Aly Loves Lacquer

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.

Here is another reader request: China Glaze Watermelon Rind. This was released in the Summer Days Collection of 2009, along with the famous Strawberry Fields and Grape Juice. All of the polishes in Summer Days have a beautiful glass fleck finish, which China Glaze does incredibly well. Watermelon Rind is a deep green glass fleck polish with some blue in the formula.

This is 2 coats China Glaze Watermelon Rind and 1 coat Seche Vite.

I had a request to see the new Orly polishes I bought at Sally Beauty, Frolic and Fresh. Frolic is a gorgeous one-coat purple crème. It is very vibrant and quite unique to my collection. Fresh is a bright green crème that takes two thicker coats to be completely opaque. I decided to wear these two together, so I did a fun polka dot mani.

I am wearing one coat of Orly Frolic on all nails but my ring finger. On my ring finger, I am wearing two coats of Orly Fresh. I did the polka dots with a dotting tool. I added one coat of Seche Vite on top, to even things out and aid in drying quickly.


I hope you like it! I was really in love with this mani, so much so that I have done the same pattern again with Orly Charged Up and Orly Lollipop. What do you think of these new summer colors?

- Aly