Liquid Sky Lacquer Twilight Plumage

“Somewhere a bird sang, its chant hanging plaintive and melancholy in the still air...I think it's a sort of lark or something. Our tradition has it that they sing with the voices of lost lovers. If the stars are smiling on them, you will hear its mate call back in a moment.”

- Jane Johnson, The Tenth Gift

Twilight Plumage in its cute coordinated bag

Polish Information: This is Liquid Sky Laquer's Twilight Plumage, a purple/red/blue multichrome with holographic! It applied as perfectly as LSL's other multichrome holographics. Two coats to full coverage (though it was pretty full at just one coat!). I did two coats over butter LONDON basecoat and Julep Freedom topcoat. It dried smoothly as well, no streaks here! The holo was strong with this one as well, so I had to take photos in a bit of shadow to get the multichrome nature to show through. In person, this was not so much of a problem, but cameras can be fickle! Here are a bunch of angles to show the many shades (click on them to make them bigger!):

Many angles of Twilight Plumage!

Angles of Twilight Plumage!

This is the color it always appear when straight on!

And it has a very red shade at certain angles!

Final thoughts: This was another gorgeous holographic multichrome from Liquid Sky Lacquer and I'd highly recommend trying them for yourself! Application was great on this one, and coverage was very easy with few coats and no base colors. Plus, the gorgeousness of a multichrome makes it always a gorgeous color at every angle!

If you want your own, and I think you probably do, check out Liquid Sky Lacquer on facebook or buy it at her shop, here!  This is a seriously gorgeous multi-chrome!

Please note: This polish was provided to me for my honest review.  All opinions are my own!

Liquid Sky Lacquer Twilight Peacock

“I pray to the birds because they remind me of what I love rather than what I fear. And at the end of my prayers, they teach me how to listen.”

- Terry Tempest Williams, Refuge: An Unnatural History of Family and Place

Twilight Peacock in its coordinated bag!

Polish Information: This beauty is Liquid Sky Lacquer's Twilight Peacock, a cyan/purple multichrome holographic! Application was great on this one- very smooth, two coats to full coverage. It also had good staying power- over 2 days without any chips! I used butter LONDON basecoat and Julep Freedom topcoat with it. The holographic nature again seems to overshadow the multichrome aspects in bright light, so I took most of the photos in a bit of shade, so you could see the many colors in this polish (and not just the holographic pigment)! Anyway, on to the picspam! For all of them, click on the photo to make it bigger!!

Twilight peacock at different angles in the shade outdoors

Twilight Peacock at different angles indoors

Twilight peacock with flash (on the left) and without (on the right)

Final thoughts: This was a great one for people who love multichromes and holographics! The holo pigment was very strong and the multichrome nature really shone through. Application was perfect and wear time was good too! It's a winner!

If you want your own, and I think you probably do, check out Liquid Sky Lacquer on facebook or buy it at her shop, here!  This is a seriously gorgeous multi-chrome!

Please note: This polish was provided to me for my honest review.  All opinions are my own!

Liquid Sky Lacquer Twilight Hummingbird

“If my love could be represented by a blur, it would be the beating of a hummingbird’s wings. Did you know that my love is the only love that can fly backwards?
”

- Jarod Kintz, A Zebra is the Piano of the Animal Kingdom

Twilight Hummingbird in its cute bag!

Polish Information: This is Liquid Sky Lacquer's Twilight Hummingbird, which is a holographic green/pink multichrome. Application was easy- 2 coats to full coverage and no streakiness or anything else! I used Butter London's basecoat and the Julep Freedom topcoat. I found the holo overpowered most of the color shifting, but it was there when it was cloudy or you weren't in direct light. It was a subtle soft pink in some lights and green most of the time! Anyway, on to the picspam!

Swatches outside in the shade (click to make bigger)

Swatches inside with bright lights (click to make bigger)

So, I took a picture with flash to show the holographic nature of the polish- side effect: it shows the purple shade. I took a bunch with flash, and always got that color! Here, I am showing two shots- the same shot with and without flash! So crazy!!

On the left- with flash; on the right- same shot, no flash

Just a bonus close up!

Final thoughts: Twilight Hummingbird is a great color for holo and multichrome lovers! The color change is a little more subtle on this one though, so bear that in mind if you like a strong multichrome! Application was perfect however, no undies required!

