Literary Lacquers Woman of Pleasure

This polish was provided to me for the purpose of a review. All of the following opinions are my own and based on my experience with the product.

Spastic book nerds - UNITE! There is an indie polish line for the twitchy, obsessed, bubble-bath readers like us! Literary Lacquers makes polish inspired by BOOKS! Hooray, books! I had been working on an Etsy cart for a while and finally caved to get a few polishes. Amy was so gracious to give me a couple extra to totally spaz out to you over via the internet. Today, I have Woman of Pleasure. This lovely lady raunchy female comes from an erotica collection and was inspired by Fanny Hill: Memoirs of a Woman of Pleasure. Thanks Amy! I'm going to add a banned book from 1748 to my late-night readings! The polish itself is a periwinkle/lilac crelly with a smattering of blue and purple glitters of various shades and sizes. There are also some awesome magenta glitters of different sizes and finish! I'm sure you are just squirming relentlessly in your seat to see the pictures!

What you see here is three thin coats, topped by a layer of Seche Vite. The formula was buttery soft and smooth. It almost caressed my nails on the way off the brush. I got fantastic glitter coverage without any clumping too!

Kunimitsu Ecco Location

Dear people of the internet, I have a confession. I am a cat lady. 100% cat-a-tonic. One of my favorite indie makers - Kunimitsu Nail Potions is a fellow cat-lady and all around animal lover. Of course, when I decided I wanted a custom polish based on my precious kitty Ecco, she was first in line. It was a very positive experience! I was a total spaz in asking for a custom and she walked me through it. I gave her a general idea, a picture and description of my precious babylove, and a really long ridiculous Facebook PM. She said she'd have a prototype to me in 7 to 10 days and we could adjust from there. Of course, last minute she had a freaking AWESOME idea and we went with that. I ended up with two polishes - one named after my kitty: Ecco Location. Because PUNS!

This is the kitty.....

THIS IS THE POLISH!

Scofflaw Whiskey Tango Foxtrot

Lemming alert! Lemming alert! Whiskey Tango Foxtrot has arrived in the house! Well, it arrived a couple weeks ago and I finally remembered to take pictures of it on my nails. Really. I've worn it at least twice. Anyway, I discovered Scofflaw Nail Varnish a little while back with their limited edition Love Letter to Kurt Vonnegut. Then I got the bug and NEEDED to own a couple of things: Flotsam & Jetsam, Whiskey Tango Foxtrot, and David Bowie's Bulge. They were all freaking smeeeexy formula wise - but here is the first one I have pictures of. 

WTF is a gorgeous turquoisey-teal crelly with a huge variety of red, white, gold, and brown glitters. Seriously - hexes, squares, and baby glitters of all shapes and sizes. It was freaking packed, too. What you see is two coats of WTF with the Nubar Diamont top coat. The formula on this (and all of the Scofflaw I've tried) was heavenly. Just glided right on the nail - like it wanted off the brush and on my fingertips. It was fairly self-leveling, but I did need to shake the bottle to dislodge the glitters. I attribute this to Texas heat leading to sinking glitters. Seriously - it's like living in broiler. 

I got pretty awesome glitter coverage regardless of living in a place that cooks eggs on the asphalt. I didn't have to search for the medium hexes once I shook the bottle either. 

UP CLOSE! It also survived a whole two work days without tip wear. I'm pretty impressed with the longetivity.

BAM! MATTED! (Thanks Digital Nails!) Hurrrrrr. Depth. I'm not sure if I like it better this way, or not. It's soooooooo pretty.

In other news - my pinkie nail is growing back! Also - in breaking news, you can get this polish and the rest on the Scofflaw Etsy! Oh wait - they're sold out! I guess you just have to shamelessly stalk the Facebook page for restocks or updates on when they ship to websites like Llarowe! 

What are you lemming that you need to stalk? 

Kunimitsu Nail Potions Seal Point Siamese

After the barrage of nail mail that arrived, I have been dying to wear all of the colors ever. Here is another of the Kunimitsu Nail Potions that I bought during her free shipping sale (it's still going on, too!) This is Seal Point Siamese. I'm a little biased towards cat-themed polishes because of my supreme cat-lady repertoire. I'm drawn to this polish because of the history of phenomenal crelly-formula goodness and the fantastic mix of microglitters. Onward to photos!

