Deutsch (English see below)

Hallo! Da ich inzwischen einige Indies verkauft habe, habe ich meinen Blogsale aktualisiert und diesmal auch kommerzielln Lacke dazugenommen.

Wenn nicht anders vermerkt, sind alle Lacke einmal geswatcht.

Zahlung per Paypal, Reservierungen für 72 Stunden möglich.
Kontakt: boldly_polish (at) yahoo [dot] com

Beim Kauf von 5 gibt’s ein 6. gratis dazu, beim Kauf von 10 gibt’s 3 gratis (gleicher oder niedrigerer Preis).

Versand: nach Wunsch österreichische Post oder Hermes, persönliche Übergabe in Wien möglich. Versand mit Hermes nach Deutschland 9,90, Post um die 13 Euro.

English

Welcome to my updated blog sale!

Most polishes have only been swatched, some are unopened, some used a few times. They will be marked and priced accordingly.

Payment via Paypal, prices in EURO (Paypal converts for you). Reservations possible for 72 hours. Contact me: boldly_polish (at) yahoo [dot] com

Buy 5, get the 6th one free*, buy 10 and you get 3 free (of equal or lower value).

Shipping is from Austria: Reasonable for Europeans, not so much overseas. Contact me for more information.

Indie

a-England

Elaine – approx. half full, € 5, Bridal Veil, Fated Prince – swatched, €8.50, Arthur, Merlin – used 3-4 times, €7.50 each

Different Dimension

Today was a fairytale €6, Never grow up €6, Money (unopened, €6.50)

All swatched/used once except Money. 

Digital Nails

Wibbly Wobbly, Timey Wimey, Stars at Night (holo), Bad Wolf

All used 1-2 times. Stars at Night €9, others €7.

Fandom Cosmetics

221B black, Most loyal, TARDIS blue

All swatched only. 221B black €5, others €3.

ILNP – I Love Nail Polish

Prices: Ultrachromes €8.50, (Ultra)Holos €7 each except those marked * €6.50, You’re My Boy Blue €7.50, Monterey Bay 2.50, Bohemian Peacock €2.

*used 4-5 times, Monterey Bay & You’re My Boy Blue unopened and with packaging, rest swatched.

Obere Reihe/ Top row: Ultrachromes:  Undenied, Cygnus Loop,  Birefringence (holo)

Ultraholos: Absolute Zero, Blue Steel, Bottle Service, Pixie Dust*, Princess Diaries*

Untere Reihe/Bottom Row:  Holo toppers: My Private Rainbow (linear), My Private Rainbow (linear + scattered), Glitter topper: Bohemian Peacock* (ultra mini), Ultraholos: Monterey Bay (ultra mini, unopened), You’re My Boy Blue (unopened)

Literary Lacquers

Price: €7 each except * €6.50

Bionic Mmmm-Detector, Lake of Shining Waters (holo), More Like Fire Than Light* (holo), Raspberry Cordial? (holo)

*More Like Fire Than Light used 4-5 times, rest swatched/used once. 

Lucky 13 Lacquers

Large (15ml) – €6 each, Shorties (10ml) - €4 each.

TEAL Me No Lies, Be sTEAL my Heart!, InsaTEALable, A Little More Sonic, Don’t Cry Over Spilled Glitter, Life is Short and You are Hot, The Hero of Canton the Man they Call Jayne, Are You My Mummy

LynBDesigns

Price: €5.50 except *€5.00

Obere Reihe/Top row: (From the Doctor Who collections:)

It’s mauve and dangerous, Melody Malone aka River Song, My bespoke psychopath, Time and relative dimension in space*, Snog box, I was only saying ‘hello’

Untere reihe/Bottom Row: Slim and a little bit foxy, Anomalous bloke, Oh you beautiful idiot, Am I ginger? (Baker Street collection:) IOU, Improbable truths, So changeable

* used 2-3 times, others swatched/used once

Pretty & Polished

Price: €4.50 each

Sittin’ on the Dot of the Bay, Heart of the Ocean – both swatched/used once.

Kommerzielle Lacke

(Note: If you need info on these in English, please let me know. I’ve only been getting requests from German-speaking people so I’m being lazy :) )

Grundsätzlich gilt: Wenn ich eine Farbbeschreibung in Klammern schreibe, ist das meine Beschreibung, nicht der offizielle Name - das hab ich vor allem bei Eigenmarken gemacht. Die Füllangaben sind großzügig bemessen - wenn irgendwo "halbvoll" steht, ist meist mehr als die Hälfte drin. Die Angaben beziehen sich immer auf alle vorangehenden Lacke wenn nicht anders angegeben.

