About Me

I have long been interested in gorgeous nails, and just decided to start sharing photos of what I do! Please be kind! :) Also, if you just like mug and polish photos, check out the tumblr version! morningnailspiration.tumblr.com If you would be interested in having me review your products, send me an email at morningnailspiration (at) gmail (dot) com. When I review products, I usually do 1-2 polishes in a post and wear them for at least 24 hours (for wear tests) before snapping photos. My turn around time on polishes is currently under a week!

Sunday, October 27, 2013

Red Dog Designs Bad to the Bone

I won this polish in Red Dog Designs giveaway, and decided to do a blog post on it for fun!



Bad to the Bone is a glitter topper full of purple and hot pink glitters with pink skull and bones glitters. It also appears to have some micro-holographic bits in the base. Since this is a Halloween polish, I decided to do it over black! The skulls were really hard to get out- I had to dig them out with toothpicks and other brushes. But the other glitters slid on smoothly! I did 2 coats of Bad to the Bone over 2 coats Zoya Raven (black). This post will mostly be picspam! So enjoy!!







Final thoughts: This was a fun Halloween topper! The only thing I would change is to have more of the pink skull and crossbones so that they would be easier to dig out and get onto your nails!! Otherwise, this was a truly fun Halloween polish (for the girly bad to the bone in all of us)!

Please note: All my opinions are my own. If you would like your own Red Dog Designs polish, check out Red Dog Designs here and their shop here.

Thursday, October 17, 2013

Liquid Sky Lacquer Swerve


“He awoke each morning with the desire to do right, to be a good and meaningful person, to be, as simple as it sounded and as impossible as it actually was, happy. And during the course of each day his heart would descend from his chest into his stomach. By early afternoon he was overcome by the feeling that nothing was right, or nothing was right for him, and by the desire to be alone. By evening he was fulfilled: alone in the magnitude of his grief, alone in his aimless guilt, alone even in his loneliness. I am not sad, he would repeat to himself over and over, I am not sad. As if he might one day convince himself. Or fool himself. Or convince others--the only thing worse than being sad is for others to know that you are sad. I am not sad. I am not sad. Because his life had unlimited potential for happiness, insofar as it was an empty white room. He would fall asleep with his heart at the foot of his bed, like some domesticated animal that was no part of him at all. And each morning he would wake with it again in the cupboard of his rib cage, having become a little heavier, a little weaker, but still pumping. And by the midafternoon he was again overcome with the desire to be somewhere else, someone else, someone else somewhere else. I am not sad.”

- Jonathan Safran Foer, Everything Is Illuminated

Polish Information: This extreme holo is Liquid Sky Lacquer Swerve! It's described as a bright blue holographic polish! Application was very easy, and it is EXTREMELY holographic. I actually think it looks more like a dusty blue, but it is a brighter dusty blue if that makes sense. It almost seemed to have an extra layer to it, like there was an extra dimensionality to it. I'd say it looks like 2 shades lighter than Enchanted Polish's Bruised Nutcracker. That's the closest comparison I can think of for it! I used two thin coats with butter LONDON's top and base coat for all of the following photos.


Liquid Sky Lacquer Swerve indoors with flash

Liquid Sky Lacquer Swerve indoors with flash

Liquid Sky Lacquer Swerve indoors

Liquid Sky Lacquer Swerve indoors with flash

Liquid Sky Lacquer Swerve indoors

Liquid Sky Lacquer Swerve indoors
The holo was really easy to see, even without the sun outside, and for sure with ANY kind of indoor light:

Liquid Sky Lacquer Swerve outdoors in shade

Liquid Sky Lacquer Swerve outdoors in shade

Liquid Sky Lacquer Swerve in indoor fluorescent lighting

Liquid Sky Lacquer Swerve in indoor fluorescent lighting

Liquid Sky Lacquer Swerve in indoor fluorescent lighting
Final thoughts: This was a gorgeous dusky blue with strong holographic pigment that wore very well and applied easily. The color was fascinating to me, and it's hard to describe, but certainly very unique! I loved wearing it (and am still doing so)!

If you want your own, and I think you probably do, check out Liquid Sky Lacquer on facebook or buy it at her shop, here!  Such a great holo!

Please note: This polish was provided to me for my honest review.  All opinions are my own!

Wednesday, October 16, 2013

Liquid Sky Lacquer Jekyll & Hyde



“Quiet minds cannot be perplexed or frightened but go on in fortune or misfortune at their own private pace, like a clock during a thunderstorm.”

- Robert Louis Stevenson, The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde 

Polish Information: This beauty is Liquid Sky Lacquer's Jekyll & Hyde, a gorgeous thermal holographic that shifts from a deep brown when cold to a true tan when warm. The colors are PERFECT for fall! Application was easy, and two thin coats provided full coverage. I used butter LONDON top and base coat with it. The color shifting was very fast and easy (little to no effort caused it to change between the two throughout my day).

Liquid Sky Lacquer Jekyll & Hyde in its cute matching bag
Liquid Sky Lacquer Jekyll & Hyde with flash

Liquid Sky Lacquer Jekyll & Hyde in indoor lighting

Liquid Sky Lacquer Jekyll & Hyde with flash
 For the following photos of the color changing, remember that you can click on them to make them larger (if they are hard to see):

Cool- Warm shift of Jekyll & Hyde in normal indoor lighting 

Cool- Warm shift of Jekyll & Hyde in normal indoor lighting with flash

Cool- Warm shift of Jekyll & Hyde in indoor fluorescent lights

Cool- Warm shift of Jekyll & Hyde in outdoor weather with clouds
Final thoughts: This one was so perfect for fall! I wore it for 3 days with no chips and loved every second of it! I got a few compliments too, and one of my coworkers even asked, "Hey, weren't your nails darker earlier?" Why, yes, they changed color! ;) It was a lot of fun, and two really gorgeous holographic colors!

