Darling Diva Bitchcraft Swatches & Review

I have a thing for color shifting glitter. It's like magic to me. Bitchcraft is a charcoal holo w/ color changing glitter - the best of both worlds! The glitter shifts from red to blue.

Bitchcraft is a perfect polish. It wasn't too thick or thin. This is 3 coats. I also used Orly Bonder & hk girl top coat.

I rarely use a polish more than once but I've worn this baby 3 times now. It's one of my favorites.

$12 Darling Diva

Llarowe Mystery Grab Bag

I try to resist mystery bags but I couldn't help myself.

Jindie Nails - Stealth

Arcane Lacquer - Bated Breath

Darling Diva - Girly

It's not a horrible grab bag but I'm not terribly excited about it either. I think this will be my last grab bag for awhile. 

$20 @ Llarowe

Cupcake Polish Holiday Mystery Box

I've wanted to try Cupcake Polish's holos for some time but they are always sold out. I couldn't resist this mystery box - hoping for a holo!

You're Making Me Blush

Pretty Penny

Denver

Soft Kitty

I got a holo - Denver! It's a gorgeous lime green.

Cupcake's holiday mystery box retails for $30 but I paid $22. Honestly, I would have been super disappointed if I didn't get a holo. Her holos retail $13 and glitters $9 - I think I got a awesome deal!!

Cupcake Polish

Purple Mani in Support of World Cancer Day

Today is World Cancer Day so I've painted my nails purple to show support. I've lost 3 dear friends to cancer. I'm getting teary just thinking about them.

Darling Diva Polish - Gypsy

This polish is gorgeous!!

It's a silvery lavender holo w/ pink & blue shimmer.

I love how delicate it looks.

1 coat Orly Bonder, 3 coats DDP Gypsy & 1 coat hk girl top coat.

Darling Diva Polish

Darling Diva The White Witch Haul

Darling Diva is one of my favorite indies and she recently released The White Witch Collection. It was created in honor of Stevie Nicks who played a cameo on The Coven. While I'm not a fan of Stevie Nicks, I love The Coven. She made 12 gorgeous holos - here are 6 of them.

L to R 

Bella Donna

Stand Back

Nightbird

If Anyone Falls

Gypsy

Dreams

Gypsy is my favorite. It's a beautiful silvery lilac holo. 

Ruby Mare Swatches & Review - Femme Fatale

I think I may have found my HG polish.

Femme Fatale's Ruby Hare is described as a berry pink holo w/ copper.

It looks pink, purple, red and copper to me depending on the light. It's stunning.

Smooth application - no issues at all! 2 coats + hk girl top coat.

Femme Fatale Cosmetics

Llarowe Mystery Grab Bag

I was finally able to snag a Llarowe Mystery Grab Bad after months of trying. I freakin' scored big time.

2 CBL OOPS and a Jindie!

CBL's (colors by llarowe) are one of my favorite indie brands. Her polishes are just amazing. The lighter more bluer swatch looks a lot like Smooth Criminal but Smooth Criminal is more blue.. The darker purple color is oops version of Woman From Tokyo.

I also received Jindie - She Blinded Me w/ Science. Sorry no swatches - it's going to my nail buddy.

I paid $20 - what a killer deal!

Llarowe

Royal Lacquer Kitty and Frosted Berry Review and Swatches

Happy New Year!!

Royal Lacquer recently sent me some beautiful polishes to review. 

This is Kitty. Kitty has black and white circle glitter and lime green hexes. This is 2 coats over You Polish's Zombie Boogie.

Kitty's application is fabulous. The perfect amount of glitter - not too much or too little.

No fishing at all!

It reminds me of 7-up!

Frosted Berry

Frosted Berry is berry/lilac jelly w/ two sizes of holo hex glitter. 3 coats.

I did have to fish just a smidge to get out some of the larger holo glitter.

This is such a pretty winter color - I love how it almost looks like frost. 

I think it would be interesting to try this over a undie.

Check out Royal Lacquer's etsy shop - she has lots more polishes (including holo's!) and awesome nail decals. She kindly sent me some decals to try - I will be playing w/ them in a future post. 

Royal Lacquer

KBShimmer Christmas Now Swatches & Review

Traditional Christmas colors are not my favorite so I didn't buy too many holiday polishes this year. I couldn't resist this one called Christmas Now by KBShimmer. 

It reminds me of presents, ornaments and a Christmas tree. It's so cute - I love it!

It's a green jelly w/ square, circle and star glitter.

2 coats. 1 coat of hk girl. No undies. This polish is super easy to apply. It's loaded w/ glitter - I actually had to scrape some off. 

$8.75 @ KBShimmer

Indigo Bananas You Get Nothing Sir Swatches & Review

My gorgeous talons are gone :(  We had a nasty cold snap and all my nails broke off except one. I'll admit it - I've made fun of people complaining about breaking a nail. I feel your pain!!

Despite my nubs - I am loving this polish. Indigo Bananas recently debuted their Paradise Holiday Collections which includes 5 Willy Wonka themed polishes. Willy Wonka is one of my favorite movies and Indigo Bananas is my favorite indie brand - why not buy all 5? So I did :)

You Get Nothing is a gorgeous greyish linear holo w/ blue and maroon glitter. It was super easy to use - no fishing for any glitter - applied smoothly. 2 coats + hk girl topcoat.

