Lacquer Slacker Liz: Glam Polish

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Monday, August 1, 2016

Glam Polish Someday My Prince Will Come

Someday My Prince Will Come is the last of my picks from the Forever After collection by Australian indie polish maker Glam Polish, released at the beginning of July this year. The color is a bright medium-light variation of azure, a creamy, dense shade along the lines of picton blue. It is packed with holographic microflake shimmers and tiny ultraholo glitters, giving it a delicately speckled, dimensional appearance in ambient light, where the glitters twinkle in shades of azure, sky blue, turquoise and gold. Direct sun brightens and intensifies the base color and elicits a beautiful blanket of prismatic sparkle.

Application was great! The consistency of Someday My Prince Will Come is fluid, full-bodied and dense with components, with a thicker viscosity that was a little intimidating so I added a bit of polish thinner to my bottle. Thinned to a medium viscosity, it had a smooth, even glide over the nail that went on best for me in medium coats from a well-loaded brush. Pigmentation is excellent, almost a one-coater. I added a second for most even opacity. Cleanup is fairly straightforward, just keep an eye out for loitering glitters. Someday My Prince Will Come dries naturally in very good time to a flat, sandy-textured finish that wants a generous layer of topcoat to look its best.

Photos show two coats of Someday My Prince Will Come over treatment and basecoat with a topcoat of Seche Vite.

Glam Polish Someday My Prince Will Come

Another wonderful summer color from the Forever After collection! I've very much enjoyed my picks from this collection: Far Far Away, Enchanted Forest, Happily Ever After, True Love's Kiss and today's Someday My Prince Will Come. My favorite is perhaps Far Far Away, it surprised me most, but they're all bright, happy, easy-going shades with that special sunny sparkle of the season.

love,
Liz

Sunday, July 24, 2016

Glam Polish True Love's Kiss

Today I have another polish to show you from the Forever After collection, released at the beginning of this month by Australian indie polish maker Glam Polish. It's True Love's Kiss, the slightly warmer and lighter of the two bright pinks in the collection. To my eye, the color is something like an intense Baker-Miller pink, with the delectable creaminess that is this collection's signature and a buoyant, floral vibe that fits in perfectly with what I think of as the gerbera daisy palette of pinks. Holographic microflake shimmers and superabundant tiny ultraholo glitters give it a gently speckled appearance and a twinkling aspect in ambient light, where there's a flush of misty lavender to the base. Direct sun brightens the color a bit and engenders a blanket of brilliant rainbow sparkle.

Application was luscious. The consistency of True Love's Kiss is fluid, smooth and slightly loamy with a medium viscosity and a creamy, self-leveling glide over the nail. Pigmentation is excellent, delivering wearably opaque coverage in one coat, albeit a generous one. I used two for the photos. Cleanup is all about chasing down rogue glitters, with very little pigment travel and no residual staining to speak of. True Love's Kiss dries naturally in very good time to a flat, sandy-textured finish that wants a nice topcoat to look its best.

Photos show two coats of True Love's Kiss over treatment and basecoat with a topcoat of Seche Vite.

Glam Polish True Love's Kiss

Just as sweet as it can be! Even though this isn't a neon shade, there's a bit of a neon vibe to it especially in the sun, where you can see the intense reddish color that appears around the edges of the nail. This is definitely one to wear while basking, poolside perhaps, where the color really comes in to its own and the holographic sparkle is going full tilt.

ttfn,
Liz

Tuesday, July 19, 2016

Glam Polish Happily Ever After

Like Far Far Away and Enchanted Forest, Happily Ever After was released at the beginning of this month by Australian indie polish maker Glam Polish as part of the Forever After collection, a series of twelve polishes inspired by the magic of fairytales. This is the official coral of the collection, so you know it had to be one of my picks. It's described as a watermelon coral, but I think that there's more orange to it than that. To my eye, the color is a creamy orange-red variation of coral, something along the lines of an orange tea rose or congo pink. It is packed with holographic microflakes and tiny ultra holo glitters, giving the color a delicately stippled appearance. In ambient light, there's a holographically-generated flush of misty guava pink to the look, which twinkles with sparks in orange, yellow and azure. Direct sun elicits a dazzling blanket of bright prismatic sparkle.

