Review: Rainbow Honey -The Yokai - in Oni

Rainbow Honey's The Yokai Collection

October 13th it goes on sale at the above link!

Cute boxes and labels

Yokai are spirits in Japanese folklore, which is a WONDERFUL theme for a Halloween nail polish collection from your favorite otaku indie, Rainbow Honey! Well, they are my favorite anyhow :D

This is a limited edition set of GORGEOUS shimmer/glitters in golden brown with golden flakies and pink/purple sparkle (Oni), maize camel with orange glitter (Kitsune), and a deep navy shimmer with intense silver and rainbow sparkle and flakies (Kawako)

Each represent a particular kind of Japanese spirit.

Forgive my rushed photography. The sun was setting and I was in a RUSH to put on the polish to show you all at least one mani! Trust me, I will be going back to this one.

So today, it is ONI! 

From Rainbow Honey's press statement:

"ONI: The malevolent wild demon"

This one needs a good top coat but it is not terribly thirsty for it. Oni goes on smooth for the first coat but is a little rough on the second coat and I imagine that is from how LOADED with shimmer it is. 

Rainbow Honey's bottles are similar if not identical to Cult Nails' bottles and have a pretty decent if run of the mill brush. 

This is how shiny it is with top coat. Very gorgeous! You can't see it much in this shot but there are magenta-pink and purple sparks that fly off of this one. It is like Tony Moly Mars but MUCH easier to work with and with a MUCH better payoff. Also, the base color and sparkle are much like Orly Buried Alive L'Oreal Owl's Night but Oni is a lot more complex and darker. 

I doodled a little with some Hello Kitty Gold Star glitter. There is no photographing how awesome these are together. Oni are like crazy demon troll things and I didn't have time to paint anything like that on my nails, so I went with......spirals. Waaaah waaah. Sorry, the next two will have cool art :D

You can only imagine how pretty this is through photos.

The amount of sparkle is kind of like Zoya Kimber but amped up. I am not sure how Dee of Rainbow Honey managed to pack in this much flaky-sparkle goodness without making the formula IMPOSSIBLE to work with.

Here is a bokeh shot to show you the golden-ruby-amethyst-tourmaline sparkle. UGH I love it. It is PERFECT for fall. I may purge my bottle of L'Oreal Owl's Night... >_>

How would I rate this polish on a scale of 1-10?

Uniqueness: 8

There are some similar to this but not quite as intense.

Formula: 7

It is a little clumpy but this is unnoticeable with top coat. There is no chunky glitter in this one so it makes it a much easier to apply polish than your standard indie glitter.

Payoff: 9

I LOVE THE SPARKLES. Truly, very eye-catching and gorgeous. I GASPED when I unpacked this one in particular. If you are warm-skinned and/or love brown or gold, I would recommend this polish.

ONI rates an 8 for me by those standards

I will be reviewing the next two in this collection in the next few days :D STAY TUNED and thank you for sitting through my first review!

All 3 polishes were sent to me for my honest review.

Icy Doll RGB Mani

Since I have started substitute teaching, I thought it would be a good idea to wear neutral and kinda plain colors to work. 

Today, I put on a color I got in a RGB set on copious.com for $3.60 (after a $10 credit!)

The set came with Doll (used once before) and Minty. Doll is a total bandage/mannequin hands polish and Minty is a gorgeous pale turquoise/aqua/mint color.

No flash, indoors at night. 

Very very pale!

Flash, indoors at night

I think this polish is a bit too light to wear alone. I felt like Barbie... ><

and then I got 'Doll Parts' by Hole stuck in my head...groan.

No flash, indoors at night

So I added Pure Ice Mint Dream! Which is really an aqua and green shimmer. Then I added Oh Baby! over that for some extra blue-purple sparkle.

No flash, indoors at night

 No flash, indoors at night

Flash, indoors at night

It looks like there are icy flames on my fingers! So in love. <3 Maybe I will take some photos in the daylight tomorrow before I stamp it!

Sally Hansen Lava

I have been SO BUSY lately!! Sorry for not posting so much.

My mani for Saturday was Sally Hansen Lustre Shine in Lava. I managed to snag this one off of a display at my local Meijer. I had no time to clean up my mani or anything :/ I had to run off to take photos with my family, hang out at Oktoberfest (I know, it is September), and it was my brother's birthday. 

This is 100000x times better than Bad Fairy or Poison Apple (and sorry for the tip wear! I didn't wash between taking off my polish and putting base coat on >< )

I put it on over OPI Royal Rajah Ruby. OPI shimmery vamps always fall flat on me so I just use them for undies. 

This is one of my favorite polishes ever. I am going back for a back up (or two!)

It is purple-y when angled down

ZOMG.

That is all.

Golden Duochromey Goodness

2 posts back to back! It is like I am a blogger again or something. Hehe!

China Glaze Rare and Radiant! When I was wearing this, I went to Meijer and found 2 dupes to this by Maybelline and Sally Hansen...But at least I only paid 3 bucks for this at CosmoProf :D That is still cheaper than both of those brands AND I have 15mL of this stuff. w00t

This is a franken mix I made as I was inspired by adding aqua shred to gunmetal glitters...the golden green was inspired by the main color of this polish and the aqua by the duochrome flash. It also has garnet hexes, purple squares, and copper bar glitter. You can get the glitter mix on the GLITTER MIXES tab at the top of the page! It is called BEST DRESSED.

Editorial, darling.

I made it work!

This is after a day of wear so there is a little tip rub off going on. Still a sweet color. I think it looks good with my skin tone but is a little too flashy for work-wear.

Stamping Sunday: Leaves

Yeah....it is not Sunday...But here is my mani for last week's Stamping Sunday theme of Leaves!

Revlon Fig Jam base! The smell is kinda...well, not strong and unoffensive. I like this polish, very pretty.

Well, I kinda went nuts with the leaves here. >_>

This is my right hand. Less cluttered! Wish I had an oak leaf stamp...

GLITTER MIXES ARE HERE!

http://noholos.blogspot.com/p/glitter-mixes.html

Up at the top, under the tabs...there is the Glitter Mix page!

You just mix them up in to a store-bought glitter or a bottle of glamour base! Super simple!

Further instructions are included with each purchase :)

This is what I have been up to while I was gone, haha!

Stamping Sundays: Toxic or Poisonous

So I added *venomous* things, oh well! This was my vision for this "Toxic or Poisonous" mani and I was going to stick with it!!

Base: Essie Mojito Madness

Red: BM 12, MyOnline Shop Red stamping polish

Black: H19 on thumb and MASH plates on all other nails, Konad Black stamping polish

A snake a snake, ohhhhhh it's a snake

Some crazy coloring in this photo!

Flash

Flash

I've wanted to use these animal stamps for awhile now. I also like the red tribal flamey thing. I think it is simple and sleek, for a stamped animal mani :P I was going to do mushrooms but I only have one mushroom stamp and I kinda hate every nail being the same unless it is over a duochrome or something!