Press Samples for April 2019
Polish Pickup | Famous Works of Art

This month has been an incredibly stressful month, and I almost thought this April 2019 Polish Pickup Famous Works of Art post would be right up against the deadline, but somehow I pulled through.

Of the 18 tax seasons I’ve been through (12 with my current employer) this has been the most stressful. This isn’t entirely due to tax season itself though. With Polish Pickup, Polish Con coming up, Tax Season and 7th grade projects that were due this month, I was totally freaking out that things would slip.

So far though, I’ve been working lots of overtime (only Sundays off so far this month..) we’ve successfully completed 5 large projects for Jacob, and while my swatching is a bit behind – overall I am doing an okay job of keeping up with that. 2 more weeks though and we’re home free and back to a normal schedule. Not to say the next 2 weeks won’t be even more brutal. Between tomorrow and April 13th, I won’t have a single day off.

Anyways – that’s why I’m a little more quiet than normal, but I do have the April 2019 Polish Pickup goodies to share. I did 90% of these photos in a single day.

I have 57 items to share this month and this is a mix of Polish Pickup and Indie Pickup, but since it’s all on the same site again at the same time, I just label the whole whopper Polish Pickup. 7 of these are from the Indie Pickup section and 50 are from Polish Pickup.

As usual, if there’s a particular polish you came to look at and don’t want to scroll through everything – hit CTRL + F if you are on desktop and search the brand name.

Let’s get this show on the road.

Alter Ego Nail Enamel | Vega 200 Vasarely 1968

Inspiration:
Op artist Victor Vasarely, considered one of the founding fathers of Op Art

Description: Vega 200 Vasarely 1968 is a slightly green crelly base with metallic red and metallic blue flakes. Some flakes go wayward, but it was easy to either brush them off the nail or rotate them to behave. I used 3 thin coats and a glossy top coat for these photos.

Price: $8.50 | No Cap

Aurora 5-Free Nail Lacquer | The Quill Of The Cock

Inspiration:
Girl with Peacock Earrings portrait by paper artist Yulia Brodskaya

Description: The Quill Of The Cock is a clear base loaded with rainbow flakes. I used 3 thin coats alone for these photos. It can be used over a creme base as well.

Price: $12.00 | Cap: 75 Bottles

Baroness X | Acetone Antidote in Almond Orange Spire

Inspiration:
The fruit spires on Gaudi’s Sagrada Familia. These jewel-like spires are decorated with colorful mosaic fruits, made of sparking Venetian glass. They represent fruits for each season of the year – peaches, cherries, figs, pomegranates, almonds, oranges, etc.

Description: This acetone additive is a creamy orange with a hint of almond. It’s very smooth so you don’t get that tart orange scent, but more of a smooth dessert like orange. Think creamsicle, but instead of vanilla – the additional scent is almond.

Recommended Use:  Add the entire vial to 6-8oz of acetone. You can add more or less, these are just suggestions for optimal scent and protection from acetone. Once the AA is added to your acetone just shake the bottle once to mix it each time you change polish. There’s no need to keep shaking during the removal of a full mani with our formulation, it will stay blended long enough to remove your polish.

Price: $4.25 | Cap: None

Bluebird Lacquer | Centaur of Attention

Inspiration:
Jason and His Teacher by Maxfield Parrish.

Description: Centaur Of Attention is a deep glowy ruby red linear holo. I used 2 coats and a glossy top coat for these photos. In person it’s a slightly deeper red.

Price: $11.00 | No Cap

Bluebird Lacquer | Fruit Smoochies Lip Scrub

Inspiration:
Giuseppe Arcimboldo’s Vertumnus aka peeps made out of fruits.

Description: Smoothing Beak Balm is a gentle lip scrub in a balm tube for easy – less mess – application. This one is scented with banana, blueberries and pomegranate. 

Price: $5.50 | No Cap

BLUSH Lacquers | A Dance On The Sand

Inspiration:
 The Singing Butler by Jack Vettriano

Description: A Dance On The Sand is a greyed out steel blue jelly based scattered holographic with pink to gold shifting shimmer, gold flakes, copper flakes, and red to orange to gold shifting multichrome flakes. I used 3 thin coats and a glossy top coat for these photos.