Indigo Bananas 

EPIC Nail Mail

My nail buddy sent me the most awesome nail mail ever. Take a drool er, I mean look.

Pahlish - Mystery

Darling Diva - Gett Off

Philly Loves Lacquer - Glitter Tits

Hare - Amethystos 

Philly Loves Lacquer - Merry Christmas Angela! (custom)

Lilypad Lacquer - True Blood

Smitten - What Sorcery Is This?

Decants!

CBL - Black Gold Texas Tea

Glam Polish - Indigo Sparkle

CBL - Coral Cuteness (custom)

Lilypad Lacquer - Vixens Wear Violet

Lilypad Lacquer - Queen of Halloween

Lilypad Lacquer - Lilac Lovely

Here is the custom she had made for me - It's called Merry Christmas Angela! I cried when I read the title. I'm going through a particularly hard time right now and this made me feel so special. Plus it's purple and a holo! Enough said :)

Glitter Guilty December

My last pleasures box! While I have loved my subscription, I canceled. My polish collection has grown immensely and I would rather spend that $16 a month on polishes I really want. Next month, I'm going to include a nail polish budget to our monthly bills. I'm hoping if I have a set amount to spend every month, that I won't go over it. We will see. I'm constantly putting myself on no buys for overspending but I seem to buy more when I'm attempting a no buy. Low buy - hopefully that it will work for me.

I got Snowed In as my full size. It's beautiful. It's a blue crelly w/ all kinds of glitter - including snow flakes. It looks like fresh snow falling.

I got Holly and Pinecones as my mini. It's a clear glitter topper w/ berry and gold glitter. Pretty & festive.

I also got some blueberry cheesecake popcorn. It's long gone :)

1st swatch - I used a Pahlish mystery color as my undie (green scattered holo) and used 2 coats of Holly & Pinecones on top.

2nd (middle) swatch - 2 coats of Holly & Pinecones

3rd swatch - 3 coats of Snowed In. Snowed In is a bit runny.

I'm going to miss this sub so much. I will definitely miss the treats!

Ruby White Tips Mystery Box Review

I'm a sucker for mystery boxes. I noticed a listing on etsy called Mystery box that you will love. It described telling the polish maker you're favorite color and she will make you two polishes plus include a surprise. Sounds like a great deal so I bought it w/o hesitation. I chose purple.

Honestly, I don't love it. While the polishes are pretty - they aren't unique. No glitter, no holo - no nothing. I expected something more unique. Not feeling the necklace at all. 

The darker color is named Patagonia. It's a vampy purple. I'm going to keep it to use as a undie. Chloe is the other color. It's more pink than purple. I don't like pink. I know you take a chance when you buy a mystery box of anything but this was super disappointing as she had rave reviews.

I paid $12.75. While it's a great deal for 2 full size polishes, it's not a great deal if you don't like the polishes. You can find Ruby White Tips on etsy.

The Devil Wears Polish #2 Swatches & Reviews

How awesome is this color?!?

It's called #2 and it's from The Devil Wears Polish

Its shifts blue, purple and red.

The Devil Wear Polish is a relatively new indie company. She has amazing holos - I own several but this is my first tried Devil.

Application is a bit on the thick side. Adding a couple drops of nail thinner would have easily solved it but I was too lazy to get up! I'll definitively add it next time. This polish is a bit spendy @ $15 but IMO, it's worth it. She frequently has sales and discounts and I was able to get mine 15% off. 

The Devil Wears Polish

LLarowe Haul

Recently, Llarowe marked all polishes in the sales category to half off for one day. 

My first Cadillacquer's! I'm excited :)

Darling Diva Polish - Love Don't Live Here Anymore

Cadillacquer - Once More, With Feeling

Cadillacquer - So It Begins

Cadillacquer - Morning Comes

Cadillacquer - Life's Too Short

Cadillacquer - Tell It To The Frogs

Arcane Lane - Respite Lane

Gloss N Sparkle - Symmetry

Arcane Lane - Locked In Limbo

9 polishes worth $110 for $44!

Llarowe

Jindie Nails Burrrberry Swatches & Review

It's freezing! We haven't had weather like this since January. I'm huddled under blankets w/ Venus, Io and Apollo. Wow, I didn't realize everyone was named after planets, moons and sun gods. Venus and Io are my cats and Apollo is my wonderful son. Io is one of Jupiter's moon if you didn't know - my hubby and I are freakin' nerds :)

Do you like my new talons? My nails are super wide and they curl in so I thought this shape might work better for me. 

Burrrberry is described as a white crelly w/ an assortment of berry hex glitter. 

I used two coats. It would have totally covered w/ 3 coats but I didn't want more glitter. I'm a less is more glitter person. I used Glitter Daze's base coat and hk girl top coat. No undies.

It's a gorgeous color but it chipped on the first day. It's streaky too :(

I'm not ready to give up yet. Next time, I will use a white undie - that may help. 

Jindie Nails