Urban Lacquer: Island of the Dolls collection and Anniversary

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The Urban Lacquer Halloween 2013 collection consists of four polishes which were inspired by the Island of the Dolls (Isla de las Munecas). Located outside of Mexico City, the "island," a floating garden on a canal, is home to hundreds of decaying, mutilated dolls. Creepy right? I think its perfect for a creepy halloween set and the artisan, Brenda, has done a great job with her interpretation of it. I also received a special anniversary polish that Urban Lacquer created in celebration of the brand's one year anniversary!



Each order will come packaged with a creepy doll head, like the one I received. (if you don't want one, add comments to your order!) The polish is wrapped in the usual black tissue, as you may already have seen in a previous post of mine.



Appease Her was made with Don Julian's actions in mind. He would tie doll parts to tree trunks to appease the spirit of a dead girl he had found in the canal and to keep away evil spirits. He would state that he believed that the dolls were somehow still alive but forgotten.

In this polish you can see the ghost of those spirits, shifting and floating within the polish. I wore two coats with topcoat of Appease Her.





The dolls Don Julian fished from the canal and placed in trees is what inspired this polish, Canal Dolls.
It's filled with pinks, lavenders, blues, reds and an eye catching glow of green shimmer. I've worn one coat over Appease Her.





"Spiders and insects have taken up residence in the hollow parts of most of the dolls." - Delena, WebUrbanist review

Torso of Spiders' green base color reminded me of Slimer from the Ghostbusters movie and its packed with green, black, silver and burgundy glitters in small sizes. I wore two coats over OPI My Boyfriend Scales Walls. Love the square shapes in this!




Finally, Don Julian, the legend who created the Island of the Dolls. He died in 2001, but the legend carrys on and many people still visit the island today.
Don Julian, the polish, is a blend of black, orange and yellow glitters sprinkled with gold holo stars. I love those yellow dot glitters, they look like moons! I wore two coats over Cover Girl Purple Freeze.




I'm Fun at Parties is a Limited Edition polish created for the one year anniversary of the Urban Lacquer brand. Since this is a special polish, there is only one way to score a bottle! The polish is confetti like and is packed with bright fun colors! I especially love the bright neon green pieces, and the huge pink and blue hexes.
I wore one coat over Urban Lacquer's Little Black Undies.




To find out how to get your Limited Edition bottle of I'm Fun at Parties, follow Urban Lacquer on Facebook. This collection launches at the Urban Lacquer shop on Monday October 14th, at 2pm CT which is Noon PT, 1pm MT, 3pm ET.


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Winnings from Things Lori Hearts

In September nail blogger Lori, from Things Lori Hearts, did several giveaways. I entered all of them and was lucky enough to have won one of them!
Thank you so much Lori for an awesome giveaway and the super yummy smelling extras!


*Lynnderella Bird Brain Blue was on my wishlist! (Its absent in the photo because its on my desk waiting to be worn!)

*My Ten Friends Pew, Pew, Pew - I have this one but I'm going to gift it to my mom! She will love it!

*Sinful Shine Skinny Dipping, Sinful Shine My Kryptonite - I want allllll the Sinful Shines! +2 !

*Elevation Polish Clean as Snow cuticle oil, Elevation Polish Clean as Snow cuticle balm - These are both awesome treatments!

*Elf Touchup brush, 3 pack nail files and manicure sticks - I totally needed all of these items. Mine were getting a bit ragged!

*Cocoa Pink items: sugar scrub in Coffee, whipped soap in Vanilla Rose, perfume vials of Hello Sugar, Triple Vanilla Dream and Blackberry Tea. All totally delicious smelling!

If you've not seen her blog yet, please do give her a visit and a follow on facebook or gfc. :)

Vivid Lacquer: Once More With Feeling (part 2)

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As promised, below is part two of the Once More With Feeling collection from Vivid Lacquer. All the holographic polishes in this set have great coverage. When applied a with a thick layer they only need one coat! I also noticed that some of the holos have hidden shimmer which makes them quite unique compared to other holographic polishes!

Demon Magnet is a strong steel-like charcoal hue right in between black and grey; totally a unique shade! The holographic sparkle adds beautiful flashes of color at different angles. Not only is it beautiful alone, but it would make an awesome base color for any glitter topper as well.




Green is totally a Halloween color, and The Bitch is Back is perfect for it. It's a "glowy in the middle," forest green shade with holographic sparkle.




My jaw hit the floor with the first stroke of Five by Five and here's why:

* glowy in the middle, darker on the edges - This alone makes me swoon over any polish.
* flash of shimmer that tricks the eye into wondering what color it really is - I love a good mystery!
* holographic sparkles and hidden shimmer - What else could this polish possibly have?

So are you still wondering what color this polish really is? Blue? Purplish? Steel blue? Black?
It does finally reveal itself when the lighting is dim. Its a nice cool shade of
...well what fun would it be if I told ya? ;)




Some Monster in Her Man is a brick red holo with pink shimmer. Just when you think its leaning a little orange, the shimmer flashes pink and brightens it up. Coupled with the holo sparkles, its a stunner!




To complete the Halloween collection, Vivid Lacquer has made a sequel to last year's zombie polish with this year's I'd Never Eat Your Brains. A wine colored flakie with holographic micro glitter. This is the only polish in the set that I used three coats of to make sure the nail line had good coverage under bright lighting for photos.




If you missed part one with the other three holo polishes, be sure to take a look!

The Once More With Feeling collection will be available on October 10th at 11am Pacific.
You can find Vivid Lacquer polishes and stamping plates at Etsy. Be sure to follow Vivid Lacquer on Facebook for updates and you can sign up for the mailing list at http://vividlacquer.com


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