Tough As Nails Lacquer Updates

(1) I've updated my blog sale with newly reduced pricing! Check it out: BLOG SALE!

(2) I've added two new colors to the line!

Not a Plain Jane: Available on Etsy.

Not A Plain Jane is a topcoat lacquer, containing hex glitters in varying shades of white and pink, along with a few white hearts. Not A Plain Jane is named for one of my favorite people. She is sophisticated, feminine, completely fun, and known to sprinkle fairy dust in the lives of those she loves.

Over Julep Penelope:

Over OPI Fly (teal) and Butter London Snog (pink):

 43 Quintillion: Available on Etsy.

43 Quintillion is a topcoat lacquer. It contains hex glitters all of the colors you might find on a certain cube-shaped game from the 1980s, which happens to have forty-three quintillion combinations. 43 Quintillions is the life of the party -- she's a little bit wild, a little bit mixed up, and is always working to see how high she can get her bangs and how crimped she can get her hair.

Over China Glaze Happy Go Lucky:

 

 Over China Glaze Manhunt:

 Over Confetti Lonesome Dove:

In honor of the new additions, there is an EXCLUSIVE BONUS FOR FACEBOOK FANS of the Tough As Nails Lacquer Facebook page: take 10% off of your order with the code FBFAN10 at checkout.

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Breakfast Combo No. 1! A Duo with The Baconian Method and Go Sit On A Egg

The latest addition to the Tough As Nails Lacquer line is a duo. Breakfast Combo No. 1 includes The Baconian Method and Go Sit On A Egg. This playful duo is for sale on the Tough As Nails Lacquer Etsy shop. Shorty size duos are $10 and full size duos are $16. 

 
THE BACONIAN METHOD

The Baconian Method is a brown glitter topcoat. It includes brown, orange, red, black, and white glitters in hex and bar shapes.

Here is one coat of The Baconian Method over one coat of Cult Nails Swanborne, a brown lacquer with a gold shimmer:

GO SIT ON A EGG

Go Sit On A Egg is a delicious almost white but still yellow jelly-based lacquer with gold, yellow, and orange hex glitters dispersed throughout. The poor grammar is intentional, and "Go Sit On A Egg" doubles as a lacquer and a great phrase that a beloved in-black-and-white child actor muttered in one of my favorite television series. 

Here are three coats of Go Sit On A Egg, no undies:

 And here is one coat of Go Sit On A Egg over a white creme:

 I hope that you enjoy the latest additions to my line!

NotTooPolished: Watermelon

It seems like summer just started and it's already more than half way over. But before it ends, here is a very summery lacquer that you need to pick up: NotTooPolished Watermelon!

Watermelon is an incredibly fun pink-based lacquer with black and white hexes and black round matte glitters:

Here is Watermelon on the nails. I don't own any lacquers with black rounds in them and was a little hesitant because I thought that they were going to be difficult to apply, stick off of my nails, or be impossible to fish out of the bottle. Thankfully, I experienced none of that and application was flawless!

All photos were taken in artificial light, without flash, and show three thin coats of Watermelon with one coat of Poshe fast dry topcoat to finish everything off.

The depth of this lacquer is great and I was surprised at how good the coverage was -- no visible nail lines!

Overall, I thoroughly enjoyed Watermelon. It's a really fun polish and was incredibly easy to apply. Go pick one up!

NotTooPolished lacquers can be purchased on Etsy. And while you're perusing the internet, make sure to check out the Not Too Polished blog and Facebook page. Like the page to show some love!

Note: The product featured in this post was sent to me for my honest review.

Pretty & Polished: Party On My Yacht

Today I have a lacquer that seems to make its way onto many a girl's lemming list -- Pretty & Polished Party on my Yacht (POMY). POMY, it just so happens, is included in one of the three amazing indie polish sets that are up for grabs in my 100 Likes Giant Indie Giveaway. You have until midnight on Friday, July 13 to enter, so if you haven't done so, please get on top of that!

POMY is a white, jelly based lacquer with small hex and bar glitters throughout in blue, gold, pink, purple, and green.

 Bottle macro:

 So gorgeous on the nails! If I had a yacht, I would definitely be sporting POMY while lounging on the deck. For now, I'll have to settle for wearing it while lounging on my couch.