OPI (15ml) -  Cajun Shrimp und Purple with a purpose (halbvoll) je 5€ 

Teal the Cows Come Home (2x verwendet) 8€.

Orly 18ml Sunglasses at night, Lunar Eclipse (1x verwendet), 10€ 

China glaze 14ml Get Carried Away (topper) 2-3x verwendet - 3€

L'Oreal Color Riche 5ml - 403 femme fatale (geswatcht) 4€, 829 Atomic Purple (2x verwendet) 3€

butter london 11ml - The Black Knight und Scouse - 3x verwendet - 9€

models own - Indian Ocean NP 133 (14ml) halbvoll, Aqua und Red splash Splash - 2 € 

Nails inc (10ml) Garrick Street - 2x verwendet - 3€, Victoria - ungeöffnet - 4 €,  

Nails inc mini (4ml) Koralle/rosa (Name unbekannt) 1x verwendet - 1€

s-he stylezone (dm Eigenmarke, 10ml) 121/285 (blitzblau) - etwas über halb voll. gel mit glitterflakes in orange, rosa und lila: 122/008, 122/005, 122/006 jeweils geswatcht, 121/110 (glittertopper) 3x verwendet, 121/143 (helles nude) (ca. halbvoll) - je 1€

PS (dm Eigenmarke) - poolside party (12ml) 040 sunshine yellow - 1x verwendet, 2,50€ 
volume gloss (12ml) 100 heavenly girl, color victim (8ml) 920 up in the air und 950 like a movie star - je etwas über halbvoll, 1,50€ 
summer attack (8ml) 010 flirtin' purple - 1x verwendet 2,50€

 obere Reihe: Bipa Look (Eigenmarke; 5ml) - 102 stars, 222 blue wonder, 105 mystic, 37 blue stars. 

aus der special effect-serie (changierende lacke mit metalleffekt) 6 metallic violet, 8 green changer, 

10 bronze changer  (alle 1-2x verwendet oder nur geswatcht) - je 1 €

untere Reihe iQ cosmetics colour flash (Bipa Eigenmarke) - 103, 155 und 007 je 6ml, ca. 1/2-3/4voll

 - je 1,50 €

iQ cosmetics Nail Attraction 7 ml - 8 violet 2x verwendet 2€

Catrice Ultimate Nail Lacquer (10ml) - 32 The Dark Knight, 875 It's All I Can Blue (je halbvoll), 36 Mint Me Up 1x verwendet, 11 Miss Piggy's BF  halbvoll - je 1,50 €

essence nail art glow in the night top coat 18 fly firefly fly - 1,50 € geswatcht

essence nail art special effect topper 16 cool breeze, 10 glorious aquarius (1x verwendet) - je 1,50 € 

essence nail art twins - 03 mr big geswatcht  1€ 

essence nail art freestyle tip painter 4ml - 10 more than silver halbvoll - 1 €

essence colour & go 8ml 140 go bold! (halbvoll), 147 miss universe (geswatcht) 50 cent

essence colour & go 5 ml 33 just in case halbvoll - 50 cent

 Astor fashion studio 6ml - metal effect (changierend): 258 Crystal blue, 257 (flieder/grün) 

(1x verwendet) - je 1,50 €, Astor fashion studio 200 (flieder) 1 €

Maxfactor max effect mini - 22 Coffee brown und 43 Odyssey blue- 2x verwendet - 2 €

Jessica 14,8ml - 744 platinum wishes (topper) - 2x verwendet - 50 cent 

Anny 15ml - 047 the answer is love - 5€

Manhattan quick dry 7 ml - 57 U (dunkelrot) halbvoll 1€ 

flormar (10ml) - supershine 08 (orange-lachsfarben) 1x verwendet 1,50€

flormar supershine miracle colors U03 (glittertopper mit rosa schimmer) ca. 1/2voll, 1€

b.pretty (Bipa Eigenmarke) 10ml - pearl - 50 cent

Layla ceramic effect PM22 (türkis) - halbvoll - 1€ 

Art Deco ceramic nail lacquer 6ml - 233 (grünlich changierend) - 2 €

Gosh 8ml - 540 Ocean - 2-3x verwendet - 2€

Maybelline colorama 7ml - 661 ocean blue - 2x verwendet - 1€ 

Nola base color 8 ml - Petrol 1-2x verwendet 1€

Biocura 11 ml - 03 (fliederfarbener holo), geswatcht - 50 cent 

Catherine Arley silky touch 14 ml (rotvioletter Hololack, Name unbekannt), geswatcht - 1€ 

H&M 4,7 ml - Glitter Purple (topper), Orange, Yellow - 1x verwendet oder geswatcht - je 50 cent

Claire's 10 ml - neon fluorescent - 1x verwendet - 50 cent

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Hello and welcome to my blog sale - Hallo und willkommen zu meinem Nagellack-Abverkauf

English info (Deutsch s. unten)

Most polishes have only been swatched, some unopened, some used a few times. They will be marked and priced accordingly.

