Wu Tang Clan and H.P. Lovecraft nail sets

I recently did two sets of nails on myself that are my favorites so far.  Currently there is an acrylic overlay on my natural nails that I put after I broke a few nails in one day.  I sculpted over three of my nails to make the length match  

These are my Wu Tang Nails!  From left to right I will list what I did or used for each nail:
1. OPI Candlelight base, Cult Nails Nevermore with a striper brush to make bumble bee stripes.
2. Cult Nails Tempest base with Dollish Polish Urban Camo on top.
3. Reverse french with Tempest and Nevermore with rhinestones and studs glued on top.
4. OPI Candlelight base and Nevermore striped for my Tiger Style nail!
5. Cult Nails Quench with OPI Man With the Golden Gun real gold topcoat, I had to bring some gold to the Wu-Mani.
6. Candlelight base and Nevermore painted around the yellow to make the Wu Tang W.
7. Quench with a black rhinestone.
8. Candlelight and Nevermore to paint my cute lil Killa Bee!
9. Nevermore base and a black chain glued in a pile on top.
10. Reverse french with Tempest and Quench and a bunch of rhinestones on top!

This was a manicure that I really didn't want to take off, I even left it on two days, which is unusual for me.

 

This H.P. Lovecraft manicure is the one I am currently wearing.  From left to right again:

1. Nevermore with Girly Bits Magically Delicious gradient.

2. Dollish Polish Toxic Avenger, one of my favorite polishes ever!  All the symbols on different fingers are from the Necronomicon, any circles I replaced with rhinestones.  All of the symbols were drawn on with a Kiss nail art pen in black, since I was working on my non dominant hand I figured a pen would be easier than a brush.

3. Cult Nails Nevermore with three 5mm silver spikes.

4. Liquid Glam Lightning Storm, I will be swatching this polish on its own soon. 

5. OPI Just Spotted the Lizard

6. Cult Nails Tempest base, then I painted a cute Cthulhu with China Glaze Budding Romance and I used Nevermore and a dotting tool for the eyes.

7. Just Spotted the Lizard again and a spike for the arrow on the symbol.

8. I should make my own water decals sometime, but I just printed out a picture of Lovecraft and top coated it down.

9. & 10. Toxic Avenger and Necronomicon symbols on both.

 

I think this was the first time my right hang made an appearance on the blog!  The complicated manicure post is done, so that's all for now.

 

Dollish Polish Vampire's Coven

Here is the lovely Vampire's Coven from Dollish Polish.  This is a purple and red glitter in black jelly base.

 

 

 

I built this up with four coats, but I will layer it next time.  The Dollish Polish This Is Halloween collection was fantastic.  They were all complex and fun glitters.  I can't wait to see what's next.

Dollish Polish There's Something Up With Jack

Here is another Dollish Polish This Is Halloween polish, There's Something Up With Jack!

I was lucky enough to find Sinful Colors Winterberry right before the pamphlets came out with the stolen blogger pictures and I started to boycott them.  I used two coats of Winterberry underneath two coats of There's Something Up With Jack.

 

There's Something Up With Jack has square and bar white glitter with multi shape and size bright blue glitter.  I think this polish is a good one for all the way though fall and winter and on trend. 

 

I have one more polish from this collection coming soon.

Dollish Polish Spectral Pup

Tonight I have another one of the Dollish Polish This Is Halloween collection for you.  This is Spectral Pup, and besides the fact that it is an awesome and adorable glitter, this guy glows in the dark, like Zero!

 

 

 

This is three coats of Spectral Pup over two coats of OPI Mourning Glory.  Spectral Pup has white and orange glitter of various shapes and sizes.

 

 

And this is two coats of Spectral Pup over three coats of Essence Color & Go Sweet As Candy

 

 

And here it is in the dark!  This really glows, it doesn't even have to be in pitch black.  This is by far the best glow in the dark polish I have ever had. 

 

 

Dollish Polish is available here, you can follow Dolly here, and it looks like Overall Beauty will have some This Is Halloween collection polishes in a grab bag, but only until Thursday 10/11, so I would suggest checking that out now!

