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

Good morning and happy Friday! I’m trying to get through this post today, so here’s hoping there’s minimal distractions. Nick is working next to me and on conference calls, so I had to switch to my quieter keyboard. I generally use a mechanical keyboard and I don’t think his coworkers want to hear CLACK CLACK CLACK as I type this post out. I type fairly fast, so the constant clacking might drive them all nuts. However – with the quieter keyboard, I’m not used to it and the feel of the keys, so here’s hoping I don’t have too many typing errors. Jacob is working on his school work, so only disruptions in the post would be when he needs help.

Today we’re looking at the Polish Pickup May 2020 Candy Land lineup!

Right now I have 111 items for this post, and as far as I know -I have 4 more in transit. Once arrived – I’ll be adding in Leesha’s Lacquer, NeverMind Polish, Wandering Songbird and Vapid Wax. USPS is running a bit slower – and although most of them shipped this past Monday they aren’t here yet. Hopefully tomorrow.

This month brings us a TON of purples, thermals and a good amount of neon to close neon shades. My skintone is all over the place in photos because neons make me look tan, and others I tried to correct color and since I’m not that great at it, my skin tone is either lighter, darker, redder or bluer. It is what it is.

Tax season ended 9 days ago so I’m back to a normal schedule. I actually have today off – which is why this post should be up today instead of tomorrow. I have a ton of PTO (Personal Time Off) banked so if I play my cards right, I can schedule it around Polish Pickup to work on some things more. Not like I can really go anywhere anyway.

The theme this month is Candy Land! Not necessarily the game – but some did use parts of the game as inspiration – this is about candy and sweets!

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 Esmaltes da Kelly. 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 3 months ago)

This is an EXTREMELY photo heavy post. I think during upload it said 699 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 May Polish Pickup shop will open May 1st and close May 4th.

Let’s get this going. Nick’s making lunch really quick for us and Jacob hasn’t started his math or Spanish work yet – so I should be uninterrupted for a bit.

77 Nail Lacquer | Eye Candy

Inspiration: Inspired by Candytopia

Description: Eye Candy is a pink leaning candy apple red crelly base loaded with blue to purple to red shifting shimmer and subtle gold holographic shimmer. I used 2 coats and a glossy top coat for these photos.

Price: $13.00 | Cap: 190 US / 10UK

77 Nail Lacquer | Sugar Sugar Effect Topper

Inspiration: Inspired by Candytopia

Description: Sugar Sugar is a clear base with blue to pink to purple shifting shimmer, iridescent rainbow microshreds and iridescent rainbow flakes. I used 1 coat over a black creme for these photos.

Price: $12.50 | Cap: 190 US / 10 UK

Alchemy Lacquers | Darkside

Inspiration: We drew inspiration from the limited edition Darkside Skittles. A number of makers collaborated to choose a different flavor as inspiration. Be sure to check out the other skittle inspired polished and “paint the rainbow”!

Description: Darkside is a dark blue base with green to blue to purple to pink shimmer with a scattered holographic finish. Usually there is a strong blue to purple shift visible in person. I used 3 thin coats and a glossy top coat for these photos.

Price: $11.50 | Cap: 125 US / 10 UK

All Mixed Up Lacquers | Hubba Bubba Baby

Inspiration: Inspired by Hubba Bubba Bubble Tape

Description: Hubba Bubba Baby is a bright corally pink jelly base with unicorn pigment shifting from green to pink, as well as iridescent crystal flakes that spark gold, pink, lavender, and aqua. I used 3 thin coats and a glossy top coat for these photos.

This is brighter in person.

Price: $12.50 | Cap  No Cap US / 10 UK

Bath Balls by Alter Ego | Lemon Fizz

Inspiration: Inspired by Lemon Fizz candy drop

Description: Lemon Fizz Bath Balls are smaller, non bubbling bath balls that are best for mani and pedi soaks. Each ball is approximately.20 oz (you can see the size in the photo below) and when dropped in water – they release cocoa butter, shea butter and oil to soften your skin. The scent is Lemongrass – so it’s a nice, zingy scent for the water.

These are fragile, so it’s possible some might break in shipping. If they do – you can still use them by just pouring the crumbles into the water as well.

Ingredients: unrefined cocoa butter, unrefined shea butter, castor oil, baking soda citric acid, stearalkronium hectorite, tapioca flour, mica, lemograss essential oil

Price: $5.00 | Cap: 20 US/5 UK

Alter Ego Body Care Products | Lemon Fizz

Inspiration: Inspired by Lemon Fizz candy drops

Description: Lemon Fizz is a cool toned, lemon yellow crelly base loaded with pearl white shimmer. This shade lightly pulls chartreuse in the bottle, but on the nail it’s yellow.. This leans on the brighter side, but the shimmer helps mellow it out. I used 2 coats and a glossy top coat for these photos.

Price: $9.00 | Cap: None

Anchor & Heart Lacquer | Look Jim, I’m Eating You

Inspiration: Inspired by a Halloween episode of The Office where Dwight burns Jim (as only he can) by eating “Jim’s” aka Nerds candy!

Description: Look Jim, I’m Eating You is a slightly beige tinged grey crelly with purple to magenta ultrachrome chameleon flakes, as well as small scattered glitter in purple iridescence and matte magenta. I used 3 thin coats and a glossy top coat for these photos.

Price: $11.50 | Cap: None

Cuticle Creme by Anchor & Heart Lacquer | Double Apple

Inspiration: Inspired by a fruity, tropical drink!

Description: Siren’s Cure is a luxurious cuticle crème formulated to promote cuticle healing and nail growth. It contains 75% organic ingredients including aloe leaf juice, coconut oil, neem seed oil, jojoba oil, and white willow bark extract! It also contains skincare powerhouses OptiMSM and DMAE, known for their anti-inflammatory, skin healing, and toning properties.

I apply a small dab on each finger at the cuticle line and then massage in. Works beautifully.

The scent is Double Apple and it’s a blend of tart green apple and ripe pineapple. I definitely smell more tart green apple at first, and pineapple lingers after. It’s a very tropical scent and makes me wish I were on a beach.

Ingredients: Organic Aloe Leaf Juice, Organic Coconut Oil, DMAE Bitartrate, Emulsifying Wax, Stearic Acid, Vegetable Glycerin, Organic Jojoba Seed Oil, Meadowfoam Seed Oil, Avocado Fruit Oil, Witch Hazel Water, Phenoxyethanol, Vitamin E, Sunflower Seed Oil, Vegan MSM, Organic White Willow Bark Extract, Organic Neem Seed Oil, Organic Rosemary Leaf Extract, Organic Sunflower Seed Oil, Organic Alcohol, Xanthan Gum, Tetrasodium Glutamate Diacetate, Fragrance

Price: $8.50 | Cap: 100 US/ 5 UK

Stamping Plate by Apipila Cosmeticos | Candy Land

Inspiration: Inspired by Candy Street

Description: Candy Land Stamping Plate by Apipila Cosmeticos is a stainless steel nail stamping plate engraved with exclusive designs for this theme! Lots of candy and sugary treats. I found the etching to be quite good and had no issues picking up designs at all. I love the variety from candy to cupcakes throughout the plate!

