Press Samples of the Polish Pickup
May 2020 | Candy Land
Disclosure: I am a paid employee of Polish Pickup for their Social Media. While this post isn’t sponsored, I am an employee of their shop

How is it time for a Polish Pickup post already?! This month is flying by – and I’m pushing to keep things moving and time keeps escaping. Today I had to take my son to his school to do a book drop off since he’s almost done with 8th grade. 1 more week and I officially have a kid in high school. I’m sad he’s missing his 8th grade activities and the big Washington DC trip (that cost me about $3200… they are refunding) but at least we’re all healthy and it is what it is.

I’m starting this post on Wednesday night, but I know full well I won’t have it done until tomorrow night. Doing what I can tonight and then will work on it during my lunch break at work and then really focus on it tomorrow after work. We’ll be taking a look at the Polish Pickup June 2020 shop which is themed Cocktails & Mocktails!

Look at that amazing assortment! I am so excited that there is so much variety in color this month.

This is actually our second go with Cocktails & Mocktails. The first go was back in July of 2017 and there were only about 29 creations for the month… we’ve grown a smidgen. So we’re now revisiting it since it was a clear winning in the voting process.

Truth be told – I don’t really drink. I’m not against it, and I do have a glass of wine once in a blue moon – but I have a control issue. Not that I can’t control drinking – but in my mind, if something happened to my son and I needed to rush him to a hospital – if Nick and I were having a drink – I wouldn’t be able to and it makes me panic a little thinking about it. It’s one of those quirks with me. If Jacob is spending the night at a friends house or was with his dad when his dad lived out here – I had a glass. As of now – I don’t remember the last time I had a sip of anything. It’s just not something I think about really. I’m more interested in coffee. When I was younger (pre-pregnancy) my drink of choice at the bar was a Hypnotiq and Red Bull or a simple rum and coke. Nick is a Scotch guy. I think we have a bottle of Scotch somewhere, but I can’t handle that stuff. He enjoys it, but he’s like me – rarely drinks. I think the bottle of Scotch is like 4 years old at this point.

I have 104 items to share this month, but I am still waiting on 2 or 3 to arrive I think. I know for sure Emily de Molly and NeVerMind Polish are on the way – but I will update the post with additional goodies as they arrive.

For all photos shown – I used Vapid Lacquer Commitment Issues Peel Off Base, Sweet & Sour Lacquer Gloss Sauce as top coat (except for the photos showing Glisten & Glow, Cuticula and Vibrant Vinyls), and Night Owl Lacquer Gone Matte Top Coat unless otherwise specified.

Since I leave for work while it’s still semi dark and I get home while it’s still semi dark – I do use artificial lighting for my photos. My current setup uses Glamcor Pro Lights and I use the Elite X model. That is a link for those wanting to look, but it’s not an affiliate link. The brand did send them for me to post on Instagram too though, so it is a press sample (which I posted about a few months ago)

This is an EXTREMELY photo heavy post. I think during upload it said around 710 photos. If there is something specific you are looking for – on desktop hit CTRL + F and type what you are searching for. Otherwise, enjoy the long scroll down the page, and of course the giveaway at the end.

The June 2020 shop will open June 5th and close on June 8th.

Let’s get this party started!

77 Nail Lacquer | Mirrorball

Inspiration: Inspired by a drink from a bar in Liverpool, Mirrorball is a simple combination of gin, lemon juice elderflower and soda water. These ingredients create an otherworldly concoction and a beautiful presentation.

Description: Mirrorball is a muted turquoise base with pink iridescent flakes and shimmer that glows fuchsia red/pink and shifts from red to copper to gold. I used 2 coats and a glossy top coat for these photos. This shade does lean a bit greener in person.

I found the formula to be a bit on the thick side, but it is 100 degrees here so it might be a weather related thing with my bottle. I did let 77 Nail Lacquer know and she will be looking into it to make sure.

Price: $13.00 | Cap: 275 US / 25 UK

Alchemy Lacquers | Frambojito

Inspiration: Inspired by a classic mojito with a raspberry twist!

Description: Frambjoito is a red leaning raspberry jelly with pink to red to gold to green shifting shimmer with scattered pink to red to orange to gold to green shifting flakes and gold micro holographic glitter. I used 2 coats and a glossy top coat for these photos.

Price: $11.50 | Cap: 150 US / 5 UK

All Mixed Up Lacquer | Just One Drink

Inspiration: Giant Fishbowl Drink

Description: Just One Drink is a teal jelly base with green shimmer and blue to purple to fuchsia to gold shifting ultrachrome chameleon flakes. I used 3 thin coats and a glossy top coat for these photos.

Price: $12.50 | Cap: None

Alter Ego | Blueberry Ginger Fizz Mocktail

Inspiration: There were many requests for non alcoholic drinks, this one sounds good

Description: Blueberry Ginger Fizz Mocktail is a deep blurple jelly base loaded with blue micro glitter and copper holographic micro glitters. I used 3 thin coats and a glossy top coat for these photos.

Price: $9.00 | Cap: None

Apipila Cosméticos | Caipirinha (Stamping Polish)

Inspiration: Caipirinha lemon

Description: Caipirinha is a bright olive green creme base with gold shimmer flecks. This is shown in 2 coats on index and pinky and stamped over black on middle and index.

I used this months Apipila Cosméticos Cocktail Party Plate for the stamping images.

Price: $9.00 | Cap: 80 US / 20 UK

Apipila Cosméticos | Cocktail Party Plate

Inspiration: Caipirinha

Description: Cocktail Party Plate is a fun stamping plate with a variety of drink images on it drawn exclusively for this month’s theme. It had good etching and I had no trouble picking up images from it. I used it in all but 1 stamping manicure in this post. I selected a few of the images to show below!

Price: $14.50 | Cap: None

AURORA 5-Free Nail Lacquer | I’m So Drunk I’m Seeing the Northern Lights

Inspiration: Aurora Jungle Juice

Description: I’m So Drunk I’m Seeing The Northern Lights is a semi sheer black jelly base with turquoise and pink flakes mixed in. The flakes help add opacity to the polish. I used 3 thin coats and a glossy top coat for these photos.

Price: $12.00 | Cap:120 US / 10 UK

Baby Girl Lacquer | Doin’ The Mi-Most-A! (Thermal, Solar & Scented)

Inspiration: Sunrise Mimosa

Description: Doin’ The Mi-Most-A! is a citrus-scented, orange (cold) to yellow (warm) thermal that also changes to a peachy-red when exposed to UV light (both artificial and the real thing) crelly with red, gold and green flakes mixed in. I used 3 thin coats and a glossy top coat for these photos.

Most photos show the thermal transition, and the final photo shows the solar transition. The scent is a refreshing orange citrus scent.

Price: $12.50 | Cap: 95 US / 5 UK

Baroness X | Lit Dole Whip Acetone Additive

Inspiration: Inspired by a cocktail of rum and Dole Whip.

Description: This month’s scent is Lit Dole Whip! It’s a tart, frozen pineapple treat from Disney, blended with rum. My nose picks up on the pineapple and a hint of vanilla which cuts the tartness of the pineapple just a bit, then a slight whiff of rum. The rum is almost undetectable for me and I get more pineapple and vanilla.

