Stash Swatch Initiative: CrowsToes Indian Summer

Hello!

Today I have CrowsToes Indian Summer!

CrowsToes Indian Summer. Indoors, artificial light, no flash.

Indian Summer is a mysterious color shifting polish. At extreme angles, it looks reddish-orange then shifts through magenta to deep purple. In most situations, I saw the purple. It's shimmery, mysterious, and pretty!

CrowsToes Indian Summer. Indoors, artificial light, no flash.

Swatches today are a base coat of Seche Clear, three coats of Indian summer over all but my ring finger, which got two coats over Cult Nails Nevermore, and one coat of NYC In a New York Minute. This has a thin formula, that needed three coats for opacity, but was easy to apply.

CrowsToes Indian Summer. Indoors, artificial light, no flash.

I purchased my bottle recently from Llarowe.

CrowsToes Indian Summer. Indoors, artificial light, no flash.

More soon! ^_^

Stash Swatch Initiative: CrowsToes Her Goose Got Cooked

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No challenge post for Tuesday, so we're back to swatches! I need to catch up! And I may have been bad this month and made an epic haul... stay tuned for that guilt-ridden post later next week. On to today's polish:   CrowToes Her Goose Got Cooked!

CrowsToes Her Goose Got Cooked. Indoors, artificial light, no flash.

Like Absolum, Her Goose Got Cooked is a super flashy glitter topper. Absolum is one of my favorite polishes of all time, and this is nearly as good. I love the warm mix of glitter. It is really shiny, and most of it shines holographic as well. Check out the close-up!

CrowsToes Her Goose Got Cooked. Indoors, artificial light, no flash.

Swatches today are one dabbed coat of Her Goose Got Cooked over yesterday's Brash Blue Dream plus one coat of Gelous and one coat of NYC In a New York Minute. I love the color contrast between these two polishes!

CrowsToes Her Goose Got Cooked. Indoors, artificial light, no flash.

Her Goose Got Cooked has large, gold holo hexes; medium orange and pink holo hexes; and both small and tiny gold hexes all in a clear base. As is usually stated with CrowToes listings, the polish is thick. I did add a few drops of thinner to mine to make it easier to handle. Otherwise, no issues with this. It is gorgeous!

CrowsToes Her Goose Got Cooked. Outdoors, natural light, no flash.

CrowToes can be found at llarowe, which is where I purchased this bottle. Her Goose Got Cooked was originally part of last year's holiday offering from CrowsToes. Fortunately, this one was made a permanent part of the line-up!

CrowsToes Her Goose Got Cooked. Indoors, artificial light, no flash.

More soon! ^_^

Stash Swatch Initiative: CrowsToes Absolum - Your Potions Master

Hello again!! This is my 100th post! *Happy Dance* Woohoo! I didn't really think I'd last this long when I started--I figured I'd give up or get bored, but nope--still having fun! ^_^

Anyway, I've got another indie polish up for swatching. This was an impulse buy back in September, and I couldn't be happier about that. I've worn this polish a few times already, and it's stunning!

CrowsToes Absolum. Indoors, artificial light, with flash.

This beauty has a ton of incredibly shiny glitters packed into that bottle. I see big blue hexes; smaller green, silver holographic, and orange hexes; tiny silver holographic, black, and blue hexes; and finally, some black bar glitter. It's totally gorgeous on the nail. I've worn one coat over a base of Zoya Ibiza here (specifically, it's a base of Seche Clear, one careful coat of Zoya Ibiza, one coat of Absolum, and one coat of Seche Vite). It's like these two polishes were made for one another--the shimmery, inky blue of Ibiza and the shiny, shiny, shiny blue, orange, and green combination of Absolum is fantastic.

CrowsToes Absolum over Zoya Ibiza. Indoors, artificial light, with flash.

Formula was extra thick, but there's a warning about that everywhere I've seen this for sale. I used some Seche Restore thinner on my bottle and it glides on perfectly. I didn't need to dab or anything--just a swipe and maybe some slight placement of a few glitters, but otherwise easy!

CrowsToes Absolum over Zoya Ibiza. Outdoors, natural light, shade, no flash. This is the most 'true to life' capture.

Even though the glitter in this is incredibly shiny and I love that, I did slap some Butter London Matte Finish over it. I love it this way too.

CrowsToes Absolum over Zoya Ibiza. Indoors, artificial light, no flash.

If you're wanting this one (and really, why wouldn't you? haha), it can be found a few places. I bought mine from llarowe, but there are a few other etailers out there that carry this one.

CrowsToes Absolum over Zoya Ibiza in matte. Indoors, artificial light, no flash.

More soon!! ^_^

CrowsToes Absolum over Zoya Ibiza. Indoors, artificial light, no flash.