Review: "Family" from Above the Curve Plus a Flakie Guest

Hi Readers:

Just a quick note before I get to the polish today. My photos today will make the polish look more navy than it is. The polish actually has more of a purple tint to it in real life, but my camera didn't want to capture it that way.

Today's polish is from Above the Curve's Best Things About Fall Collection (Fall 2014 collection).

"Family" is a dark indigo holo, with purple and blue shimmer.

This color is beautiful, and so sparkly (though lack of sunlight doesn't show that). Such a great shade! I used two coats of polish over a clear base coat, and no top coat (as I wanted to add flakies which you'll see in the next set of photos). It went on easy and smooth, no application issues.

Lately, I've been wanting even MORE sparkle, and I adore flakies so I went for a flakie topper. The flakie topper I chose came from Darling Diva Polish's Girlfriends Collection "Hey Gorgeous!"

Sadly my photos didn't do any justice whatsoever to the flakies so I took a quick and dirty photo to better show the flakies and it's awesome color shift. I apologize for the awful cuticles in the last photo, the winter weather is being a pain on my skin and I hadn't had the chance to moisturize yet.

Isn't the flakies BEAUTIFUL?!?!? I loooove it! DDP's "Hey Gorgeous!" was the perfect compliment to Above the Curve's "Family". I really can't stop looking at my nails. Totally fabulous! Oh so much pretty in one combo!

If you'd like either of these polishes you can get "Family" from Above the Curve's Etsy Shop, and Darling Diva Polish's BigCartel Shop.

Until next time.
-Andi

Review: "Chromatic Drake" from Carpe Noctem Cosmetics

Hello Readers:

For those who follow me on my Facebook Page you know I've been having technical difficulties with my camera lately. After some fiddling around with it, I think I've come down to the root of the problem. I think my camera just can't really handle the lack of sunlight we've been having. Being in Germany we get a lot of overcast weather for fall and winter but this year has been more than past years (no joke we had a total of 3 hours of actual sunlight last week otherwise it was hiding). So after changing the settings, and buying some little lamps for more light (I'd probably benefit best from a new camera but that will have to wait until the new year).

Anyways, my apologies again for being absent I tend to have a love/hate relationship with technology plus my husbands birthday was over the weekend. Enough of that though, onto the best part of any post: the POLISH!

As a semi gamer (and the wife of a definite gamer) just passed this week was the release of the new expansion for World of Warcraft, so what better way to celebrate that than with a World of Warcraft inspired polish from Carpe Noctem Cosmetics which was made in honor of Ashley from Potions in Motion who shares Emily's love of WoW.

"Chromatic Drake" is a multi chrome frosted holo polish. It has a brown to a coppery red to a plum shade with a frosted finish and a linear holo.

 

 

 

Isn't it a beauty?!?! I HATE that it's taken me so long to try this polish. This is one I received in my mystery grab bag, and knew I had to wear it but it happened to get pushed aside until now. To be honest I'm not usually a fan of multichromes but this one is wonderful! Oh, and by the way this is ONE coat of "Chromatic Drake", just ONE! Out of habit I don't usually do one coaters, but I honestly couldn't find a reason to do another. So it wound up being one coat of polish over a clear base coat, and a clear top coat.

 

Honestly, if you don't have this on your wishlist it definitely should be! The holo is in fact more present, but I only got a sneak peek of sunlight to try and capture it. If you would like to purchase this polish it is currently in stock over at Carpe Noctem Cosmetics' Etsy Page.

 

Now I'm off to level my mage <3

 

Until next time.

-Andi

  

Review: "What's Your Angle?" From Above The Curve

Hello Readers:

I have a wonderful polish from Above the Curve for you today. It is called "What's Your Angle?" and it is a multi-chrome polish. It goes from turquoise to indigo to purple to violet, and to red, orange and gold at extreme angles. Just like the name says it's all about the angle.

This post is going to be a little pic heavy as I try to show you all the colors from different angles, and since its hard to get some of the colors when using typical picture poses I had to use some unorthodox ones, and I also took a quick video to help show the color shifting.

In Full Sunlight

Natural light

I used three coats of the polish over one clear base coat. It goes on easy and smooth, no issues at all in application. The color shift is great! This is such a fun polish! Here is a short video to help see the colorshift a little better.

Above the Curve is currently sold out of this polish, but they did just recently release the first part of their Dr. Who Collection (woohoo! I've got some on the way!). They also have other wonderful polishes so go check out their website, and remember a portion of each polish goes to charity! :)

Until next time.

-Andi