Rubbernecker, Vintage Metals, Steampunked, Oxygen Bar, and Moonshine In A Jar

Hi everyone! Sorry I'm posting late today, but I had to get the rest of the Loaded Lacquer polishes swatched last night and didn't get a chance to queue up a post. So, you get a night time post for Day 3 of Loaded Lacquer week!

Tonight's post is 5 (count em 1, 2, 3, 4, 5!) lovely polishes. 

Pics and details after the jump!

Texting On The Dance Floor, Tornado In A Trailer Park, and The Dog Ate My Homework

Good morning everyone! Welcome to day 1 of Loaded Lacquer Week! :) 

I'm going to put multiple polishes in each post so that I can get them all in this week before the big opening. 

Polish pictures and info after the jump!

Dark and Difficult Times

Good morning polish friends!!! I hope everyone is having a good week so far.

Today I have a new to me indie brand called Polish TBH. I have been eyeing Chrissy's polishes on Instagram for a while. And as you all may have noticed, I love Harry Potter. So any Harry Potter themed polish jumps out to me. This one was just so pretty and so different, I had to nab it. 

Light Box

Light Box

Light Box

Full Sun

Full Sun

Isn't this beautiful? Plus the name and description of the polish sent me right over the edge. This is from her listing description: This is a darkened blue gray with a mix of holo black and charcoal glitters as well as red and green color shifting flakies. Reminiscent of the gloomy skies seen through out the Harry Potter series. The name comes from a favorite quote from Albums Dumbledore "Dark and difficult times lie ahead. Soon we must all face the choice between what is right and what is easy."

That quote is one of my favorites from the Harry Potter series. So many good life lessons in those wonderful stories. But, this is a polish blog not a "OMG I love all things HARRY POTTER!!!" blog. :) 

This color pulled gray in some light, blue in others. I had a really hard time capturing it, so I am posting it in a few different lights to try and capture the beauty. And macros to show those beautiful glitters and flakies!!! 

The formula on this polish was great, the glitter flowed well and distributed all on its own; no placement necessary. It was a bit sheer for my personal taste, but sometimes that's the price you have to pay for this amount of squishiness. 

Shown is 3 coats with 1 coat of Glossy Glam. I loved wearing this one and just couldn't stop staring at my nails. There's lots of depth and variety in there, that's my favorite thing about indie polish!!!

Polish TBH can be purchased through their Store Envy store here. 

Just Ricarda's Glossy Glam can be purchased through their Etsy store here. 

What do you all think? I love this one. 

I have a Halloween mani to show you tomorrow, can't wait! :) 

Happy Wednesday!

~casey

**All polishes in this post were purchased by me for my own personal use. Glossy Glam was purchased at a discounted blogger rate in exchange for honest reviews.**

Casey Lane Loves Hogsmeade's Honeydukes

Good morning everyone! Today I have one of the most perfect polishes ever for you! And a little lesson in polish terminology.

The beautiful Elena over at Ecklipsed By Color is one of the very sweet friends that I've made since falling into this nail community. She has a great sense of style (that I seriously envy), a great attitude, and as I've recently learned a gift for frankening polishes.

So here is the lesson part: What is the difference between and Indie and a Franken? An Indie is a polish that is hand made using suspension base, pigments, glitters, and all kinds of other magic that I can't come close to understanding. There is no magic formula or recipe out there for it, the people that make these polishes experiment and build recipes until they find the formula they like. Frankening on the other hand is mixing polishes together. You take polishes that you already have, maybe add in some glitter (like Elena did) and keep blending until you get what you want. See the difference?

Personally I've never done either, both seem daunting to me. I stick with polish as it comes and just go with with that. But the lovely Elena made me my very own special Franken, just for me. It's truly one of a kind and I love it. She told me that it is Casey in polish form, and she is totally right. How about some pictures?

Elena named my polish Casey Lane Loves Hogsmeade's Honeydukes. She knows of my deep and intense love of all things Harry Potter, so the name is perfect. 

Elena mixed colors, glitters, and love in this bottle and it turned out a lovely polish. 

And seriously, check out how adorable these labels are!

Elena successfully made the first bar glitter polish that I actually like, so another win!!!

Isn't this great? I love having this special polish that was made just for me. Its so pretty and it wore really well! 

You should all head over to Elenas blog (here) and her Instagram (here). Did I mention how awesome she is? Because she really is. I've made so many great friends through this community, it's amazing.

I hope everyone is having a good week!

Talk to you soon!

~casey

Pipe Dream Polish Spam!

Hi everyone! I have a couple of Pipe Dream Polishes that I shared on my Instagram but haven't had a chance to do a blog post on, so I'm combining them into one slightly spammy post. :) 

Details after the jump!

Sweater Stretchers

Good morning everyone! Happy Monday! I'm hoping that this will be the week that I get back into a groove with blogging. Thank you again for hanging in there with me! 

Today I have a beautiful glitter topper from Pipe Dream Polish called Sweater Stretchers. 

Sweater Stretchers is a limited edition polish that April created to raise awareness and money for breast cancer research. This polish will only be available through the month of October and $4 from every bottle purchased will be donated to The National Breast Cancer Foundation. 

Now that the serious part is over, lets see some pictures shall we? 

All of these pictures were taken in my light box. 

