Lucky 13 Lacquer Bad Wolf, swatches and review

Hello polish lovers!

Today I have a short post about a polish I purchased over the summer, yet haven't had a chance to talk about much; Lucky 13 Lacquer's Bad Wolf.

Bad Wolf, 3 coats, no undies on pointer and middle, 2 coats over Wet n' Wild Ebony Hates Chris, ring and baby.

I must start by saying that I am a huge Who-vian and cannot tell you how many times I have watched Doctor Who since they brought the series back. I have never sat down and watched the original series but may in the future, all I ever saw were random disjointed episodes while I was young. Rose has always been one of my favourite companions and I loved her story arch with both Nine and Ten.  I don't know if any of you are fans but let me tell you, you don't have to be a Doctor Who fan to love this polish.

Bad Wolf is a black jelly with scattered holographic particles. I did 3 coats on my pointer and middle fingers and you can see that there is no visible nail line, but you do still have nail colour coming through. You can make it opaque on its own in 4 or 5 coats or do as I have done on 2 fingers and layer it over a black polish.  In my case I used Wet n' Wild's Ebony Hates Chris, which was opaque in one coat and provided a good base for Bad Wolf.  My photos really don't do this polish enough justice, the rainbow in the holographic particles is much more pronounced than it looks in my pictures.

Sunlight, pinky and ring with undies, middle and pointer without

I will give you a bottle shot.

You can see the colours slightly better here.

That is all for today.  I will be back tomorrow evening with my next theme in the Falling For Nail Art Challenge.

Until then, polish happy!

Lucky 13 Lacquer, No Power in the 'Verse Can Stop Me, swatches and review

Told you I would be back, fellow polish lovers!

I have a really special treat today.  When I was in uni one of my roommates, Laura, made me watch this little sci-fi fantasy show that wasn't even on for one full season.  That show was Firefly and quickly became one of my favourite shows(I cannot tell you how many times I have re-watched the DVD's and Serenity), along with Veronica Mars and Doctor Who, two others I attribute my fandom to Laura.  Firefly also was the beginning of my love of  Nathan Fillion, which will never die and continues in my love of Castle, but that is another post for another day.

Today I am talking about Firefly and a polish inspired by River Tam, one of my favourite characters from the show, played by Summer Glau.  No Power in the 'Verse Can Stop Me is from Lucky 13 Lacquer's Ballad of Serenity collection and can be found here.  I was lucky enough to pick this up during her 15% off lady inspired lacquers sale that she had in August(look forward to future posts featuring Bad Wolf and Golden Snitch).

No Power in the 'Verse Can Stop Me, two coats, one coat Seche Vite, artificial light

Love, love, love, love, love this polish!  So gorgeous! So much depth! So much sparkle! my camera really couldn't handle the sparkle.  The above is two coats only, the polish is thick, but workable, no problem getting the glitter out or distributed on the nail. It's a minty green shimmer base with with tiny silver and fuchsia glitter with larger silver and iridescent fuchsia hex glitters.  This polish is awesome!  It wore like iron on me and I wore it for FOUR days!  FOUR DAYS!  I don't wear any polish for four days! Usually by the second day one nail(usually my wonky thumb nail)has chipped and its all over, but not this polish.

No Power in the 'Verse Can Stop Me, two coats, two coats SV, sunlight

This polish was also a lot smoother than I was expecting, most glitters that I am used to are so rough you can't even think about top coating them without specialty top coats, which I do not have.  This polish did slightly eat the first coat of SV, but not nearly as bad as I was expecting, and the second coat stayed very smooth and shiny.

No Power in the 'Verse Can Stop Me, bottle shot

I couldn't leave you without a shot of the bottle and all of its gorgeousness.  I really cannot wait to try Golden Snitch and see if the wear time is comparable for me.  Please remember that having a polish last for four days is something that is pretty much unheard of on my nails so someone else's wear time could be much longer than mine was.

Until next time, polish happy!