Seal Point Siamese is a mixture of extra tiny turquoise holographic blue glitters, and different sizes of midnight blue matte glitters. It's ultra classy, and the formula was drool-worthy. I used three coats to opacity, but I probably could have stopped at two. This polish was extra easy to control - I had zero problems with it whatsoever. 

My poor pinkie is still rebelling - ignore him. 

Fantastic glitter coverage - I could just spread it right on there. It was self-leveling too! And opaque without being a THHIIIIICK layer of polish. Did I mention I love this formula?

Here is a close up! Notice how there isn't even any bubbling! And the distribution of the glitter! 

And like all white crellies, I have to matte them. And this guy is NO exception to the gorgeousity of matted white crellies with microglitters. Seriously, this polish is going to be my go-to for any time that I wear blue. It can go with ANYTHING! And the white is actually WHITE - cool toned for pale people like ME! 

Anyway, you can buy Seal Point Siamese and other awesome polishes on Etsy for $8 a pop. She also has MINIS!!!!! for $4. As always, this is a public service announcement to follow Kunimitsu Nail Potions on Facebook.

Jindie Nails Live Out Loud

Hi awesome people! I hear Google Reader is going away, but I'm not super techy - maybe there is some way to use bloglovin' or something of the sort. I recommend following on Facebook. I put collages on there. Either way - this brings me to TODAY! I have something awesome! It's another crelly! Because I love them! It's Jindie Nails Live Out Loud. It was the other Jindie Nails lemming I got a couple months ago that I finally got around to using. It's a lovely creamy milky white with turquoise, magenta, and green circle glitters. There is also a horde of tiny glitters singing an overwhelming back up number. Ready for pictures?

This is two coats of Live Out Loud. I'm surprised it only took two coats to get opacity - I have pretty prominent VNL! The consistency of the polish was a little bit thin, but I'd prefer it thinner to thick so I don't have to struggle with thinner. It didn't really matter anyway, because the circles were nice and suspended. I didn't have to struggle to get them on the nail and they didn't clump and were easy to spread to where I wanted them. 

Here is a awesome close up. It's like cupcake frosting on my nails. 

So then logically my next step is to put some matte top coat on, because jellies and crellies must be matted on principle alone. It also helps when they end up looking as awesome as this one.

Sooooooo soft. Like buttercream icing with sprinkles! 

Woooo! So pretty. Beyond cupcakes, sprinkles, sugar, and other things I love that look like this, what are y'alls thoughts? 

I bought this lovely lady for my own personal use from the JindieNails website but they are also available at Llarowe and other authorized dealers.

I also highly recommend that you like her on Facebook!

Urban Outfitters Bohemian Summer

I got home today to find that I have a couple new followers! Huzzah! I appreciate it so much, you have no idea. I'm kind of stoked, I informed my cat, and she was indifferent and then attempted to shred my jeans - this is a sign of love and affection. Now, today I bring to you my first "mainstream" polish not used in a nail-art sort of way. I received Urban Outfitters Bohemian Summer as a birthday present (I swear, I got so much polish I'll still be swatching it for next year's birthday) from my lovely graduate school friend. Now - I had been drooling over all of those speckled polishes that came out this spring, especially those freaking droolgasms by Illamasqua. Unfortunately, like many people, I'm poor. I cannot run amok and spend the $17 on a single polish. The good news is that other polish lines are working on dupes and now I get to bring you what appears to be something akin to one. Bohemian Summer is a light blue crelly (think Robin's Egg, but not turquoise) with tiny matte black glitters and another size up's matte black glitters. Ready for some pictures? 

Look how pretty! This is two coats over my usual base and with two whopping coats of Poshe. This is a pretty hungry glitter. However, after two coats I didn't have any balding issues or a lack of glitter. In fact, I had a hard time getting sparse coverage and one of my nails on my other hand has significantly more glitter than the others! But - woe is me, I can handle too much glitter. I'm kind of in love with the square bottles too. 

Full frontal baby! Look how self-leveling it is. It was a pretty great formula - I was expecting worse for the price tag left on the bottle ($5). 

And of course, I had to matte it. I used Digital Nails Mattematical. 

Overall, I'm impressed! No tip wear at the time of removal, and also it got rave reviews from my mother. Again - here is what you need to know! My friend bought it for me at an actual Urban Outfitters, but they have a website that they might carry it on. I'd keep a lookout in physical locations! 

Thank everyone for working with me while I wear all my untrieds! 

