Hello! This is my first of hopefully many guest posts here on The Obsessed. I’m a relative newbie to the nail polish world, but my recent obsession has become just that, an OBSESSION. I’ve scoured websites and blogs, carefully plotting my next purchase based on many reviews and swatches like this one, and I’m excited to finally be doing my own.
I saw my first Lynnderella swatch on Pinterest, and when I followed the link and did a little further digging I was blown away with what the cult polish genius has created. These weren’t the typical opaque cream polishes I was used to from the drug store, each polish is seemingly more creative and unique than the last. Hooked, I finally (after a bit of website stalking) was able to nab my first Lynnderella through her stockist Llarowe, and I haven’t looked back since.
Gotta Love Brains is my kind of polish. A light, dove grey sheer base with a delightful mix of blue, pink and silver square, small and large silver hex, and tiny blue and green glitters. My favourite of the bunch is the elusive silver bar glitter, which in the sun has a nice holo to it!
I initially layered Gotta Love Brains over Essie Cocktail Bling, but I found the base colour too blue. Then I tried China Glaze Pelican Grey which was a softer, warmer grey but I had a bad bottle and the lumpy formula ruined my layering of Brains over it. I eventually settled on a layer of OPI basecoat, 3 layers of Gotta Love Brains and finished with an OPI topcoat. Finally, I had the mix I was lusting after. It wasn’t too thick with the extra two coats of a base polish, and I could really see the unexpected purple shimmer.
Final thoughts: I much preferred this polish as a three-coater than layered over a base polish. It felt much lighter on my nails, as I have quite thick fingernails that I like to keep short otherwise they start to feel like dragon claws. The purple shimmer is more noticeable in the bottle or in direct sunlight, and the one large hex glitter that I managed to get out of the bottle was quite curled and required a bit of wrangling. As you can see, the actual glitter-polish ratio isn’t very high but I think this is due to my inexperience with applying polish with any sort of glitter. I’m sure I can remedy this the next time.
I LOVE this polish, and can’t wait for my other Lynn’s to arrive from Llarowe so I can swatch them too.
What do you think? Do you have any of the coveted Lynnderella’s?
~xo~ Mai
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