Happy Saturday! It’s been busy busy – but I have my post ready before wishlisting… so I consider that a win. I have my post for Polish Pickup for May 2022 ready – and the theme is National Parks and Landmarks!
I honestly wasn’t sure what to expect with this theme. I did expect more earthy tones and greens… but we actually have a pretty nice mix going. I will say one of my favorite things were some of the scented products – I pretty much fell in love with everything I sniffed this month.
We have done a similar theme before – back in February of 2021…World Traveling and Landmarks. Looking at that collage – it was very blue and green and of course purple.
For the fine details – for all photos shown – I used Vapid Lacquer Commitment Issues Peel Off Base, and for the glossy photos I did use a combination of the top coats including Vibrant Vinyls which was sent as PR this month, and Night Owl Lacquer’s Patience Not Required, as well as Anchor & Heart Sea Glass and Night Owl Lacquer Gone Matte. I purchased the Vapid Lacquer Commitment Issues and the top coats were sent as pr or as gifts.
I do use artificial lighting for my photos. I work during the day and weekend afternoons I’m with Nick and Jacob, so I do most swatching when the sun is setting or gone. My current setup uses GlamCor Pro LIghts and I use the Ultra X Model and this Daylight Company Duo Daylight Lamp (affiliate link).
For reflective polish photos – I only used my camera flash. It was taken in low light with a my camera (Nikon Coolpix L830)
For all magentic photos, I used the magnet that The Crafty Taco offered in last month’s shop. You can snag it in their shop now though if you missed out.
For Glow In The Dark polishes I used this UV flashlight to “charge” my nails for photos (affiliate link)
Wish-listing opens tomorrow (Sunday… in case I post this after midnight) so let’s get this going.
Alchemy Lacquers | Liberty (Reflective Glitter)
Inspiration: Inspired by The Liberty Bell located in Independence National Park
Description: Liberty is a clear base with black flakes as well as gold to green to blue shifting shimmer and micro flakes and gold reflective glitter. I used 3 thin coats and a glossy top coat for these photos. I used 3 thin coats and 2 coats of top coat for these photos.
Price: $12.50 | Cap: 200
All Mixed Up Lacquers | Weeki Wachee What? (Tri-Thermal)
Inspiration: Inspired by Weeki Wachee Springs State Park in Florida where they have “live” mermaids
Description: Weeki Wachee What? is a tri-thermal that shifts from a warm dark purple (cold) to medium sky blue (warm)to icy pale blue (hot) with pink to gold to green shifting shimmer and scattered holo glitters. I used 3 thin coats and a glossy top coat for these photos.
My pinky shows all 3 colors best. It was rather chilly while swatching this shades.
Price: $12.00 | Cap: 200
Anchor & Heart Lacquer | Cadillac Mountain Sunrise
Inspiration: Cadillac Mountain
Description: Cadillac Mountain Sunrise is a medium blue crelly base loaded with violet pink to gold shifting shimmer, as well as pink to gold to green to blue shifting iridescent flakes. I used 3 thin coats and a glossy top coat for these photos.
Price: $TBA | Cap: TBA
Atomic Polish | Going Up North (Reflective Glitter)
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Inspiration: Inspired by the beautiful sunsets of the Minnesotan Boundary Waters in Superior National Forest
Description: Going Up North is a purple jelly base filled with red to gold shifting pigment, as well as purple reflective glitter. I used 3 thin coats and a glossy top coat for these photos.
Price: $13.50 | Cap: None
AURORA 5-Free Nail Lacquer | Ahh, So Reefreshing
Inspiration: Inspired by Great Barrier Reef
Description: Ahh, So Reefreshing is a clear based metallic turquoise flake polish with purple, pink, and orange glitter flakes. I used 3 thin coats and 2 coats of top coat for these photos.
Price: $12.00 | Cap: 200
Baroness X | Acetone Antidote in Island Water Scent
Inspiration: Inspired by Virgin Islands National Park
Description: Acetone Antidote is an additive for your acetone to protect your skin from the harshness of acetone. It contains glycerin and jojoba oil to help protect and moisturize your nails, skin, and cuticles during polish removal. Plus, no more ashy, dry skin! Simply shake up the vial and pour into your polish remover. I generally pour a full vial into a 10 oz pump bottle, but I recommend shaking it and pouring half in and adding more if you feel you need more.
