Nail Polish Discussion - Any Brand

[PearlyQueen]

Wow, well done for staying in budget! I don't think I've ever done it. I don't really have a strict budget, but I definitely spent far too much last month. Been pretty good so far, but I've seen the new FFs, Glams and Illyrians coming out (or rather in the case of the Illyrians, coming to RC) and also there are some gorgeous EdMs I really want to get, so will see how restraint I manage to remain. I'm also guessing there will be some new EPs this month.

Sorry you missed out on the Pahlishes. I don't really follow the brand that closely myself, but they do have some very pretty polishes. There are a few I'd like, but right now, it's a no-go.



Beautometry said they won't be restocking Crapemyrtle, so if you wanted that, order it asap! That's the pink to purple thermal.



It is absolutely gorgeous! I have this too, not worn of course, but there are so many beautiful Tonics, I'm not sure when I'll get around to wearing them all.

Ha, my budget of zero didn't last long this month, I did the EP preorder, even though I wasn't going to, I just knew if I didn't the ones I lust after most would be included! And though I couldn't afford all the Pahlishes, they did restock at 1am so I splurged on a couple of the limited ones I've been fancying for a while! So no buy month is a bust, and I still have a massive list of things I really wish I could buy now. I'm rubbish at this!
Fortunately Crapemyrtle isn't one I want, I'm not a huge lover of thermals.
I've loved wearing this Tonic, it's dying now but I've spent the whole week wiggling my fingers and staring at the pretty colours! Tonic's one of the brands I've now got a massive wishlist for of course, plus waiting for the newest Takkos to come to a stockist, loving the new Powder Perfects, behind with Polished for Days and waiting for Illyrians at RC and lusting after some Glams. And Darling Divas. Argh, it never stops!!!

 

[PearlyQueen]

Finally got around to posting some mani pictures. First one is Bear Pawlish Scar with Nails Inc Piccadilly Arcade (2012 untried).

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Next one is Enchanted Polish Unipeg with Enchanted Polish Winter plus decals on top of Winter. For the decals I used EP Unipeg, Pegacorn, Alicorn, Britney SpearMint and Color Club Star Light, Star Bright.

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I have to say, I was rather pleased with this one. So much so that I couldn't bear to take the unicorns off, so I just replaced Unipeg with Glam Polish Crash!

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They are going tonight though, not looking their best now after cleaning the bathroom. Oh and I cleaned my oven the other day and there were no casualties! I did hurt my right thumb a bit, but it's okay now.

Wowzer, some gorgeous manis there - and I love your unicorns, no wonder they lasted for two manis! My pick of your other colours is Crash! - I do have it in my enormous pile of untrieds, and hopefully I'll wear it one day!
Ouchie on your thumb, hope it's recovered!

 

[boschicka]

Ugh, yeah, I did the EP pre-order too. I hate surprises, lol!

 

[boschicka]

I'm still new to the indie game. Can't keep up with all the different brands and random restocks.
And the groups that have special polishes made....it's too much!
Are you all just happy if you use a polish once?

 

[Anitacska]

Ha, my budget of zero didn't last long this month, I did the EP preorder, even though I wasn't going to, I just knew if I didn't the ones I lust after most would be included! And though I couldn't afford all the Pahlishes, they did restock at 1am so I splurged on a couple of the limited ones I've been fancying for a while! So no buy month is a bust, and I still have a massive list of things I really wish I could buy now. I'm rubbish at this!
Fortunately Crapemyrtle isn't one I want, I'm not a huge lover of thermals.
I've loved wearing this Tonic, it's dying now but I've spent the whole week wiggling my fingers and staring at the pretty colours! Tonic's one of the brands I've now got a massive wishlist for of course, plus waiting for the newest Takkos to come to a stockist, loving the new Powder Perfects, behind with Polished for Days and waiting for Illyrians at RC and lusting after some Glams. And Darling Divas. Argh, it never stops!!!

No, it really never stops! My 3 Alexes are completely full now, I also have about 5 drawers in the rainbow tower full of polish and had to move a bunch of polishes back into the Helmer. I was going to keep it for paperwork and bits and bobs downstairs, but now it has one drawer full of nail art stuff (vinyls, brushes, stampers, etc.), one and a half drawers of China Glaze polishes, half a drawer of stamping polishes and one drawer of Nails Inc and other drugstore polishes. Oh dear. My wishlist is always huge, but this month I'm really trying to only buy the LE/urgent ones. I have so far ordered the 2 EPs, one of the Femme Fatale HHC polishes, 4 Tonics (one was a LE charity polish), 2 RC exclusive Femme Fatales, 4 Illyrians (from RC) and the Holo Hookup box, but only the Diff Dim is mine, the other 3 are for someone else. I have a $10 off $40 code from Diff Dim that I need to use before 1st April and I really want the new Femme Fatales (Neon Demon collection and some old shades coming back), but after that I have to stop until the middle of next month.

