Black Dahlia Lacquer The Essentials Collection

I'm so excited to announce that Black Dahlia Lacquer is launching on both Etsy, as well as www.blackdahlialacquer.com  on at noon central time, on Friday, October 3rd, 2014. Both sites will be open for pre-sales on September 30th.

Black Dahlia Lacquer is a vegan, 5 free, Mother and Daughter company out of Texas, The bottles are beautiful and unique, almost vintage looking, and will be available in both14 ml and 8ml size. They have a nice flat brush too.

I was sent 3 collections, and a limited edition Halloween duo, to swatch and review. In this post I will focus on The Essentials Collection, consisting of 6 polishes that everyone needs in their polish stash. These are neutral colors in finishes of both cream and shimmer/flakies.

Oriental Lilies: A white cream polish, not a stark white, but a softern, flattering, very wearable white. Applies beautifully and is opaque in 3 coats.  No top coat was used here.

Lily of the Valley: Light grey shimmer with taupe and white flakies and gold glass fleck. 3 smooth coats with 1 coat of Seche top coat.

Black Iris: Off Black cream, 2 easy coats with no top coat.

Daffodil Petals: Pale tan cream, this will be very flattering on most skin tones, 3 coats, no top coat.

Beach Jasmine: Light nude shimmer with gold glass fleck, opaque in 2 coats, I used 1 coat of Seche top coat.

Dove Gray Corsage: Dark gray cream, opaque in 2 to 3 coats, no top coat.

I had absolutely no issues with any of the polishes, all apply very well, and with great coverage. My personal faves from this collection are Beach Jasmine, Daffodil Petals, and Oriental Lilies.  Thanks for visiting and mark your calenders for the pre-sale September 30th, 2014!

Black Dahlia Lacquer Prototype Swatches & Review

I was lucky enough to be given 9 prototypes from the soon to be polish company Black Dahlia Lacquer for review. Black Dahlia Lacquers are a Mother & Daughter company out of Texas, all polishes are 5 free and vegan. I  have a good assortment of holo's , shimmers, glitters, and crellies to show off, so on with the pics! :)
Let's start with my personal fave, a red linear holo...

Gorgeous, bright red holo, stunning in shade or sun, opaque in 2 coats, perfect thin formula

Next up...

A shimmery, light champagne nude, I used 3 coats  here, dries a little matte, but a coat of top coat is all it needs to bring out the lustre.

Up next...

A lovey silver with blue tones shimmer and holo polish, this is 3 coats, top coat brings out the shimmer and shine.

And now for...

A rich ox blood crelly, vampy and shiny, this is 3 coats.

Here we have...

A lovely lavender- ish purple holo, this is 3 coats.

Up next...

This one is a sand finish army green jelly with black and silver glitters, I put it over 2 different greens for the pics.  This polish gave me some problems as it doesn't like a second coat, it is being tweaked and reworked.

And now for...

This is a beautiful deep blue holo, opaque in 2 coats, great formula.

Up next is...

This is a periwinkle blue cream with shimmer and blue glitters, this is 1 coat over a periwinkle polish.  I did 3 coats of the polish all by itself at first, but found layering over a matching color gives best results.

And finally we have...

A hot pink jelly with assorted glitters, this is 3 coats, and I wasn't crazy about the large blue glitters, but this polish has plans to be reworked with different glitters.

Black Dahlia Lacquer will be opening soon, and I looking forward to keeping you all posted! Click on the link to like the Facebook page. Thanks so much for visiting :)