This month’s Acetone Antidote is scented in Island Water. This scent is a dupe of Creed’s Virgin Island Water – Top notes are Coconut, Lime, White Bergamot and Sicilian Mandarin; middle notes are Ginger, Ylang-Ylang, Indian Jasmine and Hibiscus; base notes are White Rum, Sugar Cane and Musk.
This is a nice tropical like scent with creamy coconut and lime, and the floral notes give it a nice slightly sweet, slightly musky kick.
Price: $8.00 | Cap: None
Baroness X | Cloud Forest (Reflective Glitter)
Inspiration: This polish is inspired by the cloud forests in Costa Rica where rainbows are everywhere you turn. The reflective glitter represents the sun glimmering on the wet forest leaves.
Description: Cloud Forest has a grass green jelly base with a rainbow assortment of neon iridescent shifting flakes, holo shard glitter, holo pigment and green reflective glitter. I used 3 thin coats and a glossy top coat for these photos.
Price: $12.00 | Cap: None
Bee’s Knees Lacquer | Ride Together, Die Together (Reflective Glitter)
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Inspiration: Inspired by Pimon and Tumbaa from the Wildlife Exploitation Preserve in Borderlands
Description: Ride Together, Die Together is a black jelly based purple to red to gold multichrome with gold light reflective glitter. I used 3 thin coats and a glossy top coat for these photos.
Price: $13.50 | Cap: 400
Bluebird Lacquer | Rock of Sages
Inspiration: Inspired by one of my favorite places on Earth; Mesa Verde. This magical site is located in the southern four corners area of Colorado. “For over 700 years, the Ancestral Pueblo people built thriving communities on the mesas and in the cliffs of Mesa Verde. Today, the park protects the rich cultural heritage of 26 tribes and offers visitors a spectacular window into the past. This World Heritage Site and International Dark Sky Park is home to over a thousand species, including several that live nowhere else on earth.” – National Park Services
Description: Rock of Sages is a bright green shattered holographic with a very subtle emerald green to blue shift. I used 3 thin coats and a glossy top coat for these photos.
Price: $12.50 | Cap: None
By Dany Vianna | Ibis Escarlate
Inspiration: Inspired by Ibis Escarlate bird. A couple years back, when visiting family in Belém (a city in the north of Brazil), we went to visit this Park called Mangal das Garças. It has a great restaurant, but afterwards I was rendered speechless by the pure beauty of the Eudocimus ruber (also known as Ibis Escarlate or Red Guará). His tone was so bright under the sun that the Flamingos were overshadowed by the pure magnificence of the gorgeous color and I was in love.
Description: Ibis Escarlate is a neon red-orange crelly base loaded with gold to pink aurora shimmer. I used 3 thin coats and a glossy top coat for these photos. It leans a little more red in person.
Price: $13.00 | Cap: 400
Cadillacquer | Aletsch Glacier (Reflective Glitter)
Inspiration: Inspired by the Aletsch glacier is the largest glacier in the Alps and a true landmark of Switzerland.
Description: Aletsch Glacier is a dark grey with purple undertones, magenta to red to orange to gold shifting shimmer and silver reflective glitter. I used 3 thin coats and a glossy top coat for these photos.
Price: $13.50 | Cap: None
Cameo Colours Lacquers | Gorgeous Grinnell Lake
Inspiration: Inspired by Grinnell Lake, in Glacier National Park.
Description: Gorgeous Grinnell Lake is a light grey crelly base with holo sparkle, indigo to purple shifting shimmer, lime to blue to gold ultrachrome chameleon flakes, turquoise green and blue metallic flakes, lime to gold iridescent micro glitter, and silver holo micro flakes. I used 3 thin coats and a glossy top coat for these photos.
Price: $11.50 | Cap: 105
Colores de Carol | Mosaicos (Magnetic)
Inspiration: Inspired by a photo of the Ben Gurion Park in Pachuca, Mexico.
Description: Mosaicos is a black jelly base loaded with pinkish red to gold to green multichrome magnetic pigment, holo micro flakes and ultrachrome chameleon flakes. I used 3 thin coats and a glossy top coat for these photos.
I left 2 nails unmagnetized so you can see it both ways.
Price: $13.50 | Cap: 300
Crystal Knockout | Fat Bear
Inspiration: Inspired by Katmai National Park’s annual Fat Bear contest
Description: Fat Bear is a bright coral-orange jelly base with crystal chameleon flakes in pink, green, gold, copper, and orange, and iridescent color-shifting glitters in multiple sizes. I used 3 thin coats and a glossy top coat for these photos.
