Rainbow Honey - Lifestream and Emerald Weapon

Okay, so I've been a little addicted to Rainbow Honey polishes recently. But I do owe it to some of their beautiful creations for helping me get back into doing my nails and blogging again. Rainbow Honey is easily becoming my favorite indie - I can't get enough of their stuff!

This time I decided to pair Lifestream with Emerald Weapon. A lot of the weapons from Part III make great bases for the other glitter toppers in Parts I and II. The weapons are very opaque and shimmery on their own, but the glitters just really make them pop!

Emerald Weapon is a but unique. It's definitely an emerald shade, since it often looks very green, but also looks very blue. In these photos and in the bottle, it appears pretty bluish, or somewhat teal. It looked like that a lot on my nails, but in some light, it also looked like a much brighter green! It's also very shimmery.

So I could appreciate Emerald Weapon and its beautiful shimmer, I decided to use Lifestream as just an accent and left the other nails alone. I applied it to both my thumb and ring finger nails, and it only took one coat! Lifestream is so full of both shimmer and glitter - you can see it added even more bluish green shimmer and has tons of micro glitter. There are some iridescent bar glitter pieces that may hang off your nails a little, but they're manageable and lay flat otherwise.

I really love both of these polishes! Emerald Weapon is gorgeous on its own, and Lifestream is just packed with glitter. I can't believe one coat of it covered so well! I'll have to try it over an even darker polish next time, perhaps black. 

You can still purchase polishes from Rainbow Honey's The Final Battle collection for $10 each on rainbowhoney.com.

Rainbow Honey - Tera Flame and Sapphire Weapon

I have more Rainbow Honey polishes to share with you all! I've been loving all of their collections that they have been releasing, especially this Final Fantasy inspired one - The Final Battle.

The two polishes I chose this time are Tera Flame and Sapphire Weapon. I figured one of the weapons from Part III of the Final Battle would make a great base for some of the glitter toppers from Parts I and II. Tera Flame actually has a grayish-black jelly base, but instead of building it up alone I wanted to apply it over something more opaque. 

I first applied one coat of Sapphire Weapon. I didn't even need two coats since one was pretty opaque! If I was wearing it alone, I would have applied a second. But since the streaks were hardly noticeable in one coat, and I was applying a dark jelly over it, I just left it. Though, in one coat, Sapphire Weapon was also much brighter and lighter than it appears in the bottle. It was almost cerulean!

I then applied one coat of Tera Flame over Sapphire Weapon. Since Tera Flame has such a dark jelly base, I only applied one generous coat of it. It's grayish, almost black, but it's still sheer enough that you can really appreciate the gorgeous glitters inside. It has medium hexes, smaller hexes, and holographic squares. It's really unique!

I'm glad I tried this combination out. Tera Flame darkened Sapphire Weapon perfectly, and at the same time, Sapphire Weapon lightened and brightened Tera Flame a little. I like how you can see so much shimmer from both polishes, and the deep indigo-blue color that was created from both is stunning.

In the closeup above, you can really see the shimmer! Hints of red, blue, and purple are very apparent, and then the glistening green from the holographic glitters makes it look incredible. You can still purchase polishes from The Final Battle collection from rainbowhoney.com for $10 each.