Nine Zero Lacquer Holiday 2016 Collection Swatches & Review

I'm back again today with another holiday collection for you, this time from indie brand Nine Zero Lacquer! In case you don't know, this brand was created a little over a year ago by Jessface90, a long time YouTuber. She makes videos about, you guessed it, nail polish! I love that her brand is so creative and has excellent formulas, because this gal really knows her stuff when it comes to the polish game. Let's take a look at what she has cooked up for the 2016 holiday season!

Press Sample

Sugar Cookie is a white crelly with red and green metallic shredded glitter and gold holographic glitter. This is super densely packed with those glitter pieces, but that doesn't make it difficult to apply which is nice. I got great coverage in just two coats. Some of the flakie bits can stick up a bit so you'll want a thick top coat.

Pink Christmas is a full coverage pink microflake polish with a gold flash and added holographic effect. I didn't realize this was made up of the microflakes at first, I thought it might just be a metallic shimmery holo, but they're there all right! Excellent formula, opaque in two coats. Super shiny!

Balsam is a light pine green holographic with tiny gold flakes. Gorgeous green polish, and I can always use more of those! Nice strong holo flame too. This is two effortless coats.

Golden Lights has a gold holographic base filled with semi-transparent rainbow glitter hexes. This is a gold version of Twinkle Lights from their 2015 holiday collection. (Which is also still available on their website, fyi!) I used three coats here. You could also layer it over an opaque base color for a different look.

Frost has a vibrant teal jelly base filled with silver holographic microflakes. Lovely shade, and we all know I am head over heels with holo flakes these days! Great formula, a tad sheer but builds up in three coats. Dries a bit dull so I suggest a shiny top coat.

Midnight has a deep purple jelly base full to the brim with silver holographic microglitter. This one was just a tad runny, so make sure not to overload your brush. I used two thick coats but you could also do three thinner layers. Another one that has a glitter texture so you'll want a thick top coat for a smooth finish.

Stuffed (crelly) is a reboot of Stuffed from the 2015 Thanksgiving collection. Not part of the Holiday collection, but I had to show it off. It has an off white crelly base filled with gold holographic microglitter, and red, orange, garnet, copper, and brown glitters. Packed with glitter and a touch thick, but pretty easy to apply. Two coats here. I recommend a thick top coat for this one because it dries a little textured from the glitter.

This collection along with Stuffed is available now on the Nine Zero Lacquer website. They are $9-$11 each. All six shades from the Holiday collection can be purchased together for $58. There are also a few polishes available from last year's holiday collection up for sale too. I'm a huge Nine Zero fan and I can't say enough good things about them, but this collection kinda knocked my socks off! Let me know what you think about these!

❤ Kellie

The products mentioned were provided for an honest review.

Nine Zero Lacquer ROY G BIV Collection Swatches & Review

Hey party people! I have a new rainbow themed collection to show you today from indie brand Nine Zero Lacquer! The ROY G BIV collection features seven linear holographic shades in rainbow colors and three rainbow-y glitters. Let's take a look!

Press Sample

Refraction is a warm red linear holographic. This applies amazingly and is opaque in one coat, but I've done two here.

Frequency is a bright orange linear holographic. Another one coater, but I used two.

Dispersion is a sunny yellow linear holographic. Great formula again! I used two layers to cover my nail line completely.

Spectrum is a light green linear holographic. Another great formula, two coats here.

Wavelength is a sapphire blue linear holographic. I felt like this one was a little thicker than the other shades, but not difficult to apply. It almost covers in one coat, but I did need two to cover my nail line fully.

Reflect is a rich indigo linear holographic. This shade covered my nail completely in one, but I used two layers here like usual.

Chromatic is a cool-toned violet linear holographic. Full opacity on two coats with this gal.

Kaleidoscope is a translucent rainbow glitter topper. The nature of the glitter type will make them look very dark in the bottle, but they pop over a white or lighter color. This is super mega jam packed with glitter, so I found it to be really thick. This is two coats over a white crème. I love the effect it gives, it reminds me of old 3-D glasses with the colored lenses! The next time I wear it I will probably thin out the base a little.

Prism is a silver holographic microglitter with rainbow holographic microglitter mixed throughout. This one was also on the thick side, but not difficult or unusual for a microglitter like this. It has great glitter density, full coverage is achieved in just two coats.

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Double Rainbow is an opaque white crelly polish with matte rainbow microglitter in a few different sizes. This is pretty thick and a little chunky with the extreme amount of glitter, but it's surprisingly easy to apply which is really nice. This is right on the border of being a one coater for me, I did two like usual and found it to be a little thicker on my nail than I'd like, especially with a thick top coat to smooth the glitter, so in the future I'll do one coat. Or you could even layer it over an opaque white crème for maximum coverage.

