Mom, Mrs., & Me: St. Patrick's Day Trio

Monday, March 7, 2016

Gothic Gala Lacquers "St. Patrick's Day Trio"

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This image was a lot funnier when I was younger and my friends and I enjoyed the Irish spirits in excess. Now, I don't even remember the last time I was imbibed on alcohol on St. Patrick's Day... I've been lucky if I have time to make Shepherd's Pie.

Anywho, sticking with the holiday trend, I've got a beautiful St. Patrick's Day trio to show you today from Gothic Gala Lacquers!!

The first in this lovely trio is called, "Neart Istigh" - Gaelic for "Inner Strength:"

Neart Istigh is a beautiful gold shimmer polish with the slightest hint of scattered holo. Dried in under 5 minutes and shown in 2 coats in the photos above.

Next is "Is Brea" - Gaelic for "Love:"

Is Brea is a stunning deep green with a gold scattered holographic effect. Opaque in 2 coats, as shown in the photos above. My accent nail is stamped with a design from my Messy Mansion St. Pat's plate using Neart Istigh for the polish, all topped with Smooth Me Over Matte (also by Gothic Gala Lacquers).

The final beauty in this trio is "Aisling" - Gaelic for "Dream:"

Aisling is a lovely light cream color (reminiscent of the head of Guinness beer when poured into a glass) with a lovely coppery shimmer throughout. Opaque in 2-3 coats, depending on how thick you apply - I am wearing 3 thin coats in the photos above. I also wore this mani for almost a week, because I loved it so much!! The accent nail was done using vinyls from What's Up Nails and Is Brea for the polish - the two look so fantastic together :D

You can get this absolutely perfect St. Patrick's Day trio today, March 7th at 11am PST! Pro-tip: using my code MOMMRSANDME25 will not only get you 25% off, it will also make you 25% cooler.

Here's where you can purchase the trio, and where you can follow the brand:

What do you think of this trio? Let me know in the comments!! <3

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Polish was sent to me by the maker for photography purposes and an honest review. All opinions and experiences with the polish are my own and remain 100% honest with full disclosure.

Friday, February 26, 2016

Faeries & Folklore's St. Patrick's Day Trio

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This morning, I have a super fun St. Patrick's Day Trio to show you by Faeries & Folklore:

Let's jump right in and start with "Somewhere Over the Rainbow:"

There's always one little f*cker in glitter placement that doesn't go where it should go.

Two things here right away: first, tell me this doesn't remind you of Fruity Pebbles?? Almost immediately after applying it to my nails I thought, "OMG! It's like Fruity Pebbles!!" and made me a little sad that it did not smell like them. Second thing: glitter placement. Holy shite, that took me too long. But I gotta say, I super love my UberChic mat specifically for these things, because it was soooo much easier to get the individual colors off that thing, and then clean up the rainbow puke mess I made. Love it!

Now as for the polish, how super fun is this?! When Somewhere Over the Rainbow first came to me, I had no idea what it was, because if you look at it in the bottle, it looks just like a murky glitter mix. But as soon as you pull it out and you see the fun colorbomb that it is, sooooo many possibilities spring forth :D This one is so freakin' fun, especially for this holiday, I just can't recommend it enough! In order to keep the glitter suspended, it is in a thicker base so keep that in mind, and some of the larger glitters needed a little more encouragement to spread out evenly, but everything played nicely together. Two coats of topcoat smoothed it out to perfection :) I do recommend wearing this topper over something light colored and simple - if worn over something dark or busy, you'll loose the effect and it will look...funky. Though I would love to see what this would look like over a light gray/white/silver holo...

Next up: "Patty:"

Patty is another super fun glitter topper, of which I did another glitter placement design, not as impressive as the last but still cute :P This topper applied really well, very smoothly, too. It is packed with light green, dark green, and gold holo hex shapes as well as some gold dusting and gold squares. It's really eye catching in the sunlight as well! I am wearing one coat in the photos above over a light mint green polish. One coat of topcoat smoothed everything out and really made the holo and sparkle shine :)

And lastly we have "Rolled in Gold:"

My fingers look EXPENSIVE, y'all! Hot damn! This was such a unique polish - I can honestly say I personally haven't really seen anything like it in the indie industry yet. It's really quite stunning! Rolled in gold is a beautiful micro glitter polish consisting purely of gold holographic glitter. Now the first thing that comes to my mind when I hear "holographic" is "RAINBOW ALL THE THINGS!" and there is clearly no rainbow in this polish. That is because "holographic" comes from the word "hologram" which is a three-dimensional image, and this polish definitely looks 3D in person. Smooth application- Rolled in Gold would be opaque in 3 thin coats but I applied this one in thicker coats and felt that adding a third to this would have been way too goopy. Also I left the rainbow accent nail because I used Rolled in Gold for the gold. Because of course.

This gorgeous trio will be available tonight at 6pm CST, so set your alarms!! Here's where you can find the polish and where you can follow the brand: