Lac Attack Mattes & Music swatches!

Hello lacquered lovelies! Happy Tuesday! I hope you've all had a good start to your week. I apologise for my prolonged silence again - I don't mean to keep vanishing like that but my real life is making it hard for me to keep up with my polish life :( I think I've got a solution though - I wasn't swatching because I was never off on days that it was sunny/had a bunch of things to do on my days off, so I started playing with the white balance on my camera to figure out a lighting situation and I think I've got it. It's not 100% where I'd like it to be, but I'll let you guys know which pictures aren't in sunlight and maybe you can tell me what you think?

So today I've got some polishes from Lac Attack's Mattes & Music collection. Omg. I'm a huge music snob geek and I love matte glitter so hard it's an illness, so this is basically a perfect collection for me. I love it. Anastasia came up with some really beautiful polishes, so let's get started with the sharing, yes? Okayyyy everything is going under a cut again because I don't know how to use less photos.

All of the swatches have topcoat - the first swatch is with Seche Vite, all of the rest are with Gelous + China Glaze Fast Forward.

Dollish Polish It's A Me, Mario!

Hello lacquered lovelies! Happy Tuesday! I hope you've all had a good start to your week. Mine's been okay. I really need someone to kick my butt in gear for getting my sciences upgraded, though! Anyone feel up to the challenge? I think I'm a bit schooled out lately... I love being in school but I'm finding this whole "self motivated studying" thing difficult haha.

Today I've got a manicure that I wore a couple of weeks ago to show with you. If you follow me on instagram you've already seen a cell phone picture of this but omg. I don't have words for how much I loved this combo on, I got lots of compliments but (more importantly imo) I couldn't stop staring at my nails!

Dollish Polish recently came out with a Mario inspired collection and I pretty much died over it. It's a lot of awesome. Sadly, DP is one of the indies that I have the worst luck actually trying to get my hands on :( I always seem to miss restocks or I get cart jacked at the last minute! This is a polish from that collection, called It's A Me, Mario!. Luigi was always my favourite brother but I liked Mario's colour combination haha. I used to get so mad playing Mario games... Peach was so useless that it made me want to punch her in the throat haha.

Anyway... Then my love Jen included this beauty in a package to me... I was so excited! Actually, this whole post is brought to you by Jen... she sent me the base polish too! Since I knew that I couldn't build It's A Me, Mario! up to opacity, I decided to try it over a lighter blue. I've been obsessed with getting my paws on the Zoya Mod Mattes trio and Jen was awesome enough to send them along too, so I decided to give Phoebe a try as a base! Thanks again, Jen <333

So, here's two coats of Zoya Phoebe with two coats of Dollish Polish It's A Me, Mario over top. I think I used one coat of topcoat here.

Gah it's so pretty! I wish the stars were easier to fish out but I didn't really try that hard until I realised that the only stars I'd managed to get by that point in the manicure were on non-photo nails haha.

What do you lovelies think? Did you play any of the Mario games when you were younger? I loved playing Super Mario World on my Super Nintendo. What a great system, I miss it. I play Super Mario Galaxy for Wii now sometimes but I always have a difficult time adjusting to using the nunchuck thing too. It makes me long for the days when things were more simple. ;)

Thanks for reading! Have a beautiful day!

Lac Attack Break the Night With Colour

Hello lacquered lovelies! Happy Wednesday! I hope your week is going well :) Today's post is an inadvertent pink Wednesday post haha. It's been a while!

So as some of you might have noticed, my posting has become pretty erratic lately. I've just been feeling pretty... uninspired. I've never liked editing pictures (I'm lazy sometimes) but lately it's this thing that I just loathe, and I feel like I'm rehashing the same thing because I post all of my manicures on instagram (which is just @glittagloves if you want sneak peeks!) so it feels... boring? Like I've done it already and nobody needs to see it, I guess.

Then I get nail mail sometimes that reinspires me completely. Getting nail mail from Anastasia of Lac Attack is always a treat. Her polishes are super pretty and she's lovely in the most insane, awesome way. We were discussing one of her collections, Mattes and Music, and talking about song titles to use as names for polishes. Since I'm not the polish creator here, I said that I'd always wanted a polish named after one of my favourite songs ever, Break the Night With Colour by Richard Ashcroft (the former frontman of the Verve).

It's a song Richard wrote about his depression, about breaking through it and finding... well, the brighter side, I suppose, as cliche as that sounds. I think that's a theme a lot of us can relate to... this song helped me through a lot. So having a polish named after it means a lot to me, especially because it came from one of my favourite people I've met through blogging :) This is two coats of Lac Attack Break the Night With Colour over one coat of China Glaze Dance Baby, topped with China Glaze Fast Forward. I'm sorry if you see any bubbling and I'm REALLY sorry for my dry cuticles!

Yuuuum bottle shot. Imagine how stoked I was when I opened the package up and saw this?!

I had to include two macro shots, I always use my ring fingernail but I really liked the glitter variety on my pinky too. :) Originally I was going to layer this over grey... I still think it will look beautiful over grey, but I chose pink because I felt that using it with grey the first time I wore it would be... the opposite of the song, in a lot of ways. If that makes sense. I think I'm putting way too much thought into this. ANYWAY, what do you guys think? Unfortunately, I don't think Anastasia has plans to sell this beauty :( we'll have to wait and see! I know she's working on a lot of awesomeness right now. Thank you so much for making this for me, Anastasia, it's exactly what I always imagined a polish named after that song would be. <3 Thanks for reading! Have a beautiful day!

I'm back: swatch spam!

Hello lacquered lovelies! Happy Friday, woooo! I'm sorry for my prolonged absence. I moved home almost two weeks ago and I've been trying to get back into the swing of things. I also started work again (same place, just transferred to a different store)... so far it seems okay but I'm worried I might end up in the same situation I was in at the other store I worked at. Fingers crossed that it doesn't happen again/that I'll be able to find something else!

So today I've got some random swatches for you. These are things that I've had sitting in my "post" folder for ages and I don't know why I haven't posted them. Some are probably still drafts so I should probably go through and find those haha. Anyway, enjoy!

Holy COW there were way more photos than I expected. If you want to see holos, glitters and a multichrome comparison involving Clarins 230, read below the jump!

Holo comparisons: part one

Hello lacquered lovelies! Happy hump day. I hope you're all having a good week so far. I can't believe summer is almost over! I'm getting ready to move home... :( I graduated this summer and I'm going home for a year to save money and do some more schooling. Hopefully it'll be just a year and I'll be back in my chosen city next September... fingers crossed!

Today I've got the first part of the holo comparisons I've been working on. I've only been pulling things from my stash that I think would be an actual comparison - a pink holo vs a pink holo won't be seen here unless they're similar base colours, basically. This will make more sense once I get to the silver ones hahaha, I have way too many. It's a problem.

I've got three today - Speciallitá/Hits Hera, Hermes and Zeus vs China Glaze DV8, GR8 and Let's Do it in 3D. DV8 and GR8 are from the OMG collection, LDii3D is from the Kaleidoscope collection and all are good examples of how different the holographic finishes can actually be. :)

And I'm putting the pictures below a cut because it looks sloppy on my homepage otherwise haha. To see the photos just click read more! :)