Fall Leaves Nail Art Extravaganza!

Since holiday nails are just around the corner, I needed to get all my fall leaves manis into one quick post!



Fall colors and nail art are just my absolute favorite so I just had to purchase the UberChic Beauty Lovely Leaves plate and create all the fall manis! So here we go! Since all the looks are made with the same plate, I'll just focus on the polishes and techniques used in each mani.





I kicked off the season with this beautiful look. The base of this mani is Illyrian Polish Blue Moon. I used a clear stamper to create this double stamping look using an Essie polish (the purple) and Jolie Polish Orange Dahlia Flower stamping polish.





For the base of this one I did a gradient using Dreamland Lacquer Red Jamie and Dreamland Lacquer Sassenach. For stamping I used Kiko Melon, a polish I picked up in Europe a few years ago.





This next look has a base of Fair Maiden Polish Throwin' Elbows (sorry not available anymore) with a layer of ILNP Glory (flakies) on top. Then I used my MoYou London Pro Plate 1 and KBShimmer Eyes White Open to stamp the lines. Then I used a clear stamper an created a decal on the stamper which I later used for placement. I filled the leave image in with Smitten Polish (now Dreamland) The First Lobster, one of my all time favorite polishes, but is no longer available.





For this look I began by painting my pointer, middle and pinky nails with Painted Polish Tide Pool Teal and I painted the thumb and ring finger with Color Club Cosmic Fate. Then I used the opposite polishes to stamp on the images.





For this look I started with a base of ILNP Greatness and then stamped the image using Color Club Beyond.





And last but not least, we have my favorite of the bunch. This is featuring Fair Maiden Polish Shadow of Your Heart as a base, more stripes from my MoYou London 01 plate, and leaves colored in with Fair Maiden Polish Roaming Fire. I used a clear stamper to create and place the leaves on the nail.

And that is it everyone, quick and easy, but some of my favorite looks and polishes of the year. I'm dying to know, which are our favorites?!

Fair Maiden Polish Fall into Delirium Collection (partial)

Happy Monday everyone! I am so sorry I've been in and out on the blog. I'm still posting regularly in Facebook groups and on IG, but I only make time for blogging when I can and it's an arrangement I'm happy with and I hope you are too!



Anyway, today I have five gorgeous polishes from Fair Maiden Polish that have recently released. During their original release, Fair Maiden Polish had it's 10-polish Fall into Delirium Collection split into cool and warm colors, and I snagged a warm collection offering and boy am I glad I did. This collection has everything, great warm colors that remind me of the leaves changing color, a fun thermal, THE vamp of the season and just great bling all around.









First up we have the gorgeous Fair Maiden Polish Roaming Fire. This is a gorgeous red leaning orange holo polish with strong golden glow. Opaque in two coats, easy to apply. This polish is one of my favorites of this group and just screams fall. This super bright shade of orange is my favorite fall color and I can't wait to incorporate this in some falling leaves nail art soon! I'll share the one look I already did with this polish here!



I used a base of Roaming Fire and then broke out Lemming Lacquer I'll Give You Darkness (from my untried pile) and my UberChic Beauty 2-02 plate and created a skittle of stamping images. Fun fall look, if leaves aren't your thing. ;-)









This is Fair Maiden Polish The Road Less Traveled. This polish is a beautiful muted olive holo polish with a gorgeous violet shimmer. Opaque in two easy coats, is slightly more muted than my photos show. I looooove this polish, and I sort of feel like it's the underdog of this collection. As a green lover, I an confidently say I have nothing with this violet shift in my whole collection. A unique beauty for sure!









This gorgeous beauty is Fair Maiden Polish Waderlusting. This is a gorgeous glitter bomb filled with five different holographic pigments and glass flecks which give it a slight green shift. Also, super impressed that this was opaque in two easy coats, but it top coat hungry so you might want an extra coat. This polish isn't just your normal golden glitter bomb, the green shift in it is gorgeous. It's just begging to be paired with The Road Less Traveled.









This stunner is Fair Maiden Polish Shadow of Your Heart. Now we all know I am a fan of vampy holo polish and own a lot of it. This polish, while is similar in color to others, has this amazing metallic quality to it that other holos I own do not. It reminds me SO much of OPI Germanicure, but with a linear holo finish. So beautiful. This is a must-own, seriously, you cannot miss out on this if you like vampy polishes. This was also opaque in two easy coats.

*Warm*

*Transitioning to cold*

This is Fair Maiden Polish Acorns & Ashes. This is a gorgeous nude polish with strong golden glow that shifts to an olive green when exposed to the cold. Now being that it was 82 degrees today in California (c'mon fall, where the heck are you?!) I had to break out an ice pack for the shift and I do hope one day it might be cold enough for it to shift naturally on me! This polish was on the sheerer side and I used three coats, but there was still some visible nail line peeking through. I don't own many thermal polishes, but this one is beautiful either warm or cold. Definitely worth checking out!

