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impyI've been lax in updating the polishes worn pictures, but decent at updating the list. So let's go over the (mostly) lefty polishes worn over the last two months, shall we?
Feb:
Crystal Knockout in Gala Gaga. It's a light pink to magenta thermal with black glitters and gold flakies. I didn't really love the gold flakies but I think it's because the pink tended to wash them out to yellow. I actually really loved this one.
Zoya in Fallon. I believe I heard it described as a pink satin ribbon and that description is accurate. It's gorgeous and my only complaint is that for some reason my nails look vaguely duck-nails and they most certainly are not. >_< Seriously though, this color was worth the wait.
Girly Bits in Peppermint Twist, which is a super pale pink linear holo with red glitters and a pink shimmer. I... didn't love this as much as I expected to. Huh. Looking up info, it says it's a silver linear holo with pink to gold "sheen" (shimmer?) and pink/red glitter. I'm still thinking it comes across as a pale pink holo, but the gold is probably what's not working for me, at least not with the red glitters. It was pretty, but I spent the entire time wishing I'd just gone with Holo Taco's Menchie instead. *shrug*
Polish Molish in The Spice Melange and Night Owl Lacquer in Winter Nights Sparkle. Right hand looking about par for the course, honestly. Spice Melange is one of those reflective glitter polishes and it's really pretty when certain light hits it but isn't my absolute favorite the rest of the time. To be fair, I was meh on all my polish at this point, which is why the NoL didn't get a full hand.
Pointer and Ring (and thumb) tried out Bee's Knee's Lacquer in Fuck which is another reflective glitter. The red is what it looks like 98% of the time, but the blue/purple is what happens when you take a flash picture. It literally never looks like that to the naked eye, though you do get a lot of the blue/purple sparkles if you break out the flashlight on your phone or a real flashlight. But the polish itself, overall? Which is a mindfuck. And annoying because it wasn't until I'd been sitting there wearing this for a couple of hours that I thought "huh. Flashlight didn't really do it but maybe they meant flash right before a photo?"
So. Reflective glitters as a trend. I have mixed feelings. On the one hand, I like the addition of sparkles to things. MORE SPARKLE. On the other hand, I've literally only seen ONE reviewer spell it out that if you want to see the reflective glitter in action, you're in for a world of disappointment because it's not really visible like that to the naked eye on the nail. So never buy one of these hoping for the flash version to be visible outside of pictures. With that being said, I still would've bought Fuck for the name and because looking at this one in the bottle will give you the reflective glitter sparkles and they soothe something in my frazzled brain. I wish I could say I was kidding about that, but no. Looking at them twinkle in the light actually makes some part of my brain stop freaking out. It's weird, it's lovely, it's what it is.
But also fuck reviewers for not saying it plainly because JFC, there's a world of difference between "you'll see it with a flashlight!" and uh, your camera will pick up the reflecting colors but your eyes will not. :P
March:
BKL in Area 51. This was a mystery polish and it dries matte and it's frickin' gorgeous. I got SO MANY compliments on this and it's one of the few colors I slapped on every nail on both hands. Also the clean-up didn't go so well but it still lasted a good long while. I probably should've kept this one for St. Patrick's Day but didn't.
Pointer is Wildflower Lacquer in I Could Vomit Just Looking At You and the rest are Pahlish in Toxic Jungle. The gold is Pahlish's Goldsmith, which I also did on my thumb over Area 51 and it was less St. Patrick's Day and more Christmas. Also a ton of compliments on these.
Currently wearing:
Wildflower Lacquer in Darkside of the Moonrise 2.0 and it's a pink flakie bomb. I actually really like this one way more than I would've thought considering I don't tend to love pink polishes and I used to hate flakies. But this one's been on most of the week and I'm considering slapping on a scattered holo topcoat and wearing it for a bit longer. Definitely will if I wind up alternating a few with the blue in this collection for a Jinx look.
