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Hey gaming fans! Today’s post is for the September Polished Gamers Box. The theme for September is a Night At The Arcade.
The PGB launches later today on the Polished Gamers website. As always, sale details and links can be found at the end of the post. This month I also have a few comparisons to share.
The Polished Gamers Box aka PGB is a monthly collaboration between handmade indie brands. Each month has a different theme and themes are always related to gaming.
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Adored Colors – Glow Pac-Go
Inspiration: Glowing Pac-man arcade light
Description: a yellow crelly base polish with a ton of neon orange and purple, hexes, blue microglitter, and red and green circle glitter. This is a pineapple yellow glow in the dark polish
Price: $11.50 for 15ml Cap: 30
Glow Pac-Go had a really nice formula. It was a tiny bit streaky at first but along what I expect for a yellow glitter crelly. The streaks do even out for the most part in 3 coats. The glitters spread out really nicely. I did notice that the larger hexes seem to sink a bit in the bottle so holding this one upside between coats will get you the most glitter payoff.
The glow in the dark effect charged up nicely for me using a blacklight flashlight. Depending on how many of the larger hex glitters you get on the nail will dictate how textured this one is on the nail. On my nails that got a lot of large hexes, I used 2 coats of top coat. The level of difficulty on removal will also depend on how many of the larger glitters you get on the nail. I didn’t experience any staining.
Adored Colors
15ml, 5 free and Cruelty-Free
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BCB Lacquers – Enter The World of Tron
Inspiration: Inspired by an image of two Light Cycle bikes racing in Tron.
Description: Enter The World of Tron is described as a silver base with a pink/purple/gold shift and holo.
Price: $13.00 for 16.5ml Cap: 150
Enter The World of Tron had a really great formula it went on very smoothly. I was seeing all of the described colors in the shimmer. I found the the holographic came out the most in direct sunlight. In my indoor lighting, I found this polish looked very metallic/chromey.
This will be a 2 to 3 coater depending on your nail length. I use 2 coats for my photos.
BCB Lacquers
15ml, 5 Free, Vegan & Cruelty-Free
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Color Spectrum Polish – Step Out Of Reality
Inspiration: Virtual reality games
Description a blue linear holographic with a strong purple glow, blue holographic micro glitters and scattered gold holographic
Price: $12 for 13ml Cap: 50
Step Out Of Reality had a great formula. It did run down the stem of the brush a little bit but it did not feel thin at all. This applied very nicely. The strong purple glow looks very blue toned paired with the base. All of the glitters spread out evenly and easily on their own with giving off texture. This polish is also very holographic!
This polish was like 90% opaque in 2 coats. My photos show it with 3 coats as it covered up between tiny bit of visible VNL that I had. This polish is very pigmented so I would recommend wearing two coats of basecoat with it to prevent staining. I had this on for about a day with 1 coat of base coat and didn’t have any staining.
Color Spectrum Polish
13ml, 7 Free, Vegan & Cruelty free
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Leesha’s Lacquer – I Need Some Space
Inspiration: Space Invaders
Description: A black jelly with pink, yellow, green, turquoise, and purple circle glitters
Price: $11 for 15ml Cap: NONE
I Need Some Space had a pretty good formula. It was on the thicker side but not difficult to work with. The black base is on the sheer side so you will want to build it up for the best opacity. The glitters spread out pretty evenly on their own so I didn’t need to do any glitter placement. None of the glitters seem to dry textured so 1 coat of top coat smooths this out completely.
As this polish is on the sheer side, you might have VNL with this polish. I accidentally did a thicker final coat on my middle nail so that nail is a bit more opaque than the other nails. The middle nail didn’t have any VNL but the other nails did. I used 3 coats for my photos. On my thumb, I did 1 coat with glitter placement over a black creme.
Leesha’s Lacquer
15ml, 5 Free, Vegan & Cruelty Free
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Psst.. You can use my code NicoleLovesNails25 on the Leesha’s Lacquer site to save 25%!
My Indie Polish – Phoenix
Inspiration: An old arcade game
Description: A grey green with lots of shift and shimmer
Price: $13 for 15ml Cap: 50 bottles
Phoenix had a beautiful formula. It didnt feel overly thick or thin. In person, this polish is very hard to describe. I was seeing a greyish blue base with a gold to green shimmer plus small red to gold flakes.
This polish will be a 2-3 coater depending on preference. I found the third coat did deepen the color slightly. I used 3 coats for my photos. Nothing in here dried textured or will be difficult to remove.
Music City Beauty
15ml, 5 Free, Vegan and Cruelty-Free
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NeVerMind Apothecary – Get Over Here
Inspiration: Scorpion from Mortal Kombat
Description: a golden yellow jelly base with black and gold flakes
Price: $12.50 for 15ml Cap: 200
Get Over here had a really great jelly formula. The flakies all spread out evenly and easily. The base is a beautiful golden yellow shade that leans just slightly green from the black flakies.
I used 2 coats for my photos. I think this will be a 3 coater on longer nails. I really liked how it looked in 2 coats s
NeVerMind Apothecary
15ml, 5 Free, Vegan & Cruelty-Free
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Night Owl Lacquer – High Score
Inspiration: The glow of the high score screen
Description: a black base filled with red/copper/green shimmer and red holographic micro glitter
Price: $13 for 15ml Cap: None
High Score had a fantastic formula. It felt slightly on the thicker side of normal but I didn’t have any application issues. The shimmer is VERY color shifty! I was seeing all of the described colors in person. The red microglitter gives this a very pretty sparkle.
This polish has the potential to be a 1 coater if you go in for a slightly thick first coat. On me, this was a 2 coater. Does Polish does dried and also you will want to put for a glossy finish.
Night Owl Lacquer
15ml, 5 Free & Cruelty Free
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Red Eyed Lacquer – Game On Old Friend
Inspiration: Tron
Description: A deep navy jelly with tons of color shifting flakies and blue glow in the dark.
Price: $12.50 for 13ml Cap: 150
Game On Old Friend had a beautiful jelly formula. The flakies all spread out evenly and easily on their own without needing to do anything special. I just love the base color for this polish!
The glow in the dark aspect charged up very easily for me with my blacklight flashlight. So my photos show this one in both 2 and in 3 coats. I goofed with this swatch so my middle nail shows it in 3 coats. All of the other nails are in 2 coats. You get passable coverage in two but that third coat deepens the color and adds more opacity.
Red Eyed Lacquer
12ml, 5 free & Cruelty-Free
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Comparisons
I didn’t think these two polishes were similar but I figured since I had another yellow crelly by this brand to compare the differences. I am comparing it with Looking Cute By The Pool (reviewed here) which was released earlier this year.
I just wanted to throw up a quick comparison of Step Out Of Reality to Don’t Dream Just Believe (reviewed here). The shades of blue between these two are different and the only similarities are that they are both blues with linear holo.
I also wanted to compare the Night Owl Lacquer polish with their Sept 2021 PPU polish (review for that is here), That Halloween Glow. These aren’t dupes or really similar, other than being very color shifty and seasonally appropriate. I found the base for High Score was a lot darker than THG.
Sale Info
The Polished Gamers Box opens for orders on the 15th of each month at 2PM Eastern time on the website, PolishedGamersBox.com. There will be a ton more items than what I have shown available. All items are capped so be sure to get there when the shop opens! All PGB items are sold on preorder and will ship in around 4 weeks after the sale period.
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Shipping within the US has a flat rate of $4. International shipping is available and priced at checkout. Multiple orders in the same name will have shipping overages will get refunded.
