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Restock Radar: Week Of August 13

Here’s a look at some of the indie polish restocks scheduled for this week:

Monday, August 13
time not specified
DARING DIGITS (on Etsy)
Notables: Several new shades are coming, but no details yet. Updates will be available on Facebook.

Tuesday, August 14
8pmET
NAILD’IT (on Etsy)
Notables: Farmland Collection – Brown Chicken Brown Cow; Peacock Squawk and Oinky Doink

Wednesday, August 15
between 12pmET and 5pmET
DOLLISH POLISH (on Big Cartel)
Notables: This restock will include Zombie Flesh; 3 Best Friends That Anyone Could Have; Master Chief (retiring); Team Salvatore; Heart of Glass (retiring); Expecto Patronum and a mystery shade.

11pmET
ALL THAT GLITTERS (on Etsy)
Notables: New Princess Collection

Thursday, August 16
time not specified
ELEVATION POLISH (on blog)
Notables: pre-order for Ama Dablam

Friday, August 17
time not specified
FANCHROMATIC NAILS (on Etsy)
Notables: A bunch of new colors that haven’t been previewed yet; plus get the Star Trek-inspired Spatial Anomaly while it lasts since it won’t be coming back

Saturday, August 18
time not specified
RAINBOW HONEY (on RainbowHoney.com)
Notables: debut of the Sakura Matsuri collection, including Ephemeral, Koi Pond, Sakura Matsuri Namesake, Hanami and Wistful

And Keep An Eye Out For:
D & R Apothecary Monday is having a one-day sale on full-size bottles of its Hit Polish line, $7, down from $8.50, through 11pmET.

If you know of any planned restocks coming in the future, please let me know at polishgroupie@gmail.com.

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Restock Radar: More For This Weekend

A few more indie polish restocks have popped up on the radar for this week. For a look at others, see my earlier post:

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NAIL JUNKIE (on NailJunkie.com)
Notables: Recently launched Animal collection, including Bee (black matte hex glitter in a yellow shimmer base) and Flamingo (holographic and matte white hex glitter in a pink opalescent base)

HIT POLISH BY D&R APOTHECARY (on Etsy)
Notables: Four new limited edition minis, available through Aug. 14 or until they sell out, including Vintage Appeal (’70s inspired mix of mustard yellow, turquoise brown and orange glitter in a variety of shapes and sizes in a clear base) and Blarney Stone (described as emerald green glitters with small gold holographic glitters, black shards, evergreen squares, matte kelly green hex along with gold bars and small black glitters, all in a clear base).

Friday August 10
9pmET
PRETTY & POLISHED (on Etsy)
Notables: Seven brand new shades, including Day Trippin’ (a color changer that’s purple in the bottle and pink on the nail) and Clouds In My Coffee (taupe polish with light and dark blue hex glitter) See the Pretty & Polished blog for more on the new line.

Saturday, August 11
5pmET
HAPPY HANDS (on Etsy)
Notables: Flowers On The Highway (mix of spring-inspired colored and patterned! hex glitters in a clear base)

If you know of any planned restocks coming in the future, please let me know at polishgroupie@gmail.com

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Giveaway Shout-outs: Enchanted Polish and Peace, Love & Polish

Over the past few weeks I have been a very lucky Groupie, winning not one but TWO fantastic nail polish giveaways. I will have additional posts on these coming up, but wanted to at least get some public thank yous out to these ladies here on the blog. These aren’t the greatest photos — really I just took them to show my sister my spoils — but wanted to make sure I had some images here.

Last month I won a giveaway from indie polish maker Enchanted Polish, my first-ever win! What a great one to start out with. I received the lovely Penny Lane. Is it pink? Is it copper? For me it’s somewhere in between, but it’s 100 percent holo, and very, very pretty.

Enchanted Polish Penny Lane

(BTW, there’s another giveaway going on right now from Enchanted Polish for three brand new shades, so jump on it.)

