Rainbow Honey 2012 Holiday Collection

Rainbow Honey, one of my favorite indie polish makers, came out with a holiday collection a while ago and I was lucky enough to get to review them. There are four shades that are meant to capture the brilliance of the season.

Annual Emotion is a metallic silver made with "aluminum coated flakes" and a light holographic sparkle. Gorgeous and very festive. A little thick but I expected that with such an uber metallic. This is two coats.

Gilded Angel is the same type of polish as Annual Emotion but in gold. You can pick up the holo a bit more in this as it's a silver color so it stands out. It was the best formula in the bunch, applied very easily. Two coats.

Spirit of Wonder is a while cream base with glitter bits in two shades of blue. There is also a subtle blue shimmer and larger holo hex glitters, but honestly those elements get lost in the thickness of the white base, you can't even tell they're there. In the end the polish looked too chunky and it made it hard to apply. Two coats plus topcoat.

Glittering Rapture is one I've shown you before, in my holiday mani post. This time I layered it over Spirit of Wonder, which ended up looking like I just layered it over a white. It brings out the awesome gold flakes and is a nice contrast to the multi-shaped deep red glitters. This is a bit on the thick side so take care. Two coats.

You can purchase Rainbow Honey lacquers at www.rainbowhoney.com for $10 for a full size bottle or $5 for a mini. Right now shipping is free with orders of $25 or more. Have you picked any of these up?

Products provided for review.

My 2012 Holiday Manicure

I hope all of you have enjoyed your winter holidays! Here's a peek at my holiday manicure. If you follow my Instagram account you might've seen this already. I used Chanel Diwali for the base color. Diwali is a gorgeous metallic pale gold shimmer. The glitter is Rainbow Honey Glittering Rapture, a blend of red and golds and shimmers in a clear base.

You can buy Chanel lacquers at your local beauty counter or online at www.chanel.com for $30, although I got to try mine from the new rental service Lacquerous.com. (I will most likely be doing a post regarding my experience with them soon in case you are interested.) You can purchase Rainbow Honey lacquers at www.rainbowhoney.com for $10 for a full size bottle or $5 for a mini. What did you wear on your nails for the holidays this year? Are you planning on a fancy mani for New Year's?

Some of these products were provided for review.

Dancing Queen with A Little Kindness

I'm doing a lot with glitter lately. Not sure, I'm usually such a creme or shimmer person but for the past while I've been huge on glitter. Not like it's a trend or anything. One of my favorite layering combos that I've done recently has to be this one, BB Couture Dancing Queen with Rainbow Honey A Little Kindness.

Dancing Queen, from BB's Disco Fever Collection is a GORGEOUS rose coppery metallic that is quite possibly my perfect rose metal polish (which I've been searching for for a while). It paired perfectly with A Little Kindness, from Rainbow Honey's Equestria collection (an homage to My Little Pony: Friendship is Magic). This is my preferred glitter from that collection, it pairs a sheer yellow base and pink iridescent shimmer with gold and pink glitter pieces of varying shapes and sizes. Named for Fluttershy, my second favorite MLP. Gold and pink has to be my most loved color combo.

I love Rainbow Honey's branding and packaging for the most part, although I wish this label was straight. It brings out my OCD something fierce :/ I will be showing the other glitters from the Equestria collection soon, I bought most of them haha. Are you a MLP fan? I am SO Twilight Sparkle it's not even funny.

This manicure was seriously one I had a hard time changing, it was so freaking beautiful. It's hard to convey what a gorgeous spectacle it is in photos as the shimmer/bling factor is so high the sun mostly washed it out. Take my word for it, it's amazing and something you should try immediately if not sooner :)

You can get BB Couture polish from their website www.bbnailpolish.com for $9.95-$10.95 each and Rainbow Honey polish from http://www.rainbowhoney.com for $10 each. They sell mini's but I don't recommend them as the brush is so short it's awkward/difficult to polish well with them. What do you say? Like this mani as much as me?