A Late Flakie Friday - Lac Attack Durmstrang

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Hello lovelies! I know, I know...I'm late again. I swear that when I think I'm going to have all the time in the world to post, I end up having no time at all. This week was good ole mother nature surfacing to hand me my monthly migraine, and cramps that were so bad that they were radiating down my left leg. Not fun. I spent all of Thursday in bed with my heating pad and a bottle of Advil. Yesterday was better, but it was also payday, which meant lots of running around. It also meant online polish shopping though, and I have some really awesome Indies on the way, and I am beyond excited. I have some Liquid Sky Lacquer Multichromes, some gorgeous glitters and a flakie from Supernatural Lacquers, and a quick dry top coat and flakie polish from Underground Cosmetics on their way.

And speaking of Indie Goodness, the giveaway is still in the works - I just need to find time to finish separating the prizes into groups. I'm painting a bedroom this weekend, so it will more than likely be Monday or Tuesday before I'm ready to go live. Sorry for the delay, folks. Giveaways aren't always as cut and dry as they seem.

Today I have a late Flakie Friday polish to share with you lovelies. I'm trying to get back into my usual schedule, even though I failed this week. But hey! I'm only a day late with this one, and my god is it worth the wait!

If you haven't heard of Lac Attack, you may be living under a rock. Seriously, Lac Attack is one of the coolest Indie brands around, and I had been coveting so many Lac Attack polishes. My biggest lemming was a polish called Durmstrang, from the Magical Musings Collection. Durmstrang (named for the Wizarding Institute that Victor Krumm attended) is a gorgeous sheer blue polish loaded with shimmer (not just gold, but there's some awesome pink and blue shimmer that peeks through as well) and black shard and diamond glitters. I guess it's technically a glitter polish, but those black shards are flakes in my world, so it still counts, right?

Even though Durmstrang is described as an Icy blue, On my nails it's more of a bright Cobalt. Maybe it's my lighting, but even in sunlight, it's much more Cobalt. And I'm okay with that - I love me some bright blue!

This is 3 coats of Durmstrang topped with NPB Glitter Food and HK Girl Top Coat:

Can I just say WOW! First of all - that blue! Oh, that magical, beautiful, perfect blue. It's no secret that Blue will always be my very fave color to wear on my nails, and this particular blue is everything that I've ever wanted in a blue polish. Toss in the amazing shimmer and diamond and shard glitters and you have Kimber's dream polish.

Durmstrang's formula is just as awesome as the polish itself, with a perfect jelly consistency and no thickening during use. Application was much easier than I had anticipated - with all of those diamonds and shards I had expected application to be somewhat tricky and require some dabbing and glitter placement, however Durmstrang applied beautifully with just the usual brush strokes. Those diamonds and shards also lay flat on the nail for the most part - I think I had one tiny little shard on the tip of one nail that was a little pokey, but it didn't come off, so it was a non issue. Durmstrang is fairly sheer, so you will need either 2 thicker coats or 3 thinner coats for opacity, or you can layer this baby over a similar color. Since it has that awesome shimmer, I feel like this would be fairly epic layered over a Navy blue as well. Wear was pretty epic for shard glitter - I'm actually still wearing this polish (I applied this on Thursday night around 1 am) and have no wear at all and zero lifting glitters. I did add a coat of Glitter Food to this mani since the shard glitters can be fairly textured, and that smoothed everything out perfectly.

Obviously, I am in love with Durmstrang. I have a feeling I'll be needing a backup bottle sooner rather than later. In my opinion, this is a must have for any polish lover.

You can grab your very own bottle of Durmstrang at LacAttack.com for $8.00 full size or $4.25 for a mini bottle. While you're there, I highly recommend checking out the Cell Block Tango Collection. My polish budget is tight at the moment, but I plan on grabbing that collection as soon as I can swing it. don't forget to check out Lac Attack on Facebook and Instagram for new releases, sales and re-stock info, and swatches.

I have new Polish TBH coming up ASAP (with the painting I have no idea if it will be tomorrow or Monday, but it's coming!) as well as some Born Pretty Store Nail Art products.