Application was fantastic! The consistency of Happily Ever After is fluid and remarkably smooth for being as loaded with components as it is, with a medium viscosity and a lush, loamy glide over the nail. It likes to go on in medium coats and self-levels beautifully. Pigmentation is excellent, it's almost a one-coater but you'll want two for most even opacity and best holographic effects. Cleanup is fairly straightforward, mostly a matter of chasing down rogue glitters. Happily Ever After dries naturally in very good time to a gentle sandy-textured finish that is mostly smoothed by a single layer of topcoat.

Photos show two coats of Happily Ever After over treatment and basecoat with a topcoat of Seche Vite.

Glam Polish Hapily Ever After

Lush and tropical and delightfully sparkly in the sun, this is a beautiful polish. It's got the fruity/floral thing down pat! Another wonderful lacquer from the Forever After collection!

love,
Liz

Friday, July 15, 2016

Glam Polish Enchanted Forest

Like Far Far Away, Enchanted Forest was released at the beginning of this month by Australian indie polish maker Glam Polish as part of the Forever After collection. It is described as a bright jade scattered holo with ultra holographic glitter, and I agree. The color is a medium cool-toned jade green with a certain minty aspect, densely speckled with tiny holographic hex glitters. It's bright and tender and very fresh. As with gemstone jade, a delicate milky quality adds an appealing luminosity and softness to the color. In ambient light, there's a gentle flush of misty sky blue, spangled by scattered green sparks from the infinitesimal glitters. These glitters blanket the polish with random prismatic sparkles in the sun, which also generates a delicate, slightly dispersed azure blue flare.

Application was wonderful. The formula is quite similar to that of Far Far Away, with a fluid, slightly fluffy and dense consistency and a medium-to-thicker viscosity that I've seen described as "thick in a good way." I added a bit of polish thinner to my bottle for a slightly more moderate viscosity that better suits my painting skills. Thinned, it has a lush, even glide over the nail and likes to go on in medium coats. Pigmentation is very good, delivering opaque coverage and full bottle color in two coats. Cleanup is fairly straightforward. I didn't notice much pigment travel but there was a bit of residual staining, and the microglitters like to stick. Enchanted Forest dries naturally in very good time to a gentle sandy finish that is mostly smoothed by a single layer of topcoat.

Photos show two coats of Enchanted Forest over treatment and basecoat with a topcoat of Seche Vite.

Glam Polish Enchanted Forest

I don't know what I was expecting, but I am happily astonished by how much I've enjoyed the two polishes from the Forever After collection that I've tried so far. On the nail, the colors have felt remarkably fresh and new. It's not a quality that you can see in a photo, and goes to show you that with artisan-crafted, handmixed polishes you really do get something unique each time you try one.

ttyl,
Liz

Monday, July 11, 2016

Glam Polish Far Far Away

Far Far Away was just released at the beginning of this month by Australian indie polish maker Glam Polish as part of the Forever After collection, a series of twelve polishes inspired by the magic of fairytales. This is an eminently-wearable summery orange scattered holographic polish bearing superabundant tiny ultra holographic hex glitters. The color is a creamy medium-toned melony sort of orange with a kiss of pink to it, enough to give the color aspirations to coral in the sun. In ambient light it reminds me of sherbet, with a slightly sun-bleached aspect that gentles and softens the orange. Finely-milled holographic pigment generates a bloom of pale misty pink within the polish, spangled with sparks of orange from the teeming glitters. The color brightens in direct sun to a radiant corally tangerine shade, blanketed by a scattered display of bright rainbow-colored sparks.

Application was great! The consistency of Far Far Away is fluid and dense with a medium-to-thicker viscosity that I added a few drops of polish thinner to before painting. Thinned, it has a lush, loamy glide over the nail with outstanding self-leveling properties. The glitters are extremely well-behaved, going on without stacking or stickups and laying totally flat to the nail. Pigmentation is excellent, delivering wearably opaque coverage in one medium coat, although you'll certainly want to add a second to maximize the holographic effects. Cleanup is fairly easy -- hardly any pigment travel or trace staining but those microglitters are sticky! Far Far Away dries naturally in good time to a slightly sandy-textured finish from the glitters, mostly smoothed by a single layer of topcoat. Topcoat does not appear to affect the holographic properties of the polish in any way.

Photos show two coats of Far Far Away over treatment and basecoat with a topcoat of Seche Vite.

Glam Polish Far Far Away

I love this sparkly delicate orange with its breath of pink and its beautiful floral tone! It's bright without being loud or harsh, and so very happy and uplifting! Just a perfect orange for summer!

love,
Liz