Ever After Swatch Spam

Hey everyone! Today I've got a bunch of Ever After Polish purchases I've recently made.

Rachel, the polish maker behind Ever After Polish, really knows how to do flakies well and so a lot of these are beautiful flakies, since I've been so drawn to them lately! I hope you like them as much as I do!!!









First up is Ever After Polish Bread & Butter flys. This is a lovely peachy-nude scattered holo base with purple to pink multichrome flakies and teal holo microglitter pieces. The formula was great, two easy coats, even with the nude base. This restocks this weekend!









Next up is Ever After Polish Rainborealis, which I think might have been a fan group custom, either way I'm not sure it's available anymore, but it sure is lovely. It's a lovely black holo polish with a lovely scattering of iridescent flakies and holo microglitters. Once again, two easy coats.









This lovely beauty is Ever After Polish Unicorn Approved 2. This is a lovely dusty green leaning teal scattered holo polish with gorgeous multicolored multichrome flakies and a golden shimmer. Two easy coats. Restocking this weekend!









This is Ever After Polish Sashay. This is a lovely nude leaning pink polish packed with multichrome flakies and golden holo shimmer. Two easy coats.









This is Ever After Polish Pig Pen and I do believe this was a one-time offer mystery polish. This polish has so much going on. It is a lovely dusty steely metallic blue polish packed with blue shimmer, scattered holo, multichrome and platinum flakies. Two easy coats. This polish has so much going on with it, it's totally unique in my collection!









Finally we have my favorite of the bunch, although I really love Unicorn Approved 2 too, this is Ever After Polish Month of June. This is a lovely sea foam green scattered holo polish with cooler colored multichrome flakies and gold holo microglitter. Two easy coats. This has to be one of my all time favorite holo/flakie combos!!! Just heard this will be restocked this weekend too!

I hope you liked this swatch spam, clearly I've been loving the heck out of Ever After Polish lately!

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Recent Great Lakes Lacquer Purchases

Happy Friday everyone! I’m in full chill mode at the moment, I’m listening to a little Bob Marley, I’ve finished my deadlines at work and now I’m just watching the clock waiting for 5 p.m. Since I didn’t take a lunch break today, I thought I’d get this post up!

Today I have some awesome recent purchases I’ve made from Great Lakes Lacquers and since two of them are limited editions, I thought I would get this post up right quick so you don’t miss your chance to get them. The third I’m sharing today isn’t available anymore, I’m sorry for that, but Great Lakes Lacquers has a bounty of awesome polishes coming next month (you’ll see some here soon enough), that I know you’ll love.









To start with I’ll show the one polish that is no longer available. This is Great Lakes Lacquer Lavish Orange and it was a special Black Friday polish made with Jenny from Lavish Layerings in mind (one of my all-time favorite bloggers). It’s a gorgeous brick red leaning orange holo polish packed with subtle, mostly matching multichrome flakies. This polish has an abundance of depth to it and now it that I’m looking at it is also leans a bit brown on me, it’s a perfect fall shade. I know it’s not fall, but that is totally my favorite season for polish. Love me some vampy colored holos. The formula on this was a bit thick and didn’t self level very well, but a thick quick dry top coat fixed that up right quick.

Note: Mariah worked her butt off earlier this year to improve her polish formulas and actually delayed a collection release when she realized that she needed to perfect her formula methods. Her formulas since this have been beyond stellar and her creativity keeps blossoming, as you will see in these next two polishes.









First up we have one of the June limited edition polishes. Usually each month Mariah releases a few special monthly polishes. This beauty is Great Lakes Lacquer Taste the Serenity. This is an amazing periwinkle polish that has a light scattering of linear holo pigment and the most beautiful golden/pinkish glow. I wish I could have captured the glow better, but it’s even more apparent in person. The formula was great on this one, opaque in two easy coats.

The holo in this one is very delicate, but it’s like a super bonus since the shimmer is great as well! Definitely glad I got this polish, it’s gorgeous.









Next up is Great Lakes Lacquer Holo-Maniacs Group Custom #3. This amazing polish is a custom for the Holo-Maniacs Facebook group. If you’re a fan of holos, come join the party, we’re all a pretty fun bunch! This polish is a beautiful classic cherry red linear holo polish with awesome holo flakies that just bring that depth and wow when it sparkles in the sun! This polish was practically a one-coater and I added a second just for good measure. Formula was great too.





And because I couldn’t leave well enough alone, I had to add some nail stamping. I know black and white usually look pretty stunning with red, so I did a gradient stamping job using and image from the UberChic Beauty 1-01 plate! I like how this all turned out, it’s pretty simple but a nice look nonetheless.

So in conclusion, if you haven’t tried Great Lakes Lacquer I suggest you do. I know I’m a swatcher for her occasionally, but I spend my own money on her polishes too (I’ve just placed another order for this awesome green stunner which was a custom for Savvy of Addicted to Polish).

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Emily de Molly and Hella Holo Customs

Hello everyone. On Tuesday I received my latest order from Emily de Molly, which included one of the June Hella Holo Custom polishes, so I thought I would get to sharing these shades with you lickety-split, so you could see swatches while the polish is still available.

These are three shades full of shimmer, which I’ve been very drawn to lately, and I feel a lot of makers have been gravitating toward. Only one of these shades is a Hella Holo Customs shade – meaning you having to be a member of the group to purchase it. To join email hellaholocustomercare@gmail.com with the topic 'JOIN'. The ladies at Hella Holo Customs have worked with a number of different indie companies, calling on them to make polishes inspired by the Facebook group photos.

Well let’s get to the swatches shall we?!









First up we have Emily de Molly Lace Man. This is a lovely purple leaning grey polish packed with pink, purple and golden iridescent flakies which give off the most stunning pink glow. This was opaque in two easy coats, but does dry down slightly textured (very very slightly, just the flakies I think). I would recommend a thicker top coat to make it shiny and smooth.









Next up we have Emily de Molly Shadow on the Moon. This is a lovely stormy grey linear holo polish packed with larger microglitters for a scattered holo effect and then packed with dark pink flakies to create an awesome red leaning pinkish glow. This one was absolutely stunning, I was in love with this polish. Just look at the macros and appreciate the depth and complexity of this gorgeous polish!!! This was opaque in two coats, shown with a glossy thick top coat.









Finally we have Emily de Molly Desert Rose, the Hella Holo Customs special polish. This polish was definitely pinker than I expected, but paired with that greenish golden glow (it leans more green in real life) that totally cools down the pink and makes it appear more coral like. I love the optical illusion of it all! The shimmer definitely is strong in this one, so much so the linear holo seems to take a back seat, but it is still a lovely combination. This polish was opaque in two coats, but was a bit on the watery side, not difficult to work with, just don’t overload your brush. It was mildly brush-strokey, but that seemed to disappear when the polish dried a bit.

This above shot is a little warmer, due to it being taken in the morning sun. 

I just can’t leave well enough alone and decided I needed to do a little double stamping of a succulent-like stamping image, since the inspiration for this polish was the most gorgeous mix of succulents. The image is from UberChic Beauty 7-01 plate. To stamp I used Bundle Monster Jungle Mirage (from the Electro Glo nail stamping set) and then used Painted Polish Midnight Mischief to double stamp.

I looooove the results. I was inspired by a video that UberChic posted on instagram last night. I thought the double stamping was a neat effect and I thought the Jungle Mirage color matched the shimmer in this polish so well!

There are two other Hella Holo Custom shades from Emily de Molly I didn’t purchase but now am seriously considering. I was really impressed by all of these polishes and now I want all the Emily de Molly polishes!

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