Cool Things On The Interwebs: Create Your Own Custom Glitter Nail Polish

As I'm sure  many other people, I find myself cruising around the internet at odd hours, bouncing from site to site until I find something cool and bookmark it or Pin it. Other times, I will be sent links to check out. The latter occurred the other day, courtesy of Holly Would Nails. 

Holly sent me a message on Etsy alerting me to her Create Your Own Custom Glitter Nail Polish, for sale on her Etsy shop.

Create your OWN custom glitter nail polish - you choose, I'll mix

Photo Source: Holly Would Nails

From Holly's item description:

  

What could be more fun than creating your own custom nail polish?

* Choose up to 3 glitters from the selection page. Message me your selections as you check out. (each glitter is numbered)
* I'll mix it using my awesome glitter suspension base polish

* It will be labeled as your own creation ( example: Sue's Custom Mix) What a great gift idea!

Holly Would's lacquers currently sell for $9.95 plus S/H. I think this is a pretty cool idea and great way to personalize a gift for someone. I do not personally own any lacquers from Holly Would polish, so I cannot vouch for the quality, but the idea is awesome. I had actually toyed around with the idea of doing something similar when I open up shop (soon!) and I hope that Holly does really well with this.

**Note: I am not affiliated with Holly Would Nails in any way, shape, or form. I am not being compensated for this post, I just wanted to pass along something that my fellow indie lovers might enjoy.

Aqua Daisy: Purple Heart

I'm posting at an earlier time because I will be a very lucky girl this evening -- I have tickets to Drake and I'm so excited to see him live. I think I'm getting to the point where I might be the old lady at concerts. That also means that I've surpassed the point of caring what I look like at concerts and will be in jeans and a hoodie. 

So here is another great polish from Aqua Daisy -- Purple Heart. Purple Heart is a dark purple jelly with hex and square glitters throughout. You can see that some of the glitters appear to have a colorshifting, holographic quality to them in the photos below.

 

Gratuitous macro glitter shot. 

And here she is on the nails. Such a beauty! Application was flawless and dry time was fast. And no staining on the nails despite the dark color of the base. Overall I was a very happy camper.

Click "Read more" for additional swatches and information on how to purchase AquaDaisy lacquers.

Pahlish: Toxic and Timeless

When you hear the word "toxic" you don't normally think of something as beautiful as Pahlish's Toxic and Timeless. But here Toxic and Timeless is -- a beautiful green jelly with lots of glitters. 

Check out those glitters!  Pahlish's Toxic and Timeless suspends multi-sized hex and bar glitters in an evergreen jelly base. You can see the holographic nature of the glitter in the way that some of them appear copper in the macros below.

Click "Read more" for additional swatches and information on where to purchase Pahlish polishes!

Aqua Daisy: Succulent

Aqua Daisy is a new-to-me Etsy store that sells polishes, hair ties, and barrettes.  I kept coming back to the Aqua Daisy shop and finally broke down and made a purchase. I scored two polishes during the week and they arrived yesterday. Needless to say, Aqua Daisy has VERY fast shipping.

One of my purchases included Succulent, a mint hued, creme based polish with two different sized pink hex glitters dispersed throughout. 

For all photos I used two coats of Succulent with one coat of Seche Vite topcoat.

The application on this polish was seriously flawless. Almost complete opacity with one coat but I always apply two to get as much depth as possible. There was just the right amount of glitter in Succulent. Not too much that it affected application but definitely not too little either. This was an excellently balanced polish and you can tell a lot of work was likely put into this to obtain the perfect formulation.

Click "Read more" for additional swatches and information on where to purchase Aqua Daisy polishes.

Amy's Nail Boutique: Galaxy Far, Far Away

Hi my name is Eliz-a Bee and I'm a Star Wars fan and not afraid to admit it.  Love Star Wars. Love blue polishes. Love polishes that are able to combine my love of Star Wars and blue. So obviously Galaxy Far, Far Away (GFFA) was right up my alley and I knew I had to have her in my cart when I spied this color on Amy's Etsy page.

 

Check out that brilliant blue and the glitties throughout!

 

 

 If Princess Leia wore polish it should have been this color. 

Click "Read more" for additional swatches and more information on Amy's Nail Boutique!

365 Days of Color: Funfetti

Sunny's 365 Days of Color currently has two awesome collections of sweet polishes. And I emphasize the "sweet" because some of her polishes are named after delicious treats -- like Funfetti!

This polish is really fun.  A great white jelly base (not too thick, not too sheer) with almost every shape and color of glitter contained within. Hexes and squares and bars, oh my!

Isn't it great?! Such a fun polish.

Click "Read more" for additional swatches and info on where to buy Sunny's polishes!

Amy's Nail Boutique: Pink Lemonade

Amy and I are both members of a Facebook group so I was privileged enough to see her polishes before they hit her Etsy shop.

As soon as she opened Amy's Nail Boutique I hopped over there as fast as possible to pick up a couple of shades.

One that I had been eyeing is Pink Lemonade, which has fine pink and yellow matte hex glitters in a clear base. LOVE. I guess this could be called Floam's pretty little sister if I had to make a comparison, but check it out for yourself:

Click "Read More" for swatches!

Bam Nail Lacquer: Andromeda

Bam Nail Lacquer's Andromeda is up for swatching tonight!  Check out this great purple holographic glitter:

Here are three coats of Andromeda with one coat of Gelous topcoat.  I love it!  I like that the purple jelly base isn't so saturated that you can't see all the different holo silver and purple glitters.

 Click "Read More" to see Andromeda used as a layering polish over three shades of purple!

New Polish Shop!

Happy Friday!

Just wanted to show fellow indie polish creator Amy some love and direct everyone to check out her brand-spanken' new polishes at her Etsy shop -- Amy's Nail Boutique!

I just purchased Pink Lemonade and Galaxy Far, Far Away!  Can't wait to get the polishes to test them out. Good luck to Amy!

Update:  You can also check out Amy's Facebook page!

All That Glitters: Valentine Massacre

As the name implies, All That Glitters' Kirsten creates, well, really glittery lacquers.

I picked up three the other day and the first one I tried was Valentine Massacre, a brilliant red and black glitter lacquer. 

 

Fixation Polish: Lime Crush

I have a special place in my heart for anything related to the colors lime and chartreuse.  So when I spied Fixation Polish's Lime Crush, I knew I needed it in my collection.

Look at all of those glitters! Black bars, chartreuse hexagons, turquoise squares, small pink hexagons, oh my!

Nail Mail! From Bam Nail Lacquer

Time for Nail Mail!  It seems like I've been getting Nail Mail almost daily lately in an attempt to gather indie polishes, and today came my recent order from Bam Nail Lacquer.

A little sneak peek of what I got:

I found Bam Nail Lacquer on Etsy.  The shop recently opened in March so I'm happy to be supporting someone with a new business venture. And the polishes look great!

Stay tuned for swatches of Andromeda, Rings of Neptune, and Venusian Sunrise!

If you're interested in Bam Nail Lacquer, check out their Etsy page here.