If you want your own, and I think you probably do, check out Liquid Sky Lacquer on facebook or buy it at her shop, here!  This is a seriously gorgeous multi-chrome!

Please note: This polish was provided to me for my honest review.  All opinions are my own!

Liquid Sky Lacquer Mystical Peacock

“What is more cheerful, now, in the fall of the year, than an open-wood-fire? Do you hear those little chirps and twitters coming out of that piece of apple-wood? Those are the ghosts of the robins and blue-birds that sang upon the bough when it was in blossom last Spring. In Summer whole flocks of them come fluttering about the fruit-trees under the window: so I have singing birds all the year round.”

- Thomas Bailey Aldrich

Polish Information: This is Liquid Sky Lacquer's Mystical Peacock, which is described as "a cyan/purple multichrome." It definitely does hit teal and purple the most- it almost looks like a brighter version of Bird of Paradise, but it has more blue and less red (though it does get some red at certain angles) if that makes sense. If you are a teal lover, this one is definitely for you! It's teal straight on, which makes the sides of the nails look purple! At certain angles it also had a gold/yellow color. Application on this one was a dream! It glided on smoothly and 2 coats was opaque. I did three coats for good measure, but I really don't think I needed to. It changes color without too much angling too, which makes it a very simple multichrome- there's no mistaking it for anything else!

Always wrapped so prettily!

Here again, I am going to do a lot of picspam to try to catch all the dimensionality of the color!

Different angles of Mystical Peacock in fluorescent lighting (click to make bigger)

Different angles of Mystical Peacock indoors (click to make bigger)

Just a bigger shot of the usual blue/purple you see!

And here is one with the yellow at certain angles!

Waterdrops photo with Mystical Peacock

Another waterdrops shot at a different angle

Final thoughts: This was another gorgeous creation from Liquid Sky Lacquer- a really awesome multichrome that shifts easily between teal and purple and applies like a dream- no streaks here! They are really vivid colors with no undies required. I'd highly recommend it!

If you want your own, and I think you probably do, check out Liquid Sky Lacquer on facebook or buy it at her shop, here!  This is a seriously gorgeous multi-chrome!

Please note: This polish was provided to me for my honest review.  All opinions are my own!

Liquid Sky Lacquer Heavenly Hummingbird

“The moment a little boy is concerned with which is a jay and which is a sparrow, he can no longer see the birds or hear them sing.”

- Eric Berne

Polish Information: This polish is Liquid Sky Lacquer's Heavenly Hummingbird. It is described as "a silver/green/pink multichrome." Before I read the description, I was thinking silvery purple to green duochrome, with hints of a silvery green in between. Now that I know it's supposed to have silver, green, AND pink (I really see it as more of a purple though)- it makes a bit more sense! In some lights, I can also see a blue! As far as application goes, it seemed to have a bit more dry time and was a bit thinner/streakier than some of the other multichromes from this collection. This one just needed a little more finesse to apply. Once I got 3-4 thin coats on each nail, it was completely smooth and gorgeous. It dried very shiny, but I used BL topcoat (and basecoat) anyway. I waited a while (over half an hour), but I did smudge a couple nails, which tells me that the multiple number of coats I applied probably caused an extra slow dry time. For that reason, you might be better off using it as a topper (over black for maximum effect), but it does become completely opaque in 3-4 thin coats.

And on to the picspam! I'll again show a bunch of angles, so you can try to catch all the changes with the multichrome! It was such a rich, gorgeous green straight on, but had so much dimensionality to it...

angles of Heavenly Hummingbird outside (click to make bigger!)

Angles of Heavenly Hummingbird inside (click to see bigger)

Straight on, it's green!

In some angles it had a blue tint!

Most of the time, if it wasn't green, it looked purpley to me!

And a water droplets photo to show you some of the multidimensionality!

Final thoughts: This was a lovely multichrome with a good shift from green to silver to purple/pink! It did have a bit trickier of an application, but was smooth and lovely once you were done! All-in-all, for me it's another winner and a polish well-made.

If you want your own, and I think you probably do, check out Liquid Sky Lacquer on facebook or buy it at her shop, here!

Please note: This polish was provided to me for my honest review.  All opinions are my own!

