Review: Pretty & Polished Valentino

One day I'll swatch regular polishes but I feel that the indies are under-represented in the blogger microcosm and need a voice. I WILL BE THAT VOICE, EVEN IF IT MEANS SHOWING YOU INDIE POLISHES EVERYDAY, HURTING YOU AS THEY ARE QUITE HARD TO FIND! A hint - Etsy "Notify me by email" is your friend. All I do to find these polishes is to turn on the notification and wait, and be prepared to drop the cash when needed. Anyway, on to Pretty & Polished Valentino over the painfully-hard-to-photograh China Glaze Pool Party.

Before we go much further, it might be worth you checking out another review of mine featuring a black and white glitter in a clear base - Cover Band Sticks 'n' Stones. Both hard but not impossible to get if you're quick off the email, they're kinda similar. Valentino doesn't have the bar glitter Sticks 'n' Stones does, and has smaller micro glitter. Whatever, I'll take 100 different kinds of these, I just can't get over how good flat black and white glitter look together. Layered over the eyeball-punching China Glaze Pool Party, well, it's a winner. Application was decent, this is one coat. These glitters are really economical! You only ever need one coat.

The Verdict: I love both these polishes and they're magic together, as much as my camera hates the neon. I don't care that this is a lot like Sticks 'n' Stones which is like Connect the Dots, the world needs more glitter like this!

Review: Sephora X Outburst

As you can imagine, I was pretty excited when the new Sephora X polishes came out. Not only were there a million of them, but I could go see them in person, circling the huge stand and singling out my prey. I'm not the most happy that the good ones are FIFTEEN dollars each but what am I going to do, not buy any?? That's silly. I have few now but my favourite so far as to be the incredibly Outburst. LOOK AT IT:

All the ILNP Ultrachromes! Like Shiny Beetles!

Guess what guys, it's not glitter today! Instead, I have the incredibly amazing ILNP Ultrachrome polishes to show you! I saw a picture of these on the ILNP site and gasped out loud when I saw the colour shift. I totally didn't sit for an hour at work, refreshing the page when the preorders went up. That would be silly. I was so excited when they arrived as they looked as amazing in the bottle as they did on the site. I swatched each polish over black, took the photos, but no matter what I tried, I couldn't get the finish to a place where I was satisfied. I'm sure it's something about the way I was applying it, but there would be little bumps or inconsistencies in the finish and it was annoying. So I didn't post them. I gave them another shot in a taped mani and YES THIS IS BETTER LOOK:

Pink Mega-Sparkly Nails!

It's hardly a secret how much I love sparklies. If it were at all practical, I would make my middle name Sparkly. Laura Sparkly Tucker. That does have a nice ring to it. Anyway, this adoration of all the sparklies means just about my favourite thing ever is dazzle glitter . It's like a bunch of tiny pieces of glitter were smushed together into a larger piece. And oh, so sparklies. I've done red and silver manis using this glitter before so that's the perfect excuse to use the pink. That makes sense, right?

Polish All the Nails

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