Anchor & Heart Lacquer Home Collection Swatches and Review

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Hi everyone! Tonight I have a special collection to show you: Anchor & Heart Lacquer's debut collection "Home!"  Home was originally to be released last spring, but with a baby coming the collection was put on the back burner.  While preparing for her precious baby boy, she worked on her brand, and fine tuned her debut collection, and now here we are with an amazing entry into the indie polish world!

Home is a collection of 8 polishes all inspired by Taryn's home state of Maine, family, and love.  Let's take a look!

Scofflaw Varnish Nina Sings the Blues

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Hi everyone!  Today I have a special limited edition from Scofflaw Varnish called Nina Sings the Blues.  This will be available for a 24 hour pre-order on Friday February 26th 8pm Central on ScofflawVarnish.com

Nina Sings the Blues.  With a name like that I can't help but to think of the incomparable Nina Simone, a woman who's voice and music inspired with mixings of jazz, soul, blues and classical and she wasn't afraid to get political.  Many consider her songs to be a soundtrack to the civil rights movement.  I did just watch the documentary about her on Netflix called What Happened to Miss Simone? so maybe that's why she's on my mind.

Nina Sings the Blues is mix of several glitters in different shapes and sizes that come in gray, blue, tan, beige and black.  All of this is in a crelly cornflower blue base with turquoise shimmer.  It's complex and glitter heavy and I love it.  Because of all the glitter, some of the pieces can clump up, but the base is thin enough that you can still move things around.  Also be prepared to use an extra coat of top coat if you like things smooth!  Other than that, it's a easy formula to work with!

This is 2 coats.

Be sure to mark your calendars! This is a limited edition and will only be available February 26th starting at 8pm Central for a 24 hour pre-order!  Check out Scofflaw Varnish at the following spots!

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**Products in this post were provided by Scofflaw Varnish for an honest review.  All thoughts and opinions are my own.

Twinsie Tuesday - Coffee

Hi everyone! Time for Twinsie Tuesday!  Today's theme is coffee.  I was stumped for a while about what I could do besides plain brown.  None of my stamping plates have anything coffee related and my free hand skills need some work.  Then I thought about latte/cappuccino art!

So I brought out my Uber Mat and did some dry marble decals because I couldn't find my latex lol. These aren't quite as uniform as latte art and ended up looking more like stirring cream into coffee.  I kind of like how they came out, but the brown feels like it clashes with my skin.  I'd definitely do it again with different colors.

For this look you need:

• Dark brown polish. I used Nubar Milk Chocolate Creme
• Light tan/cream polish. I used OPI You're So Vain-illa
• Toothpick
• Plastic ziploc bag or Uber Mat.  I've even seen some people use those silicon baking sheets.
• Quick dry top coat.  I used KBShimmer Clearly On Top.
• Nail File
• Scissors
• Acetone and clean up brush

How I did it:

1. Paint a square the size of your nail with the dark brown polish on your plastic bag or Uber Mat.  Make sure it's a thick coat and opaque.  Dab it on if you have to.
2. Drop a few drops of the tan polish on the the wet dark brown.
3. Using your tooth pick swirl and make any design you want while everything is completely wet.
4. Let sit for a while and then paint your quick dry on top.  Don't be neat, get it all outside the "lines" to make it easy to peel off.
5. After everything is dry peel off your decals.  Paint a nail with top coat and place the decal on top.
6. Press down and using your nail or a cuticle stick, press down around the cuticle and file the edge of your nail to get the excess decal off.
7. Clean up around the edges with your acetone and clean up brush
8. Top it all off with top coat!

Be sure to check out what the other Twinsies did!

Alaina at The Little Canvas

Alice at Nail Art in Wonderland

Amanda at Amandalandish

Amanda at Fashion Footing

Amber at Nails Like Lace

Chelsea at Nailed Blog

ChiChi at I'm Just Me...ChiChi

Claire at Kerruticles

​Lisa at The Polish Playground

Marisa at Polish Obsession

Marisa at Polish Those Nails

Megan at A Beauty in the Business

Róisín at Cuti-CLUE-les

Sara at The Call of Beauty

Sarah at Partly Cloudy with a Chance of Lacquer

Savannah at Addicted to Polish

Sharon at Behind Green Eyes 

Steph at Lovestruck Lacquer

Pahlish There is a Song Collection Swatches and Review

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Hi everyone!  It's time for another Pahlish collection: There is a Song.  It's inspired by the tv show Doctor Who and more specifically the character River Song.  If you love Doctor Who, definitely check this collection out.  And if you're not, still check it out because there is some serious fabulousness happening here!  The collection consists of 6 polishes (I'm missing one. Unfortunately it broke in transit) and will be available from Pahlish.com February 14th along with the February Duo and some special Doctor Who bespokes!

Let's get to the swatches!