Kunimitsu Nail Potions Love is a Kitten

WHEW! PSA readers: I'm now a Master. Great. My family has come and gone and now I can get back to things like polishing my nails nightly. Tonight I have Kunimitsu Nail Potions, which I have added faithfully to my Etsy registry (I'm marrying myself in November 2015. Save the date!) FOREVER. Well, this year I had a kind of amazing birthday and my good indie-a-holic Michelle over at Late Night Lacquer mailed me a birthday package of exceptional oozing awesome. One of the polishes was Love is a Kitten. I am a proud momma to my preciousbabykittylovekins Ecco and I adore all of the polish in the Kunimitsu Nail Potions shop. Especially the cat themed ones. I was super excited to FINALLY get my mitts on one! Ready for some pictures?!

Here is an awesome bottle shot! So - here we have snow white crelly with itty bitty fuchsia hexes, matte black glitters of tiny and super tiny varieties, and OF COURSE itsybitytinywiny holographic glitters. SCORE! Logically, I knew the first thing I needed to do was put on two coats of polish. And I knew I needed to do it in 15 minutes yesterday because I was on my way out the door for that important thing called GRADUATION. I lobbed that stuff on super fast, threw on some Poshe and ran out the door.  

It's almost been 48 hours since then! And I finally got around to getting pictures. Yes yes, shame on me. Needless to say, the formula was pretty dang awesome. For only two coats I didn't have any real balding or thin spots. I probably should have used three for opacity's sake, but a lady's got to walk across a stage and shake hands with some person called "The Dean." But check out that glitter variety! And ease of glitter placement! It just flowed right on the nail. Fantastic formula. Mmph. Oh - I should also mention that it's 3-free. 

Here we go. Looking nice now! GAH. Except for Janky Pinkie. Oh lawdy - what are you DOING?! We'll tuck you away now.

One more for good measure. Also - after a whole 48 hours which included being paraded around the boiling heat of Texas while dressed in 27 recycled plastic bottles (really) made into a black Masters robe and full regalia while clutching a mortar board to my head in gusty winds..... and a night of opening gifts and writing thank you notes.... the wear is pretty good for a polish peeler like me. 

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And of course, it's not a party with out a matte top coat Digital Nails Mattematical. While it's not all OOOHHH GURGLY GURGLY DEPTH, I think that mattefying this lady gives it a really nice, soft, sweet touch. Like kitties. What kitties are super shiny, any way?

Oh look! The end of the post. What do you guys need to know now? That there is an awesome Etsy shop where Kunimitsu Nail Potions sells pretty phenomenal lacquers? That she also has a Facebook that you should go like immediately? Those are both fantastic ideas! Lets do them!

Here is a bonus picture of  my precious kitty sitting in the window. She's a dilute calico and some sort of Siamese mix.

HARE Polish Electric Flame

Dearest devoted readers (although I'm sure you all aren't on the edges of your seats awaiting whatever polish  I have on this very second) I do so apologize for my lack of updates the past two days. THE HORROR! Unfortunately, I was in a car accident on Wednesday (not my fault) and the car was totaled and everyone had a lovely case of whiplash, soreness, and so on. Very not so good. Have no fear - I am in fact alive and will be getting further medical attention. They also provided me with medication to help with the fantastic muscle spasms/headache/neckpain/general post-accident misery. Also - my whole family is in town for graduation! Which is tomorrow! HUZZAH! I AM ONLY MILDLY OVERWHELMED. Thank goodness for polish. Regardless - I DO have a polish for everyone today! In the most recent restock I nabbed two HARE Polishes. I have for you today - Electric Flame. Now, I am not super into orange. In fact, this may be the third orange polish at all that I own in my 300+ collection. WHAT IS THIS MADNESS?! Electric Flame is a bright orangey peachish sorbet colored crelly with purple and blue glass flecky bits and iridescent blue glitters! I figured this would be a great polish for me to try out orange. And guess what? IT WAS A SUCCESS! 

