Happy 2020!!!!! First post of the year to wrap up last year, lol.
Oh my gosh, so much to share with you! I’m going to start with my most favorite polish of 2019, I don’t want to bury it at the end, lol. It’s Navni Beauty Kitty Style. A hot pink with a purple shimmer??? Yes, please!!! Also note the kitty cat hair on my pointer finger. You know they have to represent, lol.
This is in the sun, pardon the tipwear, I’d worn this for a couple days and just took the chance on a sunny day to capture this gorgeous shimmer!
Also, Navni was a new brand in 2019, and I have loved all the polishes I’ve tried from the brand!
JReine Skurrd is an amazing thermal. I LOVE this polish. It was from March 2019 Polish Pickup.
It’s a green to yellow thermal, love this so much, lol.
And the flakies just add an iridescence, making this that much more gorgeous.
A favorite for 2019 was the Jeffy’s Mom quad that Moonshine Mani did for the Nail Board on Makeup Alley. One of our amazing members, Su, passed away (her username was Jeffysmom). I reached out to Phoebe Moon of Moonshine Mani, and she did an amazing quad of custom polishes for us.
Top is Springtime Yard, Pastel Black, Miss You, Su, and the bottom is Jeffy & Tycho.
Night Owl Lacquer Beep Me! Also Polish Pickup polish from May 2018, that I finally wore!
I love orange polishes with a pink flash, and these pinky purple flakies are just beautiful!
Supernatural Lacquer’s Essence of Life is so gorgeous! It instantly went on my list when I tried it.
It’s such a beautiful shade- like a deep rose color with the bits of flakies.
JReine 2 Faced Twins is my only Unicorn Pee Polish. I just love this navy base with UP. It’s a bit sheer at the tips, even after 3 coats, but I just really loved how it glows.
So pretty and that UP pigment really shows up in this polish!
Poetry Cowgirl Frankly, My Dear is a beautiful polish! I got it from Polish Pickup in August 2017! But finally wore it. I honestly got it because Gone With the Wind is my all time favorite movie, I didn’t expect to love the polish as much as I do!
I wore this after my middle nail broke, I love dark polish on shorter nails!
786 Cosmetics was a new brand to me in 2019, I did a couple blogs for them. This is really a favorite stamping mani, I love how this turned out, but I do love the base polish, 786’s Granada.
It’s a gray with a touch of purple in it. So pretty. I used one of the Uberchic Love and Marriage plates for the stamping, and it really came out well!
I got a few Moo Moo Signature polishes in a destash (and she’s started participating in Polish Pickup!! So exciting!). This one, Romance Eternelle, is absolutely gorgeous.
A super pretty deep pink with a gorgeous shimmer. And I love their labels! The picture on the left is in the sunshine. Just love this polish!
Pretty Serious Messenger of the Titans was a polish I’d had for awhile (as are most of these, lol). Pretty Serious had some issues last year as a brand, but I got some excellent deals and do love their polishes! I’m not linking the store, as when I Googled it it says they’re working on it so IDK if they’re going to have a US site again.
But isn’t this a gorgeous polish! A purple with a hint of gray and a pinkish shimmer! So pretty!
A great formula, too. I’ve had a couple bad formulas from Pretty Serious (Free Sample has a horrible formula, at least my bottle! If I were the purging type, this would be gone. But I’m not. LOL)
Illyrian Tell Tale was another fave. I’m not sure what’s going on with Illyrian, suffice it to say buy at your own risk and who knows when you’ll actually receive your order. I’ve only been looking at their Polish Pickup or Hella Handmade Creations polishes, as I know I’ll get those, lol. But she does make some gorgeous polish.
This magenta with flakies is so pretty!
Great Lakes Lacquer Shatter that Glass- oh my gosh, this polish is amazing.
I love this color blue, and I love these flakies. The next pictures, the one on the left is sunlight, the right is in my light box.
It positively glowed in the sun. Definitely a favorite of 2019!
Turtle Tootsie’s Seasick Crocodile is such a pretty crelly! I’ve been super drawn to crellies, and this is a good one! She is rebranding, so I didn’t add her website. I’m excited to see what she comes up with!
I love the light aqua color and the glitter stood out and wasn’t overwhelmed by the base.
I also really liked the formula, it was super easy to work with. This is a great polish!
Lacquester is a brand I don’t have a lot of, as they’re out of the Netherlands and harder to get ahold of. This one, Is that Lipstick on Your Collar, I believe I got from Color4nails. I’ve also gotten them from Hella Handmade Creations. A beautiful hot pink, what more can I say? I have a type, lol.
Honestly, these reds with pink flashy shimmery goodness, I adore them.
Left is sun, right is lightbox. Look how the sunlight really brings out the pink!
Ummmm, a pink and purple polish based on Duran Duran? Have all my 80s dreams come true???? I am an 80s baby, and my room was pink and purple and PLASTERED with Duran Duran posters from Tiger Beat (and other bands too, Culture Club, Adam Ant, Wham, Kajagoogoo….sigh….). So when Baroness X did an homage to Duran Duran for March 2019 Polish Pickup (Album Covers theme), I grabbed this and made sure to wear it! LOL
It was an easy shift, too, I didn’t have to force it.
