May absolutely flew past me. We had a lot of illness in the household so I'm ready to kick May Flowers and bring on summer. Today I have the finale from the cuccio 2019 Coquette Collection. Today I have Hair Toss, a soft eucalyptus creme. This color sat on my desk for a long time and I don't know why.
Zoya really hit it out of the park this month with their May Color of the Month, Paisley. This is a wisteria violet creme that is also a pastel neon. It does dry matte but I went with a gloss top coat.
Only two more from the cuccio 2019 Coquette Collection! This is Why, Hello! and is listed as an airy, yet grounded sage crème.
I have one more BKL from my last secret swap and today it's Bee's Knees Lacquer (BKL) Area 51. This is a green matte with green shimmer. This is seriously a green grass polish, perfect for St. Patrick's Day.
I'm finishing up the cuccio 2019 Coquette Collection and today I have Follow Your Butterflies, a tranquil cool blue creme.
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I'm getting through the rest of my secret swap stashes and today I have Bee's Knees Lacquer (BKL) Turn Back, from the Radio Rental collection. This was part of their 5 year anniversary release. This is a red-gold-green multichrome with emerald green reflective glitter. The bottle is magical.
The cuccio's 2019 Coquette Collection was quite delicate and today's Take Your Breath Away is no exception. This is listed as a powdery purple creme.
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When I first got this jen & berries You're Living In A Vacuum in my secret swap, I wasn't sure what to make of it. I hadn't heard of the brand before but also in low light, this looked like just another greige polish. This polish was originally released in the Polish Pick Up September 2022 "Scary Vibes" but this bottle is from the July 2023 rewind.
Zoya is back with their April Color of the Month and this is Candy, a white pink candy creme that goes beyond just pastel.
I'm halfway through the cuccio's 2019 Coquette Collection with Wink, a dusty pink creme. I tend to gravitate to these types of soft pinks when I'm over the holo and sparkle.
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Another new-to-me indie brand today! This is Wildflower Lacquer Perhaps a Christmas Gourd. This was a Polish Pickup Rewind "Tis the Season" from 2023. It's a beautiful deep red metallic with a hint of orange shimmer. I am absolutely obsessed with this color.
I started swatching the cuccio's 2019 Coquette Collection back in October and then life got in the way, as it does. Today I'm back with Bite Your Lip, a lukewarm nude creme. This gave me serious manniquin hands!
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Today, I have another polish from one of my recent secret swaps, and this brand is new to me. This is Pahlish Wind Fish, a test batch polish that is aqua blue with a red-orange shift and holo. I don't own anything like this.
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Today I have a new-to-me indie brand that I received in a polish swap. This is Lá¿¡men Nails Night Flight, and it's a beautiful light purple/pink base with tons of holographic glitter and a purple shimmer. I'm blown away.
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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.
I feel like every time I wear Bee's Knees Lacquer, the bottle has changed. Today I have I Was Almost A Pancake, from the Resident Evil 4 collection. This is listed as a grape purple with gold to red multichrome shimmer.
Somehow I missed posting the February Color Of The Month from Zoya named Love. This is a raspberry base with tons of small and medium red glitter.
It's quite fitting that the Zoya's limited edition color of the month for March was a vibrant leafy green. This is Lucky, a green base with lots of gold and blue glitter, perfect for St. Patrick's Day.
Yesterday, I was invited to speak for Career Day at a local middle school and one of the things I mentioned was my beauty blog and how I'm officially the second longest-running, nails-only niche beauty blog in the United States (second to xoxo, Jen) and I realized that I hadn't posted in awhile! I have a lot of polish here to play with and I'm really wanting to get some organization under me again. Today I decided to wear ILNP Lily from the new Velvet collection. This is a lilac base with subtle holo and silver magnetic particles. The way that the magnetic pulls, you get more of a crushed-velvet look on the nails.
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As I mentioned before, I was part of two Secret Santa type swaps this holiday season, and in my Instragram swap from Pookie's Polish Swap, I got this amazing Bee's Knees Lacquer called You Conjured Me Out of Hope. This was from a 2022 mystery bag polish that had something called "Ghost Flakes" as well as light reflective glitter. From the maker: "Ghost flakes are the largest particle size of UP (unicorn pee!). They
aren't quite as sparkly because they're denser and more flake-like, but
they have the same hard color shift. Lastly, these polishes have half
the amount of light reflective glitter we have been using so it adds
some depth without taking away from the ghost flakes." This is an indigo polish with gold to green ghost flakes and an emerald light reflective glitter.
