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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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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Hey there, dear readers!

It's been a while since I posted geeky nail art, so how about some River Song?

I didn’t think I’d have that much to write about her but once I started, a whole post happened. Because she is wonderful and mad and at first I didn’t like her at all but it’s hard to resist the lure of someone so badass and resourceful. I confess, I was jealous of what she had with the Doctor, but now I’m rather more jealous of what the Doctor had with her. And I just know we’d be best buddies, because I’d ask something and she’d be all “Shh, spoilers!” and I’d be all “Thanks for the warning, never mind then – in fact, please don’t tell me, I hate spoilers!” and then she’d grin at me and snog me with her psychedelic lipstick and wait, what? Did I type that out loud?

Right, let’s get back to the lady herself. I have two wonderful polishes dedicated to her: Melody Malone aka River Song from LynBDesigns and Hello, Sweetie from Nail Pattern Boldness. (Well, actually I have three, but I'll have to feature LynBDesigns' Bespoke Psychopath some other time.) Interestingly, they’re all varying shades of purple. It’s not like she wears a lot of purple, but somehow the colour seems right for her.

For nail art, I chose her alter ego Melody Malone as shown on the cover of the book the Doctor is reading in The Angels Take Manhattan (then they take Berlin). Did you know that this story has actually been published as a book and, more importantly, as an audiobook read by River Song herself? I got it from Audiogo but you can also get it directly from the BBC store and other places.

I think it looks better before the addition of the smoking gun, because that causes the lines to muddle up, but I thought it was a good look for Hello, Sweetie as well so I just added three coats of that on top of Melody Malone aka River Song for the second look.

Melody Malone aka River Song spreads nicely and evenly like the other LynBDesigns shown in this post, though I did have some striping on the first layer. It’s a gorgeous lilac full of golden sparkles, pretty and still something you might be able to pull off at work. Like River, there are hidden depths to it.

Hello, Sweetie by Nail Pattern Boldness is simply glorious! The translucent reddish purple base is filled with gold, black and red glitter and spreads beautifully. Nail Pattern Boldness is one of my favourite indies – Slow Invasion blew my mind and this isn’t far behind.

With matte topcoat

I'm not even going to get into the feels that I have about the last appearances of River Song. Nope. But the feels I have about these polishes are wonderful, so why don't we focus on that? (Feel free to let your feels run wild in the comments though.)

Captain Spacenails

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Dear readers,

Today's theme on the OMD Rather Awesome challenge is 'inspired by your favourite holiday/vacation'.
My favourite vacation is always the one I'm going on next, and this one starts next week so I love it even more than usually. I mentioned yesterday that I'm going to the seaside - what I didn't tell you is that it will be my first time snorkeling! Granted, the underwater world in the Mediterranean probably won't be as colourful as this, but I'm insanely excited nevertheless.

Hallo ihr Lieben,

wenn ich diesen Post schon auf Deutsch angekündigt hab, muss ich ihn eigentlich auch zumindest teilweise auf Deutsch schreiben... das heutige Thema der OMD-Challenge ist unser Lieblingsurlaub und das ist bei mir immer der, der grade bevorsteht. Nächste Woche fahr ich ans Mittelmeer und werd zum ersten Mal in meinem Leben schnorcheln! Ich bezweifle zwar, dass die Unterwasserwelt dort gar so prächtig ist wie auf meinen Nägeln, aber ich freu mich schon riesig!

The background is two layers of nail pattern boldness Slow Invasion (yes, a Doctor Who-themed polish!) over two layers of Lucky 13 Lacquers A Leaf on the Wind.

I layered because it takes a while for Slow Invasion to build up to opacity and, while pretty, that's a bit squishy if you're going to do nail art on it. It has another benefit too: The tiny golden glitters are visible through Slow Invasion and look like bubbles rising to the surface. (Much better than the other kind of nail polish bubbles ;) )

A Leaf on the Wind, two layers. This is one of the surprise ones from Kyoti and I need to wear it on its own very soon!

Slow Invasion (shown in matte on the right hand). It may look like the largest squares require fishing (hah - pun not really intended but I'll keep it) but I actually put some back because I preferred smaller 'fish'.

Anemones and corals

I love how it looks like it's full of fish even though I didn't draw a single one!Can't wait to go snorkeling!

See today's other manis here:

26. Inspired by your favourite Holiday/Vacation :

The nail newbie (going swimming)

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