Wingdust Collections - Space Cadet! Swatch and Review

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Hello Lovelies! I apologize for my absence yesterday, as well as the lack of Flakie Friday. I've been crazy busy the past couple of days, as well as nursing an angry tooth. Fun stuff, let me tell ya!

First of all, there is less than a day left to grab Pure Nail Oil for 30% off. This is the last time it will be on sale until January 2014, so grab it now! The Get Naked Challenge is going all month (please email me to enter...the odds of winning are VERY GOOD at the moment, so don't be shy! If you need photo help, please let me know as well!), so don't feel like you can't enter since you may not be able to go naked right away. Just pick any 3 days and go for it! You can check out all the challenge information (as well as ordering info) in my original post here.

Today I have an incredible polish from Wingdust Collections to share with you. I've been trying to hold off on this beauty until some of my length is back, but I just couldn't wait any longer. It's summer and that means holo season, so my holos are now coming out to play.

Space Cadet is a super gorgeous black jelly packed with holo and iridescent glitters and a soft lilac shimmer. This polish is one of my all time fave black holos and is truly stunning. I wish I could transport you all to my polish corner so I could show you just how amazing this is IRL.

This is 3 thin coats of Space Cadet with top coat. I took these in indirect lighting to capture more of the holo sparkle, but my camera really wanted to focus on the glitters. Just imagine rainbows!:

Every time I see this polish I just want to squee! Such an incredible holo beauty...and a perfect base for galaxy nails too!

Space Cadet's formula is true Wingdust Perfection - not too thick, not too thin, and no thickening up during use. Application was stellar as well with no dragging, balding, or clumpy glitters. Dry time was insanely fast, and wear is exceptional with no chips or tip wear at 36 hours. But honestly, do we expect anything less than excellence from Wingdust? IMO Wingdust is one of the most exceptional brands out there.

You can find WIngdust polishes by visiting Wingdust Collections on Etsy or by heading over to Llarowe. Full size polishes will run you $8.50 - $10.00 depending on finish. You can al so follow Wingdust on Facebook and Instagram for new releases, updates, and swatches.

What do you think of Space Cadet? Do you have a fave Wingdust polish?

Stay tuned for some awesomeness from Fandom Cosmetics and Love Angeline tomorrow! I'll also be joining the ever fabulous Gini from Sassy Paints for Try It Out Tuesdays, so be sure to check back soon!

Thanks for stopping by and Happy Polishing!
-Kimber

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Nail Pattern Boldness: Alpha Nail!

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Hello Lovelies! I regret to say that I have a raging migraine today, so posts will be short and sweet. I'm currently sitting in a dark kitchen, wearing sunglasses and praying that my meds kick in sometime soon.  I'm also bummed since all the new growth on my left hand is now gone. I managed to bust 2 nails yesterday while attempting to stop the hatchback on my car from falling onto my head. I'm not sure which is worse, breaking those nails or getting whacked in the head with the hatchback door. That door comes down hard, and hurts pretty something fierce, but honestly I think I may take that over losing every millimeter of growth I had gained back. Meh. Fun stuff!

Today I have a seriously awesome polish to share with you all. And when I say seriously awesome, what I mean is that I really don't even need to write a review.....All I really need to say is "look at this polish and drool. It's perfect in every way, and you NEED this.". It's *that* good.

I'm sure all of you are familiar with Nail Pattern Boldness by now. NPB is a personal fave, and Allison's creations never ever disappoint. Glitter Food and Glitter-A-Peel have changed the way I wear  glitters - and most polish for that matter! I was lucky enough to receive some of her polish to share with you all, and despite already loving the NPB's I have, I've fallen even deeper in love.

Today's polish is Alpha Nail, the first Duochrome from Nail Pattern Boldness, and an Epic Win. Alpha Nail is a gorgeous and jaw dropping blue/purple/fuchsia duochrome topcoat, and is one of the most beautiful polishes I own. This is one of those dangerous polishes, since I was staring at it constantly and had to make a conscious effort not to stare at my nails while driving. But enough of my raving - I'm sure you want to see this pretty, am I right?