Acetone Antidote is an additive for your acetone to protect your skin from the harshness of acetone. It contains glycerin and jojoba oil to help protect and moisturize your nails, skin, and cuticles during polish removal. Plus, no more ashy, dry skin.

Shake the vial and add the full bottle (.5oz) to 6-8oz of acetone. You can add the vial to more or less (down to 4oz of acetone, no less due to IFRA regulations). These are just suggestions for optimal scent and protection from acetone, the ratio can vary due to personal preference.

I use a full vial in 10 oz of Zoya Remove+

Price: $ 4.25 | Cap: None

Baroness X | Loco Unicorn Fluid Art Duo

Inspiration: These polishes were inspired by a beautiful berry-orange-coconut cocktail called Loco Unicorn.

Description:

Loco Unicorn – a pastel teal fluid art polish with a touch of violet to gold shimmer and glass flakies.

Coco Berry – a pastel pink fluid art polish with a touch of green to blue shimmer and glass flakies.

These polishes create the spotted effect as seen in fluid art nail polish designs. You can use them together with some white and seafoam green shades to create a water washing up on the beach effect. Of course they can be used separately to create any color combo you want. You just need one fluid art polish for cells to form. You will get more cells and colors if you use 2 fluid art polishes with other standard polishes.

I actually tried a different method this month than I did in previous months and got a better cell result. Instead of smooshing it on a mat and moving it around – I tried a watermarble-like technique. On my silicone mat I dripped polish on top of each other – like you would for watermarbling to create the rings in the water. I did 2 drops of the neon green regular polish (you’ll see it in an upcoming review post) then a drop of Loco Unicorn, a drop of neon green, then a drop of Coco Berry, another drop of green and then Loco Unicorn and again with the green and finished with another drop of Coco Berry – all on top of each other. Since it’s not in water, you basically get a polish blob. Then I slowly moved the mat a bit to spread it and as it spread – I got more cells.

After doing this, I waited 24 hours, painted my nails with the neon green (just 1 coat) and peeled the decals off, cut them to size, applied Baroness X Bind & Burnish Base Coat and applied the “decal” over each nail – one at a time. Then I used a clean up brush and acetone to remove any decal that was extended over the nail. Finally – I added top coat. I do need to work on my decal skills – but overall it’s pretty fun and I like the finished look.

I did the index nail with just the neon green and Coco Berry. Pinky is just Loco Unicorn and the neon green. Middle and ring fingers are both fluid polishes and the neon green.

Both bottles are 8ml and you get both with this listing.

Price: $12.00 for the Duo | Cap: None

Bee’s Knees Lacquer | Skooma

Inspiration: The illegal potion from the Elder Scrolls games

Description: Skooma is a dark, cool toned purple creme with vibrant blue to purple shimmer. I used 2 coats and a glossy top coat for these photos.

Price: $12.00 | Cap: None

Beyond the Nail | 24 Karat Martini

Inspiration: Gold Rush Martini – a Goldschläger based cocktail

Description: 24 Karat Martini is a soft ivory creme base with two sizes of gold flakes mixed in. This is a soft and delicate polish. I used 2 coats and a glossy top coat for these photos.

Price: $11.00 | Cap: 85 US / 15 UK

Black Dahlia Lacquer | Margaritaville

Inspiration: Margaritas

Description: Margaritaville is a champagne holographic with a strong metallic gold to green duochrome shimmer. I used 3 thin coats and a glossy top coat for these photos.

Price: $11.50 | Cap: None

Bluebird Lacquer | Booze Cruise

Inspiration: Inspired by Cocktail: The classic 90’s story of a handsome bartenders struggle to mix the perfect drink while learning lessons about friendship, socio-economic prejudice, betrayal and redemption.

Description: Booze Cruise is a bleached fuchsia-ish orchid neon crelly base packed with green to purple to blue shifting ultrachrome chameleon flakes. I used 3 thin coats and a glossy top coat for these photos.

Price: $11.50 | Cap: None

BLUSH Lacquers | Fig Berry Fizz

Inspiration: A fancy fig cocktail.

Description: Fig Berry Fizz is a slightly dusty lilac creme base with holographic micro flakes, rose gold metallic micro flakes and shifting gold to green to blue multichrome flakes. I used 2 coats and a glossy top coat for these photos.

There is a very slight texture – but 1 coat of top coat smoothed it over for me.

Price: $12.00 | Cap: None

By Dany Vianna | Flounder Cocktail

Inspiration: drink made with OJ and Curacao Blue

Description: Flounder Cocktail is a bright, cool toned yellow crelly base that leans more into creme territory and has blue ultrachrome chameleon flakes mixed in. I used 2 coats and a glossy top coat for these photos.

If you initially saw a tri thermal in the group for By Dany Vianna this month – that was her original polish, but when US swatchers started receiving their bottles, the thermal had already faded. Daniela didn’t want to put out an unstable product and quickly pulled it. She wasn’t sure whether to pull out for June or not – but decided to quickly decide on a more stable polish so we now have Flounder Cocktail. While the thermal was pretty – I do appreciate her pulling a product that could potentially be problematic for customers. I know she was sad the original idea didn’t work out, but I’m really loving the new polish!

Price: $11.50 | Cap: 150 US / 10 UK

By Vanessa Molina | Zombie On Fire (Magnetic)

Inspiration: Zombie flamed cocktail

Description: Zombie On Fire is a deep eggplant purple jelly base loaded with purple to pink to gold magnetic shimmer and red to orange to gold flakes. I used 3 thin coats and a glossy top coat for these photos.

Price: $13.00 | Cap: 300 US / 20 UK

Cadillacquer | Kinky Carnival (Thermal)

Inspiration: Kinky Carnival Cocktail

Description: Kinky Carnival is a grass green (cold) to light blue (warm) thermal packed with pink to orange to gold iridescent chameleon flakes and shimmer, as well as red to orange to green iridescent chameleon flakes. I used 3 thin coats and a glossy top coat for these photos.

The blue is actually a little more grayed out in person – my camera amped up the blue and I couldn’t try to color correct that without altering the green.

Price: $13.50 | Cap: None

Cameo Colours Lacquers | Blackberry Basil Moscow Mule

Inspiration: Blackberry Basil Moscow Mule

Description: Blackberry Basil Moscow Mule is a copper to gold to green ultrachrome base packed with holo sparkle, red to bronze to copper and lime to blue to gold ultrachrome chameleon flakes, as well as silver holo micro flakes. I used 2 coats and a glossy top coat for these photos.

Price: $12.00 | Cap: 95 US / 5 UK

Color Spectrum Polish | Mango Lemon Rita

Inspiration: Mango Meyers Lemon Margarita Mocktail

Description: Mango Lemon Rita is a lemon yellow crelly base that leans more into jelly territory, with shimmer undertones that shift from green to pink to gold, rainbow iridescent flakes and yellow to green chroma flakes. I used 3 thin coats and a glossy top coat for these photos.

Price: $11.00 | Cap: 75 US / 5 UK

Colores de Carol | Cheers to the Red, White & Blue

Inspiration: Blue Vodka Lemonade

Description: Cheers To The Red, White & Blue is a soft white crelly base with blue and red metallic flakes and micro holo glitter. I used 3 thin coats and a glossy top coat for these photos.