Liquid Sky Lacquer- Bird of Paradise

“Some birds are not meant to be caged, that's all. Their feathers are too bright, their songs too sweet and wild. So you let them go, or when you open the cage to feed them they somehow fly out past you. And the part of you that knows it was wrong to imprison them in the first place rejoices, but still, the place where you live is that much more drab and empty for their departure.”

-Stephen King, Rita Hayworth and Shawshank Redemption: A Story from Different Seasons

Polish Information: This beauty is Liquid Sky Lacquer's Bird of Paradise. In the description, she says "Birds are thought to symbolize freedom, as they walk on the earth, swim in the water and soar in the sky. They symbolize the link between heaven and earth. Bird Of Paradise is a blue/red mutlichrome." I love the description, but not nearly as much as I LOVE this polish!!! I have been wearing it for 3 days, it hasn't chipped at all, and I just can't stop staring at it!!!!! It's so much more than a blue/red multichrome! It's purple and it's yellow and it's blue and it's red and it's... everything!

Besides which, let's talk application! Some multichromes come as more of a thin topcoat, so you need to layer them over black. Part of this is because it's not a cheap pigment to add to colors- Liquid Sky Lacquer packed the base full of this pigment so you wouldn't need to layer it over black, and it really makes it an absolutely fabulous multichrome polish!! This was a two-coater to full, and I mean FULL, coverage. I did one very thin and one thicker coat, and I have no VNL at any angle, and the application was smooth and gorgeous! I also used butter LONDON's top and basecoats, but it had a shiny finish without the topcoat. I am seriously in love with this polish. To see these bigger, click on them! :)

Photos of Bird of Paradise with different angles indoors, no flash

Photos of Bird of Paradise, outdoors in shade

It's so difficult to capture the nature of a multichrome, so I am did mash-ups of a bunch of photos to hopefully show you how many different colors you wind up seeing with this beautiful polish! Next, I noticed you could get more of the colors in a photo if you did it with water droplets on the nails (the water forces the light to hit the polish at a different angle where it's located, and so reveals the color of another angle).

Photos of Bird of Paradise with water droplets to get different angles of light.

LSL Bird of Paradise with water droplets

LSL Bird of Paradise with water droplets

Final thoughts: This was an absolute winner and one of my new all-time favorite polishes (and I don't say that lightly)! I can't stop playing with it and admiring the gorgeous colors hidden in it. Application was amazing, and it lasted really well for a good number of days. It's a true winner in my eyes!

If you want your own, and I think you probably do, check out Liquid Sky Lacquer on facebook or buy it at her shop, here!  This is a seriously gorgeous multi-chrome!

Please note: This polish was provided to me for my honest review.  All opinions are my own!

Sweet Tea Polish Pickin' Plums

"They are not long, the days of wine and roses:
Out of a misty dream
Our path emerges for a while, then closes
Within a dream."

-Ernest Dowson

Polish Infomation: This polish is Sweet Tea Polish's Pickin Plums! It's a purple-leaning silver metallic that has a pink glint in some lights! It's a little sensitive, so it did get a little streaky. These photos are taken with 3 coats of Pickin' Plums over butter LONDON basecoat and Julep Freedom topcoat. The color was tough to capture well, so I decided more photos would be the best answer!! It's a very pretty and demure polish, great for work, and kind of a pretty holiday/spring color! It almost has a dreamy look to it. Anyway, on to the photos!

Pickin' Plums indoors with no flash

Pickin' Plums indoors with no flash

Pickin' Plums indoors with no flash

Pickin' Plums indoors with no flash

Pickin' Plums indoors with flash

Pickin' Plums indoors with no flash

Pickin' Plums indoors with no flash

Pickin' Plums outdoors in the shade!

Final thoughts: This polish was really pretty- a soft purply silver metallic. Application was a little streaky, but no special skill was involved in getting this look! :) Overall, I liked it- it had more dimensionality to the color than most silvery colors do, and I kept catching it different lights with slightly different effects. Plus, it has such an adorable name, to go along with the adorable brand, Sweet Tea Polish!

As a note, this polish was provided to me for free for my honest review. All opinions are my own. If you want to snag your own, check out Sweet Tea Polish's etsy shop and facebook page!