Swatch My Stash

 

I have been busy behind the scenes swatching some new goodies for a few different brands (all I can say is prepare your wallets!) which hasn't let me with time to do any other sort of manis for my blog this week.  But I do still have a few old swatches sitting on my computer and a goal of all of my polishes swatched on my blog so now is the perfect time to share these.  I hope you enjoy the little throwback today.

  

Emily de Molly All The Feelings 2.0.  One coat over Emily de Molly LE167.

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Emily de Molly Folklore.  Two coats.

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OPI Pearl Of Wisdom.  Two coats over white.

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Powder Perfect In My Dreams.  I can't remember how many coats I did for this one but I think it was two.

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Powder Perfect Lycanthrope.  Again, I don't have notes on this but I think I used two coats.

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Starrily Ultima.  I have zero clue how many coats for this one but I do remember it being blinding and sooooo sparkly.

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I'm pretty sure that is all of the older swatches I have sitting on my computer now so going forward any Swatch My Stash posts will current swatches.  I'm excited to dig back through my drawers and break out some of my older polishes.  I have been reorganising some more my polishes recent and I have to say there are some really awesome polishes that need to come out and play again.

Six Year Blogiversary: Throwback

 

Today marks my six year anniversary of blogging!  I seriously can't believe it.  I actually had to do the maths on it a couple of times because, like I said - I really couldn't believe it.  These last six years have gone by really fast!  In the past six years I have managed to do 1298 blog posts which equals a whole lot of manis (both swatches and nail art).  Anyway, given today is a big day for my blog I thought why not celebrate by going way back to where is begin.  If you have been following my blog since the beginning than you would know that my very first blog post wasn't actually here on my blog.  It was actually over on Theresa's blog - It's All About The Polish.  You can find that post here.  As I am trying to swatch my way through my collection and these polishes aren't on my blog I thought why not bring them on over.  I won't re-review these polishes but I will add the swatch details.

   

The Fellowship Collection

Gandalf's Fireworks.  Three Coats.

  

Lady Of The Woods.  Two coats.

  

The Fellowship Cloak.   Two coats.

  

The White Rider.  Two coats.

  

You Have My Bow.  Three Coats.

   

Christmas 2014 Collection

Merry. Two coats.

  

Oh Holy Night. Two Coats.

  

Sugar Plum Fairy.  Two coats.

  

Nail That Accent Collection

Multi Jewel.  Two Coats.

  

Navy.  One coat over OPI Dating A Royal.

  

Passion Pink.  One coat over OPI Dim Sum Plum.

  

Violet.  One coat over OPI Do You Lilac It?

  

It's crazy to look back at these pictures.  I usually forget that I use to do a black border on my pictures, that I use to go by @oliviajade19 on Instagram and that I had the rounded watermark.  How things have changed.  One thing that hasn't changed over the years is my love for Grace-full Nail Polish.  Theresa asked me to test out some polishes for her, which then led to her asking me to swatch and review her first collections on her blog and then led to me continuing to swatch and review for her to this very day.  So I guess we have Theresa to thank for giving me the kick start to my blog.  

The biggest thank you goes to you guys who continue to stop by a check out my blog.  Thank you for supporting me for the last six years.  Here is hoping that I can continue blogging for many more years to come.  Like always, feel free to leave a comment if there is anything in particular you would like to see on my blog.  See you all in my next post x

Swatch My Stash

 

Last year I took a little time off blogging and re discovered some of my old favourites and really just polishes that I hadn't worn in a very long time and some untrieds.  Previously I have tried to swatch my untrieds but honestly at this point in time I really am not entirely sure what I have and haven't actually used.  So I have set myself a new goal for this year (well not just this year because that's impossible so it will be an ongoing goal) to have swatches of my entire polish collection on my blog.  It's a mammoth task (I have thousands of polishes - literally) but I know I tend to look at my blog when I want information on a polish (usually how many coats I used or if it needs a base colour).  Luckily for me I have been blogging for quite some time now (next month will mark my 5 year anniversary of blogging) so I already have a good start to this goal.  Today I will be cheating and using some of the really old swatches that I have had sitting on my computer.  So let's begin shall we...

Actually before I jump in I should probably point out that some of these swatches are really old so the pictures have been taken with different cameras.  I also don't really have many notes on them (and in same cases I don't have any notes) but I figured I may as well use the pictures because they will just sit there otherwise.  Maybe another goal at a future date will be to re-swatch all the "dud" swatches I have previously done.  Anyway, enjoy the trip down memory lane.

A England Merlin.  I don't have any notes on this swatch at all but from memory I want to say that this is one or two coats over a silver metallic base.

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Color Club East Austin.  This polish is easily one of my most used and favourite polishes from Color Club.  My swatch shows two coats,

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Emily de Molly Insipid.  Oh magic flakie polish how I still love you.  I am actually a little sad that I don't have a back up bottle of this one.  I have definitely made a good dent in the bottle over the years.  I used two sponged on coats for my swatch.

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Glam Polish Blibber Blabber.  Who remembers when crellies with bright colour glitters  and shapes were a thing?  They are definitely starting to pop up more and more these days.  For my swatch I used one coat over a white base.

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Orly Mirrorball.  All the sparkly goodness.  I remember seeing swatches of this online and needing it straight away.  Formula was a little more sheer than I would have liked but it's still really pretty.  I used three coats for my swatch.

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Powder Perfect Fog Is Rolling In.  Powder Perfect would have to be one of the greatest losses to the Aussie indie community.  Such amazing polishes!  I mean look at this polish?  My swatch shows three coats.

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Zoya Izzy.  Zoya is one of those brands that I have quite a few of (they have an entire drawer dedicated to them) but aren't really ones I grab for too often.  Definitely need to change that.  For my swatch I used two coats.

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That brings us to the end of today's post.  It's actually really funny (and cringeworthy) looking back to how much my swatches have changed over the years.  Even my water mark.  Anyway, I think I have enough old swatches for one more post and then we will be back up to date.