D & R Apothecary - Sand & Sea

I have a wonderful indie glitter polish from a new-to-me store on Etsy called D & R Apothecary. They mainly make soaps and lotions, but they began making nail polish not too long ago. I am in love with so many of their creations, and they are always putting up more!

The first polish I got from them is called Sand & Sea. It's such a beautiful color combination I'm surprised I haven't seen it before. This is a clear base with beautiful turquoise blue and deep metallic coffee brown glitters, in both hexes and bar glitter. I used two coats of it over China Glaze Man Hunt from the new On Safari collection, a rich cobalt blue creme.

I don't believe this particular one is available at the moment but there are plenty more to choose from. Go check them out if you haven't yet, their store is http://www.etsy.com/shop/DandRApothecary. Their mini polishes are $3.85 and their full size bottles are $8.50. I plan on getting many more of their creations in the future, they're awesome!

Collide with Mr. Bubble

Today I have a beautiful combo of lacquers to show you! First is the base, the gorgeous neon hot pink Collide from Illamasqua. I received this as an AMAZING gift from my fantabulous friend Landa (along with so many of my htf lemmings I almost pooped my pants when I opened the package!) Collide has an unbelievable formula that applies so easily you'd forget it was a neon. And it was opaque in two coats. Awesome and THANK YOU La-La-Landa!

I had been wondering what to layer the last polish I got from Lush Lacquer (you can see the others I got from them by clicking here) over and I decided that Collide was perfect. Mr. Bubble is a glitter polish with a clear base, micro pink matte round glitter, small white and blue matte hex glitters, medium matte pink hex glitters, and large white and blue matte hex glitters. This is such a fun mani!

I don't much care for some of the glitters that look like paper printed on a machine with the ink running low, like the color is almost pixelated? Makes it look kinda cheap, but it isn't on all of them and I can live with it. (Even though I have decided against purchasing glitters that I saw look like this in photos...) Regardless, I really like how this turned out! You can get Illamasqua at their website or on Sephora for $14. Lush Lacquer is sold on their Etsy store, minis are two for $9.50 and full size are $8.75. How do you like this combo?

Pretty & Polished - Phat Camp

Hi friends :) Today I have another Pretty & Polished glitter from her Summer Camp collection. This is called Phat Camp. I wasn't sure I loved it at first but when I saw Chalkboard Nails' swatch of it, I knew it had to be mine.

This has a clear base and is full of dark pink small round glitters, magenta purple medium round glitter, medium purple shards, and medium teal hex glitters. I layered two coats over a black crème. I wish I had put topcoat on for this swatch, regrettably you can see the bumpy texture. *shrug* This is a fab color.

Being a "phatty" myself, I love this polish ;) What do you think?