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For Bee's Knees 2nd anniversary they have created a new IT themed collection and have sent it to me for review! Also available are Bioshock mystery bag overpours, new mystery bags, new scents for scroaps and meringues, and a huge sale on all old polishes and bath and body products. Everything that won't be new to the site will be 20% off. The site goes live at noon on 9/1 and the sale will last through 9/7. ( I'm clearly late.) I love the scroaps(whipped soap/sugar scrub combo), meringues (whipped soap), aloe lotion, bath bombs/crumbles and wax melts! BKL lip balms are my favorite indie formula. I've yet to try any bar soap. As far as sale polishes I have to recommend some of my favorites in stock: White River Monster Spine, Rougarou Hair, Chesapeake Chessie, Necromorph Nude, Songbird Cinnamon, and Thunderbird Feather.
For reviews on these click the links. 
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August's Polish Pickup theme is At The Carnival and Bee's Knees has created this gorgeous shimmer/multichrome, Find Yourself is inspired by the carnival scene at the beginning of Us Described as: a sandy tan polish with glowing green to purple/pink shimmer. (I see blue in there too.) Personally I'd cal this color cantaloupe. It will be $12 with no cap.

I've used 3 coats with glossy and matte topcoats in natural and artificial T5 full spectrum lights. This could be opaque at 2 coats if you have a less aggressive free edge. Their rounded brushes are my favorite. Easy to use formula, removes like a creme. The shimmer is prominent and may show lines so apply it in straight strokes, as few as possible.
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sent in exchange for my honest review
For the month of June Polish Pickup's theme is Weather Phenomenon. Bee's Knees has went the cheeky route and choose the funny meme you see in the first photo as their inspiration for both products. A lovely pastel multichrome with holographic flakies and a tinted lip balm. The sale runs from June 7, 11 am edt through June 10, 11:59 pm edt
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Bee's Knees June release, Cryptids

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Bee's Knees June release continues their cryptids theme with pastel multichromes. These are the perfect mix between a shimmer and a foil. They will go up at noon on 6/1 along with new Godzilla themed mystery bags. 3 polishes per bag with a total of 18 new mystery polishes in the pool. $25 each.

  • Available June 1, 2019 at 12pm edt.
  • $13 each
  • I've shown them all with glossy and satin topcoats, in natural light, sunlight, and t5 full spectrum lights.
  • Besides some differences in opacity these all have the same formula. Good viscosity, no flooding or pulling,stays where you put it. removes easily like a creme. The shimmer is very fine and can be difficult to completely remove from skin.
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Bee's Knees May '19 Release, Avengers inspired multichromes


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Sent in exchange for my honest review.
  • Release on May 4th, 12 pm EDT.
  • Polishes $15 each
  • New scents in wax and bath products.
  • I've shown each polish with glossy topcoat in natural light,sunlight, and T5 full spectrum bulbs.
  • As always I love BKL's flat, rounded brushes.

This month Bee's Knees is releasing 4 new multichromes inspired by some of their favorite Marvel characters. There will also be waxes in new shapes and scents (I received 2) and a new bath product. Sarah says "These use a new multichrome pigment which I think gives the polishes a little bit of extra sparkle. These have a ton of pigment packed into them so they're probably the shiftiest polishes I've made!" They really are fabulous, every color included in the descriptions appear easily.
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Bee's Knees Lacquer, May '19 PPU, Sometimes Dead Is Better, polish and wax

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May's Polish Pickup is almost here! The theme is I love the 80's and Sarah of Bee's Knees Lacquer has chosen Pet Semetary as her inspiration for both her polish and wax. The result is a beautiful medium gray polish with an eerie gold to green sibling unicorn pee (sought after small particle shifty pigment) shimmer and ghost flakes (iridescent/translucent) that shift green to blue and red to green. Y'all know I love grey polish and have a love affair with iridescent flakies so naturally I love this polish. First of all I must apologize. As a blogger I have failed you. I thought I wrote down how many coats I used but alas, I did not. It's either 2 or 3. The formula was great to use as usual, not too thick or thin. The consistency is easy to apply as it stays where you put it but doesn't dry so fast that it gets overworked and pulls. The flakies lay down easily on their own. Scroll down to the wax photos for my review of that. :)

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Bee's Knees April HHC Tittybean

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Artificial T5 lights at an angle.

