Rockjewel wears the ultimate wow-polish Lilypad Lacquer True Blood

This is THE nail polish!! I say it again: THE nail polish! There should be a warning triangle on the bottle: "Don't wear this polish while operating heavy machinery" or something like that. It is totally impossible to stop looking at it.

This is my first indie love, True Blood from Lilypad Lacquer. Also included in my first order of indie polish. I was so lucky to get this, and I didn't even have to struggle for it, no waiting in line online at a webshop, no nervous moment when checking out the shopping cart to see if the polishes are still available or not. 
I happened to stumbled upon Lilypad's Etsy store one day and was stunned! So many beautiful nail polishes! I took my time, returned to the store again and again. Finally, after a couple of weeks I decided that I dared to order. I think I ordered three or four, and a couple of friends joined and filled up to the flat rate 7 polishes limit.

Rockjewel strutting around with Lilypad Lacquer To Dance With a Peacock

I have a problem... And now you say "Only one problem???" OK, I have more, but only one I would like to admit to today. It is about the most fabulous polishes I own. I crave them, I am lucky enough to get them; I long for them to arrive and when they arrive I am so happy and.... put them in my untrieds drawer... It's like I don't dare to use them, or want to save them for a special occasion or so. The stupid thing is that there are not many special occasions in my life, at least not as many as my "special" nail polishes. Ergo: I need to do something about this. Force myself to take one of these fantastic polishes and put them on for an ordinary tuesday. Or thursday, or other ordinary day.

This week I actually managed to use one of these polishes on a tuesday. I do have to admit that it wasn't really an ordinary tuesday, I had a *date* with some really good and fun friends. In honour of the day, and the good friends, I chose to put Lilypad Lacquer To Dance With a Peacock on my nails. And, to use a worn out acronym, OMG!!!!! Up on my top five list! 

To start with, this is one of my favorite colors in any area, not only nail polish. I love this dark teal! Add a stunning linear holo to this and I scream HOME RUN!! The color spans from a really dark teal, over both blue an green tones. Added to that a lovely rainbow effect.

Created by Nicole of Lilypad Lacquer not only the color, effects and the finish are perfect, also the formula is fantastic. Two coats of perfect-ness! 

Rockjewel goes D.U.I. with Dance Legend Chameleon Knight

I put it on. I thought it was a bit boring. OK, it was shiny, it shifted a bit in blackened gold and bronze, but nothing like swatches I have seen of it. Decided to wear it for one day anyway.

The morning after i got into my car and drove away to work. It was not full sun, thin clouds let the sun shine through a bit. I was driving, concentrating on the road and all of a sudden I caught a glimpse in the corner of my eye. Something fantastic! Silver, blue, gold, bronze, blurple! It was really, really difficult to keep my eyes on the road and the traffic, my nails were screaming for attention with all this beauty! Lots of ohhs and aaahhs, hoping for traffic lights to turn red so I could take another good look at it. 
Of course I could not resist showing this lovely-ness to some of my colleagues (those that appreciate beautiful nail polish) and got yet another bunch of ooohhs and ahhhs.

The formula is good. It's not sheer, but two coats are needed. It gets a bit streaky but this is not a big problem. The only real issue I have with this is that every little irregularity on the nail shows. A good ridgefiller is probably the solution, I think I need to buy one... 

Then the task of trying to catch this with the camera. Not possible... When I saw the photos I decided not to blog about this polish at all, but I picked out a few pics anyway that I think at least are ok, and here they are.
Don't let them discourage you from buying this polish, or any other polish from the Chamelion collection, they are truly beautiful!

Rockjewel gets no nightmare with Darling Diva Dreams

This will be a quick one, time to go to bed. But first some photos of one of my latest Darling Diva polishes, Dreams from The White Witch Collection. Lots of lovely holo polishes in that collection and now I own some of them.


Darling Diva polishes have a really good formula. Dreams is no exception. Ok, the first coat seems to be quite sheer, but it is still enough with two coats.
The holo is linear and strong, the color is a deep, but not to dark, color. You can see a lighter, cornflower blue, as well as a stronger blue color. Really beautiful. The photos do not show as much of the cornflower as I wanted.

Rockjewel votes for sample to be permanent at The Devil Wears Polish

My intentions for today's blog was to show Dark Choclate Raspberry from The Devil Wears Polish. Unfortunately the photos were a total failure! The lovely chocolate color with the raspberry shimmer turned into an almost blurple color with not so much shimmer. 

Instead I decided to try the bonus polish I got with the shipment. Big thanks for that TDWP, from all three of us! :-) And it is soooo beautiful!!

The _name_ is Prototype Sample... I am trying to come up with a better name, I'm going to try and convince TDWP to put this into production, it is so lovely!!

Rockjewel relaxes with Lilypad Lacquer Sunset At Sea

Lilypad Lacquer is not only about holo polish, and here is a  beauty to prove that. This is Sunset At Sea, a duo/multi-chrome polish that spans from a dark blurple to brick red and even a hint towards mustard. 

