Starkweather Pops - Chirality

I am honored and very excited to be bringing you another set of four reviews! Amanda of Chirality Nail Polish asked me if I would be willing to review the second half of her cereal killer collection!

Of course, I said yes! She was my first sponsored review ever, with the first half of the collection!  So, she was a sweetheart and gifted them to me for my honest review and swatches. 

(http://mommiesmanis.blogspot.com/2013/01/chirality-cereal-color-collection_28.html) I have been excited to show these off ever since she emailed me last week! Like the first half of the set, these have quirky names. I'm going to bet when they are listed on the site they will have some epic descriptions like the last ones.

I'm going to do four installments so each gets its own post. Otherwise it would be pretty photo heavy

Up next is Starkweather Pops. 

I really like this one.  It's another cereal in milk type polish with chunky golden yellow glitters in multiple shapes and sizes. There's more holo action in this one that again, my camera boycotting capturing. There's also big white hexes in it. I didn't even realize it until I polished one to my nail!

This one went on easier than the others on the third coat, and was opaque at that point. The glitters didn't seem to clump for me and laid nicely.

Somehow I forgot to put on top coat for the photos. Whoopsies!

This one dried well also. I don't know if it's a bit thinner than Gacy Charms maybe and that's why?

This isn't a colored I would lean to automatically, but I LOVE it and wouldn't mind owning the full size some day. And it captured the breakfast feel well, apparently, because after taking these photos I really wanted to eat cereal... 

This is a winner, for sure.

Apple Jack the Ripper - Chirality

I am honored and very excited to be bringing you another set of four reviews! Amanda of Chirality Nail Polish asked me if I would be willing to review the second half of her cereal killer collection!

Of course, I said yes! She was my first sponsored review ever, with the first half of the collection!  So, these polishes were provided to me free of charge for my honest review and swatches. (http://mommiesmanis.blogspot.com/2013/01/chirality-cereal-color-collection_28.html) 

I have been excited to show these off ever since she emailed me last week! Like the first half of the set, these have quirky names. I'm going to bet when they are listed on the site they will have some epic descriptions like the last ones.

I'm going to do four installments so each gets its own post. Otherwise it would be pretty photo heavy!

Part two is "Apple Jack the Ripper."

This is another milky white base with various shapes, sizes, and colors of green hued glitter. There's a pale chartreuse and a large holo teal circle, among others. It caught my eye first, because I love green! 

It's so much fun. The variety in shape and colored of glitter works really well together. The milky white takes on almost a minty hue as you build layers. I used three to test opacity. This is loaded with glitter, so application can get a little hard as you build. I had no issues with the first or second but the third got a little gloppy looking. I smoothed it over with top coat though and loved it.  I was worried I wouldn't get any of the large circles because the first coat provided none, but I let it rest upside down in between and had no issue the second coat!

Unfortunately, the holo-flares escaped my camera phone today, but trust me, they are there and very pretty!

Gacy Charms - Chirality

I am honored and very excited to be bringing you another set of four reviews! Amanda of Chirality Nail Polish asked me if I would be willing to review the second half of her cereal killer collection!

Of course, I said yes! She was my first sponsored review ever, with the first half of the collection! So, the polishes wet given to me in exchange for my honest review and swatches. (http://mommiesmanis.blogspot.com/2013/01/chirality-cereal-color-collection_28.html) I have been excited to show these off ever since she emailed me last week! Like the first half of the set, these have quirky names. I'm going to bet when they are listed on the site they will have some epic descriptions like the last ones.

http://Chirality.bigcartel.com

I'm going to do four installments so each gets its own post. Otherwise it would be pretty photo heavy!

Up first, I'll be showing you Gacy Charms.

This is the most "wild" of the four, if you ask me. It's not really my style, but it's really fun and very creative. It's modeled after a very... charming cereal. Haha.

It's got a milky white base, tiny green glitter, and a bunch if shapes and colored glitters to boot (hearts, stars, crescents, flowers, circles, bars, maybe more...). It's LOADED. 

It applies well, though its very packed with glitter so it seems a little thick. its really not, its just a lot if glitters. The glitters are big, so on small round nails like mine they seem a little chunky. Two coats of top coat smoothed them over. The first two coats dried quickly, the third stayed tacky a while because by then I had built it pretty thick to test the opacity. It was opaque, more or less, by the three coats. It definitely has the feeling of a bright, marshmallow-y cereal in milk. 

Overall, it's fun if you like colorful and unique polishes! Like I said, it's not my general style, but I would definitely recommend it!

Black Tie Optional in Turquoise & Caicos!

I purchased both of the polishes for my current manicure this week and they've both been on my wishlist for awhile.

I took advantage of my $5.50 CVS reward bucks to buy Essie's Turquoise & Caicos. It is priced at $8.29 at CVS. I also saw it at Walmart for $7.75.

Although I have a few similar colors, they are all just different enough for T & C to be a fantastic addition to my collection. It's a beautiful creamy turquoise, just the right mix of blue and green. It applied perfectly, opaque in only two light coats. (Although looking at it in the sun, I probably could have used another coat.)

My second purchase was Hard Candy's Black Tie Optional. It was love at first sight after seeing swatches by several nail bloggers. It took forever for my neighborhood Walmart to stock the new Hard Candy collection. I was very happy to see this one restocked today, and at just $4.00, I had to take it home with me. I love it just as much on my nails as I did on the various swatches! It features small, medium, & large white and black hex, black bars, and tiny and small black & white rounds. 

BTO will look incredible over any color. I paired it with Turquoise & Caicos today and it is every bit as fantastic as I expected! One accent nail (one coat) with Sally Hansen Hard as Nails crystal clear over all. 

 

Lonely Boy - LynBDesigns

I am truly honored, and very excited to bring you a set of four blog posts in which I will feature four BRAND NEW polishes from LynBDesigns.  These were provided to me for my honest review, and of course, oodles of photos (because I'm a photo addict). 

These four neon polishes are part of a larger collection, to be released on May 15, 2013. There are four other polishes that will be part of the collection. There will be 8 total.

They will be available here:

http://www.etsy.com/shop/lynbdesigns

I was going to put all four polishes into one post, but... I just can't! Or won't... 

The final polish from the set I was given is called "Lonely Boy." It's my favorite of them all, I think.

This is a creamy neon cobalt blue with an assortment of glitters. My assessment is that there are holographic squares and large hexes, some holographic shreds, black shreds, and maybe some white ones? It's so creamy it's hard to tell in the bottle, but I think that's part of the fun!

Review: This is so creamy and rich. I used two coats over a bright white base. I read somewhere (on Instagram (I'm @goghgreen by the way)) that if you use a white base, neon colors totally pop.  Yup. It's true. 

The glitters disperse well, but the large hexes are a bit stubborn and would require a bit of fishing if you were wanting them on every nail, I think. I had two on my left hand, total. The blue is pretty darn opaque, so even though there are glitters that are holographic, the photos didn't pick it up very well at all. But don't let that fool you: in person you can tell they are there! I'm kind of sad I didn't really catch the color flares, but I promise they are visible when wearing it! The glitters also lay flush to the nail and didn't seem to clump when I applied, which was great! I think it's the creamy formula, but I'm totally guessing.

The blue is so vivid it's incredible. If you've seen Essie - Butler Please, it's a neon version if hat, basically. It's fantastic. I LOVE it.

Shown below is in natural outdoor light, both shade and the sun, and one under my wall sconce. Pardon the marred tip of my pointer finger. I dropped something on the driveway and scratched it picking it up. Should have used my other hand!

So... which of these four do you like best?