If you have a strong VNL – it may show through on this polish.
Price: $11.00 | Cap: None
Cupcake Polish | Big Bend (Reflective Glitter)
Inspiration: Big Bend is famous for being a spot where you can see the Milky Way very well because of its isolated location.
Description: Big Bend is a navy blue jelly base with pink to gold to green multichrome shimmer, as well as silver reflective glitter. I used 3 thin coats and a glossy top coat for these photos.
Price: $13.00 | Cap: None
Dreamland Lacquer | Firefall (Reflective Glitter)
Inspiration: For a few weeks in February every year, the sun comes into alignment behind Horsetail Falls in Yosemite National Park. From the right vantage point, Horsetail Falls lights up like it’s on fire.
Description: Firefall is a black jelly base filled with black holographic glitter, gold reflective glitter, and a strong coppery orange to forest green shift. I used 3 thin coats and 2 coats of glossy top coat for a smooth finish.
Price: $12.50 | Cap: 300
DRK Nails | Pantanal (Magnetic)
Inspiration: Inspired by Pantanal Matogrossense National Park
Description: Pantanal is a deep blue jelly base loaded with blue and turquoise flakes, copper micro flakes, as well as large particle green shimmering magnetic pigment. I used 3 thin coats and a glossy top coat for these photos.
I only magnetized 2 nails so you can see it both ways.
Price: $13.00 | Cap: None
DRK Nails | Wonder Oil
Inspiration:
Description: Wonder Oil is a cuticle oil in a small, easy to carry squeeze dropper applicator. It smells like lemon and a hint of lavender (but the lemon is the stronger of the 2 to my nose)
This is a good cuticle oil and I quite like the applicator. It feels a touch thicker than some other cuticle oils I have, but it works well – especially after using straight acetone.
A little goes a long way, and initially I was going to pick up a backup – but I think this tube will take awhile to use up.
Price: $8.00 | Cap: 200
Ethereal Lacquer | Canyon
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Inspiration: Inspired by one of the worlds most beautiful places, Lower Antelope Canyon, a place that looks out of this world.
Description: Canyon is a medium beige linear holographic with holo micro flakes and pink to orange shifting shimmer. I used 3 thin coats and a glossy top coat for thee photos.
On the Navajo Nation many families do not have running water, they have to ration their water carefully and drive for miles to refill barrels. So for Canyon, 20% of sales will be going towards the Navajo Water Project. A not for profit charity that is helping to provide tapped water to families on the Navajo Nation.
Price: $13.00 | Cap: None
Fair Maiden Polish | La Dam de Fer
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Inspiration: The Eiffel Tower at night, La Dam de Fer means “Iron Lady,” which is the nickname the French have given to their national treasure.
Description: La Dam de Fer is a blurple leaning blue crelly base packed with red to pink to gold aurora shimmer as well as silver reflective glitter. I used 3 thin coats and a glossy top coat for these photos.
In person the base is a bit more blurpley.
Price: $12.50 | Cap: None
Garden Path Lacquers | Take to the Sky
Inspiration: Inspired by a vibrant purple and orange sunset over the Grand Canyon
Description: Take To The Sky is a purple jelly base loaded with red to orange aurora shimmer, holo micro flakes, and red to purple shifting iridescent flakes. I used 3 thin coats and a glossy top coat for these photos.
Price: $13.00 | Cap: None
Glisten & Glow | Cuticle Remover
Inspiration: Inspired by the coastal waters which surround Acadia National Park in Maine.
Description: If you like Glisten & Glow’s cuticle remover in brush tipped pen form – then you’ll also want to snag this one. G&G Cuticle Remover is back in a larger bottle with a dropper applicator (1 oz bottle) and it’s in the scent Calm Seas this month!
Scent – Calm Seas – mild aroma of the salty sea with a clean fresh vibe. It’s a nice, clean and refreshing scent.
Directions: Apply generously to the cuticle area and let it sit for 60 seconds. Next, gently push back with your favorite tool. Finally, wash hands and cuticles thoroughly with soap and water.
Price: $13.00 | Cap: None
Glisten & Glow | Northern Lights at Acadia (Reflective Glitter)
Inspiration: Inspired by The Northern Lights are one of the most breathtaking sights in the night skies. They can be seen from various locations on Earth. As a child, I would visit Maine in the winter months. We would always make time for a visit to Acadia National Park. On those winter nights atop Cadillac Mountain the views of the Northern Lights were unforgettable.
