Glitter Me Up Friday by way of Seuss!!

I'm very excited to bring you this post today for 2 reasonsL 1) It's the first in what will be a weekly Friday glitter celebration started by the awesome Shaina of SG Nails! And 2) your Friday dose of glitter this time around is provided by none other than the amazing Seuss by Whimsical Ideas by Pam!!

Is this polish seriously not the coolest thing ever?? I absolutely love it! The color combo is dead-on-- The minute I saw it, I was immediately taken back to my childhood, thumbing through my copy of The Cat in the Hat with its iconic red, blue and white cover...Dr. Seuss is one of those cherished things so many of us share from our younger days and I am thrilled to be able to pass the wonder, magic and sillyness of those books onto my own sons...and I'm even more thrilled to have such an awesome polish that pays tribute to it all!

Seuss is a gorgeous bright blue jelly with  large and itty bitty silver hexes &smaller red hexes in it. The big silver hexes turn white when they are encapsulated by the jelly of the polish--I absolutely love the effect! My pictures are 3 coats of Seuss (no undies needed for this one) with Seche Vite on top. The polish was easy enough to work with--a nice, medium consistency (not too runny, not too thick--"just right" like Baby Bear's bed was to Goldilocks lol). Some of the silver glitters were a tad stubborn & had minds of their own,  but I haven't met a big hex glitter yet that didn't have a little bit of a 'tude. 

This is the second of 6 awesome polishes I got from Pam. Click here to see the amaze-ballsness that is Hatched! That means I still got 4 more pretties for you to drool over!

By the way, be sure to go and "like" Pam's Facebook page to learn more about her pretties and be sure to check out the other awesome posts for Glitter Me Up Friday!!

Fellow Glitter Freaks:

Alanna from Pretty Purple Polish

Kaz from Parisian Blue Sky

Rebecca from Polished Peripherals

Shaina from SG Nails

Indie polish bonanza--Whimsical Ideas by Pam--Hatched!!

To continue on with my current indie polish obsession, I have a very special NOTD today. When I first emailed Pam with my "wish list" (I didn't dare think of it as an order at the time), I almost died when she actually seny me back an invoice!! Had I actually obtained some beautiful, feverishly coveted handmixed polish WITHOUT having to stalk a website or spend months on a waiting list?? You bet I did!

This is the first of 6 beauties I am thrilled to show off--HATCHED!

(click photos to enlarge--but only if you promise to ignore gnarly cutes & stray glitters)

ADORABLE BOTTLE!

I KNOW, RIGHT?!?!

This is 2 coats of Hatched over 2 coats of Revlon Sunshine Sparkle with the usual Seche Vite top coat. GAWD I love the pastel yellow awesomeness--and those gorgeous pink & violet hexes in amongst the multi-colored micro-glitter. It's like Easter exploded all over your nails! 

Hatched was a breeze to work with. I didn't have to fight with any of the glitter. It's suspended really well in the bottle, so no digging necessary and it spread out on the nail all nice and even-like. For REAL, Pam, you got the polish-making SKILLS!!

If you want to get your hands on your own bottle, hop on over to Pam's Facebook page. Her polishes are $10 a pop and she does all her orders by email. You send her a message stating what you want and if she has it in stock, she'll send you an invoice. Give her some time, though. It took about 3 days for her to send an invoice back after I sent my initial message. After I paid (via Paypal), the polishes were in my mailbox in less than a week! With everybody scrambling to get some of her polish, I'm amazed at how fast her turn-around time was!

Stay tuned for more Whimsical Ideas swatches! 

So have you been bitten by the indie polish bug yet?