I like them all, the first lot are very summery! Please keep posting your pictures, I enjoy seeing them.
I haven't got any to share, didn't get around to taking pictures of my mid-week mani and it's gone now. My nails are currently naked, I'll probably paint them tomorrow. I'll try to take pictures.
Thanks for the encouraging words, I'll keep showing them!
I've been very spendy this month
I had to finalise my Nailland box so that meant a bit of extra spending, though I managed to hold out until a release I actually wanted - checking out was a nightmare, everything got confused by those PPU polishes not being there, plus I found out there's a hard 25 item limit on the size of the box. I had thought there would be a surcharge if I went over the weight limit, which would be OK because those two polishes weren't actually included but it just would not even let me check out, and the spend wasn't enough for free shipping if I took it out. The owner was very helpful though and I got it sorted in the end. Lesson learned, this new threshold means it's impossible to add many PPU polishes to a box and still get to free shipping. It will slide up and down how many depending on the price of the polishes I buy, so I will need to keep an eye on it.
I then hoovered up 12 polishes from RC in their sale - I'm really happy with most of them but it was spend I hadn't planned for. They were all polishes I've had in and out of my cart many times and I can't say I regret going for them.
And... I have a Stackry box going again. I wanted a bundle of the new GLLs and shipping to the UK would have been a lot anyway, plus there were other things I wanted to pick up from various brands. It's my first box since Black Friday and I just decided to grab loads of things I've been after and send my PPU this month there as well to help with the Nailland issue. I have spent so much money, and I still have my eye on the upcoming PfD and Nailed It collections from Nailland as well. And HHC.
I did order from Victorian Varnish since Stackry was open and she was absolutely lovely. I got my birthday discount which was 20%, which was nice. I didn't buy a huge amount but picked up a couple of collab mystery overpours to beef it up. After I checked out (with a note asking for non-HHC overpours if possible as I can already get those) I realised I'd somehow missed the free shipping threshold and messaged her to find out if she would combine if I picked up another item to make it. I also asked if she would hold the order for a week, I'd been hoping to do it later but things were selling out and as everything else was preorder I just wanted to try to make sure I had time for them all to arrive before I started getting storage fees. She came back and said not only would she combine and refund shipping plus hold the order for a week, but also that she had just two non-HHC overpours and was happy for me to have those. Then I checked with her what the threshold was and she said I'd already met it, and the birthday code had obviously messed up the checkout process. So she immediately refunded that. A day or so later she messaged me again with pics of her upcoming LBoH and SoU collab polishes and offered to combine them if I bought them as extra overpours - she also told me what the overpours I already had were and offered to swap them out if I preferred the new ones! I actually didn't really like the two I had already (one very ugly glitter thing and a very dark magnetic) so I got them swapped for the new ones and bought the third one, which she invoiced me for so we didn't have to pay shipping and refund it. She is so lovely! I think I should be able to squeeze next month's releases from her into the window for this box as well, so I might be able to do the same again. Poor love is struggling with getting a VAT number for UK shipments, she said it's massively complicated. I feel a bit guilty about that, I'm sure she's only doing it because I was pushing to get her an EU or UK stockist!
Anyway, also in my Stackry will be two new brands to me I've been itching to try (Daveen and Lurid), some extra liquid pigments and base for polish making, some Pahlishes, some Potions and a couple of destash orders. So far. I will probably add some Bluebirds when they open and the extra VV order. I will at least make the most of having a Stackry box! Then hopefully I will be able to hold off opening another one until BF comes around again. I was pleasantly surprised how long it's been. I did use them for getting some dry pigments from DRK last time - they are small, so the shipping is cheap, if I don't buy liquids they don't attract the Hazmat fee, as it's just one item there's no consolidation fee and the shipping costs the same (no Hazmat gives access to the cheaper carriers) but I don't get the customs charges.