Look how lovely that is! I wore three coats of polish and still had an eensie bit of VNL. I'm totally "at peach" (haha pun) with it, because I can't get over the iridescence of it. The formula was dreamy at worst, and was relatively self-leveling. This polish was a bit on the thick-ish side, but it made it easier to apply, if that makes sense. Very controllable. I kind of love it. I also think that I was used to having a floody-cuticle hot mess from some super sheer and thin jellies. Hare Polish does an amazing crelly - of the five I have, they're all amazing. I only used one layer of Poshe, and so the tip has some little divots. Also - if there are grey bits, it's because I got lazy when removing a grey flakie polish the day of. WHOOPSIES. In retrospect, I'd probably use two layers of top coat. P.S. AWESOME NEWS ABOUT DRY TIME! I accidentally fell asleep (drowsiness is a wonderful side effect) and this polish dried so fast (even with a heaping layer of Poshe) that I didn't even have sheet marks after my impromptu nap. 

Bottle shot, baby! Look how luscious this guy is! I WISH I HADN'T FALLEN ASLEEP. I would have matted it. CRAP. WELL. DAMN. 

Isn't it lovely? I adore it. So. What else do you need to know other than this polish looks like pureed phosphorescent deep sea fish stuck in a blender of peaches, melons, and mangos? Oh. Where to buy it. Well. You can get it on Llarowe. And also the HARE Polish Etsy. But that's sold out. Poo. So you can obviously follow them on Facebook to find out when there is a restock. And for good measure: website.

SO THAT'S ALL FOLKS! I'm off to do a graduation mani! 

Digital Nails Ultimate Ginger; Glitter Gradient

Well, it's been a whole few days since I wore a Digital Nails polish. WHAT?! A few DAYS?! Insanity. Especially considering my love of Digital Nails. Moving on now. I used some birthday monies to get a whole heck of a lot of the Ladies of Who collection, including this one: Ultimate Ginger. Albeit, I finally made it to the episode that Ultimate Ginger refers to. I cried. Like a blubbery blubbery loon. There was snot. Anyway, the second that I got around to swatching and doing something with this polish I realized that yes, while I could wear it on it's own (it was opaque in two thicker coats for me) that I had the perfect undies. Now, readers - the quest for perfect undies for a jelly/crelly worshiped polish is incredibly hard and arduous. To have the perfect undies fall into my lap? NO WAY. As it turns out - OPI Can't Find My Czechbook (a gift for my birthday!) was absolutely perfect. And I love glitter gradients. So I did one. 

There is is ladies and gentlemen. Two coats of Ultimate Ginger on my ring finger. I used two coats of OPI Can't Find My Czechbook on the rest. Then I dabbed a thiiiiiin coat of Ultimate Ginger on those four babies halfway up my nail. Then, I dabbed another coat a quarter way up my nail. Add one coat of random clear polish and a layer of Poshe - TA DA! Done. The formula on both of these were great. No opacity issues AT ALL. No bubbling or balding either. And if you can't tell - the glitter pay off for Ultimate Ginger is siiiiiiickening. 

I should probably describe Ultimate Ginger for you, as is proper and appropriate in a review. It is a delicious light blue crelly with tiny turquoise sparkly glitter, matte marigold hexes in various sizes, shiny orange hexes, bigger matte white hexes, sparse emerald green hexes, and most likely there are still probably some I am missing. SO MUCH GLITTER!

Seriously - how perfect are these undies? 

So - when I got these it was made explicitly clear that I MUST MATTE ULTIMATE GINGER. If I didn't, the universe might implode. Or Matt Smith might shave his head. Oh wait - WE'RE TOO LATE FOR THAT. So I matted it. And oh man - it's gorgeous. 

CLOSE UP! 

It's the "lets matte that polish" trilobite! :D

Well - that's all she wrote! So what do you need to know? Where to get these? If you've read any of my other posts you should know by now that Ultimate Ginger is available on Digital Nails' Etsy site. And there is also a Facebook you should go like immediately.  

OPI Can't Find My Czechbook is available in retail stores such as Ulta for $9, my HEB for some reason for $7.98, certified dealers or whatnot for whatever they're selling them for, and online at Amazon.com.

HARE Polish Hooky at the Hamlet

You know those polishes that you drool over online for months.... and then you just continuously google them because they're so darn purty? And you repeat that every week? That is what Hooky at the Hamlet was to me. Now - my goal for the summer was to indie it up (regardless, I need to swatch all my mainstream lines anyway). But I was hanging out in chat one day when the lovely people informed me that there was a Hare polish restock. WHAT?! MADNESS?! And then I ran off the Etsy to throw money at the computer. I ended up with two new polishes (I had to be talked out of the full collection because I should probably eat this month) and oh man I was excited. She shipped these babies to me so fast that if I hadn't been F5ing the shipping for days straight that I would have been surprised. Anyway - PICTUREEEESSS!!!

