Bee's Knees Not Today

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Bee's Knees has been releasing mystery bags monthly that contain a real treasure trove of beauties hidden behind the surprise. Since I had enough time to work with a magnetic polish, I was itchy to try out some of these gorgeous things, prompted by everyone else's swatch pics in the fan group on fb.

Bee's Knees Not Today
indoor, bright CF lighting
YASSS.  Bee's Knees Not Today is a lovely deep blue jam packed with both 'ocean' flakies that shift blue-aqua-green, but plenty of really vibrant multichromatic magnetic shimmer.  There's a whole lot going on here, so this post is very picture heavy.

Bee's Knees Not Today
outdoor, bright sunlight
When swiping the brush against the bottle neck, it looked a little sheer to my eyes, so I decided to layer it over an opaque blue base to prevent any bald spots.  In the end, I don't think the single coat of Cult Time Traveler was 100% necessary, but heads up that these pics show Not Today with undies.

Bee's Knees Not Today
outdoor, shady and overcast daylight
Over my blue base, I've layered 2 coats of Not Today, magnetized on both the 2nd layer and after using topcoat.  While this polish was a super reactive magnetic, forming rather sharp lines right away, those lines also softened up pretty quickly regardless of my usual magnetic technique (45-60 seconds with the magnet on both layers).  Still, that shimmer has the particular 3-D quality that gets polishes like this compared to cat's eye gemstones, so crisp or soft lines, it's a stunner.

Bee's Knees Not Today
window-filtered bright sunlight
The aqua-green shimmer shifts readily through a little flash of royal blue and on over to royal purple, sparkling like crazy in bright lighting.

Bee's Knees Not Today
indoor, bright CF lighting
Given how well the purple shift shows up over everything, I really think this might be opaque enough to go sans undies, but I was really pleased with the lush oceanic look I had going on here.

Bee's Knees Not Today
window-filtered bright sunlight... all the way over to purple
Out of the bright light, the flakies stepped a little closer to the spotlight, but they're always a supporting role to the main show of the magnetic wave.

Bee's Knees Not Today
outdoor, shady daylight
These gorgeous ocean waves absolutely demanded an ocean scene, and since the adorable Nicole Diary 083 and BMS-187 plates had recently arrived, it was a stamping plan that had to be done (plus a few extra sea animals from MoYou London Doodles 07).

Bee's Knees Not Today

Bee's Knees Not Today
outdoor, overcast and shady daylight for both
Bee's Knees Not Today
indoor, bright CF lighting
Rating:  4 out of 5 stars, a seriously gorgeous color that I wish was slightly tighter with the magnetic lines and wore just a scooch better, but neither of those are big deals. 

Where to buy:  If any of this is still available, it will be in Bee's Knees store... but jump quick because this was a LE that I don't think will be returning.

~Michelle

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