Hare Free-Spirit Of The Season Swatch And Review

Hello again, and TGIF!  I'm a little bummed today, the tech that we hired to help me recently put in his two week resignation.  Seems like another job that he had applied previous to ours offered him a better package than we could, and possibly he might like the hospital  setting better. I really like him too, and he was learning everything so fast. Bummer.

To perk things up, I'm continuing with another green mani. This is Hare Polish Free-Spirit Of The Season, a dark emerald green jelly shot through with dazzling gold shimmer and accented with matte purple and fuchsia glitters.  There's also multisized red glitter making it a Christmas themed polish but I thought it would still be appropriate for this week as well.  I used three layers here and although it seemed opaque IRL the camera makes it look more sheer than it is.  Formula was smooth and even for a jelly and not overloaded with glitters. In fact I wish there was a tiny bit more but maybe the fourth coat would solve that.  This is finished with two layers of topcoat to smooth down the glitters.

Hare Polish Free-Spirit Of The Season

Hare Polish Free-Spirit Of The Season

Hare Polish Free-Spirit Of The Season

Hare Polish Free-Spirit Of The Season

Hare Polish Free-Spirit Of The Season

Hare Polish Free-Spirit Of The Season

The matte glitters completely transform this into a polish that can be worn any season, especially St Paddy's day. The complexity of all its components make it a great visual distraction throughout the day. I usually deter myself from overly holiday themed polishes but thankfully this wasn't one of them.  Do you have any that you can wear at any time?

Hare Polish The Red Room Swatch And Review With Pueen Stamping

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Have you heard of qi wireless charging? I'm trying to get my S4 set up so that I can charge it wirelessly at work.  Wires are the last thing I want to deal with on my desk when I have stacks of papers everywhere and qi charging seems so convenient.  I need to find a qi pad for a decent price and if you see one, please let me know!

With Valentine's day quickly coming upon us, I felt Hare Polish The Red Room was a perfect prelude for the holiday.  The Red Room is from the recent Twin Peaks collection, and it's a squishy red jelly with matte white squares, matte black squares and microglitter, along with white flakies and shimmer.  Formula was smooth and easy considering the jelly base, and in contrast with Hare's normal formula of glitter overload, this was less burdened with glitter and I felt after two coats that the glitter was too sparse despite the base being sufficiently opaque.  I was happy with the amount of glitter after the third coat, and after drying to a satin finish, I used GlitterDaze Super Smooth to add shine and smooth out the bumps.

Hare Polish The Red Room 

Hare Polish The Red Room

Hare Polish The Red Room

Hare Polish The Red Room

I ordered the newest set of Pueen plates the other day and felt that it would be a great opportunity to try them out.  I like these plates because the patterns fill up the entire plate, similar to MoYou UK plates, but instead of rectangle plates, these are the standard small round plates.  I used my standard WnW black creme and found that the images didn't transfer as smoothly compared to my other plates. Hopefully its a one time fluke.  The image on my ring finger didn't transfer well at all - after getting onto my stamper I had to use acetone to clean the image up. It dried during that time so I had to make a decal or if it.  Not cool.

Hare Polish The Red Room With Pueen Stamping

Hare Polish The Red Room With Pueen Stamping

Hare Polish The Red Room With Pueen Stamping

Despite all the hassle I do like the way it turned out.  The Red Room works as the perfect background red for the hearts in the Pueen image. I'm not huge into celebrating Valentines but I think the black accent makes it not too corny valentines-y. Are you going to do any  special nail art for the upcoming occasion? 

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I Love Nail Polish Nostalgia Swatch And Review

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Hello my dears!  Thank goodness for the weekend!  It's been a super busy and tiring week for me, and I'm looking forward to getting some much needed rest over the weekend.  I think I might be coming down with a cold(again), which is something I'll have to get use to while LO is in daycare.  The joys of parenthood, LOL.

I tried to resist purchasing this beauty that I'm going to show you today, but being the multichrome junkie that I am, I could not.  This is I Love Nail Polish Nostalgia, her most recent multichrome creation made for the holiday season.  I think this is the first I've ever seen of this particular shade of color shifting polish, and this beauty goes from burgundy to copper to vibrant green with utter ease.  Application was not easy however, as with multichromes it wasn't highly pigmented and need three coats for full opacity, and with more coats comes more brushstrokes.  The photos below are without topcoat so you can see how it finishes on its own, complete with brushstrokes.

I Love Nail Polish Nostalgia

I Love Nail Polish Nostalgia

I Love Nail Polish Nostalgia

I Love Nail Polish Nostalgia

I Love Nail Polish Nostalgia

I Love Nail Polish Nostalgia

I Love Nail Polish Nostalgia

I don't think calling it multichrome gives the color shifting properties any justice, if anything, it's more of an uberchrome, or superchrome!  Regardless of what angle or light you look at this polish, you can always see multiple colors across the nail.  The beautiful results are worth the tiny bit of extra hassle of application, guaranteeing many moments of random admiration throughout the day.   I'm loving the boom of multichromes with all the indies, but none of yet have come up with this particular combination of color shifts making Nostalgia unique amongst all of them.  I'm glad I had a lapse of willpower when it came to purchasing this beauty!  Have you fallen off the wagon for any pretties lately?

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Hare Polish Oh What Fun It Is To Love And The Knockouts Of The Double R

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Yikes!  So I've been gone for three days - it was totally unintentional and probably a much needed break.  Normally I make my posts at night after putting LO to bed, and these past three nights I ended up falling asleep with her each night.  I blame her cuddly cuteness for my neglect!

Today I have two of Hare Polish's creations from her newest collection based after the show Twin Peaks.  I didn't watch the show myself, but maybe one of these days I'll Netflix it and see what the hub bub is, bud.  The polishes themselves speak volumes about the show - there's mystery and darkness, with hints of clarity and salvation.  I'm not sure if those descriptions correlate with the show, but hopefully they do because that's what I think of when I see the colors all lined up.

The first is Oh What Fun It Is To Love, and this a new favorite for me.  It's a dusty rose jelly packed with gold and matte white in varying sized and shaped glitters.   It's not overly complicated but it's really lovely.  To top it off, I think it's a pink that actually compliments my skin tone!  Formula for this was stellar and correlates with my earlier observation of better pigmentation - I used only two coats for this mani and I had no difficulty at all with application other than some stray glitters wanting to come off the free edge.  No surprise there!  I finished this with Gelous and topcoat.

Hare Polish Oh What Fun It Is To Love

Hare Polish Oh What Fun It Is To Love

Hare Polish Oh What Fun It Is To Love

Hare Polish Oh What Fun It Is To Love

Hare Polish Oh What Fun It Is To Love

Hare Polish Oh What Fun It Is To Love

What's that you say?  Why yes, yes I did.  I done did it.  During those three days of not polishing or swatching, my nails just seemed to grow like crazy.  I got some wonk on the sides, and because of curve, I kept envisioning almond shaped nails.  So I went ahead and took a file to them.  It didn't take as long as I thought it would, but I did have some difficulty making sure everything was symmetrical and even.  And now I'm having difficulty adjusting to typing as well, I guess because I'm use to the extra nail to tap with.

And wouldn't you know it, one of my favorite nail bloggers put up a post of Oh What Fun It Is To Love as well.  Great minds, you know.  Check out Lacquer Slacker Liz for her take on ths polish - her descriptions always knock me off my seat!

Next I have The Knockouts Of The Double R, an azure blue jelly packed with silver flakes and matte white glitter, the cooler opposite of former polish.  This was a bit sheerer than Oh What Fun It Is To Love, maybe due to the jelly formula.  I had a tiny bit of VNL after two coats, so it needed a third coat to bring it home.  Again, no difficulty with application as long as I waited long enough in between coats as this seemed to dry a bit slower than I'm accustomed to.  I finished this with Gelous and topcoat.

Hare Polish The Knockouts Of The Double R

Hare Polish The Knockouts Of The Double R

Hare Polish The Knockouts Of The Double R

Hare Polish The Knockouts Of The Double R

Hare Polish The Knockouts Of The Double R

Hare Polish The Knockouts Of The Double R

So far I'm really digging these colors by Hare because they seem so season appropriate for winter, with the warm brown and golds contrasting with the cool blues and silvers.  It's like sitting by a nice toasty fire while it's snowing outside.  Nikole has a fabulous eye for color and always knocks it out of the park with her combinations.  It's no wonder I'm a diehard fan of Hare Polishes!  Have you picked any up from this collection?  IMO, these are worthy of eating ramen every day for lunch so I can buy all the Hares!  Oh, and what's your preference, squares, almonds, or squovals??

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Superchic Lacquers A Very Kitschy Christmas: Ugly Sweater Party Swatch And Review

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Hello my dears! TGIF and hopefully this day will go smoothly for me. I'm swamped at work and I have to be in the field as well for a few hours. Every time I feel like I get something done, ten more things get thrown at me.  Oy vey.  What I would give to not have any responsibilities and play all day with my polish! One could dream, right?

I have the 2nd part of the A Very Kitschy Christmas collaboration, and this half is made by Superchic Lacquers called Ugly Sweater Party.  This is a sheer grey jelly loaded with silver microglitter, tiny ice blue glitters, and green hex glitters, making it the complete opposite color spectrum of its Hare counterpart called Gee, Thanks Grandma.  The formula of this was really sheer but surprisingly not thick, making application a breeze.  I left it at three coats but as you can see, it's still slightly sheer.  I could have maybe gone another coat or layered it over matching grey base to minimize the sheerness.  I wasn't careful enough with the glitter coming off the free edge, so my apologies in advance for not removing those pesky glitters.  To finish, I used a layer of Gelous followed by my Poshe/GCS topcoat mix.

Superchic Lacquers Ugly Sweater Party

Superchic Lacquers Ugly Sweater Party

Superchic Lacquers Ugly Sweater Party

Superchic Lacquers Ugly Sweater Party

Superchic Lacquers Ugly Sweater Party

Superchic Lacquers Ugly Sweater Party

I'm not sure if this is intentionally meant to be sheer to allow the glitters to shine through, but I do appreciate the play of colors together. It makes for a great wintery polish. Oddly, it also reminds me of a grey version of Deborah Lippmann's Mermaid's Dream.  I like that the cool tones are completely opposite from the warm brown and red colors of the Hare polish and rounds the set out nicely.

I got my first MoYou plate from a MUA swap and I thought the sheer grey jelly would be a great foundation to stamp over.  My plate is the Artist Collection II, and I used the flower print located on the girl's shirt.  I used my go to black creme for stamping by Wet N Wild.

MoYou Stamping Over Superchic Lacquers Ugly Sweater Party

MoYou Stamping Over Superchic Lacquers Ugly Sweater Party

MoYou Stamping Over Superchic Lacquers Ugly Sweater Party

The plate stamped really well and the images transferred over very crisply.  I love the way the pattern over the glitter jelly creates a faux mosaic glass window effect.   I can totally now understand the craze over these MoYou plates.  Not only are they cool to look at, the designs are fresh and modern and they perform extremely well. If only they weren't so pricey and have to ship from the UK! Maybe that's a good thing because my wallet can't handle any more damage.

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Nerdlacquer Tisiphone Swatch And Review

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Hello my pretties!  My parents are leaving today and I'm looking forward to having my house back to myself.  I like having them around, but at the same time, I like having the freedom of my own space.  Who can blame me?  I'm sure they'll be back out again soon, and I can look forward to that.

To finish out the trio that was released in Nerdlacquer's latest collection, I have Tisiphone, described by Amanda as "the Vengeful Destruction is a greyed taupe with translucent opal and deep mauve flakes, plus gold and blue shimmer. If you throw away one of your other nail polishes, Tisiphone might kill you in your sleep."  Gulp.  Now that's intimidating.  I'm willing to risk some vengeful destruction however, because this beauty blindsided me when I didn't expect it to.  Upon seeing the photos and the bottle itself, it appears to be a murky green tinged taupe the comes off as slightly unappealing.  It's not a shade that I'd normally gravitate towards, but what the heck, these days I'm willing to go out of the box and try new colors, including those like this one that I think may clash with my skintone.  The polish was slightly thick and sheer, but it applied easily and was pleasingly opaque in three coats.  As it built up in color, I realized that it becomes less green and more of a grey leaning taupe, and then the beauty quietly unveils itself when the blue iridescent and gold flakes begins to shimmer and sparkle.  I finished it with a layer of Gelous and topcoat.

Nerdlacquer Tisiphone

Nerdlacquer Tisiphone

Nerdlacquer Tisiphone

Nerdlacquer Tisiphone

Nerdlacquer Tisiphone

Nerdlacquer Tisiphone

Isn't she a beaut?  And not unflattering at all, IMO.  If anything, it comes off as a mannequin mani offset with glorious ethereal flakes. It goes to show that you can't judge a bottle by its color. If you didn't see the other colors from the Furies collection, make sure you check out Alecto and Magaera. If you're wondering how to nab some Nerds, make sure you follow Nerdlacquer on Google+ for restock updates!

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Hare Polish A Very Kitschy Christmas: Gee, Thanks Grandma Swatch And Review

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Hello my pretty tough ladies!  How is your week going?  Hopefully you've been keeping warm wherever you are.  At work when I have to call an insurance company, I can tell the rest of the country is suffering from this cold blast because the on hold waits are longer or even closed due to inclimate weather.  My parent's flight was affected as well, and after many unsuccessful calls to United, had to postpone their cancelled flight to Thursday.  It's crazy what can happen when extreme weather hits!

If you know me well enough, you know that I'm a fan of all things Hare Polish.  When she announced a collaboration with Superchic Lacquers called A Very Kitschy Christmas, you best bet that I was first in line to get my order in!  There's something special about her polish recipes - maybe it's the glitter density or the color coordination, but whatever it is, it's simply magical.  Gee, Thanks Grandma is a gorgeous combination of red, pink, and gold glitters in a milk chocolate brown crelly base with gold microglitter.  There's an improvement in the formula this time around, previously the bases weren't pigmented enough which resulted in sheer application and heavy glitter, now the polish becomes easily opaque in two coats with the perfect amount of glitter.  The glitter did not clump or drag during application either, but you do have to be careful with runaway glitters coming off the free edge of the nail.  I finished this with a layer of Gelous and topcoat.

Hare Polish Gee, Thanks Grandma

Hare Polish Gee, Thanks Grandma

Hare Polish Gee, Thanks Grandma

Hare Polish Gee, Thanks Grandma

Hare Polish Gee, Thanks Grandma

Hare Polish Gee, Thanks Grandma

I have to whole heartedly disagree with the name of this polish - Gee, Thanks Grandma gives the impression that whatever the gift grandma gave for Christmas was received without much enthusiasm, however IMO, if the gift was made of these colors, I'd have to say it must be pretty awesome!  I love how all the colors come together deliciously and I get visions of chocolate covered cherries, or a cherry pie with a golden crust and chocolate ice cream.  Maybe that's because I always have food on the brain.  In any case, this has become one of my favorite holiday polishes for that very reason and I want to get as much use out of it as I can for the season.  What comes to your mind when you see this polish?

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