Smokey Mountain Lacquers inaugural Smokey Box!

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Smokey Mountain Lacquers has decided to come out with her very own monthly Smokey Box containing two exclusive polishes!

This is NOT a subscription box, so there is no monthly obligation.  This is just a box that will be limited in quantity with two exclusive polishes (and maybe some more fun goodies down the road!).  Here's a look at the two polishes in this month's box!

The first polish is "Silver Linings:"

Silver Linings is a gorgeous silver metallic polish, opaque in two coats (or three thin, as seen in the photos above) and dry in under 5 minutes.

The second polish in this exclusive duo is "Pink Elephants:"

Pink Elephants is a light frosty pink with a subtle blue shimmer that is also opaque in two coats and dry in under five minutes.

The Smokey Box will be launching at 1pm EST on July 1st on the Smokey Mountain Lacquers website.  The cost is $14.99 for U.S. customers and that includes shipping!  For customers in Canada, the price is $19.99 including shipping, and for all other countries, it is $24.99 including shipping.  There will only be 15 of these boxes available - once they're gone, that's it!  So if you like what you see, set your alarms!!

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Smokey Box was sent to me by the maker for photography purposes and a review.  All opinions are my own and 100% honest.

Pretty & Polished: "Happy Hour" Collection!

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Introducing the Pretty & Polished "Happy Hour" Collection! This Cocktail inspired collection comes with 6 stunning Holographic infused shades named after some of your favorite Cocktail Hour refreshments. This Collection will be available for sale on July 10th 2015 at shopprettyandpolished.com.  In addition to the 6 new polishes, we will be releasing an assortment of new Cocktail inspired Bath & Body Products, including Mani Melt Shooters scented and named after popular shots.

Cosmopolitan: A true Cosmo should be a bright pink frothy cocktail. And that is what you will get with this neon polish. This intensely pink polish is packed with pink and purple holographic glitters.

Appletini: This polish is spectacularly bright with a strong slightly scattered holographic presence. This polish is creamy and has an incredibly easy to work with formula. 2 layers for full coverage.

Long Island Iced Tea: Tea with no tea?! This interesting shade of copper is a must have brown in your collection. It has a very strong scattered holographic sparkle and is opaque in 1-2 layers!

Tequila Sunrise: This cocktail is served with the bottom half being red and the top half being orange. Dip your bottle into some ice water and get the full effect! This interesting orange jelly changes to a red jelly when exposed to cold. It's also packed with gorgeous golden scattered holographic glitters. May take 3 coats for full coverage.

Sangria: This sexy red jelly is packed with scattered holographic red glitters. Easy going formula with amazing pigmentation, get full coverage in ONE layer!

Purple Nurpl: Don't be fooled by the funny name, this is one HOT polish. Probably the most intriguing polish of the collection, this deep purple jelly has an insane amount of holographic sparkle coming from different shades of tiny holographic glitters. Full coverage in 2 layers.

Also included in this release are our new Bath & Body products. Our new Bubble Bombs are a wondrous mix between Bath Bombs and Bubble Bars. Add them to your bath while the water is still running and watch them fizz and foam while creating a blanket of delightful bubbles!

Cosmopolitan: A cranberry infused bomb with hints of orange and lime.

Piña Colada: A sweet tropical medley of Coconut, Pineapple, and Rum.

Sangria: Deep red Wine scent topped off with a little chopped fruit. The top of this bomb has a crisp layer scented of sweet Orange.

Strawberry Daiquiri: A dreamy Strawberry treat topped with notes of whipped cream and rum.

Pink Bubbly: Experience the sweet scent of Pink Champagne that's so bubbly it tickles your nose!

Another addition to our lineup is our new Mani Melt Shooters!

Jello Shots: Grape, Lime, Orange, and Cherry.

Tomahawk: A Cinnamon and Almond mash up.

Melon Ball: A Melon and Pineapple infusion.

We have had an overwhelming response to this collection and many of you have asked us "when can I get my hands on these?!" So, in order to gauge the real response to this collection we have decided to set up a pre-sale. This collection is a special one, it is also quite expensive to make. So this pre-sale will help us to know how many polishes we really need to prepare to sell. We already have many bottles ready to go so your wait will not be long at all if you order from the pre-sale. But by setting this up we can at least prepare for the July 10th release accordingly based off of the sales from the pre-sale. 

Pre-sale Information: July 1st at 1 pm EST we will put all the products up on the website at a 5% discounted rate and they will remain available until 7 pm EST. We will then not make them available again until July 10th at their regular rate of $9. 

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Press release information provided by the company and in their own words.

The Unicorn Cahoots Duo - an Ellagee and Digital Nails Collaboration

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Once Upon A Time, in an Indie land far, far, away - and south, like the Texas-ish area of far, far, away - two ladies with glitter in their veins, from the Kingdoms of Digital Nails and Ellagee,  collaborated to bring the world a box like no other.  A box full of magic, wonder, and rainbow poop, and it would be called "The Unicorn Cahoots Duo."

This box contained a variety of all things Unicorns, from the rainbow colored sugar pills of the unicorn's diet, to two unique nail polishes whose recipes are known only to those chosen by the unicorns.  I have been chosen to share this story with you, and grant you the opportunity to capture one of these rare duos for yourself!

