Stamping Saturday: Tiffany Art Deco

Purchased By Shelby Lou 

Two posts this week, yay! I have low standards for myself haha. Today is a quick little Stamping Saturday mani. I just received Enchanted Polish Daydream and had that on for a couple days by itself. It's pretty and all, but I don't know that it was worth the $16.50 I paid. It is a lovely blue-green holo with blue shimmer, I think I see a hint of purple at some angles.

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Stamping Saturday
Enchanted Polish Daydream
MoYou London Time Traveler 05 & Rica Whiteout
(lightbox)

This color feels very Breakfast at Tiffany's to me so I decided to stamp an art deco image over it. I used MoYou London Time Traveler 05 and Rica Whiteout. I used my Creative Shop stamper and everything but I just had a tough time stamping today. I smooshed my pinky a little and all my lines are different on each finger. It looks good from normal viewing distance though, that's what counts, right!

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Stamping Saturday
Enchanted Polish Daydream
MoYou London Time Traveler 05 & Rica Whiteout
(with flash)

Check out the other amazing stamping manis everyone is sharing this Saturday! Have you loved your cuticles today?

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Guest Post from @swatchbucket

I have a guest post today from one of my nail buds, Samantha! We met through mutual indie nail loves, and we've been enabling each other ever since. Samantha "microblogs" on instagram (@swatchbucket) and I highly recommend following her lovely nails. You can always count on amazing swatches of jellies, crellies, and holos from this girl. And how does she keep them so durn long?! She must be a witch. Let's see what she has for us today!

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Hello, reader! I am Samantha of @swatchbucket on Instagram, and I am your guest blogger for Shelby today! She and I have been polish buddies for a good while now, and she's been a witness to my microblogging development over the past year. Shelby is such a lovely and encouraging person, and holy crap is she a (fabulously) ruthless enabler! She and I share a lot of polish loves. As a result of this, she has made me more HARE Polish crazed, and she is also to be blamed for my latest polish brand obsession, Renaissance Cosmetics. In exchange, I have tried to get her hooked on WingDust polishes. All three of these brands make absolutely stunning crelly glitter polishes, and since I know that she and I love a good crelly, I have decided to use such along with an accent nail. 

I started this mani off with two coats of Serumn No5 Ho No! and smoothed it out with two coats of KBShimmer Clearly on Top. This grey crelly is absolutely packed with metallic blue, red, yellow, and matte white microglitters and small circle glitters. The formula is lovely and almost completely opaque in one coat. The base also has blue shimmer that can look pink in some lights. The shimmer is much more prevalent in the bottle and on the nail without top coat. If you like textured polishes, I highly recommend not putting a top coat on this polish, because the blue/pink shimmer looks absolutely stunning as a frosty matte finish. With top coat, the shimmer provides a more subtle yet sparkly effect. You don't want Ho No! for the shimmer and glitter mix alone, though. You NEED it because it looks good with the light on AND off! Ho No! is one of Serum No5's many famous glow in the dark polishes. This one glows blue (forgive the poo glow in the dark shot further down). 

Things have to look jank before they look swank.

The glow in the dark effect looked especially really cool with my accent nail. After I did two coats of Ho No!, I topped it with KBShimmer Clearly on Top top coat and let it dry for about 30 minutes just to make sure it would hold up against nail vinyls. I also applied a layer of Ellagee's Lickity Split liquid latex around my nail to make clean up easier. Once the latex was dry, I applied an Up Your Nail Moroccan vinyl guide, snipped it to make it hug and adhere to my nail better (I have really curved nails), and applied a layer of Enchanted Polish December 2014 (blue holo full of blue glass fleck) on the bottom half of the nail and February 2015 (tomato red holo) on the upper half. I then sponged on another layer of the polishes and blended them by using a cosmetic sponge. Once I was satisfied with how it looked, I immediately pulled the vinyl guide off with tweezers and pulled off the liquid latex before topping it off with another layer of KBShimmer Clearly on Top.  

#swankshot

Glow shot! 

I'm so used to microblogging, so this was definitely a different experience for me. Thank you guys for having me! All shots were taken in natural lighting with my Samsung Galaxy S3. I *love* how this mani turned out, and the customers I dealt with at work really loved it too.

Polishes used

KBShimmer Basic Training

Serum No5 Ho No!

Enchanted Polish December 2014

Echanted Polish February 2015

KBShimmer Clearly on Top

Products used

Ellagee Lickity Split liquid latex

Up Your Nail Moroccan vinyl guides

cosmetic sponge

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Thank you so much got such an awesome post, Samantha! Didn't she do great? Make sure you check out @swatchbucket on instagram, I know you'll like what you see and give her a follow!

Have you loved your cuticles today?

My First Time... Enchanted Polish April 2014

I hope everyone had a lovely weekend! Happy Easter if you celebrate. I had a good ol' fashioned ham dinner at grandmas, my mom even made homemade scalloped potatoes. Unfortunately it appears over the weekend I was a victim of a "click farm." Essentially it is a scam which tries to cover its tracks by liking other random pages.... which is bad because these are not real and interested people resulting in less post exposure. I hope y'all follow me on other social media, Facebook is even more useless to me now than it was before which I didn't even think was possible. I will still be notified if you share anything with me on my wall though--which I encourage :-)

Today I'd like to share with you a polish from a brand I originally swore off called Enchanted Polish (like you might not know what I'm talking about lolol). I know all about the drama this brand causes and here is what I've come to understand: There are no principles in polish. If people want to pay cray-cray amounts for polish, that is their choice. If people want to buy something to turn around and sell it to said crazy people, I can't stop them. I don't like it but I'm not going to stress about it.

Anyway, I had seen swatches of April 2014 and I really truly love the color--something I had never felt about an EP before. Plus my birthday is in April! I love justification. I got it secondhand for a modest $25 shipped and invoiced. You may feel how you would like about that price and I will not be offended.

Enchanted Polish April 2014
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So how was my first experience with EP? Amazing. April 2014 is a beautiful lavender-periwinkle-ish holographic polish. Excellent formula, amazing holo, beautiful color. I hardly needed to do any clean-up. AND it wore amazingly. I used KBShimmer's Basic Training and HK Girl (did you know you can buy it directly from the manufacturer on Amazon?!). I don't know what it was about this combination but I had one chip on day 3, which I touched up, and wore the mani without any other mishaps for another day.

Enchanted Polish April 2014
Shelby Lou Nails

So yup, it's perfect. My cuticles need more love though... work is so drying with all the hand-sanitizer and hand-washing I have to do! Just a note: all of these photos were taken in my light-box in artificial light, click here to see it outside in full sunlight on my instagram feed. Holy. Wow. I wish I had dependable sunlight to swatch all my holos!

Enchanted Polish April 2014
Shelby Lou Nails

In conclusion, will I seek out more EP? If I see one I love at a reasonable price I might purchase it. I'm not willing to stress myself out though for restocks haha. Anyone else have any EP?

Products:
Enchanted Polish

Have you loved your cuticles today?