Wednesday, March 27, 2013

Indie Spotlight: Pastoral by Cagedbird Nail Lacquer

I have a lovely Spring glitter to show off to you all today.  Let me introduce you to, Pastoral, by Cagedbird Nail Lacquer.  This is a perfect combination of matte mint, white, lavender, and pastel green and silver metallic glitters in a clear base.  I mentioned in a previous post that Sarah, the creator of Cagedbird Nail Lacquer, could have just named this polish 'Hayley'.  I seriously don't think I could have come up with a more perfect combination if I would have customized it myself.


My love affair with Cagedbird started a few months ago when I stumbled on her Facebook page and was in awe at the pastel glitters.  She was extremely close to 500 followers at the time and I was honored to be her number 500.  To my surprise, she sent me a mini bottle of polish to celebrate the milestone.  It was my first (and still only) polish prize!  I was beyond excited.  I mentioned how in love I was with Faerie Carnival and Pastoral and a week later a mini Faerie Carnival showed up as my prize.  How thoughtful was she?!
I immediately bought Pastoral from her Etsy store and I recommend you check out all of her creations!

Pastoral: Outdoors - shade



Indoors

To showcase this glitter, I used two coats of Sinful Colors Mauve with one coat of Pastoral.  I know...I've already used Sinful Colors Mauve before.  I didn't mean for it to happen this way, but it did.  The formula in my bottle is just flawless.  I had a few colors picked out to try with Pastoral and it was a tough decision.  My other contenders were: Sally Hansen CSM Ion, Zoya Neely and Sinful Colors Cool Gray.  I will definitely be using them all with Pastoral at some point, because I think they would all look great.  The only downside to using Mauve was that it made some of the lavender glitter not as noticeable on the nail.  I think Sally Hansen's Ion would be a good choice to show off the seafoamy mints, lavenders and greens.
Just for fun I took this macro shot of the glitter and thought it turned out pretty!

 
Disclaimer: This pretty polish was purchased by me and I will be getting it again and again and again!

8 comments:

  1. Beautiful glitter! It looks perfect over that base color. Nice disclaimer, too, lol :)

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    1. Thank you! It was such a hard decision deciding what base color to use...I'm sure you're very familiar with that conundrum!! :)

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  2. Looks beautiful! It works very well with that base:)

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    1. Thanks so much! It's a very versatile glitter, the only thing about this combination is it made the lavender glitter in it not so noticeable. I loved wearing this though, I kept it on for almost an entire week. The wear was great on it!

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  3. This looks amazing together! Love the colour combination. The glitter is super gorgeous!

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    1. It really is so gorgeous! If you're a fan of pastels, like me, you need to grab this from her Etsy store!

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  4. this looks litterally like heaven. Looks like a fairie sparkle that comes out the magic wand when she makes some spells!

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    1. That's a great description! I bet Sarah at Cagedbird would love to think of herself as a magic polished angel! I think she is with creations like this!

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