Model City Polish: Celebration

Today I have a very special lacquer to show you -- Model City Polish Celebration. Celebration was made especially for the 100 Likes Giant Indie Polish Giveaway and is featured in 1 of the 3 sets that are up for grabs in the giveaway. 

You will notice that Celebration has a number 1 featured on its label. This is because Celebration will be sold as a limited edition lacquer by Nina of Model City Polish, and the very first one will go to a very lucky Tough As Nails Lacquer reader! Only 10 of this polish are going to be sold so that makes it even more special!

 I won't even attempt to list off the glitters that are included in Celebration and will let the bottle macro speak for itself. This is packed with lots of glitter!

And here is Celebration on the nails! Isn't it pretty? It sincerely is like a little celebration on your nails, and reminds me of what you would find inside of a cracker on New Years Eve.

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Tough As Nails Lacquer: Rebellious Bridesmaid

This is the very first [successful] lacquer that I made and it took me the longest to name.  She is my lacquer baby and will always hold a special place in my heart.

The name "Rebellious Bridesmaid" came from the fact that I wore the manicure seen in the photos below to my cousin's wedding. All of the other bridesmaids had pale shades of pinks or french tips on their nails. Very tasteful and clean looking and not taking away from anything. 

And then there was me, with my holographic, gunmetal glitterbomb. 

What can I say, I always like to do things a little differently. And lacquers are no exception. 

So I give to you, lovely readers, Rebellious Bridesmaid. Minis are included in all three sets I'm giving away in my 100 Likes Giant Indie Giveaway (seriously, click the link if you haven't entered. This is an amazing giveaway, if I do say so myself).

 

All photos were taken in natural light, without flash, and show one coat of Rebellious Bridesmaid over one coat OPI Lucurne-tainly Look Marvelous, with a coat of Gelous to finish everything off and give the manicure extra shine.

  

And here is my lacquer baby, which has a sheer/jelly black base loaded with silver and holographic silver glitters:

Here is a closeup so that you can see the holographic nature of some of the glitters:

You can most certainly wear Rebellious Bridesmaid with or without undies. The glitters are in a sheer/jelly black base and I was able to achieve full coverage in two coats. Depending on how you apply polish, you may need three coats.

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NailsIT: Companion Cube

NailsIT is a lacquer shop I stumbled across through blogging. About a week ago, there was a post about a dreamy gray with holo and silver hexes, white squares, and pink hearts and I knew I had to have that lacquer. Thankfully, I didn't have to search far, as NailsIT lacquers are sold through the NailsIT blog.

Yesterday, my package containing the dreamy gray arrived, along with two others that I will post about in the future. And today I finally got to try out Companion Cube.

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Blue Mondays with Pretty & Polished: Mind Control

I hope that no one has a case of the Mondays today. In case you do, here is a beauty from Pretty & Polished -- Mind Control.

 Mind Control is comprised of fine copper and blue holo hexes and larger teal squares. Here is a bottle macro:

And here is only ONE coat of Mind Control over Confetti Lonesome Dove, my go-to gray creme.

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Pretty & Polished: On Equal Ground

Happy Tuesday! I hope that everyone had a relaxing long weekend. Whenever I have a long work weekend I tend to get my days a little mixed up. Today really felt like a Monday even though it's Tuesday, but I guess that will just make the week go by more quickly. 

Anyways, today I have swatches of Pretty & Polished's On Equal Ground. I acquired On Equal Ground the last time that Chelsea opened up shop. She released three new colors and On Equal Ground is one of them. It's a multi-colored glitter topcoat with red, blue, green, gold, and purple hexes in two different sizes. I didn't attempt to use On Equal Ground by itself but I think that it would take a few too many coats to use it on its own.

A macro of the glitters!

And here are two coats of On Equal Ground.




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