Emily de Molly Swatch Spam

As I was packing up my polishes (and I am sure it will hit me again as I unpack all of them) that I have a lot of really pretty polishes that I haven't worn.  I definitely need to change that, so I am going to start doing some branded swatch spams or more regular single posts.  I haven't really decided what I am going to do yet.  Anyway, today I have six gorgeous polishes to share with you from Emily de Molly.

Fashion Victim is a pink jelly with various sizes and shaped glitters.  Show is two coats over Zoya Izzy. 

Hole In The Sky is a light blue creme with silver, periwinkle and lavender glitter.  My swatch shows two coats.

Princess Grace is a green crelly with neon yellow, green, pink, purple, orange and red hexes in various sizes and silver holographic butterflies.  This was a special polish made as part of the Wave Of Polish auctions back in 2013.  I was lucky enough to swatch Margaret's bottle.

Stealing Diamonds is a steel blue creme with silver, charcoal, pastel blue and sky blue holo.  Unfortunately this polish has been discontinued.

Sugar Free is a white base with yellow, pink and blue glitters. 

The Dance is a darkened magenta base filled with colour shifting shimmer that changes from pink to cold.  This polish is absolutely gorgeous.  This polish was specially made for the Wave Of Polish auctions in 2014.  I was lucky enough to swatch Margaret's bottle.

I'm such a huge fan of Emily de Molly.  Hayley does know how to make the most beautiful polishes, the formulas are amazing and the customer service is fantastic.  I can't wait to add more and more of of Hayley's creations to my collection.

Australian customers can purchase directly from Emily de Molly.  For international customers please see the international stockists list.

So what do you think of this sort of post?  Let me know in the comments below.    

Two Birds Lacquer First Anniversary Collection - Swatches & Review

Recently Two Birds Lacquer celebrated their first anniversary of their store opening.  How exciting!  To help celebrate, Two Birds released a five piece collection with each polish being named after different traditional first anniversary tokens.  I'm not really into the whole the anniversary token thing but gorgeous polishes, well I'm all for that.  Now let's get into it.

Carnation is a dark pink shimmer, packed with rainbow iridescent micro glitters and a sprinkle of gunmetal microflakies.  Now the formula on this one is amazing.   So easy to use and only requires one coat for it to be opaque.

Clocks is a bright royal blue with some violet/gold shimmer.  There is always something magically about Two Birds blue polishes and I don't know what it is.  I now own two and am completely in love.  The formula of this one is amazing as well.  My swatch shows one coat.

Cotton is a dark shimmery gunmetal polish with scattered holo and a slight crystal green shift.  Now while I do love this one in the bottle, I was a little disappointed with it on the nails.  The formula and colour look great and in the bottle it looks as though there is lots of sparkles, however on the nail you can barely see any of the sparkle.  It is opaque in one coat but I used two coats in hopes to get some more sparkle.

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Mother Of Peal is a pale grey creme full of rainbow pearl flakies and a sprinkling of crystal green micro hex glitters.  Such a pretty polish and easy to use.  I wish we had some sunshine when I swatched this one so you can see all the extra colours in there.  I used two coats for my swatch.

Paper is a deep aubergine polish with multiple colour shift, and subtle scattered holo.  Again, this is a beautiful colour and is easy to use.  I used two coats for my swatch below.

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Now as a bonus (and a complete surprise to me) Two Birds added in a random birthday present to orders of the Anniversary Collection.  And by random I mean that even Stacey (the creator) didn't even know what everyone received.  I received a beautiful red jelly with purple and pink glitters of various sizes and shapes.  I needed three coats of this and there is still a slight visible nail line so next time I will definitely be wearing this over a base colour.

While I was looking at the Two Birds website I noticed that this collection is no longer available for purchase so I am guessing they were limited edition.  Who was lucky enough to get their hands on this collection?  I am so glad I did.  It's a great collection.  My personal favorites are Clocks and Carnation.

Flakie Friday - Finger Paints Asylum

Today our belongings will hopefully be arriving which means we get to move into our new house.  Yay!  We will be staying in hotels and apartments until we our stuff arrives.  It will be nice to be settled  and to have all our stuff back (read as I will have all my polishes back).  You will need to bare with me for a little longer while I settle in and unpack but then I will be back to more regular blogging and back to my daily Instagram life.

Now seems today is Friday it means it's time for Flakie Friday again.  I love pulling out all the different flakies that are hiding away in the drawers.  I own three Finger Paints flakies and I don't think I have actually tried any of them until now.  I think Asylum was a good one to start with.  I painted the first coat on over black but the flakies were was too sparse for my liking so I sponged more one.

And the mattified version.

