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Saturday, January 25, 2014

2013 Faves - Light Blues

*All polishes purchased by me.  This post does not contain any affiliate links.  I am not compensated for any link clicks contained.*

This day has flown by!  I have some exciting swatching to do tonight that I want to get on the blog tomorrow, so this is going to be another fast one!


Just a reminder.  I always paint to opacity and then add one more coat for the macro pics.  In other words, when it says I used 3 coats, you can usually achieve "in real life opacity" at 2 coats.  In no particular order:

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Julep Joanna - 2 coats
Joanna, I can't hear this name without thinking of Johnny Depp.  Yes, I LOVE Sweeney Todd.  Even before Mr Depp became Mr Todd.  Back to the polish!  Joanna is a delicate greyed baby blue frost.  Yep, all that in a gorgeous formula.  Although it is frost, it is a Julep frost, which is not overpowering and DOESN'T show brush strokes.  Plus, this is two coats!  You know what that means, you can get non-pic coverage with 1 coat!  This almost made 1st place for me, it is so striking, yet delicate too.

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Orly Pretty-Ugly - 3 coats
Nothing ugly about this blue!  It is a sweet light sky blue filled with a turquoise shimmer.  So gosh darn....pretty!  It has a very sheer coverage, so you will probably need three coats, macro pics or not.  I painted this over Orly Ridge Filler, my go to base for sheer polish as it has a milky white color to it.  I have been disappointed with Orly's collections in the past, but this year they really stepped up their game and several ended up on my Faves lists.

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Zoya NYX - 3 coats
After my excitement about the first OPI Liquid Sands, I was giddy with the Zoya PixieDusts!  Zoya really knows how to do the pastel textured finishes.  This is an almost grey polish, looking like a dusty blue in some lights and a blued grey in others.  The texture is perfect, not too rough or bumpy.  It is, like many of the pastel textured polishes, sheer.  Although I am usually turned off by polishes that need multiple coats, this one is totally worth it!  It also layers very easily.

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Superchic Lacquer Funnel Cloud - 3 coats.
You may not know about this yet, but I have a total obsession with copper.  I have sooo many copper polishes in my stash.  Is it any wonder, then, that I love this steel blue pastel filled with a slight shimmer and different sizes of copper glitter?  No, of course not.  This was in Wonder Beauty's Tornado Alley collection and I own almost the whole collection, but this has to be my favorite.  It isn't green enough to replicate a weathered copper statute, but it does bring it to mind.  All of the Tornado Alley collection can be found at Wonder Beauty's Etsy shop HERE.

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LynBDesigns Don't Torture Me - 2 coats
Time for the #1 light blue of 2013!  These pics make me cringe!  Once again, I should have reswatched this beauty, but ain't nobody got time for that!  Look at those cuticles!  You've come a long way, baby!  This blue is a stand alone in my stash.  Jenna describes it as a pastel burple, and I would have to agree with that description.  I would also describe it as a greyed neon cornflower blue.  Yep, that's it!  It is filled with translucent matte white flakies.  I get a lot of compliments on the polishes I wear, but this was the one EVERYONE noticed and commented on!  I must this one again soon!  Jenna is one of my favorite indie polish makers as so much of what inspires her inspires me!  You can find her Etsy store HERE.  I just got some from her Baker Street collection and hope to have them on the blog in the next week....along with everything else I hope to have up this week!

I have one more thing for you today....an Honorable Mention.

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LVX Celeste - 3 coats
As I was selecting the light blues, Celeste was edged out, only because it is a creme.  Yet I felt the list needed a creme.  Just because I have a penchant for different finishes, doesn't mean that the creme should be left out!  So I give you my first Honorable Mention.  It won't be the last one!  Celeste is a pale celeste blue.  Yes, there is such a thing.  Google it if you don't believe me!  Once again, this is LVX creme perfection, fully deserving of its honorable place!

I have used some of these in nail art, but am in too much of a rush to add them now.  Let me know if you want links and I can add them later!  Thanks for looking and commenting!

Tina

2 comments:

  1. I love the Superchic one - just stunning and I have nothing like it in my stash

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