Polish Alcoholic Summer 2014 swatches

I've been following Sabrina's blog, The Polish Alcoholic, for a while now and when she asked me if I wanted to swatch and review a few polishes from her new upcoming Summer 2014 collection I was over the moon!

She send me 3 polishes and a cuticle oil and in the bottle they all looked stunning! I immediately took off my current mani and put one of these on to try.

Let's start with the oil, because, well, I have to admit I'm not a big fan of cuticle oils. I prefer a cream for my extremely dry and down right horrible cuticles, but this smelled so nice, I did give it a go.

I got the Coco Ice Cream scent (or is it flavor? I never know with these types of product...) with my polishes and it smells like a milky coconut. I love this smell and it does linger on my fingers for a nice long while, without being too overpowering. I've been using it for about a week now and my cuticles are nice and soft. The oil sinks into my skin very quickly and I had no issues with greasy fingers what so ever.

The polishes I received are Lexell, Kohoutex and Hale-Bobb. If you're wondering about the names, instead of giving them typical summery names, all polishes in this collection are named after famous comets!

As soon as I openend the package, my eyes were drawn to Lexell, a gorgeous grey with a blue and pink shimmer.

Isn't that just stunning? The shimmer is really noticeable in real life, but because it's such a delicate shimmer, it's extremely hard to photograph...

The second polish is Kohoutex, a teal shimmer polish with blue, purple and green small hex glitter.

Last, but certainly not least is Hale-Bobb. This is a flaky topcoat and I tried layering it over several colors, to see what the effect would be. The white... well... as you can see it's not the biggest success, lol, but I love it over the blue and black. The flakies look stunning and give depth and life to the base.

The formula for all these polishes was really nice, opaque in 2 - 3 coats, depending on how thick you make your coats, they dry really fast and the brush is heaven! 

I was expecting the standard, nothing special brush but this totally surprised me!  It's a little wide, but not too wide, I'd say the perfect middle between an OPI and a China Glaze brush, it handles really nicely and fans out perfectly on the nail. I'm a big fan!

Overal, I love this collection and I was pleasantly surprised by all three polishes. The bottles are a little smaller than average, with only 10ml, but you still get a decent amount of polish.

The Summer 2014 collection will be available on June 1st and consists of the 3 polishes I just showed and 3 other polishes:

McNaught: Red, green and blue flaky topcoat
Hyakutake: Bright blue with silver flecks
Lovejoy: Red holographic

Polish Alcoholic is available on her Etsy site, here and she shippes internationaly.
Each of the colors in this collection retail for € 7.50, except for Lovejoy, which is prized at € 8.50.

Sabrina kindly gave me a discount code to share with all of you: use the code 10%OFF and get 10% off your entire order!

I love them all, but if you make me pick a favorite, I'll have to go with Lexell. I absolutely love it and can't wait to put that back on! Which one is your favorite?

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