SquareHue January 2017 The Dance Collection - Tango

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I hope you all have a fantastic Christmas, Hanukkah, Kwanzaa and a Happy New Year! I took the rest of the month off just to be able to compose myself as well as plan some posts out.  Ya know it has been a while since I took nail pictures outside. My hands look old!

The Tango is a partner dance between two people that originated in the 1890s in Argentina and Uruguay. The dance was originally called Tango Criollo or the Creole Tango, 

Golpe  - A periwinkle blue with a subtle silver/blue metallic.

This polish! Just wow, it looks way better on the nails than in the bottle! I originally thought I had a polish like it, but once I applied it I quickly realized I have nothing like it!

Media Luna - Midnight blue with blue and silver shimmer

I mean, you can't go wrong with a lovely midnight blue! This is such a pretty and dark blue! 

La Parada - Tangerine with a holo glitter

My one warning with La Parada is that it is a thick polish, so be careful when applying it. You also definitely will need a top coat with this bad boy to make it sparkle even more.

What do you think of this months collection?! I am quite excited to see what other dances are to come!


Best,
Autumn

Square Hue Ice Skate Rockefeller Center 12.16

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It is that time of year again! December's Square Hue box arrived a couple of days ago and of course I was excited! I was excited to find out what the theme was and what the polishes would look like! It has been another year of swatching for Square Hue that has been so fun! I hope you all enjoyed seeing all of the polishes this year! 

The first polish is aptly names Frosty. They call this a shimmer polish and I would have to agree with that. This is a very light silver based polish with micro silver shimmer. If you want to wear this alone, with no base color, prepare to use 2+ coats. I used three in the picture BUT you can definitely use more. 

Rudolph is a straight up shimmery red. This is the PERFECT red for the holiday season because it is that classic Christmas Red. Depending on how you apply this you could get away with 1 coat, 2 at the most, which is what I used.This is one of those reds that I can definitely see myself wearing throughout the entire year because it is pretty and if you think about it, it looks like Rudolph's shiny red nose!

Jingle Bells is a darker gold. Again, it is one of those polishes, that if you looked at it, you would associate it with Christmas. They classify this polish as a foil, but again, in my opinion I don't really think it is a foil. I would consider it more of a metallic shimmer polish. 

I do like this collection and I think that it definitely embodies the Holiday (Christmas) season. The polishes are really pretty and I love that they can give you that glitz that you want during the entire Holiday season! I would have loved to have seen something maybe about Chanukkah or maybe Kwanzaa, but if you really think about it, the red could go for both Christmas and Kwanzaa and the silver can go for Chanukkah. 

What is your favorite Adventure from 2016, or your favorite polish that Square Hue created this year?! I think mine would have to be Pompidou for sure! 

Holographic Fall Nails!

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Why hello there! I know everyone is starting their Holiday nails, but I am still in Fall! I really have been wanting to do these nails since I got the Square Hue box in November. This box made me quickly realize that brown is actually my favorite color. I know, weird right?! I've been saying it was purple for ages, but really, it is brown. Don't ask me why, I don't have an explanation. 

I used Square Hue's Pompidou polish from November 2016, because it is holographic. I seriously told you all, that I will wear this polish the entire month and I did. This polish is so dang pretty that I just can't get over it. Let's not kid ourselves though! You can never have too much holographic anything. 

I have had these Hard Candy holographic glitters for ages and have had no idea what to do with them. They look pretty awful on the lids and are a pain to get off of your eye lid when it is time to take them off. It just isn't that though, I am not exactly sure these are made for use near your eyes...the glitter is a little too coarse for my liking. 

I used the City Chic duo and pretty much just mixed the two glitters together for the ultimate holographic glitter tips! I basically just dipped the tip of my slightly wet nails into the glitter and called it a day. They aren't all even, but come on, this is me, I can't even draw a stick figure. I don't think everything has to be perfect when it comes to your nails anyways. 

I will say that I did put these under my LED light for gel nails,, I found that it actually helped the glitter dry on pretty well and not fall off. Square Hue polishes aren't gel polishes, but I will be danged! The light actually helped the glitter adhere to the polish so much better than letting it dry on  its own! The glitter even lasted through a shower, which it didn't do the first time I did these! 

Obligatory out of focus shot! 

Have a great weekend! 