Description: Northern Lights at Acadia is a reflective glitter bomb! This is a purple tinged grey jelly base packed with blue, purple, green and silver reflective glitters. I used 3 thin coats, Glitter Grabber and a coat of top coat for these photos.
Price: $13.00 | Cap: None
Healthy Fawns | Save The Turtles Makeup Bag
Inspiration: Inspired by Cape Hatteras National Seashore and their Sea Turtles that can be seen laying eggs from mid-May through August and their babies can hatch from July through September.
Description: Save The Turtles makeup bag is a 100% cotton bag. It features gorgeous sea turtles on the outside with color coordinated, ocean inspired, tie-dye cotton on the inside with an aurora electroplated zipper, and rainbow zipper tape.
The bottle of the bag expands out so it actually holds more than it looks like it would!
**We will be donating $1 per bag sold to the Karen Beasley Sea Turtle
Rescue and Rehabilitation Center (https://www.seaturtlehospital.org)
Price: $17.00 | Cap: 72
Hearts & Promises | Once Upon A Time
Inspiration: Inspired by Cinderella’s Castle
Description: Once Upon A Time is a medium orchid purple linear holographic with gold flakes, shimmer, as well as blue to purple ultrachrome chameleon flakes. I used 3 thin coats and a glossy top coat for these photos.
Price: $13.00 | Cap: 200
Heather’s Hues | Southern Lights (Magnetic & Reflective Glitter)
Inspiration: Inspired by Bruny Island which is apparently the place to be to see the aurora australis, aka the southern lights
Description: Southern Lights is a black jelly base with red to pink to copper to gold to green multichrome magnetic pigment, as well as red to orange to gold to green iridescent flakes and silver reflective glitter. I used 3 thin coats and a glossy top coat for these photos.
I only magnetized 2 nails so you can see it both ways.
Price: $13.00 | Cap: 250
Hit The Bottle | Stick With Me & Pigment Duo
Inspiration:
Description: “Stick with Me” is a sticky white stamping polish. Designed to stay tacky, allowing you to rub pigments into it and create beautiful effects. This kit comes with 0.5 gr of yellow candy aurora pigment which I’ve named “Samantha”. Samantha is an interesting pigment. It looks yellow in the container – but when applied over white – pink, purple, and some aqua shoes thought. When used over darker colors – you will see more gold to green to teal shades
To use this set you would paint your base color and then apply a matte top coat. Once done, use the sticky polish to stamp your selected design on. Wait 20-30 seconds, then gently apply pigment to stamping with applicator.
The pigment will not stick to the matte portion of nails which makes this a bit easier. Plus this way you can use the pigment without using the method that requires your stamper (which can make it permanently cloudy)
Once done, either use a water based top coat to protect the design, then the top coat of your choice. You can also skip the water based top coat and float your top coat of choice over.
For stamping design I used the Vintage Grunge plate from Hit The Bottle. I used Stick With Me and Pigment over a variety of bases. From index to pinky I used: Hit The Bottle Superkool, Fancy Gloss Ocean, Fancy Gloss Got Milk?, and KBShimmer Total Eclipse.
Price: $15.00 | Cap: 140
Hit the Bottle Polishes | Swept Away (Stamping Polish)
Inspiration: Inspired by the rock formation formerly known as “London Bridge” on the Great Ocean Rd, Victoria, Australia. In 1990 part of the structure fell into the sea leaving 2 tourists stranded on the end. They had to be rescued hours later by a police helicopter! The formation is now called “London Arch”
Description: Swept Away is a sandy beige stamping polish. I used Hit The Bottle Vintage Grunge stamping plate with this stamping polish.
I used a deep green holo base that is super old and has no labels on it – so I don’t know who or where I got it from.
Price: $8.50 | Cap: 300
Indie by Patty Lopes | Mumtaz Mahal (Reflective Glitter)
Inspiration: Inspired by Taj Mahal
Description: Mumtaz Mahal is a clear base loaded with blue, teal and black metallic flakes, multichrome flakes that shift purple to pink to gold, holo micro flakes and silver reflective glitter. I used 2 coats and a glossy top coat for these photos.
