Monday, February 24, 2014

Sincerely Polish Mademoiselle 2.0 Collection


Happy Monday friends.  As you can see I have fallen off of the Mani Monday wagon and I did not get back on again this Monday but I do have swatches and review for you of the Mademoiselle 2.0 collection from the lovely Karen Jo at Sincerely polish. Let me start by saying the formula on all of these is very easy to work with! Also all photos are topped with Seche Vite topcoat. I did have a little trouble getting great photos on the lighter shades...totally my issue with still using my Galaxy for photos I think.

I want to start with my favorite from the collection.  It is just a color I am drawn to always!!  Marie Joyce is a lovely mint green.  She is a crelly with pink white and teal glitters.  There are some micro glitters as well and even a holographic glitter!


The large hex in the macro is really a silver/teal holographic but I could not capture the shift.  I used three easy thin coats for these photos.  Marie Joyce is just a beauty and I plan to wear her again and again!!

Next up we have another favorite for me.  This is Mariel.  She is a milky white jelly with light blue, mint and pink or peach maybe circle glitters.  There are also minty squares and pink hex glitters as well.


I had a hard time getting great pictures.  I just could not get the lightest colors to focus in. Trust me when I tell you if you like soft white nails and pastel colors you will love this jelly!  It did take 4 coats for me to get this opacity which is not unusual for a jelly but to me it is worth it!!  It would be possible to do a layer of this over a white undie but I prefer the sqishiness of the jelly with this polish and having the glitters layered with each coat.

Next lets go with the other light polish in this collection, Maria Veronica.  She is a lovely delicate pink crelly with light pink hearts lavender and pink circles and even smaller purple glitters.

Again I had a hard time capturing how lovely this polish is.  When looking at it in person the pink heart glitters and the circle glitter are a more visible through the color than my macro suggests.  This is two thin coats with a third tad thicker coat as the final coat.  So three coats but the third was heavier than the first.

The next beauty is Mia.  She is a gorgeous lavender crelly!  Her treasures include Pink circles, purple and white hex and tiny silver glitters!

Mia went on in three thin coats.  If you love purple she is the girl for you!

Last but certainly not least we have Marvi.  She is a beautiful sky blue crelly with white, pink and dark blue hex glitters.  She also has pink circle glitters and icy blue small bar glitters.  She even has some lovely micro glitters silver and blue.  

 This is three thin coats.  As you can see the bar glitters are small and lay perfectly flat in the polish.  No annoying fly away bars here!!  

I love this entire collection.  It is very soft and delicate, which personally I love.  As we know I am on the sweet side of nail polish for the most part.  This collection makes me think of spring and beautiful delicate flowers and fresh grass and clear blue skys!  I always include in my blogs if these are press samples or not.  With this collection I was able to take part in a swatcher/blogger discount promotion Sincerely polish was having but all thoughts on these are my own and I would absolutely buy this collection at full price!  Stop by Karen's store here to see this collection as well as her entire line.  I think she is currently only shipping within the US at this time.  Thank you for stopping by and Happy polishing!!

Friday, February 21, 2014

Sincerely Polish

Hello friends!  With a hectic couple of months I have neglected my blog horribly but am ready to get back on track!  What a better way to start again than to bring you a lovely Indie polish that will be coming out March 1st!!   Karen Jo is the creator of Sincerely Polish and I am falling more in love with her creations with each collection.  I recently took advantage of a promotion Karen was having for bloggers/swatchers who wanted to do some swatching for her.  I was so surprised when my order came in that she included a bonus polish from the unreleased Toxic Seduction collection which is based on Britney Spears and her music video costumes.  How fun!  I remember watching all the videos.   




This is Naughty School Girl!  I must say that this happens to be one of my favorite color combinations.  In my opinion pink grey and black are made for one another.  Naughty school Girl is a beautiful grey crelly with pink and black glitter throughout!




For the photos below I did three coats.  When I wear a crelly I like to layer it thinner to have the glitters at different depths but I am sure if you prefer you could do two heavy coats.  The application flowed perfectly and the glitters are well distributed throughout the polish.


  With Topcoat
I apologize for the glare.  I am always battling glare when I use a shiny topcoat. :)  

Matte Topcoat
Personally I do like matte nails so I wanted to see how this one looked.  I love!!!


Please excuse the dry skin. This winter has dried me out terribly!

A couple macros to show up close all the pretty glitter and shimmer!  I would recommend Naughty School Girl if you love this color combo!  I definitely recommend Sincerely polish.  I have tried a few of her polishes now and she has wonderful formulas and creative polishes!!  You can find Sincerely polish on Instagram here.  Karen sells her polishes on StoreEnvy and you can find that here.  I still have my order to show you and it is just lovely and perfect for spring!  It is the Mademoiselle 2.0 collection!!! I hope to have my review of that collection by Monday.  I have also preordered her Neon Jellies collection as well.  Thanks for stopping by and Happy Polishing!!