Great Lakes Lacquer Bleeding Teal and a Giveaway

Happy Monday everyone and I can tell you one thing, today really is a happy one! I'm sharing with you a super special custom polish and giving you a chance to win a bottle.

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Today I'm sharing a very special polish I helped design with Mariah of Great Lakes Lacquer. We all know that the San Jose Sharks hockey is a big part of my life. After nearly wining it all last season I've been wanting to honor them and what better way to do that then with nail polish!!!



I asked Mariah to create the perfect Sharks teal polish (holo of course because it's me) and with golden flakies as an homage to the orange in their jersey (and because I just love that golden/teal combo). Let me just say, she completely nailed it and I am in absolute love!!! And because it's the Sharks and all, I named it Bleeding Teal!

This polish is a limited edition polish available at Great Lakes Lacquer beginning Nov. 1.









So here it is, the beautiful Great Lakes Lacquer Bleeding Teal. It is a lovely blue leaning perfect San Jose Sharks teal linear holo filled with golden to bronze multichrome flakies that catch in indirect light. Opaque in two easy coats and I had no staining to report but always used base coat, as I always do with teal!

The Sharks started their new season this month, and my hubby and I have half season tickets so for the first game, I had to put together some nails art!









Using Sharks nail decals from Boston Nail Art and an accent of Painted Polish Venice Beach Babe, I did a simple nail art look to kick off the season. Believe me, I'll be breaking out Bleeding Teal all season long that if for sure!

And because Mariah is generous, and there was a post office mix up, I have two opportunities for you go win a bottle of Bleeding Teal. Mariah gave me a bottle of Bleeding Teal and the Polish Con Exclusive Fallen for Flake to give away, and I have an extra bottle to give away as well. Here's a shot of the stunner that is Fallen for Flake, in case you forgot what it looked like.



So just fill out the Rafflecopter (US only, sorry) below for your chance to win! And if you don't, the drawing will be before the polish goes on sale, you don't want to miss out on this special special polish! It will be available for the month of November at the Great Lakes Lacquer website!

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My First Custom Polish

Hey everyone! Happy Tuesday. Today I have a super awesome polish to share with you, my very first custom polish. But stay tuned, this polish is actually going to be available for purchase, more on that at the end of my post!



During the fall I would be driving home during twilight amongst the most vivid neon fall leaves. So I wanted to find a polish that represents that. I thought some golden and amber flakies swimming in a periwinkle holographic polish was exactly that vision and Rachel from Ever After Polish did not disappoint one bit at all!



This polish has everything totally captures my vision, and it just my absolutely most favorite polish ever! I've never done the custom thing before, but my experience with Ever After was a fantastic one and I highly suggest if you want a polish you just don't see out there, contact her!



The title of this polish is Burning Twilight and I'm honored to say that it is actually available for purchase. Now Rachel did ask me, since it was my custom, if it were okay for my custom to be put up for sale. I didn't make the custom to be all mine, I'm all about sharing that rainbow perfection! So I'm pleased to say this is available for preorder this Friday!



The polish went on great in two coats, the periwinkle holo base did not overwhelm the beautiful amber flakies at all. Also the flakies did not leave a textured finish at all! The formula was a tad thick, but nothing too difficult to work with, especially because it had everything I could ever want in it!



So what are you waiting for?! Go snag this puppy! I haven't seen anything else on the market quite like it! :) And now reviewing all these swatches again, I want to go put this polish on again!!!

Once again, for all of you who just scrolled down to the bottom (don't deny it, I know most of you do ;-)) this polish is available for preorder Friday on the Ever After Polish website (I think at 5 p.m. EST). And while you're there, pick up some amazing cuticle crelli (which is amazing, loving mine) and some other awesome Ever Afters (might I suggest Stuffed or Falling)!

What Ever Afters are you most excited to try?!