Multichrome Madness Trio May 2018: P.O.P. Polish!!

*product samples sent for review*

Hi everyone!! I am so excited for what I'm going to show you today! Recently, I had one of those rare occasions where I was selected to swatch nail polish! It's a trio of multichrome polishes by P.O.P. Polish and it's this month's offering from Multichrome Madness. If you don't know what that is, it's a Facebook group that is devoted exclusively to all things multichrome and each month there is a guest polish maker that creates lovely custom multichrome polishes for the group. I myself have purchased some real beauties but this is the first time I get to show them off in time for you to get it yourself! Be prepared for a picture heavy post!!

P.O.P. Polish is an indie brand run by Bianca and thus far, although I've lusted after the polishes from afar, I haven't actually made a purchase yet so it has been a double treat to not only swatch for her but to try out the brand for the first time as well! As I mentioned before, this month there are 3 custom polishes and they are each in vibrant jewel tone colors. Bianca calls her multichrome polishes oil slicks (and names them accordingly) because of the multiple array of colors you can see with each one, just like an oil slick! Each of these have primary, secondary and tertiary shifts that I'll describe below. 

The first polish is called Slick & Flirty. The primary color on this one is dark fuchsia (oh I love my fuchsia!). In the shade or indoors, the secondary shift can be seen of bronze and gold. Finally, at just the right angle (or in the car), the tertiary colors of blue, green and black can be seen. I really had no trouble getting all the colors to show in real like. It maaay have been a little harder to show them in pictures but I gave it a good effort. 

The second one I will show you is Enchanted Slick. The primary color on this is a gemstone green. It moves into aqua and purple shades in the shade and at just the right angle you can also see mauve, gold and a stunning lime green!

I love those last two pictures! The last one is called Red, White & Slick. Bianca named it that way because it looked very much like the blue on the American flag. The primary color is that bright royal blue, secondary colors are purple and bronze and the tertiary colors are mauve, green and gold. 

I applied two really easy coats for each of these and topped them off with P.O.P Polish Liquid Glass topcoat. It is my one of the few times I've branched away from my Seche Vite or Sally Hansen Intsa-Dri and I was very pleased. I wore each of these for about five days and only had mild tip wear by the end. The longer I kept them on my nails, the more I found myself loving them! If you would also like to get your hands on them, they are being sold right now through the P.O.P. Polish Etsy store till the end of the month of May but you have to be a member of Multichrome Madness to be able to purchase them. The polishes are $12 each or $33 for the trio and if you'd like to buy either the Liquid Glass topcoat or her new Radioactive Topcoat (glows under blacklight), it's an additional $5 each with the purchase of the trio.

Happy polishing and see you next time!

Contrary Polish Feel The Spark (May 2017 PPU)

Hello everyone! A quick post for you guys today. 

The best thing about the Polish Pickup each month is that you get to try out new indie brands without having to worry about crazy fast restocks and shipping costs. I have a number of new brands that I've been able to get to know this way and today's is one of them. This is Contrary Polish Feel The Spark from the May 2017 PPU. The theme was science. I've mentioned I love fuschia shades once or twice before. This definitely falls into that category and I love the touch of holo and shimmer this polish has. 

I stamped with China Glaze Emotion and an image from my PUEEN Encore set of plates a couple of days later.

I am loving each month's Polish Pickup so much! This current month is themed the 90's and it's going on right now. So many great polishes available! To be informed of the polishes available each month and to be made aware of when the preorder window is each month, join the Polish Pickup facebook group. 

Tonic Polish Becoming

Hi guys! Welcome back! I am typing out this post on my phone right now, while on vacation to attend a family members wedding. For this trip, I finally forayed into the world of pigment powders and gel manicures and I must say it’s working out well! But more on that another time. Today, I’m going to show you another one from one of my favorite indie brands, Tonic! Lindsey Buck, maker of the polishes, herself forayed into magnetics sometime last year and of course, as is her style, made it something completely unique. 

This is Becoming, one of the Tonic magnetic multichromes. This was part of the 2017 holiday duo along with another non magnetic polish called Superstar. This one is described as having a dark blue base with magnetic green to purple shifting multichrome pigment and iridescent orange-red flakes that shift to green. I thought this was a very shifty polish and I had no trouble seeing all the colors come out in different lighting. To that end, I have a ton of pictures below to show you guys all those shifts.

The pictures above show the polish in a variety of different lighting including outdoor cloudy, indoor office lighting and the last one was in direct sunlight. I also had no trouble getting the magnetic part to work. One thing I realized is that I paint my non dominant hand first and then paint my dominant hand. I also take pictures of my non dominant hand for my blog. Which could mean that when I'm holding the magnet to get the line on my dominant hand, that could be spreading the particles on the hand that's holding the magnet. I should try to do the opposite order next time and see if that gets me a sharper line. If you guys are following what Tonic does, you would already know that they just released a whole bunch of magnetic polishes with unicorn pee pigment, double multichrome and holographic pigment as well. Aaannd, of course I picked them up! I'm going to have a lot of polishes to practice with in the upcoming months. Until then, thanks for visiting!

