Starry Earths Mermaid Elixir & 70% Chance Of Rain

I was very privileged the other day to receive an AMAZING AMAZING AMAZING package from the lovely  Elizabeth at Starry Earth. I am going to start by showing you two, but stay tuned over the next couple days for the rest of the polishes including a brand new sneak peak at an upcoming Halloween special!

These two polishes are possibly the most amazing pastels I own. And by possibly, I mean these are the two MOST AMAZING pastel polishes I own. They are beyond words. Mermaid Elixir and 70% Chance Of Rain are both pastel polishes that are more or less shimmers. But not just any shimmers. These polishes have shimmers that are made up of tiny holographic glitter. I am hesitant to call it holographic glitter however because it is so fine that it just shows up as the most AMAZING shimmer ever. 

"70% Chance of Rain is a stormy grey blue shimmer polish. It has tiny (and I mean tiny) silver holo glitters. It shimmers without being overpowering. It's a great polish if you like glitter but don't want it to be in your face glitter!" What more is there to really say about this than that? When she says the holographic glitter is tiny, she really means it. It really is more like a holographic shimmer. I would never in a million years consider this a glitter polish personally, but it is so far elevated from a normal shimmer I am unsure what I SHOULD call it. Stunning. Beautiful. My favourite light blue I own. So much so that I am worried about picking up my bottle of Chanel Skyline later this week as I doubt it will be as nice as this one. And yes. I am 100% serious in that. Opaque in two coats, its just perfect.

"Mermaid Elixir is a light green shimmering polish. It has tiny (and I mean tiny) silver holo glitters. It shimmers without being overpowering. It's a great polish if you like glitter but don't want it to be in your face glitter!". This basically is the twin sister of 70% Chance Of Rain. It is basically the green version of the above one. Totally stunning,

One coat of each polish

Two coats of each

Two coats of each over a black base (Nailtini Espresso) 

Two coats of each over black on the left, two coats of each on its own on the right

Full sized bottles are available in Elizabeth's Etsy shop for 8.00 each. You can shop her store HERE!

F4 Polishes - The Black/Whites

I now present you with the black and white polishes from F4. These may just be my favourite. They work over every single colour and are just so much FUN! I do however feel like they ruin Lynnderella Connect The Dots a bit for me now though. These seem so much more interesting and different to me I do not think I will reach for the CTD when I can grab one of these. Thats not to say that its not a lovely polish, but once you see these in person....... Well, trust me. You NEED to see these F4 polishes in person!!

Holy Cow "is a clear base with round silver holographic glitter, small white square glitter and fine black glitter." This is my favourite from the black and whites. It is fantastic on its own at three coats and I love it over any and every bright colour I have tried it over thus far.

Chunky Cow "is a fine black glitter based polish with silver holographic glitters and small white matte hex glitters."

Mirror Ball "is a clear base with various shapes and sizes of silver and holographic silver glitters."

SPLAT! "is a clear base with various shapes and sizes of white and black matte glitters and silver holographic glitters." Another love!!

Black Tie Affair "is a clear base with silver holographic glitters and black and white slice glitters.". The holographic glitter really adds another dimension to the polish! I love it!!! I have also added (ok, kind of stolen, but I am telling you, so I hope that makes it ok!!) the photo from the etsy store showing it over other colours.

And here are three coats of each! I really like the look of Holy Cow and Chunky Cow on its own, though I would probably do four coats of the Chunky Cow!!

F4 Polishes - The Purples

So today I have for you the purples I ordered from F4 Polish. I also got Piper which is the polish that I first fell in love with that led to me to this 23 polish haul! I will be shortly holding a giveaway for the bottle of that since as you all know I got it recently in a gift! All these swatches are shown with one coat over black, one coat on its own, one coat over purple and then swatches of it with three coats on its own.

Space Mountain "is a clear based polish with black, white, purple and blue matte glitters and silver holographic glitters.". I like that while the glitters are larger it is still a very dense glitter that goes on super easy. There is no fishing out of even the larger glitters and it applies rather densely. One of my favourites.

Blueberry Surprise is described as "is a purple glitter base with large matte blue hex glitters, medium blue and purple shiny glitters, small purple and blue hex glitters and small matte blue glitters." I really love this one most over the bright julep purple colour! The base in this one is basically clear though there is so much fine purple glitter it tends to give the look of a purple tinge to the base!

Mermaids Tail is described as "is a clear base with holographic pink and blue glitters and purple and teal satin matte glitters." I was worried this one might lean a little to pink for me, but I really dont see it as being a pink at all. The combo of the blue, purple and pink really  make the pink lean light purple and its just fabulous.

Snow Cap Mountain "is a clear base with silver holographic glitters, fine small matte pink glitters, small blue matte hex glitters and white matte hex glitters.". I really really like this one. It is completely unique in my collection not only in colour but in feel also. Its more girly and delicate than i would normally ever go for but I actually really dig it!

Purple Skies "is a purple holographic base with white hex glitter and black hex glitter.". While I do not dislike this one, I really dont love this one. There is nothing wrong with it. I just find it kind of boring compared to all the other polishes in this line. This one seems more the glitter bomb and less a complex..... Oh I dont know how to finish that sentence. Its not bad. Just not my favourite.

Stormy Night "is a clear based polish with mixed matte glitters in purple, black, white and blue in various shapes. This polish looks great as a top coat over many colors.". This one is possibly my favourite one look wise of them all. Its fantastic and fun and........ a pain in the you know what to apply. Its not so much impossible to apply, but I really did find it frustrating. This one I found that I would brush the polish on and it would drag the colours along. So you have to kind of dab the polish on and adjust where the glitter goes if you know what I mean? For some reason when you brush it on the purple and blues all ended up at the edge of the nail. They didn't really come OFF the brush. So you end up with all the glitter clumped together. I had to go back and use the tip of the brush to readjust where everything landed. That being said, I think its TOTALLY worth the hassle as I LOVE LOVE LOVE this!!

                  F4 Polish can be purchased HERE!