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Happy Monday! It’s time for the August 2025 Little Box of Horrors, and the theme this month is The Lord of the Rings!
I’m actually a bit ahead this month somehow (go me) and I had time to do a video! You can check out all 21 items swatched on my YouTube channel below:
For the fine details – for all photos shown – I used Vapid Lacquer Commitment Issues Peel Off Base, and for the glossy photos I did Monarch Lacquer Hi-Def Shine Top coat (sent as PR and I’ve also purchased). For all textured polishes, I did use Glisten & Glow Glitter Grabber (PR) and Monarch Lacquer top coat over it.
For my lighting set up I use artificial lighting due to my day job, my set up involves 2 Neatfi XL Lamps from Amazon (affiliate link) as well as this Daylight Company Duo Daylight Lamp (affiliate link).
Little Box of Horrors is open for wishlisting now, and shop will be open to purchase from the 22nd – 30th.
You ready to see some of August’s offerings?
BCB Lacquers | If You Want Him, Come And Claim Him
Inspiration: Lord of the Rings
Description: If You Want Him, Come And Claim Him is a dark navy blue jelly base with blue to purple shimmer.
I used 3 thin coats and a glossy top coat for these photos.
Price: $13.75 | Cap: 150
BCB Lacquers | My Precious
Inspiration: Gollum
Description: My Precious is a dark grey crelly base with a red to orange to gold to green shifting shimmer.
I used 3 thin coats and a glossy top coat for these photos.
Price: $13.75 | Cap: 150
Cracked Polish | Lord Of The Greens
Inspiration:
Description: Lord Of The Greens is an apple green with green to gold to magenta shifting flakes, as well as red to orange to gold shimmer.
I used 3 thin coats and a glossy top coat for these photos.
Price: $13.00 | Cap: 200
Hearts & Promises | Dragon Fire
Inspiration: Inspired by the dragon, Smaug
Description: Dragon Fire is a reddish orange jelly base packed to red to gold aurora shimmer.
I used 3 thin coats and a glossy top coat for these photos.
Price: $13.00 | Cap: 75
Humble Bee Polish | Scarlet Oath
Inspiration: Arwen, who makes a deeply emotional and symbolic oath of love when she chooses to remain in Middle-earth for Aragorn. She gives up her immortality, knowing it will lead to death and loss
Description: Scarlet Oath is a deep red jelly base loaded with red aurora shimmer and gold holo microglitters.
I used 3 thin coats and a glossy top coat for these photos.
Price: $14.00 | Cap: 100
Humble Bee Polish | Violet Night (originally Whispers from the Deep)
I’m including this because it was in the video I posted and there’s no taking that out at this point. Basically Whispers From The Deep was too close to another polish in this month’s shop – so it’s been removed from Little Box of Horrors. If you wish to snag it though – you can purchase it directly from the maker! It’s now named Violet Night.
Violet Night is an ultra deep violet jelly base loaded with red to pink aurora shimmer. I used 3 thin coats and a glossy top coat for these photos.
This is limited release – Available through August 24th only!
$10.00 and you can purchase it in the Humble Bee Polish Etsy Shop
Jen & Berries | Certainty of Death
Inspiration: Gimli, when pondering the task of going up against Sauron
Description: Certainty of Death is a dusty mauve crelly base loaded with intense copper to gold to green shifting shimmer and tiny holo flecks.
I used 3 thin coats and a glossy top coat for these photos.
Price: $13.50 | Cap: 150
Jen & Berries | Small Chance of Success
Inspiration: Gimli, when pondering the task of going up against Sauron.
Description: Small Chance of Success is a berry purple jelly base with blue to purple shifting shimmer and holo microflakes.
I used 3 thin coats and a glossy top coat for these photos.
Price: $13.50 | Cap: 150
Lemming Lacquer | And in the Darkness Bind Them
Inspiration: Inspired by Gandalf’s words describing what the One Ring was created to do.
Description: And in the Darkness Bind Them is a black jelly with orange to red shimmer and gold/green reflective glitter.
I used 3 thin coats, glitter smoother and a glossy top coat for these photos.
Price: $13.50 | Cap: 100
Lemming Lacquer | I Am No Man
Inspiration: Inspired by the amazing scene where Éowyn takes off her male disguise, says “I Am No Man” and slays Witch-king of Angmar, the Lord of the Nazgûl, after he declares that no man can kill him.
Description: I Am No Man is a grassy green to emerald green multichrome with silver to purple magnetic pull.