Then at the end of July I was one of two winners of a giveaway from Peace, Love & Polish, which was a collection of 26 polishes left over from her blog sale. Not sure how she parted with some of these, some real beauties. You can get some sense for the massiveness of this haul from the photo. I wish I had photographed everything before I unpacked them … she took such care wrapping up each one, must have taken forever.

Peace, Love & Polish Giveaway Haul

So thanks very much to Chelsea at Enchanted Polish and Heather at Peace, Love & Polish for your generous gifts.

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Restock Radar: Week Of August 6

Here’s a look at some of the indie nail polish restocks scheduled for this week:

Tuesday, August 7
10pmET
ELEVATION POLISH (on Big Cartel, and 10 minutes later on Etsy)
Notables: Marble Caves (a blue-purple base with shimmer); this one’s a one-time limited edition (only 75 available for purchase), so move fast if you love it

Wednesday, August 8
6pmET
NAIL SAUCE (on Etsy)
Notables: Promising a restock of all colors, plus the launch of the new fall line. Check out the Se7en collection.

Thursday, August 9
8pmET
WINDESTINE (on Big Cartel)
Notables: Coupons! Use code ‘DEC’ for $3.75 off of mini Decorated; use code ‘AND’ for $3.75 off of mini Androgynous

time not specified
CANDY LACQUER (on Etsy)
Notables: Colors not specified

Friday, August 10
1pmET
NAIL POTIONS/KUNIMITSU (on Etsy)
Notables: new polishes Passiflora (described as a glitter topcoat with matte purple squares and tiny bars, lavender hexes, yellow hexes and green flecks) and Galloping Ghost (described as a glitter topcoat featuring white and teal diamonds, teal hexes, small metallic fuschia and aqua glitters, and silvery white flecks)

Saturday, August 11
time not specified
PHONAILTIC LACQUER (on Etsy)
Notables: One of a kinds!

And Keep An Eye Out For:
CULT NAILS is having a birthday sale from Tuesday, August 7 through Sunday, August 12; all polishes will be $7. At the same time, a huge chunk of their lineup is being discontinued, including:
Annalicious
Awakening
Bad Devious Nature
Baker
Black Out
Charming
Feelin’ Froggy
Happy Ending
Manipulative
Mazo
Mind Control
Spontaneous
Swanborne
Tulum
Untamed
Enigmatic
In a Trance
Living Water

Get ’em while they last at cultnails.com.

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Restock Radar: More For The Week Of July 30

A few more indie polish restocks have popped up on the radar for this week. For a look at the others, see my earlier post.

Wednesday, August 1
3pmET & 9pmET
DOLLISH POLISH (on Llarowe)
Notables: The new Super Mario Bros. collection of super-glitters!

3pmET & 9pmET
PRETTY AND POLISHED (on Llarowe)
Notables: Sand Art (multi-colored matte glitter) and Jawbreaker (multi-colored glitter in a white jelly base)

Saturday, August 4
time not specified
SONNETARIUM (on Etsy)
Notables: Colors for the restock weren’t specified, but some of the more striking shades from Sonnetarium’s line include Demonized (teal and purple glitter in a clear base) and Snowfall (large white hex and small iridescent glitter in a clear base)

If you know of any planned restocks coming in the future, please let me know at polishgroupie@gmail.com

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Restock Radar – Week of July 30

Here’s a look at some of the indie nail polish restocks scheduled for this week:

Wednesday, August 1
1pmET
NORTHERN STAR POLISH (on Etsy)
Notables: Not Today (brown shimmer base with gold and copper hex glitter), Thousand Swords (black and diamond hex, silver bar and hex, holographic bar glitter in a clear base) and Dragon’s Blood (large bronze hex and small gold, red and orange hex glitter in a green jelly base), a trio of “Game of Thrones”-inspired polishes

8pmET
DANDY NAILS (on Etsy)
Notables: Four brand-new blue polishes with varying degrees of shimmer and glitter: Float On, Eager Eyes, Head Underwater, Hands of Time

time not specified
CANDY LACQUER (on Etsy)
Notables: Summer Sweets, Cherry Berry and Fruit Salad, atrio of fun, bright summer-appropriate glitters in clear base that look cute over white polish.