Payment via Paypal, prices in EURO (Paypal converts for you). Reservations possible for 72 hours. Contact me at boldly_polish (at) yahoo [dot] com.

Buy 5, get the 6th one free*, buy 10 and you get 3 free*. If you’re buying more than that, I’ll be sure to throw in some extras!

*of equal or lower value

Shipping is from Austria/Germany/UK: Cheap for Europeans, not so much overseas. See end of the post for shipping rates or contact me.

Deutsche Info

Willkommen bei meinem Blogsale Teil 1 (Indie-Lacke)

Wenn nicht anders vermerkt, sind alle Lacke einmal geswatcht.

Zahlung per Paypal, Reservierungen für 72 Stunden möglich.

Kontakt: boldly_polish (at) yahoo [dot] com
Beim Kauf von 5 gibt’s ein 6. gratis dazu, beim Kauf von 10 gibt’s 3 gratis (gleicher oder niedrigerer Preis).

Versand Österreich, Schweiz: nach Wunsch österreichische Post oder Hermes, persönliche Übergabe in Wien möglich.

Versand Deutschland:  Deutsche Post oder persönliche Übergabe in Berlin 1.-7.7.

a-England

Fated Prince – swatched, €8.50

Arthur & Merlin – used 3-4 times, €7.50 each

 

Different Dimension

Money (unopened, €6.50), Never grow up €6, Today was a fairytale €6, Drops of Jupiter €6, Wish you were here (one-off, €4), Merry Go Round (mini, €3.50),

All swatched/used once except Money. 

Digital Nails

Lying (thermal teal/purple), Timey Wimey, Wibbly Wobbly, Stars at Night (holo)

All used 1-2 times. Stars at Night €9, others €7.

Fandom Cosmetics

221B black, Most loyal, TARDIS blue

All swatched only. 221B black €6, others €3.

Happy Hands

Price: €7 each

Sweet Dreams, Reptar’s Revenge LE (name label smudged by water)

ILNP – I Love Nail Polish

Prices: Ultrachromes €8.50, Holos €7 each except those marked * €6.50, You’re My Boy Blue €7.50, Monterey Bay 2.50, Bohemian Peacock €2.

Ultraholos: Grapealicious, Cosmic Barney, Absolute Zero, Amanda Hugginkiss*, Pixie Dust*, Princess Diaries*, You’re My Boy Blue (unopened), Blue Steel, Bottle Service, Monterey Bay (ultra mini, unopened)

ILNP Ultrachromes:  Undenied, Cygnus Loop,  Birefringence (holo), Mutagen

ILNP Others/Holo toppers:

Music Box*, My Private Rainbow (linear), My Private Rainbow (linear + scattered), Bohemian Peacock* (ultra mini)

*used 4-5 times, Monterey Bay & You’re My Boy Blue unopened and with packaging, rest swatched.

Literary Lacquers

Price: €7 each except * €6.50

Holos: If It Pleases You, Laters Baby, Lake of Shining Waters, Green Gables, More Like Fire Than Light*, Greatest Treasures*, Raspberry Cordial?

Other polishes: Gift of the Magi, Bionic Mmmm-Detector, Grey Cat/Grey Fence, Woman of Pleasure, What Fools These Mortals Be, Zipless

*More Like Fire Than Light & Greatest Treasures used 4-5 times, rest swatched/used once. What Fools These Mortals Be is missing the name label at the bottom.

Lucky 13 Lacquers

Large (15ml) – €6 each: InsaTEALable, Femme FaTEAL, TEAL Me I’m Pretty, Pride, Wibbly Wobbly Timey Wimey, A Little More Sonic, Don’t Cry Over Spilled Glitter 

Shorties (10ml) - €4 each: Be sTEAL my Heart!, TEAL Me No Lies, Avada Kedavra, Are You My Mummy, The Hero of Canton the Man they Call Jayne, Live is Short and You are Hot

(all swatched/used once; TEAL Me I’m Pretty has a coffee stain on the top label)

LynBDesigns

Price: €5.50 except *€5.00

 From the Doctor Who collections:

I was only saying ‘hello’, Snog box, Time and relative dimension in space*, My bespoke psychopath, Oh you beautiful idiot, Anomalous bloke, Slim and a little bit foxy, Weeping angels, It’s mauve and dangerous, Big friendly button, The fires of Gallifrey, Am I ginger?

