Stash Swatches - some A England polishes

I decided sometime towards the end of last year that I was going to create swatches of all the polishes I own. I now own such a boatload of polishes that this project is going to take me years! But, I do have a few under way already. I have my polishes organized alphabetically so that's how I started swatching them. I might not stick to this rule though. I'll never get to my Zoyas! First up are the four A England polishes I have. All of the polish are very opaque holographic polishes. The holographic quality is more scattered than strongly linear and I wasn't really able to get some of them to show that well this time around. They were all either one or two easy coats. These polishes are opaque enough to be stamping polishes.

This first picture is of A England St. George, a wonderful teal holographic polish.

This is Lady of the Lake, a really pretty shade of purple.

This gorgeous blue polish is Tristam. There is a slight purple tone to it, making it almost blurple looking in certain lights. Blurple is one of my favorite colors!

Finally, this is an older swatch that I've shown on this blog before. I'm showing it here again for completeness sake.

I think it will be interesting to see if I'm able to get my entire stash swatched. I haven't put any deadlines on it so I could be doing this for a long long time to come....

A England Dragon

Hello all!

Ok, I totally forgot that I was going to show you guys A England Dragon by itself. How could I forget!? This polish is magical, especially in the sun. After I wore this, I went online and ordered more of the A England holos. Some of the older ones. I know they came out with a few new ones but I have not nabbed those yet. Some lemmings need time to grow in my head.

Less talk, more pictures.

Sigh, isn't it gorgeous? Forest green scattered holo one coat wonder. One coat!!! I'm so glad I have this in my collection.

Deadly Sins Challenge Day 12: Envy (A England Dragon with Jessica Iridescent Eye stamping)

Hey hey! This is one of those rare weeks when I'm actually going to have both of the manis for this week's challenge done! This is the next to the last week and I'm actually going to be really sad when the challenge is over. I liked having some guidelines for what to do for my nails. For today's mani, the prompt is "Let the 'Green Monster' guide you to some enviable nails". I went all out with the green for this one. Green for the base and sorta green for the stamping. Even the names of the polishes together remind me of a green monster: a green dragon with iridescent green eyes!! I took way too many pictures to show what A England Dragon looks like by itself so I'll make that another post. This is A England Dragon with Jessica Iridescent Eye stamping. The stamp design is from the Cheeky XL plate B.

These first three pictures are taking with my lamp indoors. It shows you how subtle the stamping looks under those lighting conditions.

The next two pictures are shown under sunlight and under shade. The sunlight picture shows the holo of Dragon. In my next post, you'll see Dragon by itself and you can really see the holo then.

These last two pictures I took on a cloudy day because that seems to be the best time to see the color shift!

So, by now you guys must have realized when I really love a mani, I have a hard time limiting myself to a couple of pictures. I hope that's ok with you all. I use Chrome every where I go and I have no trouble getting my pages to load so please tell me if you guys are experiencing difficulties getting my pages to load for any reason.

Also, can't leave a post alone without giving the hubby rating for the mani now. This one got an 8/10. He really liked it :-)

See below for what the other ladies have done for this challenge.