see that. ;)