I also love the new PfDs and the Cupcakes, but the new Glam collection, although it seemed so pretty at first, has lost my interest again. I received my previous order and I really only liked 3 of the 5 I ordered. I now only want the Princess Leia polish this month, but not for $6 shipping, so I think I'll pass. Glad you managed to grab the Pahlishes you wanted. My friend just sold me 4 polishes, one being Pahl8ish Asteroid B-612 that I'd been eyeing up for a while. I love The Little Prince, one of my favourite books ever, so it's doubly nice to have this polish. (That's what the Little Prince's home planet is called, in case you didn't know.)

Wowzer, some gorgeous manis there - and I love your unicorns, no wonder they lasted for two manis! My pick of your other colours is Crash! - I do have it in my enormous pile of untrieds, and hopefully I'll wear it one day!
Ouchie on your thumb, hope it's recovered!

Thank you! My thumb was fine within a day or two.

 

[Anitacska]

Ugh, yeah, I did the EP pre-order too. I hate surprises, lol!

Ugh, me too. Hope they're nice!

I'm still new to the indie game. Can't keep up with all the different brands and random restocks.
And the groups that have special polishes made....it's too much!
Are you all just happy if you use a polish once?

Oh yeah, I'm now in far too many groups and it's really difficult to keep up and also to not want to buy everything!

I'm just happy to own them to be honest! I know I probably won't even wear some of them even once (unless I live to 100!). There are very few polishes I've used more than once, other than topcoat, basecoat, black and white cremes, stamping polishes, there's probably another 10, maybe 15? Sad I know.

 

[Anitacska]

Quick haul post, I'll do another one with my manis, but it takes a while to crop everything.





The dark blue FF is from Beauty So Fly, the other two from RC. And that is the cutest stamping plate I've ever seen!



These are from my friend. The FF is a Polish Molish exclusive, I nearly ordered it, but it would've worked out nearly £15. She didn't want it and sold it for £8!

 

[PearlyQueen]

I'm still new to the indie game. Can't keep up with all the different brands and random restocks.
And the groups that have special polishes made....it's too much!
Are you all just happy if you use a polish once?

It is too much, I'm trying to cut back on the number of brands I "must" have - I've dropped a few! And I've tried to avoid joining any groups etc, though I do belong to the Glam one, because shipping is cheaper.
One of my plans for this year is to wear polishes I love more than once - I've used Shade Shifter three times! I'm going to have to work on immortality if I want to wear all of them this often though!

 

[PearlyQueen]

Quick haul post, I'll do another one with my manis, but it takes a while to crop everything.

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The dark blue FF is from Beauty So Fly, the other two from RC. And that is the cutest stamping plate I've ever seen!

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These are from my friend. The FF is a Polish Molish exclusive, I nearly ordered it, but it would've worked out nearly £15. She didn't want it and sold it for £8!

Love the Glams and FFs, as I said, never stops...

 

[PearlyQueen]

My new mani is Nails Inc Wardour Mews:

Doesn't look as good on as it does in the bottle - and it took 4 coats to get close to opacity (if I wasn't bored, I'd have done another, but not worth the effort in all honesty). It's not terrible, but a bit dull.

 

[boschicka]

Ugh, me too. Hope they're nice!


Oh yeah, I'm now in far too many groups and it's really difficult to keep up and also to not want to buy everything!

I'm just happy to own them to be honest! I know I probably won't even wear some of them even once (unless I live to 100!). There are very few polishes I've used more than once, other than topcoat, basecoat, black and white cremes, stamping polishes, there's probably another 10, maybe 15? Sad I know.

It's not sad if they bring you joy and you're not about to be homeless! I definitely own certain makeup items just to own them. I say I'm collecting them as art pieces!

I do find nail polish more frustrating to purchase than makeup though. The same polish looks so different in pics and no one ever takes a pic of their hand at a distance. I appreciate the close-ups obviously, but a shot of the whole hand would help me judge things better.

 

[boschicka]

It is too much, I'm trying to cut back on the number of brands I "must" have - I've dropped a few! And I've tried to avoid joining any groups etc, though I do belong to the Glam one, because shipping is cheaper.
One of my plans for this year is to wear polishes I love more than once - I've used Shade Shifter three times! I'm going to have to work on immortality if I want to wear all of them this often though!

I'm trying to be smarter with makeup and nail polish purchases these days as well. Getting better. Still have some failures though!

 

[Anitacska]

Mani pictures: First one is UP Colors Cromoterapia (2012 untried) with ILNP Neon Rosebud on the accents. The UP Colors was very sheer and took 4 coats (I didn't apply it over black for a change and regretted it promptly). Definitely not one of my best multichromes.



Next mani is Fun Lacquer Purfect for Me. It's a pretty thermal and still works fine.



Next one is Emily de Molly Spell Check with Glam Polish Libra. The EdM was one of my must wear polishes, it's gorgeous.



My current mani is OPI Rally Pretty Pink (2012 untrieds) with Illyrian My Sun and Stars. I then added stamping and smudged it with my topcoat. Ugh. The OPI took 4 coats and is actually very similar to the Nails Inc polish you're wearing, PQ.

