Laura's Lacquers





Ack I'm sorry I didn't post the last two days, I really meant to, but we've got family in town for Thanksgiving so I just didn't get around to it. But now I've got the other scented Color Club glitter to show you!

I started with two coats of Zoya Phoebe (which is totally gorgeous, btw).

Then I added one coat of Sugar Plum Yum and a generous helping of topcoat.

I managed to catch some evening sun, FINALLY. The shimmer is freaking unbelievable in these next pictures. (on a scale of celery to unicorn, it's about at fireflies.)

As you can see, I got this one to lie much flatter and more evenly distributed. I'm not sure if this is because Sugar Plum Yum has a better formula than Very Merry Berry or if I had just gotten used to it and had a better feel for it.

Sugar Plum Yum is a combination of small green glitter, and larger purple glitter. I love the way it looks over Phoebe, but after a while all I could think of was:

I don't even know why, as I never much cared for Barney when I was a kid. But gosh, that's rather terrifying. He doesn't even look like a dinosaur. I don't know why kids find him endearing, as he kind of looks like he wants to eat my face off. On a scale of celery to unicorn, Barney is... Well, he's not very high up there.

Seriously, though, it's pretty awesome of you can get past the Barney-ness. I did remember to smell this one before putting on topcoat. I'm not exactly sure what a sugarplum is, much less what it smells like, but it just smelled generally sweet and not bothersome.

I would totally recommend these polishes if you love glitter, scented polish, Color Club, happiness, general awesomeness, or your mother. Seriously guys, these are awesome and blingy and gorgeous. They take a little practice to get used to the application, but once you get the hang of it they just take patience.

Do you associate any polish with big, friendly, purple dinosaurs? Or is that just me?

Nice, isn't it? This is two coats. Power Clutch is a dark grey beauty from the fall collection. I didn't have a good grey, and this one fits the bill perfectly. The formula was pretty much identical to Mesmerize, a little on the thick side but not problematic.

It also happens to make the perfect backdrop for GLITTAROMG!!!

Very Merry Berry is from Color Club's scented holiday collection. As you might have guessed, it's supposed to smell like berries. I really didn't get a chance to smell it that much before I put topcoat on it, and I really couldn't detect a smell after that, so if you're scent-sitive (hehe) then this won't be a problem for you.

As you might be able to tell, the large glitter is weird. It doesn't lie flat, it's curved. Which makes it super reflective and awesome looking in the bottle but kind of annoying on the nail. It's like "Girl please, I ain't no glitter, I'm a shiny pink taco shell!" and I'm like "Just stop being stupid!" and it's like "No!" and I'm like "AHGHHHGHGH" because I really hate anything that sticks up, and this doesn't even lie down with topcoat. I probably should have tried sticking it down a little more, but jeesh. It didn't want to work with me.

The formula was pretty... bleh. On a scale of celery to unicorn, I would rate this formula as about an unscented candle, which is to say, just above staple removers and right below catfish. But seriously, it was kind of difficult to work with. The glitter gets distributed weird, but if you keep going over it to try to move it around, you end up getting a whole buttload of glitter all over the whole nail and it's like SHINY PINK TACO EXPLOSION which is never a good thing. You just have to go really slow and use tweezers or something. It also takes a little patience and just getting a feel for it.

With all that said, I really do like these colors together, and on the grey. I absolutely adore the color of the blue glitter, it's like the most snazztastic blue I've ever seen. On the same celery-unicorn scale, I'd probably rate it at about tie-dye (i.e. groovy).

On the scale from celery to unicorn, how do you feel about this polish?