Silly Bees Chickadees – Gift of Melly 2014 Collection

Discount Provided for Honest Review

I have a fantabulous collection to show you.  I’m so sorry that this is coming to you with just a few more days to get them however the USPS doesn’t conform to any kind of good standards these days so I have been working to get them out to you as quick as I could once I received them!

I love that the owner of Silly Bee’s Chickadees is so passionate about giving back.  Last year she created a blogger collaboration collection for the Holidays and each blogger chose a charity that 20% of the purchase price from each of “their” polishes sold would go to.  This has been brought back this year with a whole new set of Holiday Movie inspired polishes.  You can really feel good about picking up your favorites.  Also, I like that while these are inspired by the Holidays most of them are definitely versatile enough to use all year.  This is a pic heavy post so get prepared for a glittery visual assault of epic proportions!

Without further ado first up we have:

Visit The Polish Monster Here

Visit The Polish Monster Here

Diana from the Polish Monster chose The Alzheimer’s Association as the charity that she wanted proceeds from her polish to benefit.

Silly Bees Chickadees - Diana's Merry Little Christmas

Silly Bees Chickadees – Diana’s Merry Little Christmas

Diana’s Merry Little Christmas is a beautiful glitter topper filled with silver holographic triangles, hexes, and microsparkles along with fine silver mini bar glitter.  It’ll look good over all kinds of undies, I choose a bright blue here and it made it just feel so wintery!

Silly Bees Chickadees - Diana's Merry Little Christmas

Silly Bees Chickadees – Diana’s Merry Little Christmas

This is one coat of the topper over undies.  I didn’t find that there were any issues with application.  The glitter came out easily and applied evenly.

Polishes used:  Glisten & Glow – Stuck on Blu; Butter London – Blagger; Silly Bees Chickadees – Diana’s Merry Little Christmas; Digital Nails – Ain’t Nobody Got Time for That.

Next up we have:

Visit The Polish Monster Here

Visit The Polish Monster Here

Sydney is Diana’s daughter and she helps her mom out on the blog sometimes.  Sydney is learning early how to be a great citizen and has chosen Bikes or Bust a local Toys for Tots gift drive that provides new bikes for kids as her charity.

Silly Bees Chickadees - Sydney's Hot Chocolate

Silly Bees Chickadees – Sydney’s Hot Chocolate

Sydney’s Hot Chocolate is the palest milk chocolate creme with gold and red shimmers.

Silly Bees Chickadees - Sydney's Hot Chocolate

Silly Bees Chickadees – Sydney’s Hot Chocolate

Application on this was beautiful.  It was self leveling, opaque in two coats and is a perfect creamy nude.  It would work perfectly as undies for ANY of the glitter toppers in this collection or as a nude for any nail art.

Polishes used:  Glisten & Glow – Stuck on Blu; Silly Bees Chickadees – Sydney’s Hot Chocolate; Digital Nails – Ain’t Nobody Got Time for That.

Now we have:

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Visit The Lacquerologist Here

Emily chose Second Chance for Animals in Canton, OH as her Charity of choice.

Silly Bees Chickadees - Emily's Dreaming of a White Christmas

Silly Bees Chickadees – Emily’s Dreaming of a White Christmas

I think of the whole collection this is the only one that I don’t feel like I could wear all year.  I love it though!  This is a glitter topper with red metallic bar and microglitters and white matte dots and snowflakes.

Silly Bees Chickadees - Emily's Dreaming of a White Christmas

Silly Bees Chickadees – Emily’s Dreaming of a White Christmas

This had a great application.  I did have to fish slightly for the snowflakes but I think that’s pretty standard with a shaped glitter like this.  It spread out nicely though and I had no problem getting plenty of dots.

Polishes used:  Polishes used:  Glisten & Glow – Stuck on Blu; Butter London – Yummy Mummy; Silly Bees Chickadees – Emily’s Dreaming of a White Christmas; Digital Nails – Ain’t Nobody Got Time for That.

