Golden Oldies Thursday: Blue

The rules of Golden Oldies is that we must use a polish that is at least 1 year old.  According to my Time Hop - this polish was ordered exactly one year ago, so I think it counts!

Lac Attack was the launch of my love for Indie Polishes.  I stayed up this time one year ago for a restock to make sure I could get my hands on her Magical Musings set after seeing them over on Nailasaurus and because of my love of Harry Potter (of course).

Durmstang is a fantastic blue that I don't give enough credit for.  It's a rich, metallically blue that has shards of black in them.  The polish applies really well.  My results are 3 coats of Durmstrang over two coats of white and two top coats of Poshe (which I love love love).

(P.S Did you know I'm having a giveaway?  Enter here!)

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Lac Attack: Muggles

A muggle is a person who lacks any sort of magical ability and was not born into the magical world.  Muggles do not have any magical blood.

At first, therefore, I thought that a nail polish with this namesake would be dull, boring but with little sparkle.  But then of course, I'd forgotten about Hermione Granger.

Hermione Granger was a special kind of muggle.  Born of parents with no magical blood, Hermione was the brightest witch of her time.  And she is very sparkly.

Muggles from Lac Attack is a clear varnish with purple, pink, blue and silver shards of glitter of all sizes.  Here it is over Barry M's Berry Ice Cream.

To get this amount of coverage took me about 4-5 coats.  The glitter is easy to position and dries quickly.  I followed it off with two coats of top coat, just to make the nails smooth.

This is another of my favourite Lac Attack polishes (but lets face it, most of them are!)  It's really eye catching.  I apologise for the poor condition of my nails in these photos - glitter is such a bugger to clean up and if anyone has any tips, please please please send them my way!

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Lac Attack: Felix Felicis

Here's yet another swatch from Lac Attack's Magical Musing's collection.  I can't get enough of these varnishes, they're so beautiful.  By the way, I don't think I've shared it before but here is Lac Attack's website.  Unfortunately she no longer does International shipping but she sometimes restocks on Harlow & co which does - yey!

Felix Felicis is a potion that makes the drinker lucky for a period of time, during which everything they attempt will be successful.  It is also called Liquid Luck.

Harry Potter won a small vial of Felix Felicis from Professor Slughorn during a potions class in Harry's sixth year.  He used a small amount of it to persuade Slughorn to give Harry an important memory from Voldemort's past.  He also pretended to give Ron a small amount in his pumpkin juice before a big quidditch match (which is illegal).  The rest of the potion was shared between Ron, Hermione & Ginny in the battle against the Death Eaters at Hogwarts.

As you can imagine, a potion which brings this much luck to it's drinker would be sparkly and great.  The potion is described as molten gold in colour with droplets that leap like goldfish on the surface of the potion when it's in the cauldron.

This polish matches the potion's description perfectly.  It has a gold sheen to it, almost clear with large gold hexes and smaller gold pieces.  It spreads perfectly and I only needed to use two coats to get the coverage I wanted.

I used felix felicis as a glitter gradient over Barry M's Greenberry.  The colours go together perfectly.

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Lac Attack: Durmstrang

The Durmstrang Institute is a wizarding school located in the northernmost regions of Norway or Sweden.  They travel to Hogwarts to compete in the Triwizard Tournament.

Durmstrang is notorious for is acceptance of the Dark Arts, and was known to have educated (and expelled) Gellert Grindewald before his acension of the Dark Arts.  Former Headmaster Igor Karakoff was one of Lord Voldemort's deatheaters.

One of it's most famous students is Viktor Krum

Vitkor is a Bulgarian student and was seeker for the Bulgarian National Quidditch team while still at the school.

You'd expect Durmstrang to be strong and icy cold.  Lac Attack's polish doesn't fail to meet these standards.

It's a glossy blue with big shards of black mixed in.  The final colour is something special.  Here it is after only three coats:

It's not my favourite out of the magical musings collection, but it definitely stands out on it's own.

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Lac Attack: Weasley Wizard Wheezes

Oh yes, this place is the best place in the entire of Diagon Alley.  And I've been there!

Don't believe me?  Here's the proof...

The Weasley's are possibly the brightest coloured, loudest and friendliest Wizard family.  If I was in Harry Potter I'd be a Weasley.  Oh and they're all ginger!

This polish matches their characters (and hair colour) perfectly.  It took four coats to get full coverage.  The only niggle I had was that after two coats of top coat, it was still pretty sharp and I found myself catching it on a lot of things.  But other than that I have no complaints.

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Lac Attack: Hogwarts

"Hogwarts, Hogwarts, Hoggy Warty Hogwarts,
Teach us something, please,
Whether we be old and bald
Or young with scabby knees,
Our heads could do with filling
With some interesting stuff,
For now they're bare and full of air,
Dead flies and bits of fluff,
So teach us things worth knowing,
Bring back what we've forgot,
Just do your best, we'll do the rest,
And learn until our brains all rot."

My melody for the Hogwarts school song is Wannabe by the Spice Girls.  Go ahead, try it!

A school that's bright and colourful deserves a varnish that matches.  This glitter is amazing - red, gold, green and blue and an extra bit of sparkle too.  It matches the school colours which of course is amazing.

This is four coats of Hogwarts and two top coats.  It's amazing and sparkly and nice and I love it!

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Lac Attack: Beauxbatons Academy

Another of Lac Attack's amazing varnishes is dedicated to the French Magical School Beauxbatons Academy.

Beauxbatons Academy of Magic is a Wizarding school located in the Palace of Beauxbatons near the city of Cannes in souther France.  Beauxbatons's current Headmistress is Madame Olympe Maxime.  It's students are usually very pretty and are usually thought to have come from Veela heritage.

Fleur DeLacour is one of the more famous students from the school.

As you can see their uniform is blue.

The varnish fits in very well with the idea of the school and the students.  I do not like Fleur DeLacour but I do like Beauxbatons Academy nail polish.  It's a creamy white with blue and white hexes, mixed in with the tiniest hint of gold glitter.  It goes on lovely as a top coat but I used mine just over a base coat to get the full effect.  It took just 3 layers to get a nice coverage.

This is definitely one of my favourite polishes.

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Lac Attack: The Horcrux of It

Horcruxes are bad.  Like really bad.  The worst thing in the world.  It's a device created and used by the darkest of Dark witches and wizards, those seeking immortality.  In a horcrux, one conceals part of the soul to prevent death.  In order to do so, the soul must be torn into two pieces: one for the horcrux, and one that remains in the physical body.  To create a horcrux, one must commit "the supreme act of evil" - murder, which "rips the soul apart."  They must then perform a special spell (the incantation of which has not been revealed) which will harness their soul, allowing them to place it into an object at will.

The act of creating a horcrux is considered to be dangerously unnatural.

They're so bad, even J.K Rowling didn't want to write down the incantation, just in case she inadvertently made a horcrux or some poor small child accidentally turned their teddy bear into one.  Can you imagine it?

So a nail varnish of the same name needs to be dark, gloomy and a little bit green and evil.  This polish from Lac Attack does exactly that.  It's dark, with the hint of an evil green and a little bit of naughty glitter.  I've got it on my toes now but it looks so effective on nails.  It kept on catching my eye.  It also kind of fits in with my green nail challenge this week.

Lac Attack's store is here and you can follow her on twitter here.  It's very hard to get hold of Magical Musings.  She restocks the store every so often and they literally sell out within 10 minutes.  She's also stopped doing international shipping so I feel very lucky that I managed to get my claws on it when I did!

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