Painted Sabotage: Gargle Blaster

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Another awesome polish from Painted Sabotage! This one is called Gargle Blaster and reminds me of a polish lemming I once had and finally scored. Chrissy drew her inspiration from Nerd Lacquer and I think she did a fantastic job with this! The formula is perfect, smooth, glides on easily and is opaque in two coats.





It is described by Chrissy as: "A mint green shade with a slight shimmer, accented with fuchsia, silver and gunmetal glitters."

I did some stamping over it, my stamping isn't perfect but I thought I'd share it anyway! I used plate Vl019 and my Creative Shop stamper with MDU 21 stamping polish.




Gargle Blaster reminds me of tiny budding flowers on a bed of soft greenery. I think it's perfect for the springtime season. What do you think of it?

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Addicted to Holos: April box

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The Addicted to Holos box for April is here! I'm excited to share these shades with you, they're all very pretty and I love their names too!

Blue-Eyed Girl Lacquer - Cotton Candy Clouds
Pinky-lilac creamy holo with strong green shimmer
Two Coats with topcoat, formula was a little on the thick side and may be opaque in one coat with careful application.





Literary Lacquers - Little Sleep Song
Creamy light grey linear holo with silver glass fleck and white flakies, inspired by the poem April Rain Song by Langston Hughes
Two Coats with topcoat, formula was a little on the thick side and may be opaque in one coat with careful application.





Sweet Heart Polish - April Showers
Juicy deep blue jelly linear holographic with tons of shifty flakes
Two Coats with topcoat, formula was smooth and very fluid.





Philly Loves Lacquer - Rain Boots and Puddles
Blueish teal linear holo with blue flecks and shimmer.
Two Coats with topcoat, formula was on the thick side.





The Polish Bar - End of the Rainbow
Light periwinkle blue holo with silver glass flecks
Four Coats with topcoat, formula was smooth and very fluid.





The preorders for the April box are $60 + shipping and will be open from 4/1/2015 through 4/8/2015 at addictedtoholos.bigcartel.com which is a shared shop between the five polish artisans.

All polishes in the box are limited edition and only available for the month they are offered. Be sure to get yours the week they launch!

Candy Color stampers and JQ Plates

I saw these Candy Head stampers in a stamping group that I was in and the group order for them fell through. I decided to order direct because I still wanted them.
I bought the stamper heads at AliExpress. For around $10 shipped.

Each of the stamper heads varies in squish factor. None of them are as soft and sticky as my original marshmallow from Ninja Polish though. I've not found any stamper heads that even come close in comparison to it.
I would say that the softest candy head is about the same as the older round XL FUN Lacquer stamper head which has been called a marshmallow head, but it's really not.
In the batch of candy color heads that I received, the red one, the pastel pink and the dark grey one I used are the squishiest and are slightly sticky. The others are a few degrees more firm but still easily squished and slightly sticky.

The JQ plates set, I just stumbled on over at Ebay while looking for a particular image I had seen on some lovely nails! The set included 21 different plates for about $12 so I took a chance and ordered.

I tested out a JQ plate with one of the candy color heads and a Color Club holo. I stamped with the dark grey head that I just stuck into an acetone cap. The plate seems to be etched well and stamps beautifully with the Candy heads and holo polish. It picked up nicely on the first try for each nail. I didn't prime the head at all, just used it right out of the package. I'm impressed with it, what do you think?




Thanks for visiting, I hope you enjoyed the review!