Price: $12.50 | Cap: 250 US / 20 UK

Cupcake Polish | Pink Lemonade

Inspiration: Pink Lemonade

Description: Pink Lemonade is a vibrant, cool toned pink creme crelly base packed with orange to gold to green shifting aurora iridescent shimmer. I used 3 thin coats and a glossy top coat for these photos.

Price: $13.00 | Cap: None

Cuticula | Limitless Quick Dry Top Coat + Nail Nectar in Wild Passionfruit Bellini

Inspiration: Cuticula and Vapid Wax were inspired by a passion fruit bellini.

Description: Cuticula teamed up with Vapid Wax this month – so for the matching scent in wax, you can snag Vapid Wax as well.

This duo is not the typical base and top coat duo that you all are used to seeing from Cuticula – she changed it up this month. This month this duo will be scented Limitless Quick Dry Top Coat and Nail Nectar Cuticle Oil in a 10 ml Doe Foot Applicator in Wild Passion Fruit Bellini.

Wild Passion Fruit Bellini is a vivacious and bright fragrance with exotic passion fruit, melon, and mandarin blended with bubbly champagne, juicy nectarine and black currant. This is a softer scent and my nose really picks up on the passion fruit and mandarin most.

The top coat is less scented than usual as well. You can still smell it, but it’s lighter and more delicate than you may be used to with Cuticula.

Price: $16.00 for Duo | Cap: None (Might change to capped)

Cuticula | Purple Passion

Inspiration: Inspired by a purple passion cocktail

Description: Purple Passion is a deep purple jelly with iridescent shifting flakes, blue-green micro flakes, green metallic micro flakes, blue metallic micro flakes, turquoise metallic micro flakes, and ultra holo silver holographic micro flakes. I used 2 coats and a glossy top coat for these photos.

Price: $12.00 | Cap: None

Different Dimension | Absinthe Minded

Inspiration: Absinthe

Description: Absinthe Minded is a medium, bright, warm green crelly base with gold to lime shifting shimmers. I used 3 thin coats and a glossy top coat for these photos.

Price: $11.00 | Cap: None

Dollish Polish | GIMMIE A BEET!

Inspiration: Sweet Beet Margarita

Description: GIMMIE A BEET! is a vibrant orchid pink jelly base packed with iridescent micro flakes and glitters. I used 3 thin coats and a glossy top coat for these photos.

Price: $13.00 | Cap: None

Dreamland Lacquer | Frostbite Margarita

Inspiration: Frostbite margaritas!

Description: Frostbite Margarita is a turquoise blue crelly filled with a mix of iridescent flakes. I used 3 thin coats and a glossy top coat for these photos.

This is a bit deeper turquoise in person – this shade of blue mutes a bit for my camera.

Price: $12.00 | Cap: 250 US / 20 UK

DRK Nails | Clingy Base

Inspiration: Hurricane drink

Description: Clingy Base is a base coat that helps to apply glitters and also glitter/flake polishes. To achieve the best result, apply over a base coat and let it dry for 1 minute. Apply the glitter (I used a stamper head to “pick up” the glitters and stamp them evenly over the base color.)

Other option of use: Apply glitter/flake polishes over it and you will notice a much better coverage (instead of applying 3 coats you could get a full opacity with just 2) and it will also help to get a more leveled finishing.

I will be adding in photos showing the use of glitter polish over it (both with and without clingy base) to show a difference in application.

I did find the base to be a nice consistency without being too thick and the glitters stuck to it easily and almost “sunk” into the base just a little so there wasn’t glitter sticking up every which way.

Price: $8.00 | Cap: 150 US / 25 UK

DRK Nails | Hurricane

Inspiration: Hurricanes from New Orleans

Description: Hurricane is a violet jelly base with iridescent microflakes that shift red to pink to green, as well as aurora and iridescent flakes that shift orange to green. I used 3 thin coats and a glossy top coat for these photos.

Price: $13.00 | Cap: 250 US / 25 UK

Emily de Molly | Coolth

Inspiration: Inspired by Blue Margaritas

Description: Coolth is a turquoise blue crelly with matte white glitters in both small and medium sizes. I used 2 coats and a glossy top coat for these photos.

This shade is slightly brighter in person – my camera muted it.

Price: $10.00 | Cap: 100 US / 15 UK

Esmaltes da Kelly | Taste The Rainbow

Inspiration: Rainbow drink

Description: Taste The Rainbow is a clear base loaded with red, gold, orange, blue, green, royal blue, and violet holographic glitters, as well as silver holo micro flakes and iridescent flakes. I used 2 coats and the EDK Smoothing top coat duo for these photos.

Price: $12.50 | Cap: None

Ethereal Lacquer | Dragon Drink

Inspiration: Dragon Drinks

Description: Dragon Drink is a bright orchid pinkish purple crelly base full of copper, pink to green shifting flakes. I used 3 thin coats and a glossy top coat for these photos.

This polish is a touch deeper in color in person.

Price: $12.50| Cap: None

Fair Maiden Polish | Ain’t No Law (Thermal)

Inspiration: inspired by White Claw in the mango flavor.

Description: Ain’t No Laws is an orange (cold) to bright yellow (warm) thermal loaded with rose-golden-green shimmer and orange-gold-green iridescent flakes. I used 3 thin coats and a glossy top coat for these photos.

Price: $11.00 | Cap: None

Fancy Gloss | The Toxic B*tch (Tri-Thermal)

Inspiration: A drink called like that. 2 1/2 oz. Vodka 1 oz. Tequila 1 oz. Blue Curacao 1/2 oz. Orange Juice 1/2 oz. (15ml) Mango Juice Lemon Lime Soda

Description: The Toxic B*tch is a tri thermal that transitions from dark blue (cold) to teal (warm) to bright, neon green (hot) packed with green to blue to gold clear flakes. The hot transition is actually brighter than my photos show – it was starting to transition back to cooler transitions and dulled the brightness. I used 2 coats and a glossy top coat for these photos.

The formula was a little on the thick side, but it self leveled well.

Price: $12.50 | Cap: 260 US / 10 UK

Flirtin’ | A Taste of Summer

Inspiration: Charred Orange Whiskey

Description: A Taste of Summer is a warm, yellow tinged orange jelly base loaded with orange and gold holo glitters and flakes. I used 3 thin coats and a glossy top coat for these photos.

This dries down with a bit of texture due to the glitters, but the jelly base is actually a nice consistency so it floats the glitters pretty well. You may need 2 coats of top coat for a smooth finish though.

Price: $11.50 | Cap: 75 US / 5 UK

Ginger Fizz Boutique | Italian Margarita Wax Brittle

Inspiration: Now that we are all staying home and cooking our meals, it’s a great time to create some mouthwatering beverages! Living in Texas, my go-to adult beverage is a margarita. I have had many different takes on this classic drink, but my favorite is the Italian Margarita. The Italian Margarita combines two of my favorites—the classic margarita and an amaretto sour.

Description: These wax shapes come in two varieties. The first shape is a margarita glass in a sunny yellow. The margarita glass shaped wax melt is scented in margarita, lime, and amaretto. The other wax shape is a fresh, green lime that is scented in a mouth watering lemon and lime scent.

These are a soy wax blend.

