I was lucky enough to receive a few samples from an indie polish maker Michelle Neasbitt or known by her Etsy shop as Laquerlicious! These are beautiful, handmade polishes made with the high quality, cosmetic grade glitter. Not only are these handmade, but they're also 3 Free meaning her formula has no toluene, formaldehyde, or dibutyl phthalate which is AWESOME because if you're a polish maniac like myself (Haha...wordplay on my blog name...I'm awesome) and change your polish on an almost everyday basis, you'll know that it's important to not saturate your nails with harmful chemicals (even though you really shouldn't be doing that in general anyways.) So there is a little background on the polish itself.
These are the three polish samples I received (P.S. I fixed my light box...so now I can take better pictures, still need a higher MP camera):
The three polishes, if you can't see, are Zebra Kisses, Salt Water, and Stained Glass. Holy beautiful, right? Now, I won't lie if I don't like a polish that has been sent to me for review, or that I bought for review, and I have to honestly say, it's very very hard to find a single flaw in these polishes.
Salt Water is a clear base with large white & teal hexagon glitters, medium sized teal & white square/hexagon glitters, and small teal & white square/hexagon glitters. This beautiful polish (which I should add, teal is one of my FAVORITE nail polish colors) is a buildable polish and by its density, I believe it could be buildable to almost opacity.
With full glitter overcoats or polishes, it sometimes can be a pain in the butt to get them on the brush to actually apply them to the nail, but this polish is beyond easy to apply. It spreads on perfectly without keeping the glitter all on the brush. One little dip into the bottle and the brush is covered greatly. One thing I find interesting is that in certain lights and angles, some of the teal glitters have a beautiful blue shimmer to them. It really adds to the effect of "Salt Water" a.k.a the ocean.
For my swatches, I decided to do it over 1 coat of Julep's Harley. I thought the combo of white & teal with silver would give a futuristic look. The first two nails have one coat of Salt Water, while the last two have 2 coats. You can see that in another coat, it filled up the nail very well which leads me to believe it could be built up to almost full opacity.
On to the next beauty!
Another beautiful polish, this is Stained Glass. This is another clear base with HUGE/large chunky glitters in a variety of colors (pink, blue, orange, silver, yellow, green, teal). But this isn't just a normal glitter overcoat polish...these glitters are friggen HOLOGRAPHIC!!! Yes. I'm a HUGE holographic fan, and when I got this I nearly squealed in excitement. I can't stop looking at it. And in advance, my camera could NOT pick up the beauty of these glitters...so these pictures won't compare to the real thing. You'll have to go and purchase it on her Etsy shop which I will link below (trust me, you'll love it).
For a thick based super big glitter polish, this goes on surprisingly beautifully. I found only having to dab a few glitters onto super bare spots on my nails. Other than that, just brushing them on worked perfectly for me. This is a polish that would look great over anything and would be perfect for birthdays, new years, ect.
This is over 2 coats of Sinful Colors Inkwell. The first two fingers again have 1 coat, while the last two fingers have 2 coats :) This justifies me saying it wouldn't capture the beauty...
Last but not least, my favorite:
ZEBRA KISSES!!! Totally head over heels in love with this polish. I can't even explain my joy. I really can't. This is a beautiful clear base with black and white glitter shreds. These shreds are awesomely MATTE though! This is honestly my favorite overcoat of anything I've ever tried out, EVER. The confetti flakes remind me of when I sharpen crayons (yes...I love coloring) and you get the little shreds of crayon everywhere.
Now I found a minor flaw with this, that actually turned to work out in the polish itself's favor. The problem was that I couldn't get a lot of the flakes on my brush/nail, BUT I find that the effect this gives off with LESS of the glitters is better than a ton of it. So it's not really a "con".
UGH LOOK AT IT! So friggen beautiful! It really, oddly, reminds me of something out of the 80's or 90's! I love it so so much! This is over 2 coats of Sally Hansen Pretty in Hot Pink!
Once again, first two fingers are 1 coat of Zebra Kisses, last two fingers are 2 coats.
Another widespread pro about all 3 of these polishes is that they all dry super fast, and they all come off extremely easy. I found that I didn't even have to soak my fingernails like I've had to do with Sally Hansen glitter overcoats.
These are super high quality nail polishes, and I would recommend them to any polish fanatic/addict.
To buy these polishes, go to:
www.etsy.com/shop/LaquerliciousUnity
or
www.bigcartel.com/laquerlicious
Follow Laquerlicious on their social media sites:
Instagram- @CreativeNailChick #Laquerlicious
Facebook- www.facebook.com/laquerlicious
Twitter- www.twitter.com/nailchickmich
The three polishes, if you can't see, are Zebra Kisses, Salt Water, and Stained Glass. Holy beautiful, right? Now, I won't lie if I don't like a polish that has been sent to me for review, or that I bought for review, and I have to honestly say, it's very very hard to find a single flaw in these polishes.
wow I love your blog it is so informative very professional and fun great job !!!!!!!!!!
ReplyDeleteAwesome review Mishelle!! Thank you so much for helping me out! It's very much appreciated!
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