Thanksgiving & Update

To my limited audience, Happy Thanksgiving! I hope everyone gets to visit with family (or be left alone if that's your preference), eat hearty and conclude the day on a high note with pumpkin pie. It will be a small feast at our house (for just 2-3 people) but I'm making all the trimmings along with a nice turkey breast so I expect to be both tired and stuffed (pun intended).

The update: Assuming my little experiment works out properly, I will have a post about pressing your own eye shadows from mica pigments coming up, part research and partly instructive.

Have fun, be safe in your travels. 

Merry Christmas and a mini update!

Well, we made it through another year, Ladies. Merry Christmas and Happy New Years! May your nail polish shine and your nails not break =)

I could tell you the highlights of my 2018 but I suspect it wouldn't be all that interesting. In summary, my dad, cats, home, kids (now 19 and 21), various crafts and more artsy stuff. The one notable accomplishment was I have completed reading The Bible all the way through once (and that's not bragging because it took me years to do it).

So, your mini update from me is mini indeed. Although making nail polish isn't MY hobby anymore, others still use my blog for reference and as such, it is in need of update, at the least dead links removed and others fixed when possible. I will be very slowly working my way through the pages and then hopefully the posts themselves but it will be a long process as "free" time is limited. Today I am starting with the Suspension Base Suppliers page.

Main store links verified 12/25/18
Suspension Base Suppliers
Franken Polish Supply Stores
Chameleon Pigment Suppliers
Automotive Suppliers
Pigment Suppliers
Glitter Suppliers
Fingernail Polish Retailers

Be good, be safe, enjoy family and friends. -MK

To a New Year...

Today is the 31st of December and the last day of 2017- the blog survived another year. If you don't know, it's been around now for 7 years and 3 months and in that time I gained 602 followers! I've lost a few here and there but if you're still with me, even once in a while, THANK YOU! Without you, I'd just be talking to myself. 

Life just keeps coming and keeps you busy. I still dabble with polish and buy the color shifting pigments when they come out but it the hobby is far less interesting to me today and I have less to contribute. Just about anything you need to start and maintain the hobby, including the "research" are widely available now and easy to find, not so when I started out. But I can still recall the joy and amazement from mixing that first simple bottle of clear polish + pigment and I hope it is something you still experience.

May your 2018 be more sparkly and colorful than this year.
Happy New Years. -M

Glitter Unique Black Friday Sale

Here, it's 7:55a. You still have 35 minutes to save 25% on Glitter Unique products store-wide.
After 9a, you can still save 20%.

Get it while the getting's good!

Adoptable Cats in N. Kentucky & Ohio

Although cats are not the same topic as this blog, many of my readers seem to also be cat lovers so I'm going to share my new Facebook page, Tri-State Adoptable Cats, in the hopes I'll reach a broader audience (beyond those on my "friends" list). Allow me to explain, if you're still here.

I've had cats since 2010, six at this moment, with one that passed away a couple years ago. Of those cats, four were strays, two came from a local animal shelter and one from a rescue- so you can see that I too am a cat lover and equal-opportunity adopter.

Starting in 2015, I began sharing the profiles of adoptable cats on my personal Facebook page daily. These cats were within the Northern Kentucky-Ohio area, from local rescues and shelters mostly and that list grew to include over 20 agencies; I'm afraid those on my friends list probably got tired of the daily influx and stopped following. With that in mind, I created Tri-State Adoptable Cats on Facebook, this way I can continue to feature the cats daily but not annoy those who wish not to see them.

If you're one of those people that like to see cute adoptable cats and kittens and you live in the Northern Kentucky-Southern Ohio area- or know someone who does- stop by. I'd love to "see" you there!
-MK

Unicorn Pee?

Slightly after the fact but I'm posting anyway.

"Unicorn Pee" is apparently all the rage these days, right? I'm here to tell you that Glitter Unique, one of my FAV suppliers, has a newer line of color shifting goodies called Unicorn Pigments and #8 is supposed to look a LOT like the infamous Unicorn Pee.

There are currently 9 colors and they sell for $11.50 a gram, 2 grams - $22.50, 1/4 oz (7.08 grams)- $77.00.

-MK

New Illusion Flakes from Glitter Unique

New Illusion Flakes from Glitter Unique... "Beautiful, Colorful flakes with a Holographic Flair!!!"

6 Colors, $12.00 per gram, $20.00 for 2 grams (larger quantities available).

10% off now until Monday on new products.