Supermoon Lacquer Wolf Pack Group Custom June 2025 Swatches and Review

Supermoon Lacquer recently posted a poll in their Facebook group, The Howling Boutique's Wolf Pack, asking for what group members wanted to see in a custom. This time, purple with sparkling glitter won! Datura, named for a species of poisonous flowering plants, will be released today, Friday, June 13, at 6PM CDT. It will be priced at at $100 with a code in the group to bring the price down to $12. Let's check it out.

*purchased in advance*

Lurid Lacquer An Unshakable Sense of Forboding Part 1 Swatches and Review

 Last fall, Lurid Lacquer, a relatively new brand, released a Halloween mystery advent called An Unshakable Sense of Foreboding Part 1 that featured all reflective glitter polishes. Since I am a fan of that finish, I definitely wanted to purchase it. The set included 10 polishes plus a guaranteed gift with purchase, with four possible options. The collection later released individually and I picked up the other three former gifts with purchase. They also had a follow on Part II collection of the same name, which was not a mystery set. I meant to get this posted last fall, but got really busy and then wanted to have it complete with all four gifts, so now I am finally done! Overall I think this was a great advent and would definitely purchased all of these colors independent of the advent. Some of my favorites / least favorites surprised me a little - I guess you never know what will really be magical until you get it on your fingers. Lurid Lacquer runs a voting system on restocks of past shades, so it is always possible that you can vote to get one of these restocked at some point. Some of the polishes featured here are available on the site now.

*Purchased*

Supermoon Lacquer March 2025 Duo and MLP Collection Swatches and Review

Supermoon Lacquer is releasing seven polishes on Wednesday, March 26 at 6PM CDT. This includes the March 2025 Duo, celebrating Mardi, the maker's, 40th birthday, and the MLP Collection, dedicated to My Little Pony. Each polish is priced at $12, or $55 for the full MLP Collection and $22 for the March 2025 Duo. Let's check them out!

*Purchased in advance*

LynB Designs 13 Days of Holo-Ween Beetlejuice Edition Advent 2024 Swatches and Review

I purchased a number of mystery advents last year and thought I would share some of them since there aren't a lot of photos out there. LynB Designs has one that counts down to Halloween and that was one I bought for the first time. The price was $85 for 13 polishes, which comes to $6.54 per polish. Since it contains one shatter finish, which the brand normally sells for $12 with no discounts due to the expense of the base, if you subtract that off the price, the other polishes average for a little over $6, which is the brand's regular price during 50% off sales. For fun, I will not only review and describe the polishes, but also ask the question, would I buy this one if it were not in a mystery collection. 

Royla Lee January 2025 Releases Swatches and Review

I'm finally back in business on the blog and Youtube! I was struggling with a gradually failing 10-year-old computer that would crash with anything graphics intensive. I could fumble through photo edits, but eventually video came to be impossible. After three weeks, my new Macbook Pro arrived from Chengdu, China, (I ordered a massive 2tb hard drive in it so it had to be custom assembled for me!) It is like the BMW 5-series of computers, lol. I was also finally able and motivated to fully move into Final Cut Pro for my video edits. I had been using it for Instagram reels, but this is my first full review video using it, and it will upscale to 4K. I hope you enjoy the better quality. At some point I need to get a better camera / lighting setup for video but that will have to wait. The computer was a big expense, but I needed it also because I'm finally finishing my masters degree and needed a computer that could handle a lot of photo files. Hopefully it will last me 10 years or more like the last one did.

Now for the review! I have the debut release of Royla Lee for you. This is a rebranding of Wildflower Lacquer to reflect the growth and spirit of Taylor's (the maker's) polish journey. The name is a tribute to her beloved Grandmother.  Anyone who has been following the brand for a while knows that Taylor absolutely loves and connects to things vintage and nostalgic and this collection taps into that. I know with any rebranding it involves and adjustment from the customer - that the name and logo won't match previous releases - and that not everyone will like it. I'm happy that the whimsy and humor of Wildflower hasn't gone away and that the branding better reflects what Taylor wants to explore creatively. Also, she was finally able to get screen-printed bottles! This is a big up-front cost for a brand, but saves labor and ensures the bottles will hold up against wear, acetone spills, etc. Now on to the goodies! The pre-order is open through January 19 at 6PM CST.