Price: $11.00 | Cap: None

Cameo Colours Lacquers | I’d Give My Ear For An Iris

Inspiration:
Van Gogh’s Irises

Description: I’d Give My Ear For An Iris is a deep indigo base with green to blue to purple shift, a bit of scattered holographic, as well as purple to blue, lime to blue to gold, gold metallic and silver holographic microflakes. This polish truly looks different at every single angle. I used 2 coats and a glossy top coat for these photos.

Price: $11.00 | Cap: 95 Bottles

Chirality Nail Polish | Narcissus Immortal (Glow In The Dark)

Inspiration:
Metamorphosis of Narcissus by Salvador Dali

Description: Narcissus Immortal is a tangerine orange jelly base with orange, caramel and brown glitters in various sizes, as well as green to aqua shimmer. This glows green in the dark. I used 3 thin coats and a glossy top coat for these photos.

Price: $10.00 | No Cap

Colores de Carol | Balloon Dog

Inspiration: Balloon Dog by Jeff Koons

Description: Balloon Dog is a metallic multichrome brunt orange to deep red with iridescent orange flakes within. I used 3 thin coats for these photos.

In person you will see more of the burnt orange shift, but on me and with my lighting, the deep red wanted to come out to play a bit more.

Price: $12.50 | Cap: None

Colors by Llarowe | The Muse

Inspiration:
Picasso’s Dora Maar

Description: The Muse is a red leaning purple base with an intense linear holographic that has a red and blue flame. I used 2 coats and a glossy top coat for these photos.

Price: $11.00 | Cap: None

Crystal Knockout | Miss Unicorn

Inspiration:
Fantasy artist Josephine Wall’s “My Lady Unicorn”

Description: Miss Unicorn is a bright, warm purple jelly base loaded with indigo aurora shimmer, iridescent flakes in blue, gold and green, as well as pink, gold and aqua holographic microglitters. I used 3 thin coats and a glossy top coat for these photos.

Price: $13.00 | Cap: None

Darling Diva Polish | Nezhnyy

Inspiration:
Faberge Egg

Description: Nezhnyy is a green scattered holographic with shifting green to gold to aqua shimmer, as well as ultrachrome chameleon flakes mixed in. I used 3 thin coats and a glossy top coat for these photos.

There is a slight texture with this shade, but you should still only need 1 coat of top coat for a smooth finish.

Price: $11.00 | Cap: 75 Bottles

Dollish Polish | Merci’ Bouquet

Inspiration: Claude Monet’s Lilac Irises

Description: Merci’ Bouquet is an iris purple crelly base with strong green to turquoise to blue shifting shimmer. I used 3 thin coats and a glossy top coat for these photos.

Price: $12.50 | Cap: 280 Bottles

Dreamland Lacquer | Giverny

Inspiration:
 Nympheas, painted in 1915 by Claude Monet, one of a series of 250 paintings of water lilies painted during the last 30 years of his life depicting his flower garden as his home in Giverny.

Description: Giverny is a medium aqua blue jelly base packed with holographic microglitters, holo pigment, and pink to gold iridescent flakes. I used 3 thin coats and a glossy top coat for these photos.

Price: $12.00 | Cap: 270 Bottles

Ellagee | Autochrome 1914

Inspiration:
“Inspired by one of the very first color photographs, which was taken in 1914 of the famous Moulin Rouge in Paris. The deep red tone of the building set against the stormy blue color of the sky combined with the haziness typical of the autochrome method of photography is very striking and dreamlike. I hope you’ll enjoy this ellagee polish inspired by the feel of this photograph.”

Description: Autochrome 1914 is a smokey pale grey with a tinge of blue with a scattered holographic and denim blue shimmer, as well as a variety of red to copper flakes and tiny grey flakes. I used 3 thin coats and a glossy top coat for these photos.

Price: $12.00 | No Cap

Ethereal Lacquer | Agony and Ecstasy

Inspiration:
Agony and Ecstasy by Charmaine Olivia

Description: Agony and Ecstacy is a bright oceanic blue jelly base with a rainbow of iridescent chameleon flakes and strong copper to red to green shifting shimmer. This is on the sheer side, so it can also be used as a topper, but I used it alone. 3 coats and a glossy top coat.