This is 2 thin coats of Alpha Nail over A-England Camelot:

Okay, someone needs to shape her nails..... ;) Despite the wonky nail shape that I have just now noticed, Alpha Nail is ZOMGWTFBBQ!!!!!! Look at that color shift, and how vibrant the colors are. Just beautiful. For a first duochrome? Allison has an Epic Win here. *Drool Drool Drool!!*

Alpha Nail's formula was nothing short of perfection. Just thick enough to carry all that duochrome goodness without any risk of flooding or dripping, yet not too thick to work with, with zero thickening during use. Application was stellar with no dragging, balding or glopping. Dry time was fast and Alpha Nail boasts superior shine, even without top coat.

Honestly, if you don't own Alpha Nail, you should. Call me an enabler, but this is truly a must have in my book. I'm already planning when I can wear this beauty next, and cannot wait to see what it looks like over a navy blue, indigo, and purple. $20 says it's freakin' killer!

You can find Nail Pattern Boldness on Etsy, or by visiting Lllarowe. NPB polishes are in high demand, so grab them while you can! Full size bottles run $9.00, save for Glitter Food (which you need if you are a glitter fan!) and Glitter-A-Peel (I can't live without this stuff - no more soaking in acetone to remove glitters or flakies!), which run $8.00. You can follow NPB on Facebook for re-stock info, new releases and swatches, and you can also follow NPB's Blog.

I cannot say it enough: buy this now!

What's your take on Alpha Nail? What's your favorite NPB?

I'll be back in a bit with another ABC Challenge mani so stick around!

Thanks for stopping by and Happy Polishing!
-Kimber



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ABC Challenge! Late version! "R" is for Really Racy (and sexy! Red! Nail Pattern Boldness: Inner Beauty Is For Amateurs

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Hello lovelies! Happy Thursday! Not quite Friday, but close enough that I'll take it.

I'm feeling much better today! I managed to get some rest yesterday and filled up on calories. It's amazing how the body reacts during times of stress. Mine likes to try and shut down. I'm very happy that I was able to realize what was happening and fix it.

Don't forget that my 500 Follower Giveaway is live! Click here to enter. The BG Cosmetics Holographics Collection is up for grabs!

And, don't miss my Pure Nail Oil™ reveal post! I know alot of you were waiting to see what happened!

Obviously I missed the letter R challenge last week, and Q the week before due to everything that I have going on. I know that I need to be here for my mom right now, but that doesn't mean that I won't get those posts in, right? Right!

Today's post is my late letter R post. I have been in the mood to wear Red forever, however I detest photographing reds, so I always find myself holding off. This time, I had a polish in mind that just culd not wait, so I took the plunge.

Nail Pattern Boldness has fast become a fave Indie Brand of mine. Allison's color combinations are just brilliant, and NPB's formula and application is always perfection. When I first laid eyes on her newest red, Inner Beauty Is For Amateurs (fab name, right?), I immediately fell in love. Inner Beauty (since typing out that name is bound to give me carpal tunnel!) is the most amazing blend of glowy blue and iridescent glitters suspended in a racy red jelly base.  This girl is utterly breathtaking!

Needless to say, I had an incredibly hard time capturing just how amazing this polish is. IRL the glitters are much more vibrant and the irridescent pinks are much more visible. My camera really wanted to overexpose and wash out those glitters.

This is 3 thin coats of Inner Beauty Is For Amateurs topped with Glitter Food and HK Girl Top Coat:

*Swoon*!! Even though I couldn't manage to capture the irridescent glitters all that well, this polish is still just incredible IRL. The macro shot, although not colro accurate as far as base color, shows the glitters a little better. It's a crazy beautiful combination, and my favorite twist on red to date!

Inner Beauty's formula was absolutely flawless, with not thickening or issues with glitter. Application was a dream, gliding onto the nail smoothly with no dragging or balding. Dry time was wonderfully fast, although this girl does dry a bit matte, so top coat is a must for that crazy jelly shine. Inner Beauty does not dry very textured, but since there was some slight texture I added a coat of Glitter Food to keep things nice and smooth.

