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Hello everyone,

today I have a very different blog posting for you, there will not be any pretty nail polishes or swatches found in this post.

I hope some of you will find it interesting anyways. I will talk about something everyone who has tried frankening before has experienced. There is quite a hype going on recently about custom blended nail polishes and all these beautiful indie brands mixing glitters into nail polishes and creating the most amazing colour combinations. No wonder people start thinking:

Hey, I’ll just do this myself. I’ll buy these really cheap glitters from Asia on Ebay, throw them in some clear nail polish and tadaaa – make my own “Glittering Crowd” dupe.

In case you haven’t tried that yet, feel free to do so. Or trust me saying: This doesn’t work at all. Your creation might look beautiful at first, but usually after less than ten minutes it will turn into a mess. The cheap glitters bleed out, melt, and give their colour to the base. But this is not the only problem. Also, the glitter particles will all sink to the bottom and sometimes even sediment there into one chunky mess of cheap asian glitter. Hit the “more” button if you are ready for a looong posting about this issue!

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Hey beauties!

I’m so excited to show you this as I’ve never blogged about indie brands before but trust me, I will show you many more in the future!

The nail polish I want to show you today is called “Cyance Friction” from Nerd Lacquer. The girl behind this (Amanda) mixes her own nail polishes and comes up with these really great names that are kind of geeky, just like the brand name Nerd Lacquer would suggest. I love the idea and creativity behind this, and the colours and glitter combinations are really unique.

One of Amanda’s newest shades is Cyance Friction, which came out together with two other shades called “The Quantum Bluniverse” and “The Selfish Green” and the whole trio is called NerdCrush.

Here is what Amanda says about Cyance Friction (I can not describe it any better, so sorry for the copy paste )

CYANCE FRICTION is a super bright cyan/teal with copper shimmer, large and medium copper hexagonal glitter, medium turquoise square glitter, and a gorgeous pink-violet flash. Opaque in two coats, and unarguably fabulous. Cyance Friction exists because Michael Shermer is so freaking awesome.

Maybe I’ll add that the most colour accurate picture is the first one – most of the times it looks more green than teal and almost neon. Wow! I especially love the pink/violet/blueish shimmer that is really visible – combining green, violet and copper is what makes this so unique, along with the fact that you have a mixture of flecks, glitter in various sizes and an opaque base colour. Love it! On to the pictures which show 2 coats and no top coat – it dries pretty smooth for a chunky glitter nail polish!

Nerd Lacquer can be purchased from Amanda’s Etsy shop, from Harlow & Co and, since a few days, from Ninja Polish. Right now they are out of stock in all these shops, but if you want to know when they will be back, make sure to subscribe to the email notifications of these shops, that helps a lot! Good luck snatching some of these beauties

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Hey beauties!

As requested, I will continue showing you another one of the new colour³ nail polishes. This time the top coat is a very beautiful flakie nail polish – it looks amazing in the bottle and I must really say: Thank you Essence for producing a nail polish so uncommon for drugstore brands.

The base colour is a nice and deep blue colour with very fine shimmer. In the bottle it has a slight duochrome effect shimmering purple but this is not visible on the nails. This blue is almost a one coater! I only used one coat for the pictures.

The “top coat” as I said is a very beautiful and unique blue base with green microshimmer and green flakies. I used one coat on top of the base colour for the pictures. I noticed that the flakies didn’t “sink in” which I really like, the application of both colours was nice and easy. Even though, like I said before, you might need a little time to get used with the two-sided bottles and the heavy brush experience.

Now to the pictures! Sorry for the spam but as you might know, flakies look soo different in different lighting!

And now lets add the flakies!

Thanks for looking! Have a great weekend!
In case you missed the other colour³ nail polish swatches:
Essence “Boys are back in town” + “It’s just a little crush”