Emerald & Ash Period Poops

The now apparently defunct Emerald & Ash started an April Fool's day joke a couple of years ago with a polish called Period Poops.  It got such an enthusiastic thumbs-up that they brought it back once a month for about a week (get it?  hahahahaha), making this the most hilarious polish in my stash.

indoor, CF lighting

Period Poops (and hooboy, that name, haha or cringe depending on your personal capacity for embarrassment!) is a rich chocolate to espresso (decidedly not at all fecal) brown with a lightly scattered holo effect and sparse ruby red microglitters.  I could easily see the glitters in the bottle, but not so much on the nail - they were there if I knew to look for them, but at arm's length they were invisible.  The formula was a bit thicker than ideal, but I got completely opaque coverage in 2 coats.

outdoor, bright afternoon sunlight

I've stamped here using El Corazon white for the trunks and Pretty Serious Santa's Sunburn & Esmaltes da Kelly Tris for the leaves.  The design is from Clear Jelly Stamper's "Trees! Trees! Trees!" CJS-27 plate, a collection of different tree shapes each with 2-3 clusters of leaves to top them with.  As with all CJS plates I've tried, I find them adorably intricate and super versatile... and also rather finicky to work with because of how tiny the lines are.  There's a trick to getting just the right amount of polish (not super scant, but don't over flood it) and scraping lightly so those little spaces get all filled in but not scraped out.  A little tedious, but i love the final effect.

Rating:  3 out of 5 stars for Period Poops.  It's an attractively warm-neutral brown with a decent formula, and a great base for autumn nail art.

Where to buy:  though Emerald & Ash's web store is still up, there's been radio silence on their social media for over a year now, and I don't know if orders placed with them will go through.  Keep an eye out for blog sales & destashes.

~Michelle