 

[Anitacska]

It is too much, I'm trying to cut back on the number of brands I "must" have - I've dropped a few! And I've tried to avoid joining any groups etc, though I do belong to the Glam one, because shipping is cheaper.
One of my plans for this year is to wear polishes I love more than once - I've used Shade Shifter three times! I'm going to have to work on immortality if I want to wear all of them this often though!

I have also dropped a lot of brands, but unfortunately I also added a good few to my collection.

You crack me up! To be fair, I don't think I'll ever wear all of mine even once, seeing that I buy them faster than I use them!

Love the Glams and FFs, as I said, never stops...

Thanks.

My new mani is Nails Inc Wardour Mews:
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Doesn't look as good on as it does in the bottle - and it took 4 coats to get close to opacity (if I wasn't bored, I'd have done another, but not worth the effort in all honesty). It's not terrible, but a bit dull.

Pretty, but yeah. I wore this last year and felt the same about it. Very similar to the OPI I'm wearing and similarly sheer.

 

[Anitacska]

It's not sad if they bring you joy and you're not about to be homeless! I definitely own certain makeup items just to own them. I say I'm collecting them as art pieces!

I do find nail polish more frustrating to purchase than makeup though. The same polish looks so different in pics and no one ever takes a pic of their hand at a distance. I appreciate the close-ups obviously, but a shot of the whole hand would help me judge things better.

Yeah, I have a good few bits of make up I bought without ever intending to wear. Luckily for my bank account I'm completely over make up, only buy Guerlain and Urban Decay now, Guerlain for the Meteorites and Rouge G lipsticks and Urban Decay for the palettes. I hardly use any though, I'm too lazy to bother.

I'm trying to be smarter with makeup and nail polish purchases these days as well. Getting better. Still have some failures though!

I seem to have some sort of an obsession going any given time. It used to be make up and scarves, now it's nail polish! Mostly I think it's shopping!

 

[PearlyQueen]

Mani pictures: First one is UP Colors Cromoterapia (2012 untried) with ILNP Neon Rosebud on the accents. The UP Colors was very sheer and took 4 coats (I didn't apply it over black for a change and regretted it promptly). Definitely not one of my best multichromes.

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Next mani is Fun Lacquer Purfect for Me. It's a pretty thermal and still works fine.

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Next one is Emily de Molly Spell Check with Glam Polish Libra. The EdM was one of my must wear polishes, it's gorgeous.

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My current mani is OPI Rally Pretty Pink (2012 untrieds) with Illyrian My Sun and Stars. I then added stamping and smudged it with my topcoat. Ugh. The OPI took 4 coats and is actually very similar to the Nails Inc polish you're wearing, PQ.

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I used one of my Up! multichromes too, and found it way too sheer and it also took forever to dry. I think I have at least one more of theirs untried too, plus several holos - but I wouldn't buy again. Love most of those others though, especially the EdM!
How funny that your OPI one is so like my Nails Inc, shame they're both a bit underwhelming though. Nice to know it wasn't just me with Wardour Mews though!

 

[PearlyQueen]

Yeah, I have a good few bits of make up I bought without ever intending to wear. Luckily for my bank account I'm completely over make up, only buy Guerlain and Urban Decay now, Guerlain for the Meteorites and Rouge G lipsticks and Urban Decay for the palettes. I hardly use any though, I'm too lazy to bother.



I seem to have some sort of an obsession going any given time. It used to be make up and scarves, now it's nail polish! Mostly I think it's shopping!

Ha, I went from books to DVDs to clothes to jewellery to shoes to nail polish. I have no room to move on to anything else!!!

 

[boschicka]

Do any of you ladies know a dupe for Lilypad Lacquer's Peacock Flower? Sadly I'm in the US, so no ordering from Rainbow Connection.

Charity sale - PEACOCK FLOWER | Rainbow Connection

 

[Anitacska]

I used one of my Up! multichromes too, and found it way too sheer and it also took forever to dry. I think I have at least one more of theirs untried too, plus several holos - but I wouldn't buy again. Love most of those others though, especially the EdM!
How funny that your OPI one is so like my Nails Inc, shame they're both a bit underwhelming though. Nice to know it wasn't just me with Wardour Mews though!

Thank you! I loved that EdM polish! Luckily I only have 2 of the Up polishes.

Ha, I went from books to DVDs to clothes to jewellery to shoes to nail polish. I have no room to move on to anything else!!!

Oh yes, I forgot about jewellery! Luckily I never was a shoes or handbags person.

 

[Anitacska]

Do any of you ladies know a dupe for Lilypad Lacquer's Peacock Flower? Sadly I'm in the US, so no ordering from Rainbow Connection.

Charity sale - PEACOCK FLOWER | Rainbow Connection

No, sorry. But if you're on Facebook, you could try looking for it in nail polish groups like NNR or the Lilypad group. I can give you links if you like. Btw, I do have this polish and it's very pretty (sorry, not much help I know).