Nail Polish Discussion - Any Brand

[PearlyQueen]

Hello, I'm back! Got home yesterday morning with a major jetlag, no sleep on overnight flight, so only just managed to get around to coming on here to show you my hauls and manis. I will try to comment later too. I was reading while we were away, but didn't really have much time to post.

It looks like i haven't missed the Pshiiit EP restock and I managed to get someone on FB to buy me a Dream On during the NPC restock, so that's good. Did anyone see there was a surprise restock on EP yesterday? It was for cremes/shimmers, so I would've passed anyway, had I known about it.

Here's my little US birthday haul:





The polishes are Sultry, Wild and Too Dimensional? Sultry is actually much prettier irl, it's a very vibrant blurple.

The Rainbow Connection order I placed while away came yesterday.









My "going away" mani and pedi were Ethereal Lacquer Worlds Apart over OPI Plum & Get It and CbL Waters of Belize.





I'll come back in a minute with the rest.

Welcome back, hope you had a fab break!
Pretty birthday haul - and some lovelies from RC too! What do you think of the PPs? I've been tempted but I'm not sure yet, would love your views, I especially like the red one.
And I love your mani and pedi!
And great news about the EPs for you too, congrats.

 

[PearlyQueen]

My manis while I was away weren't that interesting, I only took some old ones I wouldn't have minded breaking in transit. I didn't take picture of all of them, but the ones I used were all Andrea Fulerton trios (well, duos, but you can use them on top of each other for an extra colour).


This is Rain Fall (on the accents I used both colours, the top one is flakies)


Smile in a Storm (both colours layered on top of each other)


Foxy Lady (copper colour only)

Like I said, not very exciting. I also used a pink and a purple polish, also from Andrea Fulerton, but didn't take pictures.

Simple but pretty!

 

[PearlyQueen]

"There are dozens of us... DOZENS!"

That is really lovely, you carry it well too.

 

[PearlyQueen]

Here is Revlon Sultry. Managed to capture the purple shift, but it's still so much brighter irl. Really pretty polish, pictures don't do justice to it.







Sorry I still haven't commented properly. Not having the best day, the children have been little sh!ts, ended up at A&E with my younger daughter as one of them slammed a door on her toe. Luckily it's not broken, They have been constantly fighting, arguing, misbehaving, they were pretty awful in Florida too. Argh!

Nice polish! Shame about the kids... it's always fun to visit A&E! Glad she's OK though.

 

[Medgal07]

"There are dozens of us... DOZENS!"

Super cute end result!!!!!!

 

[Anitacska]

I love soft colors---pastels so I decided to try a shade that I don't have in my stash. Victoria, Victoria Beckham for Nails Inc Bamboo White but it's not a stark white. The packaging is unbelievable. It arrived in an oversized box, and if the color doesn't work out for me I can put the NP in a sock and use it as a weapon because it's the heaviest bottle of NP that I've ever had!!!









I also got Alexa Hearts (Clear Polish w/red hearts) because I love and collect heart shaped objects---jewelry, etc. Thee are so, so cute--I couldn't resist!!!

That made me laugh!

I don't get these new Nails Inc polishes. They're trying to be high end, but to me they're just not.

 

[Anitacska]

Nice polish! Shame about the kids... it's always fun to visit A&E! Glad she's OK though.

Ugh, they have been so awful lately. One of them slammed the door on her foot, her big toenail half slit, luckily the toe isn't broken, just bruised. Managed to fit her foot in her sandal so she can go to school, will need to have it looked at again on Friday and see how it goes. She won't be able to wear closed shoes for a good few weeks. Just as well the weather's improved a bit.

 

[Anneri]

You know, when I got my new Darlin DIva polishes on Saturday I couldn't remember who was kind of unhappy with their flakie polish - and the Anitacska pulled up this quote by PQ!
I definitely agree with Anitacska - the flakie topcoats aren't that groundbreaking and I don't like them on top of contrasting polishes. But both the Indigo Bananas and Darling Diva and also the new Glam Polishes are gorgeous - they all have a coloured base, plus holo plus flakies, and then it's stunning. I tried to take some pics of the DD ones yesterday for a friend and it's nearly impossible to get the camera to focus because there's so much going on! Also, Ramagos is very much a one coater. Now that's impressive!


EDIT: And you need The Med 2, PQ! It's stunning!

 

[PearlyQueen]

I have a new mani to share - Picture Polish Pshiiit:



Much nicer on the nail than in the bottle, where it had failed to impress me when it arrived.

 

[PearlyQueen]

I also have more new polishes - these boxes from my PO box are such fun to unpack!

Glam Polish - Fruit of the Poisonous Tree, Mount Doom, Tempestarii, Maleficent, Runnin' Wild, Wicca

Enchanted Polish September 2014, August 2013, Engineered To Destroy, Ocean Potion and The Devil Wears Polish Emerald Empire & Autumn Nights

ILNP Amanda Hugginkiss, 1st and 15th, Bear Pawlish Trouble Makers, Above The Curve Pretend It's a Plan & Relative Dimensions

 

[Anitacska]

I also have more new polishes - these boxes from my PO box are such fun to unpack!

Glam Polish - Fruit of the Poisonous Tree, Mount Doom, Tempestarii, Maleficent, Runnin' Wild, Wicca

Enchanted Polish September 2014, August 2013, Engineered To Destroy, Ocean Potion and The Devil Wears Polish Emerald Empire & Autumn Nights

ILNP Amanda Hugginkiss, 1st and 15th, Bear Pawlish Trouble Makers, Above The Curve Pretend It's a Plan & Relative Dimensions

Love your haul, especially the EPs! August 2013, EtD and Ocean Potion are on my wishlist, but I refuse to pay $50+ for them. So that's not gonna happen.