Three unicorns (not included in the box) regaled the tail to me of the contents of this elusive box.  The first unicorn of gold and silver showed me one of the very special additions - 8 of the tiniest unicorns in the world, captured and transformed into charms, one side silver, the other side bronze:

Frozen in Battle

The second unicorn of Porcelain and Spring Flowers shared with me the two unique polishes in this box:

The first of these polishes is called "Unicorn Soup" and was created by Digital Nails:

I was in awe of the incredible coverage in just once coat of this Unicorn Soup, the variety of colors and shapes, and the quick dry time!  

The second of these polishes is "Sir Twinkle Toes," created by Ellagee:

The magic of Sir Twinkle Toes lies in the chrome flakies and holographic glitter throughout this purple jelly polish, opaque in just three thin coats.

I affixed one of the tiny unicorns to this polish - it seemed happy to reside there:

I also re-created the story of two battling unicorns on my nails, using the special polishes and tiny unicorns:

The final gift in this box of sparkles, magic, and happiness was bestowed upon me by the final unicorn of Green Metal - a pile of its rainbow poo, named Charlie:

 I know, that's quite a lot of poo for such a small unicorn.  He was holding it in for me.

Charlie now resides upon my desk, bringing me happy rainbow smiles in times I am feeling down.

The contents of this box are so special, so magical, that they can only be contained in 50 boxes total, 25 for each Indie Kingdom of Ellagee and Digital Nails.  They will be released for humans alike at 6pm CSIFFAT (Central Standard Indie Far Far Away Time).

And that is the tale of the Unicorn Cahoots Duo...perhaps your tale will be different should you come into possession of one :)

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The Unicorn Duo was sent to me via portal from the Digital Nails Kingdom of Indie Far Far Away in order for me to regale the tail in 100% honesty and truth.  Therefore, this story and all its content is my own and of my own experience.

Summer Designs with MoYou Nails!

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I don't now if YOU know this, but Father's Day this year was also the first official day of summer!  So I created two nail designs to celebrate the new season using MoYou Nails stamping plates, polish, and rhinestones ^_^

The first design is based off one of my top favorite images that come to mind when I hear the word "summer" - sailing!

I did a gradient using "Lei It Again" and "Rum Me The Right Way" by KBShimmer, and painted a wave pattern using "In Yacht Water," also by KBShimmer.  To get the subtle waves look, I used a holo topcoat and OPI's Nail Envy in a watermarble pattern.  I then used my MoYou Nails Black nail polish to stamp the boat silhouettes, and a dark blue stamping polish from somewhere (I honestly don't recall, it's in an unmarked tiny bottle) for the dolphin silhouettes, all from MoYou Nails Plate 70.  I painted a light grey inside the dolphin lines because they just looked odd as outlines :P  I topped it all with my OPI Matte topcoat, and I'm pretty pleased with the end look ^_^

My second design is a bit more fun :)  One of my favorite activities I remember doing as a kid in the summer was making tie-dye t-shirts and whatnot.  So I thought I'd re-create a nail design to sort of emulate that look:

I used the entire Live Love Neon collection by Seventy-Seven Nail Lacquer for the watermarble designs.  I then stamped over using my MoYou White nail polish and a beautiful butterfly design from Plate 212.  Over the sun part of the butterfly image I placed a diamond rhinestone for an added sparkle :)  I totally love how this design turned out!!!

I'm always pleased with MoYou Nails plates and polishes - they all stamp so smoothly!  I've noticed that they pick up with different types of stamper heads, too, which is always nice.  Some of my polishes will only pick up with a super sticky and squishy stamper, others will only transfer on a more solid type of stamper.  All the MoYou Nails polishes pick up with both types so far.  I used my MoYou Nails stamper, which is not too sticky and is stiffer, for all these image transfers in the above designs.

What do you think of these designs?  What are some of the first things that come to your mind when you think of Summer? :)

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MoYou Nails supplied their stamping plates, polishes, and rhinestones for this review.  Opinions and experiences with the product are my own and are 100% honest.  Results may vary for everyone.

Smokey Mountain Lacquers Stamping Polish

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Good morning, and happy Sunday to you!  I hope you've had a lovely weekend so far :)  This morning I want to share with you the brand new stamping polish collection just released by Smokey Mountain Lacquers!  I gotta tell you, these are some absolutely stunning colors!!!  Let's dive right in :D

*Note: I used my MoYou London Sailor Plate 07 for all the stamping designs you'll see.

First up to show you is: Aqua Blue

Next up is: Hot Pink

Next we have: Orange

Next up is: Grape

Here we have: Aqua/Teal

And lastly is: Yellow

Overall, these stampers worked great!!  I found a more squishy stamper head yielded the best, cleanest results.  The colors of each polish showed up nicely!  I was worried about Grape and Orange and first, as they seemed to have the thinnest formula of the set, but they came out just fine :)  I love these bright, summery colors!

If you want to add some of these to your stash, you can purchase the full-size 15ml set for a discounted price of $39.90 here, or individually for $7.00 each here.  These are not available in a mini size, only full size.

You can follow Smokey Mountain Lacquers via Facebook, the Facebook Fan Group, Twitter, and Instagram for updates on upcoming releases.  She's got some fizzy bombs in the works, as well as a monthly box, so I'd definitely stay tuned!

What do you think of these polishes?  Any color stand out most to you?

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Polishes sent to me by maker for photography purposes and review.  Opinions remain my own and are 100% honest.