If you want your own, and I think you probably do, check out Liquid Sky Lacquer on facebook or buy it at her shop, here!  Such a great fall shade!

Please note: This polish was provided to me for my honest review.  All opinions are my own!

Tuesday, October 15, 2013

Different Dimension Good Evening, Clarice and Homeboy


"Tell me, Clarice– have the lambs stopped screaming?"

-Dr. Hannibal Lector, Silence of the Lambs

Polish Information: This lovely polish is "Good Evening, Clarice..." from Different Dimension, from her Halloween collection based on Silence of the Lambs. It's a light minty green with VERY subtle holo, but a STRONG glow in the dark! Unfortunately my cameras are not talented enough to photograph the glow, but it's amazingly bright with NO effort (just normal daily activities cause it to glow BRIGHTLY for OVER 10 HOURS!!). I was really impressed with the glow, and very sad I couldn't capture it for you. Even though there is light holo, I couldn't see any of it, even really with flash. The color is pretty- a bit of a pale lime green, I think I'd say.

It was a little of a watery application- I did three coats over one coat of Sally Hansen Ivory Skull (just a plain white). I hear that white under glow in the dark polishes helps the glow, and maybe it does, as this is the brightest glow I've ever seen with no effort!! So, on to the photos!

Different Dimension Good Evening, Clarice...

Different Dimension Good Evening, Clarice... indoors

Different Dimension Good Evening, Clarice... indoors

Different Dimension Good Evening, Clarice... indoors

Different Dimension Good Evening, Clarice... indoors WITH flash!

Different Dimension Good Evening, Clarice... indoors, florescent lighting

As a second bonus, I also wore Homeboy again last week. It's one of her fun 80s neon holographics! They are scattered holos, but very bright, fun colors! It was super fun, and applied incredibly smoothly. I did two coats with base and top coat.

Different Dimension Homeboy indoors

Different Dimension Homeboy indoors

Different Dimension Homeboy indoors

Different Dimension Homeboy indoors with flash!

Final thoughts: These are both fun polishes for different reasons. The glow in Good Evening, Clarice... was insanely bright and lasted a long time. Wear was also good, though application was watery. Homeboy has an amazing application- very smooth and easy, and a lovely scattered holographic in neon color!!

As a note, I purchased both of these polishes entirely on my own and decided to review them just for fun! If you want your own Different Dimension polishes (and trust me, you do!), you can check out her shop here and her facebook page here!

Monday, October 14, 2013

Liquid Sky Lacquer Tripindicular


“Having a Vision is not enough. It must be combined with imagination, determination, faith, hope and passion. It is not enough to just stare up at the stars...we must become the stars that the stars shine down on.”

- Victoria June


Polish Information: This extreme holographic polish is Liquid Sky Lacquer's Tripindicular which is aptly described as "an extreme holo pink polish" on her site. Application was very easy. One coat was pretty opaque, but I used two coats WITH a top and base coat for these shots. Top coat did not diminish the holo at all. It's been cloudy out up here the last few days, but indoor light brought out a really strong linear holographic anyway! It is a middling pink (not hot pink, but not a baby pink either). It is a little silvered from the holo, but not too much, surprisingly! On to the gorgeous photos with Tripindicular:

Tripindicular in its pretty matching bag!

Indoor lighting, no flash with Tripindicular

Indoor lighting, no flash, of Tripindicular

Indoor lighting, no flash, of Tripindicular

Indoor with flash of Tripindicular

Indoor lighting, no flash, of Tripindicular

Indoors with flash of Tripindicular
Looking at it, it reminded me of the strong Color Club pink holos. So I decided to compare it to the 2012 and 2013 pink Color Club halo hues, shown in bottles and then on the nails in the same order. I also included the Layla, but it wasn't even on the same planet as the others in terms of the holographic shift. I thought in the bottles, the Liquid Sky Lacquer looked very similar to the two Color Club holos, but on the nails, there were many more differences:

Pink holos for comparison (L-R): Liquid Sky Lacquer Tripindicular, Color Club Miss Bliss, Color Club Halo-Graphic, and Layla Hologlam Effects Retro Pink
 I actually thought on the nails, the LSL and CC holos were going to look the same. The closest is Halo-Graphic, but it's honestly not even on the same order of organised holographic as the LSL. The LSL was BY FAR the most holographic and the least silvered out (which is quite an accomplishment, in my opinion). It's hard to maintain color with holographic pigment, but somehow, Liquid Sky Lacquer has managed to do it beautifully!!

Pink holos for comparison (L-R): Liquid Sky Lacquer Tripindicular, Color Club Miss Bliss, Color Club Halo-Graphic, and Layla Hologlam Effects Retro Pink (top: indoors, no flash, bottom two: indoors with flash)
Final thoughts: Tripindicular is a one of a kind EXTREME pink holo! For holo lovers anywhere, this is a must. No other holo even seemed to come close! I loved it! From application to wear time, it was a beauty! No sunlight needed.

If you want your own, and I think you probably do, check out Liquid Sky Lacquer on facebook or buy it at her shop, here!  This one is a beauty!!

Please note: This polish was provided to me for my honest review.  All opinions are my own!