Indie Polish Brands That I know and Trust Part 1

Hi there everyone!!!!  Well...what a huge week it has been!!!! What with all the goings on in the nail polish community I thought rather than focus on the negatives I would focus on the positives!!  I'm not going to address any of the goings on. If you need to know please just google Mentality Nail polish and i'm sure after reading stuff for a few hours you will get the drift!

Anyways I would love to share with everyone my favourite indie brands.
I think some people may have lost a little confidence in indies over the past few weeks, but I'm here to say FEAR NOT!!!! there are a plethora of amazing indie brands out there with awesome customer service and a high quality product!!!!

So lets get started!!!!
My number one favourite indie brand would have to be.......CELESTIAL COSMETICS
I have been purchasing Celestials polishes since they started out a few years back. I love everyone I own...and I own over 150 of them so that says a lot I think!!! and not two of them are alike!!!
Nicki the owner has amazing customer service and all my orders are prompt and wrapped well. If there is an issues of any kind she is quick to respond and fix it. Her holographic polishes are to die for and I think thats why I love them so much!!!

callisto

kneel

on your left.

My next Favourite brand would have to be PRETTY SERIOUS COSMETICS I actually own every polish pretty serious have released so far a total of 103 (not including the new collection that just got released)
 From the moment that I saw them I was in love. I cant get enough of the perfect coverage every time and the amazing cremes they produce. I love Kaz and her quirky take of everything. she is a gal after my own heart! so every time she releases a collection i am excited to see what its been named!! My parcels are always delivered quickly and there is always a personal thanks hand written, I do love that purple tissue paper when I open that box of polish!!!!

the pink one

 eye of copernicus

invitation only

Next on the list of brands I love is LYNNDERELLA Its funny cause a little over 18 months ago I owned very few of this brand. I was not the fan I am today, but now I own over 100 Lynnderellas and I personally love the amazing coverage her glitters give. I always get fantastic service from Paul and Lynderella and whenever I ask a question they are always quick to reply. My parcels come well packed and quickly.
 Its not a brand you hear a lot about these days on the nail forums but as one of the founding boutique indie brands their product has not wavered.

mostly ghostly

torrid as her glance

eight maids minting

christmas in july

My next brand would have to be EMILY DE MOLLY I have over the years purchased a bunch of hayleys brand and now also I pretty much own all of her stamping plates too!!! Every time I get an order with Emily de Molly I find that the polish is excellent and rarely needs more than 2 coats. They are always packed well and sent quickly.
 The holographics are amazing and recently her duochrome flakie collection was just stunning!

insipid

on edge

folklore

Lastly for part one, I cannot go past FEMME FATALE COSMETICS 
This brand has been around for a few years now and Sophie is lovely. When every a collection is getting released there is ample reminders of its time and place and even when there is an issue with the website she is over apologetic about it. Over the years I have purchased over 150 of femme fatale polishes and they have always been amazing quality. She always has a great range to offer along with her cosmetic side of eyeshadows and blushes too.

coldwraith

underlight

noble garden

So there you have it!! 5 of the most trusted indies I purchase from I think in total for these five brands I would have over 700 polishes! I love every polish and I've never had an issue! I have pretty much worn everyone at least to swatch. And all of these brands have excellent customer service and use the highest quality ingredients. 

Keep an eye out as I will be posting more indies I trust over the next few posts!!!!

Make sure you support our indies and not all brands are tarred with the same brush and so many great and trusting brands are out there.

until next time........

An InLinkz Link-up

Alien Mani for halloween

Hi there Everyone! 

Its that time of the year....my favourite time of the year!!!! Halloween, and i'm sad to say I don't have Halloween nails on *slaps my own wrists* Yep I'm currently sporting unicorns, but today I'm going to share a manis I did last week for the Femme Fatale horror movie challenge. Now before you say...i've seen better nail art...I had to use only Femme Fatale cosmetic products so it was quite tricky!!! So I decided to recreate the movie poster of the movie....and my daughters fav movie.....Alien.

so with the poster in mine I used Femme Fatale Cosmetics Star's Lament, sparkleshell, abuse the ooze and noxious mire.

This is what I ended up with...oh and credit to Zoe's alien pop vinyl which I used as a mani prop

Then did not turn out too bad!!!!!!!

Until next time.........

Aussie Nails Monday- halloween

Hi there everyone! how are you?