This collection is available for pre-order now through 4/7 at 11:59pm EST. After pre-orders have been sent out, they will be available on the Nine Zero website for regular purchase. The holographic polishes are priced at $11 individually, Kaleidoscope and Double Rainbow are $9, and Prism is $10. The full set is $100, saving a few bucks if you order them all together. This isn't a limited edition collection so if you aren't able to purchase right away, they should be available for a while.

❤ Kellie

The products mentioned were provided for an honest review.

Pretty & Polished Mathematical! Collection

I have a confession to make. I still watch cartoons. My nephew is 10 and I watch him a lot, so it's really his fault. But to be honest he watches some pretty badass ones. Adventure Time is probably my favorite animated tv series, and if you haven't heard of it, you're missing out! It's about a post-apocalyptic world called The Land of Ooo with one 14 year old human boy and lots of magical creatures. It's even been nominated for an Emmy! Indie polish seller Pretty & Polished is also a fan and came out with a new collection based on the series. Needless to say, I was stoked to be able to try them out.

The Young Hero is named for the main character, Finn the Human. He's the only human left in the Land of Ooo and is the main protagonist for the series. He was abandoned in the woods as a baby and adopted into Jake the Dog's family. He is heroic and is always helping the creatures of Ooo. This polish is wonderful and one of my favorites in the collection. It has a white cream base with large pale green satin hexes, pale blue satin squares, small blue hexes, and micro blue and yellow matte speckles. This is two coats.

I'm Not a Banana! represents Jake the Dog. He might be my favorite from the series. He's a magical yellow dog that is Jake the Human's best friend and adoptive brother. He has magical stretchy powers that allows him to change his shape and size. He's my spirit animal, I love him! The polish is a bright yellow jelly with large black and white matte hex glitters, and small matte white glitters. This is three coats.

Peebles is the nickname of Finn the Human's former love interest Princess Bubblegum. She is super smart and the noble and beloved ruler of the Candy Kingdom. Her inspired polish is excellent and really fun. It's got a candy pink jelly base that's filled with large yellow and pink matte hex glitters, small yellow glitters, and micro flecks of magenta that pop with a violet sheen at certain angles. Three coats.

BMO Me Up! is inspired by BMO, the adorable, gender-neutral asian handheld video gaming system that lives with Finn & Jake. The polish is a smokey silver/grey flakey metallic speckled with neon blue micro flakes. I wasn't sure I was in love with this when I first saw it but I really adore it after seeing how complex it is. Covers in three coats.

King of C-C-Cool is inspired by the Ice King, the antagonist aging wizard who is always trying to kidnap the kingdom's princesses only to be foiled by Finn & Jake again and again. He lives with lots of adorable penguins and is kind of nuts. The polish is a lovely creamy light blue with darker blue glitters, micro red bits, medium matte yellow hexes, and matte white diamonds. Excellent coverage and very unique! Two coats.

My Lumps represents my second favorite character, Lumpy Space Princess. She's a cloud shaped (lumpy) purple floating creature with a masculine valley-girl voice, actually voiced by creator of the series Pendleton Ward. She's kind of a dummy and very self-absorbed, but hilarious. This polish is a perfect embodiment of LSP, a bright purple jelly with shard glitters in purple and yellow. This was a tad hard to apply, it actually is lumpy ;) Three coats.

Rainy Day Lady represents Lady Raincorn from the show, Jake the Dog's girlfriend and Princess Bubblegum's best friend. She's a species called rainicorns, a sort of cross of a unicorn with a rainbow. She only speaks Korean and she has color-changing powers and can fly. The polish is a multicolored glitter with a clear base. The most prominent color is purple, but there's everything in this mix, from large matte red hexes to blue matte diamonds to matte pale pink squares. This is two coats over a white cream.

And last is Vampire Sing-a-Long, which is inspired by vampire queen Marceline. She was originally an enemy to Finn & Jake but is now one of their close friends. She's a millennium old and is a wild rocker chick. She plays the bass guitar, shaped like a battleax, and frequently breaks into song. This polish is a super unique combination of glitters in a clear base. It contains small round red glitters, small black bars, medium/small white hexes, medium/large purple hexes, and large round black circles. This wasn't easy to apply, you have to fish for the larger pieces, but the end result is awesome. This is three coats layered over BMO Me Up!

I can't believe how excellent and awesomely representative these polishes are of the characters in Adventure Time. Chels has done a spectacular job on them and deserves props! You can get the collection from http://www.shopprettyandpolished.com/ and the Pretty & Polished Etsy store for $9 for a full size and $5 for minis.

Products provided for review.

Guest Post by Let Them Have Polish: Bettina Rainbow Watermarble

Please enjoy this guest post by my totally talented friend Cristina from Let Them Have Polish!

Hi loveees!!!!

