Butter London Big Smoke

My sister gave me this polish as a gift for my birthday. She knows I love blue polishes and I think she did great picking this out for me! I don't own many navy polishes, actually I think I only own one other navy and that's just a plain creme polish. 

Butter London Big Smoke is a metallic navy blue polish. I don't wear metallics often but I think that Butter London does a great job with them. I used two coats in the pictures below. I had to do slightly thicker coats otherwise the polish would start to drag. The thicker coats didn't affect the dry time though. 

I really love this color! It's a great polish for Fall too!

Darling Diva Polish Spam

It's the first day of fall break and I'm sitting here sipping a cup of coffee with the windows open. The weather is beautiful today.
Anywho, today I have a little bit of spam for you all from the indie line Darling Diva Polish.

First up, Darling Diva Apple Crisp over Sally Hansen Rapid Red
Perfect for fall! The color combo I chose makes it look a bit Christmas-y. I didn't have any problems with application. The formula on this one was great. The first two pictures show one coat of Apple Crisp and the second two pictures show two coats.

Darling Diva Soft Kitty (By itself and then over Sinful Colors Verbena)
The name of this polish makes me smile and I always find myself singing "Soft Kitty" from the Big Bang Theory whenever I look at the bottle. This one is very soft and feminine when you wear it alone. I used three coats by itself to reach opaqueness. The glitters are very soft looking. There are also some iridescent glitters in the mix! Then I decided to layer it to see how that would look. I think it would have looked better layered over a light pink but I didn't have a good one with me. My photos of it over Verbena make it look a bit frosty. I promise it isn't that frosty in real life, my camera just has a hard time photographing polishes like this.

Darling Diva Pendragon over Zoya Avery
This one was a bit trickier to apply. There are a lot of larger hexes in it so you'll have to apply it with the 'dabbing' method rather than painting it on like a regular polish. The color combo reminds me of dragon scales. Very cool! I do wish there were a few more of the smaller glitters in this. But I'm a sucker for small glitters, so that might just be me! Shown is 2 "coats"

Lastly, Darling Diva Walk on the Ocean over Butter London Big Smoke
This one is gorgeous! Absolutely perfect! I noticed that there were some iridescent glitters in it when I was looking at the bottle so I decided to layer it over a darker color to make them shine. Shown is one coat of glitters over the base polish. Application was easy. It has the perfect amount of glitters.

For more information on Darling Diva Polish, check out her Etsy shop here or go like her Facebook page here.

Butter London The Black Knight

About two weeks ago I cut all my nails down as short as they would go. Why, you ask? Because while they were almost my ideal length and shape, they were looking really beat up whenever I would remove my polish. I had a lot of peelies and the corners of my nails were starting to break. So I decided to just start all over and cut them short so they could grow back out healthy again. These pictures were taken before I cut my nails. 

Butter London The Black Knight. Multicolored glitters in a black jelly base. 

I layered it over Finger Paints Black Expressionism so I didn't have to worry about doing too many coats for opacity (it would probably require three coats if you were wanting to wear it by itself).

I was underwhelmed by this polish. It just didn't seem to sparkle when I wore it. The glitter seemed very flat. 

I used two coats of top coat over it and it was nice and smooth, so that was a plus. I'm going to give it one more try before I decide whether or not to keep it in my stash. I've got BL Tart with a Hart and I plan on layering the two polishes together next time.

Butter London's Lillibet's Jubilee

The polish I've got for you today is very special (at least to me!). It's Lillibet's Jubilee by Butter London. 

This polish is meant to commemorate Queen Elizabeth II's 60th anniversary of the accession to the throne, her Diamond Jubilee. Only one other monarch in history has reigned long enough to celebrate a Diamond Jubilee (Queen Victoria in 1897, if you're curious). 

I've always been very fascinated by the British Monarchy and all of it's history, so I knew I needed this polish the moment I heard about it. 

I don't generally wear metallics (this might be the only one in my whole collection!) because they usually make my hands look weird but I like this one. It's a silver, lavendar metallic foil with some small glitters in it. I tried to capture all of it's beauty in my pictures but they don't do it justice. You really need to see this in person to get the full effect!

This polish could have been a one coater but I decided to go with two coats for good measure. 

Here is how it looks in the sun:

And here it is in the shade:

This polish was really nice to work with and dry time was fairly fast as well. 

For Reference:

1 coat Nail Magic base coat

2 coats Lillibet's Jubilee

1 coat NYC Grand Central Station