Polished for Days Grey Opal

Hi everyone! Apparently I've been wearing a lot of Polished for Days polishes lately because here is another one that I wore a few weeks back. This is another one of the polishes I purchased from the January 2018 Polish Pickup. The theme that month had been Crystals & Gemstones.

This polish is described as a light grey base with orange to green flakes, orange to green micro shimmer flakes, scattered bright aqua flakes and holographic flakes. Jenna had obviously used a grey opal as her inspiration. 

This is one of those polishes that is really amazing in pictures, in the bottle and on a lot of other people. Just looking at these pictures I'm marveling at the complexity and beauty of the polish. I just didn't like it on me. It was the added coolness of the silver holographic flakes maybe but it seemed to fall a little flat to my eyes. Thankfully, I was able to destash it pretty quickly to someone who is sure to love it much more than I! I certainly do love the PFD formula though. This polish lasted several days on my nails with minimal tip wear and the only reason I changed it because I felt like a color change. I have many more Polished for Days colors to try out that I can already tell I'm going to love!

Again, thanks for looking and see you next time!

Polished For Days Rudolph

Hi folks! How is everyone doing? Having moved to the Pacific Northwest, for the first time since I moved to the US, I get to experience much milder winters than I used to in the Midwest. I am seeing pictures of my friends and family battling ice and snow storms right now and I feel so bad for them, and so happy for me! A couple of months ago, I also got a chance to go to New Mexico for a couple of days and did some hiking there. I knew I had to bring something flashy like Polished For Days Rudolph with me to capitalize on aallll that sunshine!

Rudolph was one of the holiday polishes from 2017, one of the Reindeer Games collection. I think I ended up getting most of the polishes from that collection and they are all so beautiful. Rudolph is a multichrome polish loaded with holo flakes that you can see in the shade picture down a couple of pictures below. It's officially described as having a glowing bright red base with a copper-green-red shifting shimmer and holographic flakes. In the rest of pictures below, I am trying to show you the shift in the colors of the shimmer as I angles my nails in the sun. 

Although the hike itself was amazing as we went through the Canyon de Chelly National Monument, there were plenty of moments where you would have found me marveling at my nails and taking pictures of them instead of looking around like everyone else was!

Thanks for visiting and reading my little blog. See you next time!

Great Lakes Lacquer Spring at Prospect Park

Hey all!! When I was preparing my last post, I realized that I had completely neglected to post another Great Lakes Lacquer mani that I had worn some weeks back.  This is called Spring at Prospect Park and it was one of the four polishes created for Polish Con NYC 2017. I was smart enough to grab all of them when I could and I couldn't be happier with them. This is the first of them that I've tried so far.

This is a sky blue crelly polish with multicolored multichrome colorshifting flakies. It was very easy to apply and became opaque in two coats. It wore really well and I loved how bright and happy this color was.

I have a lot more GLL polishes to go through and hopefully will be able to show you guys more of my collection in the near future.

Great Lakes Lacquer Glass On Fire (Polish Pickup January 2018)

Hey everyone! I’m back today with another Polish Pickup Polish that I picked up in January of this year. That month the theme was Crystals and Gemstones and there were so many polishes that hit right out of the park! One of them that really caught my eye was this one, Great Lakes Lacquer Glass On Fire. 

First of all, I love Mariah’s brand and all of her creations. I first ran across her polishes when I found her Polishing Poetic collection and I’ve been a big fan ever since. Also, she is based out of Michigan and that’s where I grew up so that connection thrills me as well.

This polish is flat out amazing. I love fuschia toned polishes and this is that and so much more. It had a multichrome base that almost feels jelly like and suspended within it are color shifting flakies. In the rest of my pictures, I tried to show you all the different shifts I could capture. Of course, as with any such polishes, the pictures only give a nod to how amazing the polish looked in real life. I received so many compliments on the days that I wore this one.

I do have to apologize for the small paper cut at my cuticle. I got it right before the pictures but the polish was too beautiful for me not to take pictures! Hope you guys enjoyed this post and I'll see you guys next time!

Tonic Polish Promise Of Spring

Hi folks! How is everyone!! I had a blast this past weekend. I was away at a bachelorette weekend for a cousin. It was a solo trip for me and although I missed my family quite a bit, it was really nice to have a couple of days to just relax and have fun with a bunch of cool women.

The polish I want to show you today was part of a limited edition collaboration with Femme Fatale last year. Each maker did two polishes and this is one of Tonic's contributions. It's called Promise of Spring. It's a beautiful bright pale green multichrome that shifts to a metallic greenish yellow on one end and a cool blue color on the other with a holographic finish. It looks amazing in pictures guys but I didn't like it much on my nails on its own. Maybe it's that it just didn't suit my skin tone very well but it looked kind of harsh to me. Needless to say, it's one of the polishes I made an effort to destash because someone out there wanted it more and would wear it better. 

In the pictures above, you can see the blue at the edges of the nail. In an effort to make it more pleasing to me, I took that color and stamped with an open swirly pattern. I did like this quite a bit more. I love brocaded patterns like these. 

I really do love the way this looks. I will have to remember that stamping does help improve my outlook on polishes that I don't like by themselves. Hope you guys enjoyed the post. Until next time!!