Sea Lore Ariel, Aquata, and Andrina

I have a few polishes from Sea Lore to show you all today and I am really excited to share this maker with you! Jamie from Sea Lore makes some really, really awesome polish and she even sent a pretty ring in my package! You can check Sea Lore out on Facebook and browse the online store.

All the polishes in this collection are named after King Triton's daughters and I'm going to start with Ariel, a fitting mixture of red, purple, and green glitter in a base with teal shimmer. I layered two coats of Ariel over Zoya Zuza.

This is Aquata, a jelly polish with blue shimmer and iridescent flakies. I layered Aquata here over Essie Coat Azure. The effect this polish creates is gorgeous!

Andrina is the last of the three polishes that I was sent and it is right up my alley! It has a purple base with big purple glitter and purple shimmer in the base. I layered it over Zoya Lotus.

*Product(s) in this post were provided for my honest review.*

Polished Perfection Swatches

Are you all ready for some more pretty indies? Well, it's your lucky day because I have some! These beauties are from Courtney at Polished Perfection and let me tell you, they are perfection! The colors I have to show you are six new ones that are now available on her Etsy shop!

Up first we have two coats of S.O.L. layered over OPI Flower to Flower. I liked this combo a lot; it's so fun, girly, and blingy! S.O.L. has a really interesting glitter combo... It has bar, hex, round, and diamond shaped glitters that are all really reflective. The glitter was surprisingly easy to apply as well.

Here we have Gamera over SpaRitual Twisted Vine. Gamera has a very similar composition to Grapefruit Sorbet, which you'll see later on in this post. It's packed with shimmer and has a bunch of iridescent flakies in it. I love polishes like this; they are fantastic because you can layer them and create new looks with polish that you already have.

This sparkly red beauty is called Servo. I have it layered over Zoya Carey for this swatch and I am loving this combination! I couldn't figure out what to layer Servo over at first, but the gray jumped out at me as I was scanning my polishes and I knew it would be a winner. This was two easy coats.

Tide Pool... mmmm... this is a gorgeous mix of aqua and silver glitter, as well as some silver diamond and bar glitter. I layered two coats of Tide Pool over Essie Go Overboard. Go ahead and swoon, I know you want to!

Next we have Crow, an interesting mix of black and gold glitter. You're seeing two coats here over China Glaze Life Preserver. I couldn't for the life of me figure out what to layer Crow over, but I think it looks pretty neat over this orange.

Grapefruit Sorbet is a very pretty layering polish with lots of shimmer! I have it layered here over Zoya Jana (pinky and middle) and Petra (ring and index) to show you what it looks like over both a light and dark shade. Grapefruit Sorbet also has iridescent flakes mixed it with the shimmer, giving it a really neat finish.

*Product(s) in this post were provided for my honest review.*

Zoya Maisie Matte

I don't know how it is that I always forget I have a matte topcoat, but I barely ever use it. It's really unfortunate too because gorgeous stuff like this happens with it! This is two coats of Dr.'s Remedy NOBLE Navy with one coat of Zoya Maisie and Essie Matte About You. The flakies in Maisie look green like this most of the time, but in certain lighting situations, they turn to a gorgeous shade of aqua that was really hard to capture. 

Zoya Charla & Essie Shine of the Times

Confession: this is my first flakie polish. I know, I'm a little late to jump on that bandwagon, but this is the first one that has been easily accessible to me! It was definitely worth the wait though. Let's get right to the pics, shall we? The first photo is three coats of Zoya Charla with one coat of Essie Shine of the Times and one coat of Seche Vite. To compare it to mermaid scales would be an understatement.

I haven't matted anything in a while, so I decided to throw a matte topcoat on after a day or so. The result was amazing. I seriously need to start using my matte topcoat more often. Behold:

Shine of the Times is part of the Essie Luxeffects collection out now. I've heard that they've been spotted in a few drugstores around the US, but I got mine from eBay for $6.70. Can't beat that! :) I have a couple more polishes that I'm itching to try out under Shine of the Times, so I'll try to get those up quickly!