Road to Polish Con: Week 13

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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 and run through the following Saturday.

Sunday's launch features week 13 polishes from Colors By Llarowe and Anonymous Lacquer.

A Part of the Big Apple

A deep apple skin red scattered holo with such a glowy and glossy finish. It's so squishy and jelly-like but so opaque. The red is cool leaning and such depth of color that I wasn't able to capture. If you like reds, don't miss this one! I wore one smooth buttery coat with topcoat.

Over The Bridge Through The Borough

A pale pink holo with pale pink holo microglitter. I wore two coats and topcoat for shine. This is fairly opaque, you may be able to get away with one coat.

I hope you've enjoyed the review and photos - grab yours Sunday morning after 8am Central over at http://polishconvention.bigcartel.com/products - don't delay, they'll be pulled down on Saturday night!

Recap of previous weeks:
Week 3
Week 4
Week 5
Week 6
Week 7
Week 8
Week 9
Week 10
Week 11
Week 12

Road to Polish Con: Week 12

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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 and run through the following Saturday.

Today's launch features week 12 polishes from Dollish Polish and Drip Drop.

Whistling Showtunes

A gunmetal grey super linear holo with purpley/pink shifting micro flakes. I wore two easy coats with topcoat.

New York State of Mind

Toxic Avenger V2? I think so! This polish starts with an olive green jelly base, packed with shifting shimmer flecks from gold to pink and holographic pigment. This mix makes the polish look totally different in different lighting situations. I wore two (heavy handed) coats for opacity and topcoat for shine.

Still wondering about whether this is Toxic Avenger V2? Decide for yourself!
For those of you that aren't familiar with Toxic Avenger, it was one of the very first polishes in the indie world that was holo and multi-chromatic/shifting. It was stocked at Dolly's shop several times, and I kept putting off the purchase because I thought it would be available for a while, but then the supplier discontinued what Dolly used to make it. The last batch sold out of the shop before I could blink, and I missed it. Finding it on the second hand market was really difficult. No one was willing to give it up and when they did, the price was astronomical. After maybe a year, I was able to find a mini at a message board that I was able to swap for.

So if you are even remotely interested in NY State of Mind, pick it up! You'll be glad you did, it's gorgeous!










I hope you've enjoyed the review and photos - grab yours Sunday morning after 8am Central over at http://polishconvention.bigcartel.com/products - don't delay, they'll be pulled down on Saturday night!

Recap of previous weeks:
Week 3
Week 4
Week 5
Week 6
Week 7
Week 8
Week 9
Week 10
Week 11

Ye Olde Clean Up Brush

So, who keeps their old splayed out, frayed up clean up brushes?



Anyone?




Well, I do and I'll tell you why.
I use it to scrub polish out of my cuticles after removal.
For whatever reason, sometimes after I've removed a polish there will be a translucent bit of polish left in the cuticle area that the cotton pad just doesn't take off. An old splayed out clean up brush comes in really handy to be able to apply pressure to the cuticle and sort of scrub without worry of damaging the brush!

Now lemme ask again - Who keeps their old splayed out, frayed up clean up brushes?