Wednesday, May 23, 2012

Giveaway Winners!

Both winners have been emailed and their prizes will be mailed out this week. 

Congrats to Joanna for winning Prize #1 A full size Jawbreaker and a tub of gourmet jawbreakers from the Candy Store. 


Congrats to Desiree for winning Prize #2 A Mini Trio of my newest Collection.
From left to right: On Equal Ground (a rainbow glitter top coat), Freedom Calling (a red, white, blue, and silver top coat), and Soldier's Liberty (a shimmery light blue jelly with white shreds and white micro glitter).


Congrats and thank you to the OVER 300 people who entered!

Monday, May 14, 2012

A sweet Giveaway!

To show my appreciation for the ongoing support of my customers I am having a little giveaway. There are two prizes and you can only enter for one of them. Anyone can enter, and you can be from anywhere. 

Prize #1
Gourmet Jawbreakers  and my #1 selling nail polish in full size: Jawbreaker!

Prize #2 
My newest trio in mini size. I will not be showing pictures of these just yet so it will be a complete surprise!

Fill out the following form  to enter the giveaway and it will stay open until Wednesday 5/16.

Friday, May 11, 2012

Pretty & Polished News and Updates!

So I have some news and announcements today. Some are about me and what is going on here and some are about what I am going to do for YOU. We will start off with the boring stuff. Pretty and Polished is NOW an LLC! That is really exciting for me! LLC stands for Limited Liability Company. I will also be moving my office over the next couple of weeks so things will be a little spotty. I will still be sending out orders etc but I probably will not be able to get back to everyone on messages right away.
Along with the move I will be making some updates. The etsy shop is going to get a little bit of a makeover. I will be taking new pictures of every polish.
I will also be doing pre-orders again! Mr. Pretty & Polished is working on a new set up that will be available on this webpage for people to pre-order. Basically you will be able to add certain polishes straight to your cart and will be asked to pay right then. As the orders come in I will print your order and work on getting them made and sent out. A LOT easier for me! I will also be extending my inventory. I will be adding my very own raw organic cuticle oils and some nail art. These are in the testing phase to see if people are interested in them. The cuticle oils will be available at my next opening. I have a very sweet smelling pineapple lime cuticle oil made with organic materials like coconut oil, olive oil, and lime oil. The nail art is going to be glitters and gems that you can use to create different effects on your nails. Some will come in 5 gram jars and others will be packaged in little baggies. 
I will continue to make new polishes. I have a couple of collections I am working on. One will remain a secret until a blogger friend of mine gets the promotional package I plan on sending her to blog about. The other one is a smaller collection. It is all about freedom and equality. I will also be putting out my new Gemini polish this month for all my May/June Gemini friends! This does mean that I will be making polishes for EVERY horoscope this year.

And last but not least, I will be having a giveaway on my webpage this Sunday! So stay tuned for that :)

Sunday, April 29, 2012

Pretty & Polished Pre-Orders

Lately opening my shop has become a bit of a "running with the bulls" kind of scenario. For me it isn't that bad because I sit behind a computer screen and watch orders come in. But for my customers they feel rushed and I've even seen people say it raises their blood pressure! This is not what I wanted for my customers. I want your shopping experience to be an easy one. So, I have decided to TRY pre-ordering. I do not know how this is going to go seeing that it will be my first time doing it. So please, read the requirements and bare with me while I attempt to make my customers happy and keep my sanity at the same time lol.

I am opening the shop today around 6 pm EST and will put a pre-ordering form up on this webpage in a new tab on Monday 4/30. EDIT: THE PRE-ORDER FORM WILL BECOME AVAILABLE ON WEDNESDAY SO I HAVE A CHANCE TO CATCH UP ON PREVIOUS ORDERS AND GET GLITTERS IN TO MAKE MORE POLISHES THAT I WILL NOW ADD TO THE "AVAILABLE POLISHES" LIST. Once I get a certain amount of orders I will stop taking them while I catch up and work on invoicing. I will list the requirements in this post as well as the polishes that will be available for pre-order.

Requirements:
1.) There will be a $1 fee for all full sized bottles purchased and a $0.50 fee for all minis purchased.
That will make the price of a Full Sized polish $9.50 and the size of a mini $5.25.

