Rogue Lacquer Puns of Steel

press sample

I'm still sharing products from Indie Expo Canada 2018; slowly but surely I'm working my way through all the various posts; I do hope you are enjoying the event coverage!  It is a lot to get through!  Today I'm sharing this beautiful polish; Rogue Lacquer Puns of Steel.  Right up my alley; the flaky lover in me cannot get enough of all the flakies in all the colours!  The added bonus of holo makes me love it that much more!  

If ever a base, stamping polish and image were meant to be, it is here!  Obviously my opinion but this is a tri-fecta here; beautiful base polish with lots of interest with the multicoloured flakies, the holo flash and that stunning base colour.  Matched perfectly with a stamping polish and then stamped with an image that goes with the base polish well, complimenting it perfectly by making for an interesting nail art image yet allows the beauty of the base polish to shine through.  You can't ask for more when doing nail art!

For this mani, started with a base of three coats of Rogue Lacquer, Puns of Steel, no topcoat.  This is a fairly sheer polish, one coat would be a beautiful topper and I did think about doing a mani with it on a light gray base.  While I went with it on its own, I'm sure it will show up in a future mani as a topper!  Two coats was good coverage but I'm not a fan of VNL so added a third coat for safe measure.  This also ensure good flaky and holographic coverage as well. 

Rogue Lacquer Puns of steel is a light blue/gray base with blue, teal and magenta flakies and holographic shimmer.

While Rogue Lacquer is a relatively new brand launching earlier this year, the maker behind Rogue Lacquer, Rachel, is by no means new to the indie scene as she one part of the Ever After Polish duo and has now branched out on her own!  

Topped with KBShimmer Clearly on Top.

Stamped with Paint Polish Autumn Twilight 2.0 using an image from Kelly Negri KN7.  I don't think I need to restate my love of how perfectly this image and stamping polish go so well with Rogue Lacquer Puns of Steel!  Don't get me wrong; I know the base with go well with other stamping colours and images but this is what you hope for when stamping, at least I do when I'm stamping because let's be honest; they don't all turn out so great.

Kelly Negri KN 7

Topped with KBShimmer Clearly on Top to finish.

Rogue Lacquer products are available here; however, this is a Girly Bits store exclusive and is available here!

Links:  Rogue Lacquer, Facebook, Instagram

Have a great day and thanks for looking!

Birthday Tribite to Elena!!

Happy (Belated) Birthday to Elena of Nail Experiments!  Elena celebrated her birthday on Friday, June 22nd and I participated in the unicorn collaboration in celebration of her birthday!  These are the nails I came up with for it!

Started with a base of two coats of Zoya Mira, no top coat.

Topped with a coat of Rogue Lacquer Back to the Ninedaays.

Bottle shot of Rogue Lacquer Back to the Ninedaays.  This was part of the June 2018 Polish Pick Up and I thought it would be cool for some layering.  Based upon photos that I've seen of Back to the Ninedaays, it builds up to be opaque.

Topped with KBShimmer Clearly on Top.

Using images from BundleMonster BM-XL214, made stamper decals then applied them directly to the nail. Used CND Taffy Pink, Bicycle Yellow, Zoya Yummy and FunkyFingers Gesso.

I took a lot of pictures to try to get a good picture of the thumb stamper decal which I think is kinda cool if I don't say so myself; here's one just by itself.

Topped with KBShimmer Clearly on Top to finish.

Elena, I hope you had a fabulous day and wonderful birthday weekend!  Thanks to Amanda of @polish.and.plates for the invite; it was a lot of fun and there were awesome unicorn mani's; here's the collage!

Thanks for looking!