Polish Con 2017: Week 3

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Unable to attend Polish Con NYC 2017?
Never fear! The creators and vendors of the event got together and are creating polishes available for sale to everyone before the Con! How cool is that? The releases are done weekly on Sundays at 8am Central. This week's launch will feature week 3 polishes from Anchor & Heart and Ellagee.
Going forward, I will be reviewing every shade available each week.

Anchor & Heart

Taryn is the creator of Anchor & Heart and I've gotten to know her just by lurking in her group and friending her on facebook. She has the most precious kiddos, which she loves dearly. I often see her being kind to others in business and on her personal page. She's thoughtful of charities and encourages others to make donations too. She always has cheerful words to share and a fun, gentle sense of humor. All of these things come out in her products, packaging, customer service, and even in marketing - Anchor & Heart is an experience you won't want to miss!
To find out more about her brand, check out her Etsy store's about page.

Go Big or Stay Home has a sultry purple base, packed with shifting shimmer and sparkling flakes. The formula was buttery and applied evenly; I wore two coats and topcoat.

Ellagee

Laura of Ellagee describes herself as a sparkly unicorn and general do-it-all person at the business. She has been a nail polish collector and frankener since she was a teenager and then started making her own polish for as a hobby in 2012. Early in 2013, her dream of opening her own shop came to life on ellagee.com! Since then, she has crafted and shipped over 18,000 bottles of nail polish joy to happy nail polish lovers around the globe.
She enjoys bright colors and rainbows and by extension, unicorns! Her mascot, Percy the Unicorn, joined the shop in 2015. He is the essence of the colorful fun she strives to bring you in polish.

Wish You Were Here has a squishy grape jelly base packed with sparkling flakies of all sorts! I wore two coats with topcoat for that extra glassy squishy shine!





I hope you've enjoyed the review and photos - grab yours Sunday morning after 8am Central over at http://polishconvention.bigcartel.com/products

Sweet Heart Polish: Disney Duo inspired by POTC

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Ahoy Mateys! Avast!

Sweet Heart polish collaborated with Ellagee for the next Disney ride inspired duo. It launches on August 31st and is inspired by the Pirates of the Caribbean themed ride. I was so excited to have the opportunity to review this duo because Disney theme parks are near and dear to me. The box consists of two polishes, a Doubloon keychain and some candies all packed up in pretty red organza bags!



Ellagee's polish is called Drink Up Me Hearties Yo Ho! and is a beautiful golden Doubloon shade that sparkles a heap because it's packed with shimmery micro flakies! I used three coats for opacity yet I think that a single coat would be sheer enough to wear over your favorite dark creams to give them a kiss of gold! The formula was smooth and easy to apply.





Sweet Heart's polish is Inflame & Ignite, inspired by the burning room. A fantastic room inside the ride, filled with the scent of burning wood, raging flames and chaos - even a teetering table and chair that just might come crashing down! This micro glitter is packed with reds, golds, and silvers, plus holographic microglitters. It's opaque in three coats on it's own as shown here or you can use it as a topper over another polish.





The box comes with a cool Doubloon keychain as shown here, and I've done up some proper pirate nail art! I used the Ellagee polish in this set as my base color, stamped it with a Vivid Lacquer stamper and plate VL023 with Konad black, and then topped it all off with the Sweet Heart Polish from this set. These polishes go great together when layered!



I nearly always learn something when I'm researching to write my reviews and this time I learned that Talk Like a Pirate day falls on my birthday every year. I also found this handy webpage, complete with a pirate translator and name generator!

Savvy?
The set launches on August 31st at 2pm Central at both the Sweet Heart Polish shop and the Ellagee shop for $22 plus shipping.