Indie Polish Lovers

[kaitlin1209]

I just got Blink and Lips Like Sugar in the mail from Black Sheep Lacquer and I got three from Rainbow Honey last week.  I really wish I hadn't discovered indie polish the week before my no buy started.....haha. 

 

[Christa W]

Hit Polish is having a half price sale on all full size polishes right now!

http://hitpolishoutlet.storenvy.com/

She's only going to do 7ml bottles from now on because she gets so many broken full size bottles.  That means I'll have to buy twice the bottles now... :/

I was hoping she's hold off a bit longer.  Damn.  I guess I miss out on polishes.  Kind of glad she's doing minis since I have so many of them already.  I like the 7ml size.

 

[acostakk]

Sigh. Resistance is futile. Hit Polish order placed! Happy birthday to meeeeeeeeeeeee

 

[Christa W]

I have a tiny polish budget this paycheck and both Laquerlicious and Dashing Housewife have new polishes releasing.  I may not even have any left over for the Hit Polish sale.  Not sure if I can keep from placing any other orders. 

 

[NotTheMama]

Got my Black Sheep Lacquer box today!!  Didn't get a chance to really look at it cause I just ran home for lunch. Will post pictures later today.

 

[lochnessie]

Got my Black Sheep Lacquer box today!!  Didn't get a chance to really look at it cause I just ran home for lunch. Will post pictures later today.

Hooray! I was pretty sure she shipped, but I haven't gotten anything yet. You often get your box a day before me, though, since mine has to get over to the east coast. I can't wait!

 

[tulosai]

Yes I have my Black Sheep box and I LOVE IT! Lots better than Glitter Guilty in terms of the colors for me, and more polish for less money as well.  Unless Glitter Guilty REALLY wows me this month I'm gonna cancel that and continue on the BSL bandwagon.

 

[Christa W]

KBShimmer sale 20% off one day sale. 

"So, for the next 24 hours, until noon EST 06/10, you can use the code 50K20OFF for 20% off your entire order, excluding tax and shipping. " quoted form their Facebook. 

 

[NotTheMama]

Yes I have my Black Sheep box and I LOVE IT! Lots better than Glitter Guilty in terms of the colors for me, and more polish for less money as well.  Unless Glitter Guilty REALLY wows me this month I'm gonna cancel that and continue on the BSL bandwagon.

What did you get??  Pics, please.  I hope to put mine up tonight...with moving I haven't had time for anything....

 

[tulosai]

Pics on the new forum still terrify me.  I got a pink thermal that turns coral (it is SUPER light pink though I am going to need to layer it over something), a great pink/purple glitter bomb (at least I think it's what you'd call a glitter bomb) and a really SUPER pale pink with blue and pink and yellow flecks that I was meh on in the bottle but LOVE on.  I feel like she REALLY heard my preferences and knew me even though it's only my first box.  I hope it won't be all pink all the time in the future but like I said I loved this box WAY more than anything glitter guilty ever gave me, and you get 2 full sizes and a mini here whereas giltter guilty only gives you a mini and a full size and costs $1 more to boot.

 

[kira685]

Pics on the new forum still terrify me.  I got a pink thermal that turns coral (it is SUPER light pink though I am going to need to layer it over something), a great pink/purple glitter bomb (at least I think it's what you'd call a glitter bomb) and a really SUPER pale pink with blue and pink and yellow flecks that I was meh on in the bottle but LOVE on.  I feel like she REALLY heard my preferences and knew me even though it's only my first box.  I hope it won't be all pink all the time in the future but like I said I loved this box WAY more than anything glitter guilty ever gave me, and you get 2 full sizes and a mini here whereas giltter guilty only gives you a mini and a full size and costs $1 more to boot.

I'm glad you feel like she heard your preferences; I actually felt the opposite. I know she tries, but I had specified I don't like greens and blues and in 3 months, I only got 3 polishes that weren't green or blue.. I got 3 green polishes my first month (I did contact her after this, and she apologized and explained), the second month was awesome because I got 2 thermals in pink/coral, i think red/brown-red (haven't tested the transition), and  blue to white thermal.. then the third month was back to disappointing with a pink, green and blue.. the pink was very similar to the pink state of the thermal from the previous month, so it didn't really excite me. Liking 1/3 of the polishes just wasn't enough for me to be satisfied enough continue every month - I think I'm just better off buying the polishes I like! I do wish I had gotten the 2 polishes you got in addition to the pink/coral thermal, because they sound fantastic and exactly what I was looking to get when I signed up with BSL

 

[tulosai]

Mkay so I have my Glitter Guily box.

The good: I FINALLY love the color she sent me this month, Skies of Neon.

The bad: every SINGLE fleck of glitter in Skies of Neon is PLASTERED to the side of the bottle.  No amount of shaking is helping.  It is flat out impossible to get A SINGLE FLECK of glitter onto my nail.  This rather defeats the purpose of this being a GLITTER nail polish.  

