Saturday, October 27, 2012

Witches Warts and Mystics Fortunes

Happy Halloween! :D

I had a happy discovery at Walgreen's a few weeks ago when I found the Loreal LE Project Runway polishes. I chose my favorite of the three to try out first, The Mystic's Fortune. In the bottle it was the most gorgeous glowy blurple I'd laid eyes on.


On the nail, not so much. The beautiful glowyness has mostly vanished and it was kind of gloopy during application. I used one coat of Seche Vite top coat and the polish ate it.


Perhaps with more topcoat and some sunlight it'd be like the bottle shot, but I decided to go ahead and top it with glitter instead.

Witches Warts from Lacquistry is absolutely stunning in the bottle and on the nail. It was a joy to apply and just look at all those holo glitters! So sparkly! This polish contains holo green, black matte, green matte glitters, each in different sizes. Take a look!


Jenna from Lacquistry says she is on a constant path of creation and inspiration making polish for lacquer-heads from a lacquer-head. Her polishes are made with a clear base and glitters, micas, and pigments - no frankens. All of her polishes are B3F and available via her Etsy Shop.

What are you wearing for Halloween?


Hit Polish: Sunflowers

"There is no blue without yellow and without orange." -- Vincent Van Gogh

This was my answer in a recent naming contest held by Hit Polish on her facebook page.
She chose three winners, and I happened to be one of them!


Sunflowers has light blue, yellow and orange matte glitters in squares and hexes as well as a coppery orange micro glitter.


It was a breeze to apply, no dabbing or reswiping or digging in the bottle.


I wore one coat of Sunflowers over Loreal's Brownie Points, which is a stunning dark chocolately brown.




The glitter is fairly flat so without topcoat its surprisingly smoother than most glitter polishes. I went ahead and topped it with HKG though, because I like a glassy look!



Sunflowers is available on November 1st at the Hit Polish shop on Etsy.

What's your favorite Hit Polish?


Thursday, October 25, 2012

Hallowhimsies!

Pam at Whimsical Ideas has created an awesome trio for Halloween that she calls Hallowhimsies and sent it to me for free to review.


Two coats each, no undies.


I've already posted about Wicked, so it won't be included in this post.

Both Boo! and Once Upon A Time needed undies, so I decided to start with My Pointe Exactly! from OPI. This is three to four coats.


The first whimsy is Boo!

It looks like a ghost in a bottle, doesn't it? It flashes a coppery/reddish shimmer which looks slightly different depending on the lighting and what its layered over.

I tried Boo! over a few different colors and snapped a photo to share. From top to bottom is Essie She's Picture Perfect, WnW Black Creme, and Revlon Royal.


And finally here it is over the OPI MPE!


Once Upon a Time is a pretty pastel mix of matte green and purple hexes with tiny silver glitter.


I added it on top of Boo!


Then added Hard Candy's matte top coat for this photo.


I think Pam has created a beautiful collection for Halloween and cannot wait to see what she has in store for Christmas!