Wheel U7: Glitters from Lynnderella and Others

I was determined to do better with Nail Wheel Wednesday in March, a resolve which lasted one week until I skipped posting. Work is just so busy—but only for another three months or so, as I have decided to retire at the end of June, joining Mr. Karen in a life of leisure and home improvement and stuff (he's wrapping up at his job at the end of this month).

Today I have more glitters from Lynnderella plus some other indie brands and a mainstream but not readily available to me line to round things out.



(coats as noted below plus topcoat)

1. Lynnderella Snow Angel (3 coats)
2. Lynnderella All Hallow's Eve (3)
3. Lynnderella Bibbitty Bobbity Boo Blue (3)
4. Lynnderella Mercurial [older version] (3)
5. Lynnderella Mercurial [newer version] (3)
6. Lynnderella Mercury's Rainbow (2)
7. Lynnderella Connect the Dots (3)
8. Lynnderella Love, Lace, and Lilacs (3)
9. Lynnderella Shape Shifter (3)
10. Lynnderella Change (3)
11. Nerd Lacquer Crunchy Frog (3)
12. Nerd Lacquer It's Just a Flesh Wound (3)
13. Nerd Lacquer Pinin' for the Fjords (3)
14. Twee & Honey 006 (3)
15. Twee & Honey Magpie (3)
16. Twee & Honey 016 (2)
17. Twee & Honey First World Purple (2)
18. Cult Nails Happy Ending (3)
19. Essence Nail Art Special Effect Topper Copper'ize Me (3)
20. Essence Nail Art Special Effect Topper Glorius Aquarius (3)


Bottles 1 through 5:



6 through 10:



11 through 13 (but not in that order; I don't know why):



14 through 17:



18 through 20:

















Destash notes: Same comments apply to these Lynns as to the ones two weeks ago. The Nerd Lacquers will quite possibly be with me on my deathbed, at least Pinin' for the Fjords, which is my favorite on this whole wheel. Twee & Honey is a brand I lost track of; I need to look it up again, as I very much like their bold take on black and white glitter and of course the purple on purple. Hmm, this is sounding more like "stash notes", not destash. I guess I could give up a couple of these T&H to get new ones—which isn't exactly destashing, either. Maybe when I'm retired I'll get better at giving up polish. Not sure how that will work, but I've never been retired before, so who knows what surprises are ahead of me.

NerdLacquer It's Just a Flesh Wound

Today I've got the last of Monty Python trio from NerdLacquer. It's Just a Flesh Wound has "...a fierce black base with small and medium black, red, and copper hexagonal glitter, plus black and charcoal microglitter and big silver hex glitter. This color always triumphs, and will still look fearsome even if a passing king lops one of your arms off. Looks amazing as a top coat over black or red. Also might challenge the other polishes in your collection to a duel; best to store it separately." Yep, that said black glitter, and I'm completely fine with it.



These swatches are three coats plus topcoat.







I want to try this over silver as well as the red and black mentioned in the description from NerdLacquer. Maybe over a charcoal shimmer, too.

NerdLacquer Pinin' for the Fjords

Here's the second in the trio of Monty Python polishes I bought from NerdLacquer, Pinin' for the Fjords. Again, I quote the shop description; this is a "...sparkling Norwegian blue with lavender and silver glitter, small and medium sky blue hexagonal glitter, charcoal micro glitter, and large silver hex glitter. Beautiful plumage, though not much of a conversationalist. You might have to nail this shade to your fingers to keep it on." Hee—these sorts of descriptions tell me she's not just picking names out of a hat for these.



I swatched three coats plus top coat.







I didn't get a chance to play with layering this one. I'm thinking it'll look good over silver and blue and probably lilac, too.

NerdLacquer Crunchy Frog

Looking at the swatches in my backlog to decide what to post for today, I saw a lot of my favorite thing, glitter, so decided since I'd already started with the Milani yesterday, this will be glitter week. Those of you of a creme and shimmer persuasion may want to take a break until next week.

I don't remember where I first heard aboug NerdLacquer. I do know that what turned me into a customer was finding out that she'd created a trio of custom-blended polishes inspired by Monty Python. I watched that show with my mom when I was an impressionable youth and later with my husband—we still quote lines from the show to each other from time to time. I just couldn't resist getting polishes with names like the one I have to share today, Crunchy Frog.

The NerdLacquer stores describes this as a "...revoltingly gorgeous milk chocolate shimmer base with emerald glitter, small and medium grass green hexagonal glitter, olive microglitter, and you might also notice some large chunks of silvery white. The bones, obviously. If we took the bones out it wouldn’t be crunchy, would it?" The bones—I love it!



I used three coats of Crunchy Frog plus topcoat for these swatches.







I couldn't resist seeing how this would look layered, so pulled some greens and a brown to try it with. Left to right below, it's Crunchy Frog, OPI Who the Shrek Are You, Zoya Shawn, and Essie Lady Godiva.





Above, top to bottom: three coats of Who the Shrek Are You plus one of Crunchy Frog, two coats of Shawn plus one of Crunchy Frog, three coats of Crunchy Frog by itself, and two coats of Lady Godiva plus one of Crunchy Frog. I think Shrek might be a bit too light and bright to make a nice base for this; I liked it better over Shawn and Lady Godiva, with Shawn being my favorite (most frog-like, I suppose).



Above, close up of Shawn plus Crunchy Frog in the foreground, with Shrek plus Frog twinkling in the background.

I'll have the other two polishes in the Python trio later this week, and based on how much I like them, I expect more NerdLacquer will join my stash soon.