Today is the Halloween themed week and so I decided to kill 2 birds this week and combine the Femme Fatalce Cosmetics and Aussie nails monday challenges into one!!

So As it was a halloween challenge what better way than to do jack o lanterns.

I used Essie meet me at sunset as my base then I used 2 coats of Femme Fatale Cosmetics Gossamer Dust. I love this polish It is a awesome thermal polish that changes from yellow when hot to orange when cold.Then I cut some jack o lantern faces in vinyl and adhered them to my nails

I love it! and the jack o lanterns change colour which is awesome too!

Until next time........

Some Femme Fatale Swatches

Hi there everyone!!!!!

Well last week was a total right off, so I'm sorry that I did not post anything on lokis lacquer.

If you have been following Lokis Lacquer on IG (@lokislacquer) you would have seen that last week was party here. We had my hubbys birthday and both my barnicles birthdays all in one week. It is chaos every year round this time!!! So I have not done much swatching at all.

I do have some Femme Fatale spam tho to share with you so I hope that wets your appetite for normalcy now the parties are over!!!!

So lets check them out!

Zoya Flynn with a Femme Fatale Sparkling sands gradient

Femme Fatale underlight (color4nails exclusive)

butterfly nail art with FF underlight

flowery nails with messy mansion plate20 and using Femme Fatale ruby hare,Mr Pinchy and Barnicle wrangler

Femme Fatale Coldwraith

Femme Fatale Cold wraith with OPI matte top coat

Femme Fatale edge of the cosmos with OPI matte top coat

Femme Fatale Noble Gardem

Femme Fatale  twilight meteorite 

Femme Fatale Twilight meteorite with OPI matte top coat

  

So there you have it !!! Some amazing pics of the beautiful polishes from Femme Fatale.

You can purchase Femme fatale polish from their WEBSITE. and they also have a number of international stockists as well!!!!!

Until next time.......

Femme Fatale cosmetics- Embercrush swatches

Hi there everyone! Today I have a Color4nails exclusive by Femme Fatale Cosmetics.

Embercrush is a beautiful plum coloured jelly filled with shimmer and little gold flakies. The colour it truly stunning and the formula is amazing as all the Femme Fatale polishes are.

I used 3 coats by itself for these swatches. and then I stamped with gold polish for the last pic.

sun

shade

You can still pick up embercrush at Color 4 nails and they do ship worldwide.

Until next time.......

Femme Fatale Cosmetics Barnicle Wrangler custom just for me!

Hello there everyone! Today I have a awesome polish what was custom made for mefor Halloween this year. My friend Rachael knew I wanted a custom polish and also as most people know i call my kiddos barnicles. so she got sophie from Femme Fatale Cosmetics to make my a custom of my favorite things....blue*check, holographic*check, and duochrome or anything that colour shifts *check!

And she named it barnicle wrangler!!! which lets face it...I am!!!

Even Osiris liked it!!!!

Until next time.....

Some Lynnderella Spam.....

Hi there everyone! today i have a few manis to share with you using the wonderful Lynnderella polishes.

Ill be honest, i never really got the whole Lynnderella hype when i first joined the wonderful world of polish, and i held out for over a year and said i was never paying "that much" for a bottle of polish. Well in the past 6 months, my arm has been twisted and after receiving my very first bottle of Lynnderella in a polish swap i have never really looked back. Sure you can get plenty of glitter indies out there, but i don't know what it is but with a Lynnderella polish it just seems to cover the nail better and generally be a better polish. As an indie maker myself id love to know her secret!!! and where she gets the wonderful array of glitters that you cannot seem to find anywhere else!!! So after only owning 3 bottles a little over a month ago i now own 30 bottles of Lynnderella polish!!

Addicted much.......?????

Anyways on with the spam.....

A unicorn walks into a bar over Orly Sweet Peacock

Cauldron Drippings over Zoya holly

thank blue and opal  intuition

seasons glitterings over a custom green holographic polish

Punkkin pie

very pretty vampire over Femme fatale barnicle wrangler (custom)

I love each and every one of my Lynnderellas now and i don't think i would every go back to any other glitter polish ....ever......

If you are looking to grab yourself some of these lovelies head on over to GLITTER CONNECT where you will be able to purchase all the core ranges of Lynnderella polishes. If you are after a Limited Edition Lynnderella check out LYNNDERELLA SHOP ON EBAY  where you can pick up an array of LE polishes.

Until next time.....