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 Many of you already know about Rainbow Honey's latest collection, Summer Mixtape, which launched just a few days ago.  Here is a little review of the three polishes I have.  I was sent Control, Shark Attack, and Elevate.  Imagine how pleased I was to open up these beauties!!
 This is two coats of Control, a glorious neon pink shimmer.  I did use top coat here, as it dried matte due to being a neon.  Application was easy and smooth.
 This color is so summery and beautiful and I love the addition of iridescent shimmer bits (always and forever)!
 Putting a coat of Elevate over top of Control seemed the natural and right thing to do!  Elevate has really fun matte glitters including circles and triangles.  So cool!  I literally slapped a coat on not carefully at all and am happy with the results.  (No top coat used here, but I certainly would if I was doing this for a mani.)
 I really like Elevate and anticipate it being a great topper over many colors.
 With Shark Attack, I opted for a blue base, using two coats of Urban Decay Chaos.  As an aside, I love Chaos, but why does it smell like crazy toxic onions?!  Shark Attack is blue, silver, and red glitters primarily, all swimming in a blue jelly base.  See the little "shark fin" triangle on my middle finger?
I love the teeny red glitters in Shark Attack and I think the name and concept of this polish are really rad!  If you are curious about wearing this one on its own, I'm sure you could, but I decided not to since the jelly base looks pretty sheer.  This one I also applied very haphazardly!  No problems, issues, or complaints here.  I used a coat of top coat here - it was needed.  I would have added a coat of Gelous under that for a mani, just to get everything extra smooth.

Now for the exciting part!  There is a discount code for Rainbow Honey!  Use MIXTAPE20 to get 20% off your next order.  WOOHOO!  This code expires 8/31/2014.  I think an early birthday order may be in my future.  :)  You can see all that Rainbow Honey has to offer at their site here.

Thank you so very much to Rainbow Honey for sending me these polishes to review.  I really appreciate it and keep up the great work on such super cool colors, glitters, and concepts!  All the opinions in this review are honest and my own.  While I am happy to receive these nail polishes free of charge, I am not paid to do this post or review.

It's been a busy summer so far.  I'm still hoping very much to get back in the groove of more regular posting.  I hope that everyone out there is doing well and enjoying all the pretty polish!  XOXO

This is the mani I was wearing when my BFF came to town for vacay a few weeks back. I started with three coats of Urban Decay Hashbury. It's a sheer magenta sort of purple with a slight iridescence or flash (but not duochrome).

I really love these little Urbans and I wish they had a full range of wildly exciting shades for me to choose from! Like, if they had thirty or so rockin' colors, and you could pick any six or so to make your own pack? That would be rad.

It's probably not a shocking surprise that I find myself loving hairy and bar holo glitters. Did you guess that by now? Some people find them kind of gross or creepy but I quite like them!

It's all about the pizazz, baby! I added a coat of pa A41. I see more pa polishes in my future, I can promise you that. Just wish they were easier for me to acquire.

If you hate hairy glitter, my apologies and I hope no one's eyes or sensibilities have been offended. But watch out! There will be more. Oh yes, there will be more.

Hey everybody! I forgot to post these pictures yesterday of the same manicure I featured with the Urban Decay Meltdown, Sinful Daddy's Girl, and Sinful I Love You. They are taken in sunlight. Behold! The bottle pic is Daddy's Girl.


Bottle pic here is I Love You.

Here is a neat little combo I came up with using two colors from Hot Topic. They don't seem to have names, although I believe names are listed on their website. I started with a bluey, green, gray sort of duochrome polish. Looks cooler in the bottle, but still fun on the nails. I think I did three coats.

Then I topped it with bar holo glittahs - a polish in a slightly grayed jelly base.

It's kinda like a hairy peacock?! :D

I really loved this mani but it started chipping off in big chunks pretty quickly - within about 12 hours I think. :(

Maybe I'll play with my base coat/top coat combos when using Hot Topic polishes next time. Currently I've been using Sally Hansen Nail Quencher for a base and most of the time I use Poshe for my top coat.

I hauled today!! I got a bunch of Claire's polishes, three OPI Suedes, some others.....and.....*drumroll* the original OPI My Private Jet!!! WooooooOOHOOOOooo! I didn't think I would ever find it, at least not easily in retail. I also was able to use a coupon, so super score. I'm wearing it right now and will have pictures for you soon. :)

I have some pictures of two of the newer Urban Decay polishes, Grunge and Meltdown. Meltdown is a luscious purple with a fine glowy shimmer. I felt like adding some more, so I layered one coat each of Sinful Daddy's Girl and I Love You on top. I kind of wish I had done I Love You and then Daddy's Girl in that order because it seemed like Daddy's Girl had some subtlety to it that I Love You may have trampled over! Either way, it turned out beautiful.



This is Grunge, a blackish, blueish, greenish color with a hint of silvery frost. It is very, very cool!!

I'd like to see how it compares to MAC Beyond Jealous. I'm guessing they may be similar but with different finishes.

I'm definitely looking forward to trying the other colors in the super cute Apocalyptic kit. I wonder if Urban is going to continue to make nail polish? I'm hoping this kit heralds the return of a core line!


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