BCA: the not-pink-but-still-sorta-pink contingent

These three polishes are (in case you can't read the picture below!) La Resistencia, Valiente, and Choose Hope. These are the last installment from the Breast Cancer Awareness box. I saved these for last because they don't look particularly pink - but they all have pink in the formula somewhere.

La Resistencia is from Leesha's Lacquer:

(again, descriptions in quotes are from Cosmetics Sanctuary) "a silver holo based solar polish that changes to pinkish lavender in the sun, as well as having pink flakes." I knew that solar polishes existed but I've never had one before. I work evening shifts and I don't really spend a lot of time in the sunlight, but I'll have to make an effort when I wear this!

Valiente is from Colores de Carol:

"a silver linear holographic with pink shimmer and holo flakes" - here you can see the pink in the bottle, in my picture, not so much on the nail. (Added: I did wear this one as part of a skittles mani, that picture is here!)

Choose Hope is from Poetry Cowgirl:

"a pale metallic pink to gold to green multichrome with turquoise metallic micro flakes" - you can definitely see the pink in this when you look for it, but it still reads mostly silvery in the light I'm in right now. It's the darkest of these three (but still not extremely dark, as you can see - I would call it a pewter color).

I have not tried any of these yet, I think partly because I got in pink-pink-pink mode during most of October and then transitioned right into fall colors after that. I think these silvery things will be great holiday polishes, anyway! None of these are brands I had tried before, but they were all brands I knew of and had been interested in trying previously. (Colores de Carol, especially, has been around for some years, I think. But the other two are no newbies, either.)

BCA corals & neons

This is the neon and coral-leaning portion of the Breast Cancer Awareness box. (Actually they are still pretty pink, they just looked slightly more coral next to the other pinks, and I had to divide them up somehow!) (Note that the bottles seem to have gotten out of order between the shot above and the one below.) BFF - Breast Friends Forever - is from Pepperpot, Pink Strong is from Rogue Lacquer, and This Woman's Work is from Necessary Evil.

As previously, polish descriptions are from Cosmetic Sanctuary.

BFF: Breast Friends Forever from Pepperpot Polish:

"a bright raspberry pink scattered holographic, with gold and blue shimmer and rainbow hex glitters" - I have to note I'm not really going to have anything substantial to say about these because I haven't tried any of them yet. But Pepperpot is a brand that always has really cute stuff and I'm looking forward to finally trying one of their polishes!

Pink Strong from Rogue Lacquer:

"a neon Barbie pink with crushed gold flakes added in" - I'm looking forward to wearing this one, particularly. I do have several Rogue polishes and I like them a lot.

This Woman's Work from Necessary Evil:

"a burgundy (cold) to pinkish red (warm) to candy pink (hot) with added shimmer and scattered holographic." Thermals don't usually do much on my short nails but I'll report back when I finally try it!

Gettin' Dirty With Disco Sally, Naughty & Nice

This is two indie polishes, Glisten & Glow Gettin' Dirty With Disco Sally and Polished by KPT Naughty & Nice:

Gettin' Dirty With Disco Sally is from a Studio 54 collection - it's various pink/red glitters and a scattering of gold and black, in a clear base. It's very sparkly and fun. I just don't have long enough nails to get the proper effect with thermals - which is what Naughty & Nice is - but luckily I do like the color. It comes off as a pearly rose color, I'd call it. It was in a holiday collection a couple of years ago. I doubt that either of these are easily findable, although you never know.

Playing with thermals, and acetone

I bought nail polish remover back a few months ago from Sally Beauty, and I bought the one that just said "Acetone" rather than "Pure Acetone" - it looks slightly pinkish, and I believe it has a little bit of lanolin and such in it. And I expected it to work just fine, but really it didn't so much - not on difficult removal jobs, anyway. It seemed too diluted, I thought. So I went back to Sally Beauty today and bought the Pure Acetone, and I poured the two together. And it fixed it, to my satisfaction. It's still not as drying as pure acetone would be, hopefully, but it's also a lot stronger than the "impure" version. And I had enough partial bottles floating around that decanting from one bottle into another wasn't a problem at all.

The mixed version took three coats of Nfu Oh 51 off with very little trouble, where I had trouble getting two coats off with the other stuff.

I finally got around to trying Naughty & Nice, the Polished by KPT thermal, and well, not much happened. That's not really true, it got much lighter when I put it on, so it's reacting. But my nails are so short I barely got that "french mani" sort of effect that thermals normally have.

Here's a couple of pictures taken in the car, in a couple of different spots (meaning, a couple of different traffic lights!) so that the light is a little different.

Maybe it's shifting a little bit, because right now it looks paler than either of these, but I'm certainly not getting the two-tone effect at the tips. I'll have to try it again when my nails have grown out. I cut them back very severely last week, so they're shorter than normal.