I used 3 thin coats and a glossy top coat for these photos.
I used a velvet magnet for index and pinky and catseye magnet for middle and ring.
Price: $13.50 | Cap: 100
Lemming Lacquer | Looks Like Meat Is Back on the Menu, Boys!
Inspiration: Inspired by the harrowing scene where Merry and Pippin try to escape the orcs, are temporarily stopped by a murderous orc until they are saved by an Uruk-hai who says this well known quote.
Description: Looks Like Meat Is Back on the Menu, Boys! is a blackened blue jelly base with gold holographic microsparks and holographic microflakes.
I used 3 thin coats, glitter smoother and a glossy top coat for these photos.
Price: $13.50 | Cap: 100
Lemming Lacquer | PO-TA-TOES
Inspiration: Inspired by Samwise Gamgee’s insistence that with potatoes you should boil ’em, mash ’em, stick ’em in a stew!
Description: PO-TA-TOES is a light cream/tan with gold aurora shimmer and holographic microflakes.
I used 3 thin coats and a glossy top coat for these photos.
Price: $13.50 | Cap: 100
LynBDesigns | Talk Elvish to Me
Inspiration: The Elvish Language
Description: Talk Elvish to Me is a pastel teal jelly base loaded with gold to green to blue shifting shimmer.
I used 3 thin coats and a glossy top coat for these photos.
Price: $13.50 | Cap: None
Paradox Polish | Isildur’s Bane
Inspiration: LOTR
Description: Isildur’s Bane is a gold to peach multichrome linear holo with a neon orange jelly base.
I used 3 thin coats and a glossy top coat for these photos.
Price: $13.00 | Cap: None
Paradox Polish | The One
Inspiration: LOTR
Description: The One can be a topper or a stand alone polish, and I actually preferred it by itself! The One is a mix of pale gold glitters and gold metallic flakes. The flakes shift to a silvery gold and lime green and a little aqua.
I used 3 thin coats and a glossy top coat for these photos. Final photo shows 1 coat over a black creme.
Price: $10.00 | Cap: None
Tyler’s Trinkets | Witch-king of Angmar
Inspiration: Inspired by a fan art photo of the Witch-king of Angmar holding a firey broadsword in front of a dark teal background.
Description: Witch-king of Angmar is a dark teal jelly base with red to copper to gold to green metallic chameleon flakes, as well as red to orange to gold iridescent microfleck shimmer.
I used 3 thin coats and a glossy top coat for these photos.
Price: $12.50 | Cap: 100
Wicked Lacquer | Hobbit Hole
Inspiration: The greenery in the movie
Description: Hobbit Hole is a grass green jelly base loaded with green to gold chameleon shimmers and tiny gold flecks and a small amount of reflective glitters.
I used 3 thin coats and a glossy top coat for these photos.
Price: $13.50 | Cap: 50
Wicked Lacquer | Tauriel
Inspiration: Tauriel
Description: Tauriel is a brown jelly base with magenta to bronze magnetic pigment, as well as a sprinkling of silver reflective glitters.
I used 3 thin coats and a glossy top coat for these photos.
I used a velvet magnet for index and pinky, and a catseye magnet for middle and ring nails. This is a very subtle magnetic.
Price: $13.50 | Cap: 50
Wicked Lacquer | The Shire
Inspiration: LOTR
Description: The Shire is a medium blushish mauve crelly base with blue shimmer and micro flecks that flash blue, pink and violet
I used 3 thin coats and a glossy top coat for these photos.
Price: $13.50 | Cap: 50
Witchcult Nail Lacquer | You Shall Not Pass!
Inspiration: Inspired by Gandalf’s fight with the Balrog
Description: You Shall Not Pass! is a dark chocolate brown (cold) to burnt orange (warm) jelly based thermal with red to orange aurora shimmer, as well as red to bronze to copper flakes.
I used 3 thin coats and a glossy top coat for these photos.
Price: $13.00 | Cap: 100
Zombie Claw | Hearth Light of the Shire
Inspiration: Inspired by Hearth light of the Shire
Description: Hearth Light of the Shire is a clear base loaded with orangey copper glitters and holo orange glitters.
I used 3 thin coats, glitter smoother and a glossy top coat for these photos. The final photo shows 1 coat over a black creme.
Price: $13.75 | Cap: 50
Little Box of Horrors August 2025 | The Lord of the Rings
Another great month, and you can really tell that the makers enjoyed this particular theme!
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