Autumn

SquareHue Museum Hop Paris November 2016 & Thanksgiving Nail Art

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This is going to be a two in one post. I have swatches of this Months Square Hue polishes and some nail art that I did with more Square Hue Polishes. I had actual proper Square Hue Swatches of each polish BUT apparently them memory card went missing and I didn't have time to redo them before I wanted to get this post up. 

I do think that we need to listen to Shinedown Asking For It. No joke, cutest freaking music video ever! 

Let's get into it! 

So, I am sorry but this is the only picture of the polishes that I have. I don't think it matters if it is swatches on one finger or on 4. As long as you can see the polish, then what does it matter? At least that is how I look at it. 

We are going to be working from the pinky (left) to the pointer (right). I will save the Zombie Turkey for last though. 

d'Orsay

I don't even know how to pronounce that to be honest. But d'Orsay is a peachy-pink nude polish. I wont lie, when I first applied this polish originally, I bloody hated it. Upon wearing it the second time, I do actually like it! It is such a lovely and opaque polish. 

Pompidou 

Girrrrl/Guuuy No joke, this is my favorite polish out of the entire year! I LOVE holographic polishes! I mean, let us be real, who doesn't like holos?! I have a special place in my heart for holographic brown polishes though! I have worn this polish the most out of the entire year. This one is a bit thinner than the other two, but it still only needs maybe three coats.

Louvre 

This matter polish is a cement grey and it is one of those polishes that you need to use the least amount of strokes possible. That is to just get it to look even! When I first applied this, I couldn't get it even to save my life! You can still see some marks in the polish, but it is still gorgeous! I did apply a top coat on the end, just so you could see what it looks like shiny...and then I smudged the corner. I know, shame on me. 

As much as I grumbled about d'Orsay and Louvre in the beginning, I actually like the entire collection! Pompidou is for real a must have though! I am quickly learning that Brown may be my favorite color, is that weird?!


Okay, so for the Turkey, this really was my first time doing nail art in probably....a while. I only just found my dotting tools and I am missing the one that I actually needed. Next time I will probably get some striping polishes so you can tell the difference between the head and neck. Can you tell that I didn't think it totally through?! Honestly, it is not my best work butt I am still a noob when it comes to nail art, so you can't judge me! I have taken that away! Muahahhaha.

All polishes I used were SquareHue, but of course if you want to try and do your own Turkey, you can use any polishes you want. 

Base - Johnston Canyon

Feathers - Mönch - Nani - Slot Canyon - Sandstone

Head - Pompidou - St.Vincent - iPolish - Slot Canyon

My turkey wouldn't have looked like a zombie if the polish wouldn't have ran >_< I thought it was totally dry! Apparently not though! Bummage


Have a fantastic day! <3
Autumn

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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A Glittering New Years Eve with Claws Up

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I was talking to my girl Jacquie (Claws Up) on Snapchat one day (auttyw) and somehow we got on the topic of doing twin-nails for New Years Eve. Heck yes! I was so excited! We finally decided on a design and cue the existence of trying to find the perfect polishes to use. Then cue the stress of oh my polish gods, how am I going to do this dang cup?! Thank goodness for Google Images, you don't even want to know what the OG design looked liked! Calling it a mess was an understatement! I have no shame in admitting the fact that I worked on this way longer than I should have (almost three days) as well as I used the most ridiculous amount of nail polishes!

Lets back up a little bit and just explain what I went through. I had the design down packed and they looked awesome! ...Or well, my opinion of awesome, then it came to top coat them! Y'all know we need that extra shininess in our lives! Cue the huge sighs and freaking out, my top coat made the tips of my nails cloudy! I've had it happen before, but another thin coat fixed it right up! Not this time though, it made it worse! So, I had to go back and fix it and just....added even more polishes to try and cover up the fact that the top coat messed them up!

The freak out and stress aside, I'm actually really pleased with how these look and I can't wait to see how Jacquie's turned out! I'm really glad that we did these together! We are going to have another post together, but of course, I still need to work on it! It's not going to be that difficult though! I love doing collab posts, even though they are few and far between.

Mad props to you Jaq for listening to me freak out because I couldn't find the polishes and that I changed a setting on my camera and the OG pictures were messed up and just no bueno! You are seriously my best frand! I don't know what I would have done if it weren't for you girl!

