Nail Polish Discussion - Any Brand

[Anneri]

@Anitacska, best of luck to you and your family!

I really hope everything works out well.

I haven't been around much, my grandma died last week and today our dog had to put to sleep, and I'm crushed.

Today came my replacement Desert Sunset and my new Moyou plates, but I haven't played with anything yet. Am a little disappointed of DS, I don't like the pink shimmer that much, hope it won't be as visible on the nails.

 

[Anitacska]

@Anitacska, best of luck to you and your family!

I really hope everything works out well.

I haven't been around much, my grandma died last week and today our dog had to put to sleep, and I'm crushed.

Today came my replacement Desert Sunset and my new Moyou plates, but I haven't played with anything yet. Am a little disappointed of DS, I don't like the pink shimmer that much, hope it won't be as visible on the nails.

Oh Anneri, I'm so sorry for your loss, both your grandma and your dog.

Hugs right back at you.

 

[Anitacska]

Current mani is KBShimmer Pretty in Punk with ILNP Gaia (H) on the accents. The photos aren't great as I dropped my phone in some water this morning and it's not starting up, so I had to use my old camera.

 

[Anitacska]

So it turns out OPI does do a mini set of the color paints polishes, I got one on Amazon. Plus I also bought the missing shades in full sizes (no other option).





Hopefully I'll be able to try these out soon. Might even attempt a watermarble one of these days...

 

[elkaknits]

I was so weak... walking through nordies today I was drawn to the Chanel counter for an interesting {to me} looking color. I had never seen it before and it was their only bottle. Sweet Star. Not sure if I love it on yet. I swatched with their test bottle and it pulls silver, purple or green and I don't like the green duo chrome part although I have a weakness for green polishes. The new Blue Dior has a lovely shimmer to it and I will be bringing it home next pay period.

 

[starletta8]

Odd question for the group- has anyone run into issues with CND Stickey base coat staining their nails before?

(I know, ironic that it's the base coat staining. Sigh.)

 

[Fuzzy]

So it turns out OPI does do a mini set of the color paints polishes, I got one on Amazon. Plus I also bought the missing shades in full sizes (no other option).





Hopefully I'll be able to try these out soon. Might even attempt a watermarble one of these days...

Nice!

 

[Fuzzy]

CbL It's Spring Somewhere

I went to a picnic in the park on Sunday, it was very hot! I matched the polish to my shoes(and someone noticed lol)

 

[Anitacska]

hopefully your daughter wasn't too hot! yikes!

those CCs are very tempting

Thank you!

Great mani!

Nice haul and pretty mani!

Hopefully it will be smooth sailing and all will work out well. hugs to you!

Great haul!

I'm so sorry to hear that, Anneri. much love to you

Very pretty mani!

Nice!

Thank you on multiple counts.

Things have certainly been a lot calmer here and we're able to talk more, so hopefully we'll remain on good terms. He's in the process of organising his mortgage and we've looked at a couple of houses for him, one both he and the children liked a lot, so he might be able to get it. It's only about 8 minutes walk from us, so would be very handy and it's big enough for all 3 children to stay with him, although at the moment my two younger ones are really against the idea of an overnight stay due to his recent behaviour towards them. We haven't told our eldest yet, she's only just returned from an 8 day trip with school. She is mostly a daddy's girl, so she probably won't be happy about it, but hopefully she'll understand that it's in everyone's best interest. Wish me luck!

Quote: Originally Posted by Fuzzy

CbL It's Spring Somewhere




I went to a picnic in the park on Sunday, it was very hot! I matched the polish to my shoes(and someone noticed lol)

Very nice mani and shoes!

Can you believe it, I haven't bought any polish this past week, although still have plenty on their way to be from Bear Pawlish, Lilypad and of course my Stackry hostages. I have written to Stackry, they're now talking sometime in August, so I'm trying to request that they cover the cost of the ground shipping to my FB friend, so she can ship them to me. I'm so fed up with waiting for them now.

Here are my two latest manis, First is Zoya Arabella with Lilypad Lacquer Concrete Rainbows on the accents and stamping with YSL White Gold, second is Cadillacquer Crystal with KBShimmer Sand in my Stocking.







