Readers' choice: LA Splash Midnight Rain

What better than to continue the theme of Midnight named polishes? It's time for another reader request, and this week's pick was submitted by Nola87 on MakeupAlley. This is Midnight Rain from LA Splash.




Three coats. A bit sheer, but you get a lot of bang for your work! Red and blue glitter suspensed in a dark blue, sheerish jelly. Of course, you could just layer it on top of for example a navy blue, but that will give you a more sparse glitter look.

Any glitter lover would need this. I buy my LA Splash polishes from Cherryculture.com, and from what I understand these are also available in stores in the US.

Remember, you can always submit swatch and comparison requests, via email, twitter or MakeupAlley! You may consult my collection spreadsheet, found on the collection page just below the blog header, to find something you'd like to see on this blog.

Swedish word of the day:
midnatt -noun midnight
Lovely time of the day ... or night, perhaps.

Mundain Monday moss

It's not so much the polish itself, as it is my sloppy application and the state of my cuticles... I'm a bit embarassed to show you these photos, but this polish deserves better than mere oblivion. Let me present to you, my five-minute manicure Golden Moss, by LA Splash.




Two coats, and yes, I did this in five minutes, as I was hasty about running out to lunch with my dad. I should have and normally had done a third coat, which is painfully obvious if you look at the sunny picture. However, this murky green shimmer with golden glitter is fabulastic. The gold bits doesn't really spark or create any bling, it's just coarse bits of ... Well, let's say they're the golden, fallen autumn leaves, lying there in the forest moss. Maybe I should have saved this one for fall?

At least now you have time to go find in in good time before the autumn arrives. Non-Americans and those who can't access stores where LA Splash is sold, can find their gorgeous polishes on Cherryculture.com.

Swedish expression of the day:
Ur led är tiden The time is out of joint
Famous quote from Hamlet - and obviously my perception of time and the seasons are.

Splashing

Here's another polish heavy on the visible nail line - or maybe not so heavy at all, in all it's jellieness. I needed my mandatory green for luck polish when taking a test, and as I am now incredibly bored by winter, I went for some kick ass color. This is Blowfish Green from LA Splash.



Three coats, and still nowhere near opactity. Which is fine by me as long as I have well filed and shaped nails, though I am of course aware of the fact that many of you do not appreciate visible nail lines at all. However, this one really is quite an amount of fun, since there aren't too many bright glitters out there.

Since I usually have a very hard time locating swatches of LA Splash polishes, I made a small wheel of the ones I have, so that you may have a look.

1. Midnigh Rain
2. Golden Seahorse
3. Aquatic
4. Blowfish Green
5. Tropical Storm
6. Sea Lion
7. Kamodo Dragon
8. Golden Moss

And just a few close ups:

Midnight Rain, Golden Seahorse, Aquatic.

Kamodo Dragon and Golden Moss.

A few quick notes: Aquatic is also very sheer and is probably nicest as a layering polish, and Kamodo Dragon has the lumpiness which I hate. Too bad, because it's a nice green leaning gold, with what appears to be teeny tiny prismatic glitter.

I used to have a theory that I tested on Kamodo Dragon - I was wondering if diluting a polish like this one with some clear would make it less lumpy and more deep and buildable. I may now cross of that option. It didn't work. This combination of fine shimmer and glitter just does not work outside a bottle. You know, like some of the Color Club polishes in the Untamed Luxury collection. It makes me sad. So many great ideas wasted with pigments that don't do them justice. Very sad. Sad, indeed.

That being said: LA Splash can be found in a great variety of colors and finishes, online at Cherry Culture.

Swedish word of the day:
stänk -noun splash
Sure is.