Glitter Me Up Friday...on a Saturday

:::grumbles:::: hey, better late than never, right?? one of these days, my life will settle down and I will be able to approach blogging with some sort of regularity (um ew me--way to make blogging sound like a bodily function) but given that I have 3 small kids and school's out for summer, those days are faaaaaar in the future....so I'm forced to be all lame and post infrequently and late.  But I HAD to get this polish up cuz it freakin RULES.

This gorgeous but difficult to photograph beauty is Lush Lacquer's Slime Time. I think I've professed  my undying love for Lush Lacquer before and, well, I gotta do it AGAIN!! Slime Time is a bright yellow-leaning lime green jelly polish with all kinds of crazy glitters in it--blue, gold and green smaller glitters, white & gold square glitter...not to mention all that iridescent shimmer! My swatch is 3 coats of Slime Time with 1 coat of Gelous and Seche Vite on top. On its own, Slime Time won't reach full opacity without several coats, but I'm digging the translucency here because you can see all the glitters suspended & layered in there--like delectable little fruits inside a jiggly, squishy jello-mold--and who doesn't love a jello mold?? 

Slime Time, as well as several other beautiful sparkling bottles of awesomeness, is available at Lush Lacquer's Etsy Shop. Somehow, some way, owners Karin and Lexi STILL manage to churn out bottle after bottle of gorgeous polish despite their nearly 3000 sales!! I, for one, am amazed! (Amazed and plotting my next order!!) and just want to publicly thank them for all their hard work and for sharing their beautiful, unique creations with us!!

As far as glitter goes, there's always more to drool over--swing by my fellow GMUF sisters for more pretties!

Kaz of Parisian Blue Skies

Rebecca of Polished Peripherals

Alanna of Pretty Purple Polish

Kelly of Kelly's Kolors

Shaina of SG Nails

Salt N Peppa Popsicle

Look, ain't I funny? I did one of those thingies where you combine the names of polishes in your post 

title to make it sound like something completely different. That's right, peeps. You better be scared of me & all this cleverness I got over here...

Alright, enough senseless rambling...

THIS, people, is the amaze-bawlz, retina-seering, practically radioactive insanity that is Orly Melt Your Popsicle from the line of neons they just released. Yea, these photos? Not even CLOSE to the redonk brightness these babies give off. Let's just say that, if your power goes out and you're wearing this polish, you will have no need for a flashlight....These 2012 Orly neons are the BRIGHTEST polishes I have ever come across in my entire career of polish-obsessing.

OH, and the awesome black and white speckly things on top of Melt Your Popsicle? That would be none other than Salt N Peppa, beautisimal (yea it's so awesome, it needs a whole new word to describe it) creation of Karin and Lexi of Lush Lacquer, who (as I've mentioned before) serve up sparkling indie  fierceness over on Etsy. Seriously, if you haven't already, go buy their polishes! These ladies have some kind of crazy sorcery over glitters. I've never met such gorgeous, well-behaved glitters in my life. I know I must sound like a broken record but, once again, these glitters come out of the bottle with no problem, lay down nice and happy on the nails (a few of the bar glitters might hang over a nail's edge but ALL bar glitters are guilty of that) and spread out beautifully. Love love love and love some more!

(oh God, the cuticle horror show. For your own safety, look AWAY from the base of my nails)

(note the gorgeous iridescent microglitter that is also mixed into Salt N Peppa & ignore my tip-wear...frickin housework always wreaking havoc on my manicures)

This mani consists of:

basecoat of Beauty Secrets nail hardener 

1 coat of Finger Paints Papier Mache

2 coats of Orly Melt Your Popsicle

2 coats of Lush Lacquer Salt N Peppa

1 coat of Seche Vite Quick Dry Topcoat

So are you on board with the neon trend this summer? What about the black and white glitter bonanza currently happening in the indie polish world? I, personally am in SO much luuuuurrve with both these things!

Glitter Me Up Friday, Vol 4!

Well shoot, it's Friday again, isn't it? Time for some more glitter!!

And Oh what a glitter this is!! This beauty is Birthday Cake--amazing sparkling creation of Lush Lacquer, an awesome and super sweet mom and daughter polish making team who can be found HERE on Etsy.

(click to enlarge)

Let me first apologize for the suckage that is New England's weather--yet another photoshoot that had to take place outside under thickly overcast skies...but this polish STILL shines.

Birthday Cake is a white sorbet-type polish chock full of pink, purple, orange, gold, blue and green small glitters, bar glitters AND large holographic silver hex glitters. Ok, did I say glitters enough times?? This. Polish. RULES!!! Seriously I can't get over all those gorgeous glitter colors embedded in that white. This is 2 coats of Birthday Cake by itself with 2 coats of Seche Vite on top (accent finger is Essie Mojito Madness stamped with Essie No More Film and vice versa--was testing their stampability. As you can see, No More Film is an excellent stamping polish...but I digress)...

I don't know what else to say except I LOVE LUSH LACQUER. Their polishes beautiful and they have none of the issues that Indie polishes sometimes suffer from (like glitter that refuses to come out of the bottle or clumps of pigment or separation issues). They are as expertly made and mixed as any big-name salon polish and the color and glitter combos are just stunning. I now have a total of 5 Lush Lacquers--Slime Time, Salt n Pepa, Camo Queen, Tutti Fruitti and this one (seriously I'd have WAAAAY more if I had more money or less self control) and every one of them is consistently awesome...

So um, why are you still here?? Go get some Lush before it's gone! and then go check out my awesome Glitter Me Up Friday sisters:

http://parisianbluesky.blogspot.com.au/

http://polishedperipherals.blogspot.com.au/

http://www.prettypurplepolish.com/

http://www.kellyskolors.com/

http://sgnails.blogspot.com.au/

I'm in LOVE with Lush Lacquer

MOAR INDIE GLITTER POLISH!! Today, let's all marvel at Camo Girl, the awesome creation of Karin and Lexi--mom & daughter frankener duo extraordinaire who recently opened Lush Lacquer on Etsy! (Yea I made that link all crazy long--that's cuz I want you to click on it!!)...

This beauty is, in Lush Lacquer's words, "a moss green-goldish shimmery base with a mixture of glitter in different colors.... we use gold, copper and brown medium hex glitter." And those glitters are super blingy--in fact, I had to trash a bunch of pics because the bling was freaking my camera out! I layered 1 coat of Camo Queen over 2 coats of Essie Sew Psyched and I think the combo together really DOES look like camoflauge (well, maybe drag queen camoflauge)....SO in love with this polish!

Formula-wise, Camo Queen was an absolute dream to work with. The suspension base holds the glitter nicely and each dip of brush into bottle yields the perfect amount of each glitter color. Honestly, people, it doesn't get any better than this!

Definitely go check out Lush Lacquer on Etsy! And be quick about it! These ladies have some gems in their shop and they're NOT gonna last long (not when people like me place multiple orders LOL--and yes that means I will be featuring more of these gorgeous polishes in the near future!)...