Liquid Lacquer Kashmir

I have three words for you today. Three heart-stopping, brain-blowing, life-altering words.

Led. Zeppelin. Holos.

I die. The greatest rock 'n roll band in the world. Liquid Lacquer's Physical Graffiti collection pays homage to Led Zep with 6 polishes, each inspired by a song on the epic album. And my friends, they are all holos. Aw hell yeah.      Kashmir, which my cousin likes to subtitle "the song that never ends", is reincarnated as a creamy beige scattered holo. On the cooler side of beige, this definitely works with my undead pallor, but I imagine it plays nice with all skintones. It's also one of those more subtle holos that passes inspection even if you work in place full of stuffed shirts.  Factoid: Jimmy Page teamed up with P.Diddy (then Puff Daddy--starting to date myself here) to play that famous riff from the song as background music for the single Come With Me from 1998's Godzilla. You're seeing three coats with topcoat and possibly a trace of Robert Plant. Application for this one was smooth as Jimmy's guitar. A note on creamy holos in general: as with a regular creme, you'll want to allow for a little more dry time in between coats though, you won't need to wait the 8 1/2-minute length of the actual song after every coat. I didn't really find that topcoat dulled the holo effect at all, though unfortunately my light box did but then again light boxes and holos are just not astrologically compatible. What can you do. Liquid Lacquer is grabbable at the website and stalkable on Facebook. And in case you were wondering, I have them all (duh) and will worship feature each one in its own separate post! This polish was purchased by me.

Elevation Polish Glow Worm Caves

I think I've found my next vacation destination.

It might be a natural wonder, but New Zealand's Glow Worm Caves is really more Star Trek than National Geographic. 

Spock would be stunned.

See what I mean? It's a thing of unearthly beauty. And so is its namesake polish.

Elevation Polish Glow Worm Caves is a deep teal jelly with blue squares, green circles, brown hexes and tiny blue glitters. In other words, it is a thing of wondrous glowy depth.

This is only two coats. Because of the typical nature of jellies you might be as shocked as I am at this point but yes, this is indeed two coats with nary a streak in sight. The glitters applied really smoothly and evenly too, even those elusive brown hexes. Now that's really magical.

The brown hexes have surfaced!

This was a one-off prototype, but it just might reanimate as a final version in the future. In the meantime, dig up more otherwordly treasure at the Elevation shop and stalk Lulu's blog!

This polish was purchased by me.

Lynnderella Two-Tone Trifle

Twenty-eight years ago today, a seething undead entity burst forth from the grave and went on a rampage fueled by the unquenchable desire for brains and more brains. So the zombocalypse began.    

It lives!

In other words, it's my birthday. 

Take it in, because this is the first and last time I'm going to tell you my age.

To celebrate I decided to paint my claws in my favorite color (besides black): purple.  And what a purplegasm it is. Two-Tone Trifle is  Lynnderella limited edition and one of my birthday presents to myself (one of them…). Every single glitter is some shade of purple, from lavender to lilac to heliotripe and everything in between. Every. Single. Glitter. 

Party like it's 1985.

And as if that wasn't enough THIS POLISH CONTAINS CIRCLE GLITTERS. AND HOLO GLITTERS. The only other proof I need that I've died and gone to zom-heaven is a massive tentacled cake. 

Wait. I'm already dead.

I must scandalize you with some graphic bottle porn first.

About 1.5 dabbed coats over Lime Crime Lavendairy.

I had to do two shots with the Lime Crime bottle too, just because it's so cool *cough*andithasaunicornomg*cough

I tried to capture the tiny holo glitters. I really did. But my camera had other ideas.

Like most Lynnderellas and all chunky glitters, this one is best applied with the dabbing method. I prefer to put the first coat in the middle of the nail and spread it around, then fill in with dabs accordingly the second time around. Some patience necessary, but trust me, the payoff is almost as good as an erotic massage with Norman Reedus. Almost.

You can dig up Lynnderella polishes at lynnderella.com, and stalk the blog for updates on new collections before everyone else gets their talons on them!

This polish was purchased by me.