Click "Read more" for additional swatches and information on where to purchase POMY and other great Pretty & Polished lacquers!

Cult Nails: Power Thief & Pahlish: Your Silver Lining Combo

As I've stated before, I really like Cult Nails. It's a great brand run by a great woman and they have a whole bunch of brown polishes, which are my new favorite color.

So today I have Cult Nails Power Thief. Power Thief has amazing little flecks of silver throughout that take a basic brown polish to a whole new level.

Check out the bottle macro. And no, Power Thief doesn't have any purple glitter in it, that's just my bad.

 And here are two coats of Power Thief with one coat of a random topcoat. <3

The silver in Power Thief lends to the polish appearing lighter or darker, depending on how the light hits it. Below shows Power Thief at the lightest I saw it:

 It's beautiful no matter what shade it's showing. 

So as you might have noticed since you are reading this blog and literate, I mentioned Pahlish Your Silver Lining in the title. Yet, I haven't shown Your Silver Lining yet. Well this was initially just supposed to be a post about Power Thief, but I apparently really like Cult Nails/Pahlish combos because I have another one.

Click "Read more" for swatches of Pahlish Your Silver Lining over Power Thief!

First Look @ Bravery

Here is my latest creation -- Bravery. When I open shop, a portion of the proceeds from Bravery will go to Soldiers' Angels.

When I started making my own line of polishes I knew that I wanted at least part of my line to benefit a cause near and dear to my heart and that is assisting those in the United States Armed Forces. My brother was killed in action on November 6, 2010 while fighting with the 101st Airborne in the Kunar Province, Afghanistan. He was 23 years old.

So Bravery is the first of a series of polishes in honor of our servicemen and women. A portion of the profits from this line will benefit charities that directly aid those in the Army, Navy, and Marines.

It's comprised of red, blue, and white hex, square, and bar glitter in a clear base. Some are matte, some are traditional glitters. And there are also white stars dispersed throughout.

All swatches show two coats of Bravery over Confetti's Lonesome Dove, a great neutral gray.

The stars are prominent on my pinky, middle, and thumb fingernails.

The polish will be available in time for the 4th of July and a portion of the proceeds will benefit Soldiers' Angels, a nonprofit organization that assists servicemen and women of all branches of the United States Armed Forces. Their motto is "May no soldier go unloved."

You can learn more about Soldiers' Angels here.

Dollish Polish: Expecto Patronum

I've been waiting and waiting to try out Dollish Polish's Expecto Patronum.  Expecto Patronum is a highly sought after polish of Dolly's and I'm still not quite sure how I ended up with it in my cart. All I know is that I'm thankful that I did. 

So after sitting on my shelf for far too long, I finally decided to try Expecto Patronum last night. It looked amazing in the bottle and didn't disappoint on the nail!

Expecto Patronum has a white jelly base with turquoise-hued hexes dispersed throughout.  The glitters are similarly sized and colored but the slight variations in both add layers of complexity to this polish.

Application was a dream. I had full opacity in two thin coats.

Click "Read more" for additional swatches and information on where to purchase Expecto Patronum and other great lacquers from Dollish Polish!

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!

I'm Feeling Nail-Venturous: Hidden Potential

Amy's I'm Feeling Nail-Venturous line of lacquers has really taken off.  She has thousands of followers on her Facebook page and lots of polish sales on Etsy. 

Like many other indie polish lines that have caught on, when Amy stocks her Etsy store, it sells out in minutes. 

While I had a cart filled with five polishes, I sadly only ended up with one.  But the one I managed to get my hands on was a real gem -- Hidden Potential.  It's subtle in all the right ways but still very interesting.

Lots of small pink and blue bits of glitter and the "hidden potential" -- larger white matte hexagons.

Dollish Polish: I'm a Material Girl

I was lucky enough to have my first indie polish purchase be from Dollish Polish.  Dolly creates unique, highly desired polishes and sells out very quickly when she does open shop.

One of the beauties I scored was "I'm a Material Girl" -- a collection of black, pink, and white matte hexagon glitters of varying sizes suspended in a clear base.