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I’ve been beyond excited for this collection for a few months now.  A Wrinkle in Time by Madeline L’Engle is one of my all time favorite books.  I re-read it a couple times a year and each time I get a little something new from it!  I actually love the entire series but this collection of amazing polishes is based on just the first book.  I may or may not have danced around my office when I found out I would be receiving some of these to review for you all!  A combination of books and polish just can’t be beat in my opinion!

A Wrinkle in Time is a grand fantasy adventure where Charles Wallace a precocious 5 year old and his older sister Meg and their new friend Calvin are whisked away to save Charles and Meg’s father, Mr. Murray, from an evil greater than they could have ever imagined.  They are led on this adventure by three cosmic beings Mrs. Who, Mrs. Which, and Mrs. Whatsit, an eccentric bunch to be sure!

Let’s dive right in.  I’m going to start with Happy Medium.  The Happy Medium is a being who Mrs Who, Which, and Whatsit take the children to visit on their way to Camazotz (more about Camazotz later!).  The Happy Medium is always jolly and happy but she also actively avoids confronting any dark or unhappy events or places when gazing in her crystal ball.  She becomes extremely upset when viewing upsetting scenes from the children’s everyday lives or viewing the “Dark Thing” that is blotting out stars in the universe.   Also Meg’s mother tells her that she wishes that Meg knew how to keep her feelings at a “happy medium” because Meg is prone to excess of feeling, both positive and negative feelings.

Literary Lacquers – Happy Medium

Happy Medium is a lovely bright honey mustard yellow linear holographic polish with a strong metallic gold shimmer.  It’s more of a creme based holographic polish and has a really lovely glow.

Literary Lacquers – Happy Medium

Unfortunately the light didn’t want to play nice with me so I didn’t get a good shot of the holo in this one but I assure you it’s there though it is a bit lower density than some of the others.  It’s still plenty sparkly!  The formula is fabulous and this shows two easy coats with topcoat.

Polishes used:  Tip Top – Toughen Up Basecoat; Literary Lacquers – Happy Medium; Digital Nails – Ain’t Nobody Got Time for That Topcoat

Next up we have Camazotz.  Camazotz is the planet that the children travel to in order to save Mr. Murray.  This planet is fully under the control of IT and “The Dark Thing” and all the vitality of the world has been drained.

Literary Lacquers – Camazotz

This is an oil slick of a polish!  It’s a black linear holographic polish and it is truly gorgeous.  Usually I’m not a huge fan of straight black polish but the holographic pigment in this one slightly grays it so it’s softer and easier for me to wear!  Just look at that holo and that’s not even in the SUN or with FLASH!

Literary Lacquers – Camazotz

The formula on this gave me no trouble whatsoever.  Clean up was easy peasy as well (I dread clean up on dark highly pigmented colors but this one didn’t give me any trouble).  This shows two coats plus topcoat!

How about a flash picture for fun so you can see how very holo’y it is (not a word…don’t care):

Literary Lacquers – Camazotz (flash)

Polishes used:  Tip Top – Toughen Up Basecoat; Literary Lacquers – Camazotz; Digital Nails – Ain’t Nobody Got Time for That Topcoat

Next up we have Megatron!  Megatron is one of Meg’s nicknames bestowed on her by her scientist parents.

Literary Lacquers – Megatron

Now you’ll notice my nails are a different length here…I did my swatches and somehow lost the bottle shot of this polish unfortunately I didn’t realize that until AFTER I had to cut my nails down due to a break.  Soooo new swatch, new length…Sorry about that!

Megatron is GORGEOUS.  I love this polish so much.  This is a jelly type holo just like Pan Galactic Gargle Blaster and Raspberry Cordial and in fact this is a purple version of those previous two polishes.  So it’s a lovely medium purple with strong linear holographic and a smattering of scattered holo sparkles and some dark purple microflakies.

Literary Lacquers – Megatron

The formula on this is just what I’m used to.  It is a touch on the sheer side but two coats reached opacity without issue.  While all of these polishes are shiny without topcoat I still use it out of habit.  Two coats plus topcoat!

Polishes used:  Tip Top – Toughen Up Basecoat; Literary Lacquers – Megatron; Digital Nails – Ain’t Nobody Got Time for That Topcoat

My favorite of the ones that I received is up last!  Strong Steady Hand.  Strong Steady Hand is Calvin’s polish and is a reference to how often he is there for Meg during their adventure and challenges.  He is constantly reaching for her hand to steady and support her.  There is one point where Meg is the one who reaches for him to offer Calvin support and comfort and you can just feel the amount of emotion that these teenagers have for each other even though they’ve just met.  You can really tell that this is going to be a long love story for them!

Literary Lacquers – Strong Steady Hand

This beauty is a coral leaning orange scattered holographic polish.  There is so much depth and sparkle in this polish that it quickly catapulted to one of my favorite polishes ever!   Not only that I found it extremely flattering on me so that didn’t hurt my feelings any at all!

Literary Lacquers – Strong Steady Hand

No formula issues on this one either!  I am always really quick to support indie makers who take the time to really make sure that their polishes are on point and Amy is definitely one of those.  These wonderful makers put a lot of time and energy and effort into bringing us these wonderful creations.  I know every time I reach for a “LitLaq” that it’s going to be just awesome and I don’t even hesitate.  Two coats plus topcoat!

Polishes used:  Tip Top – Toughen Up Basecoat; Literary Lacquers – Strong Steady Hand; Digital Nails – Ain’t Nobody Got Time for That Topcoat

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Readers, I cannot even begin to tell you how excited I am.  Literary Lacquers combines two things that I am passionate about, reading and nail polish!  I was unsuspectingly hanging out on Facebook one day with the Amazing Amy (this is what I call her in my head) from Literary Lacquers said she’d like to send some polishes for me to review.  It was ALL I could do to contain myself let me tell you.  I don’t have to contain myself any longer!  So Amazing Amy sent me four beautiful polishes to review but ONE of them I’m saving for another post but I had a Literary Lacquer that I somehow had never put on the blog before (I really thought I had!  The shame and embarrassment is real folks because I have used and loved this polish several times), so I’m going to review it here too!

“We’ll dive right in with the bard himself,” as David Tennant’s character said in the Catherine Tate Red Nose Day skit!  Up next we have Midsummer Night’s Dream!  Now of course this is based on the wonderful play by William Shakespeare.  It’s definitely one of my favorites and I think that this polish does a good job of evoking the feeling of the play!

Midsummer Night’s Dream is a beautiful royal blue (dare I say it?  TARDIS blue!) metallic? jelly polish.  So I put the question mark because this jelly is unique it definitely has a foil or metallic quality but it is DEFINITELY also a jelly polish.  The effect is really nifty and I really enjoyed that, I got the foily (not a word but I’m going with it!) metallic payoff with all the squishiness that I love about jelly polishes!  It’s filled with blue metallic and gold metallic and holographic glitters.  Some of gold glitters have a reflective curl, but, they laid flat on the nail so it was definitely just appearance and not actual physical curling.  I actually feel like it gave it a little depth and character that added to the unique qualities of the polish.

Polishes Used:  Glisten & Glow – Stuck on Blu; Literary Lacquers – Midsummer Night’s Dream; Digital Nails – Ain’t Nobody Got Time for That Topcoat.

Next up in my line up of awesome Literary Lacquer polishes is Woman of Pleasure and it’s the only book (or poem…HINT) that I haven’t read before although from what Amazing Amy tells us it might be interesting to go and find it and read it even though it’s not in my wheelhouse as far as literature goes!

Literary Lacquers – Woman of Pleasure

Now Literary Lacquers is well known for their awesome holos but let me tell you this crelly based glitter is SO awesome.  It’s gorgeous and I just know that I will wear it again and again.  It has a periwinkle base and it’s chock full of tiny navy blue metallic micro glitter, baby pink satin glitter, magenta metallic dots, and navy blue metallic hexes.  Definitely a pleasing combination!

