Fresh Off The Boat - Enchanted Polish All Love Garden

Enchanted Polish - All Love Garden

Enchanted Polish All Love Garden is an exclusive shade only available on Mei Mei's Signature. All Love Garden is a dark olive green holo. This is two coats topped with HK Girl topcoat.

Enchanted Polish Comparison: Up In Smoke vs. Majestic

Hello! I have been MIA for a long time because I have been busy with my own indie brand. I also got a bit bored with blogging to be honest.

However after some thought, and seeing some of my old swatch pics pinned by others on Pinterest, I am inspired to 'blog' again. This time though, I am going to do things a little differently. I never really enjoy writing up the blog post, so from now on, I will only post swatch photos with minimal description.  I hope you will all still enjoy my photos!

Since I haven't posted for a long while, I am going to bring out the big gun for my returning post. Here is a mani done with Enchanted Polish Up In Smoke and Majestic, can you tell which is which?

Enchanted Polish Majestic and Up In Smoke

For those of you who are EP 'connoisseurs', I am sure you can tell I have Up In Smoke on my ring finger, and Majestic on the rest. Although very similar, UIS is slightly darker with a stronger purple tone, a bit more holo, and does not have the pink/purple microshimmers that Majestic has. If I could only have one, I'd have to pick UIS.

Which one is your favorite?

Enchanted Polish Purple Roses

Enchanted Polish Purple Roses - two coats with top coat

Enchanted Polish Purple Roses is a special polish dedicated to cystic fibrosis awareness and a beautiful friend of Chelsea. A lilac silvery foil under dim light, Purple Roses really shows its true color under bright light! It is simply stunning!

Enchanted Polish Love The Way You Lilac

Enchanted Polish Love The Way You Lilac, two coats with top coat

Enchanted Polish Love The Way You Lilac (LTWYL), yet another gorgeous holo from Chelsea. Seriously just take my bank account already, because every single Enchanted Polish is simply to die for!

Enchanted Polish Love The Way You Lilac

Love The Way You Lilac, a soft lilac linear holo, is just breathtaking. Formula is perfect too, two easy coats where the application is a breeze. I am waiting for more Enchanted to arrive, and I can't wait to show you what I've got! I think it's safe to say that Enchanted is now my favorite indie brand!

Enchanted Polish Love The Way You Lilac

Enchanted Polish Tenderheart over Zoya Miley

Enchanted Polish Tenderheart, one coat over Zoya Miley, two coats

Hello my lovely readers! Today I have another Enchanted Polish for you. Tenderheart, from the Love A Lot Glitter Collection, is a clear base polish packed with shining red hearts, holographic silver diamonds, tiny red hexes and  tiny iridescent silver glitters. This sparkly glitter combination would add a sweet touch to any mani!

The formula of Tenderheart is a little bit on the thick side, and I need to dab and place the hearts onto my nails, but it is still easy enough to work with. On another note, Zoya Miley serves as a perfect undie for many glitter toppers, it is just so versatile and compliments the glitters so well!

Enchanted Polish: Dance of the Sugar Plum and Bruised Nutcracker

Today I bring you two polishes from the Enchanted Polish Ho Ho Holiday collection: Dance of the Sugar Plum and Bruised Nutcracker.

Enchanted Polish Dance of the Sugar Plum - two coats with no top coat

Dance of the Sugar Plum, a dark plum purple linear holo that applies like butter. In fact both polishes could almost be a one coater, awesome! The holo is so strong that you can still see traces of rainbow in dim light, how amazing is that?

Enchanted Polish Bruised Nutcracker - two coats with no top coat

There is always a place for a good blue holo, and Bruised Nutcracker is definitely one of the best out there. A smokey, dark blue linear holo, Bruised Nutcracker reminds me a lot of the much coveted OPI DS Glamour!

Which polish do you like me? I simply love them both! Chelsea certainly knows how to make a good holo!

Girly Bits Heirloom, and a comparison to Lynnderella and Enchanted Polish

Happy 2013 my dear readers! Today I have a special post for you, I hope you will enjoy it!

Girly Bits Heirloom - one coat over OPI I Brake For Manicure - topped with SV topcoat

Girly Bits Heirloom from the Season of Sparkle Collection. A clear base polish with dusty pink, purple and silver glitters, or as Pam the creator describes it, 'all the vintage shades of a Victorian era holiday'. The glitters are so dense you only need one coat to achieve a very blingy look! The glitters are also extremely sparkly, so girls you better put your sunglasses on! I got quite a few compliments from wearing Heirloom, it is just oh so gorgeous!

I thought I might have some similar glitter toppers in my stash, so I pull them out and did a quick comparison.