I was so very excited to wear this polish and let me tell you, she did not disappoint! My ONLY issue was the photographing this baby was tough. If you love reds, you absolutely need this polish!

You can grab your very own bottle of Inner Beauty Is For Amateurs by visiting Nail Pattern Boldness on Etsy, or by heading over to Llarowe. Full size bottles retail for $9.00, and while you're there you can grab a bottle of the amazing Glitter-A-Peel! I use GAP with every glitter manicure now and I never have to use a single drop of acetone after peeling off my polish! Woohoo!! Don't forget to follow Nail Pattern Boldness on Facebook to stay up to date on re-stock information, new releases, and swatches.

I have some more awesomness from NPB coming up this week, as well as some goodness from Fuse Nail Polish, Polish Addict, Candied Lustre and more!

This is normally where I woud link to my awesome polish sistah's and their R manicures, but I'm so late posting this mani that submissions are closed. :( I hope you didn't miss them!

Thanks for stopping by and Happy Polishing!
-Kimber

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Flakie Friday (The late because I chose an odd combo version!) : La Femme Destak

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**Edit** Apparently the photos look good depending on your monitor. They look great on my iphone, but not so great on my laptop. Go figure!**

 Hello Lovelies! Welcome to yet another late edition of Flakie Friday! This week I had this ready to go on time - although when I went in to choose my photos.....disaster! They were nowhere near color accurate and my usual lighting was way too bright and washed out the photos. So I pulled out all my photo equipment and tried again. This time, I managed to capture the base color, but the flakies were all wrong. So I photographed a third time, this time in very low lighting and with pretty much every camera setting imaginable tweaked somehow. My skin tone is still a bit wonky, and the photos are slightly overexposed, but that's the only way I could capture this manicure accurately. Lesson learned - do not mix a neon base color with flakies! Also, Susan is taking this week off, but will be back with more flakie goodness next week!

Before I get to the polish, I want to thank everyone again for all the wonderful comments that have been left on Kalli's story. I can't believe how far that one post has spread! It's wonderful! Please feel free to share our story anywhere you would like. Several of you have asked if that is okay and it's more than alright. 

I also want to thank Leah Ann from Llarowe - she shared pictures of my Autism Awareness Ribbon Manicure as well as Kalli's story. She is also donating proceeds from the sales of one her polishes from April 2 to an Autism related charity. I was very touched to Leah Ann's reaction to Kalli's story, and her willingness to share openly. Thank you Leah Ann!

Also, one of my fave Indie polish goddesses, Christian from Polish TBH, will be donating some of the  proceeds from the sales of her blue polishes during the month of April. How awesome is that?? This is a great excuse to pick up some awesome polish - hint hint hint!!! The shop is currently on vacation but will re-open in about a week.

And last but nowhere near least, please check out some of the awesome polish jewelry from Puzzled and Polished  (Link will also be on my sidebar tomorrow) Mandy is also an Austism mom, and the proceeds from her jewelry go to Walk Now for Autism Speaks (her team is Christian's Crusaders). She has also developed an app that provides calming scenes to help when our kids are feeling sensory overload. Hopefully we'll be seeing this app become available soon! Mandy works tirelessly for the Autism Community and, more importantly, is an amazing mom to Christian. Let's help support her and Autism Awarness!

And now....polish!

Today's Flakie is a gorgeous little gem that I picked up from Llarowe. La Femme Destak is a mylar flakie with a red/gold/green/teal duochrome shift. Since this is a mylar flakie, the color shift is entirely dependent on your base color. Darker colors will show the colors better than a lighter base, however this flakie looks awesome over almost any color. 

Since I love the red/gold color in this girl, I wanted to layer over a brighter base color in order to keep that color dominant. Great idea, unless you have to photograph it! ;) I chose Sinful Colors Endless Blue, a bright, highly saturated neon blue with the weirdest formula ever. The result is stunning IRL, and I wish it transleted in photos. 

This is 2 coats of La Femme Destak over Sinful Colors Endless Blue (Polish colors are accurate - skin tone is not!):

Despite not being the best photos ever, isn't Destak awesome? I love Mylar flakies. How can you not love a flakie that still has a ton of color over lighter colors? I mean, look at that red/gold in Destak - I love how it looks almost fuchsia in some lighting.

