Jessye Nails It! Lucky 13 Lacquer's Base Coat and Top Coats!

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Lucky 13 Lacquer 
Part 3 of 3 - Top Coats and an Overall Review

End stretch! Time to talk formulas! In this post, we’ll cover the base coat, the two top coats, and a general review of the nail polish itself. And we will have covered all of Lucky 13 that I currently can cover! Let’s review things!

Pop & Peel Base Coat

This sounds like the worst idea in the world when you first see it. It lets your polish peel off? What the hell? Well, if perhaps, you swatch several nail colors a day, or hate trying to get glitter polishes off, or want your nail polish off the second it chips, this really isn’t such a bad idea. You apply the base coat, let it dry, and then apply your polish and top coat like normal. It will either peel on its own with time, or you can stick your nails under water and peel them off as soon as you like.

If you pick at your polish, this is great. It doesn’t affect your nail. It peels off cleanly without destroying the smoothness of your nail or anything like that. And mostly of them will peel off the whole nail cleanly- I hoarded all of my peels so you could see the results. The ones that had the hardest time peeling cleanly were the ones that I had problems getting them to dry in the humidity. They tended to peel in pieces, but otherwise it was a clean peel every time with the whole color to most of the color coming off.

Elemental Ward Top Coat

This top coat was made to be the best in top coats, not dulling the natural shine of the polish and cracking hard to prevent chipping as much as possible. It was great for both. I showed the matte top coat and the Elemental Ward top coat side by side with a bare nail, so you could see the difference. My index finger is bare; middle finger is the matte coat; and ring finger is the Elemental Ward. They are on top of Always Be a Princess. I think this top coat even added a little extra shine to the nail. This is a great top coat that will definitely help your polish from chipping.

We’re All Matte Here Top Coat

If you’ve ever wanted to keep your mattes matte and still use a top coat, this is the solution for you. You can also put it on a glossy finish polish to mute it a little. I’m a little iffy on theory vs. execution. I notice particularly with the shiny finish polishes, there is a distinct color change, which makes me a little shy on the idea of using it regularly. You can see in the photo that the pink is actually quite dulled next to the Elemental Ward Top Coat. On a more matte finish, it seems to be less affected, so it will be great for my naturally matte polishes, but I probably won’t use it on the glossy finishes.

Nail Polish Formula

I have used a few indie nail polishes to date. Many of them haven’t been reviewed because I was either displeased with the formula, they were passed off to me by someone who had already reviewed them or I am just notoriously forgetful about remembering that I can review these and I’ve passed them off. This is a solid 2nd place for me in terms of formula. It was too thin for my tastes. I much prefer Black Phoenix Trading Post for nail polish, which is nice and thick. One of these polishes actually chipped in the time it took me to walk to our rooftop dog park from our apartment to take photos. I prefer to not top coat most days. It’s a weird hold over from dance, and I want something that’s a little less likely to chip so quickly.

Final Thoughts

This is a really fun company. They have so many selections on finish and color and funny little things like thermals and ones with huge chunks of glitter in them! If you’re looking for a unique nail polish that will make your nails stand out ahead of the crowd, this is absolutely the way to go. What’s your favorite indie nail polish company? Let us know in the comments!

Jessye Nails It! Lucky 13 Lacquer's Always, Always Be a Princess, and Always Be a Fairy!

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Lucky 13 Lacquer 
Swatch Post  Part 2 of 3

More swatches! Part 1. Stay tuned for Part 3 where we review stuff!

Always 

Sheer silver-y topcoat with aqua microflakes that glows bright blue in the dark.

Personal Thoughts: Okay, this is going to be a long one. I put this first on top of base coat because I wanted to see how it looks on its own. It is a clear coat with the lightest sheen of blue glitter. They glow more like a traditional green glow in the dark. You can see how the bottle looks more blue.

Then I layered it on white and matte black.  I love how it makes the matte black shine blue-black. I stuck my hand in a lamp for about 30-45 minutes and then locked myself in the bathroom again to see the glow. There was no glow on the black, and the white turned the glow much closer to green than blue.

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Always Be a Princess

Rose pink linear holo with rose/copper/gold color-shifting shimmer.

Personal Thoughts: This is a darling pink. A bright happy pink that will cheer you up just looking at it. I love pink in the summer and this will easily be my go-to nail color for those sunny days.

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Always Be a Fairy

Lavender linear holo with aqua/blue/violet color-shifting shimmer.

Personal Thoughts: This was a gift to me from AG when she went to Pride here in Seattle. She said of all the colors from the collection, this was absolutely the one I had to have (I’m a bit of a fairy princess). And she was right. Guys, this is gorgeous. I was told it would look really lovely over black (as shown over my very badly chipped black nails), but I love it all by itself. I think it is darling as just a sheer shimmer on my nails. I love the color. In my bathroom, it’s a lovely glittering lilac (Sorry, I was in the tub. No photos). Outside, it’s a sheer glitter bomb. It looks just like I want fairy wings to look with the sun shining through every iridescence. A perfect color.

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Stay tuned for Part 3 where we review the base coats, top coats and the polishes themselves!

Jessye Nails It! Lucky 13 Lacquer's I am No Man, Murder Mystery and Mayhem, Misfits of Mayhem, and Do As You're Told!

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Lucky 13 Lacquer 
Swatch Post Part 1 of 3

I spend so much time discussing how great my friends are, and this definitely stemmed from them. At Pride Fest this year, AG picked a bottle of “Always be a Fairy” for me. Obviously, I had to get more to try even more awesome nail polishes! So this will be a 3 part series of 2 swatch posts, and then a review of Lucky 13’s polish longevity products (base coat and top coats) as well as a brief overview of how I felt the polishes performed over all.

