Polish Pickup August 2025: Time Travel

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Get ready to be dazzled — Polish Pickup is back August first, and it’s bringing the magic! This month, KBShimmer is delivering serious end-of-summer vibes with a polish that’s dark, dreamy, and full of fiery shimmer, plus a sugar scrub that smells like your favorite throwback memories bottled up in a spa day. Then there's LynB Designs, taking us on a wild ride through time and space with Temporal Chaos — a glowing, flakie-filled polish inspired by the legendary 14th Doctor. While these three beauties are the stars of my review, there are many more goodies available this month at Polish Pickup. Let’s time travel through the pretties!!




KBShimmer Excellent Nail Polish - We’ve all dreamed of time travel at some point - going back in time to witness major historical events. But not all of us had the threat of failing history class, and the future of a utopian society depending on it! Add in one phone booth, two dim-witted high school students, and a guide from the future, and you get what can only be described as an excellent adventure.

Excellent is a deepened grape jelly nail polish loaded with black flakes accented by iridescent flakes that shift into shades of pink, fuchsia, and orange. Contrasting blue to aqua to indigo flakes add a fun pop of color.




KBShimmer Breezy Juniper Scrub - Crisp and clean, fresh and herbal, the scent will take you back in time to the days when you only had to worry about catching the school bus or meeting your friends at the mall, not catching your morning Zoom meeting. Prepare to have your senses invigorated with this refreshing sugar scrub featuring swirls of blue and green against a creamy beige base.




LynB Designs Temporal Chaos - a polish worthy of a Time Lord. Inspired by the iconic 14th regeneration of The Doctor, this electrifying indigo jelly base pulses with purple-to-pink flakies, magenta-to-green shifting UCC flakies, and an aqua glow that comes alive in the dark. It’s bold, otherworldly, and a little bit chaotic — just the way we like our regenerations. Whether you're a Whovian or just a fan of glowing, galactic nails, this shade is here to take your mani on a space-time adventure.




All of my swatches are shown in two thick coats with topcoat and had no formula issues unless otherwise stated. All photography uses a neutral color temperature bulb and white background with white bounce card. My nails are natural with no enhancements and no blurring/cream base, I have a fairly prominent VNL.

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Victorian Varnish: PBE Nauti Limited Editions

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The Nauti limited edition polishes will be available at Polish & Beauty Expo, with overstock being listed on August 8 at Tammy's Victorian Varnish shop online.




Deep Dive (Reflective) - A smoky base with an intense blue/purple shimmer and a larger particle green/aqua shimmer with golden and silver reflectives that dance on your nails like the ocean waves under the moonlight.




Drop Anchor (Magnetic) - a deep oceanic blue/purple/green magnetic that once magnetized reveals a stunning sparkling red shimmer underneath. This reminded me of a dangerous Red Tide




Feeling Nauti? A bright neon strawberry base with a beautiful violet/blue shimmer




Maritime Menageries - A bright neon purple with loads of pink/violet/red/green/gold aurora shimmers




Parallel Portholes (Magnetic) - an antique-bronzed green magnetic, when magnetized reveals a beautiful bright shimmer in purples/pinks/golds with holo aurora micro flakies. Inspired by a antique scuba helmet




Sea La Vie - A tiffany neon blue base with strong violet/blue aurora shimmer, blue to black multichrome flakies, and a host of rainbow ghost flakies. This is an IGP sibling!




Will Walk the Plank for Polish - Cheerful coral neon with violet/pink/orange shimmer and holo flakies. The shade is very vibrant, almost neon - impossible to capture on camera accurately.




Nauti Duo: Shark Week opens on the 20th! So to pay homage to that Tammy included inspiration from great white sharks as well as Finding Nemo. This is also based on a gel magnetic nail trend Tammy has seen and she wanted to recreate it in polish form. (Sorry ya'll, I missed the boat on this one and swatched them both separately. Simply layer the red jelly over the magnetic to make it have a deep red magnetic look!)

Shark Bait- A deep dark blood red jelly. Tammy says it will stain, but I did not have that issue using KBShimmer's Stay Put base coat. I only wore it for about an hour though, so be sure to double up on base and be ready for staining just in case! Shown in two coats over my nails as I usually do all my swatches, however; it is intended for use over Hoo Ha Ha (seek out Diedre's swatches!), also perfect for jelly sandwiches (Aparna did a cool one!), or over a cream polish.




HOO HA HA (Magnetic)- a deep dark grey at first glance but once magnetized reveals a coal black base with a striking great white shark silvery grey line.




All of my swatches are shown in two thick coats with topcoat and had no formula issues unless otherwise stated. All photography uses a neutral color temperature bulb and white background with white bounce card. My nails are natural with no enhancements and no blurring/cream base, I have a fairly prominent VNL.

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LynB Designs x xoxo, Jen: Perfume Trio

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I am very excited to introduce this perfume trio, designed by yours truly and crafted by LynB Designs! I decided to focus on a few of my favorite single scent notes: Lavender, Lemon, Amber, and Marshmallow (whipped cream note in this trio).

Each of the first three notes are combined with the fourth, creating a cohesive and layerable collection of fragrance. Each fragrance represents three different seasons as well, spring, summer, and winter. And because I was feeling fancy and my partner is French, I gave them French inspired names. They launch at Polish & Beauty Expo next weekend and will be available at the LynB website August 8. Please enjoy!




Custom front labels - Jennalyn surprised me with this Art Deco style label that included my blog name. I absolutely love it!




Lavende Embrasser - Top Notes: Whipped Cream, Lavender
Mid Notes: Caramel, Benzoin
Base Notes: White Musk, Tonka
Lavender makes me so happy and calm, almost euphoric! Lavender reminds me of spring when flowers begin to bloom and all the baby animals are seeing the world for the first time. I made sure the lavender note in this perfume was more chocolatey, less of a floral and not heady or sharp. Jennalyn did a fantastic job of sourcing the lavender and blending it with the other notes. I could live in a "Lavender Embrace" forever.




Citron Soleil - Top Notes: Whipped Cream, Lemon
Mid Notes: Caramel, Benzoin
Base Notes: White Musk, Tonka
Who doesn't love a sunny lemony fragrance? I chose lemon because it is bright and cheerful, perfect for summer time. I wanted a soft lemon rather than astringent and LynB was able to find just that. The result is the perfect lemon meringue style blend so you can have summertime all day!




Ambre de la Lune - Top Notes: Whipped Cream, Sugar
Mid Notes: Caramel, Benzoin
Base Notes: White Musk, Amber
Oh Amber, how sticky and resinous art thou! One of my favorite base notes for just about any perfume! The amber base here amplifies the sweet cream and caramel notes like the most sugary holiday dessert. For its name, I chose the moon because I typically choose to wear amber heavy scents in the cool winter evenings, all snuggled up by a fire with a hot drink. The fragrance feels like home and comfort.




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I am so excited for these to be in your hands and to hear what you think of them! Please be sure to come back and let me know after you've tried them.
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