Nail Polish Discussion - Any Brand

[PearlyQueen]

I hope there'll be a mini set because I've to admit that I want some colours just for their names. Like I lost my bikini at Molikini, because I could see Molokini (teeny tiny island where people got to to snorkel and scuba dive) from my hotel window.



There it is - the moon-shaped thingie in the front, not the much bigger island (Kaho'olawe) in the background.

Looks like paradise! But buying polish because of the name is not my thing! Although, I was gutted when my bottle of Blitzen's Budgie Smuggler had been renamed to Callisto, and Noel's Nuts to Asteroid - took half the fun out of them right there!

 

[PearlyQueen]

Thanks, I'll have a look around on Etsy. I can have it shipped to my US postbox, so that shouldn't matter.


Yes, definitely not a Christmassy green. It's more bluey with the purpleish duochrome.


I would advise against ordering directly from the DL website. I did once and the polishes took over a month to be posted! No customer service at all, really annoying. I do love the polishes, but I won't be ordering from them again directly, that's for sure.

Current mani, funnily enough, is DL New Promise. So pretty.







I haven't got any haul pictures, my recent polish orders are all going to my US postbox, but I did pick up a few things from Moyu.

I ordered from DL direct about a year ago - took about 6 weeks to arrive, but I wasn't in a hurry, and I'd do it again in full knowledge to expect to wait! I was planning a haul from them, but instead I picked all of the ones I wanted up on Friday at Llarowe with the 35% discount, so that's been cancelled. I did get New Promise though, and it looks fantastic on you so that was a good decision! Mine's going to my US box too, I use it so much more than I thought I would.

 

[MRV]

Thanks, I'll have a look around on Etsy. I can have it shipped to my US postbox, so that shouldn't matter.


Yes, definitely not a Christmassy green. It's more bluey with the purpleish duochrome.


I would advise against ordering directly from the DL website. I did once and the polishes took over a month to be posted! No customer service at all, really annoying. I do love the polishes, but I won't be ordering from them again directly, that's for sure.

Current mani, funnily enough, is DL New Promise. So pretty.







I haven't got any haul pictures, my recent polish orders are all going to my US postbox, but I did pick up a few things from Moyu.

That's a lovely fall polish! Nice plates. I think I have a few butterflies in some plates, but not these ones. I got one of those plates that has 3x6, but they are way too short for my nails, even when they are shorter.

A few pics. First Enchanted December 2013. Nice nude, there's a faint pink/reddish cast.



And

: I DID mix some frankens yesterday. It all went well until I was mixing the second one and the bottle broke in my hand while shaking it! The polish was all over, mostly on my hand luckily. I had to take my mani off, and since I was able to salvage some of the polish I was making I put it on nails: so this is franken #2 - a lighter pinky base with 2 red/pinky shimmers and a darker reddish pigment (which does not show much).

 

[PearlyQueen]

Hmm. Maybe I'll try one.

That's nice, too!


The weirdo yellow!


That's a lovely fall polish! Nice plates. I think I have a few butterflies in some plates, but not these ones. I got one of those plates that has 3x6, but they are way too short for my nails, even when they are shorter.

A few pics. First Enchanted December 2013. Nice nude, there's a faint pink/reddish cast.



And

: I DID mix some frankens yesterday. It all went well until I was mixing the second one and the bottle broke in my hand while shaking it! The polish was all over, mostly on my hand luckily. I had to take my mani off, and since I was able to salvage some of the polish I was making I put it on nails: so this is franken #2 - a lighter pinky base with 2 red/pinky shimmers and a darker reddish pigment (which does not show much).

That's a really pretty polish you've made there. Ouch to the accident, how annoying! And to waste such a pretty colour too, how sad. Still, it looks lovely on you (just as well if you want to cover your whole hand...lol).

 

[Anneri]

Hmm. Maybe I'll try one. That's nice, too! The weirdo yellow! That's a lovely fall polish! Nice plates. I think I have a few butterflies in some plates, but not these ones. I got one of those plates that has 3x6, but they are way too short for my nails, even when they are shorter. A few pics. First Enchanted December 2013. Nice nude, there's a faint pink/reddish cast. And :thud: : I DID mix some frankens yesterday. It all went well until I was mixing the second one and the bottle broke in my hand while shaking it! The polish was all over, mostly on my hand luckily. I had to take my mani off, and since I was able to salvage some of the polish I was making I put it on nails: so this is franken #2 - a lighter pinky base with 2 red/pinky shimmers and a darker reddish pigment (which does not show much).

That's a very pretty polish! Very complex. If you'd told me that you bought it I'd believed it! I think some bottles you can buy on ebay etc have really poor quality, I've gotten some broken ones before! Here's one of the glitter toppers I made over white - it has a lot of holo glitters and I love it.

 

[PearlyQueen]

Really pretty glitter topper there, looks great over white.

 

[PearlyQueen]

Midweek mani time! I've gone properly old school with a magenta creme topped with a sparse silver glitter:




The magenta is one of my old Special FX polishes, so nameless and numberless! The glitter topper is George Jackpot.
How can I still be using a 3ml bottle I bought about 8 years ago? I've used it several times too! And I have a backup bottle....
The glitter needed thinners as it was solid when I looked at it, but they rescued it completely - my first real use of them, I was impressed.

 

[PearlyQueen]

I've also had a delivery of some of my pre-no-buy polishes from my PO Box! There were loads...

The Devil Wears Polish Maui Wowie and Linear Ultrachrome No 2, Bear Pawlish Ultra Violet and The Goblin King, Enchanted Polish Up In Smoke

Bear Pawlish Divine Wine, Pahlish My Bespoke Psychopath, Polish Me Silly Vixen & Envy, The Devil Wears Polish Heirloom Rose (arrived broken, she's not answering my emails

Nailnation 3000 In A New York Minute, Colors By Llarowe Dock of the Bay, Polish Me Silly Justice, Elevation Haleakala, Colors By Llarowe At Last

There will be more to follow next week - I decided to save some opening for later as there were so many!