The plate is 10 cm x 15 cm

Price: $14.50 | Cap: None

Apipila | Sweet Pink (Stamping Polish)

Inspiration: Inspired by Street Candy

Description: Sweet Pink is a medium, cool toned pink with silver shimmer that can be used alone or as a stamping polish. I show it both ways in the manis below! I used 2 thin coats on the index and pinky.

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

AURORA | Holy Sugar Confection Batman

Inspiration: Inspired by Batman villain Sweet Tooth

Description: Holy Sugar Confection Batman is a soft, cool pink base loaded with purple to turquoise shimmer. The shimmer is more vibrant in person. I used 3 thin coats and a glossy top coat for these photos.

This is a stunning and dainty polish.

Price: $12.00 | Cap:  100 US / 10 UK

Baby Girl Lacquer | So Berry Yummy (Scented & Tri-Thermal)

Inspiration: Inspired by Fruit By The Foot

Description: So Berry Yummy is a trithermal that transitions from purple (cold) to medium blurple (warm) to pale lavender pink (hot) with a rainbow assortment of chrome flakes. It’s got a light berry scent as well that isn’t too strong, but just enough that you can smell it while applying and after dried. I used 3 thin coats and a glossy top coat for these photos.

Price: $11.50 | Cap 85 US / 15 UK

Baroness X | Sweet Freeze

Inspiration: Inspired by the Skittles Cooler ice cream bars. 

Description: Sweet Freeze is a medium orchid crelly base with tiny holo flakes and an iridescent shimmery shift from purple to pink to bronze to gold to green at extreme angles. I used 3 thin coats and a glossy top coat for these photos.

This shade shows more of a purple orchid on me, but warmer skin tones seem to pull more orchid pink.

Price: $12.00 | Cap: None

Acetone Antidote by Baroness X | Violet Sweets

Inspiration: Inspired by Choward’s violet flavored mints and gum.

Description: This month’s scent is Violet Sweets, and it smells just like the violet candy by Choward’s. If you haven’t had it before it smells like violet but has a sweet candy note. I’ve actually never had them before – but if you love violet scents – you will adore this one! To my nose, it’s a sweet but powdery violet scent.

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

Bee’s Knees Lacquer | Chewnicorn

Inspiration: Inspired by The Chewnicorn from Viva Pinata

Description: Chewnicorn is a pale baby blue polish full of red to green shifting shimmer. This is NOT this bright in person – my lighting really amped the blue to a brighter shade, it is a duller, baby blue in person. I used 2 coats and a glossy top coat for these photos.

Price: $12.00 | Cap: None

Lip Balm by Bee’s Knees Lacquer | Newtgat

Inspiration: Inspired by the cutest pinata from Viva Pinata, the Newtgat!

Description: Newtgat lip balm is a sheer raspberry colored lip balm with a hint of blue shimmer. I used 3 coats on my lips for the photo below.

I had someone ask why my photos like this are taken in my car – and it’s because I get natural, indirect lighting this way before running into work.

Also I look very tired in this photo because I am.

Price: $5.00 | Cap: None

Beyond the Nail | Lovable Nerds

Inspiration: Inspired by Strawberry and grape nerds candy

Description: Lovable Nerds is a medium purple crelly base filled with white & neon pink hex glitters. I used 3 thin coats and a glossy top coat for these photos. I had no issue getting glitters out and did not have to fish for them.

Price: $10.00 | Cap: 75 US / 15 UK

Black Dahlia Lacquer | Sugar Dahlia

Inspiration: Inspired by Gumball Machine

Description: Sugar Dahlia is a deep violet jelly base with a soft aqua shift, indigo Aurora shimmers, purple to blue to green iridescent shifting flakes, and red to gold and magenta to teal shifting chrome chameleon flakes. I used 2 coats and a glossy top coat for these photos.

This shade dries with a slight texture, but 1 coat of top coat should smooth it just fine.

Price: $11.50 | Cap: None

Bluebird Lacquer | Bows, Knees and Toes All Over Body Balm

Inspiration: Inspired by Jelly beans!

Description: Bows, Knees And Toes is an all over body balm to help smooth rough patches. Works well on elbows, knees and feet especially. It comes in a large twist tube applicator so you don’t get it on your hands and easily spreads on the body. I actually use this a lot after shaving my legs to make my legs extra silky smooth.

Ingredients: Shea butter, avocado butter, cocoa butter, aloe butter, jojoba oil and calendilla wax

Price: $10.00 | Cap: None

Bluebird Lacquer | Ride in my Rolos Royce

Inspiration: Inspired by Candy Paint by Post Malone

Description: Ride In My Rolos Royce is a magenta to purple shifting base with scattered holo particles in silver and fuchsia, as well as blue shimmer. I used 3 thin coats and a glossy top coat for these photos.

Price: $11.50 | Cap: None

BLUSH Lacquers | Here Fishy Fishy

Inspiration: Inspired by Swedish Fish

Description: Here Fishy Fishy is a royal blue crelly base with a sea of red-orange-gold shifting multichrome flakes and a pink-orange shifting shimmer. I used 2 coats and a glossy top coat for these photos.

Price: $10.75 | Cap: None

By Dany Vianna | Zombie Rainbow

Inspiration: Part of the Skittles Collaboration. We drew inspiration from the limited edition Zombie Flavor for Halloween. Each maker part of the collaboration choose a different flavor as inspiration. Be sure to check out the other skittles polishes and ‘paint the rainbow’!

Description: Zombie Rainbow is a grey crelly base with multi colored metalic micro flakes. I used 2 coats and a glossy top coat for these photos.

Swatcher bottles of this shade were hand mixed, and some of the grey pigment didn’t blend completely. By Dany Vianna assured me that the purchased batch will be blended with a machine and will not have those pigments. I didn’t have any major issues with the pigment, but thought I would mention it.

Price: $11.50 | Cap: 200 US / 10 UK

By Vanessa Molina | Wild Berry (Trithermal)

Inspiration: Part of the Skittles Collaboration. We drew inspiration from the combo pack of Wilb Berry and Tropical flavors. Each maker part of the collaboration choose a different flavor as inspiration. Be sure to check out the other skittles polishes and ‘paint the rainbow’!

Description: Wild Berry is a tri thermal that shifts from a warm purple (cold) to medium blue (warm) to light blue (hot) with violet shimmer and iridescent flakes that flash pink, purple and blue. I used 3 thin coats and a glossy top coat for these photos.

It was incredibly warm in my computer room when I swatched this, so my bottle actually turned the warm blue shade – but it will most likely be purple in the bottle when you receive it. I also have a couple more photos to show all 3 shades. Keeping my hands cold enough to capture all 3 shifts was difficult due to the room temperature.

Price: $13.00 | Cap: None

Cadillacquer | Charlie (Trithermal)

Inspiration: Inspired by the movie Charlie and the Chocolate Factory

Description: Charlie is a trithermal that shifts from a deep bluish grey (cold) to a mauve pink (warm) to dusty light purple (hot) with pink to orange to gold iridescent shifting flakes. There are a lot of flakes which can make this polish seem a little thick, but it wasn’t too bad. I used 2 coats and a glossy top coat for these photos.

Price: $13.50 | Cap: None

Cameo Colours Lacquers | Orange You Glad I Had Chocolate?

