Literary Lacquers - Wrinkle In Time Collection part 2

Hi Goddesses

Earlier today I posted the purples, grey and blue from the new Wrinkle in Time Collection, and now I have what I have dubbed “the brights”.

We start with Tesseract, a soft, off-white holo that is utterly delicate.  This is like wearing a layer of pure ice on your nails.

I am not the sort of girl who can wear white on its own, but I have been wearing this as an art base.  Also, its delicate tones make it perfect as a bridal polish.

I used 3 coats and the photos still show VNL – I think I have super sensitive VNL lol.  You couldn’t see it in real life.

Next is what I think is my very favourite of this collection – Strong Steady Hand.

Oh I looooooove this polish.  This is a crunchy holo, in that it’s laden with glitter and holographic pulses, as well as beating with that stunning orangey-coral heart.  Will you LOOK at all that gold glowiness?

I love EVERYTHING about this polish, from the life-affirming colour, to the way the polish grabs the light and hugs it tight.  This is a stunner, and you won’t ever feel under-dressed with this on your nails.

Who Which Whatsit appeared on the blog a couple of weeks ago in a Depression Awareness post, but I wanted to show her again next to her sisters.

WWW is a super-happy Kermit green holo and even *I* love it.   It’s so bright and unashamedly GREEN that it just makes me smile whenever I see it lol.

The holo is also fabulous – super bendy, maybe it’s actually trying to SMILE – and the colour is spot-on.  Total win.

And finally, Happy Medium, a yellow holo.  Well, I think you all know what I do with yellow polishes, right, but even this one, I like.  I don’t know how Amy does it – maybe there’s some special hypnotic powder that releases when you open the bottle?

This is such a happy yellow, yet not obnoxious or overpowering.  There’s a hint of subtlety here which makes it tolerable!  I will definitely be keeping this for some crazy nail art, but as you can see, if you love yellow, and you love holo, this one top scores on both accounts.

As always, you can buy them HERE, and follow Amy’s Facebook page here.  These polishes were sent to me for an honest review.

Digit-al Dozen Dotting Days - Dots Within Dots Within Dots Within Dots ......

Hi Goddesses - and Happy Birthday to Meeeeeeeeeeee

Yesterday I posted a Jumbo Dots mani full of happy colours.  It was one of those manis where I had to talk to myself (honestly) – do I leave it as is, or do I carry on and do what I set out to do?

Well, I carried on.  The only difference between this conversation and the identical ones I’ve had over the years, is that I’m a cleverer pup now and I take photos before I carry on lol.  You know it’s wise!  I even took photos at the half-way stage of the dots within dotting ... you can never be too careful!

So this mani was always supposed to be a dots within dots extravaganza.  It’s only because I loved the jumbo stage so much that that became a separate post, PLUS you don’t get to see a mani like that very often.

So I started putting dots inside my dots, and then more dots inside my dots that were inside my dots lol.   You need to get the colour balance right, so that you’re not adding a central dot too close to a jumbo dot in the same colour, but for the most part, I think I got it right.

My only difficulty with this mani came where I’d overlapped my dots.  Some were fine, but with others, I had to add half a dot or ¾ of a dot, and it bugs me that the middle finger is a bit wonky.

That said, I still absolutely love it.   A reminder of your colours –

On base I have Literary Lacquers Tesseract, then

Barry M Lemon Ice Cream

Rimmel Ultra Violet

OPI Hot & Spicy

OPI Strawberry Margarita

W7 Neon Green

I added matte top coat quite early on in the re-dotting process.  Everything was just too damn shiny lol, and in photos, you really couldn’t see all the marvellous that was going down.

Plus, doesn’t the matte make it look all sherbert-y?   Sweet shop goodness.  

I hope you’ve enjoyed this extra Digit-al Dozen Week.  I have a couple more dotty manis that didn’t make it into this week – I don’t know yet whether to group them together and do another week in September, or just slowly release them into blogland.

Don’t forget to check out the other DD geniuses xx

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