This is a very sunny, happy scent to me. Fresh bursts of citrus with a nice sugary sweetness. Plus it’s hot here today – so a margarita sounds delicious.

Price: $6.00 | Cap: 75 US / 25 UK

Glisten & Glow | Mountain Dew Mocktail

Inspiration: Twist on the classic Mountain Dew soft drink

Description: Mountain Dew Mocktail is a neon green tinged yellow jelly base loaded with various shapes and sizes of black and black holo glitters. I used 3 thin coats and a glossy top coat for these photos.

I have cool toned skin and this definitely shows more green leaning on me. My son has more olive tones and it was more yellow on him. Either way – it’s bright and fun.

Price: $12.50 | Cap: None

Glisten & Glow | Top Coat

Inspiration: N/A

Description: Glisten & Glow brings us her top coat this month! It is unscented and gives a beautiful crystal clear, shiny appearance and it’s super fast drying. It can be used with nail art and it glows under black light.

There are a few top coat options this month and if you prefer unscented – then this ones definitely for you.

Price: $7.50 | Cap: None

Great Lakes Lacquer | Colada’s Are Calling and I Must Go

Inspiration: Sunset Colada

Description: Colada’s Are Calling And I Must Go is a hot berry base color filled with iridescent flakes that shift from orange to gold to green, a bit of shimmer to match and a soft scattered holographic. I used 3 thin coats and a glossy top coat for these photos.

Price: $13.00 | Cap: 200 US / 10 UK

Heather’s Hues | Clutching My Perla Negra (Thermal)

Inspiration: The activated charcoal cocktail called Perla Negra

Description: Clutching My Perla Negra is a thermal that shifts from black (cold) to colorless (warm) and it’s packed with a pink to gold to green iridescent shimmer and flakes and a hint of pink holo microshreds. You can use this alone like I did (3 thin coats) or layer it over a base color to make any polish a thermal… except black. It won’t do a whole lot over a black base.

Price: $12.50 | Cap: None

Heather’s Hues | WiTs Lotion in Summer Splash

Inspiration: the sweet and fruity drinks of summer

Description: WiTs body lotion is a fast absorbing body lotion that doesn’t leave my hands greasy. The texture is light and creamy and a little goes a long way.

Summer Splash is a fruity blend of sugar, summer berries and ripe pear. This is an incredibly light and sweet scent. Perfect for summer and it’s not too fragrant. I actually lean towards lighter scents like this in warmer weather.

Price: $6.75 | Cap: 40 US / 5 UK

Hit The Bottle | I Am Woman, Hear Me Pour (Stamping Polish)

Inspiration: The brilliantly coloured and deliciously tasting Parfait Amour liqueur.

Description: I am Woman, Hear me Pour is a vivid warm toned purple stamping polish with a slight blue sheen. I used this as a regular polish on index and pinky and stamped over an upcoming Ethereal Lacquer shade from middle and ring fingers.

Naturally this shade dries down to a matte finish and it’s incredibly pigmented. I used a glossy top coat for these photos.

Price: $8.50 | Cap: 200 US / 10 UK

Indie by Patty Lopes | Celebrating with Friends

Inspiration: Sangria Mexican Mule

Description: Celebrating With Friends is a berry red jelly base with micro holo flakes and black micro glitters. I used 3 thin coats and a glossy top coat for these photos.

Price: $12.00 | Cap: None

Jior Couture | A Dirty Shirley

Inspiration: As kids it was such a treat getting to order a Shirley Temple. We’ve now moved on to adulting and we order Dirty Shirleys!

Description: Dirty Shirley is a red to orange jelly base with red to orange to gold multichrome shift, red to gold to green aurora shimmer and bronze to copper to green to gold ultrachrome chameleon flakes. I used 2 coats and a glossy top coat for these photos.

Dries down with a mild texture from the flakes, but 1 coat of top coat should smooth it just fine.

Price: $11.50 | Cap: None

Kathleen & Co | Cotton Candy Cocktail

Inspiration: Cocktails with cotton candy on top

Description: Cotton Candy Cocktail is a soft blue crelly base with color shifting shimmer that shifts from blue to pink. The pink shift with the blue base gives it a glowy almost periwinkle look. I used 3 thin coats and a glossy top coat for these photos.

Price: $12.50 | Cap: 300 US / 20 UK

KBShimmer | Hot Summer Nights Hand & Body Scrub

Inspiration: Tropical Drinks

Description: Hot Summer Nights starts with the scent of a blended tropical drink. Juicy pineapple is the star of the show, while subtle supporting notes of coconut and mango give way to the sweet heat of spiced rum. You can almost smell the warmth you feel after a sip of the Captain, adding depth and heat to this unique scent. Accented by soft swirls of peach, cream, and gold, this scrub mimics the frozen look of your favorite blender drinks for a tropical tub-time treat.

This is yet another scrub that makes me want to eat it. It smells SO good. The rum does give it a warmer scent and I love how the coconut and mango play off the pineapple and help cut the tartness.

KBShimmer’s sugar scrubs are good for all over the body or as a hand scrub, the sugar particles are medium grit so they do a good job getting dry spots on your body situated.

Price: $10.00 | Cap: None

KBShimmer | Secret Menu

Inspiration: Pink Purple Starbucks Drink

Description: Secret Menu is an indigo jelly base with shimmer that shifts to bold purple and berry fuchsia and hints of golden pink at extreme angles. I used 3 thin coats and a glossy top coat for these photos.

Price: $10.00 | Cap: None

Leesha’s Lacquer | Lit With Leesha

Inspiration: One of the last time I went out in the town, I had a delicious drink called a garbage pail that had a ton of different alcohols and a Red Bull on top. This polish is inspired by that drink.

Description: Lit With Leesha is a medium blue jelly base with blue to green flakes and blue to purple flakes. I used 3 thin coats and a glossy top coat for these photos.

The flakes are nicely done in this polish – they are there and visible, but they aren’t overloading it. There is also more opacity in person – the light positioning I use allows the light to pass through the jelly easier which makes it look more transparent than it is in person.

Price: $11.00 | Cap: 175 US / 25 UK

Lemming Lacquer | Jedi Mind Trick

Inspiration: Unspecified

Description: Jedi Mind Trick is a smokey turquoise creme based linear holographic with pink to gold to green multichrome shimmer. I used 2 coats and a glossy top coat for these photos.

Price: $13.00 | Cap: 250 US / 25 UK

Lilly Anne’s Garden | Lotion in Limoncello

Inspiration: Limoncello

Description: Lilly Anne’s Garden lotion soaks into my skin easily, a little goes a long way – and it doesn’t leave me feeling greasy. I also double it up as a cuticle cream throughout the day. It’s a thick cream and the photo below of it on my cuticles is an accurate representation of how I slather it on at the end of the night. I let it sit for 10 minutes and then massage it in all over my fingers, hands and wrist area. When I’ve had a super intense swatch session, I apply some cuticle oil, then a layer of this lotion on top to “seal” the oil in and both work their magic.

Limoncello is a refreshing blend of sparkling lemon, sugared mint and fresh verbena. This is a light and refreshing scent. I mainly picked up the lemon citrus and a slight hint of mint.