Inspiration: Inspired by a photo of beautiful, shimmery chocolate orange flavored gin.

Description: Orange You Glad I Had Chocolate? is a warm chocolate brown jelly base, full of red to green shimmer, semi-linear holo sparkle, and holo micro flakes. I used 3 thin coats and a glossy top coat for these photos.

Price: $11.50 | Cap: None

Chirality | Want Some Candy?

Inspiration: Inspired by Predator 2

Description: Want Some Candy? is a yellow leaning green jelly filled with green to gold color shifting micro flakes, red to gold ultrachrome chameleon flakes, and red shimmer. I used 3 thin coats and a glossy top coat for these photos.

Price: $12.00 | Cap: None

Color Spectrum Polish | Sweets & Sours

Inspiration: Inspired by Sweets & Sours Skittles

Description: Sweets & Sours is a sheer, hot pink jelly base with green shimmer microflakes loaded with glitter dots of all the different Skittles colors from the Sweets & Sours edition, including neon orange, neon green, neon blue, matte baby pink and metallic red. I used 3 thin coats and a glossy top coat for these photos.

Because this shade is intentionally sheer, it can be used as a topper. Used alone, you will see visible nail lines as you can see from my photos.

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

Colores de Carol | Fizzy POP

Inspiration: Inspired by grape soda

Description: Fizzy Pop is a deep red crelly based multichrome that shifts gold to green to pink to purple to teal, with iridescent chameleon flakes and a subtle, sparse scattered holo. Depending on your lighting this can pop out as a strong purple or magenta mainly and then you see more color shift. I used 3 thin coats and a glossy top coat for these photos.

Price: $12.50 | Cap 250 US / 20 UK

Crystal Knockout | Lady Lolly (Thermal)

Inspiration: Inspired by Princess Lolly of Candy Land

Description: Lady Lolly is a thermal that shifts a soft bubble gum pink (cold) to soft pastel yellow (warm) with white shimmer, as well as matte glitters in pink and yellow in sizes ranging from micro to medium. I used 3 thin coats and a glossy top coat for these photos.

Price: $11.00 | Cap: None

Cupcake Polish | Rock My World

Inspiration: Inspired by rock candy

Description: Rock My World is a purpley pink jelly base filled with orange to gold to green shifting iridescent flakes and orange to gold to green shifting iridescent shimmer. I used 3 thin coats and a glossy top coat for these photos.

The pink is more vibrant in person.

Price: $13.00 | Cap: None

Cuticula | Power Couple Duo in Sweet Escape

Inspiration: Inspired by an image of candy with houses.

Description: The Power Couple duo includes Mic Drop Base Coat and Limitless Quick Dry Top Coat.

Mic Drop Base Coat is a 5 Free base that is a ridge filler and sticky bond base coat combined. Limitless Top Coat is a 5 Free quick dry top coat that dries fast and can be used with nail art if you float the top coat on.

Sweet Escape is a a candied effervescent concoction of pink lemon, citron, candied strawberry and lime zest with loads of sugar cane followed with ripe berries.  It’s very sweet and my nose picked up the berries and lemon most. It was almost like a sweet berry lemonade.

Price: $16.00 | Cap: None

Cuticula | Magically Delicious

Inspiration: Inspired by Unicorn Bark

Description: Magically Delicious is a soft purple crelly with gold, royal blue, fuchsia, and green metallic flakes, orange, bright pink, violet, and baby blue holographic micro flakes, and micro gold metallic flakes. I used 3 thin coats and a glossy top coat for these photos.

The base is slightly pinker in person than my photos show – they really pulled cool from my camera

Price: $12.00 | Cap:  340 US / 10 UK

Different Dimension | Cotton Candy

Inspiration: Inspired by Cotton Candy

Description: Cotton Candy is a sheer blurple (it’s almost dark periwinkle like) jelly base packed with pink to gold to green color shifting aurora shimmers. I used 3 thin coats and a glossy top coat for these photos.

Price: $12.00 | Cap: None

Cuticle Oil by Different Dimension | Candy Trio

Inspiration: Inspired by Candy

Description: A trio of cuticle oils scented in:

Spun Sugar (cotton candy scented)
Airheads (blue raspberry airhead scented)
Lifesavers (cherry lifesavers scented)

Spun Sugar is my favorite of the 3, but all of them nail the scent profiles. Absolutely delicious! I would have loved to see a pink starburst scent – it’s one of my favorite candy scents, but I’m definitely not complaining with these ones.

All 3 are in twist tube brush applicator pens.

Price: $10.00 | Cap: None

Dollish Polish | Where My Peeps At?

Inspiration: Inspired by Marshmallow Peeps

Description: Where My Peeps At? is a bright turquoise crelly with subtle indigo shimmer, and packed with hot pink, orange, yellow, green, blue, and purple matte micro glitters. I used 2 coats and a glossy top coat for these photos. This shade is a touch darker in person.

Price: $12.50 | Cap: None

Dreamland Lacquer | Bubblemint

Inspiration: Inspired by Mint Aero

Description: Bubblemint is a minty pastel green crelly with iridescent flakes and just a touch of holo glitter. I used 3 thin coats and a glossy top coat for these photos.

Price: $12.00 | Cap: 180 US / 20 UK

DRK Nails | Raspberry in Blue

Inspiration: Inspired by 7belo, a Brazilian Candy

Description: Raspberry in Blue is a deep blue jelly base packed with iridescent flakes that show off red to gold to green shifts. I used 3 thin coats and a glossy top coat for these photos.

Price: $13.00 | Cap:  200 US / 10 UK

Effect Topper by DRK Nails | Too Much Fun

Inspiration: Inspired by Sprinkles over the Brigadeiro (a very popular Brazilian candy)

Description: Too Much Fun is an effect topper that is a clear base loaded with a mix of 7 different iridescent and pastel flakes for an explosion of color on your nails. I used 1 coat over a black creme for these photos.

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

Duo Smooth and Shine by Esmaltes da Kelly

Inspiration: None

Description: This is similar to the duo EDK released a couple months ago, but this time it’s not a quick dry top coat (which is why one isn’t purple tinged.) Basically this duo helps with glitter polishes. The cloudier bottle is applied on top of the glitter or “thirsty” polish to help fill in an crevices to smooth the mani. It doesn’t apply cloudy, it applies clear. Then you top with the top coat to seal the mani.

I used Esmaltes da Kelly’s Polish Pickup shade this month as an example. First is the completed mani – and then in order from no top coat to just the filler to the top coat in the photos below.

Price: $15.00 | Cap: None

Esmaltes da Kelly | Skittles Original (Thermal)

Inspiration: Inspired by Skittles Original

Description: Skittles Original is a thermal base that goes from red (cold) to clear (warm) and has red, orange, purple and green matte glitters ranging from micro to medium. I used 3 thin coats and the EDK top coat duo for these photos.

This has a lot of glitter and dries with texture. If you don’t have the duo – then 2 coats of top coat should smooth it just fine.

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

Ethereal Lacquer | Banana

Inspiration: Inspired by Banana runts

Description: Banana (anyone else saying this like the Minions in their head?) is a bright and sunny, banana yellow with a red, copper to green shifting shimmer. I used 3 thin coats and a glossy top coat for these photos.

Very light brushstrokes can be seen due to the shimmer content.