Look at me!!! I'm on Also Known As... Are you kidding me?! Anywho.. Now that I've got that out of my system I do have to say how excited and flattered I am to even be here with you guys today!! For this post I wanted to do something really special. So I decided to put on my big girl pants and watermarble! Last time I watermarbled was when I guest posted on the lovely Glitta Gloves, who was just on here recently. See I normally save watermarbles for special occasions and this is definitely special :). I won't blab much and just get to the pictures!

I went with a rainbow lollipop theme! I freaking looooove this sooo much! Don't they look like candies? I basically created my own version of Color Club's latest PRIDE Collection release out of my Bettina polishes and just went for it! I have to say I am so beyond happy with how this turned out. They are not perfect but they are colorful and even though Pride month has passed I say who cares! Rainbows for everyone!!

All of this was done on a base of two coats of Bettina's Candy Marshmallow. This is the most wearable White ever. It has just a hint of Pink. This color also has the most effortless formula, only needing Two coats to be fully even and opaque. I could have done with One coat since I was just using it as my base but I wanted to show you a swatch of it so I did Two coats. Also this is without a top coat! I love how shiny my Bettinas are.

Just for fun here is a pic of what the cup looked like. Soooo pretty! I just wanted to keep swirling the colors around.

Also those of you wondering about Bettina polishes. They are a Puerto Rican brand of cosmetics with great nail polish and you can purchase them directly from them by sending an email to janetmrosado@gmail.com (Rosama Distributors-authorized distributors Bettina cosmetics). They are really great about getting back to people wanting to purchase in the U.S.

I hope you guys enjoyed this post as much as I enjoyed working on it for you Kellie-fans!! This has seriously been a blast!

♥ Cristina

(**Products sent for Review**)

Holy WOW this is truly amazing, I was beginning to think my site would never feature a watermarble, cuz I'm so damn bad at them, but now that dream is a reality! Thank you so much for sharing this amazing post with my readers C!

Guest Post by The Polishaholic: Sephora Nail Bling - Black Rainbow

Hi kittens! Please enjoy this guest post by my sista from another mista, Jen from The Polishaholic!

Hi guys!!! I am SO beyond excited to do this guest post for Kellie. Mostly because I have such a nail crush on her and she is seriously one of the sweetest girls I have had the pleasure of getting to know while blogging. I'm pretty excited for what I'm showing you guys today too so I hope you all like it as much as I do!

The other day I wandered into Sephora hoping to find some Nails Inc. polishes, I didn't find them so I ended up buying a whole bunch of other stuff instead. One of the nail things I picked up was Sephora's brand of nail decals. I believe they have a few different kinds, these ones say Nail Bling on the packaging and the design is called Black Rainbow. I have to say, I love nail decals. I fail at 99% of nail art so these work for me because they are typically very easy to use. Sephora had a bunch of different designs but I was drawn to these because they have some texture to them, the colorful dots are actually raised up, I don't think any amount of top coat would cover them. Normally I don't like texture on my nails but these are so cool, I keep feeling my nails like a big weirdo haha! Hopefully you guys can see the texture in the picture I took from the side! 

Alright so, these were super easy to apply...because of the texture they are thick which means they are easy to reposition if needed. My only issue was that the thickness also made for filing off the extra decal a pain in the butt! They were a bit ragged and scratchy at the ends (not as bad as they look though, macro is a bish). I've had these on for 2 days and they are lasting surprisingly well, even after lots of hand washing, showers and filing all day at work. I would most definitely buy these again! I got a ton of compliments on these and everyone was really loving the texture (yes, I was not the only weirdo feeling my nails haha)

Wowsa that was wordy! Thank you Kellie for the opportunity to do a fun guest post! Have a good day everyone!

Jen

Isn't she the sweetest?! I really adore Jen, meeting her in Las Vegas a few weeks ago was seriously a dream come true! We got along so well it's like I've known her my whole life! *muah* Love ya babe!

rainbow tips

i got inspired by looking at Sophy Robson's blog and decided to do one of her nail looks, taught by her expert video tutorial :) these cutsie rainbow tips are accomplished by using a lighter, more pastel color underneath and having a brighter, more bold color overlap the tip. Sophy made hers more round and did a curved look overall, but i made mine triangle and the same angle on every nail, just for more ease and semetry. whatddaya think?  OH YEAH, please excuse my horrible stained free edges, i know they're pretty disgusting but i couldn't resist showing off this successful look!  i was quite proud of myself haha.

pinky: essie st. lucia lilac under china glaze grape pop, ring finger: sephora by opi havana dreams under color club chelsea girl, middle: china glaze re-fresh mint under china glaze four leaf clover, index: nubar lemon sorbet under color club almost famous, thumb: l.a. girl matte orange under opi mini red my fortune cookie.