Top Shelf Lacquer: Valentine’s Day Collection (part)

Press Sample

The Valentine's day collection is made up of beautiful Valentine-y shades! I've not tried Top Shelf Lacquers before, so I was happy for the opportunity to review these. The packaging is cute - little bottles all bundled up in a satin drawstring bag along with wine glass charms, a business card and handwritten holiday card. I was sent several of the shades, but not all of them so do look around other blogs or join the facebook fan group to see them all! These shades will be available only at The Top Shelf shop on January 15, at 7:00pm Central time.



The French Kiss - An ivory white crème with a gold shift and gold micro flakes
I was pleasantly surprised at how well behaved this white polish was! Super creamy not streaky at all and quite opaque. I wore this for nearly a week with no chips or tipwear.




Cupid's Float - A cotton candy pink crème that dries to a glossy smooth finish
The thicker of this group, but not unmanageable. A coat of QDTC helped smooth it right up.




Love Potion Punch - A rose pink crème that dries to a glossy smooth finish
Heh, puch is a good name for it, so bright it packs a punch! A fun color and quite squishy almost a jelly but too opaque to be called one.




Red Hot Valentine - A candy apple red crème that dries to a glossy smooth finish
I couldn't decide if this was a warm or cool toned red it looked like both depending on lighting!




Lady In Red Cocktail - A port wine crème that dries to a glossy smooth finish
A nice purple-ish berry red. I love this type of shade when wearing red-ish. :)




Shrinking Violet Cocktail - A deep eggplant purple linear holo.
What a grape color and my fave of the bunch! (see what I did there?) Still wearing it today and planning to wear it for a few more!




I wore two coats of each polish and found the formulas on all of them were easy to apply and streak free - yes even the creamy white shade, The French Kiss! Cupid's Float (pale pink) was the thicker of the bunch but it wasn't unmanageable. The other pinks and reds are squishy and apply like a dream and that purple! But you guys know me, I always love the purple!


The creams stamp well, except for the Cupid's Float (pinky nail) which is very sheer when stamped and difficult to see over creamy white. (Plate is Born Pretty BPL-024)



I also did some nail art over Cupid's Float! (polish is mdu 20 & 23, plate is Flowers-16)



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Grace-full: Wintertide Collection

Press Sample

The Wintertide Collection is a range of seven beautiful holographic shades, some with flakes and some with shimmer! I've used two coats in each photo, all their formulas were easy to apply and smooth except for the microglitter polish - it was a little bumpy as could be expected.

These polishes are available at the Grace-full online store and are currently on sale!



Mulberry Velvet - Purple linear holo with brown undertones




Regal Boysenberry – a purple jelly with purple and gold super holographic glitter,




Olive Evergreen - Olive with gold shift linear holo




Marsala Leaves - Brown red linear holo with red metallic flakes.
This was my favorite of the collection - photos just don't capture it's beauty. It's definitely one of those 'sleeper' or 'hidden gem' type polishes. I didn't want to take this one off!




Taupe Fog - lilac taupe linear holo with teeny holographic glitter




Steel Blue Blizzard - A grey toned blue linear holo with teeny holographic glitter




Which ones are your favorite?
It was a really tough choice for me, as I really loved all of them. Especially since they're all part of my favorite color range. But I finally landed on Marsala Leaves, it has such beauty and depth!

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Essie Starry Starry Night - Retro Revival

Essie Starry Starry Night has been a lemming of mine since I started blogging back in 2009. I'm super excited to finally have it in my hands! I am aware it's not exactly the same as the original, but this is good enough for me!
I got mine from a sweet gal on Facebook who found them in a local store back in December. She bought all they had and was kind enough to offer them to people in our group so I jumped at the chance!

I wore two coats with topcoat and UNF it's squishy and pretty and everything I hoped for! (The formula is the typical goopy Essie formula though)



In checking just now, this polish is available at Beauty.com and sold out on Amazon, but there's an option for email notification there if you prefer Amazon.
Essie.com appears to be stocking it, but the cart is powered by Beauty.com and it looks like Ulta stocked the collection but SSN is currently sold out there. Don't fret though - it is said to hit stores soon!



Are you excited about SSN? Have you ordered yet? Do you have the original? Let me know in the comments below!