I have a few more from this collection, they all seem to be equally gorgeous! I will show them all in due time :-)

The formula is good, but unlike the LP holos this needs 3, maybe even coats on its own to be opaque. I used white undies here (which unfortunately shows in the pics...) and then two coats of Sunset... It is really beautiful on its own, but white or black undies lifts the colors yet another notch. 

I didnt do a good job with this mani. Messy, not a good cleanup etc. etc. etc. But if you can look at the polish, and only the polish, I'd be grateful :-)

Rockjewel twinkles with Lilypad Lacquer Nightsky Rift

Lilypad Lacquer Nightsky Rift is the second Femme Fatale exclusive. It's a blueberry-aubergine colored polish with steel blue holo to turquoise flashes. The holo is mostly linear but I would say that there are som scattered holo too. It's a stunner in the right lighting, and beautiful all the time, never dull. It appears a bit less aubergine in the photos that it really is. 

Excellent formula, two coats is perfect. It is really lovely and shimmering!

Rockjewel rocks with deep purple, ILNP Grape Alicious

And then came Molly. No, that one I have already blogged about here. Now it is time to show the other holo polish I bought at the same time. The brand is I Love Nail Polish - ILNP. It is probably most famous for the wonderful multichrome and multichrome-holo polishes, but there are lots of other beautiful polishes from that brand. Grape Alicious is one of them.

The base is a very deep aubergine (ok grape) purple. It is a color I like very much, even as a cream polish. This looks like a cream polish in ordinary indoors light, and grey outdoors daylight. But there is a holo effect hiding underneath it all. It is a little bit like Lilypad Lacquer Wild Orchid in this behaviour, but they are still quite different. WO has a darker base, leaning more to black, GA is a bit lighter (or less dark maybe...) and seems to have finer grained holo particles. Both are true beauties!

The biggest difference between these polishes is the formula. Nicole at Lilypad seems to have found a base with fantastic qualities. ILNP is actually quite good, but you get spoiled when the first indie polish you buy is a Lilypad with this exceptional formula. 

Enough with the Lilypad praising, I bore you to death with this!

As I hinted above the application of Grape Alicious was a little bit tricky. Nothin alarming, I will not discourage anyone from bying ILNP polishes, but the first coat gets a bit gooey and leaves some bald spots. Nothing that the second coat could not repair. 

As said, the holo effect is a bit shy, but when it shows it shows. A beautiful, strong, fine.grained, linear holo. 

Rockjewel is a sweet tooth with Lilypad Lacquer Chocolate Truffle

Presenting a Femme Fatale Cosmetics exclusive Lilypad Lacquer today. I got both of them, Nightsky Rift and Chocolate Truffle. Both are really beautiful! 
Today it is Chocolate Truffle on display. It is a dark rich brown, like dark, bitter chocolate, with a strong linear holo that flashes in many colors. 

No need to mention the formula, impeccable as always. Could be a one-coater but i used two. Sally Hansen Hard as nails as base coat and Orly Sec'N Dry on top. I have found that this combination works very well for me and my nails.

I took photos with both one and two layer of diffuser to try and catch both the beautiful chocolate brown color and the stunning holo.

Rockjewel toughens up with Darling Diva Bitch Panties

The last of the Darling Divas I ordered from Norway Nails is Bitch Panties. Love the name! :-)
It is almost impossible to decide what color it is. It's a quite light polish with pale lavender, light blue, beige and the faintest hint of light green. 

The formula is ok. It dries a bit fast so it gets a bit gooey almost immediately after applying it. It is a a bit sheer, but I think it will be opaque with three coats, maybe even two if applied rich. Here I have put on "undies", my favorite nude, Kiko No 372. After that two coats of Bitch Panties and Orly Sec'N Dry on top.
As the other Darling diva polishes I bought I like it a lot. There is both a quite strong linear and a little scattered holo effect. I will certainly buy some more Darling Divas in the future.

Rockjewel lusts for more green with Lacquer Lust Peridot

I think I have always loved green, almost all kinds of green. Lacquer Lust Peridot is a green that I love very much.
When Lacquer Lust Birthstone collection was released at Harlow & Co I was quick to order and got all I wanted except Garnet. I placed the order an immediately after paying I noticed that I had missed Peridot, one of the top three I wanted most. I immediately emailed them and asked if that could be added too, and they said yes. Love that kind of personal customer service :-D

Peridot is a soft limeish green, linear holo polish. It lives up to its name, it is really a peridot color. The holo is really strong but strangely enough it appears quite soft anyway, sort of infe-grained.

The formula is excellent, two coats is enough, with longer nails maybe three is needed.

Rockjewel dives deep with Lilypad Lacquer Deep Sea Dreaming

It was a tough choice Monday night. I had three candidates, all Lilypads: To Dance With a Peacock, Cayman Island Delight and Deep Sea Dreaming. Finally I chose Deep Sea Dreaming. 
It is a surprising nail polish. The color is a stunning, deep teal with massive shimmer. The surprising thing is that in pale daylight it shows an entirely different side, it becomes a duo-chrome polish that shifts from the deep teal to darker blue, almost blurple. Fantastic! Too bad I was in my car and couldn't capture this side of it. Maybe next time.

Formula excellent, could be a one-coater but I used two coats as usual. No topcoat on these photos.