Sunday, February 28, 2016

HPB Presents: My First Indie Brand

This month's prompt for the Hobby Polish Bloggers group on Facebook is a very fun one - the theme is "my first indie brand."  This theme actually happened at an ironic time - I'll be coming on 2 years of having this blog, and my first indie polish is what prompted me to start blogging in the first place :D

My first ever indie brand was Colors by Llarowe.  I won a giveaway the creator was having of one of her discontinued polishes, and once it came in, I was hooked!  I'd never seen polishes like that before in stores, and when I went online to look at more colors by that brand, I was in awe of the holo!  It was all addiction from there ;)

The polish I won was "Smoke Gets In Your Eyes."  It is a lovely pale brown jelly with a pigment reminiscent of that "unicorn pee" stuff everyone talks about.  I decided to pair it with another Colors by Llarowe "K-9" and created this mani:




CbL still remains one of my favorite indies, especially for the way the super holographic polishes tend to watermarble!!  

Do you remember your first ever indie polish?  Tell me about it in the comments!  And be sure to check out the other fantastic posts below :D

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11 comments:

  1. Gorgeous! CbL was one of my first-ish indie loves too.

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  2. Wow! What a lovely shade indeed. A classy and unique one which made it a must try!

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  3. This is such a pretty polish! My first indies were in fact purchased from Llarowe before she had her own brand. They were A England and Enchanted Polish back in wee ancient times.

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  4. Gorgeous. My first indies I won in a competition :)

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  5. Congratulations on your two year blog anniversary. <3 <3 I have yet to try CBL but your swatches make me really want to do so very soon. :-) Beautiful!

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  6. So pretty! I love all of those fiery flakies! I believe my first indie was a gift. It might have been a nn3000.

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  7. Gorgeous! My First indie was Winter Hyacinth by Femme Fatale!

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  8. This is gorgeous! I have two CBL polishes and I'm hooked! I want them all lol.

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  9. Hooray for CbL!! My first was Aurora Lacquer's.

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  10. Beautiful swatch! I can't actually remember which was my 1st.

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