Glam Polish I'd Just As Soon Kiss A WOOKIEE!

Today I have the first of a set that was just released in April. Every month Glam Polish chooses a hero/villain inspiration and makes a duo of polishes based on the pairing. The pair for April was Princess Leia and Darth Vader. Today I have the polish inspired by Leia, I'd Just As Soon Kiss A WOOKIEE, which is described as a "white scattered holo with strong crimson shimmer, ultra holo glitter and fine holo microglitter." Given that Leia's signature color is white, it's certainly no surprise to see it used here.

The formula of I'd Just As Soon Kiss A WOOKIEE was good-- I was a little nervous because you can never be quite sure which way it will go with a white polish! But this was nicely pigmented, if maybe a touch thick. It does want to be a little streaky, but using a light touch really helps. I used three coats but honestly could have gotten away with two because this was so easy to work with! I am really pleased that I didn't have any issues because I feel like a polish like this could be troublesome!

I loved this! Personally, I feel like this is a polish I could wear all the time. There something soft and elegant about this and it just looked really great on my nails! I just wanted to look at my nails all the time. This was a real winner. I think this is the first Glam Polish I've featured on the blog and I'm hoping we see more Star Wars related polishes from this brand in the future!

NerdLacquer General Effing Leia

If yesterday's polish represents the earliest incarnation we see of Princess Leia in A New Hope, today's polish represents her older, wiser, more mature and still kickass incarnation we see in The Force Awakens. I mean, the name says it all: NerdLacquer General Effing Leia! Not a princess anymore, but a full fledged General, which we didn't see in the original trilogy, even though pretty much everyone else got the title by Return of the Jedi. Glad they have remedied that 33 years later! General Effing Leia is described as a "muted plum base with a regal and complex silvery-green shimmer."

The formula was pretty good; a tad on the thick side but generally easy to use and I didn't have any issues applying it. It was opaque enough that I probably could have gotten away with applying two coats, but did three because that's my jam these days! I'll be honest, at first I was a little put off because my bottle didn't look nearly as purple as the photos on the NerdLacquer site, but the polish does dry darker on the nail than it looks in the bottle, so that might be the issue. I think the silver shimmer also greys it out a bit in photos, so it may be a bit more purple in real life.

Gorgeous, is it? This definitely has a regal quality to it and the shimmer really elevates it and gives it a lot of depth. And purple, despite not being a color we really see Leia in, definitely fits her regal personality and hey, she was a princess (and her mother was a queen)! So it totally works. Plus, Leia is definitely one of the strongest characters in the whole franchise, if you need reminding:

Make way for the General!