Indie Spotlight: LynBDesigns.Etsy.Com!

I received a package in the mail the other day in which I was sent two GORGEOUS polishes from the lovely LynBDesigns at Etsy.com to review and swatch for my blog. I would have had this up earlier, but had since broke my pinkie ON MY SWATCHING HAND and it's a little difficult to type since it's all bundled up. Luckily I was able to swatch the colors BEFORE my pinkie got messed up :) The two colors I received were Black Tie and Oswin Oswald. The owner of LynBDesigns, Jenna Miller, makes all of her polish by hand with blends from multiple glitters and pigments. Jenna has some great collections made in honor of different shows, games, or things in general. Some of her collections include the Baker Street collection, which is for Sherlock Holmes, the Dweam Wiffim a Dweam collection, which is for Princess Bride, and the Doctor is in collection, which is for Doctor Who. She carefully chooses different color combinations to match certain things from the media that she bases it off of. So with that said, here are the polishes I received:

As you can see, I received Black Tie and Oswin Oswald. Black Tie is from the "Dressed to Kill" collection, and Oswin Oswald is from the "Just Stories" collection, which is another Doctor Who collection.

Black Tie is a beautiful, creamy black, with gold flecks in it. The flecks in it, depending on the light that you look at it in, sometimes come off as  greenish gold color.

This is a better picture to show the beautiful gold flecks in it. The formula for this polish is awesome. This polish isn't thick, but it's also not thin like a lot of regular black polishes I have, it's the perfect consistency. You get a lot of flecks on your nail, which is always good so you don't have to keep layering polish which in turn makes it harder to dry fully. However, I do wish the flecks were more prominent, and by that I mean I wish they shined more. When applying them to your nail, they show wonderfully, but as it dries they become more dull or almost sunken into the polish. Although I do wish they had a little more shine to them, I do like the result that it brings. I'm someone who will wear just plain black polish, and sometimes it's a little too dark and dull, so the extra shimmer that this polish puts off while still bearing that creamy black is beautiful.

From left to right, nails 1 and 3 have two coats of Black Tie, and one coat of NYC clear coat. Nails 2 and 4 have two coats of Black Tie, and one coat of NYC Matte Me Crazy. I wanted to do a matte top coat to see if it could bring the gold out a little more, and as you can see it did end up dulling it just a tad so you could see that the gold flecks are in it, as nails 1 and 3 are kind of too glossy to see them. I had a really hard time trying to capture this polish on camera.

Here you can see a few flecks, but it looks predominantly black. My camera wasn't picking up the gold, so I tried taking another picture:

Usually I only take 2 pictures per swatch, but I had to do a third to try and get it the way it's supposed to be, and I didn't really have luck unfortunately :(



Oswin Oswald is a sheer, red, almost jelly polish with large white diamond confetti, silver hexagons, small red glitter and small holographic glitter. Now, I say holographic glitter because the silver hexagons give off a silver reflection, while the small glitter gives of a rainbowy effect in certain light. This is my new favorite polish EVER. I'm so in love with this color! :)



In this picture, the hexagons are showing up white, but they're aren't, they're silver :) Once again, this is a fantastic formula. It goes on extremely smoothly for a chunky glitter polish. I love that this can work as both an over coat, or it can be buildable to opacity to be worn alone. This polish really reminds me of one of Batman's nemesis' Harley Quinn. I however wish that the white diamonds came out more, BUT I actually like it doesn't overload the nails with them. It's a nice added touch to have just a few diamonds on the whole manicure rather than a bunch on 1 nail.



For my swatch I did two coats of Oswin Oswald over the first two fingers, two coats of it over 1 coat of Shades of the Season black on the third finger, and two coats of it over 2 coats of Hard to Get by Sally Hansen on my pinkie. I then put 1 coat of NYC New York Color clear coat over fingers 1, 3, and 4. Personally I like this polish over nothing, just on my normal nails. I feel that having it over white makes the color more pink, and I feel that it takes away from the shine and sparkle of the polish. I'm not crazy having it over black, but I'd definitely wear it like that. I'd love to put it over silver :)

Here you can see the awesome diamonds plastered on my nails :) I really love it! I think it looks awesome. This polish literally dries lightning fast. I was so shocked at how fast it dried.

Overall I feel that these polishes are a great addition to any polish fan's collection. Although I found a couple things I wish were different, I think that the pros out weigh what I didn't like!

I'd like to thank LynBDesigns for sending me out the bottles, I enjoyed swatching and working with them :)

If you're interested in purchasing these or looking at her other creations visit:

LynBDesigns.Etsy.Com