LynBDesigns - Dashing Emerald & The Envy of Mr. Green

Dashing Emerald is a blackened green shimmer. It's a very striking and dramatic sort of color. It reminds me of Essie Dive Bar (which can be seen here). Application was great and went on smooth & easy.

Here is 2 coats of Dashing Green with 1 coat of topcoat.

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Being the glitter addict that I am I'm very excited to show you this next one - The Envy of Mr. Green is a mix of matte, shiny, & holographic glitters! Specifically it has medium sized matte green squares, small shiny green squares & bars, tiny chartreuse hexes, medium sized silver hexes, and a whole lotta tiny holo silver hexes! It is absolutely stunning - I kept staring at my hand while wearing this and couldn't help but think that this would make a perfect Christmas (or St. Patty's Day) manicure! Application was great - not too thick or too thin, just right.

Here is 2 coats of The Envy of Mr. Green over Dashing Emerald & topped with 1 coat of topcoat.

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LynBDesigns polishes can be purchased from her Etsy shop here. She also sells lip balms, perfumes, jewelry, gemstones, paper goods, and photography!

Check out the LynBDesigns Facebook page here.

Thanks for stopping by! :)

*These polishes were sent for my honest review*

Black Cat Lacquer - Everyday Is Halloween

Well, today is the last day of "Extended Halloween Week" here at Nails And A Westie, so what better way to end it than with Everyday Is Halloween by Black Cat Lacquer!

This polish is a stunning glitterbomb filled with hexes of orange, green, yellow, red, purple, & black, orange bars, and purple shards, all in a clear base that's filled with micro silver shimmer! 

I layered 1 dabbed coat of Everyday Is Halloween (on all fingers except my thumb which has 2 dabbed coats) over Color Club Pucci-licious (which can be seen by itself at the end of this post). All fingers were topped with 1 coat of topcoat.

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Ministry - Everyday Is Halloween

Color Club Pucci-licious is a gorgeous purple creme that looks like a cross between lavender & periwinkle. Two coats is all it took to get it completely opaque, but it dries to a satin finish. To show this I left my ring finger & pinky without topcoat, while my index & middle are with topcoat. 

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I love the name of this polish because it makes me think of Lou Taylor Pucci who is ridiculously cute!

Lou Taylor Pucci

I purchased Everyday Is Halloween from the Black Cat Lacquer Etsy page & the Color Club from my local Harmon.

Check out Black Cat Lacquer on Facebook here.

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Darling Diva Polish - Invoke The Spirit

This polish is absolutely breathtaking!! It's full of large iridescent hexes of blue, green, silver, & coral, clear hexes, small & medium sized blue hexes, green moons, and holographic silver stars, all in a sheer dark grey base that's loaded with blue iridescent micro glitters! Plus it glows in the dark! The glow is not a very bright one, but considering the polish looks so incredible in the light, I really don't care! Lol. Application was a bit tricky with this one, but that's to be expected with such large glitters. In the end it's totally worth the effort that it takes!

This is 2 and a half coats of Invoke The Spirit over black & topped with 1 coat of topcoat. I used a combination of regular brush strokes & dabbing. I also used a toothpick to place some extra glitters where I wanted them.

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On my right hand I layered 3 coats of Invoke The Spirit over white. I used the same methods that I used when layering it over black, except this time it was even more challenging. To get it looking completely opaque I literally globbed it on. The end result is pretty cool, but I still think it looks way better over black.

And of course because this is a glow in the dark polish I just had to try to capture a shot of that. Unfortunately it didn't come out too well.. but you get the general idea.

I purchased this bottle from the Darling Diva Polish Etsy page.

Check out Darling Diva Polish on Facebook here.

And since this polish is based on the movie The Craft.. let's call the corners, shall we?:

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Black Cat Lacquer - Six Feet Under

Six Feet Under is a grey jelly packed with small & medium sized silver hexes and black shards of various sizes. I wasn't so sure if I was gonna like this one, but it actually looks really cool on. It also happens to bear the name of one of my favorite TV shows of all time, so that definitely earns points in my book!

This is 3 coats of Six Feet Under topped with 1 coat of topcoat.

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Please pardon the bubbly topcoat..

Shade:

I purchased this bottle from the Black Cat Lacquer Etsy page.

Check out Black Cat Lacquer on Facebook here.

And now for the best TV show ending of all time (in my humble opinion)!:

Makes me tear up everytime :'(

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Girly Bits - Crunchy Leaves

I'm temporarily interrupting "Extended Halloween Week" to show you my Thanksgiving manicure. I absolutely love this polish & I just had to show it off right away!

I actually won this polish (along with Girly Bits Indian Summer) from the giveaway that Ashley is PolishAddicted had last month! I'm extremely happy that I did because I wanted both of those polishes soooo badly. This one in particular because not only do I have a thing for brown polishes lately, but also because it represents the month of November in the Girly Bits Calendar Girls Collection, which just happens to be my birth month! If you haven't checked out Ashley's blog I highly recommend doing so. Her blog is one of the first blogs I started following & it's still one of my favorites! Thanks again Ashley!! <3 

Crunchy Leaves is the absolute perfect name for this polish. It's a stunning glitterbomb filled with small hexes of orange, copper, brown, and itty bitty red bars, all in a sheer brown base that has gold shimmer mixed in with it! Even people who don't like bar glitter probably wouldn't mind this one too much because the bars are so small, you don't even realize they're bars until you look super closely at them! Application was easy peasy, not too thick or too thin, and no need for dabbing. I thought this polish might be gritty & need multiple layers of topcoat because of all the small glitters, but I'm very happy to report that it only needed 1 coat of topcoat to become totally smooth. Once again another score for Girly Bits!

This is 3 coats of Crunchy Leaves topped with 1 coat of Sally Hansen Insta-Dri. 

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This polish can be purchased from the Girly Bits website -  it's currently on sale for $9! It can also be found on Llarowe, Harlow & Co., Mei Mei's Signatures, and Overall Beauty.

Check out Girly Bits on Facebook here.

Thanks for stopping by & Happy Thanksgiving! :)

Naild'It - Bibbity Bobbity Boo

I just want to start off by saying.. I friggin' love Naild'It! I've acquired quite a few of her polishes this year, and I've yet to be disappointed by any of them. She is majorly talented!

Bibbity Bobbity Boo is a gorgeous Halloween glitterbomb packed with hexes of various sizes & colors including orange, purple, fuchsia, & holographic aqua, all in a clear base that's loaded with silver shimmer! It's sooo sparkly and beautiful that I would feel perfectly comfortable wearing this year round! After all, who's really gonna guess it's a Halloween polish just by looking at it? Application was great - the glitters are so plentiful that I didn't even have to do any dabbing to get them where I wanted them! Incredible.

On all my fingers *except* my ring finger I have 1 coat of BBB over black. On my ring finger I have 3 coats of BBB by itself. All fingers were topped with 2 coats of Sally Hansen Insta-Dri.

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I purchased this bottle from Overall Beauty for $11.

You can check out Naild'It on Facebook here.

I couldn't help but think of this classic song from Cinderella while wearing this polish:

I hadn't watched this movie in so long I forgot just how cute this scene is!

Thanks for stopping by! :)