Price: $13.00 | Cap: None

Fair Maiden | Limey Bean

Inspiration:  Lemon-lime jelly beans

Description: Limey Bean is a bright neon yellow leaning green with yellow to orange to green shifting shimmer and iridescent flake. I used 3 thin coats and a glossy top coat for these photos.

Price: $11.00 | Cap: None

Fancy Gloss | Speckled Eggs

Inspiration: Inspired by Robin’s egg candy

Description: Speckled Eggs is a light lavender like violet crelly with a mix of blue and red glitters. I used 3 thin coats and a glossy top coat for these photos.

Won’t even lie – I’m so used to Fancy Gloss doing thermals, I tried heating my nails up for photos and then realized it was just a glitter crelly.

Price: $10.50 | Cap: 150 US / 15 UK

Ginger Fizz Boutique | Sugar Rush

Inspiration: “Who doesn’t love candy? I still remember going to my uncle’s little, local grocery store every week with some change earned from chores. My sister and I would stand behind that glass counter forever trying to decide which candies we would buy. This was the day of penny candy, so it took a while and we would come home with our bags full. One of our favorites was the beautiful rock candy sticks. To this day I still buy rock candy, not so much to eat, but I love them for parties. I not only love them to decorate with (they come in every color), but I love to put them in drinks like champagne. What’s your favorite thing to do with rock candy?”

Description: These wax shapes are come in a variety of colors and contain a shimmery mica that can be seen when melted. Each bag of wax shapes contain several pieces of wax that resembles rock candy crystals. This wax brittle is scented in a sugary sweet and mouth watering blue raspberry scent.

Everyone in our house (myself, Nick and my 14 year old son) love this scent! It is sugary sweet – but it’s a “happy” scent that flows well throughout the home.

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

Cuticule Remover Pen and Cuticle Oil Pen Duo | Glisten & Glow

Inspiration: Now and Later Candy

Description: Side note: My step dad used to have a Costco sized tub of these on his counter, and my sisters and I used to sneak them, but they knew when it was just me doing it because I always left the yellow ones.

“Now and Later” is a custom blend of strawberry, fruit punch, apple and grape and both products are scented the same.

Glisten & Glow’s cuticle remover softens and removes excess cuticle as well as eponychium skin and comes in an easy to use twist-up pen style applicator. The cuticle oil is in the same style twist up pen – and I actually keep this duo in my desk drawer at work. It’s very easy to carry.

Directions for Cuticle Remover: Apply generously to the cuticle area and let sit for 60 seconds. Next, gently push back with your favorite tool, I personally love my Germanikure Crystal Cuticle Pusher (that’s an affiliate link) Finally, wash hands and cuticles thoroughly with soap and water.

Follow up with the cuticle oil pen, and your cuticles will be in tip top shape.

I would show a before and after, but I’m actually incredibly anal about my nail care and use remover every Sunday, plus push back every other day – so I didn’t have enough on the nail to show a before/after shot.

Price: $12.00 | Cap: None

Glisten & Glow | Now and Later

Inspiration: As a child I loved Now and Later candies! My parents and I would take road trips to Maine to visit my Mom’s side of the family and I always got 4 little pieces as a special, sweet treat!

Description: Now and Later is a white based glitter crelly packed with various size and shape glitters in pink, purple, red, yellow and neon green. I used 3 thin coats and a glossy top coat for these photos.

Price: $12.50 | Cap: 250 US / 15 UK

Heather’s Hues | Sugar Crush (Thermal)

Inspiration: Inspired by the sweet and stunning candy landscapes created by artist Pip & Pop

Description: Sugar Crush is a dark turquoise (cold) to sheer light turquoise (hot) thermal packed with a rainbow of iridescent flakes. I used 3 thin coats and a glossy top coat for these photos.

This shade is a bit greener and darker in person.

Because the transition is on the subtle side, it looks more like a nail gradient. It’s beautifully done and I like the gradient look.

Price: $12.50 | Cap: None

WiTS Lotion by Heather’s Hues | Gummi Bears

Inspiration: Inspired by those cute and squishy gummy candies

Description: Gummi Bears scent is a delicious and fruity blend with top notes orange zest, lemon sorbet, middle notes of pear nectar, raspberry and blueberry and bottom notes of vanilla bean and sugar crystals. My nose actually picks up a bit of banana too – which isn’t in the scent profile.

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.

Ingredients: WITS Lotion creamy body lotion contains avocado oil, sweet almond oil, rice bran oil, babassu oil, jojoba oil, oat extract oil, buckthorn extract, kukui nut oil, chia seed oil, vitamin E, vegetable glycerin, BTMS-50 (emulsifying wax), stearic acid, shea butter, aloe vera, distilled water, and Optiphen (preservative). Scented options contain skin-safe fragrance oil. Please store WITS Lotion in a cool place and use within 8-12 months as the natural ingredients do have a shelf life.

Price: $6.50 | Cap: 35 US / 5 UK

Hit the Bottle Polishes | Electro Candypop (Stamping Polish)

Inspiration: Inspired by Skullcandy headphones in a bright turquoise – aqua colour.

Description: Electro Candypop is a turquoise creme stamping polish with a soft shimmer. This can be worn as a regular polish (I did) but it has a high probability of staining due to pigmentation, so it’s not advised by the maker. My nails don’t stain super easy, so I took a chance and experienced no staining. It stamps beautifully.

It’s brighter and more green leaning in person.

Price: $8.00 | Cap: 200 US / 10 UK

Indie by Patty Lopes | Sweet Pastel Candy

Inspiration: Inspired by Skittles Smoothies Limited Edition

Description: Sweet Pastel Candy is a pastel yellow crelly base with matte glitters in aqua, pink, fuchsia, yellow, purple and lavender and yellow shimmer. I used 3 thin coats and a glossy top coat for these photos.

Price: $11.50 | Cap: 100 US / 10 UK

Jior Couture | Summer Splash

Inspiration: A group of makers joined together for this month. We all decided to use Skittles as our inspiration. We each chose a different Skittles flavor. Our Skittles inspo is the limited edition Summer Splash Skittles

Description: Summer Splash is a copper to rose gold shifting mulitchrome with a linear holographic effect. I used 3 thin coats and a glossy top coat for these photos.

Shown in photos is a mini bottle, customers will receive full size.

Price: $10.50 | Cap: None

Kathleen & Co | Swirly Twirly Taffy

Inspiration: Taffy

Description: Swirly Twirly Taffy is a bright turqouise crelly base with neon pink hex glitters in various sizes.  I used 3 thin coats and a glossy top coat for these photos.

Price: $12.00 | Cap 290 US / 10 UK

KBShimmer | Fruit Slices, Yummy Yummy

Inspiration: Inspired by Fruit Slices

Description: Fruit Slices, Yummy Yummy is a coral orange jelly base with orange to yellow to lime green shifting flakes and micro holographic flakes. I used 3 thin coats and a glossy top coat for these photos.

Price: $10.00 | Cap: None

Hand & Body Sugar Scrub by KBShimmer | Spun Sugar

Inspiration: Inspired by Cotton Candy

Description: 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.

This month’s scent is Spun Sugar and to me it smells exactly like Pink Sugar perfume (if you’re familiar with it) it’s cotton candy but has a slightly musky type scent.