I love the colours in this one.  It does look mainly red and blue on the nail but it does turn into other colours depending on the angle of the nail and the lighting, 

Powder Perfect The Hardwicke Collection - Swatches & Review

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Today is a very exciting day for me.  Not only is it the day where I officially move to Queensland (it's also my baby's first time flying so that should be interesting) but I get to share with you the soon to be released  Hardwicke Collection by Powder Perfect.  I feel like I have been sitting with these gorgeous polishes forever and I have been dying to share them.  Now just as a mini word of warning, I am totally in love with this whole collection.  I think the colours are amazing and the formulas are fantastic too (all two coaters and apply easily).

Borders Of The Forest is a forest green with blue-green micro flakes and a holographic effect.

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Dust & Shadows is a dark purple polishes with a sparkling holographic flame.

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Ensorcel is a royal purple lacquer with large golden flakes and holographic sparks.

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Meet Me In The Glade is a rust red lacquer filled with shades of red and gold flakes and holographic shimmer.  To me this polish is the perfect Autumn polish.  Everything about it screams Autumn.

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Shadow Of The Mountain is a dusty lilac holographic polish with purple-blue shifting micro flakies.

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Sunset In The Valley is a berry pink vanish with a holographic flame and red sparks.

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The Crossroads is an earthy holographic polish with bronze flakes and small glitters.

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The Village is a deep charcoal linear holographic nail polish.

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Woodcutter a beige holographic lacquer with flattering warm undertones.

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How amazing is this collection?  I absolutely love everything about it.  My absolute favorites from the collection are Shadow Of The Mountain, The Crossroads, Meet Me In The Glade and Borders Of The Forest.

Now the important part, this collection is being released on Friday 8th May at 10am and you can purchase the entire collection from Powder Perfection for $97 or purchase each shade individually for $12 each. 

Lustre Nail Vanish Fall Collection - Swatches & Review

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Today I am excited to be introducing another new brand to my blog, Lustre Nail Vanish.  I was lucky enough to be sent a number of their nail colours, top coats and cuticle oils.  There was so much goodness all wrapped in cute little packages that I honestly had no idea where to begin.  So I figured why not start with the lastest release first, the Fall Collection.  This collection consists of six cremes in a range of colours.

Bonbons Orchidee is a beautiful dusty orchid purple.  The formula of this is nothing short of amazing.  It applies beautifully and is opaque in just one coat.  That's right, one coat.  This is definitely my favorite from the collection.

Dandelion is a yellow creme.  This one applied quite streaky and needed four coats to be opaque.

Feuille D'erable is an interesting colour.  I am really not sure how to describe it.  It's like a rusty orangey red with some brown hints in it.  It definitely in a unique colour in my collection.  The formula is quick thick but is easy enough to use.  I used one coat for my swatch.

Misty Rose is a pretty baby pink.  It's definitely not the typical colour polish I am use to seeing for a Fall collection by I like it.  It's a nice clean crisp pink and the formula is great.  I used two coats for my swatch.

Passe Feuilles is a dark green creme.  The formula on this is similar to the formula of Feuille D'erable.  It's thick but pretty easy to use.  I used one coat for my swatch.

Rozanne is a medium toned blue creme.  The formula on this one is fantastic.  It's easy to use and is opaque in one coat.

Overall I am super impressed with the quality of these polishes.  I don't think I have ever come across so many one coaters in a single collection.  Even the pale pink applies really well, and normally for this light a shade you would normally be doing three coats.  My favorite is definitely Bonbons Orchidee.  I am such a sucker for purples, and this one is perfect for Fall. 

This collection and many other beautiful shades are available from Lustre Nail Vanish.  Lustre are kindly offering my readers a 20% off all purchases with the code "Lustre20off".  

Flakie Friday - Emily de Molly The Rapture

Happy 1st Day of May!  The next week or two is going to be a little bit crazy for me (well really it's just a continuation of the crazy that has been happening) because we are moving to Queensland!  Ahhh!  How crazy and exciting.  My partner has accepted a promotion with his work so we have packed (and will still be packing our by the time this post goes live) and are heading north.  I have spent countless hours cutting up bubble wrap and wrapping polishes, plus painting my nails and swatching like a mad woman in hopes not to fall too far behind, so I do apologize if I disappear slightly.  I promise I will be as active as my lack of internet (and time) will allow.

Enough rambling about the whole moving thing, lets get into the good stuff - flakies.  I recently received my order from the sample/LE sale that Emily de Molly had which resulted in my rearranging all of my EdM collection to fit in it's new family members.  Of course I stopped and drooled at all the untried pretties and decided it was time to break out The Rapture.  This polish is part of the Back To Bases trio which was released back in December 2014 (can you please it has been sitting untried in my drawers for that long?).  It has a very dark blue base with copper/pink/green/gold colour shifting flakes and pink micro holo glitter.  The formula is super easy to work with and is opaque in two coats.

I completely forgot to do a mattified version of this mani and to be honest I don't think I would have liked it as much as I love the shiny version.  It's just so pretty.  I really need to wear the other two polishes in this trio.

This polish is available both on its own and as part of the trio from Emily de Molly.