Well that's it from me today! I hope you enjoyed these lovely polishes, do expect to see them in future nail art!!!

Red Berry Holo Indie Comparison Post

So this has been awhile coming. Over the last few months, I have been gravitating toward a particular shade of polish – red/berry/coral etc. I thought it was finally time to compare them side by side as I have done in the past. So here we go!



I thought for the longest time I kept buying the same color over and over, but I discovered, I'm actually not!

Although a lot of these colors look similar, they actually have subtle differences and are all special in their own special way!

Just some information to get started with, each of these is show in direct light to show the holo finish and indirect light to show any other characteristics. I used no top coats in this post so you can see each polish's original finish! I've linked to the polishes that are still for sale, identified which are limited edition or a Hella Holo Custom and might not be available for sale at the moment. So let's get started with the first set of five polishes shall we?!?!









First up we have red/coral holos! From left to right is Dreamland Lacquer Out, Damned Clot!, ILNP Closure, Dreamland Lacquer Coral of the Story (an HHC special), Fair Maiden Polish Worth Fighting For and Fair Maiden Polish Rio Carnival (E).

The most similar in holo finishes are the Dreamlands, Out, Damned Clot! and Coral of the story have vivid holo flames but the similarities stop there. Out, Damned Clot! is a classical red (like a Coke bottle), while Coral of the story is a bright pink leaning coral with a bit of an orange flash. Closure and Worth Fighting For are a similar cool leaning red, but their finishes are totally different. Closure has larger holo particles creating a scattered holo finish along with the linear finish and Worth Fighting For has a gorgeous blue flash in indirect lighting. Rio Carnival E is the one that is the most different in this group, being more of a more orange/brown leaning brick red holo polish.









Next up we have some more reds, but these tend to be more on the berry leaning side without acutally being berry! From left to right we have Darling Diva Polish Sexy Mother Fucker, Literary Lacquers For the Rest of Us (an HHC special), Smitten Polish (now Dreamland Lacquer) Kenyan Sunset (another HHC special), Carpe Noctem Cosmetics I Wish You the Berry Best and Darling Diva Polish The Queen Diva (a special with purchase polish).

I think Sexy Mother Fucker is clearly the most classic red of this group, though it is still darker than Out, Damned Clot!, from the last group. For the Rest of Us and Kenyan Sunset look similar in color, but For the Rest of Us has more of a metallic finish and a less visit linear holo finish. I Wish You the Berry Best was the sheerest of this group, and leans just a tad more magenta lighter than the previous two. The Queen Diva is the pinkest of this group, but it has those holo shards that were not so popular and dry really textured (but this was a free with purchase polish I think).









Next up we have our more purple/berry/orchid/magenta holos! From left to right we have Smitten Polish Radiant Orchid, Dreamland Lacquer Dragonberry (an HHC special), Indigo Bananas Polish of Unusual Quality (P.O.U.Q), Painted Polish Mystery Holo Un (a limited edition special) and Fair Maiden Polish Pirate Queen.

The most similar here are Radiant Orchid and Dragonberry, but they are made with a different holo pigment an I think Radiant Orchid leans just a tad more purple while Dragonberry leans just a bit brighter. POUQ is the vampiest of the group an dlooks a bit similar to Pirate Queen, but I think POUQ has a bit more linear holo glow to it. Mystery Holo Un has the most holo pigment in it but also has matching microglitter in its finish.









Now for the final grouping, the vampiest/wine purple holos of the bunch. We all know I have a TON of these colors lying around. And I've spoken about them in previous posts, but these were newer additions to my stash so I thought it was time for their day in the sun! From left to right Cupcake Polish Blood Hound, Firecracker Lacquer The Unbeatable Wand, Literary Lacquers Soul Within Me Burning (The Color Box special), Glam Polish Forbode and Octopus Party Nail Lacquer Evil Live!

Now the first two look similar in color, but Blood Hound is a straight super vivid wine colored holo. The Unbeatable Wand has these red sparks of color in it and dries down to a slightly textured finish. Soul Within Me Burning is more a classic purple leaning vampy wine with a golden glow to it. Forbode has actual golden flakies in it which gives of a super golden flash but dries down completely textured. Evil Live! is the most black leaning of the bunch, but it has a really beautiful muddy red/brown glow to its linear holo finish.

If you are interested in any of my other comparison posts, come check out the Indie Fall Holos, Coral Polish Showdown, Indie Metallic Holos and my vampy holo polish comparisons.

Well that's it for today folks, that sure was a TON of work to type up so I hope I've had a chance to highlight the similarities and the differences between these polishes!!! I'd love to know which color family is your favorite and which of these you think fills a hole in your collection!?