Aly Loves Lacquer

So, today's color is Violet. I am a huge fan of purple. In fact, it's my favorite color. So I had a lot to choose from. I picked Cult Nails Vicious since it's rather new and I haven't swatched it for you yet. Vicious is a beautiful dark purple crème polish. It covers fantastically in 2 coats, and the shade of purple works well with my skin tone. It also dries very shiny, even without topcoat. Of course, I hate waiting for polish to dry so I used Seche Vite as usual.

Remember to take a look at some of my fellow bloggers' takes on the challenge at  Never Unpolished, Nails and Noms, The Nailasaurus and Ash-Lilly's Lacquer Lust!

I was lucky enough to get my hands on a bottle of Cult Nails Unicorn Puke! This was sold as a very limited edition release of only 275 bottles. I woke up early and headed to the website to order right away, and ended up with bottle number 202. Unicorn Puke is a purple tinted base filled with lots of beautiful flakies. Given that purple is my favorite color and I love flakies, Unicorn Puke was basically destined to make its way into my top 20 polishes.

I wanted to try Unicorn Puke on its own instead of layering it, and it took 3 coats to be opaque enough. True to Cult Nails formula, Unicorn Puke went on easily and didn't get clumpy or anything with 3 coats. I was also amazed that all the flakies were completely flat on the nails. The purple base ended up having a nice jelly finish which adds lots of depth to this lacquer. On top I added Seche Vite to dry it quickly.

This is the final polish from the Inaugural Collection by Cult Nails. Living Water is an incredibly deep teal with beautiful light teal glitters. The base color becomes almost black, and the glitter brings it to life. The application of Living Water was just as lovely as that of the other Cult Nails polishes I tried. It took two easy coats to reach opacity.

I know it is Pink Wednesday, but I wanted to continue showing you my new Cult Nails polishes. Today we have My Kind of Cool Aid, a super greyed out lavender with gorgeous silvery shimmer. Once again, the application was great -- two easy coats. This color is very interesting and pretty, and so nice in the sun. My only problem was that Cult Nails My Kind of Cool Aid gave me total lobster hands. It is a great color though, and I am sure it would look even better on some different skin tones.

This is the second polish I have tried from the Cult Nails Inaugural Collection. Quench is a beautiful red jelly-crème. It covers well in two coats, but still has that squishy looking jelly finish. Cult Nails Quench is ladylike, but with a lot of sass too. I can see the old Hollywood stars wearing a color like this. Once again, application was a breeze. Two easy coats for beautiful even coverage. 

I recently purchased the Cult Nails Inaugural Collection, which includes the first four polishes released by Cult Nails: Iconic, Quench, Living Water, and My Kind of Cool Aid. The first one I tried out is called Iconic, and it is a beautiful burgundy polish packed with golden shimmer and gold flakies. Iconic is completely unique to my collection, and I think it would be unique to anyone's really.

Application was great. It applied beautifully in two coats. I am seriously loving Iconic. Cult Nails has just jumped onto my top brands list. Here we have 2 coats Iconic and 1 coat Seche Vite.