tomboy with a nail polish problem | mostly lacquer & unboxings
This week's polish is ILNP 1UP, from ILNP's Summer 2015 Ultra Holo collection. It was one of my Black Friday polishes. ❤ Mr. Fiend got me Super Mario Odyssey for Christmas, so I've been playing that with our preschooler a lot recently, and this polish fits that perfectly, hehe. https://www.instagram.com/p/B7KMpFTgFsu/ 1UP is a cheery green... Continue Reading →
I also ended up buying the Live Love Polish Galaxy Trio (which includes Dark Matter, Cosmic Dust, and Stellar Halo) during Black Friday sales. Dark Matter, especially, is essentially what I'd have requested if I ever won one of those custom polish contests, so I'm quite happy with it. https://www.instagram.com/p/B61Tj0KAock/ Dark Matter has a black... Continue Reading →
ILNP continues to be one of my favorite indie nail polish brands. I picked up a few colors over their Black Friday sale last year and was very happy with all of them. Here are Fired Up, Summer Lovin', and Christmas Cookie. https://www.instagram.com/p/B519mvsgxmT/ Fired Up is one of ILNP's Color Kissed Ultra Holo polishes and... Continue Reading →
Late, late, late. I can't seem to keep up with my nail journal these days, but I guess it's better late than never! Trying to catch up today. This is KBShimmer Here for the Boos, a bright, juicy orange jelly packed with all kinds of holographic glitter goodness. It's a chunkier polish, so it dries... Continue Reading →
I don't know how I've gone so long without trying KBShimmer, but I've definitely thought about ordering for a very long time. I think it was my usual top coat running low and getting all clotted up that got me to finally order, since KBShimmer's top coat is highly rated by many fellow polish addicts.... Continue Reading →
I fell in love with NAVNI Beauty Space Eggplant as soon as I saw a swatch for the first time on Instagram. NAVNI Beauty is a relatively new indie polish brand created by Kripa, who also works full-time as a physician/surgeon (link to Paula's swatch post and interview, since I discovered NAVNI through her :)) -... Continue Reading →
The Surreal World duo ($20) is the other Julep holiday set that I ordered as an add-on to my December 2018 Julep box, comprising of: Azalea (Bombshell) – Pink Sunrise Holographic Microglitter A pale pink base loaded with fine holographic particles, nearly opaque in two coats, as in my photo, on the ring finger. Also makes a... Continue Reading →
I don't know if I previously swatched Zoya Payton and just forgot to post photos or what. It's also a 2013 polish (from Zoya's Zenith collection) like the one in my last post, but this one has aged gracefully and didn't require any thinning, despite it being five years old. This is two coats with... Continue Reading →
From my untried polishes, this is Sephora Formula X Hocus Pocus, two coats, with Sally Hansen Miracle Gel top coat, in outdoor natural light. It's too bad Sephora discontinued their Formula X line. I got this in a sampler set at some point, and this was the representative polish from their Holograms series. https://www.instagram.com/p/BnkeLvBBK_w/?taken-by=eternaldecember Hocus... Continue Reading →
This is ILNP By Nightfall from the fall 2017 collection. https://www.instagram.com/p/BioKSuyhA9J/?taken-by=eternaldecember By Nightfall is a shimmery metallic almost-black blue-gray generously loaded with silver and holo flakes. It’s definitely aptly named! The holo sparkle isn’t in your face, but you can definitely see the rainbows in direct light. https://www.instagram.com/p/BioKxWfhz5i/?taken-by=eternaldecember The formula is easy to apply and... Continue Reading →
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