Second post-hiatus post!

let me just say.....

I LOVE KB SHIMMER!

It won't let me make that any bigger. I was aiming for like 50pt font, but this is "Biggest". Well Blogger, it's not big enough.

I freaking love KB Shimmer. Today, tomorrow, next year. These polishes will be among my most treasured for a long long time. Christy, the super amazing woman that brings us these polishes (and soaps, and bath bombs and scrubs and lotions!) is incredibly accommodating, creative and overall AMAZING. I own four of her polishes (Diva, Orange Pop, Ice Queen and Clown Puke) and several of her incredible soaps (Blue Hawaii is one you have to try, her soap samplers are a total bargain.) 

Today, I have for you Clown Puke and Ice Queen.

Clown Puke you saw in my last post, my comparison of rainbow glitters, but I couldn't go without showing it on it's own. It's amazingly complex and the colors are so thought out, it's not just a mish mash of glitter. It's deliberate and unique. The dash of black and white sets everything else off in just the right way.

 Three 'brush-full' coats over a bare nail. Two coats of Poshe.

 Super macro shot, those white glitters do amazing things for me.

 Index finger. You never realize how many bald patches you have until you look at the photos...

 Be still my beating heart...

Clown Puke will remain one of my go to multi glitter polishes for a long time. Each bottle is JAM packed with glitter which means even if I need to thin it, it will last me a long long time.

Next up is Ice Queen. I didn't want to do this on it's own, but wasn't really feeling it over a brighter color. I settled on Color Club 'Revvvolution' which has sat untouched *gasp* for over a year. I am not disappointed.

Fail...I tried to retouch the glitter off my ring finger and now it just looks like a pimple.

Rainbowwwwwsssss!!!! 

Matte-ified!

Matte Closeup!

I LOVE Ice Queen! I had this on over vacation. I used 3 heavy coats on it's own, and it almost blinded me every time I went outside. There are no chunky peices to slip around, it coats really nicely without any fuss. The holo diamonds are the perfect touch of texture to push it past just holo hexes. 10/10, would polish again.

I really hope to have more from KB Shimmer in the near future, and I will be re-swatching Orange Pop and Diva when my nails grow out a little more!

Visit Christy in all her glory at www.kbshimmer.com or her Etsy shop HERE.

I'm a bad blogger...

I know, I've been on hiatus forever. I'm not going to apologize or anything, but it wasn't supposed to be this long. I'm trying to get a post or two in now because in 2 days I'm celebrating a pretty grim anniversary, and truth be told I'm probably going to be a wreck. I'll share that story with you all tomorrow, because right now it's time for some swatches.

I have some individual swatches planned, but need to bulk up the amount a bit, because I honestly thought I swatched way more than I did. For right now, I have a rainbow glitter comparison. I got KB Shimmer's 'Clown Puke' before I went on vacation, and realized I have a fetish for packed multi-glitters, because I  have like 10 different ones.

For this comparison, I swatched Milani Gems 1.0, Lynnderella's Glittering Crowd, Kleancolor Afternoon Picnic, KB Shimmer Clown Puke and Claire's Bedazzled.

Kleancolor's Afternoon Picnic. Multi metallic hexes in a "clear" base (It looks orange, but comes out crystal clear)

 KB Shimmer Clown Puke. To. Die. For (solo swatch coming soon). Multi shape and color glitters (A lot of golds, red, blue, but also green, orange, pink and purple) suspended in a clear base. The BEST part about this is the white glitters. I don't know what it is, but they make everything else pop. Seriously, probably my #1 multi glitter ever. Ever.

 Claire's Bedazzled. I thought this was going to be another Gems dupe, but it has a lot of smaller blue/green hexes that really set it apart from Gems/Rainbow in the Sky-lie, Rainbow connection etc. I was really impressed by this one.

Milani gems. We've all seen this one, multi colored small and medium hexes in a clear base.

Lynnderella's Glittering Crowd. When I first bought this, I made sure to put two on my wishlist because I never thought I'd find anything like it again. I was glad to be wrong, as demonstrated by this post, but it's what I break out when I'm depressed and just want to stare at my fingers. Hexes, squares, strings, a few errant stars and moons. It's got everything. Mine are heavy on the bright chartreuse glitters, which is alright with me. Also: This mother****er needs like 4 coats of gelous to calm the eff down, so I try not to use it too often. She's a rough one! (Literally, the first night I used it, I slept without the TC on, and it scratched my face...)

 Thumb: Afternoon Picnic. Index: Clown Puke. Middle: Glittering Crowd. Ring: Bedazzled. Pinky: Gems. All one coat, either brushed or dabbed, no base coat, no top coat. I wanted you to see JUST the glitters.