I've got two pictures for you! One with and one without the flash! Enjoy my Glitter New Years Eve Nails!

 They aren't perfect but you know what...nail art is not my jam and for a n00b, I think they are nice. :)

Polishes Used:In order from the pinkie to index
SquareHue 1921 Style & Speed
SquareHue 2002 Idol

SquareHue 1977 Night Fever

Wet n Wild Kaleidoscope

Cult Nails Nevermore

Sally Hansen I♥Nail Art Pen Neon Pink

China Glaze Travel In Colour

Cult Nails Nevermore

SquareHue Sampokeskus (12/14)

SquareHue 2001 Never Forget

Wet n Wild Kaleidoscope

ORLY Luxe

China Glaze Angel Wings

Wet n Wild Kaleidoscope

Oh So Wet Top Coat

Jewels at the cuticle are from Sally Hansen

I told you that I used a stupid amount of polishes! 

I know it's a little messy but I like it :)

Go check out Jacquie's blog http://clawsup.blogspot.com/ and see what she did for her Glittering New Years Eve Mani! 

Also HAPPY NEW YEAR!!! I hope that you end 2015 on a positive note and start 2016 with a smile! :) 

♥♥♥♥♥

Autumn

SquareHue April 2015 - 1930's

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I'm just gonna squeeze a small update in here. I know I'm late getting this up and getting May's trio up. Cloe has been extremely sick and I've not been able to get on my computer or really even check my email. I logged in to find 81 emails, just on my blog email. I'm going to try and work quickly to get fresh and new content with you all, as well as I'm going to try and catch up on all of the press sample reviews that I need to get up. Honestly, I'm so behind right now that it's ridiculously disgusting and it's extremely stressful to be so behind. I just beg you to understand and bear with me while I try and catch up! Thank you! <3 Autumn

Hello Lovelies! I hope you all are doing swell! Today we have the SquareHue 1930's Decades Collection. I personally am super excited about the polishes that are in this months box! I ended up taking these to Busch Gardens with me to get some interesting and well, different shots of the polishes. I think I kind of succeeded with it! You tell me. 

First up we have Boardgame 1935 - Orange High Gloss Creme - 2 coats

Board games were introduced in 1935, so I think that this is a very fitting color as well as a very fitting representation of the year. Monopoly was pretty much the first board game that was marketed in the year. 

In the swatch, I used two coats of the polish. The polish applied easily, went on smoothly and didn't flood the cuticles. 

Tomorrowland 1939 - Purple High Gloss Creme - 2 coats

Tomorrowland was basically the technology or the "way of the future." It was based around the Worlds Fair of the 1939.

The polish was two coats and It was pretty easy to work with. I used the same amount of coats on each nail and you can see that they all look slightly different. I think that is so neat about this polish. I actually called it Barney Purple when looking it after top coating it. 

WPA 1933 - Turquoise/Teal High Gloss Cream - 2 Coats

On May 6, 1944 President Franklin D. Roosevelt signed the Executive order creating the Work Progress Administration (WPA).The WPA put unemployed Americans to work in return for temporary financial assistance.

This is one of those colors that is such a huge biatch to photograph correctly. This definitely in my opinion is a blue based teal, but it could definitely be a turquoise at the same time. I think that it is the beauty of this particular color because it could potentially be two colors in one polish, depending on the lighting of course. 

I really enjoyed April's polishes. I actually loved all three polishes and I'm so obsessed with the names. Call me a sucker for History but I love looking into each of the names that each polish is based on. It's such a fun thing in my opinion. Plus, it shares History with everyone, which definitely doesn't hurt.

I didn't describe the formulas individually because they were all the same. All three polishes were easy to apply, they applied smoothly and didn't flood the cuticle of surrounding nail edges at all. 

Polishes were provided for free for review

SquareHue March 2015 Decades Collection - 1920's

Hello Lovelies! I hope you all are doing well!
I'm still attempting to get the IRS to accept my Tax return, apparently in their eyes I don't exist and they keep rejecting my tax return for the same BS reason that was fixed in the first place but such is life...I'll just mail it in the old fashioned way! :P

Annnnnyways. This months SquareHue box was based on the 1920's. I know from talking to a few people they were expecting a lot of glitz and glam with this box, and I hope that they're not disappointed. The colors don't scream 1920's era to me BUT they're all gorgeous in their own way. SquareHue chose these colors for a reason and I'm sure they represent something from each other their years!