Sigh, I loved my pink and purple room (I had pink shag carpeting!!!)
Here’s the polish I wore on my summer vacation to the beach! Cupcake Polish Gamma! Eye searing hot pink with flakies!!!!
And it wore like iron! I wore this for like 5 days at the beach- salt, sand, water, pool, kids, it didn’t budge. And it’s gorgeous.
Polished for Days Aequorea is such a gorgeous gray flakie with a pink shift.
It looks pretty in the bottle, but it’s totally WOW on the nails.
I wore Kathleen & Co’s Cornucopia for Thanksgiving, it’s a gorgeous magnetic. It was the first Kathleen & Co. polish I’ve tried, and I think her polishes are amazing!
I love the orangy magnetized look in the burgundy base- and you can see the little shift of purple on the edges!
Definitely going to buy more Kathleen & Co polishes!!
Ethereal Mystical made the favorites list, it’s so pretty. A blue leaning purple holo flakie gorgeous polish.
This is such a great shade of purple, not too blue as to be a blurple, but look at the flakies and the dash of holo! So pretty!
Glam Polish Heart Shaped Box was one of their Valentine’s Day small batch polishes, so pretty! I love Glam Polishes, they are amazing.
A deep red toned pink with scattered holo, so pretty and great formula.
Tonic Polish Glowy Joe is a neon yellow with a smidge of green that is amazing!
With that shimmer! Such a cool polish!
Bee’s Knees Lacquer Las Plages is such a departure for Bee’s Knees! A soft light pink! With flakies! It’s so pretty and delicate.
I think this was a mystery? And I got it from a friend who doesn’t like pink polish? I can’t remember, but I’m so glad I have it!
Another crelly I really really loved is Different Dimension’s Room Where it Happens. This is a more neutral polish, but with the glitter crelly in rose gold, it’s so pretty!
And this was a 2 coater! I typically do 3 coats of a crelly to make the base opaque, but really only needed 2 to make it look great.
I love the rose gold and gold glitters.
Cirque Polish Killer Kitsch was a fave this year. I think I got this in a destash, it came out in Spring 2017 in their Kawaii collection. Just a right up my alley pink!
It’s so soft- it does look like Moo Moo Signature’s Romance Eternelle- here’s a comparison. Romance Eternelle is on the right- so again, I have a type. Killer Kitsch is maybe more on the coral side. I love them both, lol.
Pahlish Kawaii is such a pretty blue polish, I just love it! I love the purple flash to this with the scattered holo!
Supermoon Lacquer Out Here Lookin’ Like Revenge is definitely a favorite!
A deep pink with the holo, and practically a one coater! Amazing formula.
Such a beautiful polish! I wore this for several days (that doesn’t happen a lot, lol).
Nine Zero Lacquer’s Ectoplasm- this is such a fun polish. I am a big Nine Zero fan, and I like her crelly formula. I did 3 coats, and I love the glitter build up.
And I stamped ghosts on this, lol. Because ectoplasm comes from ghosts, as anyone who watched Ghostbusters knows.
Here’s the polish I wore for a long weekend in Charleston, SC. Chaos and Crocodiles Ambush. Another hot pink flakie!
I must have all the hot pink flakies!!! LOL.
Here it is compared to Cupcake Polish Gamma. Gamma is on the left, Ambush on the right.
The flakies in Ambush are bigger, and the pink may be slightly darker. Chaos and Crocodiles isn’t doing polish a lot anymore, so I look for them in destashes mostly.
I got a bunch of AEngland polishes from Color4nails for Black Friday, I put on New Romantic, and it went on the favorites list immediately.
Look how strong the holo is just in my lightbox!!!! And the pink shimmer!!!!
While I will always be bitter about their Sargent Collection, I am excited to try the other A Englands I got!
Illyrian Star Tonic was another pink with flakies, but it’s a different shade of pink, lol.
A little more coraly pink? I did 3 coats of this, really liked it and it’s unique in my collection.
Tonic Windy City was an older untried I finally tried in 2019.
I did a whole accent finger stamping thing, lol.
I love the little flakies in the polish. Great formula!
I don’t have a lot of Nvr Enuff polishes, but I’ve sure loved the ones I’ve tried. I slapped on Rock the Dot for a mani a few weeks ago- and I mean, slapped it on in a hurry- and it was amazing!
I love a red that leans pink, this is so pretty!
Another crelly that made the cut is Native War Paints Pink Drink! I don’t do Starbucks, but I sure love this polish!
I love the light pink base and the different sized pink glitters!
Polish M Deadly Intentions is such a gorgeous polish! It was part of her Halloween collection.
It is, of course, a color right up my alley, and it’s just got a lot of goodness going on in it!
I wore almost 300 polishes in 2019, so these are just the ones that really really stood out to me – the ones that made me go “ooooh” when I put them on. There’s a zillion gorgeous polishes out there, I hope you wore some amazing polish in 2019!!
Live your life with love in your heart and glitter on your nails!