This scrub is a swirl of pastel colors with stunning holo effect sprinkled on top.

Price: $10.00 | Cap: None

Leesha’s Lacquer | Crazy Sour

Inspiration: Inspired by crazy sours skittles

Description: Crazy Sour is a neon lime green crelly with red, yellow, green, blue and purple hex glitters in various sizes. I used 2 coats and a glossy top coat for these photos.

Price: $11.00 | Cap: 150 US / 15 UK

Lemming Lacquer | It’s Peanut Butter Chocolate Time!

Inspiration: Inspired by Reese’s Peanut Butter Cups

Description: It’s Peanut Butter Chocolate Time! is a milk chocolate base with linear holo and multichrome shimmer shifting red, bronze, copper and gold. I used 3 thin coats and a glossy top coat for these photos.

Price: $12.00 | Cap 250 US / 25 UK

Lollipop Posse Lacquer | Skip to the Sweet Shop

Inspiration: This shade was inspired by candy sprinkles; the name ‘Skip to the Sweet Shop’ was taken from “I Want Candy”, a song by MC Pee Pants from the Aqua Teen Hunger Force episode “MC Pee Pants”.

Description: Skip to the Sweet Shop’ is a bright purple jelly base filled with bright pink shifting iridescent flakes, iridescent shifting micro glitters, and holographic accents. I used 3 thin coats and a glossy top coat for these photos.

Price: $13.00 | Cap: None

Lucky 13 Lacquer | Lotion of Immortality Quad

Inspiration: Inspired by Adventure Time

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 quad of 20g Lotion of Immortality jars in the following scents:
Unacceptable! Enough lavender & lemon for one million years dungeon Includes notes of pure lavender and lemon Inspired by the Earl of Lemongrab
Love is Sweet Black cherry bubble gum, right where you left it Includes notes of tart black cherries and sweet bubblegum Inspired by Princess Bubblegum & Marceline the Vampire Queen
Minty Menace Peppermint and sweet dark magic Includes notes of peppermint candies with a hint of vanilla Inspired by Peppermint Butler
Hold Tight Your Buns Fresh-baked cinnamon bun and gooey molasses Includes notes of cinnabuns with molasses, extra brown sugar and a hint of clove Inspired by Cinnamon Bun

Minty Menace and Love Is Sweet are my top 2 of the 4. They all smell amazing though!


Price: $13.00 | Cap: 57 US / 3 UK

Lucky 13 Lacquer | Unacceptable! (Tri-Thermal)

Inspiration: Inspired by The Earl of Lemongrab from Adventure Time

Description: Unacceptable! is a tri thermal that shifts from deep bluish grey (cold) to orchid pink (warm) to pale, dusty lilac (hot) with magenta to gold to green shifting shimmer and ultra holo gold and lavender microglitters. I used 2 coats and a glossy topcoat for these photos.

Price: $11.00 | Cap: 140 US / 5 UK

LynBDesigns | Salty Bish

Inspiration: Inspired by Salt Water Taffy

Description: Salty Bish is a pastel cornflower blue base with blue to purple to green and pink to blue to purple shifting flakes, pink to purple to gold shifting shimmer and holo micro flakes.  I used 3 thin coats and a glossy top coat for these photos.

Price: $12.00 | Cap: None

MLF Lacquer | Shake That Laffy Taffy

Inspiration: Inspired by Blue Raspberry Laffy Taffy

Description: Shake That Laffy Taffy is a bright medium blue linear holographic base with a pink to purple duochrome shimmer. I used 3 thin coats and a glossy top coat for these photos.

Price: $11.00 | Cap 140 US / 10 UK

Moo Moo’s Signatures | I’m A Chocoholic

Inspiration: Inspired by chocolate factory

Description: I’m A Chocoholic is a dark reddish brown with gold holo glitters, red to gold to green chameleon shimmer and pink to orange to green iridescent flakes. I used 3 thin coats and a glossy top coat for these photos.

Price: $13.50 | Cap 170 US / 30 UK

Effect Topper by Moo Moo’s Signatures | Princess Lollipop

Inspiration: Inspired by pastel lollipop candy land

Description: Princess Lollipop is a  clear based topper with neon pink tiny glitters, blue to purple to pink shimmer, shifting rainbow micro shreds, silver holo glitters and pink to gold to green iridescent flakes. I used 1 coat over a black creme for these photos.

Price: $12.50 | Cap: 100 US / 20 UK

Moon Shine Mani | What an Airhead (Texture)

Inspiration: Inspired by Airheads Extremes Sourfuls, in the rainbow berry flavor. 

Description: What an Airhead is a white texture polish filled with red to gold shimmer, red, blue, yellow, and white micro glitters and red to gold iridescent glitters.  I used 3 thin coats for these photos. The first few show it as intended (as a texture) then next few show it with glossy top coat, and the final few show it matte.

Price: $12.00 | Cap: None

MTK Design | Dipped in a Dream (Scented, Thermal & Solar)

Inspiration: Inspired by The Candy Man Song

Description: Dipped in a Dream is a scented thermal and solar polish. This is a bright pink (cold) to bright peach (warm) that turns a raspberry shade in the sun. It is lightly scented with strawberry lemon pie. I used 3 thin coats and a glossy top coat for these photos.

Price: $12.50 | Cap: None

My Stunning Nails | Cherry Chocolate

Inspiration: Inspired by a box of cherry chocolate candies.

Description: Cherry Chocolate is a copper-brown metallic like with “diamond” glitter and red sparks. I used 2 coats and a glossy top coat for these photos.

An element in this polish is curling and causing a textured appearance. I did let the maker know so I’m not sure if she’s pulling that element or not. At this point – these were my results with this polish as is. I haven’t seen any mention otherwise, but I did see other swatchers as well as the maker sharing photos, but I hadn’t seen any mention of the issue, but all of the photos clearly had it too.

Price: $12.00 | Cap: 75 US / 15 UK

Nail Hoot | Swizzle

Inspiration: Inspired by Candy Swirl Fabric

Description: Swizzle is a white crelly base loaded with gold shimmer, as well as aqua, blue, purple, yellow and pink glitters. I used 3 thin coats and a glossy top coat for these photos.

Price: $10.25 | Cap: No cap US / 50 UK

Nailed It Nail Polish | Cosmic Cocoa

Inspiration: Inspired by Galaxy Bark

Description: Cosmic Cocoa is a linear holographic base with turquoise shimmer, blue to purple to green ultra chrome chameleon flakes and holo flakes. I used 3 thin coats and a glossy top caot for these photos.

Price: $12.75 | Cap:  200 US / 20 UK

Effect Topper by Native War Paints | Share A Lot

Inspiration: Inspired by Share Bear from the Care Bears

Description: Share A Lot is an effect topper with indigo to purple to red shifting shimmer, as well as aqua to purple to pink color shifting flakes in a matte base. I did 1 coat over black in it’s matte state as intended, and then I added gloss top coat for the final 2 photos.

Price: $9.50 | Cap 70 US / 5 UK

Native War Paints | Share Bear

Inspiration: Inspired by Share Bear from the Care Bears

Description: Share Bear is a lilac purple crelly base with aqua and pink mini heart glitters as well as aqua, pink and lavender glitters, with blue to purple to red to orange shifting shimmer. I used 3 thin coats and a glossy top coat for these photos.