This is 1 coat of Sweater Stretchers over 2 coats of OPI Berlin There, Done That. I topped this all off with 1 coat of Glossy Glam. 

The base of my bottle of SS had a pink tinge to it, I'm not sure if that is intentional or not. But it wasn't enough to bother me. I just noticed that when I put it over white it turned the whole thing pink. Which is definitely not a bad thing. I just wanted to mention it. 

I think there are 5 or 6 different shades of pink in here and varying sizes of hex & square glitter. It is so pretty. And just like all of Pipe Dream Polishes, the formula was a dream. I didn't have to dig or place glitter, and it maintained "squishiness" even though the base was clear. 

Sweater Stretchers can be purchased through Pipe Dream's Esty store here. Be sure to grab your bottle before they're all out!

Glossy Glam can be purchased through Rica's Etsy store here.  

Thank you for reading! I hope you all have a great week!

**The polishes in this post were purchased by me for my own personal use. I did receive a discounted rate on some polishes in exchange for an honest review.**

Believe In Believing

Good morning everyone! Sorry I haven't posted in a few days. 

Today I have another Pipe Dream Polish for you. This is Believe In Believing from the Like The Weather Collection. (All of the polishes in this collection are named after lyrics in songs about the weather.) Believe In Believing is taken from Paula Abdul's Blowing Kisses In the Wind. 

Believe In Believing is a gorgeous blood orange base packed with glitter. I mean PACKED. It's so packed that you can hardly look directly at it for all the sparkle. (Any polish lover worth their salt will know that this is a good thing!) According to April's Etsy listing it is full of fuchsia and raspberry glitter with pink and fuchsia micro flakies. (Fuchsia... there's that word again. I don't like that word! The spelling!!!! Ugh!)

This polish feels very holiday-ish to me. It's the color of glittering cranberries.... how perfect would it be for Thanksgiving and Christmas? I love it. 

Direct sunlight.

Natural light, shade. 

Natural light, shade.

Light box.

Light box.

Light box.

See what I mean about all the glitter??? It's fantastic. This is 3 coats of Believe In Believing topped with one coat of Glossy Glam. You can see in the macros how nicely GG smooths these glitter polishes out. 

So what do you think about this polish? I love it, as I love all of April's polishes. (I think we've been over that a time or two.) This one was a bit thicker than some of the others, but that is to be expected with a polish this packed with glitter. It was thicker but it was easy to work with, I just had to be careful to use thin coats. It leveled out nicely and I had no issues. It was a complete pain to remove, but again, that's a glitter polish thing. I would be really worried that April had sold her soul to the devil if she'd made polishes this packed with glitter that glided off the nail as easy as a cream. ;) 

Pipe Dream Polish can be purchased through their Etsy store here. She just put up some Halloween lovelies that I'm getting sometime soon, I can't wait to see them and share them with you!

Glossy Glam can be purchased through their Etsy store here. Ricarda also has some great polishes in her shop along with this awesome topcoat. 

I hope you all had a great week! I'm going to try to get back on my posting schedule. 

From 9/27 to 10/5 I am going to be MIA, but I have some amazing guest posters lined up so keep an eye out for that!

Talk to you soon!

~casey

**All polishes in this post were purchased by me for my own personal use at a discounted rate in exchange for an honest review.**

The Night's Magic

Hello polish friends!!!! Happy Monday! 

Today I have yet another Pipe Dream Polish for your viewing pleasure. I got 7 last Friday, so you'll be seeing several of these. :) 

Today's polish is The Night's Magic. This is my first polish from April's fall Like The Weather collection and it is a stunner. I fell in love with pictures of it but they really don't do it justice. I tried as best as I could to capture it's awesomeness, but trust me just go buy it. It's better in person. She's also running a $5 off $45 sale right now in her etsy store, so it's a great time to buy! 

I took my sunlight pics in the car on the way home from family dinner, so the shadows are pretty bad.. Don't worry, I wasn't driving. ;) But look at that glitter! I went a little macro crazy, but you will see why. 

Full sun. 

Light box. 

This is 3 coats of The Night's Magic with 1 coat of Just Ricarda's Glossy Glam topcoat. Isn't it amazing?!?!?! This polish is packed with holo glitter, blues, and pinks. The base is a scattered holo black as well, so the sparkle is intense. Because of the scattered holo in the base it pulls more dark gray than black.Either  way its incredible. I'll post a video on Instagram sometime today. 

I just can't seem to say enough how much I love all of these Pipe Dream polishes. And she's not paying me to say that, I would tell you if I didn't like them. They are packed with glitter that distributes easily, they build up to opacity nicely, and they level out pretty well. They are glitter polishes, so they tend to dry a bit bumpy and matte. You should always use a good topcoat, but especially with a glitter polish. (That's true with ALL glitter polishes.) My preferred topcoat is Glossy Glam. While you're on etsy buying your Pipe Dream (www.etsy.com/shop/pipedreampolish) go ahead and grab a bottle of Glossy Glam (www.etsy.com/shop/justricarda). Glossy Glam makes amazing polish look outstanding. Go check em out! 

I hope everyone has a great week! Wednesday is my birthday so I'm not sure if I'll be getting my usual daily posts in, but I'll try. 

Talk to you very soon! 

~casey

**The polishes in this post were purchased by me for my own personal use. I did receive them at a discounted blogger rate in exchange for an honest review.**