Price: $13.00 | Cap: 350
Jior Couture | La Citadelle- Cap Haitien, Haiti (Thermal & Glow In The Dark)
Inspiration: Our inspiration is the magnificent La Citadelle in Cap-Haitien, Haiti. La Citadelle was build by former enslaved people after fighting for their freedom. It is the largest fortress in the Americas. The main purpose of La Citadelle was to prevent possible attacks from the French troops. La Citadelle was built with an angular design which gives it a different form when viewed from different angles. When viewed from the sea, La Citadelle looks like a ship atop a mountain!
Description: La Citadelle- Cap Haitien, Haiti is a Caribbean green-blue (cold) to light green (warm) crelly base with iridescent gold, silver, green and red-copper microglitter, plus it glows green in the dark. I used 3 thin coats and a glossy top coat for these photos.
Price: $13.50 | Cap: None
KBShimmer | Hand & Body Scrub in Mixed Up Mango Scent
Inspiration: Inspired by the beach
Description: KBShimmer’s sugar scrubs are good for all over the body or as a hand scrub, the sugar particles are medium grit so they do a good job getting dry spots on your body situated.
Mixed Up Mango hand and body scrub is like a tropical retreat in a jar. Indulge in this lush scrub scented with ripe and slightly floral mango, tart yuzu and juicy lychee berries. A hint of watery cucumber accents the hints of sugary vanilla and coconut cream, for a refreshing scent-sation that will transition your mind and body to the tropics any time of the year.
You know those peach gummy rings? If they made a mango version – that was the first thing I thought this smelled like. It’s delicious smelling and makes me want gummies! It is very mango forward, but you do get hints of floral – but very lightly to my nose. Mango gummy rings is up front and first thing I thought of though.
Price: $10.00 | Cap: None
KBShimmer | Superior Sunset (Reflective Glitter)
Inspiration: Inspired by Lake Superior
Description: Superior Sunset is a fuchsia leaning magenta base with green to blue to aqua to indigo shifting shimmer and silver reflective glitters. I used 3 thin coats and 2 coats of glossy top coat for these photos.
Price: $11.50 | Cap: None
Leesha’s Lacquer | Dignity (Reflective Glitter)
Inspiration: Inspired by Dignity: of Earthe and Sky is a 50 foot tall statue off of Interstate 90 in Chamberlain South Dakota. She represents the “courage, perseverance and wisdom of the Lakota and Dakota culture in South Dakota”.
The quilt she has on her back is a star quilt, which represents honor and generosity in the Lakota and Dakota culture.
Description: Dignity is a grey jelly based linear and scattered holo with blue to purple ultrachrome chameleon flakes, rainbow iridescent flakes and silver reflective glitter. I used 3 thin coats and a glossy top coat for these photos.
Price: $13.00 | Cap: None
Lemming Lacquer | Garden Rhapsody (Reflective Glitter)
Inspiration: Inspired by Garden Rhapsody, a light and sound show at the Gardens by the Bay in Singapore.
Description: Garden Rhapsody is a grape jelly base with turquoise to blue to purple shimmer and silver reflective glitter mixed in. I used 3 thin coats and a glossy top coat for these photos.
Price: $13.00 | Cap: 200
Lucky 13 Lacquer | I Move the Stars for No One (Glow In The Dark)
Inspiration: Inspired by the castle at the center of the labyrinth from Labyrinth
Description: I Move The Stars for No One is a semi sheer lilac jelly base loaded with fuchsia to orange to gold to mint color shifting shimmer. This shade glows aqua blue in the dark.
Comes with a tiny UV flashlight to help charge up the glow quickly.
I did find this formula just a touch thick – but it wasn’t “gummy” thick. It was still easy to use, but you may need thinner if you prefer a thinner consistency
Price: $12.00 | Cap: 150
LŪMEN | Gate To The Stars
Inspiration: Inspired by Alabama Hills California
Description: Gate To The Stars is a deep navy jelly base loaded with red to gold to green multichrome pigment and silver holo flakes. I used 3 thin coats and a glossy top coat for these photos.
Price: $13.00 | Cap: 400
Luna Wax | Easter Island
Inspiration: Inspired by Moai heads in Easter Island
Description: Wax melts shaped like Moai heads of Easter Island. Scented in Pineapple, vanilla, papayas mangos and tangerines
These are easy to use wax melt shapes that you can throw one full one in whole or cut it in half. It smells like a delicious tropical drink! the pineapple and tangerine stands out to me the most.
Price: $6.25 | Cap: 75
LynBDesigns | Picture This
Inspiration: Inspired by Pictured Rocks National Lakeshore in Lake Superior. A stunning place that I’ve never visited despite being born a few miles from them.
