*We Are The World provided for honest and unbiased review. All other products mentioned were purchased by me.*
Hey there! I promised at the end of my last post that I'd have another Above the Curve polish to show you and I'm keeping my word! ATC is ever a brand for supporting charities and every once in awhile they come up with something extra special for a specific cause. Today's polish definitely fits the "extra special" bill!
We Are The World is a Limited Edition polish made to celebrate Earth Day. I cannot even begin to describe the depth of love I have for this polish. I mean, just look at it! Is it not the perfect deep ocean blue? It reminds me very strongly of images captured of the Earth from space. Angel and Shawn have gone above and beyond with this beauty!
We Are The World is somewhere between a jelly and a crelly base (is there a name for this??) loaded with blue, green, and holographic glitters in different sizes and shapes, including my beloved dots! ATC could not have made me a custom polish more perfect than this one...deeply, beautifully blue with dots...simply perfection! The cerulean shade of this polish is similar to Sinful Colors Endless Blue, but does not have the nasty smell that I associate with that one.
The formula was also perfection, opaque in 2-3 coats and super smooth. You may have to do a bit of fishing for the large dots, but all the other glitters popped straight out of the bottle with no trouble. I'm showing 3 coats of We Are The World here with one coat of Gothic Gala Lacquers Smooth Me Over top coat and one coat of Seche Vite.
*We Are The World provided for honest and unbiased review. All other products mentioned were purchased by me.*
Not only is this polish special because of its beauty, it also has the distinction of being a charity polish for The Sierra Club Foundation. This Foundation is all about America leaving fossil fuels behind to replace them with clean energy (solar, wind, etc.) which makes it a perfect organization to support for Earth Day! Angel and Shawn are donating $2 of each bottle of We Are The World sold to The Sierra Club Foundation. You can purchase this polish (and all their other lovely creations) on ATC's Big Cartel site. We Are The World is a very reasonably $8.50 for a full size bottle...you really don't want to miss this one, folks! You can keep up with Above The Curve's Facebook page to keep abreast of new releases, swatches, and other good stuff!
Thanks so much for reading!
Good evening everyone! I missed last Tuesday's Try It On Tuesday because I just had too much on my plate to get a post up. Not so this week! I took photos of this beauty last Thursday and held it in reserve just for today :) Yay for being prepared! Alright, enough about that. let's look at the polish!
Above the Curve has been celebrating their 1 year anniversary for the last couple of weeks and has had some awesome sales. I managed to snag this gorgeous jelly glitter polish named The Cat in The Hat during one of those sales. TCITH is a royal blue jelly packed with white and dark red hexes and bars. Normally, I really dislike bar glitter. They hang off the edges of the nail and they just look sloppy to me (no, you won't be seeing any of those China Glaze "feather" polishes from me lol) but this one has just the right amount of bars to add interest without irritation.
I wore this in 3 coats, although it was opaque in 2. I love the depth of all the layers of jelly and glitter...it's just so fun to look at! Application was a breeze, no excessive fishing for the larger glitters.
Again, I've got to be the bearer of sad news. The Cat in The Hat is no longer available from Above the Curve, but they have so many other fabulous creations, you're really missing out if you don't at least go look! You can also follow Shawn and Angel (creators of ATC) via their Facebook page, to keep updated on sales, new products, and giveaways (P.S. they do a TON of giveaways!).
As always, thanks so much for reading!
Howdy, everyone! We're back around to Monday already, did everyone get some relaxation in this weekend? It was in short supply for me as we've come to festival season here in Chicago. My employer, Dana Reed Designs, does a few of the shows every summer and last weekend, I helped her work the booth both Saturday and Sunday. It's fun, but it sure wears me out!
Anyway, on to the important topic here, nail polish! I was lucky enough to snag a bottle of Emily de Molly's Cosmic Forces during last week's Llarowe restock. I missed it on the early restock, but managed to nab it in the evening one. I really wanted Oceanic Forces as well, but either she didn't do a restock on it or I just missed it both times. In any case, I got the bottle a couple of days ago and am just now getting my post up about it. Without further ado, on to the pictures!
CF is a dark purple jelly packed with lavender and fuchsia micro glitter, lavender hexes, fuchsia dots and large lavender holo dots. This polish definitely lives up to all the lip (blog post) service that I've read over the last few months. It's simply stunning!
I didn't have any trouble with application, this is 3 thin coats. I did have to fish a bit at first for the larger dots but, after the first coat, I turned the bottle upside down between coats and I had no issues after that. All the glitter laid flat on my nails and 2 coats of Seche Vite was enough to smooth out any bumpiness.
I wish I could have gotten a better shot of the depths of CF on my nails, but my camera just wouldn't cooperate. Above is a macro of the bottle so you can get an idea of the depth here. Cosmic Forces really is worth every penny...so, so pretty! Even my boyfriend said "Wow! That's got so much depth!" when I showed him my swatch.
Thanks so much for reading and stop back by for my next ABC Challenge post coming up (hopefully!) tomorrow!