Thanks for stopping by and Happy Polishing!
-Kimber





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Halloween Stamping With Bunny Nails Plates

Hola!!

Espero estén muy bien!, hoy les tengo dos placas para estampar de Bunny Nails!! Dulce fue muy amable en enviarme la placa HD-D y HD-C, Gracias Dulce!

Las 2 placas contienen imagenes con motivos de halloween y Día de muertos! a mi me han encantado no he sabido ni por donde empezar por que tienen muchisima variedad, en el final del post les muestro imagenes de las 2 placas:

Quise hacer varios diseños simples para mostrarles la variedad y versatilidad de las placas, funcionan muy bien son de excelente calidad, cada una tienen un valor de $ 16.99 dlls. Y en verdad lo valen

Contienen imagenes grandes y pequeñas para diferente tipo de uña, esta vez yo no tuve problema para estampar mis uñas que son un poco anchas ya que las imagenes para estampar en toda la uña son bastante grandes aprox. de 2x2.5 cm. :D 

En otro post les mostrare las imagenes de día de muertos!! con calaveras de azúcar y el típico ''papel picado'' que se utiliza en los altares de muertos aquí en México!

Espero que les gusten los diseños pueden comprar estas placas y muchas mas  en http://bunnynails.ecrater.com/p/18807798/hd-c-nail-art-stamp-plate
y para contactar a Dulce de Bunny Nails https://www.facebook.com/bunny.nails

NOTD: Another Untried! Revlon Sparkle APlenty

Good morning lovelies! Happy Friday!! I'm having a pretty good morning so far...it's payday! Which means I've already managed to order more A England (including The Knight Base Coat and The Shield Top Coat, which I plan to review here...I know we're all consantly looking for the best out there, and I've heard these are incredible!) and score some awesome Indie polishes from a blog sale! Woohoo!

Today's NOTD is another from my stash of untrieds. Revlon Sparkle APlenty is from the single shade Runway Report Collection (can you call that a Collection?), and was highly sought after. I managed to snatch it up as soon as the display hit the floor at Wags, and was so excited about it! Then it sat on a shelf just staring at me all dejected-like. Poor thing!

Sparkle APlenty is a dark grey/black (it's debatable) jelly packed with Silver Hex and microglitter, as well as Black Hex and microglitter (If you think it looks familiar, it's a pretty good dupe for OPI Metallic 4 Life from the Nicki Minaj Collection). Despite sounding simple, there's actually alot going on in here (it freaked my camera out!). You can see all of this in the bottle, but it loses it's translation on the nail, both over black and on its own. I chose to wear 2 coats over A England Camelot, my go to Black Creme.

Pretty, right? I'm actually kind of on the fence about this one. I really wish the the Black Glitter was actually visible. I tried this one alone first, and the Black glitter really does fade into the jelly. The only time you can see it, is when a black glitter overlaps a silver glitter. Pretty, but not all the unique.  I was hoping for more oomph.

Formula:
Sparkle Aplenty has a very odd formula. The jelly is fairly runny, but the glitter is so dense that it globs together. This made was very frustrating and made glitter placement a complete pain. The brush was also VERY fluffy, which didn't help.

Application:
 Due to the runny jelly and clumpy glitter, this was not fun to apply. Since I wore this over Black, I ended up just dabbing the brush around in an effort to get the glitter to lay somewhat evenly and flat. It has a tendency to stick up from the nail, which led to alot of poking at it to get it to lay down. The jelly also lends a very greyed out cast when worn over Black, yet looks fairly dark when worn alone. I'm wearing 2 coats here, but this needed a good 3 coats on its own. Dry time was fairly slow, and it dries gritty so if you like things smooth, a good coat of Gelous or Glitter Tamer is in order.

I really wanted to love this, but I'm just not wowed. This is the first time I've picked up a Revlon Glitter and was just "meh" about it. It's just not consistent with their usual quality. Unofortunately, this is going to end up sitting on a shelf, or donated to someone who will love it.

What do you think of Sparkle Aplenty?

I'll be back tomorrow with another challenge post, as well as the start of lots of A England polish!


Thanks for stopping by and Happy Polishing!
-Kimber