The super duper ugly:  Evidently, as our 'extra' this month (which had previously been yummy yummy local candy or chocolate) Tami, the owner of glitter guilty, decided we'd like a baby nail file.  Like, quite literally, one could use a nail file this size on a five year old.  This nail file, OF COURSE,  has glitter guilty blazoned on one side and  the web address and Tami's email address on the other.  I don't mind calling her Tammi because her email address, [email protected] is also blazoned on this thing.  So basically, instead of sending us something yummy, she sent us a business card that might be useful for helping you file your nails a grand total of once.

I am cancelling.  I am only torn about whether to email telling her why or not.

 

[lochnessie]

I had an epic day of nail mail! First of all, my Black Sheep Lacquer box! Sorry, no spoiler since I STILL don't know how to do so on this new site, and I think/hope everyone's gotten their boxes by now?



I love Jawbreaker, which is the glitter on the left. The mini seems to be a flakie in a dark base, although I haven't swatched it yet. The polish on the right didn't have a name, but I think it's "Hero", which is the green thermal from her recent Zelda collection. 

I also got my AWESOME Hit Polish order! 





So many pretties; I don't know where to begin!

 

[meaganola]

Ooh, the stars in Rainbow Honey's Sea Star are *tiny*!  I was thinking they were going to be big chunky things, which would have been okay, but it would have also been "OH HAI LOOK AT THE ORANGE STARS!"  Instead, these are teensy and adorable!  Given the color mix, I think that anything larger would have overwhelmed everything else in this mix.  With this itty bittyness, it's just kind of "Oh, hey, we're just hanging out being contrasting and adorable!"

(And now I *really* need to stop staring at this bottle and take the garbage out so I can settle in for the evening.  It's been a looong day.)

 

[dressupthedog]

I got my Rainbow Honey order today and am head over heels in love with Sea Star. It's perfect and might be my favorite glitter topper ever. I love all things ocean related, so I'm not surprised that I'm giddy over this polish.

I haven't gotten my Black Sheep box yet, and I'm getting antsy. I also haven't gotten shipping info. Did any of you get an email this month?

 

[lochnessie]

I got my Rainbow Honey order today and am head over heels in love with Sea Star. It's perfect and might be my favorite glitter topper ever. I love all things ocean related, so I'm not surprised that I'm giddy over this polish.

I haven't gotten my Black Sheep box yet, and I'm getting antsy. I also haven't gotten shipping info. Did any of you get an email this month?

I didn't get a tracking e-mail; it just appeared in my mailbox today. Hopefully yours will get there soon!

 

[BSquared]

@@tulosai I liked your post on accident while trying to scroll! Stupid mobile. That's a bummer though.

I've started stalking this thread because I really want to break into indie polish but I don't know where to start!

 

[sstich79]

Edited because oops! Wrong forum.

 

[NotTheMama]

Mkay so I have my Glitter Guily box.

The good: I FINALLY love the color she sent me this month, Skies of Neon.

The bad: every SINGLE fleck of glitter in Skies of Neon is PLASTERED to the side of the bottle.  No amount of shaking is helping.  It is flat out impossible to get A SINGLE FLECK of glitter onto my nail.  This rather defeats the purpose of this being a GLITTER nail polish.  

The super duper ugly:  Evidently, as our 'extra' this month (which had previously been yummy yummy local candy or chocolate) Tami, the owner of glitter guilty, decided we'd like a baby nail file.  Like, quite literally, one could use a nail file this size on a five year old.  This nail file, OF COURSE,  has glitter guilty blazoned on one side and  the web address and Tami's email address on the other.  I don't mind calling her Tammi because her email address, [email protected] is also blazoned on this thing.  So basically, instead of sending us something yummy, she sent us a business card that might be useful for helping you file your nails a grand total of once.

I am cancelling.  I am only torn about whether to email telling her why or not.

I got mine yesterday, too.  I really like my polish, it was a green one. 

Can you maybe get an orange stick in the bottle to dislodge the glitter on the side?  I've heard of people doing that with success.

On the nail file, yeah, I agree with you.  I saw it and was like what the heck is this?  On her FB page, she made it seem like it was some great, personalized thing, which I would have thought meant personalized for US, like each of us, not to her and her shop.  I was disappointed in it.  Last time we didn't get candy, we got a really cute magnet that said "keep calm and paint your nails." which I thought was adorable.  The nail file could have been an extra with the candy and it wouldn't have been such a let down.

I may cancel as well, but only because I am drowning in polish and I'm moving and we have a lot going on right now.

 

[tulosai]

  On her FB page, she made it seem like it was some great, personalized thing, which I would have thought meant personalized for US, like each of us, not to her and her shop.  I was disappointed in it.  Last time we didn't get candy, we got a really cute magnet that said "keep calm and paint your nails." which I thought was adorable.  The nail file could have been an extra with the candy and it wouldn't have been such a let down.

Yeah, I think my disappointment about the file was magnified because I thought the same- when she said personalized, I thought she meant for us, and that maybe the extra was even another mini polish or something (crazy optimistic, I know, but I'd have been happy with any number of things for the extra- the magnet would have been fine, any kind of candy would have been fine, any cute nail accessories would have been fine).