Hello beautifuls, I hope you're all doing well. 2017 was a fantastic year for me blog wise. Biggest things first, during the summer we celebrated our 5 year blogiversary, & 1000th blog post. In the spring I got my nail polish mojo back, & then during the summer & fall I started return back to a nail blog. I also tried a TON new indies, some where new ones from brands I'm already familiar, & some where brand new to me. I also started working with a few brands to do swatches for them, which was extremely exciting & felt very rewarding, not only materially but also internally. Like my hard work was finally being noticed.
The first few years of my blog I had a lot of growth & opportunities, & then life happened, I slacked off some & I started to really notice it. So last year I started to get back in the habit of blogging often & sharing my posts. So you best believe 2018 will be full of growth, hard work & pretty swatches. I'm gonna be buying more polishes & stamping stuff. I'll be doing my best to be sharing it all with you. So let's start this year off with the top 10 polishes I tried in 2017. This post does contain some press samples, however that's not why they're included. If they're in this post it's because I genuinely LOVE them & want an extra bottle.
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| Top 10 Indies Polishes, I tried in 2017 |
I'm just gonna be posting these in alphabetical order as I do with everything.
Alter Ego Beachcomber. Which is a gorgeous shimmering turquoise shade, with a scattered holographic finish due to the small holographic particles within. It's just a colour that's appealing to the eye, it's fun colour.
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| Alter Ego - Beachcomber |
Colores de Carol The Scarecrow Walks at Midnight which is a vibrant burnt orange linear holographic finish, with gorgeous orange flakie articles within it. I love this polish, mainly for the fact that I don't have anything like it in my collection as well as it's unique factor.
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| Colores de Carol - The Scarecrow Walks at Midnight |
Cupcake Polish Bat-chelor Pad which is a gorgeous vampy linear navy blue. I just love how blue it still looks for such a dark shade.
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| Cupcake Polish - Bat-chelor Pad |
Dreamland Lacquer Too early For Christmas Music, is a gorgeous deep candy red, with holographic particles as well as flakies in it. It's just so jam packed with a ton of goodness yet isn't "too much". I love this because the name is perfect, as well as the "glow from with" look the flakies cause.
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| Dreamland Lacquer - Too Early for Christmas Music |
Girly Bits Lost in the PATH, *super sad face* This isn't even my polishes. Kelly & I went to Indie Expo last just & she got this exclusive. Ugh man she left me borrow it, & I was stupid enough to fall in love with it. It's just so gorgeous, it's a purple to hold duo, or it's a purple base with gold shimmer, with holographic micro flakie particles. It's just so hypnotizing.
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| Girly Bits - Lost in the PATH |
Pahlish Munchkinland, ohh man, this one right here reminds me of fall. I don't even know why, it's just the creme & orange. Ugh so gorgeous. I know this isn't available anymore, however I purchased mine through someones destash. So I wish you the best of luck if you chose to look for this.
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| Pahlish - Munchkinland |
Paint It Pretty Baby It's Cold Outside, this gorgeous polish I believe was originally meant to be used as a topper. However being the rebel I am I really wanted to try it on it's own. It's a iridescent polish that's made from micro flakie particles & shimmer. Since it's a topper, it's fairly sheer, so I do recommend using the sponge application if you're looking to use it on it's own. I also prefer it matte, however it still is beautiful when it's shiny.
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| Paint It Pretty - Baby It's Cold Outside |
Shleee Polish Bibbidi-Bobbidi-Boo! which contains a lot of sparkling blue small glitters, & then larger iridescent glitters that give it that glow look.
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| Shleee Polish - Bibbidi-Bobbidi-Boo! |
Superchic Lacquer Rumbillie which is like a golden medium brown, almost like a rich linear holographic golden rust colour. I absolutely love this colour.
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| Superchic - Rumbillie |
Turtle Tootsie Polish The Holly, Ughhhh this polish is absolutely stunning. It's a green to red, or red to green thermal, that has a lovely golden glow to it that's caused from golden mirco flakie particles. GORGEOUS.
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| Turtle Tootsie Polish - The Holly |
So that's my list, I absolutely am super excited to find out what 2018 brings to the nail polish world. I highly recommend checking out all of these polishes & brands, they're absolutely fantastic. What's some of your favourite polishes from 2017?
Thank you so much for your wonderful opinion of Alter Ego! This means so much to us, thank you from the bottom and all over our heart <3
ReplyDeletePam still has some overpour left of Lost in the Path so if you like one for yourself it is still possible to get it ;)
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