Pretty Serious Cosmetics Stop Collaborate and Listen Collection Part 2 Swatches & Review

Hey there friends! Today I have a few new shades from Pretty Serious Cosmetics to add to their Stop Collaborate and Listen collection! This is a series made up of collaboration polishes the brand creates with nail polish bloggers, you can see the first installment here. I am always eager to see polish shades from the minds of bloggers, after all we know what's what in the polish world!

Press Sample

First is Kashmir, a shade created with Christine from Serenity Nails. That link goes to her blog post where she talks about her inspiration for the shade if you're interested. Christine's nails are amazing btw, you need to check her out! The polish is a red toned purple, leaning burgundy in some lights, with gold and copper flakes, color shifting shimmer in blue and purple and red opal flakes. This is a complex shade and I am in love with it! It was a little dense, but not thick. Perfectly opaque in two easy coats.

Iktsuarpok is "an Icelandic word that describes the feeling of anticipation of a visitor arriving imminently, thus leading you to keep looking outside to see if they’re there yet". It is the perfect name for this polish designed by Hannah of Polly Polish, though I can't pronounce it haha. Her blog is great, definitely swing by :) This polish is a medium grey, almost blue, jelly crème with silver glass fleck flakes. This has an incredible formula, thin but not runny and very opaque. This is two coats. It reminds me of a darker version of Illamasqua Raindrops. I love it!

And last is Herald of the Skeleton War designed by the inimitable Scrangie. If you don't know who she is, I don't even know what to say because she's the epitome of nail bloggers. I miss her posts like crazy, but you can still catch some swatches from her on Instagram. This is a blackened green jelly with iridescent blue flakes, golden green and purple microglitter and multi-sized purple hex glitter. This polish is kinda tricky and I got a little frustrated with it the first time I applied it. It wouldn't spread very easily on my nail the way I wanted it to, like I couldn't get a good line around my cuticle. And the second coat got sorta lumpy and dense. There is SO much glitter in it and the jelly base is really pigmented so it can get a little sludgy if you overwork it.

I talked to the brand maker and it's possible that I got a bum bottle with more glitter than normal and was offered a replacement, buuuut I decided to try it again before I completely wrote it off. I saw another blogger layer it over a dark green and I liked how that looked, so that's what I did here. This is one coat over OPI Christmas Gone Plaid and it's much better in my opinion, it looks like how I was hoping it would look like in the bottle. A thick top coat is a must because it dries kinda satin and not super smooth because of all the glitter. I love the uniqueness of this shade but just know it might take some extra care if you wear it by itself.

That last photo was taken a week later than the others and my nails have grown a ton! They tend to grow like weeds in the summer, which is kinda annoying unless I get a break because I have to file them so much more haha. #nailbloggerproblems

These are available now for $9.95 each at www.pretty-serious.com. They are based in Australia but they have a shipping location in the US so we do not have to pay international shipping, a major plus. What do you think of the newest installment of this collection? Props to all the collaborating bloggers, these are some dope shades!

Don't forget to enter my giveaway and I'll see you again soon!

❤ Kellie

The products mentioned were provided for an honest review.

Rescue Beauty Lounge Bloggers' Collection 2.0 Swatches and Review

It is my great pleasure to announce my participation in Rescue Beauty Lounge's Bloggers' Collection 2.0! YAY!! I honestly was beyond flabbergasted when Ji Baek, RBL owner/founder/creator, asked me to create a color for the RBL brand for her second bloggers' collection back in January 2012. I can remember thinking, "This is it. I've made it." My color vision being turned into a real, live, genuine Rescue Beauty Lounge nail polish?! Could there be anything more exciting?!

I wasn't sure who all the other bloggers collaborating with Ji would be, as she does like to keep an air of mystery about certain things, but I knew I would be in excellent company. It has since been revealed that the other color designers for the Bloggers' 2.0 collection are Scrangie, Rie of NailsandNoms, Pammy of Polish Police, Sam of Fashion Polish, and there is a secret addition from Ji herself. Please enjoy this trailer for the collection that Ji made to represent our collection!

Press Sample

I set out right away to come up with a color worthy of the RBL brand that represented me and what I wanted the world to see from me. I came up with something fantastic and bright and amazing in my head. Ji came up with the exact shade I had imagined right away, but it turned out to be unstable due to the neon pigments separating. She worked incredibly hard to come up with something similar but just as awesome. After more than a few tries, we finally came to a match of what I had longed for. I know this is the color that took the longest to match for the collection and I am so glad Ji didn't give up on me or my polish!