L-R: Enchanted Polish Witchful Thinking, Lynnderella Common Sense, Girly Bits Heirloom

L-R: Enchanted Polish Witchful Thinking, Lynnderella Common Sense, Girly Bits Heirloom, all one coat only

L-R: Girly Bits Heirloom, Lynnderella Common Sense, Enchanted Polish Witchful Thinking, all one coat over black 

First of all, I am happy to report that there is no dupe. Although Heirloom and Witchful Thinking appear quite similar at first glance, Heirloom has silver glitters whilst the latter has gold/brownish glitters and micro holo glitters. Common Sense is more of a pink glitter than the other two, and is the densest of the three. Which one is my favorite you ask? I'm sorry but I'd have to give you a cliche answer and say I love them all! :)

Epic Swatch Spam! *photo heavy*

Sorry I have been MIA for awhile! I have been slacking off a bit, so today I am going to spam you with all my mani swatches while I was away! I hope you will enjoy this massive post! (some of these photos have already been posted on my Instagram account, you can follow me there @cacanails :D)

Hits Suspiro over Essie Smooth Sailing - a periwinkle jelly base with blue, pink, purple and silver glitters

Sonama Nail Art Custom Polish - three coats. A beige pink milky base with silver, pink and green square and hex glitters 

Innisfree #105 over Zoya Neeka - #105 is a clear base polish with matte white hex/bar/square glitters, along with rose gold and copper hex glitters

Innisfree #111 over OPI I Don't Give A Rottendam. #111 is a clear base polish with matte black and white bar/square/hex glitters, sprinkled with the random pink hex glitters.

Rescue Beauty Lounge Scrangie - I might be crucified by the polish world for saying this, but I don't particularly love this much coveted polish. Yes, the shimmer is pretty, but there is something about the shade that just doesn't look right to me

Girly Bits Visions of Sugar Plum over Zoya Tru. The undie choice is a fail, I tried to find something that is similar to the base color of VoSP, but it turns out Tru is much darker. Nevertheless, VoSP is a lovely jelly berry packed with pink, silver, orange and blue glitters 

Enchanted Polish Awesomeness with OPI Lucerne-tainly Look Marvelous as French tips. Awesomeness is a metallic purple holo. I apologize for the poor quality of the swatch, I just cannot capture the true awesomeness (pardon the intended pun) of this polish and holo to save my life! 

Last but certainly not least, we have Enchanted Polish Witchful Thinking. A clear base polish packed with dusty rose glitters and micro holographic glitters, Witchful Thinking is definitely as enchanting as it could be! Here it is layered over Zoya Pinta

The "Exclusive" post! OPI DS Exclusive and the search of dupes

OPI DS Exclusive - two coats with top coat

Finally I was able to get my hands on this elusive lemming, OPI DS Exclusive. Like many of its holo siblings, this DS has been long discontinued, but I'm lucky enough to get it via a swap, thank you MJ!

DS Exclusive is a berry/magenta linear holo. Formula is perfect with two easy coats, and the prismatic effect is just blinding! To quote Rachel Zoe, I die!

You would think with so many holo polishes out there, there must be some close dupes of DS Exclusive, so I went through my modest stash and pull out a few holos in the same color family, and here they are, from thumb to pinky: Enchanted Sugar Spree, BSJ #02, Hits Atena, OPI DS Exclusive, and Catherine Arley #677.

Possible dupes of OPI DS Exclusive? I don't think so!

I am happy and sad to report that there are no dupes! DS Exclusive is a shade or two darker than the rest, with a strong purple undertone. BSJ might be the closest to the DS, but it has a red undertone. Enchanted, Hits and CA are all red holos with pink undertone.

It is interesting to note that BSJ #02 has the strongest linear holo effect out of all polishes, followed by DS Exclusive. Hits Atena and Enchanted Sugar Spree are very close dupes in terms of color and prismatic effect, with Catherine Arley being the weakest holo.

So there you have it, the search for DS Exclusive dupe continues. Do you know of any close dupe of this coveted polish? Which magenta holo do you like the most?

Are You Enchanted By Spinkled?

Enchanted Polish Spinkled - two coats with SV top coat

Spinkled by Enchanted Polish is a bright bubble gum pink sprinkled (pardon the pun) with irregular matte black glitters, coupled with micro holographic shimmer. It is such a unique and fun polish, I feel this would be the perfect polish to wear if I was going to a carnival! Spinkled goes on perfectly with two easy coats, and to give it a completely smooth and glossy finish, I finish the look with a coat of Seche Vite.

Spinkled was gifted to me and some other girls as a special gift from Chelsea herself; but don't sweat, Spinkled will be released to the public sometime next year! So keep up with the latest Enchanted Polish news via Facebook, and you can also purchase Enchanted Polish via Llarowe, Harlow or Mei Mei's Signature.

Enchanted Polish - Sugar Spree

Enchanted Polish Sugar Spree - two coats with top coat

Every so often, you come across a polish that is truly mesmerizing, and that is exactly how I feel after I tried on Enchanted Polish Sugar Spree. A berry/magenta scattered holo, I am absolutely captivated by its strong blue undertone and the red shimmers. Too often a holo polish can look dull and boring under dim light, but not Sugar Spree! Sugar Spree is like a magenta holo version of China Glaze Ruby Pumps, as the red shimmers come out and play under dim light. Under bright light though, the prismatic effect shines and sparkles, so you will never get tired of adoring your nails regardless of the light setting!

A crappy iPhone photo taken under dim light to show you the red shimmers!

Thank you Chelsea for creating such an awesome polish! I feel honored to own Sugar Spree! If you are interested in purchasing Enchanted Polish, you may check out Chelsea's Etsy shop or her stocklist, Llarowe.