So apparently there's this thing called Amethystos...

... and it's very, very sparkly. <3

This is two coats of HARE - Amethystos, no undies. Even though it looks more like four coats, with the depth of all that beautiful glitter! <3 It has silver, pink, champagne gold and iridescent blue hex, silver squares, and what appears to be a tiny sparkle of some sort running through it. It is a glitterbomb and a half in a lilac-purple jelly, I love it!

Being such a glittery thing, it is a little on the thicker side, and it doesn't flow quite as easily as my other HAREs. It's still lovely though, and you can understand why it's a bit thicker; I'm sure if it bothered you that much, you could put a few drops of thinner in, but I'm happy enough with the finished result that I didn't mind a bit of careful application.

I managed to get my hands on this polish through my very lovely, very wonderful friend Liz (<3). I'd missed out on ordering in the first Llarowe restock of that day, and wasn't about to stay up until 2am to catch the second one. However, she very sweetly grabbed this one for me and sent it my way; you wouldn't believe how excited I was when she tweeted me about it! <3333

The sky was pink...

This is two coats of HARE - The Sky Was Pink. No undies, just beautiful glittery jelly goodness.

Now I'm not normally a 'pink' kinda girl. It doesn't normally suit my skintone, and I'd usually prefer a nice deep raspberry as opposed to a girly candyfloss pink. This, however, is just pure unadulterated awesome. <3

There is a lot of fine hot pink shimmer that doesn't show up in this photo, but it's there, trust me (you can see a little bit of it at the tip of my pinky nail). The polish is so pretty in person, and sometimes in low lighting or at a distance, it even looks a little more blue than pink. It's just gorgeous.

I could waffle on some more about how much I love, worship and adore my HAREs, but I'm sure you get the idea already. <3

Fire in the taco bell!

I'm starting to think I have a problem with collecting indie polishes. I've been trying several brands over the past month, but honestly, my main contenders appear to be Pahlish and HARE.

The above is two coats of Pahlish's brand new formula of Fire In The Taco Bell, over two coats of OPI's Y'All Come Back Ya Hear. Fire In The Taco Bell was one of the first indie swatches I saw that really made me want to take the plunge and buy from independent polish creators; imagine my disappointment when I found out it was discontinued!

Turned out it had been discontinued for formula problems (a curling type of glitter), but thankfully Shannon worked her glittery polish magic and fixed it, and therefore we now have the brand new version. Despite not being a lover of orange (by a long shot, seriously, it and I are not normally friends), this is looooovely.

Look at the squishyness! Look at the bright, happy, party vibe of it! Look at the tiny glowing gold specks, and the iridescent violet hex squished inbetween the orangey goodness, and the fuchsia squares. Squares! Have I mentioned how much I love polishes with different sizes of the same colour glitter? Sigh. So pretty. <3

An afterglow bouquet.

Long time no see, blog! Apologies for my absence, but I've been geeking out over GW2, and it hasn't really left me any time to blog! Nevermind, on with the pretty pictures!

Above is one coat of the gorgeous HARE - Afterglow over one coat of Rimmel - Blue Vogue. You can see in the bottle that Afterglow has a much lighter blue jelly base, but I really wanted the tiny purple glitter to stand out more, so I layered it over a darker colour. I really like how it came out!

The flowers are painted on just with the edge of the polish brush, in (Boots) 17 - Orange Soda, and dotted with Kleancolor - Metallic Fuchsia. They look really cute from a distance, and a little messy in these close up shots, but you know how macro picks up all the little flaws!

Afterglow is another feather in the cap of HARE polishes, for me; beautiful smooth application, the glitters just flow out and place themselves, good dry time and gorgeous colour schemes as always. <3 I really can't get enough of these, I'm so excited for her new Fall collection coming up soon and the re-release of her older colours (I must have Pegasus!).

I'll try to get around to posting the slightly overdue September haul and a quick & dirty gallery of my recent (and not always interesting) manicures soon!