This color is called Kellie Gonzo, and it is me in a bottle. It's a bright juicy pink coral opaque jelly with tons of orange glitter and silvery flecks. It's more orangey indoors and more pinky in the sun. It's lovely at two coats and has a tad more intensity at three coats, as in this swatch. I think it has a perfect formula, easy to apply, smooth, translucent yet with full coverage, and shiny. A photograph cannot accurately portray the yummy juiciness of the polish, but I hope you like what you see enough to take my word for it. It's a great big smile from me to you! I hope you like it even half as much as I do.

The first person I expected to be in this collaboration with Ji was Scrangie, one of the most talented, popular, and established nail polish bloggers in the world. She is one of my biggest inspirations and having had a hugely successful color in RBL's first Bloggers' collection, I was chomping at the bit waiting to see what she would come up with this round.

Her color is called Scrangie 2.0, a blackened base with an oil slick-like multifaceted shimmer effect. This is an intense shimmer polish with a metallic edge to it in shades of green, gold, bronze, and gunmetal. This had an excellent formula and is opaque in two coats. Breathtaking in the sunlight, just really a stunning creation.

Next is a color from one of my most beloved blogging friends, Marie Antoinette aka Rie who authors the blog NailsandNoms, which is also the name of her color. This girl is so creative and funky she embodies the word "cool" to me. Her color is an uber bright sherbet orange with a gorgeous periwinkle blue shimmer tint that also has a little bit of pink and orange glimmer to it. This is excellently loud and outrageous and is perfect to represent Rie. This is two coats.

This color is the brainchild of the awesome Sam who writes the blog Fashion Polish and has named her polish the same. I am also lucky to call Sam a friend and was so happy to hear of her inclusion in this collaboration. Her color is a rich and shiny black base packed to the brim with red and gold glitters. I heard this color was a challenge to create due to the pigment weight but of course Ji prevailed in the end. This is a gorgeously beautiful polish that brings to mind an inky black galaxy brimming with starlight. I used two coats for this swatch. It's a bit thick so take your time during application.

This polish was created by Pammy from the blog Polish Police who hails from the Philippines. She is a super cute girl and I adore her blog, so I was excited to see her contribution to the collection. The color is called Liberty, a minty green sister of RBL color Pizzicato. It has a lovely underlying angelic layer of glass fleck reflective bits and a blue shimmer overlay. A perfect spin on the classic mint green. The formula is also nice, maybe a tad on the thick side. Two coats here.

And to round out the collection, Ji decided to sneak in one of her own creations. This is called An Accidental Interloper, coming from her insertion into the group of bloggers' colors. I doubt anyone minds though, any new color Ji wants to bring to life is alright with me. This color was created to fill the silver "void" in the RBL family. It's a gorgeous gunmetal silver metallic polish with a grey blue undertone. Another wonderful formula, it applies opaquely in two coats.

This collection and my color of course, is a huge landmark for my life and my blogging career. I had never expected to be included with such an impressive and talented group of women and I am very thankful. I know that these colors will probably be worn by people all over the world and that just blows my mind. For someone to whom color and nail polish is so important and such a big part of life, this means the world to me. Thank you Ji and Rescue Beauty Lounge for letting me take this ride with you.

This collection will be available for pre-order on June 28th at 12 pm EST for 48 hours on www.rescuebeauty.com for $20 each.

Product samples were provided for consideration.

Rescue Beauty Lounge Blogger Collection

Hey there! How are you darling? I'm doing well :) Still looking for a job, not happy about this dry spell, but I'm trying to be positive. Today I have two special polishes to show you, two of the three blogger created colors for Rescue Beauty Lounge, from 2009. I've shown you Scrangie before, so here are the other two.

Mismas was created by Michelle Mismas from All Lacquered Up, whom I personally bow down to. Her and Scrangie ARE blogging to me! Her color is a deep true purple crème, incredibly pigmented and lush. I think some imitators came out after this, but this will always be the original in my eyes. Ga-ga-gorgeous! This is two coats, even though it's opaque in one. It's SO shiny!

And here is Obis Non Sufficit created by Steph from The Polish Addict, who sadly is no longer blogging. This is a freaking amazing moody grayed-out combat green crème. I cannot think of a rival for this one, it's truly in a league of it's own. This is also a one coater, but I pictured it here with two.

You can get these on www.RescueBeauty.com for $18 each. Do you own these? If not, what the eff are you waiting for?! Hahaha, seriously these are must have's for any polish lover/blogger/addict worth her paint ;)

Products provided for review.