TA DA! Look at how pretty it is. 

I've been waiting for this moment, beautiful tealy-green jelly crelly goddess. Hooky at the Hamlet was a grade-a pain to get color accuracy on and even though I got some good pictures, this teal-green lady was far more bright and gorgeous in real life, especially while I'm eating bacon. Mmm. Bacon. Hooky at the Hamlet has satin white squares, matte white hexes, itty bitty hexes and squares of both, and then SURPRISE iridescent baby hexes. I really love finding surprise glitters in polishes. I LOVE IT. Oh - and there is SHIMMER!!!!!

I used three coats for opacity - which is an ongoing battle in me personal life because the tips of my nails are so freaking white that it makes it difficult. Either way - it took three coats. Not that it was a big deal or anything, because the formula on this was like Vermont Maple Syrup on buttermilk pancakes. I had no glitter placing issues - it just spread right on the nail. No cuticle flooding, no bubbles, nothing. NOT A SINGLE PROBLEM. WHAT MAGIC IS THIS?!

Better lighting magic, that's what. 

But this polish was meant to be matted. This time I used a different matte top coat - Essie Matte About You. It was my first matte top coat, then it got white bits, then I used thinner, now it goes again. But really now - LOOK AT THAT DEPTH! You can really see those surprise iridescent baby hexes coming out to play!

Yum yum yum yum yum.

LOOKIE THERE! SO PRETTY! You can really see the shimmer up close. Mmph. Goodness. Anyway, that's all my pictures! Actually, it's not, but it's all that is fit for the public viewership. In conclusion - I regret not buying more. One day I will have all the money and I will own them all. The formula was phenomenal, the opacity was great, the glitter coverage was magical, and if I could just describe the teal-green-jelly-crelly-goodness in something other than hysterical giggling - I would.

You too can own this masterpiece! And you should. Because it's awesome. In fact, just buy everything. And keep it in a bunker in case of zombie apocalypse. Be the best looking walker - with Hare polish. Oh this is bad. I am going to go get my caffeine on now. 

Hare polish has a website!

And an Etsy!

And it's on Llarowe!

Jindie Nails Princess Bubblegum (bonus of my cat licking tulle)

Let us all flashback to February. I was attempting a no-buy, as was a good friend. My friend and I had recently become obsessed with microglitter and it was getting to be a bit excessive. She showed me the wonder of Jindie Nails Princess Bubblegum. And I was thrilled. Lavender crelly? Eeensie matte neon glitters? HELLO LOVE OF MY LIFE. Alas, we noticed that Jindie Nails was going to restock, and soon. Cue the tears. We watched all of the lovely microglitters sell out. We kissed our lemmings goodbye. It really was tragic. And so we waited. We waited for our no-buys to end, and once we did, we realized we had to wait for a re-stock. We stalked and browsed and sent swatches to each other, and then, one day - magic occurred. The fated day of the restock. And then - we shopped. I bring to you, my Jindie Nails lemming #1: Princess Bubblegum. 

Oh my goodness. Look at those little teensie tiny baby glitters. And the neon! It's like everything I ever loved  is on my thumb. I was actually really happy when I put it on - I hadn't noticed that there were iridescent glitters too! HOLY COW! And the formula was an absolute dream. This is three coats, because I have a super noticeable VNL with everything and I have terrible one-bedroom apartment lighting. MOVING ALONG NOW.

All of the nails. Janky-pinkie, doin' it in style. 

And what do I need to do next? MATTE HER. She begged me for it, with her baby glitters. 

Starring: Janky-Pinkie and my really awesome fossil.

One more for good measure.

Ooooh janky-pinkie. What have I ever done to you. Oh, that's right. Slammed you in numerous car doors. So sorry.

So, that's it, lovely readers! Jindie Nails Princess Bubblegum was well worth the two months of tears and screaming at my laptop. I'm passionate, what else is there to say. I'm wearing three coats of it and I used Butter London Matte top coat. Really does a nice job there. Highlights of this polish was the pure amazingness of the matte/transparent neon baby glitters, as well as the surprise iridescent hexes and squares. 

I bought this lovely lady for my own personal use from the JindieNails website but they are also available at Llarowe and other authorized dealers.

BONUS: Here is a video of my cat licking tulle.