 

[Anitacska]

I've also had a delivery of some of my pre-no-buy polishes from my PO Box! There were loads...

The Devil Wears Polish Maui Wowie and Linear Ultrachrome No 2, Bear Pawlish Ultra Violet and The Goblin King, Enchanted Polish Up In Smoke

Bear Pawlish Divine Wine, Pahlish My Bespoke Psychopath, Polish Me Silly Vixen & Envy, The Devil Wears Polish Heirloom Rose (arrived broken, she's not answering my emails

Nailnation 3000 In A New York Minute, Colors By Llarowe Dock of the Bay, Polish Me Silly Justice, Elevation Haleakala, Colors By Llarowe At Last

There will be more to follow next week - I decided to save some opening for later as there were so many!

Wow! Gorgeous haul! Hope you can sort out the issue. Hate sellers like that!

 

[Anitacska]

Oooh, just seen F.U.N Lacquer's update on IG! So pretty!

 

[Barbie1]

Yeah Models own has really good color variety.
Azature has some pretty red colors and they have a purple one too thats pretty if you go to the azature.com website you can see the color swatches.
Etoile I just like because it has real diamond dust inside of the nail polish so your literally wearing diamonds on each fingernail the colors are purple , pinks and greens and they have an orange and blue.

 

[PearlyQueen]

I love this idea - and how cute does the box look?
http://lucky13lacquer.com/product/12-days-of-glitter-advent-box

 

[PearlyQueen]

Oooh, just seen F.U.N Lacquer's update on IG! So pretty!

Wow, so pretty! Duochromes are my weakness!

 

[MRV]

On that note, anyone heard from ILNP and/or EP about the pre-orders yet?

And did anyone order from Llarowe last night from the holiday collection? I didn't, waiting for Rainbow Connection to have them. There's only 3 or 4 I want anyway.


Love your franken polish! Shame about the bottle breaking, you made a really pretty shade.

You mean if anyone has received anything? I ordered only from EP but I don't think it's even shipped yet.

I got two (the silver-gold and gingerbread holos) and noticed they were quite expensive just the two (almost 30 Euros). That's why I did not get any of the new Crowstoes yesterday.

Thanks! Next time better luck I hope.


Here's the latest mani: CbL Sphynx (really pigmented, a subttle reddish-brown-golden holo) - and some Enchanted Flashing Lights.

 

[MRV]

Tomorrow is our Independence Day so I made a patriotic mani: Elevation Bohai Sea and Essie Peak of Chic.

 

[karmachameleon]

Just some funnies ....

 

[Anitacska]

Tomorrow is our Independence Day so I made a patriotic mani: Elevation Bohai Sea and Essie Peak of Chic.

Happy Independence Day! Nice mani!

I've been so busy and wasn't well for a few days, so I've not been around much. But I will post some mani and haul pictures in a minute, I made it to the shops today and had a field day at the Essence counter!

 

[Barbie1]

Nail polish colors I'am crushing over right now ZOYA tiffany

through the looking glass

ZOYA minis so you can try a color and see if you like it plus you wont waste money that way since its just a little cute bottle of a shade.

 

[Anitacska]

Current mani, OPI Plum & Get It with Esmaltes da Kelly Centauro on top. I actually got a compliment on it in a shop.



Previous mani, Colors by Llarowe Sizzling Liz. It's a bit like Voodoo, but blue based. Bit of a funny colour, but not too bad. Then I tried the festive palette and did a bit of stamping.







Onto my hauls. My RC order has finally arrived (she was holding it back because the Different Dimension/Nailsvinyl duo was missing the nail vinyls. (They are giraffe vinyls, not included in the photo).



I love CbL Chaos (3rd one from the left), I never realised it had holo microglitter as well. I thought it would be similar to the EP City Lights polishes. Just ordered the other two as well.

My Essence and Topshop haul. The Topshop polish was in a little ornament case, but I don't need that, so binned it.



I also got some nail art supplies (the nail art pen trio is from Primark).



Oh and I ordered some suspension base from Etsy (from a UK seller) that arrived yesterday, so as soon as I have some time and energy, I will mix up some frankens.

 

[Anneri]

Current mani, OPI Plum & Get It with Esmaltes da Kelly Centauro on top. I actually got a compliment on it in a shop.



Previous mani, Colors by Llarowe Sizzling Liz. It's a bit like Voodoo, but blue based. Bit of a funny colour, but not too bad. Then I tried the festive palette and did a bit of stamping.







Onto my hauls. My RC order has finally arrived (she was holding it back because the Different Dimension/Nailsvinyl duo was missing the nail vinyls. (They are giraffe vinyls, not included in the photo).



I love CbL Chaos (3rd one from the left), I never realised it had holo microglitter as well. I thought it would be similar to the EP City Lights polishes. Just ordered the other two as well.

My Essence and Topshop haul. The Topshop polish was in a little ornament case, but I don't need that, so binned it.



I also got some nail art supplies (the nail art pen trio is from Primark).



Oh and I ordered some suspension base from Etsy (from a UK seller) that arrived yesterday, so as soon as I have some time and energy, I will mix up some frankens.

Woohoo, you got the tattoo pen I mentioned when I did my leaves mani! (I have a lot of the Essence things you got, not very surprising because Essence is sold here at every street corner and its headquarter is actually a few miles away from me.)

I rather fancy the Primark trio, let's see if I can find a moment to go there when it's not too terribly crowded!

Love your new Llarowes and the stamped mani!