Baker Street collection:

IOU, Improbable truths, Start with the riding crop*, So changeable, Mind palace*, Lost without my blogger*

Little foot (The land before time collection)

* used 2-3 times, others swatched/used once

Pretty & Polished

Price: €4.50 each

Sittin’ on the Dot of the Bay, So Jazzed!, Liberty Bell Ruby, Tears of Dionysus, Heart of the Ocean – all swatched/used once.

Various:

Darling Diva Polish Wedding Day Jitters, used once: This was a gift so it will FREE for the first one to spend over €40 (before shipping).

Pahlish: Pianos filled with flames, Toxic and timeless, Lonesome Ocean – swatched only, €7 each.

Nail Pattern Boldness:  Hello, Sweetie & Oodiful - used once, €7 each.

Shipping: Domestic rates in Austria. I’ll be in Germany in early July and can post packages from there at domestic rates for Germans, same with the UK in late July. Other international orders will ship from Germany if you can wait (cheaper) or Austria if you want your polishes right away.

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Seriously, this is just a preview. There's more!

Dear readers,

let me tell you a story. Once upon a time, there was a girl who loved to paint her nails. She enjoyed combining different polishes, making nail art, and buying new polish. She even blogged about it.

But then one day she realised she had used only two polishes for the last four months. She didn’t have time for nail art anymore, and the sight of the polishes in her drawer now filled her with anxiety, not pleasure.

With a heavy heart, she decided to sell some of her polishes. She kept a few, but the others she posted on her blog for sale so that others might give them a better home.

Yes, I’m having a blog sale. Yes, there’s tons of awesome, once-swatched indies up for grabs (and even a few unopened ones). There’s also some commercial high-end and drugstore polishes, and some polishes that have been used more than a few times. These will be clearly marked and priced lower.

Buying more gets you cheaper polishes: Buy 5, get the 6th one (of equal or lower value) free, buy 10 and you get 3 (of equal or lower value) free. If you’re buying more than that, I’ll be sure to throw in some extras!

Prices are in Euro, but since payment is via Paypal, you don’t have to worry about that – you can set it to pay in € and it will apply its conversion rate and charge you in your home currency.

Shipping is from Austria, so it’s a great opportunity for Europeans to get some of those indie polishes without customs and with cheaper shipping. I’ll be in Germany in early July and can post packages from there at domestic rates for Germans (and cheaper rates for others than from Austria), same with the UK in late July.

Overseas shipping, however, is pretty expensive, but might be worth it for out-of-stock polishes, that’s up to you.

The first part of the blog sale (indie polishes) will be going up today, the second part (high-end commercial and drugstore polishes) probably tomorrow. You can reserve items for 72 hours.

But now let’s get back to the story, because there is a happy end.

Our heroine decided she’d just use the polishes left over for a while and see if she felt like blogging. She wasn’t done with nail art completely, she felt, just waiting for inspiration.

Love,

Captain Spacenails

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Seriously, guys, I'm not kidding about the spoilers. I know the 50th anniversary was a few weeks ago, which in Internet time is ancient history (I just didn't have time to edit the photos earlier, I need to stop doing that...), so you've probably already seen the spoilers in a million gifs and screenshots on tumblr and pinterest, but in case you've been purposely avoiding them, fair warning: This post contains ALL THE SPOILERS and plenty of speculation. For The Day of the Doctor, for characters, and for episodes past and future (I always get those mixed up). If you don't want spoilers (or fangirling, for that matter), you'd better just click on the photos or move on to the previous, mostly spoiler-free, post.

Right, now that I've got that out of the way, what about that episode? Did you like it, all those things coming together at last? We learned why exactly Queen Elizabeth wanted the Doctor's head off in The Shakespeare Code. (Well, we did know he was intimately enough involved with her that the nickname "The Virgin Queen" wasn't appropriate anymore and there was that whole eloping in a glade thing - that sexy bastard, always with the royalty... like partying with Marie Antoinette wasn't enough.) Unsurprisingly, though, it was his usual bad timing. He does leave an awful lot of girls waiting, doesn't he?

I liked how sassy Queen Bess was, taking over Zygon command like that. Not to mention the "how many Doctors do you need to open a door" episode. And the Doctor threatening a bunny was hilarious - though I'd be hard put to pick the funniest scene in that episode. Or the saddest. I cried several times, and it was always because of Ten. "Did you say Bad Wolf?" was just as heart-wrenching as "I don't want to go".

