r/RedditLaqueristas

I’m curious: What kind of bottles are the worst in your opinion and why? What bottles you can’t stand and they make you not want to buy to polish at all? It can be about practicality or the design itself is off putting.

This is supposed to be light and not mean towards any brands, and not about the polish itself but just the bottles. 🙂

For me it’s this type of bottle that I’ve seen a few times different brands use. The design is just so very 80’s or 90’s and the cap is too pointy and doesn’t feel good while painting your nails.

I finally got my Charmcaster from Shimmer Hollow in the mail yesterday and got the chance to play around with it. I research everything before I buy it and didn't see a ton of info on the Charmcaster out there so I'd thought I'd post this video in case anyone is curious about it.

I ordered directly from their website and did the choose your own bundle, so I got the whole set with the glass bead spinner, and the crossroads, ribbon, lightning, and toadstool charms. This is the emerald color.

It is a pretty penny at $50, but I got free shipping so that was nice. I think it is definitely worth the price. It is really well designed and everything fits together so nicely. Putting it back together into the little storage tube makes my OCD brain happy 😂 There are finger pedestals at 5 different heights, and 2 thumb pedestals. You can turn the finger/thumb pedestals around in the nail station depending on if you have long or short nails, which is pretty cool. Everything is labeled.

The glass bead spinner and the charms all work really well. The swatches you see here are all top coated and have been drying for several hours, so there really wasn't any additional dispersion beyond what you see in the video, I was pretty impressed.

Products in swatches:

Glass bead spinner - Cracked Drugstore Chocolate and ILNP Warped.

Crossroads charm - X shape is Sassy Sauce Mercury in Retrograde, and the cross is Sally Hansen 553 (grey base) with Cracked Scorchy on top.

Ribbon charm - Mooncat La Petite Mort

Lightening charm - Cracked Ghouls Garden

Toadstool charm - ILNP Mad House

All have 2 coats, 2nd coat magnetized for 1 minute, and Sally Hansen red bottle top coat magnetized for 2 minutes. I can't wait to try it out on my nails and see how it works!

Sorry if the swatches are hard to see, I wanted to move them closer to the camera but my phone is really old and camera didn't want to refocus.

Went to tell the poster their nails are gorgeous and suddenly Chrome is opening a webpage. They've certainly mastered the RedditLaqueristas style!

Just finished doing these... idk how I feel tbh 🥲 My best friend likes them though so I figured I'd post them even though I'm not sure I love them.

Products used:

- Essie Strong Start

- Supwee silver magnetic

- ShimmerHollow CharmCaster velvet magnet

- ILNP Shirley

- Cracked Scorchy

- ILNP Amber

- Cirque Colors Mood Ring

- ANLAC Sapphire Morpho

- Bees Knees Lacquer The Sharper The Teeth

- DRK Magic Effect

- ShimmerHollow CharmCaster with spinner disc

- Essie Gel Setter

I love the look of dichroic glass/glass opals. I was looking at a metallic polish I don't really like for me on its own and thought... foil backing for dichroic glass nails??

What do you think? I was really happy with it for a first experiment! Would love any suggestions or pictures if anyone has tried this or similar. It was also my first sponge attempt (now lets see if I can do it on the nail)

-no base since a swatch

-Mooncat- Cyborg tears x1

-Random sponge of EDM- Cohesion, Cuticula- Jellyfish, and Cuticula- Firelight

-BKL- Maidenless x2 (best sheer purple I had)

-not enough purple, so Cirque- Fig jelly x1

-KB Shimmer glitter grabber for maybe extra squish x1

-KB Shimmer Clearly on Top x1

Got these lovely stamping plates and no stamper. I’ve been looking on Amazon and I’m so overwhelmed. Every time I think I’ve found a good clear silicone stamper, I read bad reviews on it.

Can anyone recommend a brand?

And what do you use as a scraping tool? Did it come with your stamper?

This combo is giving me serious swimming pool vibes, and it's exactly what I need in the brutal heat right now!

Inspired by u/CurrentStriking2871

Cracked Beginner's Luck over top of Sally Hansen On the Download

1x LynB Sticky Base Coat

2x Nail Aid Instant Gel Effect (regular lacquer, NOT a gel, but it helps give some protection to my pitiful flimsy nails)

2x Sally Hansen On the Download (and I was so tempted to leave it there at that beautiful blue!)

1x Cracked Beginner's Luck (magnetized 1 minute glass bead, by the Shimmer Hollow Charm Caster)

1x Bee's Knees I'm Fast, Very Fast (magnetized sane method 2 minutes)

Extrusion Arts just opened up for pre-orders! Was able to snag one and figured I’d share :)

missed the ppu preorder period for this absolutely stunning moody whimsical polish from arcana lacquer called lizard wizard... please help i need it. arcana's stuff has me in a chokehold truly

Lazy galaxy-inspired gradient! ✨️

Products used:

- From Index to Pinky: Sassy Sauce Pigment of my imagination, KBShimmer Spectral Feeling, ILNP Misfit and Clionadh And fire (each in two coats and magnetized in glass bead)

- KBShimmer Stay Put Hydrating Base Coat and Clearly on Top top coat (x1 each)

These polishes are so beautiful and saturated, I'm almost getting flashbanged everytime they shift!!

Base: one coat Baby Girl Lacquer Glitter Be Gone peel off base coat + one coat Cracked Polish ridge filling base coat

Polish: two coats Pahlish La Boheme

Top coat: Hula Moon Epic Top Coat

1x Essie Start Strong base coat (open to suggestions for something better! It’s just what I had on hand)

2x Mooncat Memento Mori

1x Mooncat Speed Demon top coat

Loving the iridescent sparkle 😍✨ feels a little “glazed donut” with a lil something extra (PS. Please don’t judge my sad cuticles 😂)

Just got my order from Clionadh and am obsessed with this!! My first Holo ever, probably not my last. I’m now wishing I got the pink or the green holo in this collection too…

2 coats H2Olo
1 coat Essie Speed Setter

Hello lovelies! What reflective polishes are we wearing? I’m talking the most obnoxious, flashy, grittiest polish that makes your peely polish quiver with fear? I have a fever and the only prescription is more blinding sparkling glitter nails.

On my hand:

Nailtiques formula 2

Emily de Molly - wished for tomorrow x2

OPI Gel plump effect TC

May polish scalpers who resell GWPs from PBE for $68 on Mercari have all their bottles break, purples fade and thermals stop working 🔮

Farewell, koi whiskers. You're kind of hard to apply, I literally always get air bubbles, but boi you're pretty.

Koi, you're pretty 😭

MC hardcore bc

MC koi whiskers

Sally Hansen red bottle qdtc