Cocktails & Cigarettes 1920 - Sheer Pink with a teal shimmer

Okay, we need to discuss how ridiculously obsessed I am with this polish. First off this polish can be worn by itself for a sheer wash of color BUT once you put it on top of another polish, it really stands out. In the picture below, I swatched it alone, 3 coats and I applied 1 coat over a plain black polish. This polish is very reminiscent of the Cult Nails Deceptive Collection. Those were top coats and to me, this polish is exactly that. It's simply stunning. Now because of how sheer it is, you will never be able to built it's opacity up.

Style & Speed 1921 - Silver Micro Glitter

I reallllllly thought that I was going to hate this polish. I've got a silver that looks similar to this and I despise it's life. However, this is really pretty. It's not one of those chunky micro glitter polishes, this is an extremely fine micro glitter. This polish is a definite two coater, unless you're daring and apply it  thick, then it can be a one coater. This is a metallic silver polish, then again aren't most silvers some kind of metallic? That's just the nature of silver. This polish though, I just can't get over how stunning and glitzy it is. This really pleased me to no end. I think it's a perfect fit to the 1920s.

Art & Deco 1925 - Copper Shimmer

We need to just stop the presses and appreciate this polish. I mean seriously, just stop and look at it. First off, this is a copper polish, I am obsessed with coppers (I need to buy more actually). However, in my opinion this is a unique polish, I don't have anything like it in my collection. This is pretty much like a serious secret duochorme. It's not obvious unless you see it. You get that deep copper shade with a lighter copper shimmer in it BUT this has pink undertones to it. In some light it looks a golden shimmer copper and in other lights it a rose gold copper. I mean, what's better then a rose cold copper?! I am so ridiculously obsessed with this polish that it's bordering on creepy. (Not really but you get the point right?) This polish is definitely a 2-3 maybe 4 coat polish depending on how thick/thin you apply it. On the pink & index finger I have 3 coats and on the ring & middle finger I have 2 coats. 

To address the formulas of the polishes. All of them are pretty much the same. They apply smoothly, but as you can see in Style & Speed you can see the brush strokes so do be aware of that. I don't have a favorite out of the trio because I actually like all of the polishes. Surprise surprise! I think Square Hue did a fantastic job with this months box. Superb! The polishes weren't too thin to where they flooded the cuticle and they weren't thick to where they were hard to work with. This is the formula of polish that I've become to associate with SH. I've also noticed that their polishes dry pretty which, that I appreciate. A woman is only defenseless when she is waiting for her nails to dry!

What do you think of the polishes? Do you have a favorite? Are you waiting for your box?!

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Oh! PS I've started doing my bottle shots again but I'm only going to put them on Instagram, so I don't have an insane amount of pictures in a blog post. So if you'd like to see them my Instagram is instagram.com/auttyw #shamelesspromotion I'd also like to mention that I've been doing sneak peeks on my Snapchat. That's also Auttyw so if you'd like to add me there you are more then welcome too! <3


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SquareHue February Decades Collection 1910

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Hello hello hello! I hope you all are doing well! These swatches should have been up around the 6th of the month. I do want to apologize about these being up incredibly late. Unfortunately on the 3rd of the month we had to put Kyri down (don't cry autumn..don't cry)...so that was pretty tough for me because she was mine. Yes, I owned a dog. I went threw a few stages of just some kinds of ish. Then I think on about the 6th we adopted two cats from our local-ish shelter. I've been dealing with that and keeping an eye on Anya because she's never interacted with other cats before. The first night I got zero sleep because I was so stressed out because she was absolutely not impressed.Then on top of all of that I've been sick again. it's been a horrid year so far! However. I'm going to stop chatting about that at this moment because I don't want to distract anymore from the post itself. So I will go into everything at a later date and show you all the new kitties. Then on top of all of that I've been sick again. it's been a horrid year so far!

Also, before we get started, I want to say address the fact that these swatches are not on my fingers. I ended up messing my hand up and cut one of the cuticles pretty bad on my swatching hand and I had to let it heal. It's just about healed now, thankfully so regular swatches of other polishes and all of that jazz will happen again. I also kind of wanted to see how the reaction would be to swatches without a skin tone behind them.

