BruisedUpDollie Nails: March 2017

Cupcake Polish Candy Land Collection

Hello friends! Today we're taking it back... way back to when all we had to worry about was making sure we watched enough Saturday morning cartoons and got to play Candy Land until all the pieces went missing! Just me? Anyway Cupcake polish is releasing this gorgeous micro glitter collection inspired by Candy Land! If you had a favorite character, they might be the name sake for one of these... Let's take a look!

Mr. Mint

Bright pink full coverage holo micro glitter polish.

Lord Licorice

Strawberry red full coverage holo micro glitter polish.

Princess Lolly

Bright yellow full coverage holo micro glitter polish.

Plumpy

Grass green full coverage holo micro glitter polish.

Queen Frostine

Denim blue full coverage holo micro glitter polish.

Jolly

Bright purple full coverage holo micro glitter polish.

These polishes are opaque in 2-3 coats. I did 2 decent coats for the swatches above. The polishes are jam packed with holo glitter goodness, but they apply really easily. I only need one good coat of top coat to have a glossy finish. And the tinted bases are so smooth, no patchiness here! I'm a micro glitter lover and these are phenomenal!

This collection launches on April 2nd at 2pm CST.

Polishes will be $13 each and available at www.cupcakepolish.com

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*Sent for swatching/review. All opinions are honest and 100% my own based on my experiences. Descriptions courtesy of Cupcake Polish.

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Seasonal Indie Box Spring 2017

Hi friends! I have another collab review for you today. This is a new to me box and I'm thrilled I was asked to swatch it for this season. The seasonal indie box is a collab between 3 main makers Turtle Tootsie Polish, Colores de Carol , Anchor & Heart plus an awesome guest maker! The guest maker for spring is Heather's Hues! The seasonal indie releases a box 4 times a year, once a season and spring is looking pretty nice! Let's jump on in!

Turtle Tootsie Polish Carnation

A bubble gum pink scattered holo polish that flashes purple with pink micro flakies and rainbow flakies.

Colores de Carol Jade Vine

A sparkly turquoise linear holographic with gold and holo flakes and fine neon green glitter.

Heather's Hues Hydrangea

A lavender pastel with periwinkle shimmer and a touch of purple and indigo microflakes.

Anchor & Heart Sunshine & Pansies

A mellow gold toned yellow crelly packed with subtle green shimmer, gold and silver micro shreds, and larger glitter in violet, magenta, gold and silver.

I think this is a beautiful spring box and I can't wait to see what future boxes will be like! My swatches for these are 2 decent coats plus top coat for all! I am especially loving my first Anchor & Heart, I will be needing more in my life. Don't forget to mark your calendars, you wouldn't want to miss out on this one!

The preorder for the Spring 2017 box starts on April 2nd, 12pm EST through April 9th at noon or until supplies last on

www.turtletootsiepolishes.com

This box will be $35 + shipping.

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I hope you enjoyed today's post! Until next time!

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Baroness X Golden Age Of Tango...Neon Collection!

Hi Dolls! Are you ready for warmer weather and brighter polish?! If you answered yes, then this one's especially for you! Baroness X is launching this collection full of neon with a touch of shimmer goodness. This means these apply like a dream, they don't require undies (a white base of polish) and they're opaque in 2-3 thin coats!

The story behind these is rather cute, I'll be quoting Demi so I hope she doesn't mind! "This collection is a tribute to my fiance's father, who we lost last year. Besides being one of the world's leaders in radio engineering, he was in a tango band that toured Cuba in the 1930s. The polishes carry the names of his favorite singers & musicians in the genre."

I also tie a lot of nail related things in my life to losses that I've had, this makes these even more special.

*disclaimer* I've always had a hard time catching neons true to color. These are slightly off, in real life they're neon like bright as fuck. Heh.... onto the polish!

Piazzolla

A pink neon with purple shimmer.

Cupo

A red neon with copper shimmer.

Gardel

An orange neon with pink shimmer.

Simone

A purple neon with aqua shimmer.

Lamarque

A magenta neon with indigo shimmer.

