Review: "Seawitch" from Carpe Noctem Cosmetics

Hello Readers:

I have another polish from Carpe Noctem Cosmetics' In The Grotto Collection. Today's polish is one of the holo's from the collection inspired by Ursula: "Seawitch".

"Seawitch" is a rich deep purple jelly holo polish. In the interest of full disclosure when I saw the photos of my mani the camera did NOT capture the true color of the polish. The photos made the polish look almost black instead of the deep purple it was so I tweaked the color saturation to more accurately show what it actually looked like on my nails. I will still show photos of how it showed up on my camera, but the ones I tweaked show a more accurate color representation of the polish.

Full sunlight photos

Sun behind the clouds photos

 



Isn't this a lovely polish?!? I'm always a sucker for purples so I knew I had to get this beauty. I went on smooth and opacity builds very nicely. I used three coats of polish over a clear base coat, and a clear top coat. This polish kind of reminds me of grape jelly with lots of sparkle haha

 

Now here are what the photos looked like before tweaking the color.

 

 

See how dark it looks?? It is so not how it looked on my nails. I wanted to show you both so you could see, but in real life the polish will be closer to the first set of photos.

 

If you'd like to own this great polish you can get it over at Carpe Noctem Cosmetics, who is also having a sale on right now. A lot of polishes have been discounted, 13 of which will be discontinued. Additionally, you can use the code: DCSALE for 25% off orders of $18 or more until THIS SUNDAY (8/17/2014).

 

Until next time.

-Andi

 





Review: "Sea witch Duo" from Sea Lore

Happy Halloween Reader(s)!

Just a small warning this post will be picture heavy as I am reviewing two different polishes in this single post. Anyways, I did not use a traditionally spooky color polish for my Halloween mani. The reason being because those more spooky colors did not make it to me on time, but honestly I don't mind at all. For Halloween Sea Lore came out with a duo polish based upon one of my favorite Disney villains: Ursula.

Ursula (source: google images)

Ursula in disguise as Vanessa

So with that, onto the lovely polishes. First up is the topper "Utterly Ursula". I decided to do the topper by itself because to be honest its a small pet peeve of mine when I can't see a swatch of the polish as is. I love that other blogger's show polishes elevated through colored bases but I really love knowing what a polish looks like on its own so here is what this topper looks like on its own.

Utterly Ursula: 1 clear base, 2 coats polish, no topper

Utterly Ursula has a clear base with a purple shimmer and is loaded different shapes and sizes of purple black and white glitters.

such a lovely shimmer!

And now onto the base polish which is "Villainous Vanessa". Villainous Vanessa is a blue polish with blue and purple shimmer. 

Villainous Vanessa: 1 clear base, 2 coats polish, no topper

The polish looks great on its own, but just check out below how the duo looks together.

1 clear base coat, 2 coats VV, 2 coats UU, and 1 clear topcoat

Aren't they just phenomenal together! I think the duo is just gorgeous, and they just bring each other to another level. Honestly I can't say enough good things about this duo. I even got some great comments from people. This is definitely a mani I don't want to remove! <3 Love it so much!

This is a limited time only polish so head on over to Sea Lore's website to get yours while supplies last.

Until next time

-Andi