For April's Hella Handmade Creations Bee's Knees is continuing the Rick and Morty theme and have created this rich grape polish with glowing blue shimmer and bright pink iridescent flakes.
Sale dates 4/14-4/21 at www.hellahandmadecreations.com. I had to look up this inspiration. Tittybean cracks me up and Sarah totally nailed her inspiration. This is capped or limited so don't sleep on it. Once you have ordered though, be patience as this is a pre-order, I'll attach a handy image outlining the sale process from HHC at the end of this post.
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 Bee's Knees Little Moth, April 2019 PPU

T5 bulbs
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The theme for the April Polish Pickup is Famous Works of Art and Bee's Knees has created her own based on Sander Cohen's Miasma from the Bioshock Games. The official description is a dusty blue polish with a glowing shimmer that shifts from red to gold to green (not UP but still amazing). This was very opaque and I only used 2 coats! It's so beautiful I couldn't stop taking photos, there's a lovely bronze shift in there too. I know I always say this buy flawless formula. The viscosity is not too thick or thin, good dry time, removes like a creme and the rounded brush makes application a breeze. Dries to a shiny finish. This will be available for pre-order from Polish Pickup April 5-8th with no cap or bottle limit for $13.
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natural light

For this month's Hella Handmade Creations Bee's Knees is continuing her Rick and Morty theme with Solenya, inspired by the pickle man, this is a dark pickle green polish with red shimmer and a whole bunch of flakes that shift all kinds of colors. This is truly the perfect pickle polish! It will be $13 with no cap or limit on sales. I used 2 coats with various topcoats. Great formula, very opaque, flakies lay down smoothly with no manipulation. Easy to apply, I love the rounded brush, it allows me to get nice and close to the cuticle and the viscosity is good, not too thick or thin as to cause running or pooling.
HHC is a monthly sale that various brands participate for a set amount of months and make polishes according to a theme of their own choosing. This is most certainly a pre-order so expect to wait several weeks- a month for your order. I've included a handy image from the HHC site that explains the sale further. You can order anytime between March 14-21st.

Video here.
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Bee's Knees Lacquer Losing My Mind, 3/19 PPU

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natural light

Bee's Knees has sent me this gorgeous polish in exchange for my honest review. It's a work of art! sugar, spice, and everything nice is what this is made of. You can ONLY get it from the upcoming The Pickups sale, March 1, 11 am EST - March 4th, 11:59 pm EST. 

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Bee's Knees has sent me some lovely new items to review! Shimmers and flakies inspired by magic as well as new scents and a new product. Magic is right, so many of these stole my heart! In general blues and blurples seem overdone and common but these stole the show for me, over a GREEN, gasp! There will be new mystery bags available, some new bath and body scents, including the launch of aloe lotions and limited numbers of heart shaped bath bombs scented in chocolate covered strawberry or wine and chocolate. The release will be on 2/1/19/ at 12 pm est.
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Galatea Cosmetics 2/2019 Indie Pickup Whipped Soap" "Just a Little Bit of Steam"
Just a Little Bit of Steam, whipped soap
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February's The Pickup is rushing upon us! Indie and Polish pickups are now combined into one shop held on the first Friday-Monday. Fanochromatic Nails has opened Galatea Cosmetics as a sister brand and will be offering this whipped soap for the Pairs & Duos theme.
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I found the indie community at a time my Narcolepsy was at its worst. Polish and makeup gave me something fun and low impact to do and pretty to look at. Pretty makes you feel a little better, ya know? Fast forward 3 years and I was frustrated with the lack of polish swatches available in various and natural light sources. I finally decided to try my hand at blogging and am dedicated to providing accurate swatches in as many light sources as possible. Additionally many indie brands do not provide makeup swatches on a persons face which I find very helpful. I currently post my makeup reviews and looks on Instagram but plan to start including them here too. I am not a writer, unless it's poetry so expect my posts to generally be to the point and full of photos. Oh yeah, about me. I am 26, coming up on my 6th wedding anniversary in a few months and am a fur mom to an adorable ferret who sleeps even more than me.

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