Literary Lacquers – Woman of Pleasure

Just look at that!  I love crelly glitter polishes so much, they are definitely my favorite.  This one had a perfect formula definitely one of the best I’ve used.  This is two coats and I didn’t have to fish or manipulate the glitter on the nail.  I also had a really good glitter spread without any hassle at all!  In addition the crelly base is thick enough that it doesn’t really have any of the bumpy glitter issues some polishes have and it only needed a nice coat of topcoat to smooth it up and make it super shiny!

Polishes Used:  Glisten & Glow – Stuck on Blu; Literary Lacquers – Woman of Pleasure; Digital Nails – Ain’t Nobody Got Time for That Topcoat.

This was my first Literary Lacquer that I mentioned that I thought I had reviewed.  I’ve used it several times in different manis and have really enjoyed it and now it’s time for you to get a look at Pan Galactic Gargle Blaster!  PGGB (as we in the polish community like to call it because the internet is famous for abbreviating things) is part of the Literary Liquors Collection and is based on the drink made famous in The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy!

Literary Lacquer – Pan Galactic Gargle Blaster

Of course you know reader by now that this color is definitely one that I am immediately drawn to and it’s NO SURPRISE that it’s the one I bought first so many months ago.  Top that off with the geeky reference to The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy and well I’m in nail polish heaven!  PGGB is a lovely true teal linear holographic…but wait there’s more!  It also has the teeniest holographic microglitter throughout so as if there wasn’t enough get up and go in the holographic nature of the polish she went ahead and added more holo…let me tell you that this polish in the sunlight is so stunning it might be dangerous to drive!

Literary Lacquer – Pan Galactic Gargle Blaster

Literary Lacquer – Pan Galactic Gargle Blaster (with flash)

Now, I mentioned that it’s amazing in the sun (actually anywhere) but for photos I had a problem because despite the fact that I live in the South it has been cloudy and raining off and on!  That means NO SUN *sigh* so I took a photo with flash so you could see that it has a definite strong linear holographic quality.  This is what I would call a jelly holo and it starts off  sheer but I was able to get away with 2.5 coats (extra at the tips to combat VNL).  The formula is very workable, buildable, and even so it works out great!

Polishes Used:  Glisten & Glow – Stuck on Blu; Literary Lacquer – Pan Galactic Gargle Blaster; Digital Nails – Ain’t Nobody Got Time for That Topcoat

Next up is my favorite and I already think I might need a backup bottle.  Hands down the best gray polish I own and it’s inspired by the Edgar Allen Poe poem, Annabelle Lee.  This polish is fittingly named after the poem and Amazing Amy has done a fantastic job of capturing the feel and essence of the poem in this polish!

Literary Lacquer – Annabelle Lee

Isn’t it beautiful?  I’m so in love with this one.  I spend a lot of time looking for awesome gray polishes because the color really suits me plus it’s my go to neutral in nail art.  This is a very slightly warm light to medium gray jelly polish that is packed with teensy tiny iridescent microglitter and dark gray microflakies (FLAKIES ya’ll…I LOVE FLAKIES…*coughs* sorry about that I got carried away).

Literary Lacquer – Annabelle Lee

Now the formula on this one IS sheer (I can’t wait to play with some stamping nail art with this one) but the color is easily buildable and I did not need undies with it.  This photo shows 3.5 coats, as per usual most people and even I would get away with three coats but I add extra to the tips for photos due to prominent nail lines.  Also I thought that this one might dry a bit gritty given the sheer quality of the base and all the microglitter but honestly one coat of topcoat was all it needed and I didn’t think it was gritty at all.

Polishes Used:  Glisten & Glow – Stuck on Blu; Literary Lacquer – Annabelle Lee; Digital Nails – Ain’t Nobody Got Time for That Topcoat.

I think, while Literary Lacquers has some amazing and beautiful holos, that her glitter and flakie polishes definitely deserve more time in the limelight because they are just as delightful as the holos!

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