Just Because It's Pretty- Polish Bottle Edition

For the last couple months I've been scouring the internet for pretty nail polish bottles from cruelty-free companies. A harder feat than it sounds as some really fantastic bottles are made for companies that test. Which is frustrating because I want my pretties too. So, this post has come into being, lovely bottles with many colours all from bunny friendly companies. Let's get the show on the road!

(From You've Got Nail Blog)

These three as well as the lovely purple at the beginning of the post are all by the Asian company Etude House. Their bottles are classic and Victorian looking and I love how some have gold and some silver caps. Gorgeous! 

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Beauty News NYC

A Beautiful Secret

These three are from a sadly discontinued brand called Goldie that was sold through Bath and Body Works. Adorable little bottles with cute white bows and flowers as the caps.

KOH is a neat brand I've recently discovered that specializes in nail care. I love the sleek look and lovely packaging the bottles come in!

 

Sheswai is a great eco-friendly brand with an adorable logo and awesome bottles! I'd love to actually try the formula of these to see if they live up to the how great the rest is. Unfortunetly there are only seven colours avaliable, but all are big three free. The brush handles are all made from real wood harvested on sustainable family owned tree farms. They also donate a portion of their sales to multiple programs whose goals are to educate and sustain the planet. How great is that?

How awesome are these rose polishes?!?! They were from last year by Fantasy Makers (a brand by Wet n' Wild that only comes out for halloween). I want them, just to look at on my dresser.

How cute are these? These polishes are by Cheeky Monkey, and cheeky they are! Each bottle has the name of the polish all over it in different fonts and I love the slight naughtiness of them. So cute!

Image from Polish Police

Top Shop in the United Kingdom has got adorable polish. (They're make-up looks pretty neat too!) I think you'll agree. :D

That's it for now, eventually I'll do another (as they're an endless amount of awesome polish bottles out there). If you know of any polish bottles that are cruelty-free and think should be included leave me a comment or send me an e-mail. I'd love to hear from you!

Wet n' Wild Night Owl and First Franken!

Wet n' Wild Night Owl Coloricon polish came out recently as a limited edition part of the insomnia collection. I got it for $2.99 and honestly was disappointed in it. Although the colour is very halloween suitable- a dark almost black burgundy-plum, that sometimes looks like dried blood- it just didn't work well. To get it completely even it really needs three coats, it drags and it goes on unevenly, it also dries a strange half-matte finish as well (thank goodness for top coats). It chipped fairly quickly as well even with my top and base coat, it only lasted about three days (with Gelous base coat I usually get a minimum of four). So unless you love the colour, I don't recommend it it didn't live up to Black Fog's formula unfortunately.

See the weird ripples/bubbles/ridges? It just wouldn't smooth out!

Natural Light

However, I was in Zellars today and they had just put out the Wet n' Wild Fantasy Makers display out, a Halloween display made for wacky costume make-up and I found a little gem.

Fantasy Makers Display

Glitter Liners, Glitter Body Gel

More Glitter liners, Purple glitter, HOLOGRAPHIC GLITTER!

From my capitals I'm sure you can guess what the little gem was for $4.99. A vial of silver holographic glitter. Seriously this stuff has the whole rainbow spectrum when you move it!

So I made a Franken because I was so enthralled with this little beauty! For those of you who don't know a Franken stands for a nail polish colour of effect you've made yourself- it stands for Frankenpolish. I took Night Owl and made it into my new polish which I've names Owl Eyes.

 Gorgeous right? I am loving it! I decided to name it Owl Eyes because the original was Night Owl and the sparkles kind of look like eyes in the dark. Silly, and overly dramatic but that's just the type of person I am :D. I only did one nail as I'm about to do my nails in Sephora Sample Sale (an awesome Candy Apple red) for Thanksgiving this weekend, but I'm really pleased with the colour now, so I can put up with the not so great formula.

The holo captured!

What do you think? Any polishes you want to spice up? Have you Frankened before?