Description: Picture This is a blue to purple to pink to orange to yellow multichrome with scattered holo mixed in. I used 3 thin coats and a glossy top coat for these photos.
Price: $13.00 | Cap: None
LynBDesigns | Walk in the Park Wax
Inspiration: Inspired by the perfect fall walk in a national forest. Leaves changing, a crisp spice in the air, and absolute perfection
Description: This is a home fragrance wax with top notes of vanilla bean, almond, caramel, fir needle, and orange. Middle notes of coriander, ginger, bay leaf, clove, cinnamon, birch, cedar wood. Bottom notes of leather, amber, tonka, smoky woods, cashmere musk.
To my nose… on dry sniff this smells like a watered down vicks vapor rub. I don’t know why – it just does. When melting, my nose picks up vanilla, fir needle and leather the most. Those notes seem to stand out more and this is an oddly comforting wax melt. It reminds me of my grandfather’s place after my grandma passed on and her perfume was just… no longer lingering. I remember their home going from fairly feminine and bright to more of a giant study with leather bound books everywhere and drapes drawn. The only thing missing is a hint of cigar smoke.
Price: $5.00 | Cap: None
Moo Moo’s Signatures | Fantasy Castle
Inspiration: Inspiration is a mysterious landmark from fantasy world.
Description: Fantasy Castle is a murky, neutral yellowy beige jelly base with blue to purple ultrachrome chameleon base, diamond blue shimmer, holo flecks and crystal gold flakes. I used 3 thin coats and a glossy top coat for these photos.
Price: $13.50 | Cap: 100
My Indie Polish | Just Peachy
Inspiration: Inspired by the peach trees in Portugal
Description: Just Peachy is a yellow leaning peach crelly base with pink, mint, blue, gold and lavender small and micro glitters mixed in. I used 3 thin coats and a glossy top coat for these photos.
Price: $13.00 | Cap: 100
Native War Paints | Mighty Mac
Inspiration: Inspired by the Mackinac Bridge
Description: Mighty Mac is a pale dusty lavender crelly base with teal to blue to purple shifting shimmer and subtle scattered holo. I used 3 thin coats and a glossy top coat for these photos.
Price: $12.75 | Cap: 150
Night Owl Lacquer | Delicate Arch
Inspiration: Inspired by Arches National Park in Utah
Description: Delicate Arch is a pale peachy-ish rose gold linear holo with rose gold to gold shifting shimmer. I used 3 thin coats and a glossy top coat for these photos.
Price: $13.00 | Cap: None
Night Owl Lacquer | Gone Matte
Inspiration:
Description: Gone Matte is a quick drying matte top coat and I used it for about 70% of the matte photos within this post. It’s a nice, super matte look with an almost “chalkboard” matte finish.
I used it over Aurora 5 Free Nails Ahh, So Reefreshing for these photos.
Price: $7.00 | Cap: 200
Noodles Nail Polish | Trevi Wishes
Inspiration: Inspired by The Trevi Fountain in Italy and silver and copper coins tossed in when making a wish.
Description: Trevi Wishes is a warm, pale, dusty taupe crelly base with matte and metallic aqua, metallic silver, and metallic copper glitters. I used 2 coats and a glossy top coat for these photos.
Price: $11.50 | Cap: None
Pahlish | Haleakala (Reflective Glitter)
Inspiration: Haleakala
Description: Haleakala is a grey base packed with electric blue shimmer, silver holo flakes and silver reflective glitter. I used 3 thin coats and a glossy top coat for these photos.
Price: $14.00 | Cap: None
Paint It Pretty Polish | Own The Sky
Inspiration: I went with a theme park type landmark of The Wheel in Orlando Florida
Description: Own The Sky is a light orchid purple jelly base packed with shimmer that shifts from pink to copper to green. I used 3 thin coats and a glossy top coat for these photos.
Price: $13.00 | Cap: 160
Pampered Polishes | Museum Of The Future
Inspiration: Inspired by the beautiful, unique building of the Museum of the Future located in Dubai
Description: Museum Of The Future is a metallic silver base with scattered holo bits and irregular black flakes. I used 3 thin coats and a glossy top coat for these photos.
Price: $12.00 | Cap: None
Paradox Polish | From Sea to Shining Sea (Reflective Glitter)
Inspiration: Inspired by From Glacier Bay in Alaska, Redwood Forest National Park in Cali all the way to Cap Cod MA and Canaveral National Seashore in Florida. Paradox is representing all the National park oceans. There a little mermaid/merman that lives in us all.
