Jade Fascinio Violeta

Irony. After weeks of unremitting heat and bright sun here in southeast Missouri, today it is overcast and threatening rain. Of course it is, because I got my Jade holos in the mail yesterday and planned to photograph Fascinio Violeta today. =p Instead of full sunlight, which would have shown the holo at its best, I've had to settle for lightbox and desk lamp pictures. 

These first two are in my lightbox. These are more color accurate, but don't really show the holo very well at all. These are VERY strong linear holo polishes, but the lights I use in my lightbox just can't really capture that very well.

Fascinio Violeta is such a lovely, lovely sort of medium purple. These next photos show it as being much darker and sort of murkier than it actually is, but they DO show the holo really well.

Application on Fascinio Violeta was super easy. What's shown here is two effortless coats. This is one of those easy to apply holos, like the Ozotics or OPI DS holos, so I just used my normal base coat rather than an aqua base. Dry time was on the longer side for a holo, but not outrageous.

Gorgeous, no? The Jade holo collection is available at llarowe and retail for $10 each.

Smitten Polish Lovely Lilacs + an Update

Ok, whew! All the packages are wrapped up, and the batch is being brought to the post office today. =) Supplies for the restock have all been ordered (I hope), so now I'm just waiting for everything to arrive.

The nice thing about waiting for supplies is that I actually get to do my own nails. I love making polish, but I end up with totally wrecked polish and jacked up cuticles. Anyway! I decided to try to get some decent pictures of Lovely Lilacs. I find it very difficult to photograph. Photos out in the sun tend to wash it out, like these:

These pics aren't terrible, but Lovely Lilacs is actually much richer than these photos would lead you to believe. *sigh* This is three coats, by the way. It's pretty sheer, but the base color builds really well. 

So I rebuilt my light box today to try taking photos of Lovely Lilacs that way, and I think that these are much better. Not perfect, but better!

So there you go. Much better swatches of Lovely Lilacs than what I've had previously! 

Thank you for reading, and thank you all so much for your purchases and support! xoxo

Another quick update

The weather is acting up here, and so is my internet connection. I'm working on getting stocked, but it's slow going. I'm trying to get everything in there on time, but please be patient!

Restock tonight!

I plan to open the shop at 5:00pm CENTRAL TIME at www.smittenpolish.com!

I also need to apologize in advance that some of the shades are in slightly more limited quantities than I had originally planned due to a tragic lacquer base spill. =( I plan to make plenty of them next time though. *sigh* At least it only spilled on my table and didn't get on the carpet, right?

Prepping For Restock

In addition to all my previous shades, I'm also stocking these new colors:

Nerds!, Moonbeam Dreams, The One on the Right

Here are Moonbeam Dreams and The One on the Right as full manis, three coats each.

And Lovely Lilacs:

Whee. Off to keep mixing!

EDIT: I've pulled Verbena from the lineup because I just wasn't happy with it. Lovely Lilacs is much, much nicer, much more saturated and richer than Verbena. 

SmittenPolish Update!

I'm in the new house and setting up my work space today. I'm hoping for a restock on Sunday evening, if everything goes smoothly. Yay!

Teeny Update

Still working on packing. The move is Tuesday. I can't wait to be settled in. *sigh*

I've set up a Facebook page for SmittenPolish. There's a little button to the right over there to like the page. I plan to update both here and Facebook, but I know some people like one or the other more. =)

And a little tease of what's coming.

These are named Nerds!, Moonbeam Dreams and The One on the Right. =)