Destak's formula is perfection. It's thick enough to carry a ton of flakies but thin enough to be easy to work with. I had no issues with flakie placement, clumping, or dragging. Application was stellar - Destak practically applied itself! Despite being packed with flakies, I had no issues with glopping or gooping, and the flakies lay perfectly flat on the nail. Well, I did have one rogue flakie on the very tip of my index finger, but that happens with stilettos. :)

I wish I could rave about Endless Blue, but that polish had the funkiest formula ever! It's thick, yet it still has a tendency to flood, and it did not want to stick to the sides of my nails. The color is worth the strange application, but I have never had a polish act like that! 

I can't wait to try out Destak over some other colors. I have a feeling she would look awesome over a deep purple or a navy blue.  

Want your own bottle? Destak and other La Femme beauties are available at Llarowe! Destak sells for $8.00 for 9ml. 

What do you think of this combo? Would you wear a flakie over a neon base?

Be sure to check back soon! I have Julep's holographic, some more awesome Daring Digits, BG Cosmetics and Polish TBH coming up!

Thanks for stopping by and Happy Polishing!
-Kimber       


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ABC Challenge: "H" is for Hits Phenomena Moonbow!

Hello lovelies! I swear I am posting late in the day regularly now. Hopefully I will be able to get ahead tonight and be posting in the mornings again by Friday. I've been having to photograph, edit, and write out posts in the mornings, and my son is just a whirlwind these days so it takes forever. I also wanted to let everyone know that even though I wasn't able to comment much in the past week, I'm still reading everyone's blogs! Lately it really has been taking all my child free time to get posts ready, but if I can get things back to normal this week I'll be back to spamming you all with comments in no time! But let's get to the polish, shall we?

This week's challenge letter is "H", and I was very indecisive about this one. I've been trying to do nail art for challenge posts, but every polish I wanted to use for this challenge was one that I didn't want to cover with anything. I recently received my Nfu-Oh holos, and I was very close to using one of those, when my Llarowe order arrived. In it was one of the most incredible polishes I have ever seen, and it happened to be from a brand that starts with H.

Hits Phenomena is one of my favorite collections. Bright, sparkly colors, strong color shifting multichromes, these polishes are truly remarkable. My very favorite is the one I am sharing today, Moonbow. I had been lemming this polish ever since I saw the swatch of it that occasionally graces the front page of Llarowe, and I finally gave in and brought it home. I have to tell you...this is one of the best purchases ever! If Moonbow is amazing in photos, it's 100 times more so in person.

Hits Moonbow is a multichrome glitter - shifting from teal to fuchsia to purple with a little bit of rainbow sparkle. It's incredibly bright and the multichrome shift is always evident, even in the worst lighting. It's so vibrant that it's almost blinding! It truly is impressive. So, let's take a look (Be sure to click to read more....this is a can't miss polsih!)!

This is 2 coats of Hits Moonbow over A-England Camelot. These photos have not been altered in any way, save for my watermark. This really is how bright, vibrant, and colorful Moonbow is. Be sure to click on the photos to make them bigger!

WOW! I cannot get over how incredible this polish is! The color shift, the sparkle, the vivid colors...amazing! I am definitely ordering more Hits beauties!

The formula and application were equally awesome. Despite being packed with glitter, the formula wasn't too thick or heavy and the glitters flowed easily and evenly onto the nail. Not thickening during use, no clumping or glopping. Moonbow is a bit textured once she's dry, so I added a coat of Gelous before my usual topcoat.

I'm so in love with Moonbow. Deeply in love. The kind of love where I feel like I should be out ring shopping and planning an elaborate date night. Sounds crazy, but if you're a fan of multichromes, you NEED this polish. I guarantee you will not be disappointed.

What do you think of Hits Moonbow? Do you have any Hits polishes?

Don't forget to check out all the fabulous ladies and their "H" manis!





Be sure to check back tomorrow - I'll be showing you the first polish from a very cool upcoming collection from my girl Ash from Daring Digits!

Thanks for stopping by and Happy Polishing!
-Kimber