There was no sun yesterday, it was a horrible, hot, humid, but gloomy day. Ugh.

 

[PearlyQueen]

Yeah, that's why I don't buy Chanel anymore. Absolutely no staying power, plus the colours aren't that interesting anymore. 98% of polishes I buy now are indies, the other 2% are drugstore.


Thank you. I think Cadillacquers are nice, but probably not that unique and amazing, they are very elegant though. I prefer more blingy polishes, but sometimes you need some that are less in your face though.


I'm not surprised. Her latest creations are nowhere near as unique as they used to be. Multichrome holos were her thing and now pretty much every brand does them. Her regular holos are still nice, but not $16 nice imo. And the mystery bit is just boring now.



I like my Color Clubs, don't remember any issues with staying power, but then hardly anything stays on me for longer than 2 days anyway.


Very nice.

My Harlow & Co order came today, bloody postman chucked it over the side gate, but luckily nothing broke.





The dark teal Girly Bits and the Glam next to it are Harlow exclusives and so is the light teal Girly Bits.

My current mani is unicorns and stars, Zoya Carter pixie dust and Liquid Sky Lacquer Inspire (one of the polishes that was held hostage at Stackry) stamped with Hit The Bottle Purple Reign stamping polish and Vivid Lacquer plate that I also got from H&Co, and unicorn vinyls.





Sadly the sun refused to come out today. The colours are truer in the top picture. This is the plate I got:



I got a reply from Stackry, now they're talking "hopefully no later than sometime in August". Ugh.

And finally, my big news, I am now definitely getting divorced. I'm okay, quite happy actually that my husband has finally agreed to do it, our marriage has been rubbish for ages and it's going to be better for everyone. Luckily he's being very amicable and will let us stay in the house and support us financially, however he will also need to buy himself a house and so I now definitely need to cut down dramatically on my beauty spending. I'm going to look into getting some sort of a part-time job in the autumn, so I don't have to rely on him 100%, but it won't be well paid, I haven't worked in 14 years and even then I wasn't earning much. Bit scary, but overall good.

Beautiful haul - thank goodness it survived! And what a pretty mani! By the way, I adore that plate, just the sort of thing I'd choose if I could stamp!
I'm glad to hear you're getting things sorted out to your satisfaction, good luck with it all.

 

[PearlyQueen]

My Enchanteds have arrived. To be honest, looking at the colours, I probably wouldn't have bought them all if they'd been from another brand. Other than Entwined they aren't that special and Instant Galaxy is especially a bit of a letdown for me. My Daydream looks more blue than green (not as blue as the pictures show though), but I think it's mainly because of the blue glitter in it, I think there's only one version. Someone did a comparison on FB with 2 other people sending her swatch sticks and they all look the same despite some of them thinking theirs was blue, some thinking theirs was green.







I also received my FUN polishes and a Glam from RC.





The pink FUN isn't looking very pink to me, it's definitely more red in the bottle, hope it's more pink when applied.

Fantastic to see the EPs all together! And I love your RC haul too - I must admit, I expected the FUN to be red rather than pink.

 

[PearlyQueen]

@Anitacska, best of luck to you and your family!

I really hope everything works out well.

I haven't been around much, my grandma died last week and today our dog had to put to sleep, and I'm crushed.

Today came my replacement Desert Sunset and my new Moyou plates, but I haven't played with anything yet. Am a little disappointed of DS, I don't like the pink shimmer that much, hope it won't be as visible on the nails.

Condolences Anneri, such sad news.
(I'm not convinced by DS either)

 

[PearlyQueen]

Very well matched! And a beautiful colour - one I don't own though!

 

[PearlyQueen]

Thank you on multiple counts.

Things have certainly been a lot calmer here and we're able to talk more, so hopefully we'll remain on good terms. He's in the process of organising his mortgage and we've looked at a couple of houses for him, one both he and the children liked a lot, so he might be able to get it. It's only about 8 minutes walk from us, so would be very handy and it's big enough for all 3 children to stay with him, although at the moment my two younger ones are really against the idea of an overnight stay due to his recent behaviour towards them. We haven't told our eldest yet, she's only just returned from an 8 day trip with school. She is mostly a daddy's girl, so she probably won't be happy about it, but hopefully she'll understand that it's in everyone's best interest. Wish me luck!


