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! :)

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! :)

Plum Flakie Mani: Shiny and Matte!

Hey everyone! I'm sorry for not posting for a few more days than usual, I have a night lab on Thursday nights and I got busy Friday, so I couldn't repaint my nails until today! Anyway, today I have some shiny and matte flakie nails to share!

For this mani I started off with two coats of Essie Carry On, a lovely crelly plummy brown polish! It's absolutely perfect for fall and winter if you're into matching your nails to the seasons! I feel like I say this about every polish I've talked about lately, but this beauty could be a one-coater if you're careful!

I then went in with a gorgeous flakie top coat, Color Club Covered In Diamonds. Covered In Diamonds is definitely more my kind of flakie polish than Essie Shine Of The Times, though I do own and love both! I've always been more of a cool colour than warm colour girl, what can I say?

After that, I went in with Julep Matte Top Coat, making sure to go even closer to the cuticle than the polish already there did (so I didn't get that glossy-millimetre-right-at-the-cuticle thing that often happens with matte topcoats).

Onto the pictures!

Two coats of Essie Carry On, no top coat.

One coat of Color Club Covered In Diamonds over my undies, no top coat!

One generous coat of Julep Matte Top Coat over everything else I mentioned!

What do you guys think, shiny or matte? Let me know in the comments!

Thanks so much for reading everyone! Hope you're having a lovely weekend, we're having a turkey dinner tonight just for fun and I can't wait! :)

Flakie Mani on a Family Friend!

I painted my mom's best friend's nails last night and I thought I'd share! This is China Glaze's For Audrey, China Glaze's Secret Periwinkle, and Essie's Shine Of The Times :)!

Another Matte Flakie Mani =)

This is just Sally Hansen's Barracuda, Essie's Gym Dandy, Essie's Shine of the Times, and Nyc's Matte Topcoat! :)

Matte Turquoise Flakie Nails :)

This is just three coats of Essie's Turks and Caicos with Essie's Shine of the Times on top and Julep's Matte Topcoat! =)