 Afternoon Picnic (and a boat load of bubbles...)

 Clown Puke (Whiteeeeee glitterssss!)

Glittering Crowd

 Bedazzled

Gems

Now for some opinion:

My favorite as far as color scheme goes, hands down, is Clown Puke. It's a multi, but it's DIFFERENT. I could go on and on about it.

My favorite application, oddly enough, was Claire's Bedazzled. One swipe was all I needed. No dabbing, no moving, no wiggling things into place. Sometimes I have time to be anal about placement, sometimes I'm doing my nails in the car (not while driving!) and can't be bothered. This is the polish for those times. Gems is a close second for ease of application.

I love all of these for their own merits, and if my house was on fire, I'd save all of them.

I have a dedicated swatch post of KB Shimmer's Clown Puke and Ice Queen coming up shortly, because I can't show you one nail without promising a full mani. :)

Indie Series Part I: Candeo Colors

I've decided to run through all of my indies in their entirety, by brand. Just because someone requested it by name, Candeo Colors was first.

Luckily, I got to Candeo, and their fabulous polishes before they blew up, so I had an easy time of getting all of what I wanted. I even managed to get Dolce, but gave it to a friend. (Though I sort of wish I hadn't, its so pretty and now I can't seem to snag another, haha!) Today I have for you Swoop, Plumage, Sprouse, Divebomb and a few older swatches of Orchid. Let's get to it!

I've had my first casualty...

We now interrupt our regularly scheduled shenanigans and swatches for some unfortunate news. I don't know when it happened, or...rather how. This bottle was on the second shelf of my polish wall, a good six feet up, so it couldn't have been a cat. But...I found her this morning, with a broken neck, innards spilled everywhere. I wasn't able to salvage anything, as it had dripped down into my stash box and completely dried. The bottle snapped neatly at the neck, in fact it was still screwed into the cap. Time to beat the bum-rush during Melinda's next restock and hopefully get a replacement.

Rest in Peace

March 22, 2012 - May 30, 2012

Super Random Hockey Inspired Giveaway Time!

This giveaway was born from hockey, therefore, 5 out of the potential first 10 entries are earned with a MANDATORY blog comment on why you love the New Jersey Devils, or why you're wrong! (All in good fun ladies!) US and CANADA only for the time being. (I can't leave out ladies from the motherland!)

Let's Go Devils! Bring home that cup boys!

a Rafflecopter giveaway

Umm....it's time for a giveaway!

Big huge oversight on my part: AS OF RIGHT NOW, THIS GIVEAWAY IS UNITED STATES ONLY! I am so sorry I left out this glaring detail. I am between jobs right now, and have really limited 'extra' funds. Please let me know if you already entered and are located outside the US. You can comment, or email me at TheGlitterJitters@gmail.com I am so sorry I forgot about this.

And now, a fun little something from The Holographic Hussy

I have a Facebook friend, Claudia who posts AMAZING swatches like, every single day. She is the only person whose Facebook I go out of my way to visit every evening to catch up on what she's swatched. The polish goddesses blessed her, and she's finally using her talent for the greater good (so we can all look at her nail porn) and she started a blog!

The other day I was sort of down, and was staring at my bottle of Lynnderella 'Shape Shifter'. There were so many colors and shapes and crazy awesomeness that if you stared too long, your eyes would cross.

Just look at it....

Anywho! I had this bottle of heavenly glitter, and my brain just grinded to a halt. What the heck do I do with it? Over black? Over holo? (a la that amazing picture on Llarowe's website from Sparkly Vernis) Over a bright color? Matte? Gradient, light coating or full coverage? Sometimes, you just can't be bothered to think that much, or sometimes much like a malfunctioning boomerang, it just isn't coming to you.

This is where Claudia comes in.

I sent her a Facebook message, telling her I was feeling crummy, and I needed some inspiration from her fabulous fingers. She wrote me back saying she'd come up with something to blow my mind, and I didn't doubt her at all.

Bam! LOOK AT THAT FLOWER!

Super awesome Lynn glitter gradient over Illamasqua Stance.

Head over to her blog to see the full post, follow her and send her some love. She has more followers than me right now, so I'm sure none of you need to be told, but if you haven't seen her blog yet, you'll soon be addicted to her swatches just like I am!

I'm off to do one last scrub to The Kitchen Sink (haha...get it?) and I'll be putting up some swatches! I just wanted to give you something to oogle in the meantime.

We are 3 2! blog followers, and 6 Facebook followers away from TWO giveaways! Tell your friends!