Price: $12.50 | Cap: 330 Bottles

Fair Maiden Polish | Force of Nature

Inspiration:
The Force of Nature, by Lorenzo Quinn, sculpture in Qatar

Description: Force of Nature is a medium purple jelly base with iridescent shifting teal flakes and scattered holographic sparkle. I used 3 thin coats and a glossy top coat for these photos.

Price: $12.00 | Cap: 150

Fanchromatic Nails | Frida in Pink

Inspiration:
Frida Kahlo’s self-portrait, “Self Portrait Along the Boarder Line Between Mexico and the United States, 1932”

Description: Frida In Pink is a warm, dusty rose pink crelly with iridescent blue, indigo, copper and gold flakes, as well as a subtle pale pinkish silver shimmer. I used 3 thin coats and a glossy top coat for these photos.

Price: $12.00 | Cap: 75 Bottles

Fat Cat Pawlished |Raise An Eyebrow Room/Linen Refresher Spray

Inspiration:
Frida Kahlo Self- Portrait

Description: Raise An Eyebrow scent was inspired by Frida Kahlo. Outdrinking men in tequila contests, flowers in her hair and a cigarette in her hand. This Room/Linen Refresher Spray has a mix of notes like tequila con limon, marigold, greenery and a twist of tobacco. My nose personally picks up the marigold and tobacco mostly. It’s an interesting combo, and while at first I raised an eyebrow to it… my car currently has this scent in it and I quite like it.

Linen Use: Spray items from 6 inches away to freshen between laundering. Safe for most fabrics and furnishings. Spot Check if item is prone to staining. 
For Room Use: Spray upwards 12 inches away in air and avert your eyes! Sniff and enjoy. 3 pumps is ideal. These are body-safe fragrance oils and can be used as a body mist if you’re feeling a little peculiar like Frida!

Price: $6.00 | Cap: 30

GALATEA Cosmetics | Foaming Bath Crush

Inspiration:
The illustration of Waterfall City, from the book Dinotopia, by James Gurney

Description: GALATEA Foaming Bath Crush is an aquatic type scent with hints of florals and spice. Primary notes are bergamot, coriander, hyacinth, tonka and clear cool water. It turns the water a rich shade of blue-green, has a decent foaming amount (not as much as a bubble bath, but a good amount) and it’s in a crushed powder form – so you can scoop or pour out as much as you wish.

I haven’t had the chance to soak in this yet. I tested it in the sink and the aroma filled our bathroom and lingered for quite awhile.

For maximum bubbles, toss as much bath crush as you like under running water as your tub begins to fill – or, for softer, creamier foam (and to get that traditional bath bomb fizz!) scatter it on the surface of the water when the tub is full. 

Our formula contains skin-softening and moisturizing ingredients, and leaves your skin feeling wonderful. It will not stain your tub or make it slippery. We use only phlalate-free, vegan and cruelty-free ingredients. 

Our bath crush was designed for sensitive skin – but if irritation occurs, please discontinue use immediately. Keep out of reach of children except under adult supervision.

Price: $9.00 | Cap: 25

Girly Bits | Not Waterlilies

Inspiration:
While skimming works of art for inspiration, I came upon a wonderful lithograph by Sunol Alvar, and I immediately thought of this polish that I have had sitting in my arsenal of prototypes for a while. I added some blue colour shifting flakes to my original prototype and Voila! This is ‘Not Waterlilies’

Description: Not Waterlilies is a sheer cyan blue jelly base with copper to red to green shifting shimmer as well as blue to aqua color shifting iridescent flakes. I used 3 thin coats and a glossy top coat for these photo. This can be worn alone like I did, or layered over a creme.

Price: $13.00 | Cap: 375 Bottles

Great Lakes Lacquer | On His Shell, He Holds The Earth (Thermal)

Inspiration: Art by Alicia De La Cruz

Description: On His Shell, He Holds The Earth is a deep ocean blue when cold and a light sky blue when warm. It’s packed with blue to purple shifting aurora shimmer and orange to gold to green iridescent flakes. I used 3 thin coats and a glossy top coat for these photos.

The cold state blue is deeper and has a touch more green in person.