Price: $12.50 | Cap: 175 US / 25 UK

Necessary Evil Polish | Sugar Skulls

Inspiration: Inspired by Sugar Skulls

Description: Sugar Skulls is a neon magenta base with yellow, blue, lime green and pink glitters in hex and dot shapes ranging from micro to medium sizes. I used 3 thin coats and a glossy top coat for these photos.

Price: $11.50 | Cap: None

Night Owl Lacquer | Candy Coated

Inspiration: Inspired by brightly colored candy coatings

Description: Candy Coated is a bright indigo crelly filled with iridescent color shifting crystal chameleon flakes. I used 3 thin coats and a glossy top coat for these photos.

Price: $12.50 | Cap: None

Noodles Nail Polish | PEZing Allowed

Inspiration: Inspired by Pez candy

Description: PEZing Allowed is a light orchid purple crelly base with a semi sheer formula. This has red to gold shifting shimmer,pink to orange to gold shifting flakes, fine pink holo glitters and pale peach and yellow matte micro glitters. I used 3 thin coats and a glossy top coat for these photos. It’s slightly pinker and lighter in person.

This dries down with a slight texture, but should only need 1 coat of top coat to smooth.

Price: $12.00 | Cap: None

Pahlish | Mochi Meow

Inspiration: Inspired by Mochi Kittens from a Japanese Cat Cafe

Description: Mochi Meow is a soft gray with a strong pink glow that shifts to pale gold. I used 3 thin coats and a glossy top coat for these photos.

Price: $13.00 | Cap: None

Paint it Pretty Polish | Juicy Sweetness

Inspiration: Inspired by pink strawberry starbursts

Description: Juicy Sweetness is a sheer light pink base with aurora shimmers. It has a slight peachy shift at extreme angles and a sprinkle of crystal flakes. I used 3 thin coats and a glossy top coat for these photos.

Price: $12.00 | Cap  70 US / 5 UK

Painted Phalanges | Sour Penny Candy

Inspiration: Inspired by Bulk Sour Candy

Description: Sour Penny Candy is a light-medium teal blue crelly base with pink micro flakes, white shreds, aqua to green to gold shifting shimmer. I used 3 thin coats and a glossy top coat for these photos.

Price: $11.00 | Cap: None

Painted Polish | Sucker For Sprinkles

Inspiration: Inspired by Fancy Sprinkle Mix

Description: Sucker For Sprinkles is a  white based glitter crelly with bright pink holo, gold holo, purple metallic, ocean blue metallic and ocean spray green metallic hex glitters. I used 3 thin coats and a glossy top coat for these photos.

Price: $11.50 | Cap: 275 US / 25 UK

Pampered Polishes | Double Stripes Break, Doi!

Inspiration: Inspired by Sugar Rush from Wreck It Ralph

Description: Double Stripes Break, Doi! is a soft lavender pink crelly with colorful ultrachrome chameleon flakes, bright blue microflakes, iridescent microflakes, and a subtle scattering of holo. I used 3 thin coats and a glossy top coat for these photos.

Price: $13.00 | Cap: None

Peachtree Polish | This Is Mint To Be

Inspiration: Inspired by Original Andes Candies

Description: This Is Mint To Be is a shimmery, semi sheer chocolate brown jelly base packed with matte green and metallic silver shred and bar glitters. I used 3 thin coats and a glossy top coat for these photos.

This does dry down with some texture, so you may need 2 coats of top coat to smooth.

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

Penelope Luz | Love Apple (Magnetic)

Inspiration: Inspired by Sweet Apple, that a very popular candy here in Brazil.

Description: Love Apple is a deep, vampy red base with red magnetic shimemr and a touch of scattered holo. I used 3 thin coats and a glossy top coat for these photos.

When I got my bottle, it looked more berry red. When I applied it – it looked more berry red. However – when you add top coat, it alters slightly to the vampy red shown in photos. If you look at my bottle – it’s a cooler leaning red, almost berry. Very interesting and beautiful change. I just wanted to mention that in case you get your bottle and think “Ummm” – apply and add top coat and you get the deep, rich red.

Price: $12.00 | Cap: None

Effect Topper by Penelope Luz | Sweet and Shine (Magnetic)

Inspiration: Inspired by Candy with glitters, they are so beautiful!

Description: Sweet & Shine is a silver magnetic in a clear with galaxy gold glitters and a little orange iridescent flake. When applied, it looks like a full coverage (almost) silver, but apply the magnet and it all draws together to reveal the clear base. I used 1 coat over a black creme base.

Price: $12.00 | Cap: None

PI Colors | Cream and Candy

Inspiration: Inspired by Holiday Candy Cane House in London’s Soho District

Description: Cream and Candy is a pale minty green jelly base with pink, purple, green and gold color shifting iridescent flakes, ultrachrome chameleon flakes and a green to violet color shifting shimmer.  I used 3 thin coats and a glossy top coat for these photos.

Price: $12.00 | Cap: 75 US / 5 UK

Poetry Cowgirl Nail Polish | Peppermint Stick

Inspiration: Inspired by red & green candy canes

Description: Peppermint Stick is a minty green based packed with red-gold shifting shimmer and a hint of red-green aurora pigment. I used 3 thin coats and a glossy top coat for these photos.

Price: $12.00 | Cap: None

Pretty Beautiful Unlimited | Candy Shop Wax Sampler

Inspiration: inspired by the floor to ceiling candy shops in the mall

Description: Candy Shop Wax Sampler is a 15 scent sampler inspired by the floor to ceiling candy shops in the mall, where you could fill a bag with any and all types of sweet treats! Scents include: Blue Raspberry Candy, Bubble Gum, Grape Airheads, Gummy Bears, Jelly Beans, Jolly Ranchers, Lemon Drops, Pop Rock Candies, Salt Water Taffy, Salted Butterscotch, Skittles, Sour Patch Kids, Sweet Tarts , Watermelon Taffy & Whipped Marshmallow Cream

These are single sized, individually wrapped wax pieces in a variety of mold shapes. Plus mine had a lollipop charm in the bag.
Scent descriptions are:

Blue Raspberry Candy – Tart, juicy blackberries and tasty sweet, sugary blue raspberries combine to create this mouthwatering treat! Tangy lemon and refreshing orange intertwine with sour green apple to finish it off.
Bubble Gum – Sweet, juicy bubble gum. What more could you ask for?
Grape Airheads – If you like grape, you will love this scent! Crazy sweet and sour taffy type candy!
Gummy Bears – Top notes of Black Currant, Orange Zest and Lemon Sorbet. Middle notes of Pear Nectar, Raspberry and Blueberry. Bottom notes of Vanilla Bean and Sugar Crystals.
Jelly Beans – Sweet wild cherry blended with spiced fruit; strawberry and peach balance with cinnamon and spice and topped off with sugared vanilla.
Jolly Ranchers – Sweet, sugary blend of fruit.
Lemon Drops – It’s very lemon and very sweet.
Pop Rock Candies – Loaded with juicy fruits that pop and crackle.
Salt Water Taffy – Top notes of raspberry, strawberry and banana blend with sweet sugar, wild berry, cherry and just a hint of sea salt all on a bed of creamy vanilla taffy.
Salted Butterscotch – Warm Brown Sugar, Sweet Cream, a pinch of Sea Salt with delicious sweet, melted butter.
Skittles – Notes of Candy, Lime, Lemon Drop and Raspberry Kiss. Followed by notes of Grapefruit, Valencia Orange Pop and Red Candy Apple. And topped off with good Old-Fashioned Vanilla, Pulled Sugar and Heliotrope.
Sour Patch Kids – A little sweet and a little sour with top notes of lemon and lime, middle notes of pineapple and berry and finally sweet vanilla, cotton candy and musk.
Sweet Tarts – Sweet and tart, fun and fruity.
Watermelon Taffy – Top notes of watermelon, lime, lemon, and bergamot; followed by middle notes of marigold, sweet, juicy melon; with base notes of white musk and vanilla.
Whipped Marshmallow Cream – Sweet marshmallow fluff, butter crème and vanilla bean folded into fluffy white whipped cream and sweet sugar.

