BCA polishes I've worn so far

As I said previously, I bought a large box of indie polishes themed for Breast Cancer Awareness Month. These are limited edition, so while it's possible you may be able to find a few of them on individual brand websites, many (maybe most) of them are probably not findable. The thing I love about this box is that there are no cremes - it's all shimmery and flaky and such. (Correction: there may be one creme, but even that one is shiny enough that I swatched it without classifying it as a creme in my mind!)

I decided I would wear these all month during October. There's no way I will get around to wearing all twenty of them but I did wear four in the first half of the month (which are in the same order I wore them in both the picture above and the one below).

So the first one I wore was Quixotic Unbreakable, then Fair Maiden Dancing In The Rain, Turtle Tootsie Save The Woman NOT The Boobies! (ha), and Lollipop Posse Such A Wonderful Thing To Love. I liked all of them but I'd say the Lollipop Posse is my favorite so far. Dancing In the Rain was probably my least favorite but I think it needs something underneath it so I'll have to try that one again later. (I'm guessing many of the pale ones would benefit from undercoat - actually I think all of these except the Quixotic would.)

A lot of these brands in this box are ones I have not owned previously, so I'm happy about getting to try lots of new brands. The only one of these four I had tried before was Lollipop Posse.

Below are wheel swatches (and nail swatches, at the very bottom). I think all of these are two coats on the wheel, and 3 coats on my hands - that's one reason I'm talking about undercoats. Also I just found somebody who had a press sample of this box - Cosmetics Sanctuary (hereafter referred to as "CS." She has much better-quality pictures than mine, and also much more detailed descriptions. (Actually, if you follow the link and look closely, she also had the bigger-size box than mine. Mine had all of the polishes except the Cuticula top-coat, but none of the non-polish items.)

Unbreakable from Quixotic Polish:

This is super-pretty. CS's description was "a vibrant strawberry pink crelly based scattered holo with orange to pink shifting shimmer." It's very shimmery, right up my alley.

Dancing In The Rain from Fair Maiden:

Pale pinks tend to not be super-flattering on me, so that may have been my problem. I really like this, though. CS's description: "a delicate light pink crelly base with ultrachrome chameleon flakes that flash all colors of the rainbow, and fiery aurora shimmer."

Save The Woman Not The Boobies from Turtle Tootsie:

The fact is, I'm a sucker for just about anything with flakies. I'm not usually really big on white polish, but I liked this one a lot. (CS's description: "a white crelly base with pink shimmer, pink flakes and assorted pink micro glitters.")

Such A Wonderful Thing To Love from Lollipop Posse:

Like I said, this one is my favorite so far - but it is really sheer so be ready for that. I used three coats and there was still noticeable nail line. CS's description here: "a rose pink crelly filled with green aurora shimmer and a combination of iridescent flakes that shift in shades of purple, pink, and green."

I do have swatch pictures of all of these now so I'll try to get the rest of the pictures up while it's still October, at least. It'll probably be in several installments.

(Also, I'm at home sick today and I'm ready for a new polish and I'm contemplating a skittles thing, so I can use five different polishes. We'll see how this goes.)


Oh, I almost forgot the on-the-nail pictures. Several of these have been up on Instagram already, but not all.


Such A Wonderful Thing To Love:

Save The Woman Not The Boobies:

Unbreakable:

Dancing In The Rain: