Rainbow Honey: The Yokai Collection

I've been absent from the blog and Facebook for the last few weeks but I'm back. And I have some very gorgeous lacquers to share from Rainbow Honey.

I recently received The Yokai Collection from Rainbow Honey, which is a limited edition, three piece collection. Yokai are supernatural monsters in Japanese folklore so this collection makes for a great break from traditional Halloween themed collections that are currently on the market.

I used two coats of each lacquer and one coat of Poshe fast dry topcoat. All photos were taken in natural light, without flash.

Kitsune: The Magical White Fox

Kitsune has a golden cream base that is chock full of autumnal hues -- gold, bronze, and orange -- with a golden shimmer throughout.

Kitsune is an excellent way to do a neutral glitter. The polish is soft and subtle in a good way. Kitsune has a warmth that makes it seem to glow.

Kawako: The Mischievous River Child

Kawako has a stunning midnight blue base with blue and silver glitter throughout. It has a somewhat iridescent quality that you can see in the photo above.

Kawako is a versatile sort of lacquer that would be perfect for a night on the town or paired with business wear. This reminds me of the ocean depths and is definitely a polish I found it easy to dive into.

Oni: The Malevolent Wild Demon

Oni has a hearty brown base with golden flecks and glitters disbursed throughout.

Oni was my favorite of the trio, although I loved each of them. Like Kitsune, Oni seems to glow from within and is the perfect fall color. This one makes me want to curl up with a good book and a mug of hot chocolate.

Application was great with all three lacquers. They are very dense so it's best to wait a little bit between layers.

Rainbow Honey polishes are available here. The Yokai Collection went on sale yesterday aYou should also check out the Rainbow Honey Facebook page for updates and other great information.

Note: The products in this post were provided to me for my honest review.

Wing Dust Collections: Mongu at Midnight

I have a beautiful blurple based lacquer from Wing Dust Collections this evening -- Mongu at Midnight!

Mongu's base is amazing (I could have a polish with just the base color, no glitter!) and contains white and silver holographic hexes and blue and white bar glitter.

 I was able to achieve full opacity with two coats:

Consistency of Mongu was great and I love how rich and vibrant the base color is. There are bar glitters in this polish though, and as you can see in the photos these bars like to peek out of the base and require a generous coat of Gelous and a generous coat of a thicker topcoat. If you're okay with bar glitters then you'll really like this one.

 

If you are interested in purchasing this or other colors from Wing Dust Collections, visit the Wing Dust Collections Etsy shop. Make sure to become a fan of the Wing Dust Collections Facebook page and check out their blog as well!

Note: The product featured in this post was provided to me for my honest review.

Blue Mondays with Kawaii Nail Lacquer: Blueberry and Zoya: Song

I'm just going to dive right into this manicure because I love it so much to waste time typing about it before sharing. This is Kawaii Nail Lacquer Blueberry over Zoya Song. 

 

Zoya Song is from the 2012 NYFW Diva collection, made for New York Fashion Week. It's a shimmery, deep blue.

 

 This is two coats of Song, no topcoat. It's so reflective and almost glows, which isn't something you normally see in a cool color like blue.

And here is Kawaii Nail Lacquer Blueberry, a sheer blue jelly with different-hued blue hexes disbursed throughout.

The finished look has two coats of Song, one coat of Blueberry, and one coat of Seche Vite topcoat. And it's amazing.

I LOVE Blueberry. It's blue, so it would be kind of difficult for me to not love it, but it's very squishy, paired excellently with Song, and has a nice variety of blue-colored hexes in it.

Zoya polishes can be purchased here. And if you use this link and create an account, you get a FREE bottle of Zoya polish.  

Kawaii Nail Lacquer can be purchased on Etsy. And make sure to like the Kawaii Nail Lacquer Facebook page so that you are current on updates and new releases!

Note: Blueberry was provided to me for my honest review.

Cult Nails & CrowsToes

I love this:

It's Cult Nails Manipulative, a gorgeous muted teal/robins egg blue with a hint of shimmer, as you can see in the shadowy photo to the right. I purchased this in a recent Cult Nails sale.

And I love this:

I have been LEMMING Absolum very hard and for a very long time. I was finally able to purchase it recently and so excited when it arrived in the mail a couple days ago.

So I decided to combine two loves to create something beautiful. Click "Read more" for swatches!

Blue Mondays with Shimmer Polish Liana

So I hadn't ever won anything. Like a contest or the lotto or really even gambling. I'm just not lucky that way. But recently, I was the unexpected and very happy winner of a Shimmer Polish raffle! For winning, I got to select two polishes of my choice for a penny. One of my picks was, of course, a beautiful blue glitter bomb, Liana. All of Shimmer Polish's lacquers are named after women and I think it gives them character. 

