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:

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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.

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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:

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Absolut Lacquer: Finally 21

On my twenty first birthday I was completely sick and went home to my parents' house so that my mom could take care of me. I didn't go out. I didn't have a party. I didn't even paint my nails.

But Absolut Lacquer Finally 21 looks like it would have been a great lacquer to wear out on a twenty first birthday.

 Bottle macro:

 And here is Finally 21 on the nails!

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Lush Lacquer: Tutti Frutti

Today was a loong day for me. Summer seems to have a tendenacy to just drag weekdays out and today was one of those days. But something that always makes me smile after the end of the day? Nail polish. And today is no different.

So I spy with my little eye Lush Lacquer Tutti Frutti, a fun orange-tinted glitter polish with large rose hexes throughout. I think that the rose hexes have a holo quality to them. MUCH better results from Lush Lacquer than the first time I swatched one of the mother-daughter duo's polishes here.  I'm really glad that I took advantage of Lush Lacquer's "pick any three minis" because it allowed me to get a nice selection from the brand.

 Look at how much fun is crammed into this bottle!

And here is one coat of Tutti Frutti over Essie Braziliant. Love it! I want to use this for a pedi and take off to the beach ASAP with it.

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Blue Mondays with Pretty & Polished: Rainbow Sparkle

The third installation of Blue Mondays is here and today I have Pretty & Polished Rainbow Sparkle, a multicolored glitter with a blue, slightly shimmery base.

 Bottle macro:

 And here is one coat of Rainbow Sparkle over Essie's Mesmerize:

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All That Glitters: Rebel Rebel

All That Glitters is one of my favorite indie polish lines.  Not only are the polishes great (smooth, even application, no need to shake the bottles forever, and even glitter distribution) but the polish names are amazing.   Anyone who names polishes after some of my favorite Bowie songs is alright in my book!

Here is Rebel Rebel -- a purple/white/silver glittery lacquer set in a sheer purple base.

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All That Glitters: Valentine Massacre

As the name implies, All That Glitters' Kirsten creates, well, really glittery lacquers.

I picked up three the other day and the first one I tried was Valentine Massacre, a brilliant red and black glitter lacquer.