Partial to Polish: October 2013

Thursday, 31 October 2013

Cartoony Halloween Nails!

Hi everyone! Today I have a Halloween skittle mani to share!

Yesterday we went to my boyfriend's house for the night, so I brought a bunch of nail polish stuff to school so I could do my nails at his house. This means I've been carrying around the ten polishes I used for these nails plus my base and top coat and other supplies for two days now haha! There is one colour I can't tell you the name of in this mani, because I ended up mixing my green, orange and purple to make it! Except for forgetting to pack a brown (though I guess I could have done the stem bit green if I had used a different base colour for the pumpkin nails) I actually feel like I prepared really well for this mani. I ended up using every polish I brought with me on at least one nail!

After dinner I painted my boyfriend's stepmom's toes with the purple seen here (Color Club Pucci-licious) and I added cute little square gold studs to her big toes! In other words, I had a super polished-packed night, the best kind of night!

Sorry I didn't post these any sooner, I didn't have access to my sister's camera and my light box and lamps until now! I posted these nails when I was almost done with them yesterday on Instagram, so definitely follow me there because between here and Instagram, I usually post every three days or less! I also post ridiculous pictures of myself which I also did yesterday! I'm going to go ahead and embed the picture here because I want to show off my adorable new cat ear hat! Isn't it the best? :)

Anyway, asides aside, for these nails I only used two (well three if you count my cleanup brush) brushes! I picked up four new brushes from Michaels on the weekend and I love them all! Well, I haven't actually tried one of them yet, but I'm very excited to! For everything except the gradient I used a 12/0 liner brush, and for the gradient I used a big fluffy brush to mix the different proportions of blue and black and to apply the mixtures to my nails! I almost forgot, I also used an eyeshadow sponge because I bought a pack of them at the dollar store for gradient purposes! I used the sponge to lightly apply my black holographic polish on the tips of my thumbs!

Anyways, onto the polishes used and then the pictures!

Red creme- American Apparel Poppy
Holographic red- Northern Star Polish Ki-Ki-Ma-Ma
Orange- China Glaze Oh How Street It Is
Yellow- Color Club Almost Famous
Green- Essie Mojito Madness
Blue- Essie Mesmerized
Purple- Color Club Pucci-licious
White- OPI My Boyfriend Scales Walls
Black creme- Orly Liquid Vinyl
Holographic black- Color Club Beyond

Here's my right hand! I'll only ever do a design I can do on both hands, so I kind of have to stick to simple cartoony designs haha!

Thanks so much for reading everyone, let me know what you think of these in the comments! Happy Halloween! :)

Sunday, 27 October 2013

Dollish Polish Putting On The Ritz! over a Blue to Purple Essie Gradient!

Hey everyone! Today I have a quick post featuring another glitter-topped gradient mani to share!

I've recently fallen in love with gradients (probably because I've finally mastered a technique that works) so I decided to do another one yesterday! The blue is Essie Bikini So Teeny and the purple is Essie Play Date (two of my favourite polishes)! The glitter on top is Dollish Polish Putting On The Ritzzz!, a lovely black and white glitter topper without any bar glitter (unlike Hard Candy Black Tie Optional)!

Onto the pictures!

What do you guys think of gradients topped with glitter? Thank you so much for reading! :)

Wednesday, 23 October 2013

Northern Star Polish Tourmaline!

Hello everybody! Today I have my first ever Northern Star Polish polish to share! It is Tourmaline and it's freaking beautiful. I recently dyed the ends of my hair a touch darker and a touch bluer than this colour, so I decided to try this one out first because it matches my hair almost perfectly!

I picked up seven other polishes and four cuticle oils when I purchased this polish from her, so there will be more reviews and swatches to come! Here is the picture of everything I got that you may have seen on my Instagram! As you can see, Kristin threw in an extra little cuticle oil for free, so sweet! Sorry my phone camera sucks so bad!

The cuticle oils are amazing by the way! They contain olive oil, almond oil and grape seed oil, which soaks in even quicker than both a grape seed oil blend and an almond oil blend I have! It's amazing how quickly these soak in and how moisturizing they are, it really is a perfect recipe. These are without a doubt the best cuticle oils I have ever tried! In case you're curious, the full size bottle I bought is Pumpkin Spice, the three mini bottles are Tangerine Honeysuckle, White Chocolate and Sweet Pea, and the free one she threw in is Sir Peppy Pep! Sweet Pea is my favourite scent of the five!

By the way, what do you guys think of the insanely picture-heavy posts I've been posting lately, are they too much? Let me know in the comments! This one is pretty picture-heavy too! :P

These pictures show two thick coats of Tourmaline with and without a coat of top coat (the first four are without and the last four are with)! Tourmaline is what I would describe as a kelly green (though it looks more teal in the photos) crelly polish with tiny green circles (a yellower green than the base), tiny white and black circles, and small silver/white flakes (you can see one really well on my pinkie)! So gorgeous.

Without further ado, let's get on the photos of the beautiful Tourmaline! I included a cropped version of the first non-top-coated picture because you guys NEED to see this baby up close!

No top coat:

One coat of Essie Good To Go top coat:

What do you guys think of this polish? I'm a sucker for greens so I absolutely love it! Thanks so much for stopping by everyone! :)

Monday, 21 October 2013

Dollish Polish Super Bubblicious!

Hi everyone! Today (like many other days) I have a swatch of a lovely indie polish for you!

This is Dollish Polish Super Bubblicious and it was a pleasure to work with! Many bloggers claim this polish is a three-coater, but I think I apply thicker coats when working with jelly/crelly polishes or just in general, so I got away with just two coats! I also added a coat of top coat before taking the photos, so the pictures show two (thick) coats and a coat of Essie Good To Go top coat!

I apologize for the sad, dry skin around my nails in these photos, I had two big midterms last week and my cuticles and hands were neglected!

Anyways, onto the photos!

Super cute right? I have a few other Dollish Polish polishes, so let me know down below if you wanna see swatches of my other ones! I hope you're all having a lovely day! :)

Saturday, 19 October 2013

Four New Black Sheep Lacquer Duochromes: Blue-Yea, Blink, Forbidden Fruit and Zaftig Zombie!

Hello everyone! Today I have four lovely new duochromes (or multichromes, a few of them shine four or more different colours in my eyes) from Black Sheep Lacquer to share!*

I swatched each polish at one coat over black, at one coat on their own and at two or three coats for full opacity (and no top coat)! No formula issues, these were a pleasure to work with as usual!

Based on how these polishes look over black, I think these polishes would be absolutely perfect for a galaxy mani! I think I'll do one with these polishes pretty soon!

Also, I apologize for my short nails in the Forbidden Fruit and Zaftig Zombie over black swatches! These swatches took me quite a while to do and I filed my nails down before Erin and I decided I should swatch those two over black as well! I'm so glad I did, these would all be so awesome as topcoats and look so freaking cool and pretty over black specifically!

Get ready to be bombarded with (36) pictures! I apologize in advance!