SquareHue Sail Windward Islands - June 2016

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I know, I know. I am running a month behind on these at this point. I almost have July's done and they will be up in the next week or so! I have just been trying to catch up on everything at this point. Also, please excuse the fact that my swatch "pose" is really off with these, I have no idea what was going through my mind. -_-

The Windward Islands are a group of larger islands in the Lesser Antilles. All of these islands are within the West Indies. I've heard of all of these places, but didn't realize where they were. I'm glad that I now know! I think my favorite part about SquareHue is that with each month, you always are learning something! 

Did you also know that Square Hue offers 2 different subscription boxes, a 2 polish box and a 3 polish box starting from $14.99 a month. A portion of proceeds from each box subscription goes towards a specified cause. 

St.Lucia - A mustard yellow creme with orange undertones. 

I am not much of a yellow person, but looking through my collection, all of my yellows are some variation of this color. I must be a lover of mustard yellow polishes! 

St.Vincent - Bright Orange shimmer with red undertones.

This is such a striking polish! I love how the light captures the sparkles! 

Martinique Grass green with shimmer

This is the color that my Niece loved the most. Bright colors like this always catch her fancy! 

All of these polishes formula wise are on par with how they always are. Each polish was opaque in two to three coats, depending on how I felt they looked on the nail. As you can tell, I did some stamping this month. While it's not great, I wanted to see if each polish is actually stampable. Do they claim this? No, but it's fun to see, especially so you don't have to go out and buy special polishes just to stamp.

The stamping isn't that great on my end, because I am still trying to get used to it. I will say that all of these stamped great. Are they great stamped on each other? Probably not because as you can tell, on some of the nails you can't really see it. I did have a little problem stamping with the green because it was a little thinner than the others, but it still turned out great! I think if they were used over a darker polish they would look excellent! 

What do you think of June's collection?! I think all of these could definitely be summer polish staples because they are all bright!

-Autumn

Polishes were provided for free from SquareHue. 

SquareHue Scooter Key West May 2016

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I know that I am a month behind on my swatches of these! Please excuse that! Last month was pretty hard here with the many different things going on. I'm not going to get into it right now, but everything has gotten better. Now we are just waiting to find out what is going on with my Grandfather. Ai yi yi. 

I've lived in Florida and have never been to Key West, it's one of those places that are on my list to visit! If it's anything like what I've seen and what these polishes make me think of, then my trip will definitely be sooner than later!

Duval Street - Mint Creme

Duval Street is such a gorgeous light minty polish. This leans more towards to blue side of the mint spectrum. It's such a gorgeous creamy polish. It applied like a dream and was opaque in two coats.

Mallory Square - Pastel Pink with Blue Microglitter

Mallory Square is a gorgeous pink polish. This was the one I was unsure about liking because I am not a total fan of pink polishes. Let me just tell you though, it is so gorgeous! This one is a little on the more sheer side so you do need three coats for full opacity BUT, it's totally worth it!

Southernmost Point - Fuchsia with a blue shift

This is my favorite polish out of the trio. I love the fuschia with the blue shift. When this catches the light just right, it glimmers. Chris saw this polish and was instantly in love with it as well! That's a rarity.

All of these polishes applied like a dream and were opaque between 2-3 coats. I seriously love SquareHue's polishes. I just can't get over them!

I am so excited to see what is coming up for the rest of the year!
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Square Hue Bike Amsterdam -February 2016 Collection

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Good hello!
Okay, is it just me or is anyone else's allergies going insane right now?! Mine are and it feels like I am dying...okay not really but anyone with allergies can totally relate. The worst part? If it is outside, I am allergic to it! ...Oh, I'm also allergic to my cats but I will never get rid of them! Muhahaha. I'll suffer. 

This months SquareHue at first glance was uneventful to me...That was until I actually painted my nails! These polishes are so pretty all in their own ways and the one polish I thought I would like the least, is actually the one I like the most! Surprise, surprise! 

I saw someone say that they were disappointed in the fact that there was no green in the collection. I'm not disappointed, but I am surprised...but also at the same time, I can understand why there isn't a green in the collection. Ya know? 

Waterland District -

 A municipality in the Netherlands consisting of 9 village, cities, towns, and/or districts.

With this polish, depending on the length of you nail, you could get away with one coat, but I did two coats as a just in case...because that it what I prefer.  The formula was amazing as well! It was not too thick or too thin and it dried pretty quick. 

Vondelpark - 

Largest city park in Amsterdam

I love how dark this polish is! It is such a deep grape purple! In certain lights though it can look black, but that is okay! This is also a 1-2 coat polish depending on the length of your nails. I used two coats. I also want to mention that the formula is the same as Waterland District.

The Nieuwmarkt - 

A square in the center of Amsterdam

 This is a two coater. This is the polish that I was talking about. I really thought that I would hate this color, because I am just so over red nail polishes. However, this has such a lovely pink shimmer to it, which you can see that it makes it unique to my collection...I think. Regardless, it is a very pretty nail polish! Since this polish is a shimmer, the formula is thinner than the others, but I didn't have any issues with it at all!

Even though in the beginning I was feeling quite "meh" about the polishes, they all grew on me! I'm glad that these were in the box as well as Nieuwmarkt is PERFECT to wear for Valentines day! I also want to mention that the accent fingers were stamped with SquareHue polishes from the same collection. I used the MoYou Holy Shapes 01 Stamping plate. I would link it, but I don't know if there is still that issue going on with them. 

What do you think of this months collection?! If you missed last months collection, I posted pictures on my Instagram

Oh! Oh! Sheesh, I almost forgot to mention this! Did you know that you can now buy old collections of SquareHue?! That made me ridiculously happy to know! You can buy last years collections as well as a few collections from 2014 AND their nail care system! Woohoo! SquareHue Shop

Best,
Autumn