All nail polishes were swatched over Lucky 13’s Pop and Peel Base Coat, two coats of polish, and NO top coat unless otherwise noted. All photos were taken in shade or full sun unless otherwise noted. Photos of bottles were taken in a lightbox.

I Am No Man

Emerald green jelly with teensy gold flecks, fine and medium gold, and medium emerald glitters.

Personal Thoughts: This is a really smooth green that looked lovely. The glitter settles in bottle and needs a little extra manipulation to get on the brush completely.

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Murder, Mystery, and Mayhem

Purple crelly with silver shimmer and silver glitters in all sizes.

Personal Thoughts: This plays very similar to I Am No Man in appearance, just purple. It is a little richer in application. The glitter also settles to the bottom in the bottle and will need to be manipulated as well.

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Misfits of Mayhem

Dark red (warm) to blood red (cool) thermal with electric blue and silver holo micro shred glitters.

Personal Thoughts: (Taken in Shade and Partial Sunlight) This had a very odd, almost rough finish to it. I didn’t realize there was blue glitter in it until just now when I read the notes from the website. The silver glitter looked red to me. I used an ice cube to show you the thermal color. It was a much darker red where the ice cube was laid on the polish, and I really loved that darker color.

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Do As You’re Told 

Deep wine red with burgundy shimmer and black undertones.

Personal Thoughts: (Taken in Shade and Partial Sunlight) This was one of my favorites. This didn’t photograph that well for me, and I apologize. I was having problems getting a good photo of it, which sucks because I really love it. This is a great mid-tone burgundy for those days when you want a red that that exists between bright red and deep dark red. It will easily change between daytime and nighttime.

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We Missed Our Own Birthday?! It's Time For a Giveaway!

Happy (Belated) Birthday Indie Know!

We totally missed our own birthday, but never fear! There will still be a giveaway!

But first some news:

Jessye Gets Bubbly is now on Instagram! @jessyegetsbubbly

Jessye Gets Bubbly is now on Twitter! @bubblyjessye

AG has been on Instagram forever, and it’s an awesome place to go check out eye looks! @agshells

You may have noticed that since about January, I am the only one reviewing. This is going to continue for the foreseeable future. You may on occasion see AG or Kristin pop in, but for the time being, it will largely be just me reviewing. So, let me know if there are new indie bath and body brands you want me to try out that I haven’t yet. Feel free to contact me via comments on the blog or at jessyegetsbubbly@gmail.com!

Now onto the Giveaway:

Thank you, all of you, for your patience, your readership, and your support.

We love having you and want to continue to do our best to bring you reviews on companies we’re buying from. You guys are the reason we do this, and without you, we wouldn’t be here.

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Jessye Gets Bubbly! Solstice Scents' Summer 2016!

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Solstice Scents 
Summer 2016

In some parts of the country, summer has already come and gone. But I am just now getting to tell you all about the awesome-ness that is the Solstice summer release. Backlog says what? I only bought two whipped soaps, but I’m really excited to tell you about both of them. So onward!

Tropical Moon Whipped Soap

Coconut, Tuberose, Tahitian Gardenia, Lime Essential Oil & Pink Lotus Attar.

This is lovely. It is such a clean creamy scent. And a total beach scent. I want to be in one of those open beach houses, showering off the sand in the sun in this scent. It is heavy on the coconut for me with little hints of white florals and the tiniest touch of citrus to add a hint of sunshine for you. I adore this in soap form, and I have a coconut friend that I think would adore this as a perfume. This is much more a coconut/white florals/creamy beach scent than highly citrus/pineapple beach scent. Consider that if you prefer one tropical scent more than the other.

Manor Whipped Soap

Woody-Vanilla Musk, Vanilla, Agarwood

I have Manor as a perfume oil and as an EDP. And I am so blah about both of them. It’s a lovely scent, but it is just woody vanilla. There’s nothing else for me when it hits my skin. I understand that the love for Manor is like cult-level, and I want to have the same love too! But it just falls a little short for me in complexity. So I’d never bought it as anything else. I should have bought it as a whipped soap sooner.

The very first thing I smell is oudh. And then the woods and vanillas come to play. It is a more complex scent for me as a soap than it is for me as a perfume. You better believe I’m grabbing it as a lotion during the Autumn release. I would caution using this soap after scrubs that don’t always meld scent-wise- they do not always play nicely when you first open the whipped soap- there is occasionally a weird tang that you smell while your brain switches over between the two. But otherwise, it is wonderful. I’ll have to grab another jar or two at Autumn too. Because this one just might be gone by then.


Shown but Not Reviewed: Estate Rosewood

I had every intention of reviewing this for you guys, but there is something in Solstice’s tobacco note that causes one of two reactions- I either get a mild allergic reaction of a mass sneezing attack, or it makes my head swim. I was so excited to try this, and I couldn’t leave it on my skin long enough to get past the first initial sniff. This was a total head swim, and I just couldn’t get it to settle down in time to try and smell anything. My apologies for it being in the photo, but lacking a review.

Final Thoughts

Solstice Scents always delivers. They have tried and true scents that will absolutely beguile you into love and happiness. They are absolutely one of my favorite indie brands (probably tied for 1st with Future Prim). And I am anxiously awaiting next release. Just to let you know, they have said that come 2017, they will no longer be carrying whipped soap and will begin to focus on just perfumes, EDPs, and Burnishing Glaces. Sea Salt Soaks and Body Ganache Cream were not explicitly discussed, but assume the worst and hope for the best! If you are part of their Facebook group or have liked their Facebook page, you will have seen this already. We will miss you, Whipped Soap! You are, by far, my favorite of the indie whipped soap crowd. You will be missed!