So over the next few weeks you will see a lot of reviews of the following polishes, but until then I thought Id show you all a teaser. So on a forum I am on there is a travelling nail polish box. Basically you get a box in the mail JAM PACKED with nail polish and you take out what you want, put in what you want and send it to the next person who takes out what SHE wants, puts in her selections, and so on and so forth. This is the first edition of the Canadian INDIE box. Meaning all polishes that go in this box must be indie polishes. I did take a nerd lacquer polish as well, but for some crazy reason the picture didn't save to my memory card. Apparently it was too awesome for my memory card to deal with. I will retake the photos tomorrow and hopefully remember to update this post to show it as well! But until then, here are the bottle shots of the polishes I chose. This was maybe a quarter of what was in the box, and I put in many more than I took out. I cant wait to sign up for round two!!!!
This one looks so awesome and amazing in the bottle I am almost afraid to try it for fear of it letting me down! I really hope it lives up to the excitement. It is right now my hands down favourite of my selections!
I would like to introduce you all to a brand that I personally had never heard of before. I organize a polish exchange and the person who had me just happens to be the amazing artist behind this brand. These polishes are something I honestly think I would have passed on if I had just been looking at them online. So I am BEYOND thrilled that the lovely K gave me these. Its something I would have never have gotten the chance to fall in love with otherwise!
Thousand Swords is "a glitter top coat with a mix of metallic and matte glitters in a clear base. The coveted iron throne is represented with the flash of gun metal hexes, black & silver holographic bars, matte squares, and silver hexes." Its funny. It really looks exactly the same in person as it does on the website, yet I was never drawn to it. And now that I have it, I cant stop staring at it!! I am not sure how to explain that but its true. Have you ever noticed that a lot of glitter top coats with "clear bases" have a slightly milky quality to the clear base coat? So it does ever so slightly adjust the colour of the base coat? This polish really is a true clear base. And the combo of the black and silver with matte and holo and shiny is just really amazing. I love this over everything I have tried it with so far!
Undersea Garden is a polish that "consists of a clear base with lots of glitter - dark green, gold, sea green, holo, brown (includes bar glitter)." Once more it is a very true clear base and the descriptions and photos on etsy are SPOT ON. I was not really expecting to like this very much. Its pretty in the bottle but not really ME. Then I tried it on. OMG!! I seriously fell in love right then and there. I LOVE IT!!! Who woulda thunk?
Undersea Garden by itself (one coat) and one coat over Dior Golden Era.
Thousand Swords. One coat on its own, and then one coat over pa A105.
Dry time on these was fantastic and I had no problems with curling or hard to use glitter. It is a great suspension base and applies flawlessly. You can purchase Northern Star polishes HERE though I know she is currently sold out. I am not sure when she will be restocking the store but I would keep an eye out!
As you all saw already, I got both my secret exchange gifts on the same day! Talk about a great mail day! So without further ado, here is my wonderful second package!
I absolutely love how bright colourful and geometric all the packaging is!!
And under all these packages was another layer!!
Cookie Crisp!!!!! My favourite cereal ever since I was a little kid. I remember my uncle always eating it and it being a staple item on EVERY American shopping trip we always took. Now a days, Cinnamon Chex, Apple Cinnamon Chex and Apple Jacks are all on that shopping list, but Cookie Crisp still remains number one. And I ran out of it two weeks ago!!! Its sadly almost all gone already!! What a great trip!!
These two items were on the top. The cream is already in my moms possession and the lipgloss is in my bag!
I always start with a purple package! And it was such an odd shape I had NO IDEA what it was!
OMG!! If you read my blog at all, you already know what the logo on this makeup bag means!!!! At this point I had to stop and calm down before opening the bag. I CAN NOT BELIEVE I OWN THIS SET!!
Inside is a lot of wrapping. I can not believe what I am about to hold in my hands!!
THE LE METIER DE BEAUTE set made special for The Obama Runway To Win Campaign!
MORE Purple wrap. Must mean awesomeness.
OMG!!! I have 23 (yes, 23, that was not a typo) of these polishes en route to me. And they all came about because I fell in love with this polish. My wonderful thoughtful secret flower was stalking me on facebook (not even related to the website this exchange is on) and found me obsessing over this colour and got it for me! She might not have known how many are en route to me but they are all mini bottles, and now I have a big bottle. Also means I get to giveaway a mini bottle on my blog!
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The number one polish on my wish list for this exchange (why oh why is Le Metier De Beaute NOT sold in Canada??!!) was this little gem!
Le Metier De Beaute Wild Ginger!!
Sorry, but what is more appropriate than the dance of joy from Perfect Strangers?
Next up:
Nope, not the same polish! A completely different wishlist polish
Aurora!!!!!!!!!!
And this lovely package.
Never heard of this brand of indies before but not only are they gorgeous but I am 99% sure my secret flower is the one who is the artist behind this line! If you are unsure HOW gorgeous these are, my mom hates green and said how pretty Undersea Garden is. They are THAT gorgeous!!
And everything all together:
A MASSIVE THANK YOU TO THE WONDERFUL AND AMAZING KRISTIN!!!! I love everything so much and am already having fun playing with the polish!!
