'ard As Nails Bedtime Bash

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I have another 'ard As Nails polish today from my Pookie's Polish Swap, and this one is called Bedtime Bash. This was part of the March 2024 Polish Pickup, and it’s a white-to-gold shimmer base with a pinky-purple flash and lots of purple flakes. 

Chamaeleon Nails Ahsoka

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I have another thermal polish today from my Pookie's Polish Swap! This is Chamaeleon Nails Ahsoka. This was the second polish for the August aliens theme for the Little Box of Horrors, inspired by the Togruta, specifically the character Ahsoka. This is a thermal going from brown (cold) to pink (warm) with pink/orange shifting iridescent flakies, and white hex glitters in various sizes.

Chill Zone Coconut Cream Tart

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One really good thing about cleaning out my Helmers was that I found polishes I had completely forgotten about. For the next few days, I have one such brand. This is Chill Zone - a brand created by 2 brothers, Mike and Victor Homma. One is a chemical engineer and the other is a nail technician. They originally started with their Premium Top Coat but they also came out with a bunch of colors. Today I have Coconut Cream Tart, a white cream.

Colors for Kamala & Tim Madam President

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Today I decided to review The United Colors Project 2024: Colors for Kamala & Tim. This is Madam President, a white creme polish. This was part of the "America the Beautiful" trio.

Victorian Varnish Actinic Rays

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I have yet another new-to-me brand today! This is Victorian Varnish Actinic Rays, a solar polish that starts off as a sheer white creme with green golden shimmer. But when you get into the sun, it's a pretty pink!

Moon Shine Mani With Mini Marshmallows

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Here's another new brand to me! This is Moon Shine Mani With Mini Marshmallow, a November 2021 FB Custom. It's a clear base with pink and white round glitters and mini glitters. I decided to layer it over my previous mani from ella + mila.

Death Valley Nails Spoiled Milk

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I'm trying another new indie brand today! This one is Death Valley Nails Spoiled Milk, and it's a photochromatic/solar polish. Unfortunately, I didn't know that until later when I was looking to learn more about the brand. This is a white based polish with gold flakes and gold shimmer but in the sun, it turns a light grey.

Zoya Yuki

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A pause in my normal blogging schedule to post about the Zoya Color of the Month for January - Yuki. This a tinted white base with opalescent flakes that sparkle. You can wear it alone or over another shade of your choise.

Rogue Lacquer Candy Cane Lane

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It's Christmas Day! I thought it would be great to share Rogue Lacquer Candy Cane Lane. This is a white crelly with red and silver shredded flakies, white microglitter, and white medium glitter. This was a Mystery Christmas Crelly and I can't find out much about it online.

jen & berries Beady One

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I have another jen & berries polish today from one of my Pookie's Secret Swap partners. This is Beady One and the label says it was from the PGB Star Wars, PGB April 2023. A short search showed that PGB stands for "The Polished Gamers Box" and it looks like it's now out of business, but it was a themed box that went out at least quarterly.

The United Colors Project: Colors for Kamala - America The Beautiful

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Tomorrow is a very important day here in the United States - Election Day. Fun fact - I even ran in two local elections (didn't win) and plan on running again in 2028. When The United Colors Project was pitched to me, I was interested in reading their story. 

While I do want to review their polishes separately, as I usually do, I also wanted to do a little nail art (in my own way) for tomorrow using the America The Beautiful collection.

Terrazzo Nails

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Last week, I wanted to try out the JReine VNL Veil polish that I got from my #PookiesPolishSwap with Rachel Lazzeri Nails but I had no idea it was such a nude color! While I was in cvs/pharmacy waiting on medicine, I found this brand Eternal Cosmetics and you KNOW I'm a sucker for black and white dot polish so Black Tie immediately came home with me.

Different dimension Freedom

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When spring hits, I love bringing out my white polishes, mostly for pedicures, but today I pulled out Different dimension Freedom, which is a snow white base with holographic microglitter. This was released in 2016 as part of the All American Collection.

cuccio Flirt

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I'm throwing it back to 2019 this week with the cuccio "Coquette Collection" from Spring 2019. If you've been a long-time reader, you may remember that 2019 was a roller coaster of a year. While I was rearranging my Helmers, I found this 8 piece collection that is flirty, sassy and delicate all at the same time. I'm starting off strong with Flirt, a pure cotton white creme.

Digital Nails Red Wedding

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I really miss how Digital Nails tapped into the fandoms of the day or memes of the minute. Today I have Digital Nails Red Wedding, a nod to Game of Thrones massacre from the third book "A Sword of Swords." This polish is packed with multiple sizes of red glitter in a tinted red base.

ASP White Hot

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A couple of years ago, I received a press package of ASP Long Wear Polish products and now I'm finally getting around to showing them to you! ASP also produces a gel line but since I change my polish way too often, I'm happy to show their polishes off. Today I'm starting off with White Hot, an opaque white creme.

OPI Polka.com

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When I first saw OPI Polka.com from Summer 2013 Euro Centrale collection, I couldn't wait to wear it. I was obsessed with this teal and fuchsia hexagonal glitter with purple microglitter in a clear base.

duri The Struggle Is Real

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As I mentioned yesterday, duri has a line of nail lacquers (psst: they carry gel too!) and today I have a pearlescent and sheer white with a fine, classic glitter. This is The Struggle Is Real ($8.50).

Morgan Taylor Can You See My Aura?

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Happy Thanksgiving! As I mentioned before, this is my least favorite holiday but it's just because I don't eat turkey or ham or most the "traditional" dishes that you're probably about to eat. When I was a kid, my Mom did the traditional dinner ONCE... used the fine china, invited her two brothers and their families... and at the end of it, she was burned out physically and emotionally. From then on, Thanksgiving became more a day of relaxing and being thankful and less about the food. In fact, what we'd do is go to the deli the day before and get all our favorite meats, cheeses and finger foods (crackers, pickles, you know what I'm talking about) and we'd have what my mom called a "smorgasbord." However, it more resembled the charcuterie boards that I drool over on Instagram.

Today I picked Morgan Taylor Can You See My Aura? to wear. This was part of the Ullusion Platinum Collection from summer 2019. It's a white duo-chrome that shifts pink pearl. When I first saw it, I was like "Oh, that's pretty" but then it just sat on my shelf. However, the reason I pulled it now is because I'm super thankful for Morgan Taylor. They were always really nice to me at Cosmoprof North America when I'd go, and supported PolishGalore for years with press samples.

Morgan Taylor Water Field

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I have a lot of nail polish, that's for sure, but when I see rainbow reflective glitter? I gotta have it. I ended up buying Morgan Taylor Water Field during the Amazon Prime Day and then it's just sat on my desk. I think this was part of the original launch of Morgan Taylor's core collection but I can't find much information about it online. This is a clear polish with silver microglitter and small round rainbow reflective glitter.