Very nice mani and shoes!

Can you believe it, I haven't bought any polish this past week, although still have plenty on their way to be from Bear Pawlish, Lilypad and of course my Stackry hostages. I have written to Stackry, they're now talking sometime in August, so I'm trying to request that they cover the cost of the ground shipping to my FB friend, so she can ship them to me. I'm so fed up with waiting for them now.

Here are my two latest manis, First is Zoya Arabella with Lilypad Lacquer Concrete Rainbows on the accents and stamping with YSL White Gold, second is Cadillacquer Crystal with KBShimmer Sand in my Stocking.







There was no sun yesterday, it was a horrible, hot, humid, but gloomy day. Ugh.

Two stunning manis, love them, especially the Zoya!

 

[Anitacska]

Another Stackry update, finally some good news: "We will have the proper shipping documentation by end of July, we have it in writing from the agency that polices this that we will have the license to begin shipping "dangerous goods" by July 31 so we will FINALLY be able to ship these out for you so we won't have to worry about it. Also, at that time we will give you a discount for shipping this as you have been so patient." :yahoo:

 

[PearlyQueen]

My latest mani is Elevation Polish The Sea Was Red:




Maybe the blingiest holo I've worn yet!
My camera just will not pick up the colour shifts in this, it mostly looks like a cafe au lait sort of shade, but in some lights it's a subtle pink/purple shade, and at one point it turned bright yellow and green at an odd angle! It's a kind of nude that works well on me, which is quite unusual, and when the light hits it directly, it's awesomely shiney!

 

[PearlyQueen]

"We will have the proper shipping documentation by end of July, we have it in writing from the agency that polices this that we will have the license to begin shipping "dangerous goods" by July 31 so we will FINALLY be able to ship these out for you so we won't have to worry about it. Also, at that time we will give you a discount for shipping this as you have been so patient."

Hallelujah!!!!!
I hope those polishes are worth the wait - certainly some of mine were just sale stuff from CbL, but there are some others I couldn't bear the thought of never seeing!

 

[Anitacska]

Hallelujah!!!!!  I hope those polishes are worth the wait - certainly some of mine were just sale stuff from CbL, but there are some others I couldn't bear the thought of never seeing!

Oh definitely worth the wait! I have some Lilypads, lots of Glams, EP August 2013 and some stuff from Llarowe sitting there.

 

[Anitacska]

My latest mani is Elevation Polish The Sea Was Red:




Maybe the blingiest holo I've worn yet!
My camera just will not pick up the colour shifts in this, it mostly looks like a cafe au lait sort of shade, but in some lights it's a subtle pink/purple shade, and at one point it turned bright yellow and green at an odd angle! It's a kind of nude that works well on me, which is quite unusual, and when the light hits it directly, it's awesomely shiney!

This is such a gorgeous polish! I need to wear mine.

 

[rekhyt]

"We will have the proper shipping documentation by end of July, we have it in writing from the agency that polices this that we will have the license to begin shipping "dangerous goods" by July 31 so we will FINALLY be able to ship these out for you so we won't have to worry about it. Also, at that time we will give you a discount for shipping this as you have been so patient."

Thank you for the update, Anitacska!

I have got some Glams and some Bears waiting to get shipped from Stackry. I'm especially anxious about the Bears, I ordered three times from her and every time something went wrong. The first time the formula of all four was extremely sheer and only with a tiny amount of holo (I later learned they were supposed to be 1-2 coaters but they were super sheer even with 4 coats), the second time Stackry decided not to ship them to me (not Bear Pawlish's fault, I know) and the third time two bottles arrived broken. She was so kind and generous to offer replacement for the broken polishes with my next order but at the moment I am unsure if and when I'll order again, I'd like to wait for the Stackry package to see if the formulas are ok. I know the Stackry thing and the breaking of the bottles is not her fault but maybe the universe is trying to tell me to not have Bears.