Try it Tuesday- Tonic Happenstance and Bauble

I bought 2 of the OG Unicorn Pee polishes with flakies from Tonic when they came out in February, 2018.

First up is Tonic Happenstance. This is a "sister" polish to Tonic's Serendipity- Happenstance is Serendipity with flakies in it. It's purple with Unicorn Pee and iridescent flakies. I do have Serendipity, but haven't used it yet!!

This is 3 coats. With polishes that have flakies in them, I generally do 3 coats just to build up the jelly base and the depth of the flakies.

This one on the left was taken in the sunshine. I did get a little bit of tip wear, but I find I do get that sometimes with jelly polishes.











Here is a little bit of a close up, you can see the flakies.

One more of Happenstance in the sun.

Next is Bauble, the UP flakie version of their UP polish Curio. I did not pick up Curio when it was offered, and am totally bummed. If it's ever offered again, or I see it in a destash for a reasonable price, I will definitely pick it up!  This is a blurple, where Happenstance is more of a red-based purple.

Again with 3 coats. I love this color, and the formulas on both of these were amazing, no issues at all, and great jelly base build up in the 3 coats.

These UP polishes really do have such a pretty glow about them.

I didn't do a super close up of this one, but you can see the flakies in these pictures.



Tonic always has great polishes, and great formulas.  I appreciate that for the most part, they have their polishes available so you don't need ninja fingers to buy their polishes.


Live your life with love in your heart and glitter on your nails!




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Try it Tuesday- Tonic Lemons and Cream

I am not usually a fan of yellow polishes, but I saw this in their Secrets and Soulmates collection that came out in November 2017 and I just had to have it!

This is a gorgeous polish! This is under my lights, it looks super bright here.

I did 3 coats and still could see a little vnl (visible nail line), and I didn't think adding another coat would help, and it was really minimal anyways.

These two pictures are under my lights.







I love that in some lights you can really catch the reddish shimmer in the polish. Here's a macro.





Here are a couple pictures in the sunlight.  It looks a little lighter under the sun.

And one more. It really is a cool polish, and I just kept looking at my nails!

I did get a lot of compliments.

 

Watch out, this is a stainer. I always wear Nailtiques 2, and Orly Bonder as a base coat, and it still stained. I don't really care about that, but if you care, then be forewarned!

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Try it Tuesday- Tonic Helpless, my first magnetic polish!

Tonic Helpless is the first magnetic polish I've tried. It was pretty easy to work with, and I loved the effect!

I painted 1 thin coat, didn't do the magnet, then a thick second coat and held the magnet at an angle for 10-15 seconds. I top coated with Seche Vite, and held the magnet over it again since I heard that the top coat can kind of re-liquify the polish and smoosh out the magnetic effect.

This is so cool! I love the darker blue contrasted with the lighter blue line!

I got one of those gray art erasers and used it as a handle for the magnet, so I could get it as close to it as possible. I did use the magnet I bought from Tonic, one of the strong neodymium magnets that make the cool lines. It was $2.

The formula was easy to work with- it was easy to do a thin first coat, and the thicker second coat wasn't hard to control. This also didn't stain my nails (I do use Nailtiques 2 and then Orly Bonder as a base coat).                                           

Here's a close up of one of my nails. 

Of course Tonic is super hyped, but I do think it's deserved- they have a quality product, and their customer service is amazing.

If you're not part of the Tonic Facebook group, you should join if you're into that sort of thing, there's heads up on new releases and sneak peaks.






Live your life with love in your hearts and glitter on your nails!

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Tonic Nail Mail #2 March releases!

So I had to break my Tonic order into two for budgetary reasons! And of course, they put out a couple more new things in March, so it was worth the wait (and I got free shipping again!)

Uba Tuba, Cerise Noir (a Black Hearted Beauties March custom), Marilyn and Verklempt


These are

Butterfly Leaf, Ambrosia, Suspira

I can't wait to wear these!! Especially Marilyn, that just looks like summer in a bottle right there!!

Live your life with love in your hearts and glitter on your nails!

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Tonic Nail Mail #1 - the February releases!!!

Geez oh, so supposedly I'm on a no-buy and Tonic comes out with these gorgeous polishes!  It was really nice that they made this a pre-order, no ninja fingers needed, and they made the Unicorn Pee polishes available until the end of February, and the other new releases available through the end of March- this makes it so I can do 2 orders and split between 2 paychecks, lol.

This is Helpless (a magnetic), Bauble, Uniporn Adorned, Happenstance and Necromantic. I also got a magent for the magnetic polishes.


So pretty!! I'm going to try Helpless first!!


Live your life with love in your heart and glitter on your nails!!!


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Nail Mail - Tonic customer appreciation sale!

Tonic Polish had a customer appreciation sale, I was able to get a couple. I didn't get a couple I wanted but oh well, I planned on that.  Luckily, Tonic is so so good at bringing things back, so I'll get you eventually, Toxic! LOL


I picked up Lagniappe from their Secrets and Soulmates collection, and Endless Shrimp from their Spring 2017 collection.

Tonic has great polishes, and excellent customer service. You can join their Facebook fan page, Tonic Nail Polish, and see videos and swatches of upcoming collections.

Live your life with love in your hearts and glitter on your nails!

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Tonic Black Friday 2017 haul

So this isn't exactly a Black Friday haul, it's the haul from the release they did just after Black Friday.

Tonic has gorgeous polishes. I did get a non-magnetic Becoming (word on the FB page is that it's a mislabeled Dorothy from their Multichrome Madness FB custom polishes). I also ordered          Extra-ORD-inary, and got #Chibound instead. I emailed them about the issues, and they're rectifying it asap- their customer service is amazing. I knew I wouldn't have any problems.

So L-R is Zeppo (magnetic), Becoming (supposed to be magnetic, lol), in front of those is the neodymium magnet you use with magnetic polishes. Then Novitiate, Superstar (Superstar, Becoming and the magnet came in a set, I don't know why I separated them in the picture!), then Hush and #Chibound.

Shipping was amazingly fast! Tonic polishes have great formulas, and the colors are amazing. Their polish Angelfish is one of my all time favorites (I bought that when Tonic was still sold on Etsy!). I now have 20 Tonics, and will continue to add to my Tonic collection! I'll post the other 2 when they come.

Live your life with love in your hearts and glitter on your nails!


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