Not bringing Rose back as herself was a good call. It would have gotten very complicated and messed things up real bad for Metacrisis Doctor. Bad Wolf, however... oh yes. "I take the words. I scatter them ... in time, and space." Very Clara, now that I think of it.

Digital Nails Bad Wolf: I love this. It looks just like her eyes after looking into the heart of the TARDIS.

I love that the War Doctor explains the 16-year (in Earth years) gap in Doctor Who history, sliding in neatly between Eight and Nine. It explains the darkness of Nine and the sadness of Ten.

Nomenclature, though. That's a bit of a problem, innit? While this makes Peter Capaldi the thirteenth Doctor, he'll still be Twelve to me. Because Matt Smith will stay Eleven and I can't just go and call Ten Eleven just because it's chronologically correct. It's not like the Doctor is too impressed by chronology, after all. I guess that makes John Hurt the Doctor 8.5 (or 8.1 if you want to leave some room for new episodes in that gap - I don't think they actually showed Eccleston's face when Hurt regenerated). Neil Gaiman, once again, says it best.

Now, I don't want you to think I'm complaining about the episode, because it was fantastic and I loved it. But because everything is so well thought out in the Whoniverse and Moffat does such a brilliant job tying all the loose ends together, my mind, which tends to overthink these things at the best of times, goes into overdrive and starts thinking too much about ifs and whens.

Because, you see, I have a small issue with the story. Well, not so much with the storyline itself, but with Eleven's desire to find Gallifrey. I re-watched The End of Time on Sunday, and the return of the Time Lords as explained there should also work with this new setup. Time locked or time frozen, I'm not sure that makes much of a difference (except that they wouldn't come with an army of Daleks). But when they return in that episode, he's all Gah, bad idea, no party! "That's how I choose to remember them. The Time Lords of old. But then they went to war, an endless war, and it changed them. Right to the core. You've seen my enemies, Wilf; the Time Lords are more dangerous than any of them." And he's right, and the Time Lords decide to bring about the ultimate sanction, the end of time.

So where does he get off thinking they'll be better this time? That they'll have changed in any way? They are, after all, time-frozen. So maybe they won't bring with them the Nightmare Child and the Horde of Travesties, and therefore won't feel the urge to destroy all of space and time, but why would their characters have suddenly returned to their pre-war status? And more importantly, why would the Doctor believe they had? Did he forget, or choose to forget, like he forgot the number of children? Is he just so blinded by the joy of not having destroyed Gallifrey after all that he doesn't think about the implications? (Right, and that's me done obsessing over this problem. I'm confident Moffat will come up with a beautiful solution. The answer is probably wibbly-wobbly timey-wimey, which is what I love about the non-linear concept of time in Doctor Who.)

Contrast nail in LynBDesigns Snog Box & writing in ILNP Bottle Service

Back to my usual speculations. You know that woman in The End of Time? Missed it the first time round, but that glance between her and the Doctor definitely means something. His mother, his wife, his daughter (Susan's mother)? Background info seems to point toward her being his mother, but I got more of a wife vibe."I was lost long ago," she tells Wilfred.

Next up: Sherlock lives! It's been months since I last ranted about Watson's moustache, you know I can't let all new the announcements and trailers go uncommented.

Captain Fangirl

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Dear readers,

we're now in the second half of the Oh Mon Dieu Rather Awesome 31 Day Challenge Giveaway and there's still time to play if you want!

Today's theme is "gradient". I like doing gradients (usually with a sponge) but I decided to do an experiment this time: a holo gradient. I wasn't sure how it would work out with the different bends of the holographic polishes I used (all three from different indie brands), if there would be weird breaks and whether the gradient would show up in the sunlight at all, but as you can see, it actually worked out quite well. Of course you see less of the gradient in the sunlight because of all the crazy exploding rainbows but it's still visible - and the bend transitions wonderfully from one polish to the next.

This is not a canned mani, I did it this morning, so it's straight up painted since I don't have any nail art tools with me on vacation. I really should've included a small brush for cleanup though... 

The colours are ILNP 1st and 15th (light green), Literary Lacquers Lake of Shining Waters (dark green) and Digital Nails Stars at Night (blue). I really like how they worked together, but I think next time I'll try this with colours that are a bit more different from each other, say orange to red to purple or purple to blue to green (isn't it a good thing I have so many holo polishes? ;) ).

blurry for more sparkle

the lovely holos

How do you like my holo gradient? Have you tried this before?

Check out all the other gradients on today's linky:

17. Gradient :

The nail newbie, loving her 50 shades of holo

in the sunlight - yup, the gradient's still showing!

in the shade (sunny day)

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