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Rabu, 17 Juli 2013

Try It Out Tuesday (Slacker Wednesday Edition!): Smitten Polish Hocus Pocus!!

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Hello Lovelies! Well, obviously I am a big weenie and never managed to post my Try It Out Tuesday post yesterday. Since it was Chemo Day for mom on Monday, I stopped by to check on her yesterday, and ended up staying and chatting for awhile. I also had some last minute clients on top of my usual Tuesday clients, and a 3 year old that's potty training. Fun day! But...here I am now, attempting to make it up to you all. I think this polish oughta do it!

Today's TIOT polish is Smitten Polish in Hocus Pocus. I've had this in my stash for awhile now, and have been itching to wear it. I mean, this polish is fairly legendary for its squishy purple jelly base and purple, blue, and magenta holo glitters. It's seriously just fabulous. I actually considered bypassing swatching last night since it's *that* awesome.

This is 3 coats of Hocus Pocus with top coat. Some photos are intentionally slightly blurred to show holo colors.









First of all, check out how my skin tone changes with different lighting angles. Drives me mad, I tell you! I'm naturally pale with strong Olive undertones, so getting my skintone exact is near impossible. Gotta love it.

But back to Hocus Pocus.....Ain't she a beaut?? Funny thing is - I had seen swatches of this polish before, but the holo wasn't evident at all. I thought that HP was a purple jelly with purple glitter! Even then, it looked amazing, but add the holo and BAM! Instant fabulous! I wish I had some sunlight to capture this polish (it's crazy in sunlight), but  routinely photograph around 1am and the sun is loooong gone by then. ;)

Hocus Pocus has an excellent formula with no thickening during use and excellent dry time. Application was entirely problem free (no dragging, balding or clumping) and opaque in 2 coats, although I used 3 for these photos. Hocus Pocus does not dry very textured at all - your regular topcoat with smooth it out perfectly, however she does have a slightly satin finish, so you definitely want to use that topcoat! I used HK Girl for these swatches since it does not dull holos. In fact, it seemed to really bring out the colors in HP!

So far HP is my one and only Smitten Polish, but that is going to change. I'm so impressed and in love with this beauty that I must try more! If you don't have Hocus Pocus, you can find it by heading over to SmittenPolish.com or Llarowe.

What do you think of this Glittery, Holo beauty?

I'll be back sometime later today with a gorgeous polish from Love, Angeline, so check back soon! Also, I have the Daft Punk Collection from Fandom Cosmetics and some new Polish TBH coming up starting this week!

Thanks for stopping by and Happy polishing!
-Kimber


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Sabtu, 19 Mei 2012

My Namesake Polish! Zoya Kimber!

Hi guys! Happy Friday!!!! I'm feeling fairly decent now, so I'm looking forward to getting some things done this weekend.

Today I have my namesake polish to share with you! Zoya Kimber from Zoya's Surf Collection! I love this polish, although in all honestly I was really hoping that my namesake would be blue, but I do love me some pinks.

Zoya Kimber is a gorgeous Magenta/Pink with lovely golden shimmer. In some lights it tends to lean more Coral, but in direct light it's pretty pink. It reminds me of China Glaze Strawberry Strawberry Fields, which is one of my fave CG pinks. I don't have many complaints about this baby, other than my bottle got a bit thick on the second coat, but nothing unmanageable. I do tend to polish under a pretty strong light, so all the heat can thicken up a polish pretty quickly. I've also been having some issues with bubbling and chipping lately, but I'm not sure that isn't my lazy butt not really cleaning the nail plate after I moisturized before I used Kimber. I'm also experimenting with base and top coats since my nails are thinning a bit since I stopped taking Biotin and after buffing out some stainage.  Please feel free to comment with your fave base coat for thin/weak nails!

Anyway, back to the good stuff! Here is Zoya Kimber! All photos taken in direct sunlight.

1 coat Nail Tek Intensive Therapy II
1 coat Instant Artificials
2 coats Zoya Kimber
1 coat Butter Londer PD Quick Top Coat






































Isn't she just stunning? I'm just tickled to have a polish that shares my name (even if it's not named after me specifically), and the fact that I just love it to death is a bonus! I really want to use this in a gradient and some stamping. I guarantee you will be seeing more of this beauty soon!

I hope you all have a great weekend and thanks for stopping by!

Happy Polishing!
-Kimber