Oh, and obviously filed my nails down.
Feb:
Crystal Knockout in Gala Gaga. It's a light pink to magenta thermal with black glitters and gold flakies. I didn't really love the gold flakies but I think it's because the pink tended to wash them out to yellow. I actually really loved this one.
Zoya in Fallon. I believe I heard it described as a pink satin ribbon and that description is accurate. It's gorgeous and my only complaint is that for some reason my nails look vaguely duck-nails and they most certainly are not. >_< Seriously though, this color was worth the wait.
Girly Bits in Peppermint Twist, which is a super pale pink linear holo with red glitters and a pink shimmer. I... didn't love this as much as I expected to. Huh. Looking up info, it says it's a silver linear holo with pink to gold "sheen" (shimmer?) and pink/red glitter. I'm still thinking it comes across as a pale pink holo, but the gold is probably what's not working for me, at least not with the red glitters. It was pretty, but I spent the entire time wishing I'd just gone with Holo Taco's Menchie instead. *shrug*
Polish Molish in The Spice Melange and Night Owl Lacquer in Winter Nights Sparkle. Right hand looking about par for the course, honestly. Spice Melange is one of those reflective glitter polishes and it's really pretty when certain light hits it but isn't my absolute favorite the rest of the time. To be fair, I was meh on all my polish at this point, which is why the NoL didn't get a full hand.
Pointer and Ring (and thumb) tried out Bee's Knee's Lacquer in Fuck which is another reflective glitter. The red is what it looks like 98% of the time, but the blue/purple is what happens when you take a flash picture. It literally never looks like that to the naked eye, though you do get a lot of the blue/purple sparkles if you break out the flashlight on your phone or a real flashlight. But the polish itself, overall? Which is a mindfuck. And annoying because it wasn't until I'd been sitting there wearing this for a couple of hours that I thought "huh. Flashlight didn't really do it but maybe they meant flash right before a photo?"
So. Reflective glitters as a trend. I have mixed feelings. On the one hand, I like the addition of sparkles to things. MORE SPARKLE. On the other hand, I've literally only seen ONE reviewer spell it out that if you want to see the reflective glitter in action, you're in for a world of disappointment because it's not really visible like that to the naked eye on the nail. So never buy one of these hoping for the flash version to be visible outside of pictures. With that being said, I still would've bought Fuck for the name and because looking at this one in the bottle will give you the reflective glitter sparkles and they soothe something in my frazzled brain. I wish I could say I was kidding about that, but no. Looking at them twinkle in the light actually makes some part of my brain stop freaking out. It's weird, it's lovely, it's what it is.
But also fuck reviewers for not saying it plainly because JFC, there's a world of difference between "you'll see it with a flashlight!" and uh, your camera will pick up the reflecting colors but your eyes will not. :P
March:
BKL in Area 51. This was a mystery polish and it dries matte and it's frickin' gorgeous. I got SO MANY compliments on this and it's one of the few colors I slapped on every nail on both hands. Also the clean-up didn't go so well but it still lasted a good long while. I probably should've kept this one for St. Patrick's Day but didn't.
Pointer is Wildflower Lacquer in I Could Vomit Just Looking At You and the rest are Pahlish in Toxic Jungle. The gold is Pahlish's Goldsmith, which I also did on my thumb over Area 51 and it was less St. Patrick's Day and more Christmas. Also a ton of compliments on these.
Currently wearing:
Wildflower Lacquer in Darkside of the Moonrise 2.0 and it's a pink flakie bomb. I actually really like this one way more than I would've thought considering I don't tend to love pink polishes and I used to hate flakies. But this one's been on most of the week and I'm considering slapping on a scattered holo topcoat and wearing it for a bit longer. Definitely will if I wind up alternating a few with the blue in this collection for a Jinx look.
Oh, and obviously filed my nails down.
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Date: 2022-05-30 05:17 pm (UTC)