Pretty Serious - Monster Mash and Emma Louise

Okay so this entire collection is fabulous.  All but Viscous Vampire were good at 2 coats.  Some were a bit on the thicker side, but not unmanageably so.  They are close on 1 coaters so the thickness is not unwelcome.  These pictures were taken over several days in several lightings.  I could not get the weather or my camera/eyes to cooperate.  I reswatched them a few times, and I am still not entirely satisfied.

Onwards and upwards!

Emma Louise - 2 coats.  She did not want to cooperate with my camera.  Alternately, my camera did not want to cooperate with her.  Purple jelly with green and purple glitter and a fabulous shimmer.

Emma Louise was designed by Emma for her 30th birthday.  Limited number produced (I got 161/300). With 5 dollars from each bottle going to the Cancer Council of New South Wales.

Now let's do the mash.  Let's do the Monster Mash.. collection.

Creature Crush 2 coats.  I didn't see that blatant baldspot until I was labelling and cropping.  Go team useless eyeballs! *books appointment with eye doc*

Black jelly base with lots of small silver glitter and bigger holo hexes.

Gargoyle Ganache 2 coats. I am posting 7 pictures of this and still don't feel like I've captured it properly.  It's sort of a gunmetal grey with a slight duochrome.  It is also full of many different coloured particles.. I have nothing else like it in my collection.

Oh how I love thee Liquid Leprechaun. 2 coats. Gorgeous.

I couldn't help myself, I had to throw CrowsToes Jingle Balls on top.  They were meant for each other.  A melding of holidays! *wipes away a single tear* may the pagans and the Christians rejoice.

Mummy Mush 2 coats.  LOVE.  ADORE.  If you like China Glaze Whitecap or SpaRitual Alchemy you will love this.  It is their pinky peachier shifting green to teal cousin.  Love.

Apparently I only took 2 decent pictures of it on its own.

This is 1 coat over Chanel June.  Love.

I tried it over black, but it didn't want to party that way.

Okay Poltergeist Puddle caused my camera to shit a sideways brick.  Here are a few pictures of what looks NOTHING like the actual polish.  It's really just like.. the best most purpleist purple with a bit of something else.. like someone spiked the purple shimmer punch.  Love it. 2 coats.

And then my camera had a seizure of purple joy. Enjoy the blur, just for you ladies *winks*

Viscous Vampire 2 coats and then 3 coats.  It was happier at 3 coats. I love this polish.  Red jelly squish  full of glittery goodness *dreamy sigh*

So let me take a minute to love the boxes these come in.

Name on top!

Super cute box art in HOLO BOX. Fits nicely in Helmer Fudd.

Peek-a-boo polish window! Also HOLO BOX??!

I pretty seriously love Pretty Serious.  You can buy them on their website.  Go do that now.

CrowsToes Christmas Collection 2012

Man, Lauri has outdone herself.  This collection is ridiculous!  RIDICULOUS.  Frigging gorgeous.

This is a limited edition collection that will be available in a around a week or 2.  I think that is perfect.  Holiday parties start popping up around November.  Who wouldn't want to have ridiculous blinged out nails?

Llarowe's exclusives will be:
A Christmas Crow
Her Goose Got Cooked
Jingle Balls

Overall Beauty's exclusives will be:
Bah F@#$%*g Humbug
Blue Christmas

Holly and Hellfire, Making Christmas and Maxxed Out will be available at both.

Lauri is keeping the Halloween Collection core! Huzzah! Mmm Frog's Breath..

On to the pictures!  I am not going to mess around with many words.  I started swatching at like noon and it is 6:20 now and I'm just getting to posting.  I did take a break to grab some groceries, but I live 2 blocks from the store.  Ah well, it was a labour of love!

If you frequent my blog you are used to 60 trillion pictures of the same shiz.  Apologies if this irritates you.. wait no wtf.  Don't look if you don't like it!  Alternately, email me and give me some recs for some new hand poses.  My hand vogue is getting stale :\

Pictures are taken in several different lights.  Outdoor lighting is overcast and pissing rain.  HOORAY!

A Christmas Crow - 1 coat over Essie Wicked which is why my cuticles are all stainy and bloody looking :\

Apparently I only got one decent (aside from stray glitter.. I see you there *glares) shot of the duo-crow-m in this polish which is absolutely stunning.

Bah F@#$%*g Humbug, 2 coats over OPI Just Spotted the Lizard

I lied, not all are 2 coats.  This is 1 coat.

I hate how sometimes my nails look uneven because of how I'm holding the bottle.  I just double checked and my nails are all the same dang length!

Blue Christmas, 2 coats over Kleancolor Metallic Aqua *grumbles at stupid stray glitter*

Her Goose Got Cooked, 2 coats over OPI Pros and Bronze

Holly and Hellfire, 2 coats over Kleancolor Metallic Red

You can better see the bigger pinky/red holo hex in this shot.

Jingle Balls, 2 coats over OPI Here Today Aragon Tomorrow Suede.  The stars were a bit shy in this one.  I did manage to grab a couple though!  I do see lots of stars in the bottle.  Luck of the draw I suppose ;)

Making Christmas, 1 super thin coat over ManGlaze Mayonnaise.  This polish will build up nicely as it is quite dense, but I purposefully took almost all off the brush to give the look of peppermint bark NOM!

Maxxed Out is probably my favourite, 2 coats over Barielle Gold Digger.  Can't afford to cover yourself in jewels?  You can afford to look like your nails were dipped in Scrooge's vault!

(this Scrooge)

*phew* I am in lurve with this collection.  These polishes were gifted to my from the lovely Lauri.  I haven't really given an opinion have I?  *cough* my opinion is that these are all gorgeous glitters.  I did not have issues with any of the formulas.  If she had not given them to me I would have possibly cut someone to get them *shifty eyes*, but thankfully she did! *puts half carved shiv back under loose brick*