Cult Nails - The Secret Collection

Man, Cult Nails is shutting down. That sucks. They have a bunch of stuff on for 60% off right now if you want to grab a few things before they are completely cleared out. It's too bad. They brought us so many really cool polishes. I wish I would have grabbed a bottle of Toxic Seaweed when it first came out.

Flash, 3 coats no topcoat.

Dazed, 2 coats no topcoat.

Lime Light, 2 coats no topcoat. I need to reswatch this. It looked fine on my hand but bullocks here obviously. Nice work, self.

Cult Nails - Midnight Masquerade Collection

Space Cadet is one of my all time favourite polishes. Top 5. Maybe #1. My mother braved the bay of all evil to get it for me when I one day announced on facebook that I would die one thousand deaths if I did not own it. Love. When I saw the email for this collection and looked at the bottle shot for Masquerade I new I needed it. It seemed very similar to Orly Space Cadet. As you will see below, they are not so similar after all.

First up is Ms. Conduct. I love this name. This is a lovely, potentially 1 coat, dark taupe creme. It's sort of a greyed browny purple on me. It is a bit thick which can make clean up a PITA. I would say do it right away or wait for it to dry or it is going to pull on you and fuck up.

This is 2 coats no top coat.

Next up is the reason I actually bought this collection. I mean, I really wanted Masquerade, but this one was something like nothing I have in my collection. Midnight Mist is an army kinda olive green with strong copper pink shimmer. The shimmer in this hides in the shade, but comes out in indoor lighting. I would have taken her out into the sun, but I live in Vancouver.. WHOMP FUCKING WHOMP. The formula on this one was nice. Thin, but not terribly thin.

This is 2 coats with no top coat.

Indoors

 Outdoors

 Indoors

Last up is a comp of Orly Space Cadet and Masquerade.

 This is 3 coats of each. I did take pictures coat by coat but they were too janky to post. They both have a green thing going on, but Masquerade is much more teal green and darker. The shimmer is also a bit more sparse and isn't as duochrome as Space Cadet. It isn't as shifty, though as you can see below the pink shimmer in both does have a green shift.

Space Cadet is on the pinky and middle fingers.

Thanks for looking. Sorry for sucking lately. I still need to reswatch the 2nd half of the CrowsToes Halloween collection. I have the pictures, but I think they suck. If I get desperate I might post them. I haven't much been interested in swatching lately. I think I lost my mojo, baby.

Cult Nails - Super Powers Collection

I'm pretty pleased with this collection. All swatches are taken outdoors in crappy sun-free Raincouver overcastyness.

Power Thief - 3 coats no topcoat. The formula on this one was a bit meh. It was that strange inbetween of thin and thick which ended up pooling at my tips. Use thin coats.

Power Thief - 3 coats no topcoat. Fabulous blackened jelly with purple/green duochrome miniflakes. The glitter flakey bits in here are a bit sparse but beautiful. They lean purple most of the time, but they do flash green. I was pleasantly surprised with this polish. No formula complaints.

Time Traveller - 2 coats no topcoat. This shiz is thick. It needs to be thinned straight off the bat. I've heard people describe it as a jelly.. but I do not consider it a jelly. MAYBE I would say it is a blue creme with some jelly tendencies. It is not a jelly imo. Also..

SMURF ALERT!

I was warned that this one was stainy so I was very careful. Even being ultra careful it stained my cuticles on cleanup. Cleaning it was essentially just like smearing the stain around. It stains quickly. I had to bleach my nails with tooth whitener and spend some quality time with pure acetone after swatching this one. I still have slightly stained cuticles :|

That being said, it is gorgeous. See for yourself!

Clairvoyant - Ah yes the Unicorn Puke. This is the reason I ordered this set. This is 2 coats over Time Traveller no topcoat. They were made to dance together.

You can buy Cult Nails here. Unfortunately, Clairvoyant is out of stock right now. Fortunately, it looks an awful lot like Picture Polish Festival (although Festival has a clear base) which is in stock as far as I can tell. Just judging by that one small swatch though. I have not gotten my hands on this Picture Polish as I lost their naming contest for it :\ I like the girl who won though so it's all good ;)