Grace-full Cremes of 2018 (and 2017)

Grace-full is an Australian nail polish brand that I've been meaning to try forever but I never seem to have enough funds to get the real stuff. So, I shall be drawing crappy pictures to demonstrate instead.

They currently have a few creme collections available and I WANT THEM ALL... alas, we all know I can't because things cost money and I have no money... so I must resort to... drawing pictures of imaginary polish bottles!

I do try to refer to different blogs but it seems like Olivia Jade Nails was the one to go to for 4/5 of the listed collections... I TRIED!

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Sweet Treats (review & swatches by Olivia Jade Nails - 22/11/2018)

Pretty colours named after sugary goodness? GIMME!

Black Currant Cake - pastel purple
Candy Swirl - fuchsia thermal (NOT just a creme)
Fairy Floss Cupcake - pastel pink
Hawaiian Punch - medium turquoise
Lavender Tea - pastel lilac
Lime Chiffon Pie - lime green
Watermelon Sorbet - coral pink

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Pruglies (review & swatches by Olivia Jade Nails - 20/03/2018)

Brick Your Heels - orange red
Mustard Been Love - mustard yellow
Teal Or No Teal - medium teal
Under My Marsala - burgundy

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Facebook Fan Group (review & swatches by Olivia Jade Nails - 19/03/2018)

By Any Other Name - dusty rose
Calm Life - light blue
Dark and Twisty - blurple
Devine Ametrine - medium purple
Kissed by a Rose Quartz - baby pink

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Serenity (review & swatches by Olivia Jade Nails - 19/03/2017)

Most of these aren't available anymore but I had to include them because they look so pretty!

Antique Pink - dusty pink
Dreamy Cloud - light grey
Eucalyptus Dew - soft sage green
Japanese Violet - medium purple
Lavender Bouquet - grey lavender
My Cup of Tea - neutral cream
Peony Bloom - peachy pink
Verbena Blossom - dusty purple with pink flash (NOT just a creme)

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Fruit Salad (review & swatches by Procrastinating Polishr - 14/06/2017)

Again, most of these are no longer available but LOOK AT THEM! they look so delicious! (even if they're just pictures of fake polish bottles)

Apple - green
Blueberry - blue
Grape - purple
Lemon - yellow
Mango - peachy orange
Raspberry - red
Strawberry - pink

The raspberry being the redder one and the strawberry being the pinker one really confused me while doing my copy paste fun times. In my experience, raspberries tend to have a more pinkish tone and strawberries are usually pretty much red unless they're green yellowish babies. But bleh. Berry colours are berry coloured :)

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So many purples <3


DISCLAIMER: images are NOT of actual products, in case that wasn't obvious.

Real Magic Polish Toppers by ILNP

So... ILNP (who are based in the USA) currently has this massive (18 because one of the polishes mentioned here is all sold out everywhere) range of iridescent colour shifting toppers of both the shimmery and shimmery flakie kind (word salad blah! basically, sparkly stuff) and I can't afford any of it!

It all (not really) started (not really) with The Magician, which was released as part of ILNP's Spring 2017 collection. This polish had that fabled Unicorn Pee pigment in it.

Some months later, they came out with an 8 piece collection of colour shifting toppers.

With the release of their Fall 2017 collection a little bit later that (that sounds so weird, speaking as a resident of the Southern Hemisphere... Autumn is BEFORE Spring... brain blaaah), 2 more colour shifting toppers were added to their range.

And then this year, for Spring 2018, ILNP released an 8 piece collection of colour shifting iridescent flakie toppers.

I'm lazy/tired/nobody-cares-what-the-difference-is today, so only links to Glitterfingersss blog posts!

Glitterfingersss swatches and reviews:

- ILNP Spring 2017 (FEBRUARY 27, 2017)

- ILNP surprise 2017 (AUGUST 21, 2017)

- ILNP Fall 2017 (AUGUST 30, 2017, excluding ultra holos)

- ILNP Spring 2018 (MARCH 01, 2018, flakies only)

NOTE to self: Northern Hemisphere = (start of year) Winter => Spring => Summer => Autumn (towards end of year)

(you have no idea how many times I'd jumbled the timeline of these collections around especially as I'm exceptionally fog brained today)

Transition Toppers by Glitter Gal

Another brand that I'd missed out on... Glitter Gal. Apparently the company owners have moved onto other areas of their careers... but it's always fun (for me) to look back on stuff :)

I love the self explanatory names of their collection of Transition Shades from 2012.

There were 4 polishes in this set.

Soft Blue - blue :)
Soft Green - green :)
Soft Red - red :) although it actually appears to be more pinkish magenta-like than actual red
Soft Violet - purple :)

images from Maconii where these polishes are *still* currently available

Sources of information for this post:

Fashion Polish (18/03/2012) - Glitter Gal Australia New Collections!

Maconii Store (21/12/2018) - Glitter Gal

Nail It! ( (12/06/2014)) - Indie Polish Spotlight: Glitter Gal Australia

FUN-tasy Collection by FUN Lacquer

I think I might be a little bit obsessed with nail polish toppers at the moment.

So, during my "research" on chameleon pigments, I discovered that FUN Lacquer released a collection of 6 colour shifting toppers earlier this year, 2018. Forever late to the party.

Promo Image + tiny text

The 2018 FUN-tasy Collection

Made in SINGAPORE • 12ml Full Size Nail Polish Bottle • Limited Edition

Over simplified (lazy) descriptions as follows:

Divine - red-green like a dragon

Elysium - teal-gold like a lush forest

Enchanting - pink-green like a pretty garden

Heaven On Earth - blue-gold like the ocean

Iconic - magenta-emerald, like an intense Enchanting
Mirage - colours depend on base, cool shades on white, desert golds on black

Polish Line-up + tiny text

I collect pictures because I can't afford to get the actual polishes *CRIES*