A Polished Narcoleptic: press samples

Bee's Knees Wax Melts Release

PRESS SAMPLES
WAX RELEASE AND HOLIDAY SCENTS
DAY 11 of 12 DAYS OF DEALS

I received 5 of the 6 scents in wax and the last in scroap so I'll add my thoughts on that one too. These will be $4.50 regular price for 4oz. Don't forget about the free/discounted internationally/combined shipping running through the 12th! Deals start at 12pm EST. Bee's Knees recommends allowing 2 weeks cure time from the pour date for the best throw. (reach of the scent.) In order to complete this review before release I wasn't able to wait that time. These still have really good throw. I used one square each.

12 Days of Deals

Most of the deals are still in stock!

12/1-Wand Cores come back in capped amounts. Review of the ones I bought.

12/2-Release of 3 new HP polishes: Wampus Cat, Horned Serpent and Hidebehind

12/3-New Fantastic Beast themed scrub and bath bomb combo launch

12/4-Return of He's Adopted and Friend From Work

12/5-Release of 2 new Avengers themed polishes: What Did It Cost? and Everything BLOG POST

12/6-Official launch of one coat multichromes found in event prototypes: Water Wolves and Through the 4th and 5th Ribs BLOG POST

12/7-Return of A Good Amount of Blood, Queen Bee, I Am Yours, Cursebreaker, Banshees Are In, Hermaeus Mora, Don't Make The Suit Animated, Bloo[d]oo, and maybe the Mittengard Wyrm

12/8-Mystery Bags-3 full sized polishes that can include a new mystery prototype Polish Pickup overpours, Fandom Flakies overpours, and retired, hard to find polishes. $25 each

12/9-Holiday scented scroaps launch! REVIEW

12/10-Return of IT, I <3 Derry, S. S. Georgie, Ironworks, Loser/Lover, The Turtle and other Itversary colors

12/11-Wax launch! We have a bunch of holiday scented wax clamshells and a few staple scents

12/12-Cold Process Soap launch and flash sale of 15% off every order

Here I reviewed some previous scents and some will be included in the wax release such as Come Home Nell, The Bentneck Lady, and The Twin Thing.

NEVER FEED AFTER MIDNIGHT

gingersnap cookies combine with the decadent scent of s'mores and a touch of cool fall air.
This is mostly gingerbread to me but the cool fall air rounds it out nicely. Filled half of my house quickly, around 500 sq ft. This does not actually have any glitter, I failed to wipe it all out from the previous tart.

melt video

WHAT'S THIS?

a blend of freshly fallen snow, cinnamon, fir, and vanilla

I always love scents with "snow". No idea what actual scent that is (google says the presence of less odors) but it's very fresh and clean, almost laundry like. This one has really filled my house! I actually switched it off after a while because it was strong enough. That means it will last longer. :)

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SANTA'S SLAY

equal parts cinnamon and cooling peppermint

This one is mostly cinnamon to me with something slightly herbal on cold sniff but warm both notes are noticeable and go together so nicely. Very strong throw, filled the whole house quickly, 1000+ sq ft, one floor.

melt video

THE PUMPKIN KING

warming combination of clove, cardamom, bourbon, and pumpkin

This filled half of my house quickly. Strong on pumpkin and cardamom.

melt video

CHEER OF FEAR

pepper and cinnamon mix with sweet vanilla and cherry tobacco

This is a mellow cherry on cold sniff and I love it. Warm it is very unique and somewhat odd but I still like it. Filled the whole house easily.

melt video

KRAMPUS CLAWS
-smells of everything spicy and gingerbread with a little added touch of sweet chai.
I recieved this in scroap form. It's a little more on the foody side than I usually enjoy but I love spices and all of these are foods heavily spiced so I actually do like it!

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POP Polish
Pastel Multichrome Oil Slick Collection, half collection
PRESS SAMPLE

POP Polish generously sent me 4 of 8 Pastel Multichrome Oil Slicks and my goodness they are amazing! Part multichrome,part foil,part shimmer. In bright direct light the predominant shift/shimmer comes out against the pale background to create a metallic foil like look while shade and low light allow the myriad of shifts to come out to play.