 

 

 

 

 





Dollish Polish We're Simply Meant To Be

We're Simply Meant To Be is from the Dollish Polish This Is Halloween collection, all polishes are inspired by The Nightmare Before Christmas.  This one has the colors of Sally, blue, burgundy, black and gold in a clear base. 

 

I enjoy building up a lot of glitter, so this is three coats over two coats of Zoya Perrie.

 

 

This is a unique glitter with great colors, it really does look like Sally in a bottle.  I will have three other Dollish Polish This Is Halloween polishes coming up before Halloween.





Dollish Polish Super Mario Bros. Part 3

It took me a little while to get the final part of these swatches out.  This Dollish Polish collection was all great formula wise and the glitter applied evenly.  Here are the last three of the set.

This was one coat of 1-UP over two coats of butter LONDON Yummy Mummy, which is an amazing nude.

Above was two coats of Go Luigi! over white.  I just had to fish a little bit to get one of the stars out.

 

 

Finally, two coats of Dino-mite Yoshi over two coats of a neon green, I'm pretty sure it was a Color Club green, but I can't find the notation now.

 

 

The whole collection was really fun and a perfect abstraction of all the Nintendo characters we know and love. 

 

 

Here are Part One and Part Two of my collection review.

Dollish Polish Super Mario Bros Part Two

Here are the next three colors I've swatched from the Dollish Polish Super Mario Bros collection: Toad-ally Awesome, A Peachy Princess and It's A Me, Mario!.

Two coats of Toad-ally Awesome over one coat of Nails Inc Heathrow and theBalm Hot Ticket That's Red-iculous tips 

Toad-ally Awesome has a clear base with matte white glitter in different shapes and sizes combined with yellow, blue and red glitters.  The formula was great and I was able to get a variety of glitters without having to hunt for them.  I wanted to mimic Toad's fleshtone and some of the red spots in his cap with the undercoats here.

Two coats of A Peachy Princess over two coats of China Glaze Sun-Kissed (As you can see my bottle reads "Preachy", but the Dollish Polish site does show "Peachy")

Above is with a matte topcoat

A Peachy Princess has a sheer pink base filled with tons of matte, holographic and metallic pink glitters in lots of different sizes and hues.  I put it over the yellow to reflect Peach's hair.  I love pink glitters and this is one of my favorites in the collection.

 Two coats of It's A Me, Mario! over two coats of Sally Hansen White On

It's A Me Mario has red and blue glitters in different shapes and sizes and holographic stars.  I generally am not a fan of glitter combinations that have stars, hearts or flowers in them, but I wish there were more stars in this polish!  So far that is my only complaint with the collection.  I only fished out one for this manicure.  It's so Nintendo to have the stars so they work great with this and the Luigi polish that you will see soon in the final installment of my Super Mario Bros swatches.

Here is Part One of the Super Mario Bros review with more Dollish Polish information for following and purchasing.

Dollish Polish Super Mario Bros. Collection Part One

I received my first Dollish Polish order this week!  I was prepared to successfully purchase the mini Mario Bros. collection even if that meant setting a 5 a.m. alarm and refreshing Dolly's Big Cartel page every 15 minutes.

This manicure is two coats of China Glaze Liquid Leather and two coats of Wicked Wario.  Wicked Wario is fine matte purple glitter in a clear base with green and yellow glitter and white squares.  After swatching the collection this was the color I was most excited to try out.  The formula was great and it was easy to pick up all the different types of glitter on the brush.  I prefer a heavier coating of glitter, even with a base color and I was satisfied after the second coat.

From antihero to villain, here is The Koopa King.  I love this polish.  Lots of sizes of yellow/gold matte glitters, along with red and green.  There is black bar glitter and holographic diamonds just like the little spikes on Bowser's collar.  This is three coats of The Koopa King over two coats of Nicole by OPI Paparazzi Don't Preach.  Two coats of top coat make the glitter smooth on these.  I really like this combination, I thought the colors would pop on a black undercoat, but I didn't want to lose the black bar glitter.

I will have reviews of the rest of the Super Mario Bros. collection soon.  Dollish Polish can be purchased through their Big Cartel site, on Llarowe, and at Overall Beauty.  Follow Dolly on facebook for updates on when the Super Mario Bros. collection will be available again, as it is currently sold out.  The next Dollish Polish restock of other colors on Big Cartel is in August.