Price: $5.50 | Cap: 100 US / 10 UK

Lollipop Posse Lacquer | To San Antonio, With Love

Inspiration: The Sangria Margarita from La Gloria, a beautiful, authentic Mexican restaurant found in the Pearl Brewery area of San Antonio, Texas. My husband and I fell in 100% LOVE with San Antonio when we visited for the October 2019 TIS. One of my best memories of the trip is an amazing afternoon spent dining by the riverside at La Gloria, enjoying this epic margarita and some of the best Mexican cuisine we’ve ever had.

Description: To San Antonio, With Love is a pink leaning neon red crelly filled with flakes that shift orange, gold, red, and green. Against my skintone, this shade bordered on coral but was definitely more red than pink. I used 3 thin coats and a glossy top coat for these photos.

Price: $12.00 | Cap: None

Lucky 13 Lacquer | It’s Dangerous to Go Alone! Take This…

Inspiration: Health, magic, and cure-all potions from the Legend of Zelda

Description: It’s Dangerous to Go Alone! Take This… is an emerald green to sapphire blue duochrome with a sapphire blue jelly base. Each bottle will come with a small glass bottle of mini red holo hearts. I used 3 thin coats and a glossy top coat for these photos.

Price: $12.00 | Cap: 120 US / 10 UK

Lucky 13 Lacquer | Lotion of Immortality Trio

Inspiration: Health, magic, and cure-all potions from the Legend of Zelda

Description: Lotion of Immortality is a thick moisturizing lotion, wonderful on cuticles and hands or anywhere else! Made with Shea butter, Aloe, and love. You don’t need much, only use 1/4 tsp for both hands, or half that for just your cuticles. 

This month we have a trio of 20g Lotion of Immortality jars in the following scents:

Drink to Your Health A hearty harvest of juicy pomegranates and ripe strawberries (Inspired by Health Potions)
Magical Brew An invigorating mix of pear, kiwi, apple, & honeydew (Inspired by Magic Potions)
Cure for What Ails You Passionflower, acai, & blueberries to restore you (Inspired by Cure-All Potions)

This months scents are fruity but they aren’t cloyingly sweet. They are quite mellow but you can still detect each fruit within it. My favorite of the 3 is Drink To Your Health.

Price: $11.00 | Cap: 80 US / 5 UK

LynBDesigns | Lei’d Back (Tri Thermal)

Inspiration: Maui Mule

Description: Lei’d Back is a dark purple (cold) to denim blue (warm) to peach (hot) tri-thermal with red to green to gold shifting aurora shimmer, pink to gold shifting flakes, and violet to pink to copper to orange shifting flakes. I used 3 thin coats and a glossy top coat for these photos.

The peach transition is actually a more vibrant peach in person.

Price: $12.00 | Cap: None

MLF Lacquer | Sunlight

Inspiration: Sunking Sunlight Cream Ale

Description: Sunlight is a red-orange jelly base packed with gold flakes and shimmer and silver holographic flakes. I used 3 thin coats and a glossy top coat for these photos.

Price: $11.00 | Cap: 190 US / 10 UK

Moo Moo’s Signatures | The Red Smoke

Inspiration: Inspired by cocktail theme

Description: The Red Smoke is a deep berry red jelly base with orange to gold to green chameleon shimmer, pink to gold to green iridescent flakes and holo flakes. I used 3 thin coats and a glossy top coat for these photos.

Price: $13.50 | Cap: 180 US / 20 UK

Moon Shine Mani | Cockteal Hour

Inspiration: A particularly beautiful rooster’s tail (cock tail 😉😉)

Description: Cockteal Hour is a blackened teal creme base packed with green to fuchsia shifting shimmer, red to bronze to copper and teal to purple to pink multichrome flakes and red to gold to green chameleon flakes. I used 2 coats and a glossy top coat for these photos.

Price: $12.00 | Cap: None

Moonflower Polish | Blueberry Lemonade (Stamping Polish)

Inspiration: Blueberry Lemonade cocktail at Disney Spring’s The Boathouse Restaurant.

Description: Blueberry Lemonade is a pinkish mauve creme with a subtle hint of purple to blue multichrome sparkle. I used this as a normal polish on pinky and index fingers (2 coats) and stamped over black for middle and ring. It’s a slightly thicker polish (but self levels and applies nicely) because it’s also a stamping polish.

Price: $12.50 | Cap: 75 US

MTK Design | Phoenix Sunset (Tri Thermal)

Inspiration: Phoenix Cocktail

Description: Phoenix Sunset is a tri thermal jelly based shade that transitions from warm magenta purple (cold) to rose pink (warm) to champagne neutral (hot) with iridescent flakes and aurora shimmer mixed in. I used 3 thin coats and a glossy top coat for these photos.

Price: $12.50 | Cap: None

My Stunning Nails | Raspberry Kiss

Inspiration: A frozen alcoholic pink drink.

Description: Raspberry Kiss is a silver pink almost metallic like base with raspberry holographic glitters, micro holographic glitter and matte white shreds. I used 2 coats and a glossy top coat for these photos.

This has a light texture but it’s smoothed in 1 coat. The metallic like finish makes it look more textured than it really is.

Price: $12.50 | Cap: 100 US / 15 UK

Nail Hoot | Glow-Tini (UV Reactive)

Inspiration: Disney’s Blue Glowtini

Description: Glow-Tini is a turquoise crelly base that leans more into jelly territory with aqua to green shifting shimmer, plus it glows under blacklight! I used 3 thin coats and a glossy top coat for these photos.

Price: $10.75 | Cap: None

Nailed It Nail Polish | No Way, Rosé

Inspiration: Rosé

Description: No Way, Rosé is a peachy pink jelly packed with gold to green shifting crystal flakes, a complimenting coppery gold to green shifting shimmer, and a subtle holo. I used 3 thin coats and a glossy top coat for these photos.

Price: $12.75 | Cap: 200 US / 20 UK

Native War Paints | Hand Sanitizer and Cocktails to Go

Inspiration: inspired by my favorite local distillery, Eastern Kille located in Grand Rapids, MI. When the virus hit and hand sanitizer became scarce, they switched their production to hand sanitizer. You can currently purchase hand sanitizer and cocktails to go from their tasting room and they are providing hand sanitizer to many businesses with essential workers.

Description: Hand Sanitizer and Cocktails to Go is a turquoiseish aqua with blue to green to gold shifting flakes and various gold flakes. I used 3 thin coats and a glossy top coat for these photos.

Price: $12.75 | Cap: 175 US | 25 UK

Necessary Evil Polish | Blame It On The Juice

Inspiration: Lizzo hitting the Patron bottle in a sparkly yellow bodysuit

Description: Blame It On The Juice is a bright yellow base with red to gold shimmer, as well as turquoise, magenta and purple glitters, and silver holo shards. I used 3 thin coats and a glossy top coat for these photos.

Price: $12.00 | Cap: None

NeVerMind Polish | Lavender Bespoke

Inspiration: Lavender and earl grey gin cocktail

Description: Lavender Bespoke is a cool toned, medium grey crelly with blue, red, purple multichrome flakes and purple to blue micro flake. I used 3 thin coats and a glossy top coat for these photos.