To start off my manicure, I opted for one of my favorite blues -- Maybelline Color Show Sapphire Siren. This is a total steal and I bought mine at Meijer (a midwest superstore) but I've seen this line at a bunch of different places. I think this was $2.99. No more than $3.99. It's a gorgeous blue creme with the best consistency. Here is Sapphire Siren:

And here is Shimmer Polish Liana:

And here is only ONE coat of Liana over Sapphire Siren. Can you believe the coverage?!?

 Click "Read more" for additional swatches and information on where you can purchase Shimmer Polishes!

Blue Monday with Pretty & Polished: Peace Camp

It's Blue Monday on the blog and I have Pretty & Polished Peace Camp. 

Peace Camp is from a relatively recent collection by Pretty & Polished and has white, yellow, and blue matte hexes in a shimmery pale blue base.

My ring finger shows three coats of Peace Camp no undies and the rest show two coats of China Glaze Flyin' High:

Click "Read more" to see Peace Camp layered over Flyin' High and for information on where to purchase Pretty & Polished lacquers!

Two Birds One Store: Fly-Ceratops

Sometimes you purchase a polish because you've heard good things about it. Or because you trust the brand. Or love the color. And, every once in awhile, you buy a polish based on nothing but its name. That happened to me with Two Birds One Store Fly-Ceratops. Thankfully, it ended up working out really well for me :)

Fly-Ceratops has black, blue, and neon yellow-green matte hexes and makes a great topcoat. I'm not sure if you could build it up to wear on its own without having 4 coats, but it might be do-able.

Here is how I'm wearing Fly-Ceratops:

Click "Read more" for additional photos, the color I used as my base, and information on where to purchase Fly-Ceratops!

Dollish Polish: Spank You Very Much

It's Friday, b*tches! Let's get wild, let's get crazy, let's get lacquered up with Spank You Very Much! Anything with the word spank in its name is pretty much guaranteed to be amazing. And Dollish Polish Spank You Very Much fits into that. Even though Ace Ventura does nothing but thoroughly annoy me, I'll allow it to pass.

Spank You is a clear based lacquer with purple and pale blue hexes throughout.

Check out that marco:

And here we have Spank You over a jade green creme. Looks pretty great, huh? Not too much, not too little. Just right.

 Click "Read more" for additional swatches, information on my base coat, and where to buy Spank You Very Much!

All photos were taken in artificial light, without flash. For my base coat, I used Essie Incognito, a turquoise/jade creme. This is two coats.

Incognito is one of my favorite Essie lacquers and a go-to color when I don't  know what else to wear and don't just want to wear one of the billions (okay, probably a slight exaggeration)  of vampy colors I own.

I really like my finished result. Incognito compliments Spank You Very Much nicely and doesn't overpower it.

Application was great. Nothing too complicated about Spank You but sometimes you need a little simplicity. 

Dollish Polishes are available here.  They are also sold at Llarowe and Overall Beauty. You can also check out Dolly's Facebook page or Twitter to stay up to date on restocks, new polishes, and other news.

HARE Polish: Heat Plague

So what color would you say this is?

Blue? Navy? Something those lines? Green? Probably not green, right? Well, if you're me and it's almost 2:00 in the morning and you've been awake making polish for the last three hours (available here, BTW), then you might think green. Which is exactly what I did when I was applying a base color to compliment my manicure with my newly purchased HARE Polish Heat Plague.

I didn't realize until the next day that I had used Essie Bobbing for Baubles, a deep, grayed-out, and murky blue instead of what I thought it was -- a deep turquoise Essie Trophy Wife. Oops.

Here is HARE Polish Heat Plague, a deep green jelly-based lacquer with purple, orange, and pink glitter throughout.

Isn't this gorgeous?!?

 And here is my messed up manicure that actually looks pretty great:

Click "Read more" for additional swatches and information on where to purchase HARE Polish!

NotTooPolished: RiverRun

I'm going to see some post 4th of July fireworks this weekend and thinking of fireworks made me want something sparkly and patriotic on my mails. So I was very excited that I received NotTooPolished RiverRun this past week because it had everything I was looking for in a lacquer. 

Riverrun is part of the Great Houses of Westeros collection. I had no idea what that was and the internets informed me that it's a Game of Thrones reference, which I've been told I need to watch but don't have HBO. So I guess I'll stick with lacquers for now. There are red squares and blue and silver holographic hexes, mixed with very micro silver holo shimmer glitter that adds a fun finish to the lacquer.

I layered River Run over a shimmering gray and this is the gorgeous result, like fireworks on the nails!