Nail Mail! Blue Diamonds

Yesterday I received my first Indie polish in the mail! On July 31 I won Me and My Nail Polish's giveaway and my prize was 1 polish from Custom Nail Art. Ashlyee Deakins, the owner of Custom Nail Art, did a fantastic job of packaging this polish to make sure it shipped safely. For that alone I applaud her! She wrapped it up in a ton of bubble wrap, then packaged it with with the shavings stuff similar to Julep's packaging material, in a fairly decent sized box. She also included her business card and a code for 5% off my next order!

I'm not a fan of big glitter polishes, but I thought it would be fun to have one with diamonds so I picked Blue Diamonds. In real life, this polish looks absolutely gorgeous in the bottle. It's packed with tons of microglitters in silver and blue. The polish itself is a bit weird; it's a gel with a tint of blue. The gel gets a little thick at times and in the bottle it sometimes looks like there's clumps of blue gel mixed in with clear. Maybe I should have shaken it a bit, I'm not sure. It applies fine though, and dries very quickly. The texture is a bit rough, so I would definitely clear over this with some top coat. I like my nails nice and smooth, but that's just a personal preference. Also, this polish is 3 Free.

I tested it out on a couple of my toes, and I'm just not a fan of big glitter, at least not on me. I'm going to have to play with this a little bit. I think I'm going to end up using this one by layering it a bunch... and, it's just screaming out to me to use in a jelly sandwich manicure. So I'll definitely try that out one of these days!

Regardless, this is one of those polishes which I could literally just sit here all day and stare at the bottle. It really is gorgeous in the bottle... so now I just need to figure out how to get it to look like that on my nails :)

I couldn't resist trying it out on my thumb.. unfortunately it wasn't as dry as I thought it was because I completely  smeared it all over the place! Fortunately I did so after getting a couple of photos!

I guess you also get a sneak peak at my current manicure, or at least a hint of the color :) This took 4 coats of Blue Diamonds to get it layered enough to look even close to how it looks in the bottle. In that second photo, I know it looks like the diamonds are sticking out at crazy angles all over the place but rest assured, they were flat against my nail. I think I captured the color really well in the first photo of my thumb. It still didn't capture all of the glitter, but you can see just the hint of the blue glitters in the last photo. I think this polish would look gorgeous over a pale blue.. Essie's Mirror collection comes to mind, specifically the blue shade which the name of is blank on my mind at the moment.

I will DEFINITELY swatch this better at some date in the future, but I just couldn't resist doing a little bit to show with you all immediately. I'm still half tempted to go stare at the bottle for awhile, it really is that gorgeous!

FOOT  PHOTO WARNING!!!

I took a photo of my feet because I wanted to share with you the long distance effect this polish has. At a distance this polish creates a really awesome effect: it almost looks like snake skin.

 Blue Diamonds is  $11. Her price range is $7 - $11 but she also sells minis at $3.75. She also has package deals where you can buy 3 full size polishes for $27 and so on.

I think this polish is going to come perfectly in handy during Winter, what do you think? :)