Price: $12.00 | Cap: 175 US / 12 UK

Night Owl Lacquer | Magical

Inspiration: Magical Color Changing Cocktail

Description: Magical is a bright green crelly with multichrome flakes that shift green to blue to purple and bright aqua shimmer sparks. I used 3 thin coats and a glossy top coat for these photos.

While the drink is a color changing one – the polish is not. I just wanted to clarify that this is not a thermal or solar.

Price: $12.50 | Cap: None

Noodles Nail Polish | Lavender Lemonade

Inspiration: A lavender lemonade cocktail

Description: Lavender Lemonade is a lavender crelly base with white, pale yellow, and violet glitters and a touch of purple shimmer. I used 3 thin coats and a glossy top coat for these photos.

This dries with texture due to the glitters, so you may need 2 coats of top coat for a smooth finish.

Price: $11.50 | Cap: None

Nvr Enuff Polish | Mom’s Lemonade

Inspiration: Inspired by the Lavendar Lemonade drink.

Description: Mom’s Lemonade is a medium lavender purple base packed with a ton of gold to orange shifting pigments and flakes and a light linear holographic effect. I used 3 thin coats and a glossy top coat for these photos.

Price: $12.00 | Cap: TBA

Paint It Pretty Polish | Purple Rain (Thermal & Magnetic)

Inspiration: Purple Rain cocktail

Description: Purple Rain is a deep, rich purple (cold) to grey (warm) thermal with a gold tp pink magnetic shimmer and microflakes. I used 3 thin coats and a glossy top coat for these photos. I only magnetized the middle and ring fingers and let the line disperse a little. It’s subtle but it’s there. In person it’s more obvious – the lighting hitting all the shimmer blurs it out more on camera.

Price: $12.00 | Cap: 70 US / 5 UK

Painted Phalanges | This IS Fruit

Inspiration: Blood Orange Gin and Tonic

Description: This IS Fruit is a neon red-orange jelly with lime/gold shifty flakes, red holo shreds and matte yellow glitter. I used 3 thin coats and a glossy top coat for these photos.

Price: $11.00 | Cap: None

Painted Polish | Hold My Butterbeer

Inspiration: inspired by the wizarding worlds favorite beverage – Butterbeer

Description: Hold My Butterbeer is a warm chocolate jelly base with pink to orange to gold to green iridescent shifting flakes. I used 3 thin coats and a glossy top coat for these photos.

Price: $13.50 | Cap: 450 US / 25 UK

Pampered Polishes | Extra Dirty

Inspiration: Dirty Martini

Description: Extra Dirty is a dark olive green crelly with multichromes flakes and a subtle scattering of silver holo microglitters. I used 3 thin coats and a glossy top coat for these photos.

There were a couple black pigment specks within my polish, but Timberlin said she would be straining it better to make sure they are not in the customer batch.

Price: $13.00 | Cap: None

Peachtree Polish | Peachtree Party

Inspiration: The label on the Peachtree Schnapps bottle

Description: Peachtree Party is a shimmery neon orange crelly packed with green and holographic glitters and ultrachrome chameleon blue to green to gold flakes. I used 3 thin coats and a glossy top coat for these photos.

Price: $11.50 | Cap: 75 US / 5 UK

Penelope Luz | Pitaya Drinks

Inspiration: Inspired by Pitaya Caipirinha, a drink that besides being delicious, has a beautiful color!

Description: Pitaya Drinks is a vibrant violet jelly base with iridescent flakes in pinks, reds, purple and blue, as well as a little sprinkling of pink and gold glitter. I used 3 thin coats and a glossy top coat for these photos.

This will dry with texture, I used 2 coats of top coat for these photos.

Price: $13.00 | Cap: No Cap

Poetry Cowgirl Nail Polish | Midnight Manhattan

Inspiration: the classic Manhattan cocktail

Description: Midnight Manhattan is a deep reddish copper creme base with gold shimmer with added sparkle. I used 3 thin coats and a glossy top coat for these photos.

Price: $11.00 | Cap: None

Pretty Beautiful Unlimited | Crystal Ball

Inspiration: Starbucks Secret Menu item Crystal Ball Frappuccino

Description: Crystal Ball is a turquoise jelly base loaded with scattered holographic pigment and micro flakes, aurora shimmer and a mix of 4 different types of crystal chameleon flakes. I used 3 thin coats and a glossy top coat for these photos.

Price: $12.50 | Cap: 150 US / 10 UK

Pretty Beautiful Unlimited | Drink Me Wax Sampler

Inspiration: Drinks found in bars and lounges or coffee shops and ice cream parlors.

Description: This month we have a 15 piece scent sampler inspired by all types of drinks found in bars and lounges or coffee shops and ice cream parlors.

SCENT LIST

Amaretto – With notes of apples, almonds and cherries followed with a hint of orange blossoms and topped off with sweet vanilla.
Blackberry Fizz – Fruity top notes of blackberry, strawberry, and pomegranate, citrus middle notes of mandarin, grapefruit, and lime, with a base note of bamboo.

Blue Hawaiian – Mouth-watering top notes of juicy orange, lemon, and maraschino cherries; followed by tangy pineapple, acai berry, and sea spray; well rounded with base notes of sweet coconut, vanilla rum, and fresh ozonic notes.

Cream Soda – An old fashioned soda shop classic having all the bubbly notes frothing over the glass with the truly characteristic, caramelized sugar and vanilla cream aroma.

Grape Soda – The effervescent aroma of Kyoho grapes intermingled with fresh peaches, pineapple, raspberries, and strawberries on a dry down of vanilla.

Hot Apple Cider – Fresh made apple cider with a hint of spice.

Mandarin Tiki – A complex aroma of mandarin rind, red currants, strawberries, and blueberries; with middle notes of watercress and palm leaves; balanced with musky bottom notes.

Mint Mojito – Notes of freshly muddled mint with tropical undertones of pineapple and sugarcane.

Moscato – Fragrant red grapefruit and pomegranate are laid atop a bed of green apple and fruit blossoms with a delicate finish of smoky musk and the barest hints of rose and geranium.

Orange Soda – A “fizzy”, citrus aldehydic explosion of strong Brazilian orange peel, Californian orange, Japanese grapefruit, and Lemon zests sitting on a dry down of vanilla.

Pina Colada – A favorite tropical blend of ripe pineapple and coconut milk with a hint of Jamaican rum.

Pink Sangria – A thirst quenching fragrance complete with Spanish sangria, Valencia orange, and tropical pineapple slices garnished with a sweet Maraschino cherry on top.

Pomegranate Cider – A welcoming aroma of hot cider spiced with cinnamon, nutmeg and cloves and punched up with notes of pomegranate and strawberry to create a new twist on an old favorite.

Raspberry Lemonade – Sweet raspberry blended with the crispness of lemonade makes for a wonder tangy mix.

Strawberry Daiquiri – A refreshing blend of fresh strawberries, and lemon zests with a hint of fresh vanilla.


Price: $8.00 | Cap: 180 US / 20 UK

Quixotic Polish | Mmomm & Mmomm

Inspiration: Inspired by Snoop’s Gin and Juice album

Description: Mmomm & Mmomm is an ocean blue crelly base with pink to gold to green iridescent flakes. I used 3 thin coats and a glossy top coat for these photos.