Price: $13.00 | No Cap

Indie by Patty Lopes | Mysterious Smile

Inspiration: Mona Lisa by Leonardo da Vinci

Description: Mysterious Smile is a red to gold to fiery orange shifting multichrome with teal to pink duochrome shimmer, multichrome flakes, red holo microglitters and silver holo microglitters. I used 3 thin coats and a glossy top coat for these photos.

Price: $12.00 | Cap: 75 Bottles

Jreine | Desire

Inspiration: Painting of a New Orleans streetcar.

Description: Desire is a very densely packed original unicorn pee topper that has both small and large particle unicorn pee suspended in a lightly tinted multichrome base to give off a smokey look.
I used one thick coat over OPI Mrs. O’Leary’s BBQ for these photos.

Price: $13.00 | No Cap

Kathleen & Co. | Meditative Rose

Inspiration: Rose Meditative by Salvador Dali

Description: Meditative Rose is a cobalt blue jelly base loaded with red to gold aurora shimmer, as well as a healthy dose of scattered holo. I used 3 thin coats and a glossy top coat for these photos.

Price: $12.50 | Cap: 100 Bottles

KBShimmer | Wave After Wave (Magnetic)

Inspiration:
“Water makes me happy. From the lakes of Minnesota and Wisconsin where I grew up, to the oceans and seas I’ve come to cherish through my travels, it’s no surprise that when searching for artwork to inspire April’s PPU shade, I was drawn to, “The Ninth Wave,” a painting by Ivan Aivazovsky. This painting depicts a raging sea, with a legendarily powerful and destructive “ninth wave” approaching shipwreck survivors clinging to the cross-like mast of a ship’s wreckage. The warm tones and dawn’s breaking light give us hope that man will overcome, in spite of the wave’s potential for destruction.”

Description: Wave After Wave is a lavender tinged smokey grey creme base with strong coppery red to gold magnetic shimmer. I used 3 thin coats and a glossy top coat for these photos.

Price: $10.00 | Cap: None

Lemming Lacquer | Birth of Venus

Inspiration: The Birth of Venus by Sandro Botticelli

Description: Birth of Venus is an ocean blue jelly base with a rainbow mix of iridescent flakes. The flakes mainly spark pruple, blue, pink, orange and gold. I used 3 thin coats and a glossy top coat for these photos.

Price: $13.00 | Cap: 275 Bottles

Lilly Anne’s Garden | Crayola Rainbow Lotion

Inspiration: Crayola Rainbow

Description: Crayola Rainbow smells identical to Rainbow Sherbet. Notes of lime pineapple, orange and raspberry hugged by vanilla. I have been using this lotion nonstop and it smells so good.

This is a thick cream and soaks in quick so you can use a little of it all day without a greasy residue left behind, or slather it on and let it soak in slowly.

Price: $5.50 | Cap: 200 Jars

Lilly Anne’s Garden | Crayola Rainbow Whipped Soap

Inspiration: Crayola Rainbow

Description: Same scent as the lotion – rainbow sherbet! This is a whipped soap that smells delicious. After a swatch session, I’ve been using this on my hands and then following up with the matching lotion.

Ingredients: Glycerin, Sorbitol, Purified Water, Myristic Acid, Stearic Acid, Sodium Cocoyl Isethionate, Disodium Lauryl Sulfosuccinate, Sodium Chloride, Diazolidinyl Urea, Iodopropynyl Butylcarbamate, Tetrasodium EDTA, Fragrance, Skin Safe Color.

Price: $7.00 | Cap: 90 Jars

Lollipop Posse Lacquer | Images of Broken Light

Inspiration: Jack Storms Glass Sculpture

Description: Images of Broken Light is a cool toned purple base loaded with green to aqua to purple shifting aurroa shimmer, holographic microflecks and aqua to green to purple shifting iridescent flakes. I used 3 thin coats and a glossy top coat for these photos.

Price: $13.00 | No Cap

LynBDesigns | Magenta Girl

Inspiration: Magenta Girl by Lora Zombie

Description: Magenta Girl is a pale magenta tinted base loaded with holographic flakes, pink to red to gold to violet shifting shimmer, violet to red to purple to orange shifting flakes and orange to pink to gold shifting flakes. I used 3 thin coats and a glossy top coat for these photos.