Next up is:

Visit Ida Nails It Here

Visit Ida Nails It Here

Ida chose Hospice of Austin as her charity.

Silly Bees Chickadees - Ida's Electric Snow

Silly Bees Chickadees – Ida’s Electric Snow

This is a gorgeous glitter topper that I will reach for again and again. It’s festive without conforming to seasonal standards.  It’s a mix of matte white glitters and multi colored holographic hexes and some gold dots as if the others weren’t enough!

Silly Bees Chickadees - Ida's Electric Snow

Silly Bees Chickadees – Ida’s Electric Snow

Application was as delightful as all the others thus far.  The spread and mix of glitters is perfect and pictures show one coat over undies.

Polishes used:  Polishes used:  Glisten & Glow – Stuck on Blu; Superchic Lacquer – Faerie Frost; Silly Bees Chickadees – Ida’s Electric Snow; Digital Nails – Ain’t Nobody Got Time for That.

Now I’m going to show you:

Visit Adventures in Acetone Here

Visit Adventures in Acetone Here

Jacki chose the amazing Polished Girlz as her charity.

Silly Bees Chickadees - Jacki's Whoville Christmas

Silly Bees Chickadees – Jacki’s Whoville Christmas

This awesome glitter topper has a shimmery base and is packed to the brim with metallic and holographic gold glitter and has a healthy dose of matte lime green, red, and pink glitters that would make it a great transition topper going into Spring as well.

Silly Bees Chickadees - Jacki's Whoville Christmas

Silly Bees Chickadees – Jacki’s Whoville Christmas

This one is dashingly delightful.  Good even spread and also very plentiful as well.  This is one coat over undies.

Polishes used:  Glisten & Glow – Stuck on Blu; Silly Bees Chickadees – Sydney’s Hot Chocolate; Silly Bees Chickadees – Jacki’s Whoville Christmas; Digital Nails – Ain’t Nobody Got Time for That.

Next up I’m going to show you:

Visit Accio Lacquer Here

Visit Accio Lacquer Here

Mishka chose the Cancer Research Institute as her charity for this collaboration.

Silly Bees Chickadees - Mishka's Rare Exports

Silly Bees Chickadees – Mishka’s Rare Exports

Here’s another festive polish.  This has metallic red shreds and glitter with matte yellow stars throughout.

Silly Bees Chickadees - Mishka's Rare Exports

Silly Bees Chickadees – Mishka’s Rare Exports

This one was slightly more of a challenge than the others.  The stars really wanted to stay in the bottle but I upended it for a few minutes and I was able to coax them out a lot easier.  This is one coat over undies!

Polishes used:  Polishes used:  Glisten & Glow – Stuck on Blu; Butter London – Yummy Mummy; Silly Bees Chickadees – Mishka’s Rare Exports; Digital Nails – Ain’t Nobody Got Time for That.

Last but not least we have:

Visit Imperfectly Polished Here

Visit Imperfectly Painted Here

Steph has chosen to support Pet Alliance Orlando with her polish.

Silly Bees Chickadees - Steph's Silver White WInters

Silly Bees Chickadees – Steph’s Silver White Winters

This glitter topper has a healthy dose of scattered holographic pigment satin blue hexes and squares, matte white hexes, and holographic silver squares.

Silly Bees Chickadees - Steph's Silver White WInters

Silly Bees Chickadees – Steph’s Silver White Winters

This is a perfect wintery polishand I’m sure that there tons of polishes that this would look AH-mazing over.  Pictures show one coat over undies.

Polishes used:  Polishes used:  Glisten & Glow – Stuck on Blu; Butter London – Prince’s Plums; Silly Bees Chickadees – Steph’s Silver White Winters; Digital Nails – Ain’t Nobody Got Time for That.

You can get this collection and a bunch of other great polishes over at Silly Bees Chickadees’ Etsy Store.  You can keep up with all the news and see some amazing pictures at Silly Bees’ WebsiteFacebook, and Instagram!