Price: $12.00 | Cap: 350

Red Eyed Lacquer | You’re Mocking My Tail

Inspiration: Unicorn Mocktail

Description: You’re Mocking My Tail is a warm corally red crelly base with aqua and teal shimmers, emerald shimmer and a slight red shimmer. I used 3 thin coats and a glossy top coat for these photos.

Price: $12.00 | Cap: 100 US / 10 UK

Rogue Lacquer | Purple Flavored

Inspiration: grape soda

Description: Purple flavored is a vibrant purple crelly base loaded with orange to pink to gold shifting iridescent flakes. I used 3 thin coats and a glossy top coat for these photos.

Price: $12.50 | Cap: None

Rogue Lacquer | Take It Off Soy Based Nail Polish Remover

Inspiration: Cabernet Wine

Description: This is a soy based polish remover so it is gentler on the skin and nails. This is a 2 oz bottle of remover in a glass bottle.

Soy based removers are generally better for the nails since they contain vitamins and oils to moisturize, strengthen and hydrate while still effectively removing polish. They do not work as quick as pure acetone – but they do still get the job done.

This one has a light scent of Cabernet Wine!

Price: $7.00 | Cap: None

Sassy Pants Polish | Vodka Raspberry Lemonade

Inspiration: Vodka Raspberry Lemonade

Description: Vodka Raspberry Lemonade is a bright red sparkly holographic base with red, bright pink and gold holographic glitters and microshreds. I used 3 thin coats and a glossy top coat for these photos.

Price: $12.00 | Cap: None

Sassy Sauce Polish | Loudmouth Soup

Inspiration: flaming Sambuca, in my experience, the more you drink, the louder you talk… hence the name, Loudmouth Soup.

Description: Loudmouth Soup is an indigo jelly base loaded with red to gold shifting shimmer, scattered micro holo glitter and pink, blue, green, gold shifting ghost flakes. I used 3 thin coats and a glossy top coat for these photos.

Price: $12.50 | Cap: 300 US / 20 UK

Scofflaw Varnish | Gray Goose

Inspiration: Gray Goose cocktail

Description: Gray Goose is a light grey crelly base, with black and gunmetal flecks and speckles, and matte and metallic minty microglitters. I used 3 thin coats and a glossy top coat for these photos.

Dries with a light texture, but I only needed 1 coat of top coat to smooth.

Price: $12.00 | Cap: None

Skyline Soapworks | Sweet Poison Dip Powder (Thermal)

Inspiration: A multicolor blue cocktail I had while on my honeymoon

Description: Sweet Poison is a thermal dip powder that goes from a deep blue (cold) to teal (warm) with aqua micro flecks.

This is my third attempt at dip powder and I’m getting quick at it. For all steps I used, I went by this Youtube Video, and I do suggest you take a look as she’s very helpful – especially for beginners like me.

This is for the powder only. I do have a 3 piece nail dip liquids set I bought on Amazon before, which is what I used with this powder. For the first time though – it was a lot easier than I thought. No “curing” with a lamp and nothing was overly difficult for me.

The steps are as follows (and you do 1 nail at a time for each “coat”)

Apply base – this smells like nail glue. Immediately after applying the base, dip in the powder, raise finger and “tap” off excess powder. Then use a fluffy brush to remove additional excess powder.

Rinse and repeat for 2 more coats.

Apply activator to each nail. File and buff each nail. Apply activator again and wait 5 minutes. Then top coat.

It seems like a lot, but it actually moves quite quickly.

Price: $6.50 | Cap: 50 US / 25 UK

Starlight and Sparkles | Happy Hour Charm and Page Marker Set

Inspiration: Various cocktails and alcoholic beverages!

Description: This is an eight piece set, with six paperclip page markers and two clip-on charms. The six page markers are a champagne glass with pale pink beads, a martini glass with light purple beads, a margarita glass with green beads, a hurricane glass with blue beads, a tall glass with an umbrella and yellow beads, and a goblet glass with orange beads. The clip-on charms are a six pack of glass beer bottles with amber beads, and a wine bottle and two wine glasses with red beads, both with lobster claw clasps.

These are always super cute and I love having them around for my notebooks as well as books.

Price: $14.00 | Cap: 45 US / 3 UK

Starlight Polish | Butterfly Lemon Drop Slush

Inspiration: Butterfly Lemon Drop Slush – a Lemon Drop made with crushed ice made from butterfly pea flower tea. The butterfly pea flower tea is initially blue, but when it’s exposed to something acidic, it brightens to purple, and then to pink! As the blue crushed ice melts, the butterfly pea flower blue encounters the lemon juice and it creates a gorgeous color gradient in the drink, with blue ice, purple near the ice, and pink further out. Of course, you can also skip the alcohol and just do a Butterfly Lemonade Slush, too!

Description: Butterfly Lemon Drop Slush is a magenta-purple with blue and purple color shifting aurora flakes, translucent blue flakes, blue-purple iridescent glitter, and a touch of color shifting blue-purple shimmer. I used 3 thin coats and a glossy top coat for these photos.

Price: $13.00 | Cap: 150 US / 15 UK

Static Lacquer | Witch’s Brew (Glow In The Dark)

Inspiration: Witch’s Brew Cocktail

Description: Witch’s Brew is an aqua teal glow in the dark base with crystal chameleon flakes and silver holographic pigment. It glows blue in the dark. My photos amp up the glow a bit (my cell phone does that) but there is still a pretty strong glow. I used 3 thin coats and a glossy top coat for these photos.

Price: $12.50 | Cap: 300 US / 10 UK

Stella Chroma | Do This Again. Old Fashioned.

Inspiration: Don Draper and his love for Old Fashioneds.

Description: Do This Again. Old Fashioned. is a softer orange jelly base loaded with orange to yellow to magenta shifting color flakes, shifting shimmer and cherry red holo glitters. I used 3 thin coats and a glossy top coat for these photos. Will dry down with a texture, but 2 coats of top coat will smooth it over just fine.

Price: $12.00 | Cap: None

STELLA CHROMA | Spiked Watermelon Emulsified Sugar Scrub

Inspiration: The best watermelon at the picnic.

Description: Stella Chroma’s Emulsified Sugar Scrub is an incredibly fine particle sugar that’s densely packed in. Dig a little out of the jar, massage into your hands then rinse and keep rubbing it in while rinsing. Your hands will feel smooth, soft and incredible.

Sun ripened, juicy watermelon. Why’s there a hole in the top? Is this a special watermelon? We’re not sure, but it says this one is for adults only.

This smells So. Flipping. Good. It’s a sweet, summery spiked watermelon. It really makes me want a watermelon alcohol slushie.

Price: $6.00 | Cap: None

Supernatural Lacquer | Olive a Sudden

Inspiration: Olive cocktail garnishes

Description: Olive A Sudden is an olive green jelly base with purple to blue to red ultrachrome flakes. I used 3 thin coats and a glossy top coat for these photos.

Price: $12.00 | Cap: 125 US / 10 UK

Sweet & Sour Lacquer | Black Magic

Inspiration: Black Magic shimmering cocktail made of black vodka, lime juice, simple syrup, and edible pearl dust.

Description: Black Magic is a black jelly base with lime to gold and purple to blue iridescent glitters, magenta and purple iridescent and chameleon glitters, and silver, black, and sky blue holographic glitters. I used 3 thin coats and a glossy top coat for these photos.