Price:$8.00 | Cap 150 US / 10 UK

Pretty Beautiful Unlimited | Melts in Your Mouth (Tri Thermal)

Inspiration: Inspired by Pink and purple m&ms

Description: Melts In Your Mouth is a purple (cold) to blue (warm) to pink (hot) tri thermal loaded with glowing indigo to purple aurora shimmer and a mix of 3 different crystal chameleon flakes. I used 3 thin coats and a glossy top coat for these photos.

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

Quixotic | Delici-Oso

Inspiration: Inspired by purple and blue gummie bears

Description: Delici-oso is a deep maroon base with steel blue shimmer that shifts from purple to magenta and even orange at extreme angles.  I used 3 thin coats and a glossy top coat for these photos.

Slight brushtrokes are visible due to the shimmer

Price: $13.00 | Cap: None

R & P Jewelry | Opal Ring

Inspiration: “To me, Candy Land reminds me of a variety of pastels and pinks and purples, to which I felt an opal ring encompasses all of that. I thought an Opal Ring would be perfect for this!”

Description: This delicate ring features a 4mm simulated opal soldered onto 16 gauge twisted sterling silver band. This ring is only available in size 7.

This is a beautiful and dainty ring

Price: $15.00 | Cap: 25 US / 5 UK

Red Eyed Lacquer | Don’t Go Dragon My Hi-Chews

Inspiration: Dragonfruit Hi-Chew Candy

Description: Don’t Go Dragon My Hi-Chews is a neon magenta crelly with black galaxy holo glitters and a white shimmer. I used 2 coats and a glossy top coat for these photos.

Price: $12.50 | Cap:  150 US / 15 UK

Rogue Lacquer | Jaw Breaker

Inspiration: Inspired by classic jawbreaker

Description: Jaw Breaker is a white crelly base packed with metallic red, gold and blue micro flakes. I used 3 thin coats and a glossy top coat for these photos.

This isn’t a “pure” white – it actually looks a little dusty.

Price: $12.00 | Cap: None

Rogue Lacquer | Take It Off Soy Based Nail Polish Remover

Inspiration: Inspired by Skittles candy

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 skittles!

Price: $7.00 | Cap: None

Sassy Pants Polish | Extreme Sweet Tooth

Inspiration: Inspired by a Candy Land photo

Description: Extreme Sweet Tooth is a bright chartreuse leaning yellow crelly base with scattered holo, as well as an assortment of pink, blue and silver glitters and micro glitters. I used 3 thin coats and a glossy top coat for these photos.

Dries with a very slight texture – 1 coat of top coat should smooth it just fine.

Price: $12.00 | Cap: None

Sassy Sauce Polish | Suga Bear (Thermal)

Inspiration: Inspired by Blue and pink gummy bottles

Description: Suga Bear is a medium blue (cold) to grey-neutral (warm) thermal with a strong pink to red to gold shift. I used 3 thin coats and a glossy top coat for these photos.

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

Soap Frosting by Skyline Soapworks | Cotton Candy Buttercream

Inspiration: Inspired by the bright colors and sweet scents of cotton candy

Description: Nourish and pamper your skin with our Buttercream Soap Frosting! This whipped soap will help keep your skin from drying out and give it the moisture it needs. We whip this soap with shea butter, cocoa butter, mango butter, and coconut oil to ensure your skin is left with a soft & smooth feel.

This product can be used as a body wash, hand soap, or a shaving cream. Apply a small amount to a washcloth or loofah and lather and rinse as usual.

This smells just like you would think cotton candy buttercream frosting would. It’s sweet, but the vanilla notes kind of cut the sweetness a bit to smooth it out.

It does have a nice lather to it, but it won’t be as much as commercial soaps produce. I’ve used almost my entire jar already and it smells and feels incredible.

Price: $14.95 | Cap: 25 US / 5 UK

Skyline Soapworks | Cotton Candy Artisan Dip Powder (Solar & Glow In The Dark)

Inspiration: Inspired by Fluffy pink and blues of cotton candy

Description: Skyline Soapworks brings another dip powder this month, and this month’s is cute and playful.

Cotton Candy dip powder is a sheer pink base powder loaded with pink and blue dot glitters mixed with bubblegum pink micro flakes and a white UV sensitive glitter that also glow. In the sun, it alters to a deeper purple color and it glows white in the dark.

This is my second 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. You might have to flick or tweezer off some dots that hang beyond the nail. Then use a fluffy brush to remove additional excess.

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

Candy Land Charm and Page Marker Set by Starlight and Sparkles

Inspiration: Inspired by Sweet treats (especially those seen in the various versions of a certain sweet board game!)

Description: A seven piece set, with six paperclip page markers and one clip-on charm. The six page markers are a cupcake, a milkshake, a chocolate bar, a donut, a lollipop, and an ice cream bar. The clip-on charm is a slice of cake with white frosting and rainbow colored layers, with a stainless steel lobster claw clasp.

These are super sweet and adorable!

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

Starlight and Sparkles | Fateful Pinks

Inspiration: Inspired by the pink cards in Candy Land – cardstock controllers of destiny, capable of sweeping players across a board with the flip of a card, raising and crushing hopes, bringing games to unexpectedly swift ends or drawing them out interminably.

Description: Fateful Pinks is a warm pink linear holographic polish with color shifting aurora flakes, translucent blue flakes, and silver galaxy holographic glitter. I used 3 thin coats and a glossy top coat for these photos.

Price: $12.50 | Cap: 200 US / 15 UK

STELLA CHROMA | Sugar Mountain

Inspiration: Inspired by Neil Young’s song Sugar Mountain

Description: Sugar Mountain is a vivid purple based multichrome that shifts gold to red to magenta to green at extreme angles. I used 3 thin coats and a glossy top coat for these photos.

Slight visible brush strokes can be seen. The slight divot in my middle nail is a flaw in the peel off base I didn’t notice until I was editing photos.

Price: $12.00 | Cap: None

Emulsified Sugar Scrub by STELLA CHROMA | Sweet Tart

Inspiration: Inspired by the colorful, sweet and sour candies by the same name.

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.

The May scent is Sweet Tart! It smells exactly like the candy – just not quite as strong… but very close. Nice and tart!