Price: $13.00 | No Cap

Moon Shine Mani | Winged Victory

Inspiration:
Marble Hellenistic statue The Winged Victory of Samothrace

Description: Winged Victory is an ivory crelly base with a mix of turquoise, black holographic and iridescent glitters. I used 3 thin coats and a glossy top coat for these photos.

Price: $12.00 | Cap: None

My Indie Polish | Hendrix

Inspiration: A Well Known Jimi Hendrix Print

Description: Hendrix is a deep berry purple jelly base with shifting flakes that show off magenta, orange, green and gold. I used 3 thin coats and a glossy top coat for these photos.

It’s more opaque in person, but the lighting I use for photos make it appear more sheer than it really is.

Price: $12.50 | Cap: 75 Bottles

Nail Hoot | Autumn Landscape

Inspiration:
Autumn Landscape Tiffany Window at NYC Metropolitan Art Museum

Description: Autumn Landscape is a hot orange jelly with gold to pink shifting microflakes and aurora shimmer. In some lighting it leans almost coral with the pink shift. I used 3 thin coats and a glossy top coat for these photos.

Price: $9.50 | No Cap

Nailed It Nail Polish | Tree Of Light

Inspiration: The Pine Tree at St. Tropez by Paul Signac

Description: Tree Of Life is a mint green crelly base with pink shimmer, as well as blue, purple, pink, green and gold ultrachrome chameleon flakes, silver flakes and holographic microglitter. I used 3 thin coats and a glossy top coat for these photos.

Price: $12.75 | Cap: 100 Bottles

Native War Paints | Ms. Monroe

Inspiration:
Andy Warhol Marilyn Monroe prints.

Description: Ms. Monroe is a neon pink crelly base with neon red, green, blue, purple and yellow matte glitters mixed in. I used 3 thin coats and a glossy top coat for these photos.

It’s a deeper shade of neon pink than my photos show. More magenta like neon pink.

Price: $12.50 | No Cap

Necessary Evil Polish | Cherry Blossom Almond Wax Melt

Inspiration: Eyvind Earle and his Purple Dawn painting

Description: These little wax melts are the perfect size to just pop into a warmer. This is a cherry scent mellowed out with almond. The description says there’s a dash of clean cotton, but I don’t personally pick that up.

Price: $3.50 | Cap: 25 (Come in sets of 3)

Necessary Evil Polish | Purple Dawn

Inspiration:
Purple Dawn by Eyvind Earle

Description: Purple Dawn is a medium lavender crelly base with 3 different iridescent flakes, subtle scattered holo and red shimmer mixed in. I used 3 thin coats and a glossy top coat for these photos.

Price: $11.00 | No Cap

NeVerMind Polish | Loneliness Of Autumn

Inspiration:
Loneliness of autumn by Leonid Afremov

Description: Loneliness Of Autumn is a sheer white crelly base with 6 different types of multichrome flakes mixed in, as well as red to orange to yellow aurora pigment. I used 3 thin coats and a glossy top coat for these photos. Can also be worn over a creme base.

Price: $12.00 | Cap: 150 Bottles

Night Owl Lacquer | Poplars At Sunset

Inspiration:
Vincent van Gogh’s 1884 Avenue of Poplars at Sunset.

Description: Poplars At Sunset is a taupe crelly base with red to gold to green aurora shimmer and charcoal grey flakes. I used 3 thin coats and a glossy top coat for these photos.

Price: $12.50 | Cap: 360 Bottles

Night Owl Lacquer | Moon Glow Top Coat (Blacklight Reactive)

Inspiration: The Moon

Description: Moon Glow Top Coat is a blacklight reactive top coat with a quick dry formula. If you’ve tried Night Owl Lacquer’s Patience Not Required Top Coat – this is the same performance but with the addition of glowing in blacklight. I used 1 coat over Night Owl Lacquer Poplars At Sunset.

Price: $6.50 | Cap: 175 Bottles

Pahlish | The Woman In Gold

Inspiration: Klimt’s Portrait of Adele Block-Bauer I

Description: The Woman In Gold is a soft chocolate creme with crushed gold flakes and scattered bronze to gold to green multichrome shimmer. I used 3 thin coats and a glossy top coat for these photos.

Price: $12.50 | No Cap

Pampered Polishes | Soldier Take Warning

Inspiration: Dali’s Soldier Take Warning

Description: Soldier Take Warning is a mossy green creme with teal to green shifting shimmer, holographic flakes, scattered holo and ultrachrome chameleon flakes showing flashes of red to bronze to gold. I used 2 coats and a glossy top coat for these photos.

Price: $12.00 | Cap: 150 Bottles

Poetry Cowgirl Nail Polish | Georgia’s Flowers

Inspiration: “The White Flower” painting by Georgia O’Keeffe

Description: Georgia’s Flowers is a delicate lavender crelly based scattered holographic with gold shimmer and a subtle green to teal aurora shimmer. I used 3 thin coats and a glossy top coat for these photos.

Price: $12.50 | No Cap

Rogue Lacquer | The Thinker

Inspiration: Famous sculpture by Rodan – The Thinker

Description: The Thinker is a bronze linear holographic loaded with coppery red to green shifting shimmer, as well as ultrachrome chameleon flakes. I used 3 thin coats and a glossy top coat for these photos.

Price: $12.50 | Cap: 350 Bottles

Sassy Cats Lacquer | Mistakes (Magnetic)

Inspiration: Bob Ross Painting Red Sunset

Description: Mistakes is a deep red jelly base with blue to purple magnetic shimmer and shifting ghost flakes that shift blue to gold to pink to purple, as well as gold shimmer flecks. I used 3 thin coats and a glossy top coat for these photos.

Price: $13.00 | Cap: 75 Bottles

Sassy Pants Polish | Breath Of Life

Inspiration: Inspired by Michelangelo’s Creation of Adam

Description: Breath Of Life is a dusty slate blue crelly base with green to aqua aurora shimmer, ultrachrome chameleon flakes that shift red to bronze to gold, as well as iridescent microglitters and small gold and silver holographic pigment. I used 3 thin coats and a glossy top coat for these photos.

Price: $12.00 | No Cap

Scofflaw Nail Varnish | Ugly Renaissance Baby Paintings

Inspiration: Ugly renaissance baby paintings

Description: Ugly Renaissance Baby Paintings is a parchment paper crelly base with gold, copper and dusty green metallic flecks, as well as green to aqua shimmer. I used 3 thin coats and a glossy top coat for these photos.

Price: $12.50 | No Cap

Serum No 5 | The Souls Of Millions (Thermal & Glow In The Dark)

Inspiration:
Yayoi Kusama: The Souls of Millions of Light Years Away

Description: The Souls Of Millions is a gunmetal when cold to pale silver when warm, with a scattered holographic shimmer and micro flecks that glow turquoise in the dark. I used 3 thin coats and a glossy top coat for these photos.

Price: $14.00 | No Cap

Starlight Polish | Branches and Blossoms In Maki-e

Inspiration:
Inrō with Bird on a Blossoming Plum Tree by Koma Yasutada

Description: Branches and Blossoms in Maki-e is a rich, warm brown jelly base with gold, silver and red shimmer mixed in. I used 3 thin coats and a glossy top coat for these photos.

Price: $12.00 | Cap: 200 Bottles

Stella Chroma | Emulsified Sugar Scrub in Beachwood Vetiver

Inspiration:
Salvador Dali’s Swans Reflecting Elephants

Description: Since Stella Chroma was running behind on time – I was scent a small vial of the fragrance so I could do this review. I own at least 20 jars of her Emulsified Sugar Scrub and am well aware it’s incredible.

Beachwood Vetiver is a wonderful mix of jasmine and coconut with carnation, vetiver and a touch of eucalyptus. Now that I was given a small vial – I want a whole bottle of this scent. It’s intoxicating. The jasmine is the main scent I pickup, but it’s smoother and no as overpowering as a lot of jasmine fragrances I have. The eucalyptus mixes well with it and adds a nice bite to the fragrance. I’ll be picking up a jar of this for sure. It’s a scent that would turn heads.

Price: $5.50 | No Cap

STELLA CHROMA | Coffee Body Polish

Inspiration:
Vincent Van Gogh’s Cafe Terrace At Night

Description: Coffee Body Polish is as moisturizing as their sugar scrub, but the addition of coffee grounds and turbinado sugar make it grittier and perfect for the less sensitive skin of the body. It’s perfect for polishing feet, legs, and arms. Caffeine is known to tone the skin when used topically and this product will leave your skin glowing.

