What's this? New releases from one of my favorite brands? YAY!! This is the autumn collection from Superficially Colorful Lacquer. In case you haven't seen my other posts about these polishes, these are made by my lovely friend Jin, and her signature is gorgeous thermals, although she does have other types of polishes too.


First up we have A Summer's Wave Goodbye,  "An orange leaning red when cold, that transforms into a bright light yellow when hot. As fall comes nearer we’re waving goodbye to the hot summer that’s leaving." The picture above shows the natural finish, which is a satiny matte. All of Jin's thermals have this type of finish without top coat. The rest of the photos will show polishes with top coat. All the polishes are shown with two coats.




All Fall Down - "A little game of words. Brown to orange thermal polish with golden and green shimmer and white glitter in different sizes, inspired by the autumn leaves turning brown slowly and fall down." Loveeeeee the shimmer in this one! Spectacular.





 Buried Treasures - "A dark forest green that turns into medium – light green, with green and blue shimmer and white glitter in different sizes. Inspired by the summer and spring being buried in remote places far from the eyes during the autumn and winter seasons." I love green polishes, so you know I love this one!





Unbe-leaf-able - "Another little game of words. A dark black – brown that changes into pink, with red and pink shimmer and white glitter of different sizes. A very strange combination of colors. Unbe-leaf-able." The cold color on this is more of a burgundy than a brown, in my opinion. This one positively glow though. It is truly amazing.


These polishes will be release today (10/27/14) at 12 pm EDT, on Superficially Colorful's website. Get ready to go grab some of these beauties!

Hi guys! Today I have some swatches from a new indie brand to share with you. The brand is called Black Dahlia Lacquer, and they have just launched at the beginning of October. I'm going to show you their Halloween duo, and 4 polishes from their Fall collection.

First up, the Halloween duo!


Flor de Muerto: "blackened jelly with purple shimmer and glass fleck, loaded with violet and copper microglitter." I've shown two coats with top coat here. The first coat goes on very sheer, but the opacity builds easily with the second coat. This one dries semi-matte, so you will need to add top coat for shine.


Queen of the Night - "black prismatic polish." This is a fairly standard blackish holographic polish. Not the most unique, but the formula was good. Shown is two coats, no top coat. As with most "black" holo polishes, this is more of a dark gray than black. The holo is fairly subtle on this one, I've shown it under direct light in the photo. You won't be able to see any of the holo flair unless you have it in direct light or sunlight.

Now moving on to the Fall 2014 polishes...


Wild Cherry Blossoms - "pink-red holo." This one is pretty. In person it looks a bit more red than my photo shows. Its one of those polishes where you sit there staring at the bottle and your nails wondering "Is it red? Is it pink?" I personally went back and forth with myself and couldn't decide. It falls squarely between the two. This is two coats, no top coat. This one has a stronger holo flair than QotN does.


Japanese Painted Fern - "brown-tinged gray shimmer with purple glass fleck". I really loved this one! I'm a sucker for grays with shimmer. I've shown two coats with top coat. Top coat is necessary with this one to bring out the shimmer a bit more.


Blooming Wysteria - "light purple crelly with medium neon green hexes, light blue squares, larger aqua hexes, and smaller turquoise and periwinkle glitter." I would describe the base of this more as periwinkle than light purple, as it does lean a bit blue. And when I was looking at the polish I thought the green glitters were yellow. Formula was nice and easy to work with. I've shown two coats with a glitter smoothing top coat. As with most glitters it will look a bit lumpy unless you use a smoothing top coat.


Olaf's Snowflowers - "cream crelly packed with multidimensional holographic gold and silver glitter." This one was another of my favorites! I couldn't manage to get a good photo of the holo glitters, but trust me when I say this is much more beautiful in person. You can see the glitters sparking a bit in the bottle, and that's what it was like on the nail too. I've shown two coats with a glitter smoothing top coat. This is going to be gorgeous for winter or holiday parties.

So there you have it, Black Dahlia Lacquer! I think this company is going to be one to watch... all their formulas were really on point and easy to work with, which is super important to me. I mean who cares if a collection has pretty colors if they are a PITA to apply, right?

Black Dahlia Lacquer can be purchased from their website, as well as their . Most polishes are priced at $6/bottle, with a couple of the holos at $6.75 each.

Zoya Spencer - "a rich camel cream". This is a lovely light tan. It leans a bit yellow, but worked surprisingly well on my very pink skin.


Zoya Chanelle - "a toasted almond cream". I thought this color reminded me of milk chocolate. I never would have guess that I would like this color on my nails, but I really did!


Zoya Emilia - "a dark chocolate cream". This description is perfect, it definitely looked like dark chocolate. A really lovely polish for fall.


Zoya Madeline - "a muted rose cream". Again, a great color description. This polish is firmly in the mauve family, and I tend to have an aversion to mauves, but I almost liked this one. If you like mauve, you'll love this.


Zoya Aubrey - "a medium mauve cream". Another mauve that I may actually use! This one is one of my favorites from the collection, actually.


Zoya Marnie - "a deep warm plum cream". This is another one that is gorgeous for fall. A sort of muted burgundy color.

So, there you have it, the lovely Naturel Duex collection! These are great office-friendly polishes, and work well to carry us into the fall season.

Zoya polishes are available from Zoya.com and retail from $9-10/bottle.