The Lady Varnishes Pt. 2

The Lady Varnishes Part 2

I have so many polishes from the Lady Varnishes that I had to break them up into two posts. This is the second half of my oh so beloved collection.

From the "How She Sparkles" Collection

Polish: midnight carnival

Scent:  Victorian Rose

This is a crelly grey polish with silver flecks, turquoise glitter, iridescent glitter and iridescent moons. It reminds me A LOT of Sailor Moon. Whenever I look at it the theme song starts in my head: "fighting evil by moonlight..." I will say, I never thought I'd like a grey polish, but this is a nice purple-type grey.

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From the "Where's the Boddy?" collection

Polish:  pernicious peacock

Scent: Sweet Orange

A crelly orange polish with blue and copper glitter of varying sizes and a slight purple shimmer. Up until recently, orange has been my least favorite color. All of a sudden I see the beauty in it, probably because I am a painter. The thing that draws me most to this particular polish is that it consists of complementary colors. The blue and orange are opposites on the color wheel, so naturally they look great together.

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From the "Where's the Boddy?" collection

Polish: mischievous maid

Scent: Jasmine

This polish is a slightly tinted pink polish with an irridescent sheen to it. It has black and white shreds, pink hexes and pink stars. I paired it over OPI's "I think in Pink." I absolutely love shred polishes. This polish is a mix of two of my favorite glitter top coats "Pink Panther" and "Queen of Hearts."

 

Mischievous Maid

Pink Panther

Queen of Hearts

From the "Where's the Boddy?" collection

Polish: mean mustard & promiscuous plum

Scent: Lilac Blossom

Mean Mustard is a purple crelly polish with magenta, yellow and purple glitters with a slight green shimmer.

Promiscuous Plum in the inverse of Mean Mustard. It's a yellow crelly with purple, magenta, and yellow glitter with a slight green shimmer. These polishes compliment each other nicely with their matching glitter. They are also opposites on the color wheel, so of course they are naturally a great pairing.

From the "Because You Listen" collection

polish: Because You Listen

Scent: Lilac Blossom

This is a densely glittered polish of bronze and copper, with a hint of silver. I bought this polish because I love copper. When I say I love copper, I mean I LOVE COPPER. I got my engagement ring custom made in rose gold! I had my bellydance scimitars plated in copper. If I can choose jewelry in copper, I do. I can't explain why, but I am obsessed. Maybe it's in my genes because my mother loves it too. Copper polish is not super common, let along copper glitter polish, so I saw this polish and purchased it right away. I absolutely adore it!

My entire collection: I think I have an addiction....

The Lady Varnishes Pt. 1

ETSY is seriously bursting with amazing freelance nail polishes. I don't remember what I was searching when I came across The Lady Varnishes on ETSY. What I found intriguing about her polishes, and the reason why I continued perusing her stuff, is that she themes her polishes off of shows, movies, and literature. What especially caught my eye was the fact that she had a collection solely dedicated to my favorite childhood movie "Labyrinth." I still have a Ludo doll in my bedroom and one of the door knockers! She also has options to add scent to your nail polish. Seriously! You can leave out the scent, but I opted to have some in there. It's fun, although it does appear odd, to sit at your desk and sniff your nails. Lastly, each polish had a cute little charm adorned with swarovski crystals, that match the polish. It's a cute little touch that I love. 

Recently she released some polishes that spoke to me, so I purchsed a few of them. 

From the Edward Scissor Hands Inspired line "I'm Not Finished."

Polish: "Come Home With Me"

I chose to scent this polish with jasmine. The polish itself is a little more of a dark pinky-purple than I had anticipated, but really, it's pretty either way. It is a jelly polish that has copper shimmer glitter and shredded pink glitter in it. My art instructor actually commented on my nails during class. I find this polish to give your hands a more delicate look, which I like for my small hands.

Griffy socks!

Griffy likes too run to the point of tearing up his pads so, of course, I tried covering them so he couldn't lick off the neosporin that I put on. He didn't like the paw covers...

I love turqouise stone, especially with copper! The color is so tranquil and the black veins are so unique to each stone, like a fingerprint. Gotta love nature!

I saw a tutorial pin on pinterest, for doing turquoise stone nails. This is my attempt at the manicure. It didn't quite work as planned. They came out more marbled than veiny, but they still looked nice. I may not have worked properly because my black nail polish is rather thick. Instead of breaking apart when I sprayed it with alcohol, it just swirled into a marbled formation. Oh well. It's still pretty. I might try it again some day, with a newer black polish.

DIY: Glitter Nails

This post is my attempt at an at home glitter manicure per a pin I found on Pinterest. It looked easy enough and fairly cute, not to mention sparkly.

I started with my glitter and base coat. I put on a thick layer of base coat and dipped my wet nail into the glitter. It coated my nail fairly well. I let that dry, then added a top coat. The glitter will come of onto the brush and get into your top coat, so you will have random glitter in your polish after this. The first layer of top coat merely absorbed into the glitter, so I added another layer. It STILL sucked up the top coat, so I added a third layer, which absorbed AGAIN! So I added a fourth layer, which also go sucked up. At that point I said screw it. I never did end up with a smooth look.

Below are photos of the final product.

 

 

This manicure started chipping right away. It got too chipped for me to leave it on, by day 2, so I removed it. Removal is awful! Not only is it the normal pain of taking glitter polish off, but my hands were covered in red paint from the glitter, which took another round of acetone to get off.

I will honestly never do this manicure again. It's such a pain to do and take off, and did not even come out looking like it was supposed to.

My hopping dog

I swear my dog holds a world record for jumping...

copper nails

Let me start of by saying that copper is my favorite metal. I love it so much that we had a custom engagement ring made for me in rose gold, before rose gold started becoming popular. When we made my engagement ring, there were NO rose gold engagement rings on the market. Now they are everywhere (of course.) 

With that is mind, it would make sense that I would love copper nail polish. My mom posted a photo of a copper polish she had found at the drug store. Of course I had to get myself a bottle. Below is what I did with it.