Description: From Sea To Shining Sea is a white crelly glitter bomb with neon blue and green glitter, holo flake and reflective glitter. I used 3 thin coats and a glossy top coat for these photos.
This does dry with texture, so you will want to use a glitter filling topper or 2 coats of top coat. The base takes on a super pale minty look with the ingredients mixed in
Price: $13.00 | Cap: None
Penelope Luz | Wat Srisuphan (Reflective Glitter)
Inspiration: Inspired by Silver Temple in Thailand
Description: Wat Srisuphan is a clear base loaded with chrome silver mirror pigment and silver reflective glitters. I used 3 thin coats and a glossy top coat for these photos.
Price: $13.00 | Cap: 700
Poetry Cowgirl Nail Polish | On The Wild Colorado
Inspiration: Inspired by Horseshoe Bend
Description: On The Wild Colorado is a deep forest green jelly base loaded with red to orange to gold to green shifting shimmer and blue to purple to magenta micro ultrachrome chameleon flakes. I used 3 thin coats and a glossy top coat for these photos.
Price: $14.00 | Cap: None
Pretty Beautiful Unlimited | Green Tea Wax
Inspiration: Inspired by The Great Wall of China
Description: Green Tea is a refreshing blend of tea leaves, light floral notes and sweet fruity citrus finish.
This is a light floral with some citrus… more lemony but very light. Like when you get green tea with a hint of lemon? That light when it comes to the citrus. This is a pleasant scent that isn’t overpowering but still noticeable.
Price: $6.00 | Cap: None
Psyche Minerals | Pullman National Monument (Reflective Glitter)
Inspiration: Inspired by Pullman National Monument in Chicago, IL.
Description: Pullman National Monument is a medium brick red jelly base with silver reflective glitters. I used 3 thin coats and a glossy top coat for these photos.
Price: $12.00 | Cap: 150
Red Eyed Lacquer | DC Blooming
Inspiration: Inspired by DC Cherry Blossoms
Description: DC Blooming is a mauve pink jelly base with orange to gold and purple to pink glass flakes. I used 3 thin coats and a glossy top coat for these photos.
Price: $12.50 | Cap: 200
Red Eyed Lacquer | Sugar Blossoms Fizzy Salty Bath Milk
Inspiration: Inspired by DC Cherry Blossoms
Description: Sugar Blossoms is a blend of sugar, raspberries and cherry blossom. It’s a little sweet, a little floral and a little fruity and none of the scents overpower the other, so it’s just a nice, pleasant scent that I really want in more bath and body stuff now.
Fizzy Salty Bath Milk is a luxurious bath soak to help relax you. All you need to do is sprinkle in the desired amount and then lay back and relax. It can make your tub a little slippery – so be careful, especially if you don’t have those slip proof mats.
Price: $7.00 | Cap: 50
Red Panda Lacquer | Take a Right at the Big Chicken
Inspiration: Inspired by The Big Chicken in Marietta, GA. It is a KFC that’s in the shape of a giant animatronic chicken. A lot of locals use it as a reference point when giving directions. Therefore “take a right at the Big Chicken” is a minor Atlanta meme
Description: Take A Right At The Big Chicken is a bright orange leaning red jelly with gold scattered holo, orange to gold crystal chameleon flakes, and a subtle sprinkling of silver reflective glitter. I used 3 thin coats and a glossy top coat for these photos.
Price: $13.00 | Cap: 105
Rogue Lacquer | Purple Mountain Majesty
Inspiration: Inspired by the grand Tetons in Wyoming. While this park is still on my bucket list being in the mountains has always been my happy place.
Description: Purple Mountain Majesty is a turquoise based crelly with metallic purple flakes. I used 3 thin coats and a glossy top coat for these photos.
Price: $12.00 | Cap: None
Saki Cosmetics | Dryads
Inspiration: Inspired by Dryads
Description: Dryads is a forest green jelly base with peridot microflakes. I used 3 thin coats and a glossy top coat for these photos.
Price: $13.00 | Cap: 100
Saki Cosmetics | Galapagos Snap Bars
Inspiration: Inspired by Galapagos Islands
Description: Galapagos is a fresh blend of Peaches & Mint!
Saki Cosmetics brings us wax snap bars this month and the scent blend sounded odd to me… but it works. This smells like those gummy peach rings and mint to my nose and neither one overpowers the other. They play together quite nice.