2.) All orders must have a final product total of $25 or more. This is great for group orders.
However unless you contact me prior to ordering I would like to keep orders for the same polish at a 4 bottle maximum per order.

3.) Shipping rates will be the same as if you were ordering directly off of etsy. They are as follows:

Full Size 15 mL:
US: $2.85 & $0.45 for each additional
Canada: $4 & $0.50 for each additional
United Kingdom: $5 and $1 for each additional
Everywhere Else $6.50 and $1.75 for each additional

Mini 5 mL:
US: $2.60 & $0.35 for each additional
Canada: $3.95 & $0.50 for each additional
United Kingdom: $4 & $0.75 for each additional
Everywhere Else: $6 & $1.25 for each additional

4.) Pre-orders are MADE TO ORDER so it could be up to (but not more than) 2 weeks for processing and shipping.

5.) Once invoiced there cannot be any changes made to your order. Including adding to it. It can also not be added to an etsy transaction.

6.) No refunds, returns, or exchanges. 


Once I get your order form in I will go over it and if I can make your order I will invoice you. If you have ordered a polish that I cannot make I will message you and ask if you would like to go through with the rest of your order. Once invoiced there can be no changes made to your order. Including adding on to it. Pre-orders cannot be combined with etsy orders.

Pre-Orders can only be made through paypal invoice for now. Until I know how this is going to go and how easy/hard it will be I want to keep all of the orders in order and have them all in one place.

There is a chance that I will get to your order and something has gone wrong and I have to refund you for a polish. Stuff happens that is out of our hands sometimes. If this does happen you will receive an email as well as a refund for that one polish.

While doing pre-orders I will continue to stock the etsy store. There will not be as many polishes in stock though and some polishes are going to switch to pre-order only.

Polishes that can be pre-orderd in mini (5 mL)  and/or full size (15 mL):

Jawbreaker
Party on my Yacht
Bayou Blitz
Midnight Rider (pre-order only)
Candy Coated
Tart
Phoenix
Black Swan
Hello Dolly
Martian Salad (pre-order only)
Galactus (pre-order only)
Dream Queen
Your Darkest Majesty (pre-order only)
Elvis Pink Cadillac 
Bubble Tea (pre-order only)
Chelsea Chelsea Bling Bling
Swing
Mind Control
Valentino
Beach Bunny
Beach Bum
Tattoo Sparkle Collection (pre-order only)
          New Breed
          Inked
          Sparrow
          Cherry Bomb
          Old Skool
Sand Art
Pool Party
Galax-E

Available in Full Size only (15 mL):

Hearts & Daggers
Boy Crazy

Available in Mini only (5 mL):

Power House (pre-order only)
Jealous (pre-order only)
Johnny Law (pre-order only)
Pinkie Pie (pre-order only)
Carni (pre-order only)
Forest Phire (pre-order only)
3 Golden Rules (pre-order only)
The Amazing Technicolor Topcoat
Labor of Love (pre-order only)
Sphere (pre-order only)
PJ's Polish for Kids:
      Princess Piggy
      Girl's Only
      Garden Green
      Rainbow Sparkle
Wine Night Out
Able Pam (pre-order only)
GBF (pre-order only)
Midnight Masquerade (pre-order only)
Basket Grass (pre-order only)



I am also going to have a page on my blog with pictures of all the polishes that will be available for pre-order. It will most likely only contain bottle shots though. 

Hopefully I have covered everything in this post. If anything has been forgotten or left out I will try to make sure I address it before I put the order form up tomorrow. If you have any questions or comments please feel free to direct them to me at Prettynlacquer@gmail.com or at my shops facebook page.

Thursday, April 26, 2012

Best Indie Polish Mash Up!

I have a fun Indie polish mash up for you today! 2 amazing Indie Polishes mashed together to create an amazing manicure! I actually had this on last week and did not want to take it off. I kept it on for an entire week with ZERO chipping or peeling! 
Presenting Nail-Venturous Lacquers Crawfish Boil and Cover Band Sticks n Stones!

First, Crawfish Boil



And because the fact that Crawfish Boil is Matte is what really sold me on it I decided to mattify the whole manicure!
And yes, those are my feet in the background. I was on a little road trip lol



Aren't these AMAZING paired together?! Seriously one of my favorite manis EVER!