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Hey friends! Super Mario Brothers are going to be very excited about today’s blog post! Today I am sharing the June 2023 release from Fandom Flakies. In case you didn’t catch the memo, Fandom Flakies was taking a little break for a few months but they are BACK.
For June, the box is themed after Super Mario and the guest maker is Wildflower Lacquer. I am a lifelong Super Mario fan, I have been playing Mario games since the NES days. Tonight Wayne and I will be watching the new movie and I am way too excited about it.
The Super Mario themed Fandom Flakies box goes on sale starting on June 9th on FandomFlakies.com. As always, I will have full sale details at the end of the post. Thank you very much to Fandom Flakies for sponsoring today’s blog post and video!
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Fandom Flakies is a monthly indie collaboration between Bee’s Knees Lacquer, Night Owl Lacquer and Ribbits Stickits. Each month has a guest maker, a new theme and polishes are exclusive to the box.
Bee’s Knees Lacquer – I’m Now The Most Powerful Turtle In The World
Description: a turtle green polish with pink to gold to green aurora flakes and scattered holo flakes
I’m Now The Most Powerful Turtle In The World as someone who is on a major green kick, um wow? I love this color! I would describe it as the shade of turtle green of the 90’s Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtle cartoon green. I recognize that is incredibly specific but BKL called it turtle green so that’s what I am going with.
The base is a bit more jelly-like so it starts off sheer and needs to be built up to reach opacity. I found I needed 3 coats to even out the base as well as to mostly cover up my VNL. There are some big ol flakies in the bottle and they do come out fairly easily without needing to fish for them. You get a ton of holo sparkle from the holo flakies.
My photos show I’m Now The Most Powerful Turtle In The World in 3 coats plus both glossy and matte top coats. Nothing in here dries down textured and removal will be fairly easy, but messy. No issues with staining.
Bee’s Knees Lacquer
15ml, 5+ Free, Vegan & Cruelty-Free
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Night Owl Lacquer – You Just Got Luigi’d
Description: a clear base filled with silver reflective glitter pigment and lime/green/cyan/sapphire multichrome flakes
You Just Got Luigi’d I was so surprised that the formula on this one wasn’t super thick. It was on the thicker side but a normal amount (in my opinion) for a flakie and glitter dense polish.
The flakies spread out pretty evenly, but you have plenty of working time to spread them out perfectly evenly if you want. This polish works well as both a topper and a full coverage polish. As someone who seriously loves it when NOL does polishes like this, I was very giddy about it.
I found I loved coverage in 2 coats, however I feel like my camera was able to pick up my nail bed a lot better than my naked eyes could. This will be a 2-3 coater depending on how you feel about VNL. I found you get like 95% opacity with a third coat.
The reflective glitters do give this polish quite a bit of texture so I would recommend at least 2 coats of top coat to smooth everything out. I opted to use the KBShimmer Smooth Moves glitter top coat before my Night Owl Lacquer Patience Not Required top coat.
My photos show You Just Got Luigi’d in 2 coats plus 2 coats of top coat.
Night Owl Lacquer
15ml, 5 Free & Cruelty-Free
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Wildflower Lacquer – Not Bad, Mustache
Description: a pink base with aqua to blue to indigo shifting shimmer and holographic flakes
Not Bad, Mustache as a lifelong Princess Peach fan, I love this shade so much. I expected this to have a sheerer jelly formula but it was a fairly opaque crelly/creme application. Not one coater territory but good/self leveling coverage nontheless.
The shimmer does show some mild brush strokes. They aren’t super obvious but if you look for them, you will see them. I found the base color to be a magenta leaning pink. I feel the shimmer adds to the magenta lean to the pink base.
My photos show Not Bad, Mustache in 2 coats plus glossy top coat. You will want top coat with this one as it dries down pretty flat. Nothing dries down textured and removal will be very easy.
Wildflower Lacquer
15ml, 10 Free & Cruelty-Free
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Ribbits Stickits
And yes, I did forget to to take photos of this decal before I did my nails. I was excited ok??
I used Essie’s Push Play (Review over here)as the blue base and China Glaze Angel Wings as my gold accent. If you’d like to see step by step of me applying these decals, check out my video!
Peach, Peach, Peach scent description: a blend of ripe, juicy Georgia peach, peach nectar, fizzy champagne, and mandarin orange slices!
This month’s scent is PERFECTLY scented of real peaches with a hint of champagne bubbles. Part of me had hoped this would smell like peach rings but I am not mad at real peach scented anything.
Ribbits Stickits
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Final Thoughts
I loved this month’s box! Each maker really stuck to the theme and I loved that they did! I don’t pick favorites from the Fandom Flakies box and if I did, I wouldn’t this month because I loved every single item!
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Sale Information
The Super Mario Fandom Flakies box goes on sale starting on June 9th at 12PM Eastern time for a week long pre-order on FandomFlakies.com that ends on June 16th at 11:59PM Eastern time.
The 3 polish box is priced at $33 plus shipping. If you would like to Ribbits Stickits waterslide decals, that box is priced at $43 plus shipping. You can purchase all of the Ribbits Stickits items individually outside of the box.
Ribbits Stickits Pricing
- It’s-a-me, Mario waterslide decals $6
- Super Mario waterslide decals $6
- Other waterslide decals $6
- Hand & Cuticle Cream $7.50
- Acetone Additive $4.50
