Cast A Spell Box, Happy Birthday Harry Potter!

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Hold the phone, errrbody! It's Harry Potter's Birthday month! That means it's time for the annual Cast a Spell box, hosted by Night Owl Lacquer. This box celebrates Harry with polishes based on spells from the series! I had to get schooled on the spells and now I'm fully educated on these polishes! Some of them are just so perfect in my head! I like Harry Potter but I've seen like the first three movies and some of the last one lol. I stink. But I do love a gorgeous polish with sensical inspirations!

Cast A Spell Box, Happy Birthday Harry Potter!

I wanted to share the presentation. This is how the box is packaged. It has a bunch of spells from the series and in extra large letters, you will spot the names of the polishes!

Cast A Spell Box, Happy Birthday Harry Potter!

I ripped it open and figured I should share the Owl Post sticker. I love all the little touches to make this special!

You open up the box to see all the goodies!

Upon removal, you'll find five polishes, water decals, vinyls, a sticker, and a pen! As an English professor, I love a good pen and I love how this one writes! Also, I teach a class on zombies and supernatural, so I'm totally going to be rocking this appropriately-themed pen. (And no, I don't teach Harry Potter...the class is a bit more morbid than that hahah).

Night Owl Lacquer Prior Incantato: 2 coats plus top coat. As this brand is hosting the box, I wanted to start with it. Wooooww. This is a rich emerald green-teal jelly loaded with micro holo flakes, aurora shimmer, and chameleon flakes that shift to multiple colors. All that said, this actually lays flat, and top coat was just to bring out the shine.

I love the aspects of this polish and how it glows!

Night Owl Lacquer Prior Incantato

In the sun, there's lots of sparkly goodness. You can see a little bit of VNL in direct sun, but that's expected with a jelly. I love the components.

Night Owl Lacquer Prior Incantato

The chameleon flakes in the shade are just gorgeous. This is a beautiful polish.

Night Owl Lacquer Prior Incantato

You knew this had to be matte (like many of the colors in this box!). I love how the flakes and glitters pop off the jelly base. Swwoooon. Also, I had no staining upon removal but I only wore it for 20 minutes.

Night Owl Lacquer Prior Incantato

Nvr Enuff The Unbreakable Vow: 2 coats. This is described as a blackened blue and it's definitely pulling more black on me. It's a sultry color! It in a holo polish with lots of purple shimmer. There's also pink/orange flakes in there but it's more like a smattering. It's a rich color.

Nvr Enuff The Unbreakable Vow

Bam! How gorgeous is that purple flash in the sun? Wow! Plus, I feel like you can see the blue base in the summer and the shifting sparks of color.

Nvr Enuff The Unbreakable Vow

The shimmer is definitely dimensional, especially in the shade.

Nvr Enuff The Unbreakable Vow

Stella Chroma Expelliarmus: 2 coats plus top coat. This is a unique and fun polish! It's a red chrome polish, with a strong gold shimmer, holo, and iridescent flakes! Another dimensional polish. I feel like this is the understated theme of the box! Stella Chroma says the flakes are a nod to the debris in the final Battle of Hogwarts, which I've seen!

Stella Chroma Expelliarmus

The chrome effect is really cool! I love how it's metallic and rich!

Stella Chroma Expelliarmus

The flakes made me tear a little haha. Sooo gorgeous!

Stella Chroma Expelliarmus

And now it's matte! My matte top coat got a little thick, so that was my fault. It looks awesome with the flakes. I love me some matte flakes!

Stella Chroma Expelliarmus

Bee's Knees Lacquer Nox: 2 coats plus top coat. Broken record here! Dimension! So Pam (my HP teacher), told me this spell is to turn the lights out. WOW. I totally see the inspiration here! It sort of reminds me of fireflies in the night.

This black polish has holo flakes and tons of iridescent flakes, so it's like a pop of rainbow against the black base.

Bee's Knees Lacquer Nox

The holo sparkle is nice but doesn't take away from the flakes, which I think is the star of this polish.

Bee's Knees Lacquer Nox

Shade shot to show off all those flakes!

Bee's Knees Lacquer Nox

And matte, just to make you cry!

Bee's Knees Lacquer Nox

Blue-Eyed Girl Lacquer Reducto: 2 coats plus top coat. This is almost a neon turquoise color, loaded with shimmer that shifts from different shades of blue. It's so bright and shimmery!

Blue-Eyed Girl Lacquer Reducto

The shimmer is glowy and I love it in the sun!

Blue-Eyed Girl Lacquer Reducto

Ribbits Stickits Vinyls and Water Decals. This brand offered themed vinyls. You can put these on your helmers, desk, wherever!

Ribbits Stickits Vinyls and Water Decals

There's a variety of HP imagery, that even I, a casual reader/viewer, could figure out! They have a lot of detail!

Ribbits Stickits Nail Vinyls and Water Decals

It says to put the decals over a lighter color, so I chose the BEGL as it was the lightest. I think these decals would be best over a white or a cream color, especially since the blue drowned out the colored decals.

Also, try to cut off the excess part of the decals. Because of the way it is printed, the whole clear backing goes with it, so I wish I trimmed it closer as you can see the square outlines.

Do not try to dab the excess water off the decal. You can see where it blurred the wording on my center nail.

Ribbits Stickits Nail Vinyls and Water Decals

The Cast A Spell Box will be available on July 31st at 1pm MDT through August 7th midnight MDT through the Cast A Spell website. This is a pre-order which will ship around August 19th. If you're one of the first 20 people, your box will ship right away! It retails for $49 plus shipping. The box will ship internationally but please email castaspell@gmail.com for shipping estimations. Considering the polishes alone retail for at least $57, this is definitely a great box for any Potter fan!

Night Owl Lacquer: SHOP, Facebook, Instagram

Blue-Eyed Girl Lacquer: SHOP, Facebook, Instagram

Bee's Knees Lacquer: SHOP, Facebook, Instagram

Nvr Enuff: SHOP, Facebook, Instagram

Stella Chroma: SHOP, Facebook, Instagram