I was also sent POP's topcoat, Liquid Glass. I am not used to wearing a non quick dry but I felt this did dry pretty fast! Very glossy and I actually had great wear with these. Guess all those people who say a normal dry has better wear may not be crazy after all, huh? hehe. I havn't had a chance to try it with any other brands but this is a good combo for my nails. I usually wear Vapid's quick dry and get great wear with that too but not other brands. I won't be replacing my quick dry as I'm often in a hurry but this is nice to have in the rotation.

UPDATE: this is, in fact a quick dry so color me impressed with wear!

Before I start my review here are some notes from the maker and my added blurbs:

The shimmer is more pronounced than in the original Oil Slicks. I agree with this based on photos and my knowledge of traditional multichrome polishes. Multichromes with a dark base usually show a very solid color shift and the actual shimmers aren't noticeable. The shimmers look larger here, perhaps because of the light backdrop but don't leave any streaks.
Shifts we aren't accustomed to seeing in multichromes appear such as grey and nude. Agree but it's so elusive on camera.
These need to be allowed to dry thoroughly to reach opacity, it's better to allow each coat to completely dry than add tons of coats. I took her word on this and didn't test it, I painted while watching tv and let each dry properly. I didn't reach full opacity on all of the shades with 3 coats. It was close though and I do have a very "loud" nail line, she wants to be noticed haha.
They seem to be darker toned in direct light which is the opposite of the original slicks. This I don't know about. I don't have any of the original slicks but I tend to think of the pastel base as "lighter" and the strong shifts as "darker" which would make the opposite true in my opinion but perhaps the shifts are actually just more colorful rather than darker. Except in sunlight, that does make the colors look more saturated but sadly didn't show it's face for all of these swatches.
Available to the general public starting August 10,2018 from POP's Etsy shop.
$16 each

Macros in natural light, from top left: Slick and Slide,
Surf Slick,Sand Slick, Watermelon Bubble Slick

Swatch details:

In every swatch I used 3 coats of polish, 1 of POP Liquid Glass.
Natural light sources in all photos, my artificial ones just didn't add anything to the story.
Dried fairly quickly to the touch, I gave at least 15 to 20 minutes for each coat to be sure. I was watching Netflix so...sometimes more.
No shimmer ridges or streaks, not too thick or thin.
Long brush, wide fan, I like it. Bottles are a little precarious.
No trouble with removal, simple like a creme but clean up was a bit more challenging than some because the super shimmer likes to stick to skin and side walls. My preferred method was to shower, then clean up if needed before photos. Not every swatch required clean up.
No photos show the true beauty of these, videos are closer but they really do need to be seen in person to be fully appreciated. I'll be posting videos to my Instagram and Facebook page and in the P.O.P Polish Fanatics Facebook fan group. Follow me to see them and join the group for tons more swatches and general fun!
My top picks: of the 4 I have Sand Slick and Watermelon Bubbleslick. Of the 4 I didn't receive Slick days of summer and Limeslickle.

SLICK N SLIDE

Primarily light purple and blue, shifts to magenta,grey and violet as well. Not quite as light as these photos show, I had to adjust the tone with this one as my camera really over saturated it.

Opaque in 3 coats for me.

SURF SLICK

Mermaid tail in a bottle. That's an acceptable color description, right? lol, you see why I leave this up to makers usually. Green teal base, shifts darker teal, bright blue, azure, indigo and gold.

I used 3 coats but I think I could have used only 2.

partial sun

sunlight

macro

SAND SLICK

Ok so the name of this one should have clued me in but I expected pinky mauve with golden, purple, blue and green shifts. That's all there but the predominant color is the lovely sandy gold. This polish is like a rainbow, so many colors, I bet it would look awesome layered over a mauve.

Still a little sheer on me with 3 coats. duncurr. Ha!

sunlight

P.O.P Polish, Pastel Multichrome Oil Slick Collection

macro

indoor natural cool lighting, at an angle

super grainy bed time photo but look at the shiffftttsss

WATERMELON BUBBLESLICK

Very prominent gold, pink and green shifts, bronze and blue are in there too. Perfect name for this one as well.

3 coats wasnt't quite opaque in every light but close enough for me to not be bothered.

caught in the rain!

macro

Will you be picking up any of these? I'm planning to snag some of the others. Follow POP Polish on social media for updates and lots of great swatches and reviews.

POP Polish Fanatics facebook fan group
POP Instagram
Etsy Shop

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