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Restock Radar: Week of Feb. 3

Here’s a look at some of the indie nail polish restocks scheduled for the week starting Monday, February 3. Check back every Monday to see what’s coming up. Updates will be added as I find them.

Tuesday, February 4
time not specified
LOADED LACAQUER (On LoadedLacquer.com)
Notables: Restock of Disarmed and Dangerous, Oxygen Bar and North of the Arctic Circle

Wednesday, February 5
time not specified
SWEET HEART POLISH (On Etsy)
Notables: Launch of Show Me Your Beads

Friday, February 7
noonET
RESCUE BEAUTY LOUNGE (On RescueBeauty.com)
Notables: Pre-orders begin for the A Poem Collection

8pmET
PAHLISH (On Pahlish.com)
Notables: Launch of All of Time And Space Collection Part II, six shades including The Oldest Question

9pmET
SCOFFLAW NAIL VARNISH (On ScofflawVarnish.com)
Notables: Restock and launch of limited edition Love Letter From Scofflaw (available one-time only, as a pre-order during the first hour)

10pmET
ELEVATION POLISH (On Big Cartel)
Notables: Restock

Saturday, February 8
5pmET
FREAK SHOW POLISH (On FreakshowPolish.com)
Notables: Launch of collaborative Dr. Seuss Duo and some other new colors

And Keep An Eye Out For …
LLAROWE  on Tuesday, February 4 will be restocking A ENGLAND, DIFFERENT DIMENSION (new colors and restock) and PICTURE POLISH (new colors and restock) at 3pmET and again at 9pmET

LYNBDESIGNS is retiring a number of shades on February 14

If you know of any planned indie restocks, launches or sales coming in the future, please let me know at polishgroupie@gmail.com Thanks for stopping by!

UPDATED FEB. 5, 2014

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Restock Radar: Week of April 29

Here’s a look at some of the indie nail polish restocks scheduled for the week starting Monday, April 29. Check back every Monday to see what’s coming up.

Tuesday, April 30
noonET
RESCUE BEAUTY LOUNGE (On RescueBeauty.com)
Notables: General availability of the Emoting Me collection

Wednesday, May 1
time not specified
DOLLISH POLISH (On Big Cartel)
Notables: Restock, including The Candy Series, The Cartoon Series, The Big Bang Theory and several retiring shades

time not specified
ELIXIR LACQERS (On ElixirLacquers.com)
Notables: Launch of Summer Shimeleons collection

2:30pmET
SILLY BEE’S CHICKADEES (On Etsy)
Notabales: Launch of Melly’s Mash and restock of Fruit Collection

Saturday, May 4
HAPPY HANDS (On Etsy)
Notables: Launch of Project Badass Collection, in conjunction with Polish Revolution

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

 

UPDATED APRIL 30

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12 Days Of Christmas Challenge: Snowmen

Day 4 of the 12 Days Of Christmas Challenge already? How did that happen? Today’s prompt is snowmen.

Christmas/Winter nail art: Snowmen

A few days ago I featured Rescue Beauty Lounge Piu Mosso on the blog. I used that same mani as the base for this one, so there is a little bit of wear. This is two coats of Piu Mosso plus one coat of Poshe fast-dry top coat to start, and then I added one coat of China Glaze Fairy Dust. The Piu Mosso made it look to me like a night scene, so I thought the China Glaze Fairy Dust would almost look like stars or maybe snow.

Christmas/Winter nail art: Snowmen

I then used a large dotting tool to add the snow across the bottom of each nail with OPI My Boyfriend Scales Walls. I used the same color to do the first layer of dots for all of the snowmen. I then added a second dot to each that was just slightly smaller than the original using NYC French White Tip. My working theory was that since the OPI is a white with a gray tinge that it would provide a little shading compared to the stark white NYC color. Not sure that came through in the finished product, but that was the idea.

Christmas/Winter nail art: Snowmen

I used a small dotting tool to create the scarves with Essie Very Cranberry, and then used Orly Liquid Vinyl for the coal buttons and eyes.

I finished it off with one coat of Poshe.

Christmas/Winter nail art: Snowmen12 Days Of Christmas Nail Art Challenge



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Rescue Beauty Lounge Piu Mosso

Last week, Rescue Beauty Lounge restocked some of its retired colors in its latest Bring It Back promotion, where it hauls some of the long-gone shades out of the vault to give polish groupies one last chance at nabbing them.

I actually didn’t have any RBL polishes in my collection, but I had recently read through founder Ji Baek’s “Rescue Your Nails,” so I was interested in checking out her nail polish line.

Despite the steep $20 price tag, I picked up Piu Mosso, which is an intriguing polish to say the least.

Rescue Beauty Lounge Piu MossoRescue Beauty Lounge Piu Mosso

In the bottle it looks like it’s a brown polish with lots of shimmer, and on the nail it looks nearly black in most light. But in reality it’s a deep blue with some subtle bronze shimmer. Think really dark pair of blue jeans. RBL actually describes it as as “inky, blue-black.”

Rescue Beauty Lounge Piu Mosso

It’s really amazing. The formula is great; I could have gone with one coat, but this is actually two, plus one coat of Poshe fast-dry top coat. In fact I did stick with one coat on my other hand and it looks fine. The brush is very thin, just FYI, which for me makes it harder to get a nice clean application at the cuticle line.

Rescue Beauty Lounge Piu Mosso

Piu Mosso is very difficult to photograph, so here’s one in my lightbox with the light shining directly on it so you can get a better sense of it.

Rescue Beauty Lounge Piu Mosso

As of this posting it is still available on rescuebeauty.com. And, just in case you were wondering, the name is a musical term meaning faster, with more movement. I like to think it’s because your heart starts beating a little faster when you look down and see this color on your nails. 🙂

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