Showing posts with label Nostalgic. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Nostalgic. Show all posts

Saturday, January 21, 2012

Nostalgic Nail Lacquer: Into the Labyrinth Collection

Okay, another treat today you guys! I think y'all will like this as much as the Bizarre Teenage Love Triangle collection.
Erin of The Sugar Cube also has a collection for her shop, Nostalgic Nail Lacquer, called Into The Labyrinth. This collection is a set of layering polishes! Well, you guys know how much I love to layer, so I had a lot of fun with these. I should go ahead and warn you, there are a lot of photos here.
Into the Labyrinth is a set of three color changing topcoats.
Let's go ahead and break it down! You'll want to click to enlarge all of these to really see the changes.
First of all, I'm showing you Chilly Down. This one goes from blue to purple. I swatched this over Sonia Kashuk Taunting Teal. The top coat actually looks like a shimmer on your nail, and the color change is really cool to look at!





Next I have Magic Dance. This goes from purple to pink to gold. Straight on it looks kind of purpley-pink, but if you tilt your nails in any direction you get one heck of a shift! I swatched this over China Glaze Naughty and Nice.




Last and certainly not least is Underground. I've swatched this over OPI Here Today...Aragon Tomorrow. This one is really neat, it goes from yellow-gold, to teal-blue, to green. Straight on it looks light greenish gold.




I had SO much fun with these, wiggling my fingers around like a madwoman. You get lots of sparkle in bright sunlight, but wow the shift of colors in lower light is fantastic. What do you think of these? Obviously, I love to layer so these are really fun for me.

Disclaimer: Product(s) featured in this post were provided in return for an honest review.

Friday, January 20, 2012

Nostalgic Nail Lacquer: Bizarre Teenage Love Triangle Collection

Good evening everyone! I have something fun to share with you guys tonight. Recently, Erin, of The Sugar Cube, launched her own Etsy shop where she is selling her line of nail lacquers, called Nostalgic Nail Lacquer. She sent me a couple of sets to show you guys!
The first trio I want to show you is the Bizarre Teenage Love Triangle collection, inspired by the eighties movie Pretty In Pink. *swoon* These are really cute pastel jellies - be still my heart! - with various sized glitters floating in them. They remind me of Sweet Tarts. I have not layered any of these, but these would be FANTASTIC layered.
I'll start with Duckie. Oh sweet Gods, a mint green jelly? Yes please! Duckie has three different shades of glitter. This is a darker mint, though - and quite a bit blue. So, an aqua mint? It's perfect. Because it's a jelly, it's a bit sheer, but I prefer it that way. I liked it with three layers but I could honestly have left it at two and been fine with it, I like it a bit sheer and squishy.




Click to enlarge these, please! The next one I'm showing you is Andie, which is a baby doll pink jelly with four shades of glitter. I used three coats here also. This shade of pink is pretty flattering on my skin tone, it's not too grey like some other baby pinks I've tried!



The last shade of this trio is Blane, and it's a squishy lilac jelly that maddeningly, reads strongly pink in photos. I assure you this REALLY IS purple.  No matter what light I took this in, it appeared more pink than purple! This was the most opaque of the three, but I still used three coats here.



Well, put directly below Andie, it definitely looks more purple. *whew* And I'm glad, because I dislike misrepresenting a color, but I'm sure you guys out there have read more than one nail blogger complaining about trying to get a purple to photograph correctly! They're stubborn little suckers.
This is the cutest collection, isn't it? I'm absolutely in love with it, they're JELLIES! They're PASTEL JELLIES WITH GLITTER! Squishy. I could squee all day over these. What do you guys think?

Disclaimer: Product(s) featured in this post were provided in return for an honest review.
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