Hi Goddesses
Day 2 of Vault Week features surely the longest time EVER for a Literary Lacquers post to go live!
Amy created Amnesia Euphoria Ecstasy as a Limited Edition for her 40th birthday in August and sent me a bottle as a gift. The polish is her usual gorgeous product, and the only reason this got vaulted was because I wasn't totally happy with the stamping.
AEE is a glorious dark blue holo, kind of like dark denim, but crucially, much colder in tone than most blues currently out there. As you can see, the bend is incredible, and I should have just sucked it up and released it as "just" a swatch post.
Because I love Amy so much, I decided to stamp it with a star pattern from MoYou Back To The 70s 02 - and that's where it went "not right" lol.
The star was symbolic - Amy is a star, a shining light, and for me she is a real star of the indie scene. However, the silver I used for the stamping couldn't fight against the bend of the holo, and in the end it looked .... incomplete.
Still, that polish .... good that.
Hi Goddesses
This week, I am emptying some of the many posts out of the Vault! There's about 40 posts in there, some of them good, some of them not so good lol, but a good variety of stuff that deserves to see the light of day.
We start with some stamping I did with Liquidus Arsenic back in October. Arsenic is a lovely creamy polish flecked with the finest copper, and is lovely either on its own or as a base.
I stamped over it using Konad Lilac and some random images from MoYou Back To The 70s 02.
On the middle and pinkie fingers, I saran wrapped with the Konad before stamping with Barry M Matte Vanilla.
Overall, I really liked the subtlety of this mani - from a distance, it looked a creamy lilac, and it only revealed itself as you got closer and closer.
Hi Goddesses
Ok, are you ready? Are you truly truly ready? If you thought you'd seen some gorgeous polishes so far this week, nothing is going to blow your socks off like today's pairing. IFF and SB are both purples - but opposites.
We start with If Anyone Falls, an incredibly delicious and rich purple, built on a warm brown base and just absolutely spectacular.
I just can't get enough of staring at this polish. It's so perfect and insanely amazing. The bend is deep on this one too, giving it a fathomless quality.
As you know, I own a lot of purple holos, so it's getting harder for any to really blow me away, but both of these 2 have managed it.
In the first set of photos, you may have noticed the accent nail looked different. Well that's because it was the OTHER purple - Stand Back - which takes its base from blue, rather than brown.
They look beautiful in contrast together, and SB has a sizzle that IFF can't quite manage. To be honest, both polishes are awesome, but SB probably just has it in the comparison stakes.
I also tried a little bit of stamping, just to see how well these worked on the silver plate, and as you can see, the results were great. I'm not sure they would be as strong over a dark background, but I was really pleased with how crisp the stamping was.
So, if you could only pick one of these purples, which one would it be?
(Luckily, you can buy them both HERE mwahahaha. These polishes were sent to me for an honest review.)
