Daily Lacquer part 2: Satine

Welcome back lacquer lovers! Today I have the second of my two part Daily Lacquer series, another gorgeous polish from the All You Need Is Love collection, a valentines day collection inspired by the movie Moulin Rouge.

This is Satine is a gray/black based holographic polish packed with holographic glitter and holographic diamonds. I wish the pictures could capture the sparkle better, I'm sitting here in unnatural light distracted from my typing by my shining fingers.

This is three coats of Satine over bare nails. Two would have been sufficient, but I killed the holo by adding topcoat over the first two coats, and instead of starting over, I just added another coat on top.

Can you see that double rainbow?

You know I love my close up shots! This reminds me of a galaxy!

Satine's formula is fabulous, I would expect a polish packed with so much glitter to be thick and difficult to work with, but Satine has a great consistency. Thin enough that it goes on nicely, but thick enough that it covers completely and reaches opacity easily. I have not yet found a topcoat that doesn't dull holos, so without a topcoat, the texture is gritty, but that is to be expected due to the glitter. And all those diamond glitter? I didn't have to fish for those at all, they are packed in there!

Finally, here is a photo with the flash to bring out the holo. This polish truly is a Sparkling Diamond!

Daily Lacquer is a great quality, hand-made, 3-free nail polish. Check them out on Etsy and be sure to visit Daily Lacquer's Facebook page.

Til next time!
-Kara

This polish was provided to me for review, all opinions are my own. 

Please see my disclosure policy.

Kelara Lacquers I Love Lamp

Welcome back and happy Monday everyone! Today it was back to "the grind" after a lovely, relaxing, stressful, crazy 3 week holiday. A was back to preschool, and tomorrow I go back to school as well. It was a very difficult day for us all. A didn't want to wake up for school, B decided she would not take a nap today, but then the mail came, and the angels sang. I found this beauty in the mail box!

Say hello to Kelara Lacquers' I Love Lamp from their brand new Double Rainbow Holo Collection! I Love Lamp is a gorgeous pale purple holographic polish. Are you ready for a photo bomb? Here we go!

This is two coats of I Love Lamp, no topcoat. The formula on this is not your usual thin runny holo like a lot of them out there, but it's not gloopy, and very easy to work with! The formula was great and, like I said, only needed two coats for this beautiful, dense, full coverage.

 I Love Lamp isn't the holo-y-est polish I own, but that doesn't mean I don't love it! Sometimes you want a more subtle holo. Some holos are so strong you can't tell what the base color is,  I love that you can actually see the gorgeous base color with this one. I just love this color!

 

I really regret not having a sunlight photo for you, but it's January. In Oregon. So, yeah. Sunshine? No-go. This is the best I could do- use the flash to bring out the holo a bit more.

Kelara Lacquers are all hand mixed, 3-free, and cruelty free, made lovingly by soon-to-be husband and wife duo Kellen and Tara. Check out Kelara's Etsy shop for the entire Double Rainbow Holo Collection as well as their other fantastic collections, and check out their Facebook page for swatches, updates, and occasional promotions.

I just love Kelara Lacquers! You can see a previous post I've done featuring Kelaras here.

Til next time!
-Kara

This polish was provided to me for review, all opinions are my own. 

Please see my disclosure policy.

Saturday Swatches

Happy Saturday everyone! I'm back with another flurry of Saturday Swatches. I apologize for the lack of content since the holidays, I thought things were settling down around here, but baby, sleep, molars, ai-yi-yi...

Anyway, here we go!

First we have one of my favorite neutrals, Butter London All Hail the Queen, this first picture is actually an older photo, from my reindeer nails, I didn't retake it before taking the next photo.

I've been on the hunt for the perfect neutral holo, so I decided to try holo-izing AHtQ with my holo topcoat, Girly Bits Hocus Pocus. I absolutely love the way this turned out!

Next up is a gorgeous matte glitter topper. This is Kawaii Poodle Pink. I LOVE this glitter! Look at those pink squares! This is Poodle Pink over NYC Sidewalkers.

 Seriously. Square pink glitters. Yes.

This one is Emily from Different Dimension's Pretty Little Liars Collection. Emily is TONS of matte micro-glitters in periwinkle, green, and white. This is packed! It only took two coats to get this full coverage you see here. This is similar in nature to Floam, but this is SO much easier to work with, and the colors suit me so much more.

Here's a close-up. I don't know where that one random red glitter came from, so please ignore that :p

Here is Butter London Two Fingered Salute. I have lemmed this polish for so long, and I am not happy with the pictures at all. This is a lovely green creme with copper multiglitter, but the copper just did not show through very well in the photos. I'm working on building a lightbox, and when I get that finished, I will have to re-swatch this. As with every Butter I've tried, the formula was fantastic, so smooth...well. like butter!

Here's a close-up so you can see the copper microglitter a bit better. Lovely, no?

And there you have it, happy Saturday, I hope you've enjoyed the swatches!

Til next time!

-Kara