Girly Bits Elevation Polish Bamboozled Duo

Happy Wednesday everyone! Hope you're all having terrific weeks out there, I'm still recovering from my vacation, two day work week from hell and then in-laws visited for the long weekend. Happy to get back to a normalish schedule for the moment!!!

Today I have a fun duo to share with you. I just love all these collaborations going on in the indie world, it's a chance to try new brands and just love two indies together. 

Today I'm sharing the Girly Bits & Elevation Polish Bamboozled Duo that was released in July. I'm sorry these aren't available anymore, but I just had to share this fun look I created with them because it was my first successful decal creation!!

First let me get to the specifics of the polishes. The Elevation Polish half of this duo is Arashiyama and it is a beautiful warm toned sandy brown polish with gorgeous charcoal and very subtle blue flakies with a gorgeous creamy holo finish. I just loooove this polish and it reminds me of a sandy version of Shilin Stone Forest, one of the first Elevation Polishes that made me fall in love with the brand! This polish is on the thicker side, but is opaque in two coats and easy to apply. 

The Girly Bits Cosmetics part of the duo is BamBoom! and it is a gorgeous bright green holo with matching micro glitter pieces scattered throughout. This was a dream to apply, opaque in two coats. I just love love love green and this polish just screams happy to me!!!

Now for this look, I created my first decal, and I did so by coloring in the stamp on the stamper, see the photo below. 

It took a bit of trial and error to perfect (as you can tell I tried a few stamps, like the one above), and it still isn't perfect as you can see in the macro, but it was a pretty good first attempt and I love how it turned out!

Have you tried doing the decal method? I have an UberChic Mat now so it's a bit easier, but I wanted to show you how I first attempted it and the results!!! Also I just loved these two polishes together, I love that the evoke the Bamboo theme and they pair so well together! 

Girly Bits Belly Jeans

My new favorite finish of nail polish has to be the multichrome holo polish! So far in my experience, Girly Bits has the most amazing polishes that fit this bill. First I reviewed Lack of Pies, and today I am here to show you Belly Jeans!



The thing I love about these polishes, is that they have so many different looks. All it takes is for the sun to set a little at at certain angles your nails can look like this, below.



It has almost a golden shimmer, very beautiful and unique!



Most of the time, this bright purple holo is what shows, above.



But slightly angle your nails and you get a more violet magenta color. Love all the many looks of this polish!



Application: This polish went on perfectly in two thin coats. I topped the polish with a layer of HK Girl Top Coat.

Where to Purchase: I purchased this polish on Llarowe for $13. You can also purchase on the Girly Bits website, which is based in Canada (so shipping might be a bit more if you're in the U.S.), for $12.50.

So readers, what are your favorite multichrome holo polishes? I've been so impressed with Girly Bits' take on the finish so far, but I'd love to discover more!

P.S. My no-buy is 4 weeks strong! And July 1 is just around the corner, yessssss!

Girly Bits Get Weaponized with stamping nail art

I've been a sucker for these teal/aqua colored holo polishes lately. Once I got a good look at Girly Bits Get Weaponized, I could tell this one was special.

Get Weaponized is a teal linear holo with larger sporadic blue iridescent glitter pieces. Those pieces really made this polish stand out among my ever growing collection of teal polishes. Indoors, those sparkle pieces are more apparent to the naked eye and my iPhone.

Because I wanted to bring out the blue sparkle which makes this polish so unique I thought I'd try some bright blue stamping, using my favorite MoYou Sailor 04 plate. I used the fish scale stamp this time.

I thought the cerulean blue of Zoya Song would be a good complimentary color to Girly Bits Get Weaponized. 

I thought the results were unique, but not exactly the most amazing nail art I've ever done.

Application: Get Weaponized wore very well and applied smoothly with two thin coats. I was happily surprised I could use Song to stamp, will definitely be using that in the future.

Where to purchase: Girly Bits Cosmetics is a Canadian polish maker and you can order her polishes from her website. I got this polish with a gift certificate I won for $11.50. There are so many other polishes of her's that I want, every time I visit her site I see something new that looks amazing!

Extra note: I was out of town this weekend visiting my parents, so I drafted this post on an iPad, so please be forgiving of any errors, etc. thanks!!!

Review Girly Bits Lack of Pies

Recently I had the pleasure of trying my first Girly Bits Polish and I was very impressed. My second at bat with the company left me even more wowed!



This, my friends, is Girly Bits Lack of Pies and it is a chameleon of a polish. While I wore it I could not stop staring at it because it shifts so much. It goes from green to pink, sometimes there is a hint of mossy green and then it has that gorgeous show-stopping holo!



In indirect light, above and below, you see its many shifts between pink, mossy green and brighter green.



In direct sunlight, below, it almost appears a khaki green with wonderful holo payoff.



Overall this polish was a knockout for me. So much hype is given to many of the multichromes on the market, but I think this collection has been overlooked. This is multichrome, but isn't the same animal as the others on the market. It's color shifts are so unique, I seriously could not stop staring at my polish. The color shifts were also very obvious and even in the sunlight, you could see the shifts!



Application: This went on great with three thin coats, had absolutely no complaints about it's application. I topped with HK Girl Top Coat and it lasted a good while on my nails (I did not want to take it off).

Where to Purchase: I purchased this polish on Llarowe for $13. You can also purchase on the Girly Bits website, which is based in Canada (so shipping might be a bit more), for $12.50.

What do you think of this polish? I was so impressed that I definitely have to get Go and Shake a Tower and Billy Jeans after seeing how amazing this polish is!

Review of Girly Bits Cosemetics A Stripper Has Been Sleeping In My Bed

So today I get to share with you my very first Girly Bits Cosmetics polish A Stripper Has Been Sleeping in My Bed. I was so happy to win Chameleon Stampede's Second Blogaversary, I received a $25 gift certificate to Girly Bits, a brand I had been eying for quite some time.

I knew the first polish I wanted was A Stripper Has Been Sleeping in My Bed. The sparkles in this polish are just so beautiful and in your face. I absolutely loved it!



This first shot is in the sun because luckily, it was still out when I was doing my nails. This is a micro glitter explosion on the nails. I felt when examining it really close that there were magenta glitter pieces that stood out among the rest of the polish as well. You can see that more at play in the shade shot below.



I wanted to add an accent to bring out the magenta pull in the glitter polish, so I added an X using nail vinyls, because at the time I literally couldn't think of anything more creative than an X. Pretty sad I know! I used Essie's Bahama Mama for the accent.







I was a huge fan of this polish. I couldn't stop looking at my nails in the sun, they were totally blingtastic. I uploaded a video of the sparkle to my instagram, which is also a great way to keep up with my manicures!

Application: This went on opaque in two coats, I added a third for ultimate sparkle. The finish was a little bumpy, but I just gave it an extra coat of top coat to smooth the manicure out. It wore well for a sparkle polish, which I find can sometimes be chippy.

Where to purchase: Girly Bits Cosmetics is a Canadian polish maker and you can order her polishes from her website. I got this polish with a gift certificate I won for $11.50. There are so many other polishes of her's that I want, every time I visit her site I see something new that looks amazing!