HI, I have some questions about your nail polishes as I'm trying to narrow down my list of, uh, 30 of that I want to a more reasonable number. You have a lot of polishes with microglitters; do you find they're a pain to remove? (I repaint my nails every week without fail so I try to avoid the big flakey kind, but I don't use a ton of microglitter so I don't know.) 2: We're in the same-ish geographical area; do you go to conventions? I want to drool over nail polish in person...
(cont) Also, 3: how does one make custom nailpolish!?!?!? I have so many questions I can't believe I didn't know this is a thing that could be done
WELL HELLO THERE thank you for these fabulous questions and I will do my best to help you out, though I admit to a bias for basically every color I make and I am not really the best source to help you narrow down from 30 (go with samplers to start, samplers are the best).
1) I don’t find them a pain to remove in general but I also am forced by the gods of Ugh Migraines Why to use expensive non-acetone removers (which, funny story, is also the reason why I make nail polish). Organic mineral-based removers tend to require a little extra elbow grease anyway so I never notice a lot of trouble except with the really big glitters, like the stars and tinsels in Urdr. My personal preference is Tate’s Natural Miracle, which I pick up from Amazon.
2) I do indeed go to conventions! I opened this month at Magic City Con in Birmingham, and in October I will be nail-bitingly shipping a flat of glittery goodies to Seattle for GeekGirlCon, one of my very favorite places in the world. I have also been known to meet people for coffee and exchange shipping for conversation!
3) For a small hobby shop like mine, nail polish is made by combining 5-free lacquer base and various pigments into an empty polish bottle with the assistance of the world’s tiniest immersion blender. It’s basically really, really sparkly Mad Science.
