LLPT's Best of 2013!! Indie Polishes

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Hi everyone!!  Before I get into it today I just want to chat about something happening in the blogging community right now.  I'm not a nail artist but I do know this-- crediting is important.  Whenever you take a design or technique that you found on the web and recreate it on your own blog/channel/IG/whatever, you credit and link back to the source of inspiration.  It's the decent thing to do and moreover, it's illegal not to.  When a big, well known blogging entity takes that and throws it out the window it is a big deal.  And for those of you who think it's okay,  check your references and consider that spending more time deleting and blocking anyone who suggests your designs aren't original than actually addressing the issue is as big an admission of guilt as anything.  No one is too big to credit, to follow the law, to be a decent person.  Here's a link to a video made by blogger/vlogger Zenorah fully addressing this issue that I shared on my fb yesterday, if you're interested.

Okay, moving on to my next installment of my favorite polishes of 2013... This was the year I had the opportunity to be immersed in the world of indie polishes.  I got to play around with some international as well as domestic brands and the things that impressed me the most are the sheer quality of these polishes (it seems a lesson in testing your product before marketing has been taken to heart by many) and how well defined the individual brands have become.  The gals who succeed and will succeed have a strong and distinct vision of who they are and it's been a joy to discover their world a little bit for myself.  Here are my top picks, in no particular order.

Honey Bunny Lacquer Alice In Chains Collection

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Hello and happy Caturday!!  If you follow on facebook or instagram, you might have seen that not only am I down to nubs AGAINNNNN, but I've been enjoying wearing my favorite OPI Softshades colors on said nubs this week, and I've been reminded of why I love those creamy, glossy sheer polishes so much.  One of the other things I like using those polishes for is as bases for colorful and chunky glitters, as they highlight the variances so nicely and just make the colors extra vibrant.  

Honey Bunny Lacquer's newest collection is one full of such glitters, and anchored by two stand alone colors.  This collection is inspired by creator Deb's favorite band, premier grunge artists Alice In Chains.  It you're a fan of the band, or of grunge in general, you might recognize a few of the names.

Honey Bunny Lacquer Pantera Collection

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Good morning, friends!!  Happy Monday, lolol.  I've got an exciting new indie collection to show you today, one that takes me back to the best part of my very early twenties, when I was discovering a lot of really great music for myself.  I was a bit of a metalhead and one of my favorite bands at the time was a Texas based group called Pantera.  I was fortunate enough to get to see them play live once before the band's demise and the untimely death of lead guitarist extraordinaire, Dimebag Darrell.

Deb, a longtime blogger friend and creator of Honey Bunny Lacquer, has launched a set of three glitter toppers as an ode to three of her own favorite Pantera songs.  Whilst choosing appropriate base colors, I noticed the three glitters match perfectly with three of the Zoya Satin colors, which kind of made me excited... nail polish serendipity strikes again :)

First up is Honey Bunny Lacquer Cemetery Gates, over Zoya Claudine.

Cemetery Gates is a silver holographic glitter mix of tiny and small hexes interspersed with medium sized matte black hexes and silver circles in a clear base.

Honey Bunny Lacquer The Sleep over Zoya Mason.  The Sleep is a violet purple holographic glitter mix of tiny and small hexes and small squares, small magenta hexes, and large purple circles in a clear base.

Honey Bunny Lacquer This Love (purportedly the song that gets all the girls hooked on the band... proof positive right here, lol) over Zoya Channing.  This Love is a bright pink holographic glitter mix with tiny and small light and dark pink hexes, small red and light pink squares, and large dark pink matte hearts in a clear base.

The formula on all three glitters is nice and self leveling, neither gloopy nor stringy.  I adore the fact that Deb included the trending circle glitters in two of these, but having said that, the larger pieces, including the hearts, do need special placement.  They're all a little topcoat hungry-- two thick coats of Seche Vite smoothed these out nicely for me.  The glitters themselves are all gorgeous, like jewelry for their respective base colors, and I will always have a soft spot for musically themed polishes.

Honey Bunny Lacquer is available in both 15ml bottles for $9 and 5ml bottles for $4.  Her shop is full of good vibes, right down to her wish that you leave with a song in your head, if not a polish.

Honey Bunny Lacquer etsy shop

Honey Bunny on twitter

Honey Bunny on instagram

email Deb directly at ab74csr10@gmail.com

Thank you for reading, and have a lovely day. ♥

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