Friday, August 3
8pmET
ALL THAT GLITTERS (on Etsy)
Notables: a new line of “Princess” polishes (sneak peek; note that the name on the label is not the actual name)

time not specified
CHAOS AND CROCODILES (on Etsy)
Notables: She’s promising two to four new polishes, plus six re-releases. Details still to come.

And Keep An Eye Out For:
Harlow & Co. is planning to restock KBShimmer sometime this week, though there might be a delay due to some bottle breakage.

If you know of any planned restocks coming in the future, please let me know at polishgroupie@gmail.com

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Rainbow Honey Mare Of The Moon

It’s not lost on me that this is my 13th post, as this was one unlucky manicure.

It features Rainbow Honey’s Mare Of The Moon, which is a beautiful purplish-blue color shifter that has shimmer plus silver crescent moon glitter. I have been lusting after a blue polish with moon glitter ever since I first saw Windestine’s Spica featured on a blog two months ago (it’s on my lemmings list).

So when I saw Mare Of The Moon, part of Rainbow Honey’s Equestria collection, I had to have it. Let me just say off the top that I love the color of this polish. It really is a beauty. And despite what’s to follow, I really enjoyed wearing this polish. Can’t take my eyes off of it.

Rainbow Honey Mare of the Moon

But here’s where we get into the “unlucky” part of this manicure. I had a terrible time with the application. Part of my problem was definitely that this was a mini (7ml) bottle, and I found the short brush challenging to work with and the large top a bit awkward to hold. With my painting hand being so close to my “being painted” hand, it was difficult for me to maneuver the brush the way I wanted, and to see what was going on. Maybe this is just the danger of the mini bottle. I admit, I haven’t purchased that many. Will definitely pause next time I’m tempted to buy one. That said, I applied undies on this which was also a mini bottle, and I didn’t have nearly the trouble applying that one. More on the undies later.

Rainbow Honey Mare of the Moon

The rest of my application problems I think had to do with the polish itself. It can be quite thin and watery, almost like water color if you don’t load the brush enough. I didn’t mind that as much as I did the drying time. It seemed to dry very quickly; before I had even finished painting a nail, that nail had already begun to set. Plus it has what I would call just shy of a matte finish. That was a disaster given that I had to fish out and try to place the moon glitter, which for me was the main attraction of this polish.

Rainbow Honey Mare of the Moon

As I’d try to move the glitter or even transfer it from the brush to my nail, i was disrupting the parts of the polish that had already begun setting. It made for a very uneven, bumpy and frankly not very attractive end result, though adding topcoat helped smooth things out.

Rainbow Honey Mare of the Moon

The final nail in the coffin here is that I cannot find my cleanup brush, which I desperately needed on this one. I did what I could with an orange stick dipped in acetone.

Rainbow Honey Mare of the Moon

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For undies I used one coat of Mattese Elite’s Up My Platinum, available from Ricky’s NYC. I probably didn’t need it, but I didn’t want to risk it. Up My Platinum is a frosty silver that went on pretty smoothly. Formula was quite nice. Here it is on its own with a top coat.

Matesse Elite Up My Platinum

I followed that with two coats of Mare Of The Moon and a coat of Poshe.

I will definitely try this one out again when I have all my ducks in a row and am feeling at the top of my game. Now that I’m more familiar with the formula, I think I could do a better job of wrangling it.

Rainbow Honey Mare of the Moon with Matesse Elite Up My Platinum

Mare of the Moon is available from RainbowHoney.com. Currently the minis are in stock but the full size is not. Rainbow Honey’s polishes are 3-free, as are Mattese Elite’s.

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