This collection is fantastic. I wanted to try a marble with them so of course I needed to test them. This is how that looked. The reach of my first ring could have used some help but other than that I didn't have any issues!

For marbling I use a 3oz, 5oz or a double shot glass since my nails aren't the longest and anything bigger just wastes too much polish in my opinion. Even though my practice run was a petal marble I went for a striped marble manicure and this is how it turned out.

Under the marble is 1 coat of a white polish. Some of the neons bled into each other so next time I'll switch the order of my colors a bit. I still really love it though! This is my first neon watermarble so I'll probably never forget it.

I also used the Baroness X matte cuticle balm for all of these photos and I LOVE it! The balm soaked into my skin and left very little glare. It's not greasy at all, a quick swipe into the balm with a clean up brush and run it around the cuticles... done! Highly recommend trying it out! P.S. BX also sells brushes are they're soooo cute!

Oooooh and one last thing... the acetone additive could easily be addicting. I got to try caramel pecan and it smells delicious. I love nutty bakery scents.

After shaking the vial I dumped it Into my empty 8oz reusable acetone bottle and added my acetone, gave the bottle a quick swirl to mix it all in and that was that. By the time I'm writing this up my bottle is about 1/3 the way finished. And I'm really loving how moisturized this is keeping my cuticles. I've been doing a lot of swatching lately and haven't had a single stressed out cuticle, lol. I will definitely be ordering more and more, it's gonna be a staple.

Release for the Golden Age Of Tango collection is March 31st 3pm PST.

There will be 20 sets of each full size and mini and after that full size will go on pre-order. (There will only be 20 mini sets, they are not available for pre-order.)

Sets retail for:

$48 for the full size set

$30 for a mini set (8ml)

Cost for singles: $10

Here's all the things you need to know so you can keep an eye on Baroness X!
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*sent for swatching/review. All opinions are honest and 100% my own based on my experiences.

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Never Ending Story by Dollish Polish

Hello friends! The lovely Dollish Polish is releasing a Neverending Story inspired collection and I can't wait to share these beauties with you today! This is a collection of translucent glass fleck polishes in pastel shades that can be worn on their own or over colors for a different look. This might get a little photo heavy because I tried them on their own and as toppers... and I'm sharing it all here!

Since these are toppers they become opaque in 2-4 coats. For my swatches I've used 3 thin coats of color and a glossy top coat and using them as toppers I've applied them in 1 coat over a black creme plus top coat.

The Boy Warrior

A green tinted base with intense green glass fleck shimmer, and silver holo micro shreds.

The Childlike Empress

A bright gold intense glass fleck shimmer with holo micro shreds.

The Southern Oracle

A sky blue intense glass fleck shimmer with silver holo micro shreds.

The Nothing

An iridescent lilac with intense glass fleck shimmer loaded with silver holo micro shreds.

The Luck Dragon

A soft carnation pink with intense glass fleck shimmer loaded with silver holo micro shreds.

Fantasia

A fire opal topper with color shifting glass fleck shimmer, iridescent micro shreds, silver holo micro shreds, chameleon micro glitters and just a sprinkling of red, pink, turquoise, gold & blue teeny micro shreds.

As mentioned above each of these is topped with a coat of glossy top coat, what I didn't mention is that this top coat is also a Dollish Polish!

Invisibility Cloak is a 5 - Free quick dry top coat (polish does not contain the chemicals
Dibutyl Phthalate, Toluene, Formaldehyde, Formaldehyde Resin and Caphor. Just like all of DP polishes!). This is on the thinner side of top coats. A smaller bead works well for not flooding the nail, but since it's a top coat I don't really care if it floods or not. The finish is nice and shiny but of course it's not as plump since it's not as thick of a formula. The dry time to touch is less than a minute and fully dry in 5-7 minutes or so depending on the thickness of your coats of polish. Overall this is a great top coat! I'll be testing it over some stamping soon. That will probably be posted to my Instagram so I hope you stay tuned there for that!

The Neverending Story collection launches on Friday March 31st!

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