ILNP Birefringence

           I am so backlogged with photos! This is a good problem and a bad problem. Good because I can post about a polish when I want to because I already have reasonable photos to use, bad because I can't decide what to post! Dude helped me select which one to start with, as I have a mountain of new polishes and had no clue where to start.

            ILNP is a brand new to me. Their presentation is super professional and a bit fancy. I love their square bottles (apparently they used to be round) and the nice screen printing as well as all the labels and packaging. The website is also very sleek and contemporary looking.

           This polish in particular is one of their multi chrome polishes. It is very  beautiful and the particle size and finish is quite nice. I have a lot of trouble with some duo chrome polishes as they can be very streaky and just have a finish and particle size which I do not like. The china glaze ones seem to fit the best into this category pretty but a strange finish that doesn't look good in a lot of lights (to me at least). The finish on this is about as good as you can get for a polish of this type. The shift is very strong and very cool looking in nearly all lights.

Onward, to the photos!

I had a hard time capturing the golden edge to the shift but it is there! You can see it pretty well in the bottle and it does show up in some lights.

A very pretty polish and definitely worth a try if you are looking for this sort of shade, feels very autumnal to me.

Hopefully I should be posting a bit more in the near future, I was on vacation and I am now back so hopefully I can plow through the pile of photos so I won't be still positing fall polishes in December.

~drastic

Glam Polish The Prestige [Updated with more photos!]

         I sometimes don't post polishes I've worn because of lack of good photos, for the next few polishes, that is kind of the case, I'm not super pleased with the photos and I took a lot of them so there is a lot more sorting which makes it a bit tricky.

      This polish is another one from Glam Polish. The Prestige is from the Masters of Illusion collection, I feel like I could have probably bought most of these polishes as well. I'm trying to maintain my restraint (and my low buy I've limited myself to). The Prestige reminds me of OPI's Teenage Dream / Milani's Pink Flare. The difference is that it is much paler, and a bit cooler as well as a hint of pale purple. It is a very pretty shade with lots more holo than Teenage Dream that is less lumpy. There are some pink flakes in the polish as well, it kind of gets lost in all the holo but I appreciate the complexity anyway.  I took tons of photos and I'm not sure how much I really like any of them so I'm just going to throw all the ones that look reasonable into this post.

I could not get my camera to focus on my nails, it kept focusing on the bottle!

The Prestige V ILNP Dream Girl

Apologies for some different backgrounds, I painted this while I was at my parents house so some of the photos are from there, others are back at my place. I'm not sure photos can really capture some of these pale colors accurately. This is a very ethereal polish the lavender/lilac tones to this polish only come out in some lighting but make it a very unique polish (to me at least). Very beautiful, if you can scrounge this one up it would definitely be worth it. I had to order this one from Hypnotic Polish's website since Glam Polish was all out, definitely worth paying more and the extra shipping to get it from The Netherlands. If you were curious about how this compares to ILNP Dream Girl, it is similar but different. Dream Girl is darker and more pink and is just a straight up holo (I think they call these Ultra Holos?) Anyway not much else to say!

I hope everyone is having a happy October!

~drastic

Bonus update photos!

Hello everyone I found some really pretty photos of The Prestige on my phone (I forgot about them) and so I am sharing those as well :-)

These arent the best photos but they show off the sparkle better and the lilac/lavender-y undertone of the polish. :-)

Glam Polish Get Otter Here

       Today we have another  Glam Polish! I liked this one so much I actually ordered two more from the Under the Sea collection. Get Otter Here is a purple polish with a pink shimmer along with a lot of very fine holo particles as well as some larger light blue holo glitter. Very pretty. I normally am not a huge purple fan but I saw photos of this online and I knew I had to have it. I find some purples to be ugly on my skintone and I'm not exactly sure if it is the ones that are more blue or that are more red that I don't like. I always thought I was fairly balanced with pink and yellow (sometimes pulling more pink sometimes more yellow) but apparently I'm not neutral toned.

ANYWAY, this polish is very cute, the purple and the holo seem to work really well together and makes me feel a little bit like a 10 year old (in a good way)

As you can see the holo in this is really hard to photograph, it seems very noticeable in person but since it isn't a super strong finish it doesn't capture well on camera. I definitely really like the idea behind this whole collection with the holo and the simmer and the contrasting larger holo glitter. Definitely worth checking out.

Since I got to see Echo and the Bunnymen live last week with my parents; here is my favorite Echo and the Bunnymen song (though I do admit Killing Moon is a close second) :-)


~drastic

Glam Polish I'm Shore You Did

Let's cut to the chase here, you need this polish. NEED IT!

I ordered a few Glam Polishes two weeks ago and I'm loving them, I'm very tempted to go order more!  This polish is just amazing. I never really had a desire to buy a silver holographic polish because my experience with China Glaze FYI ( a tan holo) was that in non sunlight the polish just looked like a boring flat metallic (a matte metallic even). Since I was so disappointed by FYI I never bothered really with holo polishes. I nearly bought that silver Orly put out last year for their holiday collection, but I just couldn't do it. I'm Shore You Did is very different, it has the silver holo base, but it also has different color slightly bigger holo glitter. So even if the lighting you are in isn't very flattering to the holo you at least have a multi color glitter to look at.


On to the photos!

*drools*

Dude's sister got married this past weekend and I wore this to the wedding, it was amazing! Nothing better than staring at your sparkly nails when you are sitting around waiting for people. This has to be the best holographic silver polish in existence, you could probably walk by me right now with a free bottle of Chanel Holographic and I'd prob not give a crap. (maybe that is a slight overstatement?)

But honestly this polish changed my mind about a lot of things. I love the Glam Polish bottles and the brush is nice and I love the longer caps. Sorry for gushing I've just been so happy with the polishes I bought from them and I haven't been really excited about a polish in a while and it just makes me happy.

Now some bonus phone photos!

blurry shot!!

my only outdoor shot!

 Sorry that I only managed to get one outdoor photo, it was a dreary weekend. The only reason I got this shot was because I was too lazy to change my polish like I planned so I had an extra day that ended up being sunny. This actually wore really well on me I got a full 4 days which is rare for me, with only a little tipwear, not sure if it was the polish or the two layers of top coat, or perhaps the fact that I used my Butter London Hardware topcoat, I never really noticed a difference before but maybe it really like this polish? I usually use the NYC clear fast dry polish as a top coat because it is cheap and works pretty well for me. I go through so much top coat it doesn't seem worth it to pay 20 bucks for the Butter London one.

Anyway, I hope I made it clear how in love I am with this polish O-O!

~drastic actions







I'm posting this as the weather is bothering my sinuses and my brain hurts :-) 

China Glaze Rest in Pieces

I think this might be my last Halloween polish?  I definitely think this is my favorite of the Halloween glitters. This one is mostly copper-y orange-y glitters (hexes and bars) with some lighter iridescent/gold/holo bars and some black hexes. It definitely doesn't  pop that well against my background polish. Oh well!

Might have to wear this again with a different base polish because it really doesn't pop as well as it could. Very pretty and definitely a fun polish.

Happy Monday!

~drastic