Without further adieu, lets get this party started.

Tunic - 1910 - Semi-Sheer Peach

I found the application of this iffy. It was very uneven and spotty. It took 4 coats to get to this opacity. 

In the three nails (I kind of broke the 4th by accident), you can see that they all look kind of different and that's because of the coats. They all have 4 coats but I applied each differently. The left has just thin coats, the middle has 3 thin and 1 thick and the one on the left is 4 thick coats. As you can see, it's not entirely even still.

The polish was inspired by inspired by sheer tunics popular with fashionable ladies during the first couple years of this decade.

Kewpies - 1912 - Light Baby Pink

I kind of had the same consistency issues with Kewpies as I did with Tunic. This was about 4 coats and while you can't really see it in the pictures, this applied pretty uneven and spotty. I used thick coats and let the polish dry for a while before each coat.  I do however just love how soft and delicate this polish is. 

Kewpies are little cupid figurines. They originally appeared as comic characters in Ladies' Home Journal in the December 1909. In 1912 a German toy company J.D. Kestner decided to manufacture them as toys. Myself personally, I find them to just be kind of creepy looking.

War Crinoline - 1915 - Military Green 

This polish is my favorite out of the bunch. I am absolutely obsessed with Military green polishes like this. The consistency of this was NOTHING like the other two polishes. I could have gotten away with 1 coat of this polish BUT the nails I used were quite large, and I used two coats for pictures anyways.

In 1915 ladies drastically changed their outfits. The hem lines became higher, the skirts were narrower, and the collars wider. Some of the dresses looked very manly.

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If you notice, I didn't mention anything about dry time because I didn't want to sound like a broken record repeating myself. As with all of the SquareHue polishes I've tried, these dry pretty dang quick. I was extremely impressed with the drying time of these. Kudos to SH for their pretty bad ass dry time. All of these are also high gloss finishes and do not have a top coat. 

I really love the inspiration behind each of these polishes and I think that the colors perfectly represent each year. Even though I did have application issues with Tunic and Kewpies, I would and will definitely use them again because they're definitely worth the extra coats. 

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Square Hue Rovaniemi Collection

The Square Hue Rovaniemi Collection is the last installment of their Passport Collection that they've had going on throughout 2014. This also happens to be their holiday box as well as being based on Rovaniemi. Prior to this collection I had never heard of the city before, but a quick google search led me to everything I could want to know!

Rovaniemi is a city in Finland that is dubbed The Official Hometown of Santa Claus. How fitting that this be the name of their last collection. Touche Square Hue, touche.

Now, don't expect me to actually be able to pronounce any of the names of the polishes, nor the city itself. I don't know any Finnish and I would only butcher the names badly.

Joulupukin Pajakylä means Santa Claus Village and is a traditional deep red polish with red and purple micro glitter in it. 

This polish is full coverage in two coats and the formula is absolutely perfect! This is a dream formula! Easy to work with, doesn't flood the cuticles. It's everything you want in a polish. I don't suggest mattifying this because it dulls the shimmer.

Revontuli means Fox Fire in Finish and I believe it's relating to the Norther Lights and is A dark green matte (or as they call it Satin) polish with gold micro shimmer. 

This polish is a total one coater. HOWEVER it's extremely thick and I did have to thin it out quite a bit to get it to a point where it was manageable. You do have to work quickly with this because it does dry rather quickly. In the pictures I showed you what it looked like with two coats because I wanted the nails to look some-what even.  I do like this polish in it's natural state as well as shiny, you can see the gold more when it's top coated!

Sampokeskus is a Shopping Center located in Rovaniemi and is a yellow/gold textured polish.

I'm pleased to say that this isn't overly textured, in my opinion it's just the right amount of texture without being annoying or chunky. (I'm looking at those new Zoya's) This polish can be a 1 coater if you apply it thick, or if you apply thin coats (which I suggest doing) it's a two coater for sure. This is such a gorgeous polish and it's just as stunning with a top coat!

Overall I'm very pleased with this collection! With it being my first ever polishes from Square Hue, I will say that they are definitely worth the subscription prices! My only issue is that Revontuli should be thinner to make it easier to work with, but if you have nail polish thinner, you can thin it to however you'd like.  This collection is an absolute stunner none the less and is perfect for the holidays!

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