The Polish Jinx

Wednesday, December 28, 2011

My First (But Not Going To Be My Last) Lynderella Order Swatched

Lynderella may now be available for sale on the llarowe website but that is a very new development. When I ordered these, there was no where but her blog to purchase them and Lynn did NOT sell to Canada. So myself and a friend got together with an American to order. When the order came she had thrown in an extra bottle of Mercury's Rainbow as a thank you for our order (I THINK 10 or 11 polishes in total). The Mercurys Rainbow was split into three mini OPI bottles so we could all have some of it. That is why you will see the funny tiny bottle next to the normal ones.

Just so you know, all swatches are done 2 coats of the polish on its own, and one coat over a black crème (Gosh Nero as always!)

Snow Angel is a milky white base with round, hexagonal, and square white glitter. This polish is from her The First Edition collection. It is very much a winter wonderland kind of polish, and I now need to run out and buy a white creme polish to use under this. Black does not do this polish justice!!!

Bride Of Franken is from the Early Halloween collection. This polish has vivid blue blue multi-sized glitter with holographic rainbow dust, pink and blue sparks in a sheer, lavender base. It really is very pretty and unique. This has such a strong purple/blue duochrome feel and I LOVE IT!

Mercurys Rainbow is a gorgeous polish consisting of a clear base filled with holographic glitter, and gunmetal glitter. Its so unique because while the glitter is HIGHLY INSANELY holographic, its larger round glitter, which is not something I have ever seen holographic before. This one is also from the First Edition Collection

Gotta Love Brains is such an interesting colour with so much depth. It is a grey base with pink shimmer. Then, the glitter is silver, holographic, and pastel pink and blue in square, bar, hexagonal and round glitter! It is also from the Early Halloween collection.

Finger Paints Special Effects Swatches

Oh wow! Was this insanity to get! I've been calling Sally's Beauty EVERY SINGLE day asking if they are in yet. Today, YES! They are in! YAHOO!! I run down to the store and they aren't out yet. Still in the back. And almost completely GONE! I got all 5, plus another set of all minus Twisted for my mom, and then I managed to get one more for one of my Secret Cupid gifts I have (I am sending two nail polish Secret Cupid gifts out). That was EVERY one they had! Ten. That's it. BAH!!! I need to track down another Twisted for my mom and at least one other one for my Cupid. There is one more store in the city and they haven't unboxed them yet! So hopefully I will get them!

These are so hard to photograph! WOW!!! But here is my best shot. They really are so much brighter and move vibrant in person!

Flashy is probably the one that was least exciting, at least for me as far as flakies go. It’s a red to orange to yellow flake. While I do not own Nails Inc The Donmar or Sally Hansen Hidden Treasure I think this is probably very close.

Motley is a green and blue flakie. I will have to compare it to Nfu-Oh 50 & The Wyndham Collection by Nails Inc but they are certainly at least similar. Since I have switched back to my other SLR (I have no idea why I haven't been using this one all along) I should be able to get better shots since it has a macro setting!

Asylum is predominantly red and blue flakies but it has an almost holographic effect that shows flashes of purple and green as well. I was expecting to NOT get this one at all for myself but its actually my favourite of the bunch! Who would have thunk it?

Flecked is really only one colour of flakie. A bright and vibrant green. If you look really hard and adjust you can see the odd shot of blue in it, but essentially it is a green only flakie.

Twisted is the one I THOUGHT would be my favourite. I will have to swatch it next to Cult Nails Unicorn Puke at some point because that is what this reminds me of on. Its red, blue, green, orange and a bit of gold and purple as well. Its actually my least favourite! Just goes to show you, you NEVER KNOW without seeing lots of swatches and playing around with them!

And now on to the fun part! The Swatches!!!! In order from left to right are Flashy, Motley, Asylum, Flecked and Twisted.

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Deborah Lippmann Can Sing!!

I pulled this off youtube. She really CAN sing! Hope your holidays went well and your new years is a blast!

Tuesday, December 27, 2011

The Atmospheric Collection - Leighton Denny Autumn/Winter 2011

Ok, I know I am WAY late posting a fall winter collection, but I was unaware these beauties even existed before tonight! How freaking GORGEOUS are these???? I have never tried this brand before (or heard of it before tonight) so I have no clue the wear, quality, formula, brush or anything else! But I do know this collection SCREAMS my name as much as any collection can!!