Indie: Smitten Polish Wickedly Smitten swatches

Disclaimer: The following polishes were provided to me for swatching and review purposes.

I am clearly behind on posting, but I have lots of indie polishes to show you!

Here is Noelie's collection inspired by the musical Wicked. If you'd like to read her inspiration for each shade, you can check out her blog post on it here.

Purchase information: Smitten Polish Etsy Shop

As usual, beautiful formulas.

Look to the Western Sky - 3 coats - such a unique polish! The polish is very smooth and fluid. The flash makes it seem more transparent at the sides of the nails than it appears IRL.




I Feel... Wicked - 3 coats - Dood. I don't even like holo glitter, but this polish is pretty inspired. Looks a bit deeper IRL - the jelly nature is accentuated by mah flash. A few of the smaller glitters were impossible to clean off my cuticle.. I hate it when that happens.




I Feel... Wicked (1 coat) over Illamasqua Rampage - :9




Traveling by Bubble - 3 coats - How cute is this? There's a fine shimmer running through this as well, that I didn't know about until I started applying it on the nail!




Comparison: Traveling by Bubble and Deborah Lippmann Glitter in the Air(4 coats) - The glitter mix reminded me of the DL, but they are totes different


Pink Goes Good with Green! (3 coats) - super cute muted minty base!




Who Steals a Dead Woman's Shoes?? (1 coat) over Essie Marshmallow - This is so bling-tastic. I tried to swatch it 3 coats on its own, but it blinded the hell out of my camera and the pictures turned out awful.




Nice collection, Noelie! I think my fave is IFW over Rampage (the name combo even sounds appropriate LOL).

I have not seen this musical yet... I really should! Have you seen it?

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I have been absolutely swamped at work these last few months, and added to that is wedding planning (which is a nightmare, as I expected). I have dreaded wedding planning even when I was a kid (and had no beau in sight), and now that I seriously have to do it, I just want to run away. Someone help me convince my fiance to elope!!! Ayeeeee.

Upcoming indie swatches: Happy Hands, Polish Revolution, and Darling Diva! I also have some mainstream polish (I think) from a few swaps to show, AND I have a lot of the Color Club Halo Hues that I have yet to swatch >.> My god, I need an extra day in my week!!!

Indie: Smitten Polish mini-spam (a few from "Smitten with the Holidays" collection)

I purchased these in early December, and swatched them just before I left for Canada. I think I wanted to post these swatches a couple times before, but Noelie was also away for the holidays, so I decided to wait until she got back to post these pics! Her Etsy shop is open again (actually, it must have been open for a while, and I just forgot to check again), so you can grab these if you're interested in them!

Smitten Polish Frost Fairies (3 coats) - Very good formula for a white jelly, but I apply whites very carefully :)




Smitten Polish Frost Fairies (1 coat) over Essie Marshmallow (2 coats)




Smitten Polish Winter is Coming (3 coats) - Excellent formula. I think this looks even nicer in person! Plus GAME OF THRONES! 3.31.13!!!! That seems far away :(




Smitten Polish Greensleeves (3 coats) - This is pretty opaque at 2 coats, but I did 3 for the pictures. It dries on the satin side, so definitely looks better with topcoat. Reminds me of a more complex Zoya Ivanka.




Comparison: Smitten Polish Greensleeves (3 coats) and Ivanka (3 coats) - The big flakes in the Smitten give it an overall bluer appearance, but the base seems very similar between the two. Smitten's formula wins, in my opinion.


Smitten Polish A Midnight Clear (3 coats) - Similar to Greensleeves, this one dries to a satin-like finish, so use topcoat to bring out the best in this one. Very pretty.




Comparison: Smitten Polish A Midnight Clear (3 coats) and Zoya Song (1 coat) - These look very close in the bottle, but on the nail they are rather different. The Zoya is darker and does not catch as much light as Smitten.


Hope your 2013 is going well! I've been doing some spring cleaning around the apartment. This morning, I made a post on our apartment's e-bulletin board giving away our old vacuum and steam mop (having been replaced by the Dyson in my previous post, and a new Bissell I purchased from Amazon). I got two responses in about 5 mins of posting. The second person was SO BUMMED that he had missed out. I've never seen someone so distraught over not getting a steam mop before ("my 1st major letdown of the new year"). So, I hope your new year is going better than his, at least!

Indie: Smitten Polish Hydrangea

Disclosure: The following polish was sent to me as a gift from Noelie!


Noelie sent me to this a while ago, and I just realized I never posted swatches! AGHH! Super pretteh!

I have her blog and shop info in the last post, but here's a link to her Etsy shop

Smitten Polish Hydrangea - 3 coats on its own

Indie: Smitten Polish Fall/Halloween 2012 spam

Disclosure: The following polishes were provided to me for swatching/review purposes!

Hey guys!

So a couple weeks ago, Noelie (of Noelie's Nails and Smitten Polish) asked me if I'd swatch her newest Halloween collection, since she was going to be out of town for a while and wouldn't have time to swatch them herself.

These will be available on her Etsy shop starting tomorrow, Oct 11. She is restocking many of her other polishes as well, two times over the day (1pm and 7pm Central time).

Hope these swatches are helpful! WTF is my standout favourite. Formula was great on all of them!


Ermahgerd, Candee Corms / Spice Cake / Hocus Pocus / Wicked, Tricksy, False!



Ermahgerd, Candee Corms - lol at the name. 3 coats on its own.





Spice Cake - 3 coats on its own. It's a little more brown IRL, but reminds me of leaves changing colour more than cake ^^





Hocus Pocus - I did 4 coats of this, but only because I have nothing appropriate to layer it over, LOL. This is a very warm purple (like SH Purple Pizzazz, in my mind), but of course it photographs way bluer than it is IRL.





Wicked, Tricksy, False! - my personal favourite!!!


Wicked, Tricksy, False! - 4 thin coats on its own - It is a bit difficult to do 4 coats on its own, but still doable.




Wicked, Tricksy, False! - 2 coats over black jelly - I prefer this much more! It also works well over a black creme, too :)




Hope your October is going swimmingly! I still have lots more indies to post, if you can believe it! Hahaha... *moisturizes cuticles*