Great Lakes Lacquer Hella Handmade Creations March 2023

Great Lakes Lacquer has a vibrant blue shimmer for Hella Handmade Creations this month. The polish is available through March 21 at midnight HST. Let's check it out!

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Wildflower Lacquer Back to the 90s Collection and The Polished Hippy Swatches and Review

Wildflower Lacquer's March pre-order is open and I have something special to share! This month's release includes the Back to the '90s Collection and a polish to celebrate the 6th Indieversary of Wildflower, a polish I got to co-create! The Polished Hippy is the kind of classic holo that attracted me to the brand to begin with - and I was Taylor's first customer! The pre-order is open through March 10. Let's have a look!

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Polish Pickup Rainy Days March 2023 Swatches and Review

Polish Pickup's March 2023 theme is Rainy Days. The pre-order is open from March 3 at 10AM EST to Monday, March 6 at midnight EST. This month I have products from Great Lakes Lacquer, KBShimmer, and Wildflower Lacquer to share with you. Let's check them out!

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Great Lakes Lacquer Hella Handmade Creations February 2023 Swatches and Review

Hella Handmade Creations February 2023 pre-order is open through February 21 at midnight HST. I've got Great Lakes Lacquer's glowing and gorgeous blue shimmer to show you this month. Let's check it out!

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Great Lakes Lacquer Rainbows & Unicorn Pee Group Customs February 2023 Swatches and Review

Great Lakes Lacquer has created two gorgeous icy shades for the Facebook group Rainbows & Unicorn Pee, which celebrates glowy, multichrome pigments, originally the special pigment used in Urban Decay Toxin, called "unicorn pee" in the polish collecting community, but now expanded to a variety of substitutes as that discontinued pigment has gotten rare. The polishes are available through February 18 on the Great Lakes Lacquer site. You must be a member of the Facebook group to order the polishes. The price is $13.50 each or $25 for both. Let's have a look!

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Polish Pickup Movie Quotes February 2023 Swatches and Review

Polish Pickup's February 2023 Movie Quotes-themed pre-order is open now through February 6 at midnight EST. I have items from Great Lakes Lacquer, KBShimmer, and Wildflower Lacquer this month.

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Bee's Knees Lacquer A Court of Thorns and Roses 2.0 Collection Swatches and Review

Today I have a collection to share that is a personal purchase and sadly no longer available, but hey, pretty pictures! The Bee's Knees Lacquer A Court of Thorns and Roses 2.0 Collection was originally offered in mystery bags in December 2021 and then later as overpour. I managed to get all of them. I would love to share more personal purchases, but sometimes I wonder if it is worth it, especially when many brands have blanketed coverage with PR. There is a dramatic reduction in traffic for indie polish posts made after release when something has already appeared in a million places already before release. So if I do post personal purchases it is going to be for things where it is hard to find swatches and they were not sent to swatchers before release, or at least to relatively few. It takes a huge amount of time to make a post like this, at least 40 hours of work (painting, photographing, filming, editing pictures, IG reel editing, blog writing, Youtube editing), in addition to the money I spent, and I'd rather read books or write articles for my day job than do that if no one cares, haha. [Insert Cartman "I do what I want" gif here] If there are particular things you are interested in, do let me know, and I can see if I have time to fit it in if I have the polishes. There has really been a shift since I first got into nail posting online 12 years ago. What little is left has trained viewers to think of it primarily as advertising (and worse yet often paid advertising which you will never see here - this blog is not monetized and never will be - I don't work as a paid employee for brands and disregard paid posts as a purchaser myself), but there it is... Okay, enough of my old lady grumblings. I hope if you wanted these you managed to get them and can use these pics to pin to your collections or if not you can find them in the secondary market.