Price: $6.00 | Cap: None

Supernatural Lacquer | All Treats No Tricks

Inspiration: Inspired by Halloween candy

Description: All Treats No Tricks is a black jelly base loaded with orange to green shimmer. I used 3 thin coats and a glossy top coat for these photos.

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

Sweet & Sour Lacquer | Jelly Queen

Inspiration: Inspired by Jelly Queen from Candy Crush Saga

Description: Jelly Queen is a multichrome jelly base with shifts red-orange to pink when worn alone, and blue to purple when worn over black, with copper to red to gold to green crystal chameleon flakes. I used 3 thin coats alone, and 1 coat over black for these photos.

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

Sweet Heart Polish | Sweet Heat

Inspiration: Sweet Heat Skittles

Description: Sweet Heat is a black jelly base with a mix of neon and holo glitters with ruby red metallic micro flakes. I used 3 thin coats and a glossy to pcoat for these photos.

Price: $8.50 | Cap: 90 US / 10 UK

The Lady Varnishes | Ice Cream Queen (Thermal)

Inspiration: Inspired by Queen Frostine of Candy Land

Description: Ice Cream Queen is a dusty cornflower blue (cold) to pale mauve pink (warm) thermal with sterling silver and white flakes, pink and blue glitter and a dash of holo shimmer. I used 3 thin coats and a glossy top coat for these photos.

Price: $13.00 | Cap:  150 US / 15 UK

The Soapy Chef | Handcrafted Resin Soap/Trinket Dish & Soap Sample

Inspiration: Inspired by going into the candy shop as a kid and wanting everything!

Description: Each handcrafted resin soap/trinket dish will be different. It’s filled with rainbow sprinkles, rainbow nonpareil sprinkles, Nerds candy, Red Hots candy, glitter, and iridescent sprinkles.

Since no soap dish should be without soap, you will receive a sample that also is inspired by this theme. Chunks of rainbow colored glycerin soap are sprinkled in the gorgeous vanilla cream cold process base. Scented with vanilla, tart orange, strawberry, pear nectar, raspberry, blueberry, sweet cream, with a hint of buttery goodness.

This dish can also be used as a coaster.

I’m big into resin dishes, especially for product photos and I’ve actually had The Soapy Chef custom make one for me before. They are well made and beautifully done. This one is just too freaking cute.

Price: $10.00 | Cap: 45 US / 3 UK

Top Shelf Lacquer | Simply Mint to Be Perfection

Inspiration: Inspired by Mint Kit Kat duos

Description: Simply Mint to Be Perfection is a cool minty creme crelly with black, white and iridescent glitters in various shapes and sizes. This is really pale, and almost a mint tinted white. I used 3 thin coats and a glossy top coat for these photos.

Price: $11.00 | Cap: 400 US / 100 UK

Turtle Tootsie Polishes | Paper Dots

Inspiration: Inspired by Candy dots on paper

Description: Paper Dots is a white crelly polish loaded with matte assorted colored mini square glitters and purple shimmer. Iused 3 thin coats and a glossy top coat for these photos.

Price: $11.50 | Cap: 200 US / 10 UK

Twisting Nether Lacquer | Mr. Mint (Thermal)

Inspiration: Inspired by Mr. Mint from the Candy Land board game.

Description: Mr. Mint is a dark fuchsia pink(cold) to colorless (warm) thermal with red and white matte glitters in various shapes and sizes, as well as pink and magenta iridescent micro glitters, holo flakes and a touch of scattered holo. I used 3 thin coats and a glossy top coat for these photos.

Price: $12.00 | Cap 85 US / 10 UK

Unicorn Magic Skincare | Deluxe Triple Butter Hand Lotion

Inspiration: Inspired by Princess Lolly from Candyland

Description: Deluxe Triple Butter Hand Lotion is a thick, rich and decadent hand cream. Made to sooth, moisturize and protect your delicate skin. Glides on smoothly and is long lasting. Scented in orange vanilla swirl – a fun mix of orange & citrus with creamy smooth vanilla. The scent reminds me of those orange creamiscle bars!

This is just as good as her cticle balm! It is a thicker cream but a little goes a long way and it doesn’t leave a greasy residue (unless you use too much) I just dip my finger in and add a small dollop to my palm and massage in.

Price: $7.00 | Cap: 150 US / 20 UK

Vapid Lacquer | Candy Paint

Inspiration: Inspired by Candy Painted Custom Cars

Description: Candy Paint is a vibrant magenta pink jelly base loaded with blue shimmer, a subtle scattered holo and flakes that shift orange to pink to purple. I used 3 thin coats and a glossy top coat for these photos.

Price: $13.00 | Cap: 400 US / 20 UK

Vapid Wax | Queen of Candy Land

Inspiration: Queen Frostine

Description: Queen of Candy Land is a dual layered wax. The top layer is a mix of sweet cotton candy, buttercream frosting and tart lemonade. The bottom layer is blue raspberry slushie! To my nose – I smell a lot of tart notes – specifically the lemonade and blue raspberry. It almost reminds me of those blue raspberry Charms Blow Pops sitting in lemonade. Not that I’ve ever done that.. but it’s those 2 scents together for me. Very tart, very sweet.

There is also a mix of hot pink and iridescent glitters on top.

Price: $5.00 | Cap: None

Vibrant Vinyls | DUO Top Coat & Base Coat

Inspiration: Inspired by Candy Clouds

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 Candy CLouds and it’s described as s weet bubble gum, lollipops, and rainbow sprinkles are surrounded by light fluffy cotton candy clouds. This scent reminds me of one of the gourmet lollipops (those perfectly round ones that come in a ton of flavors) in the cotton candy flavor.

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

Wandering Songbird | Rainbow Lolly Earrings

Inspiration: Inspired by Rainbow twist lollipops

Description: I wore these at work today (hence the photo in my work kitchen) and got a lot of compliments on them! I do have sensitive ears – and these didn’t irritate them at all.

Sweet and sparkly, they are rainbow glitter painted on a 1-inch black acrylic bead. They are lightweight and they’ll go with any outfit! They are lightweight and at times, I forgot I was wearing them (I usually wear simple studs)

Bring a little rainbow to your day. Ear wires are stainless steel and hypoallergenic

Price: $10.00 | Cap: 30 US / 10 UK

What Addiction Polish | Candy Dreams

Inspiration: Inspired by a pink candy house made of a variety of sweets, such as white and pink marshmallows, pink gumdrops, pink woopie cookies and neon pink and green lollipops.

Description: Candy Dreams is a sheer,  baby pink jelly with micro pink flakes, micro holo flakes, neon pink and green micro glitters and holo pink shreds. I used 3 thin coats and a glossy top coat for these photos.

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

Polish Pickup May 2020 | Candy Land

Whew! I made it! This month wasn’t as bad as I anticipated. With tax season ending on the 15th and May’s shop opening the first day of May – there was a little panic, but everything went smoother than expected and I kept up with swatching just fine.

As I mentioned earlier – I’m still waiting on 4 items, so I will add them as 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: May 1st at 11am EST through May 4th at 11:59pm EST

Giveaway

I’m giving away Five VIP Passes to shop early and Five $10 Gift Cards to shop with!

Entry is fairly easy – just use the widget below! Giveaway ends at 7pm PST Thursday, April 30th!