Warm Hues from Bee's Knees

Back in August, I shared some water marbles I did with shades from Bee's Knees Lacquer Acotar Agaaaiiiiin collection. Today I've got some swatches of the warm tones from there plus a bonus polish that didn't make it into the water marble post. First up, a quartet of compatible shimmers: A Dreamer Born Into the Court of Nightmares (light yellow), When I Kill I Do It Slow (yellow orange), Illyrian Baby (light orange; this is the one that didn't make the marble post), and Truth Is Your Curse (red orange).

 

I used three coats of each for a juicy Skittles look. There's a tiny bit of nail line peeking through with some of the shade at certain angles, but I thought that was fine.

 

 

 

I then used these same shades for a funky French, first putting down a skintone creme base then adding black creme tips before slicking on the shimmers. The black tips let the shift and flash show up more. For some reason, I did them in a slightly different order, so below from top to bottom it's A Dreamer Born Into the Court of Nightmares, Illyrian Baby, When I Kill I Do It Slow, and Truth Is Your Curse.

 

 

 

Then it was time for Only You Can Decide What Breaks You to take a turn. This is a dusty rose shimmer with a gold/green shift.

 

Before I swatched this one, I added some base colors. I left my index finger bare. On my middle, it was Essie Talk Sweet to Me. On my ring, Girly Bits Don't Paddle Break a Nail. My pinky got black.

 

Then I added Only You Can Decide What Breaks You to give me an ombre look: three coats on my index finger, then two coats over each of the creme base colors. All my digits got clear topcoat.

 

The shift in Only You Can Decide What Breaks You really showed on all my nails, though of course the black brought it out the most.

 

 

In direct light, all the nails looked nice, but the nail with the black base was fascinating.

 

And look what happened in filtered sunlight—so beautiful:

 

I have to make a concious effort to avoid the Bee's Knees website sometimes, as I just know there are so many tempting things there. They do a really good job with shifty shimmers like these, and magnetics too, and I need to play with the ones I've got already before I buy a ton more. I successfully avoided the September launch but am not sure I'll be able to do the same with October. We shall see.