The coffee scent is invigorating in the morning. I’ve been using it mostly on my elbows, knees and feet – and it definitely makes a difference!

Price: $12.50 | No Cap

STELLA CHROMA | Reflecting Dali (Magnetic)

Inspiration:
Salvador Dali’s Swans Reflecting Elephants

Description: Reflecting Dali is a black jelly based full of flakes! The magnetic multichrome flakes shift from gold to yellow to violet to green, plus there are bronze metallic flakes and aqua sparks mixed in. I used 3 thin coats and a glossy top coat for these photos.

Price: $12.00 | No Cap

Sweet Heart Polish | Purple Haze

Inspiration:
“This inspiration is a little different then others by being inspired by a photo I took of a recreational, but legal in several states, plant. It’s not really what most would think of a Famous Work of Art, but was inspired by a work of my personal art”

Description: Purple Haze is a purple leaning magenta jelly base with purple to red shifting and red to gold shifting aurora shimmer, as well as a rainbow of shifting crystal flakes. I used 3 thin coats and a glossy top coat for these photos.

Price: $13.00 | Cap: 75 Bottles

The Crafty Taco | Fridamania Bag Charm

Inspiration:
Self Portrait with Thorn Necklace and Hummingbird, 1940 by Frida Kahlo

Description: Fridamania Bag Charm features an individually marbled glass cabochon set in a silver toned bezel with cat ears. Next to it is a natural stone bead and metal butterfly.

Price: $7.00 | Cap: 20

The Lady Varnishes | Don’t Worry, It’ll Blow Over

Inspiration:
Waterhouse’s Boreas

Description: Don’t Worry, It’ll Blow Over is a slate blue crelly base with pink to green color shifting shimmer and iridescent purple shimmer flecks. I used 3 thin coats and a glossy top coat for these photos.

This shade has a hazy appearance to it that I absolutely adore.

Price: $13.00 | Cap: 100 Bottles

The Soapy Chef | Shut Up And Take My Monet

Inspiration:
Monet’s Sunrise Painting from 1872

Description: Shut Up and Take My Monet (seriously, I giggle every time I say the name) is a cream based face scrub. It exfoliates and moisturizes at the same time. It is chock-full of gold, green, and orange jojoba wax beads, which are all natural and biodegradable. It can be used daily and works on all skin types.

I have been really enjoying this scrub and it exfoliates nicely. I used it after I got laser hair removal done on my face (halfway done with treatments!) and it helped stop the weird little bumps I usually get after treatment. Definitely grabbing a backup jar.

It has a earthy and citrusy scent to me. I like citrus scents in the morning to help wake me up a bit, and right on my face – it definitely wakes me up.

Price: $11.00 | Cap: 50 Jars

Top Shelf Lacquer | The Blue Window

Inspiration:
Henri Matisse, The Blue Window

Description: The Blue Window is a dark blue base that shifts purple to green to yellow to orange 4 colors, with holo microglitters. I used 3 thin coats and a glossy top coat for these photos.

Price: $13.00 | No Cap

Zombie Claw Polish | Throne of Merrows (Thermal)

Inspiration:
Mermaid on a Throne by Dylan Bonner

Description: Throne of Merrows is a tri thermal jelly base that transitions from purple to grey to colorless, with pink to gold to green flakes, and blue flakes, with red shimmer and scattered holographic. I used 3 thin coats and a glossy top coat for these photos.

Price: $13.00 | Cap: 80 Bottles

April 2019 Polish Pickup | Famous Works of Art

This month we’re seeing a lot of purples with aqua shimmer as well as blues with shifty shimmer – and I’m here for it all.

I had no issues with application on these shades, and I did most of these swatches in a day due to my current schedule – and none gave me any complications.

Where To Buy: Polish Pickup Shop

Shop Dates: April 5th at 11am EST through April 8th at 11:59pm EST

The Polish Pickup Shop is open for previews, so you can start loading up your wishlists! A few items still need to be added, but I think the majority of polishes and items I have are on the site and ready.