Lacquer or Leave Her!: My top 5 indie polishes!

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Hello!

A bunch of my fellow blogging buddies and I decided to do a link-up of our five favorite indie polishes. Some of us are doing are favorites from this year, some are doing our all-time favorites--so here are my five all-time favorite indie polishes, in alphabetical order.

Cult Nails: Coveted

I went back and forth about whether to include this polish or Iconic, because they're a tie for me; in the end I chose Coveted because I've featured Iconic before. And there's just so much I love about this beauty--the dark-grass shade of the green, the glowy sparkle, the squishy jelly, the flakie shards. It was one of the first indie polishes I absolutely...Coveted. Sadly, Cult Nails has closed their doors, but you may be able to find this baby in blog sales...:)

Cult Nails Coveted

Elevation Polish Gobi

Gobi is an ethereal beauty that defies description. It's a soft caramel jelly holo with a soft mint green flash. It looks like it glows from within, like it's radiating the light of angels. It's the most amazing neutral, sophisticated and understated, while still being special and eye-catching. It's breath-taking. This polish isn't currently available, but you can find tons of other amazing polish in the Elevation shop.

Elevation Polish Gobi

InDecisive Bloodstone

Ah, Bloodstone. Beautiful anytime, but possibly the most perfect Christmas polish ever made. Deep pine green sprinkled with red, gold and green glitters, with a subtle sprinkle of gold shimmer throughout. It has a vintage feel, like winter in an English manor house. If the ladies of Downton Abbey had worn nail polish, they'd have loved this. And, and: she's still making this one, and you can find it here.

InDecisive Polish Bloodstone

Lucky 13 Lacquer But I Want To Fight! & Fool Of A Took

Yes, okay, this is technically two polishes, but they were released as a twin set, so I'm counting them as one. These two polishes represent Merry and Pippin from the Lord Of the Rings books/movies, and I think they capture the spirit of the hobbits well, with a touch of whimsy in them both. But I Want To Fight! is a dusty grape jelly with green holo glitters; it's pretty with just a bit of twinkly sparkle. Fool Of A Took is a muted avocado with purple glitter that has made it into my Halloween nail art several times, and is fun even when it's not October. These are no longer available, but there are plenty of other beauties that are in the Lucky 13 shop.

Lucky13 Lacquer But I Want To Fight!

Lucky13 Lacquer Fool Of A Took

LynBDesigns Do I Look Like A Frolicker?

This polish is a tangerine jelly with pink-purple flakies; together they give the polish a coral summer-sunset-sky look that's like nothing I've seen elsewhere. It's summery and feminine and it feels like it has just the right amount of magic splashed in. Art in a bottle. You can find LynBDesigns here.

LynBDesigns Do I Look Like A Frolicker?

Mentality Tenderness

(Um, Michelle? I think this is more than five polishes, even with your little cheat about the twin polish set from Lucky13 Lacquer...) (Shhhhh...quiet...nobody needs to know that, keep it to yourself!)

*Ahem*. This polish. THIS polish. THIS. POLISH. Deep regal purple with an amazing scatter of holo throughout. Nothing more needs to be said. Just enjoy and try not to drool everywhere. You can find Mentality's shop here.

Mentality Tenderness

Sweet Heart Polish Hurry Ba-ack!

(Um, Michelle? I think you're pushing this pretend-this-is-only-five-polishes thing a little far...) (Hey! If Douglas Adams could put out a trilogy that had five books, I can do a post of my five favorite indie polishes that has eight polishes! Work with me here!!)

Hurry Ba-ack! was a limited edition polish in honor of the Haunted Mansion ride at Disneyland, and I think it is easily the funnest polish (most fun polish?) I've ever seen, hands down, indie or no. I love the combination of the bright glitters in the squishy jelly, with the healthy dose of shimmer added in. I love that it captures the vibe of the ride, at least for me. I never thought I'd call a black-based polish 'happy', but it is. It's happy and it's fun, and it makes me smile. I loved it so much that although I was originally sent a mini for review, I bought myself a full-sized bottle. LOVE. This was a limited edition polish, but you can find her other beauties here. :)

Sweet Heart Polish Hurry Ba-ack!

Narrowing it down to five was crazy difficult, I had at least 30 more I wanted to include. So I'm thinking maybe I need to do this by season or something in the future, give myself an excuse to pull out pics of more awesome polishes! But there are my top indie polishes today, at this moment. Wait, maybe I should have put in...focus, Michelle, focus!! Don't forget to check out what the other bloggers chose in the link-up below. :)

So what do you think of my choices? Any there you love? And what's your favorite indie polish of all time?

Happy polishing!
M.

An InLinkz Link-up

17 comments:

Lisa N.July 2, 2015 at 6:43 AM
Lovely swatches here! I'm loving the look of Lucky13 Lacquer Fool Of A Took.
AnonymousJuly 2, 2015 at 2:21 PM
I'd never be able to narrow it down to five either. Pretty choices.
UnknownJuly 2, 2015 at 4:40 PM
All choices are different from one another color an types wise. Love all of them. I loved Sweet heart black polish most.
UnknownJuly 2, 2015 at 5:12 PM
Fool of a Took is one of my favorites! And I love Bloodstone! I won it from your 2 year blogiversary, and I'm so glad that I did! It's gorgeous, and I get loads of compliments when I wear it!
UnknownJuly 2, 2015 at 6:52 PM
I really like Coveted. I love green polish so that one is right up my alley. I also really need to try Mentality polish. I keep seeing great polishes from them and I don't know why I've never bought any!
LacquerExpressionJuly 2, 2015 at 7:29 PM
Love your swatches! It's unlikely that I would have ever picked Coveted for myself, but now that I've seen your swatch I want it and can't have it!!!
AnonymousJuly 2, 2015 at 7:37 PM
Beautiful swatches! I may even need to hunt down that Elevation Polish! Oh, and I only saw 5 polishes ;)
UnknownJuly 2, 2015 at 9:44 PM
Lovely swatches!!! I ended up adding almost all of your picks to my wishlist :D
Polish and PawsJuly 2, 2015 at 10:29 PM
Your swatches of Do I Look Like a Frolicker have inspired me to pull it out of my untrieds! So pretty!!!
Dina RamseJuly 3, 2015 at 1:02 AM
Darn it. I knew i should have picked up Cult Nails: Coveted, when i saw it!
UnknownJuly 3, 2015 at 6:13 AM
Neve tried Indecisive and Lucky 13 before - your favorites are very pretty!
Nichole C.July 3, 2015 at 9:11 AM
that sweetheart polish is calling my name.
EmberlinmoonJuly 4, 2015 at 12:41 AM
Beautiful swatches and such awesome picks! Mentality Polish has become a recent favorite of mine. Such a great selection to choose from.
SavannahJuly 4, 2015 at 5:37 AM
I'm so sad Cult Nails is gone. That polish is gorgeous, but honestly I love all your choices especially the Indecisive.
UnknownJuly 5, 2015 at 2:22 PM
Great Choices! I don't think I could possibly narrow it down!
purple_rainJuly 11, 2015 at 1:15 AM
YAAAY for Douglas Adams reference!! (It reminded me why I adore you so much and what brought me here in the first place! :))
Coveted, Bloodstone and But I Want To Fight are gooorgeous!!

You should obviously do more posts like this; to heck with limitations of lists and such. :)
LacqueredMamaJuly 13, 2015 at 9:50 PM
Great choices as favs! I'm sure I could pick favorites..haha

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