I love it when my US postbox is emptied out. I'm due to do it soon, just waiting for my Lilypads and Liquid Sky Lacquers to turn up. Might also wait for my recent Llarowe order too. Atm I have my ILNP preorder, my EP flakies order and EP January 2014 sitting in it. Want to be sensible and wait for a couple more packages, but there's a little voice in my head going "do it now"! Hahaha.

 

[Anneri]

Ooh, which Glam Polishes are they? You mean the Over the Rainbow flakies? I have a few of those on order.


This is very nice. I think I've used mine, but not sure. I'm often disappointed by PPs, they usually look better in the bottle than on the nail, like Paradise.


Love your haul, especially the EPs! August 2013, EtD and Ocean Potion are on my wishlist, but I refuse to pay $50+ for them. So that's not gonna happen.

I love it when my US postbox is emptied out. I'm due to do it soon, just waiting for my Lilypads and Liquid Sky Lacquers to turn up. Might also wait for my recent Llarowe order too. Atm I have my ILNP preorder, my EP flakies order and EP January 2014 sitting in it. Want to be sensible and wait for a couple more packages, but there's a little voice in my head going "do it now"! Hahaha.

Yes, exactly! Maybe I#ll get some when she ships them to Germany at the end of April.

 

[rekhyt]

Arrgh.. So I'm using Stackry for US-only restocks / sellers and I made a new shipment a couple of days ago. I used them before and everything went ok. But now they messaged me that they can't ship the package to me because it contains nail polish and they don't have a shipping licence for this... so they are proposing to either send the packages back to the retailers, ship them via ground to a US or Canada adress or to wait several months until they have obtained said licence.

What?

Anyone else encountered this problem before?

I had to laugh a bit though, because the message said "the packages contain large amounts of nail polish". It's 10 bottles. Girl, you haven't seen our stashes....

 

[Medgal07]

Arrgh.. So I'm using Stackry for US-only restocks / sellers and I made a new shipment a couple of days ago. I used them before and everything went ok. But now they messaged me that they can't ship the package to me because it contains nail polish and they don't have a shipping licence for this... so they are proposing to either send the packages back to the retailers, ship them via ground to a US or Canada adress or to wait several months until they have obtained said licence.

What?

Anyone else encountered this problem before?

I had to laugh a bit though, because the message said "the packages contain large amounts of nail polish". It's 10 bottles. Girl, you haven't seen our stashes....

Sounds like they got into a bit of a pickle---especially since it went well on another occasion---real bummer

Seeing our stashes would surely stun them.

 

[Anitacska]

Arrgh.. So I'm using Stackry for US-only restocks / sellers and I made a new shipment a couple of days ago. I used them before and everything went ok. But now they messaged me that they can't ship the package to me because it contains nail polish and they don't have a shipping licence for this... so they are proposing to either send the packages back to the retailers, ship them via ground to a US or Canada adress or to wait several months until they have obtained said licence. What? Anyone else encountered this problem before? I had to laugh a bit though, because the message said "the packages contain large amounts of nail polish". It's 10 bottles. Girl, you haven't seen our stashes....

Oh no, that's awful. I have loads of polish sitting in my Stackry mailbox. Shit. When you filled in the contents box, did you put nail polish down? I always put cosmetics and never had a problem with that. Although they can see it's nail polish. I don't know if it's a new thing or is it to do with Australian regulations. I'm rather nervous now. I think I'll try and empty out my mail box and see what happens.

 

[rekhyt]

Yes, I always put "cosmetics", too. Usually I tick the box that says "keep retailer packaging" and I forgot it this time but they always repackage my stuff anyway, despite the "keep retailer packaging" stuff, so they knew about the polish every other time, too. Maybe it really is because of new regulations (I'm from Germany, didn't hear anything but I have to check) or I just got an extra-nitpicking employee to take care of my packages this time...

 

[Anitacska]

Yes, I always put "cosmetics", too. Usually I tick the box that says "keep retailer packaging" and I forgot it this time but they always repackage my stuff anyway, despite the "keep retailer packaging" stuff, so they knew about the polish every other time, too. Maybe it really is because of new regulations (I'm from Germany, didn't hear anything but I have to check) or I just got an extra-nitpicking employee to take care of my packages this time...

Oh sorry, got confused, Germany, not Australia. I was obviously thinking of someone else. That is odd, could've just been some busybody packing it. Have you got anyone to ship it to in the US or Canada to forward it to you? Hope you manage to sort it out. I have just consolidated my packages, so will let you know what they say. Bloody hope this isn't the end of my US nail polish buying. The Royal Mail is already being such an arse about nail polish, I really don't want to not be able to buy directly from the US. I do have a friend whom I could ask to ship my stuff should the Stackry forwarding fail, but I can't keep asking her all the time, so if this falls through then I guess that's it. Not happy.

 

[Anitacska]

Sounds like they got into a bit of a pickle---especially since it went well on another occasion---real bummer

Seeing our stashes would surely stun them.

I'd need a removal truck to move all my polishes and make up!

 

[Anitacska]

On another note, for those who aren't sure about the flakies, maybe this will change your mind:




by IG user @lakkomlakkom

 

[MRV]

I love soft colors---pastels so I decided to try a shade that I don't have in my stash. Victoria, Victoria Beckham for Nails Inc Bamboo White but it's not a stark white. The packaging is unbelievable. It arrived in an oversized box, and if the color doesn't work out for me I can put the NP in a sock and use it as a weapon because it's the heaviest bottle of NP that I've ever had!!!









I also got Alexa Hearts (Clear Polish w/red hearts) because I love and collect heart shaped objects---jewelry, etc. Thee are so, so cute--I couldn't resist!!!