More Northern Star Polish Swatches: Smuldering, Ki-Ki Ma-Ma, Storybook Love, Inconceivable and Drop Your Sword!

Hey everybody! Today I have five more Northern Star Polish polishes to show you all!

I was a total swatching machine on the weekend, can you believe I swatched seven polishes (these five and my two Emily de Mollys) in two days? I'm actually not very surprised because I should have been studying for my upcoming biochemistry midterm and doing my organic chemistry assignment :P. I am a horribly efficient procrastinator!

All of these polishes had really nice formulas that were a bit thick, but I should note that Storybook Love was a little too thick for my liking, though still totally manageable! All of the pictures seen here are of three coats and no top coat except for the first polish, Smuldering, which is of two coats and no top coat!

The last three polishes featured in this post are from Kristen's As You Wish Collection which makes me super happy! Does anyone else love the movie The Princess Bride? I've seen it so many times and just talking about it makes me want to watch it again!

Anyways, onto the swatches!

Smuldering- two coats, no top coat

Ki-Ki Ma-Ma- three coats, no top coat

Storybook Love- three coats, no top coat

Inconceivable- three coats, no top coat

Drop Your Sword- three coats, no top coat

Thanks so much for taking a look everyone, let me know if any of these polishes are calling your names in the comments! Happy Tuesday! =)

Northern Star Polish Swatches: Venus de Meow and Bronzite!

Hi everyone! Today I have swatches and reviews of two more Northern Star Polish polishes to share!

I had a relaxing Saturday swatching these babies before a lovely dinner of Indian food and marathon of Super Nintendo games, despite the fact that I should have been studying for an upcoming cell biology midterm haha! Let me know how you guys spent your Saturdays in the comments!

Onto the reviews and pictures!

Venus de Meow is a very pale purple crelly with tiny blue circles, many large silver and a few purple hexes, and medium-sized silver holographic hexes (you can see one that appears green in the bottle shot)! Formula-wise this polish was pretty thick, but it is from an older collection I believe. Nail polish thinner didn't seem to help very much at all, but the polish was still manageable! Shown here is two thick coats and no top coat!

Bronzite is a dark brown creme with tiny gold and orange circles and small silver flakies! I am seriously in love with this beauty. Guys, I think this is my new favourite polish. I know I never use caps lock here, but LOOK AT IT!!! Formula-wise this polish was a little thick, but totally useable and manageable! I find slightly thick polishes like this have the easiest consistencies to work with so there are no formula issues to report here! Shown here is two easy coats and a coat of top coat!

I can't say enough good things about this polish guys. I was going to swatch the five other polishes I picked up from Northern Star Polish and maybe even the three Contrary Polish polishes I that arrived the other day, but after one coat I base coated my other hand because I had to wear it!

Are you guys as in love with Bronzite as I am? Even though it's a whole 15mL polish and I only ever finish black or white cremes, I seriously might need to pick up a backup of this lovely! I hope you're all having a lovely and relaxing Sunday, thank you so much for reading everyone! :)

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! :)

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! :)