Price: $12.50 | Cap: 150 US / 15 UK

The Lady Varnishes | The Best Drink In Existence

Inspiration: Pan Galactic Gargle Blaster from The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy

Description: The Best Drink In Existence is a deep, dirty olive jelly base loaded with red to copper to gold to green shimmer, scattered holo sparkle, and pink to orange to green to blue iridescent glitters and metallic flakes. I used 3 thin coats and a glossy top coat for these photos.

Price: $13.00 | Cap: 120

The Soapy Chef | Blackberry Bourbon Smash Manicure Scrub

Inspiration: Inspired by the beautiful and delicious drink – the Blackberry Bourbon Smash, a combination of bourbon, fresh blackberries, lime, and mint. Yum!

Description: This spa manicure treatment is a combination of an exfoliating treatment and a lovely rich masque. It deeply moisturizes and renews your dry skin and leaves it soft and smooth, after just one use. Simply add warm water and the scrub will transform into a creamy lotion-like texture.

Scent notes: blackberry, raspberry, dark fruits, orange, bourbon, woody, vanilla, fresh lime, mint leaves, sugared musk.

This has a very earthy scent to me and I pick up the bourbon and musk mostly – and the fruit notes are lighter.

My hands felt incredible after using this. It’s not a rough scrub so it’s good for more delicate skin.

Price: $10.00 | Cap: 90 US / 5 UK

Top Shelf Lacquer | You Had Me At Merlot

Inspiration: Merlot Wine

Description: You Had Me At Merlot is a deep wine red jelly base packed with shimmer that shifts from reddish pink to orange and some holo sparkle thrown in. I used 3 thin coats and a glossy top coat for these photos.

Price: $12.00 | Cap: 250 US / 50 UK

Turtle Tootsie Polishes | Bacon Martini

Inspiration: Bacon Martini

Description: Bacon Martini is a white based scattered holo crelly loaded with orange and gold chameleon flakes and an orange shimmer. I used 3 thin coats and a glossy top coat for these photos.

Price: $12.00 | Cap: 200 US / 10 UK

Twisting Nether Lacquer | Champagne On The Brain

Inspiration: Bottega Champagne

Description: Champagne on the Brain is an ultra fine rose gold holo glitter bomb in a clear base with a touch of spectraflair to help build to full coverage . I used 3 thin coats and a glossy top coat for these photos.

This will dry with a slight texture – 2 coats of top coat may be needed for a smooth finish, but I only used 1 for these photos.

Price: $12.50 | Cap: 100 US / 10 UK

Unicorn Magic Skincare | Deluxe Cuticle Balm in Blue Hawaiian

Inspiration: Blue Hawaiian Cocktail

Description: Just going to go ahead and say now that my jar is GONE. I got this with May’s Polish Pickup group, so I had a month and a half to enjoy it and I scraped out Every. Last. Bit.

This is a cuticle balm (which I find more hydrating for me than creams) that is made with local beeswax from the famous Hollywood Farmers Market, as well as oils that help nourish and soften your cuticles. The scent is Blue Hawaiian – and it smells just like the cocktail. YUM! If you’ve never had one – the scent is a mix of rum, pineapple juice, coconut, blue curacao liquor and orange juice topped with a maraschino cherry.

If you liked her Deluxe Cuticle Cream – you’ll go nuts for her Cuticle Balm. Trust me and my empty jar.

Price: $6.50 | Cap: 600 US / 25 UK

Vapid Lacquer | Pea-cock-tail

Inspiration: The Peacock Cocktail and it’s blue to green hues.

Description: Pea-Cock-Tail is a medium teal with a subtle shift of teal to green to blue, with an extra shot of linear holographic. I used 3 thin coats and a glossy top coat for these photos.

Price: $13.00 | Cap: 300 US / 20 UK

Vapid Wax | Wild Passionfruit Bellini Wax

Inspiration: Passionfruit cocktails!

Description: Vapid Wax and Cuticula have teamed up to bring you not only an amazing scent of Wild Passionfruit Bellini to fragrance your home, but also your nails!

Wild Passionfruit Bellini- A vivacious and bright fragrance with exotic passion fruit, melon, and mandarin blended with bubbly champagne, juicy nectarine and black currant.

My nose really picks up the passion fruit and bubbly Champaign in this and it’s delicious smelling! Really nice throw and our whole bedroom was scented all weekend from 1 cube being melted.

Price: $5.00 | Cap: None

Vibrant Vinyls | Mermaid Lemonade Scented DUO of Base & Top Coat

Inspiration: Mermaid Lemonade

Description: Vibrant Vinyls will have 2 listings this month. One listing will be this base coat and top coat DUO while the other will be JUST the top coat. So you can buy both or just the top coat.

This month’s scent is Mermaid Lemonade and it’s a delicious blue raspberry lemonade scent! Nice, sweet and tart. If you got the Vapid Wax Queen of Candyland wax last month – this smells like the blue layer with a little lemon added.

Double Bond:
This revolutionary 2 in 1 base coat is formulated with proteins to fill imperfections and ridges on the surface of the nail leaving you with a smooth even base ready for polish. Vibrant Vinyls added sticky bond base coat to the ridge filler to grab onto your polish and keep it there.

Fast & Hard can be used over wet polish and provides a glossy shine. Plus it plays well with stamping if you “float” the top coat over the design.

Price: $15.00 for the set or $8.00 for the Top Coat alone (will be separate listings) | Cap: 100 US / 50 UK Duo Sets & 150 US / 50 UK Single Top Coats

What Addiction? | Purple Haze

Inspiration: A purple Moscow Mule, a cocktail made of Gin, creme de violete, lime juice, ginger beer and purple icing sugar for rim decoration.

Description: Purple Haze is a deep purple jelly base with a subtle purple shimmer, a hint of micro holo glitter and violet flakes. I used 3 thin coats and a glossy top coat for these photos.

Price: $11.00 | Cap: 125 US /10 UK

Whatcha | Maleficent Drink

Inspiration: inspiration Maleficent

Description: Maleficent Drink is an electric purple crelly base with small red hex glitters. I used 3 thin coats and a glossy top coat for these photos.

This color freaked out my camera and pulled some extra blue tones. It’s more like the color in the bottle than my nails. It’s nice and bright!

Price: $13.00 | Cap: 200 US / 15 UK

Zombie Claw Polish | Zombie Hemorrhage

Inspiration: Zombie Hemorrhage shots

Description: Zombie Hemorrhage is a bright green crelly base loaded with red-gold shimmer and copper-blue-green flakes. The base is on the neon side, however the shimmer almost dulls it down to just being a bright green. I used 3 thin coats and a glossy top coat for these photos.

Price: $13.00 | Cap: TBD

Polish Pickup June 2020 | Cocktails & Mocktails

Of all the months I’ve been doing these posts – this selection of color might be the most diverse I’ve seen. For once it’s not 80% blues and purples. I was happy to see green represented so much this month – and so well! I’m not a huge green fan, but all the ones I received were so beautiful on the nail.

I’m still waiting on at least 2 items, and I will add them in when they arrive.

Thank you again to all the makers who sent this month!

Wishlisting starts this Sunday – so be ready!

Where To Buy: Polish Pickup Shop

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

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