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Wildflower Lacquer July 2024 Releases Swatches and Review

Wildflower Lacquer has their July 2024 Pre-order open now through Friday, July 12 at 11:59PM CDT. There is one six-piece collection as well as a number of limited edition and charity polishes. The brand also introduced new cuticle oils, but those sold out right away and will be back in the future. Let's check it all out!

*press sample* 

Great Lakes Lacquer May 2024 Release Swatches and Review

Great Lakes Lacquer has a pre-order open for the new Let It Grow Collection, inspired by The Lorax, along with three polishes that are a tribute to Mariah's beloved mother, Jo, who passed away this spring. Two of those are new and one is a re-release of a small batch from 2022. The pre-order is open through June 3. The Let It Grow Collection will restock in July and at subsequent launches through Fall if you have to skip now, but the three special releases will not other than overpour, which tends to sell out fast. I meant to have my post and video up sooner but was working 12 hour days for two weeks straight in my day job, then promptly got sick on my last day of that stretch, then had my sewer back up into the basement the day after that. At least my nails were pretty! Let's check these beauties out.

*press sample*

Rogue Lacquer Imagineers: Land of Imagination Quad and Another Green Mystery Polish Swatches and Review

The holiday sales are wrapping up, but I wanted to share some polishes that are still available from Rogue Lacquer. The Imagineers: Land of Imagination Quad and Is the Grass Greener? released earlier this year and can be picked up for 15% off with code ROGUEBF15. The regular price on the quad is $40 for all four or $12 each. Is the Grass Greener, a green mystery polish, is $9. Let's check them out!

*press samples*

Polish Pickup 1990s Grunge October 2023 Swatches and Review

We're in the final hours of the October 2023 1990s Grunge-themed Polish Pickup! The pre-order is open through October 9 at midnight EDT. I have products from Anchor & Heart Lacquer and KBShimmer to share this month!

*press samples*

Polish Pickup Haunted History September 2023 Swatches and Review

We're in the final hours of the September 2023 Haunted History-themed Polish Pickup! The pre-order is open through September 4 at midnight EDT. I have products from Anchor & Heart Lacquer and KBShimmer to share this month!

*press samples*

Music City Beauty Hella Handmade Creations June 2023 Swatches and Review

Music City Beauty has continued a gemstones-themed series for Hella Handmade Creations.  This is a lovely speckled flakie and shimmer polish. Let's have a closer look!

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Polish Pickup Misheard Song Lyrics June 2023 Swatches and Review

Polish Pickup June 2023 is open for pre-order until June 5 at midnight EDT. The theme this month is a gold-mine of humor - Misheard Song Lyrics. Some of these I heard this way myself as a kid and some are not represented or even SFW, haha. I have three products to share this month, from KBShimmer and Music City Beauty.

*press samples*

Polish Pickup Junk Food May 2023 Swatches and Review

Polish Pickup opens this Friday for the May 2023 Junk Food-themed pre-order! The shop is open May 5 at 10AM EDT to Monday, May 8 at midnight EDT. I have products from KBShimmer and Music City Beauty to share this month!

*press samples*

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!

*press samples*

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.

*press sample*

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.

Wildflower January 2023 Releases Swatches and Review

Wildflower Lacquer has two special edition polishes and the Celestial Collection for the January 2023 release. The Celestial Collection was created with Instagramer The Lacquered Unicorn whose husband is an astrophotographer - the polishes are interpretations of things in the sky he has photographed! Each polish is priced at $12.50 to $13.50 or $87.50 for all seven polishes in the Celestial Collection. There is also a charity polish dedicated to Taylor's grandfather and a re-released 2.0 polish. They are available until noon CST January 10. Let's check them out!

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Pretty Beautiful Unlimited Hella Handmade Creations December 2022 Swatches and Review

There is one more day to shop from the December 2022 Hella Handmade Creations pre-order, which is open through December 21 at midnight HST! I have the contribution from Pretty Beautiful Unlimited to share with you. 

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Octopus Party Nail Lacquer Holiday 2022 Collection Swatches and Review

Octopus Party Nail Lacquer has just released the Holiday 2022 Collection and you can pick them up in the Facebook group The Octosquad. There are a nice mix of finishes and some great formulas here. I just wore one of them on a work trip and it was perfect at the end of five day. Let's have a look.

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Polish Pickup Maker's Choice December 2022 Swatches and Review

Polish Pickup Maker's Choice for December 2022 is open for pre-order through midnight December 5. I have products from KBShimmer, Pretty Beautiful Unlimited, and Wildflower Lacquer to share with you today! 

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