Price: $5.00 | Cap: 150
Sassy Sauce Polish | Zion Sunset
Inspiration: Inspired by photo of a cave in Zion National Park Utah
Description: Zion Sunset is a rust orange creme base with strong rosey pink shimmer. I used 3 thin coats and a glossy top coat for these photos.
Price: $12.50 | Cap: None
Sweet Heart Polish | Save The Turtles
Inspiration: Inspired by Cape Hatteras National Seashore and their Sea Turtles that can be seen laying eggs from mid-May through August and their babies can hatch from July through September.
Description: Save The Turtles is pale lavender tinged blue shimmery base with a green flash and splash of linear holo. I used 3 thin coats and a glossy top coat for these photos.
Sweet Heart Polish will be donating $1 per bottle sold to the Karen Beasley Sea Turtle
Rescue and Rehabilitation Center (https://www.seaturtlehospital.org)
Price: $10.50 | Cap: None
Unicorn Magic Skincare | Deluxe Vegan Cuticle Balm
Inspiration: Inspired by Serrania de Chiribiquete National Park in the Colombian Amazon (the world’s
largest national park protecting a tropical rainforest.)
Description: Deluxe Vegan Cuticle Balm is a creamy and nourishing balm made with unrefined organic shea butter, skin loving oils and kosher non GMO soy wax. This is an intensive cuticle treatment and one I’ve been using for months in various scents. It’s incredible.
May’s scent is Rainforest Sugarcane, and it’s a mix of fresh lime, raw sugarcane, dewy citrus with lush greens. A fresh and uplifting scent. The fresh lime is the top scent my nose picks up and the raw sugarcane helps mellow the scent a touch and give it a sweeter, less tart vibe.
Price: $7.00 | Cap: 200
Vapid Wax | Hatteras
Inspiration: Inspired by Cape Hatteras
Description: Hatteras is a scent blend of salty sea spray, earthy musk, driftwood with hints of seaweed and greenery, lightly covered in morning dew.
This is a very clean, ocean scent. Almost like salty sea air meets laundry room – which is kind of weird, but not. It’s soothing and a good “company is coming over” type wax melt.
Price: $6.00 | Cap: 115
Vibrant Vinyls | Double Bond Sticky Ridge Filling Base Coat
Inspiration: Inspired by Parks & Recreation
Description: Double Bond is a ridge filling base coat and sticky base coat in 1. Best of both worlds. I also sometimes like wearing it alone cause it gives a healthy, sheer, milky look to the nails.
Treat yo’ self to an island cocktail that blends juicy orange, sweet coconut, tangy pineapple, lemon, acai berry, maraschino cherry and a hint of vanilla rum.
To my nose this is a nice tropical scent and the orange and coconut are the front runners for strongest scent. All of the scents play really nicely off each other and it’s a nice, bright, fruity scent for sure.
Price: $8.00 | Cap: None
Vibrant Vinyls | Fast & Hard Scented Quick Dry Top Coat
Inspiration: Inspired by Parks & Recreation
Description: Fast & Hard is a super glossy quick dry top coat that can be applied over wet polish without issue. It also works over stamping, just make sure you float the top coat!
Treat yo’ self to an island cocktail that blends juicy orange, sweet coconut, tangy pineapple, lemon, acai berry, maraschino cherry and a hint of vanilla rum.
To my nose this is a nice tropical scent and the orange and coconut are the front runners for strongest scent. All of the scents play really nicely off each other and it’s a nice, bright, fruity scent for sure.
Price: $8.00 | Cap: None
What Addiction? | Petrified Blue Mesa
Inspiration: Inspired by Petrified Forest National Park
Description: Petrified Blue Mesa is a warm purple tinted jelly base filled with a variety of crystal flakes, holo micro glitters and blue shimmer. I used 3 thin coats and a glossy top coat for these photos.
Price: $13.00 | Cap: 150
Polish Pickup May 2022 | National Parks & Landmarks
And there we have it! Another month in the bag. I do like the mix of color – especially all the bright orangey reds. I will say that the Sassy Sauce Polish is probably my top pick this month (and I rarely do this) mainly because it’s unique to my collection, and it’s really pretty on. I actually love it as a pedicure color.
Wishlisting starts later today (it’s 4:10am EST right now) so be ready
Where To Buy: Polish Pickup Shop
Shop Dates: May 6th at 11am EST through May 9th at 11:59pm EST
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