Indie

Hello lovelies! So, The Nail Arcade is midway through its week of being a pop-up UK indie polish e-shop, and I thought I’d show you the other gorgeous polish Rachel sent me to review 🙂 having just been hit by a hefty customs charge myself I feel the timing is apt, I just hope she still has some polishes in stock by Friday which is my payday! They’re selling out fast.

I’ve never tried a polish by Serum No 5 before so I was super excited to try it. They come in two sizes: 9ml (Rachel is selling these at £5.55) or 16.7ml (£9). Fame is a beautiful holographic topcoat, so basically you can paint it over any colour to turn it into a holographic-effect polish 🙂 you can use one coat for a more subtle holo effect, or build it up for stronger holographicness.

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Hey everyone, sorry I haven’t posted in a little while. I’ve been doing something VERY exciting *hint* 🙂 so my free time, what little I have, has been mostly consumed by that. More news soon ;). A lovely polish friend of mine is also on an exciting polish venture: Rachel, who is the creator of the Winterberry Nail Art Kits I reviewed here, is opening an indie and international nail polish e-shop here in the UK! Yep – no more customs fees, steep shipping charges, fears of losing the polish to customs full stop… etc :). The shop is called ‘The Nail Arcade’. For more info on her shop and updates, click ‘like’ on The Nail Arcade Facebook page. Rachel has kindly sent me two lovely indies to review in the run up to her shop opening on 4th August. One of these is Smitten Polish The Ghost Of Jupiter 🙂

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Hey everyone! Here is a polish I am in LOVE with. Happy Hands, a firm favourite indie brand of mine, and Polish Revolution have collaborated to create the ‘Project Badass’ collection, sold under the brand name ‘Happy Revolution’. TOO cool! The collection is apparently based around Always Sunny in Philadelphia. To be honest, I’ve never heard of it before, but I am loving this collection!

It took me a long while to narrow down my favourites (see the full Project Badass Collection), but finally I chose three. (Bloggers, do you ever find that when you’re linking to other sites you fall in love with all the ones you didn’t choose?!). I chose Kitten Mittens, Rum Ham, and Nightcrawlers… all of these are <33333.

SEE?!?! 😀
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Hey lovelies, today I have a new indie to my collection which will sit pride of place (does anyone else find that once you are indie-addicted all the mainstream polishes are suddenly oh-so-boring? lol). This one is perfect in colour, perfect in opacity, perfect in application, everything. I can’t recommend it enough! I really didn’t want to take this polish off when it eventually chipped.

In the UK you can buy  Scofflaw Whiskey Tango Foxtrot from Llarowe.com, and if you live in the US you can buy it from the Scofflaw Etsy shop, as well as Shoppe Eclecticco in Singapore and Femme Fatale in Australia. These are all subject to stock availability so the best place to get info on Scofflaw is direct from the Scofflaw Facebook page.

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I told you once the indie floodgates had opened I’d have no chance at resisting them any more… Thanks a lot Happy Hands Metal Heart! 😛 So I was browsing on Llarowe through the Hare Polish polishes (because they are all GORGEOUS!) and Medusa Luminosa was in stock, and so it accidentally fell into my shopping cart and I accidentally entered my card details and accidentally ordered it… I just don’t know how it happened! 🙂

Medusa Luminosa is actually a type of Jellyfish… I’m so happy about this because ocean creatures always mesmerize me (even if Jellyfish scare the hell out of me!) I just think they’re so beautiful and I feel like this polish really captures the luminous iridescent appearance of the Medusa Luminosa.

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