the fluffy boys say hey
May. 9th, 2022 11:51 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
impyIt's been about a month so let's catch up with shitty polish pictures, yes?
First up for April was Bee's Knee's Lacquer in Rabbit Rabbit because duh.
For a better idea of how it looked this person's a pro, though I will say that I found mine photographed more sheer than it appeared in reality. If you'd told me my possible favorite formula from a brand I liked would involve flakies, I'd have smacked you. But this is one of those where every variation I've tried I've loved. Double smacked because of how pink this tends to look in various lighting.
My PPU order showed up with a broken bottle of BKL's Velaris but they shipped a new bottle ASAP and that's how I wound up wearing this one next:
It's a reflective glitter polish but I liked how the gold glitter looked like lights on a nightsky and it really was beautiful. Stunning. I liked it better without playing with the flash but that's probably going to be my rule concerning reflective glitters from now on, honestly. This was still fun to play with and I don't think regular gold glitter would have shimmered as brightly so definitely a win.
This brings us to my Easter look, which for the past couple of years has hinged mostly on Olive Ave cremes topped with Revlon's Graffiti.
We have (index to pinkie): Lilac, Aster, Lemon Blossom, and Peony.
Thumb was feeling left out and this is Cornflower. Olive Ave's wide brush is pretty much perfection for my nail shape and her cremes are pretty much one-coaters. I'm glad I snagged Lemon Blossom finally because it's a yellow I actually found myself liking. Damn you, Walker.
Next up was Wildflower Lacquer's Your Television Will Adjust You (with Peony still hanging on) which is a holographic beauty with flakies. Definitely one that almost made me want to brave the sunshine just to see the sparkly rainbow. But it was hot so, y'know, no.
Then my hospital colors. :P
Pink is BKL Act of Wrath from their Lore Olympus collection, the green (which is more blue in the bottle and a bit more of a blue than showing on the nail) is Arion from the same collection, the purple is Dreamland Lacquer's Czech This Out. Act of Wrath is a surprise favorite and I loved how it shifted from gold to blue depending on how the light hit it. In the hospital the tips of the pink nails would look bright blue if I held them up in front of the blue bin in the room. Which I had plenty of time to do. Also the pink would get awfully close to red at times and basically this and Arion were much appreciated. Czech is a reflective glitter that flashes more warm/pink in flash.
Behold. The blurple next to it is Wildflower's Stolen Flame.
Which I'm currently wearing right now, so I guess this tiptoes into May. But I did briefly paint a couple of nails with Rogue Lacquer's It's Gonna Be May:
Terrible, terrible picture but I only had them on for a couple of days and didn't do the full hand because a) hospital took a bit out of me b) really liked Wrath/Arion more than I expected and c) didn't fall in love with this and the giggle factor of wearing this for April 30th was only worth so much time/effort. You can see it in a much better light here, where it's described as a white crelly with gold, purple, blue, and copper metallic flakes. I don't know if time has made the purple flakes bleed into the base or it's simply always looked this way (I think it's that one, actually) but it came across as a shade between purple and grey and it kinda looked like ass on me. To be fair, it would have looked better had it not been worn with two very bright colors but still. I was anxious to get on to the next color.
Stolen Flame is gorgeous and I got compliments when it was only on one nail so on both hands it's been a compliment bonanza. :D I called it a blurple earlier because sometimes it looks very much blue and sometimes it looks very much a deep purple so.. blurple. Really pretty and it's lasted pretty well since I did totes nearly all week and these were taken after my work week.
If you made it this far, behold. I present to you random shots. We've got the gardenias that bloomed for mother's day:
And the furry boys:
Loki is a drama queen. Shocking, right?
Daredevil lets me give him tummy rubs! ♥
Widget doesn't always let them out but when he does the furry boys make sure to say hello. The last couple of times I mean that literally in that they announce their presence vocally if I don't notice them quickly enough. :P
First up for April was Bee's Knee's Lacquer in Rabbit Rabbit because duh.
For a better idea of how it looked this person's a pro, though I will say that I found mine photographed more sheer than it appeared in reality. If you'd told me my possible favorite formula from a brand I liked would involve flakies, I'd have smacked you. But this is one of those where every variation I've tried I've loved. Double smacked because of how pink this tends to look in various lighting.
My PPU order showed up with a broken bottle of BKL's Velaris but they shipped a new bottle ASAP and that's how I wound up wearing this one next:
It's a reflective glitter polish but I liked how the gold glitter looked like lights on a nightsky and it really was beautiful. Stunning. I liked it better without playing with the flash but that's probably going to be my rule concerning reflective glitters from now on, honestly. This was still fun to play with and I don't think regular gold glitter would have shimmered as brightly so definitely a win.
This brings us to my Easter look, which for the past couple of years has hinged mostly on Olive Ave cremes topped with Revlon's Graffiti.
We have (index to pinkie): Lilac, Aster, Lemon Blossom, and Peony.
Thumb was feeling left out and this is Cornflower. Olive Ave's wide brush is pretty much perfection for my nail shape and her cremes are pretty much one-coaters. I'm glad I snagged Lemon Blossom finally because it's a yellow I actually found myself liking. Damn you, Walker.
Next up was Wildflower Lacquer's Your Television Will Adjust You (with Peony still hanging on) which is a holographic beauty with flakies. Definitely one that almost made me want to brave the sunshine just to see the sparkly rainbow. But it was hot so, y'know, no.
Then my hospital colors. :P
Pink is BKL Act of Wrath from their Lore Olympus collection, the green (which is more blue in the bottle and a bit more of a blue than showing on the nail) is Arion from the same collection, the purple is Dreamland Lacquer's Czech This Out. Act of Wrath is a surprise favorite and I loved how it shifted from gold to blue depending on how the light hit it. In the hospital the tips of the pink nails would look bright blue if I held them up in front of the blue bin in the room. Which I had plenty of time to do. Also the pink would get awfully close to red at times and basically this and Arion were much appreciated. Czech is a reflective glitter that flashes more warm/pink in flash.
Behold. The blurple next to it is Wildflower's Stolen Flame.
Which I'm currently wearing right now, so I guess this tiptoes into May. But I did briefly paint a couple of nails with Rogue Lacquer's It's Gonna Be May:
Terrible, terrible picture but I only had them on for a couple of days and didn't do the full hand because a) hospital took a bit out of me b) really liked Wrath/Arion more than I expected and c) didn't fall in love with this and the giggle factor of wearing this for April 30th was only worth so much time/effort. You can see it in a much better light here, where it's described as a white crelly with gold, purple, blue, and copper metallic flakes. I don't know if time has made the purple flakes bleed into the base or it's simply always looked this way (I think it's that one, actually) but it came across as a shade between purple and grey and it kinda looked like ass on me. To be fair, it would have looked better had it not been worn with two very bright colors but still. I was anxious to get on to the next color.
Stolen Flame is gorgeous and I got compliments when it was only on one nail so on both hands it's been a compliment bonanza. :D I called it a blurple earlier because sometimes it looks very much blue and sometimes it looks very much a deep purple so.. blurple. Really pretty and it's lasted pretty well since I did totes nearly all week and these were taken after my work week.
If you made it this far, behold. I present to you random shots. We've got the gardenias that bloomed for mother's day:
And the furry boys:
Loki is a drama queen. Shocking, right?
Daredevil lets me give him tummy rubs! ♥
Widget doesn't always let them out but when he does the furry boys make sure to say hello. The last couple of times I mean that literally in that they announce their presence vocally if I don't notice them quickly enough. :P