Ninja Polish Shillelagh

Hi everyone! I thought I would kick off March with a green mani! I'm usually bad about sticking with themes, but for the past 3 years I've been pretty consistent with wearing lots of greens in March. It's my birth month and green is one of my favorite colors, so it's pretty easy to do.

I thought a really appropriate polish to start with would be Ninja Polish Shillelagh. I had to look up the meaning of the name of this polish, but it is a wooden club walking stick that is strongly associated with Ireland. Apparently, Leprechauns are often depicted carrying them in folklore. So as for the polish, it is a gorgeous green jelly base densely packed with green/gold color shifting shimmer. It is quite opaque, only requiring 2 coats for full coverage. The formula is a bit thick, but not problematic to apply (this contributes to its opacity). It is wonderful and glowy.

Shillelagh was released last year as part of Ninja Polish's Enigma Collection and does appear to still be in stock on Ninja Polish's website. I have had good experiences with Ninja Polish in the past, but I have heard from a few people that shipping has been pretty slow at Ninja Polish lately, so I just wanted to give everyone a heads up in case you were thinking about ordering. Thanks for looking everyone!

Mani Backlog Spam

While exploring my Photobucket, I found lots of unposted manis from throughout the year. Gah...how did I miss all of these?

Femme Fatale Abyssal Reflections (over American Apparel Malibu Green)

HARE Polish Golden Years (over either teal or blue...I can't remember)

Pahlish Eleven Pipers Piping. 

Lynnderella Very Pretty Vampire over BB Couture Dragon's Breath 

BB Couture Dragon's Breath

Ninja Polish Ambrosia

Elevation Polish Haba Xueshan over OPI Fly

Elevation Polish Huangshan over Finger Paints Pop Art Purple

Color Club Miss Bliss

Layla Purple Illusion

Nicole by OPI Kendell on the Katwalk over Zoya Ibiza

Color Club Eternal Beauty

HARE Polish Oceans of Alloys (over Contrary Polish Sky)

Contrary Polish Sky

Cult Nails Let Me Fly

Color Club Harp On It

Whew...that was way more than I thought! Thanks for looking!

Ninja Polish Mystic Glacier

Ninja Polish has been killing it with their Enigma Collection and I just had to pick up one of the most recent additions: Mystic Glacier. This polish is SO gorgeous! It is my favorite from the collection so far (I still have to try Shillelagh and it looks pretty darn amazing too). What is so fantastic about these polishes is that they can be worn on their own with no need for layering and you still get the fantastic multichrome effect from the color morphing pigment.

Mystic Glacier has a medium blue jelly base (I have determined it is very close to New York Summer Hot Sky Blue) with red/green/gold color morphing shimmer. As I said, this one you can wear on its own without wearing a base color, but you can if you desire. For my mani I did 2 coats on its own.

If you like color shifting polishes, I really recommend picking this one up. It is a stunner. The colors shift looks just this vivid in person. Ninja Polish's Enigma Collection is available from their website and while a lot of the polishes in this collection are out of stock right now, you can sign up for stock notifications, and Ninja Polish will e-mail you when they are restocked. Thanks for looking everyone!

Ninja Polish Alexandrite and Color Changing Garnet

Hi guys! Today I have two lovely polishes to show you from Ninja Polish. These polishes combine the best of both worlds: color shifting pigment and color shifting glitter. They are part of Ninja Polish's Facets collection in which all of the polishes were inspired by gemstones.

First up is Alexandrite. This one has a base with a blue/green shift and the glitters shift from green/teal/pink/purple. The formula on Alexandrite was thick yet smooth, so you get really good coverage with 1 coat. For this mani, I layered one coat over OPI Road House Blues and used randomly placed striping tape for the design. I think it turned out looking really cool.

Next is Color Changing Garnet. This polish has red/green/gold color shifting pigment as well as small glitters that shift from red/gold/bronze/pink. I layered 1 coat over Germanicure by OPI. The formula on Color Changing Garnet was very much the same as with Alexandrite.

Here is Germanicure by OPI on its own. It is a lovely burgundy shimmer. It starts out sheer on the first coat, but builds nicely to full opacity with the second coat. This polish reminded me a lot of one of my favorites, OPI Royal Rajah Ruby but they aren't exact dupes. I found Royal Rajah Ruby to be more opaque at one coat and it Germanicure has more of a blackened base.  

I heard yesterday that Ninja Polish announced that they were going to stop making these polishes since the ingredients in them were discontinued, so you better get them while you can from their website. I think that they might already be out of stock of Alexandrite, but they still have Color Changing Garnet and another polish that has green/gold shifting pigments and glitters called Zultanite in stock. Thanks for looking!