KBShimmer Blogger Collection for Winter 2013 Swatch and Review

I'm extremely excited to share this collection with you today. KBShimmer has teamed up with 11 fantastic bloggers this winter to create a collaborative holiday collection, and I was lucky enough to be included! We all got to dream up our own holiday polish, including the name, and Christy brought them to life. I have to say I was really impressed with her understanding of my vision. She was able to get exactly what I was envisioning on basically the first try!

I Only Have Ice For You is my collaboration shade! This clear-based topper polish has small holographic glitters and icy white flakes for a quick and easy winter wonderland effect. It reminds me of a snow globe. This is just one coat over OPI...Eurso Euro. I think it has the perfect amount of coverage.

Here is a quick Instavideo of the shade so you can see the holographic sparkle.


Christmas Now is a collaboration with Crystal's Crazy Combos. This green jelly is positively packed with round glitter "ornaments" and square glitter "presents," and what's a Christmas tree without a star on top? There is a lot of glitter in this one, so take your time while applying to keep the pieces from sticking together. This is three coats.

Green Hex and Glam is a collaboration with Nails by Kayla Shevonne. This one was a surprise favorite for me. I knew it was gonna be gorgeous when I looked at it in the bottle but nothing could have prepared me for the way it would look on my nails. Definitely a must-have. Three coats here.

I'd Rather Be With Blue is a collaboration with Cosmetic Sanctuary. This shade is a bright sky blue with an iridescent shimmer and a matte finish. It's not gritty in the least. I am always happy to see indie mattes and this one is a treat! Three coats.

Merry Pinkmas is a collaboration with Let Them Have Polish! Cris has a tradition of doing pink themed holiday posts on her blog and this polish is a celebration of that. It really reminds me of peppermint -- somehow despite being pink it is still very holiday. The glitter on this one can also stick together a little bit so definitely give your manicure a few extra moments to dry between coats. Three coats shown.

Plum Tuckered Out is a collaboration with Pointless Cafe. This gorgeous deep plum color is accented by electric blue shimmer. The shimmer seems really alive and catches the light brilliantly. Perfect for those of you that love deep, vampy shades! Three coats.

Sand In My Stocking is a collaboration with The Polishaholic. This is inspired by Jen's holidays making sand-snowmen in California! Honestly this looks just like sand to me, it's brilliant. There are also orange carrot nose glitters, starfish, and aqua ocean-inspired glitters. It's totally packed with glitter. Here is one coat over OPI Did You Ear About Van Gogh?.

Snow Much Fun is a collaboration with Manicurator. This crisp and icy sky blue is filled with glitters inspired by falling snow, including snowflake shaped white matte glitters. The snowflakes are SO adorable, but they are also pretty large and didn't sit flat on my nail. Just something to consider if you have curvy nails like I do! Three coats shown.

Strung Out is a collaboration with Candy Coated Tips. This black jelly polish contains circle glitter in a number of different sizes and colors as well as a sprinkling of holographic microglitter. I've shown three coats of the polish by itself here, but did end up with a TON of glitter on my nails. It would probably work best as recommended -- with one or two coats layered over black.

Toast-ess With the Mostest is a collaboration with Peachy Polish. This clear based glitter topper has pinks, silvers, and golds, and is inspired by a champagne toast. For some reason this one seemed the most suited to it's blogger, in my eyes. It's effervescent and fun! I layered it over Deborah Lippmann PYT.

Will Yule Marry Me? is a collaboration with The Nail Network. This dusty navy sparkles with silver glitter. It's really beautiful and I only needed two coats for the opacity shown here. I liked that the glitters were all small to medium sized. It worked really nicely with my curved nails.

I'm so in love with all of these polishes and was so thrilled to be able to participate. Besides my shade, I Only Have Ice For You, my official most favorite picks would have to be Green Hex and Glam, Sand In My Stocking, Plum Tuckered Out, and Will Yule Marry Me?. It's tough to pick, though! Which ones are catching your eye?

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