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We’re flipping tables and fighting with friends and family for July! This month’s Polished Gamers Box theme is Board Games!
Get ready for some classic and fan favorite games!
As always, first up is that sweet sweet FAQ then all the fabulous items!
What is the Polished Gamers Box?
The Polished Gamers Box is a game themed “box” featuring several makers each month. Each box will have a gaming related theme and feature different types of indie products that include nail polish, nail care, body care, wax, and other handmade items.
Every month a Facebook Event is created within the Polished Gamers Facebook group and within that event, a post is made for each item. Each month an album is also created that features a collage of each item.
What if I don’t want to order everything in the box?
That’s the beauty of the Polished Gamers Box! You can pick and choose what you want to order. No minimums or maximums, just order what items you want!
When can I get the box?
The box will launch on the 15th of every month and will be available for preorder for a five day period.
Preorders will open at 11:00 AM PT / 12:00 PM MT / 1:00 PM CT / 2:00 PM ET
Preorders will close at 9:00 PM PT / 10:00 PM MT / 11:00 PM CT / 12:00 AM ET
The turn around time will be approximately 3-4 weeks after the box preorder ends on the 20th of each month.
Where do I go to order the box?
polishedgamersbox.com
Is there a support email if I have questions about my order?
Yes! Feel free to email polishedgamers@gmail.com if you have questions about your order or the box!
Is there Polished Gamers social media I can follow?
There is!
Facebook group: https://www.facebook.com/groups/polishedgamers/
Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/polishedgamers/
Discord (This is the invite link to the channel): https://discord.com/invite/TQhTYcJ
How much is shipping for the box?
Domestic: $4 flat rate shipping
International: At cost shipping (website will calculate at checkout)
Customs forms are auto generated for international orders and will not be changed or adjusted to reflect a different price other than the real full cost of your order.
STARTING JANUARY 2021
INTERNATIONAL SHIPPING CHANGES:
With changes to the VAT rules in the UK, PGB will unfortunately have to discontinue shipping to the UK for orders under £150. We would encourage group buys to the UK. Unfortunately we are unable to hold multiple orders so that once combined, the orders reach that total. Changes could occur in the future but for now unfortunately this is the solution.
If an order accidentally makes it through, unfortunately we will have to refund it.
If you do make multiple orders, shipping overages can/will be refunded if the multiple purchases are made using the same name.
Shipping overages are refunded when orders are actually packaged up. Combining orders is a time consuming and manual task that the system does not just automatically do for us, so this does take a little extra time. But we do know it helps take some pressure off of releases with low cap items
Are there caps on items?
Each maker will set caps for their items and things can sell out!
Can items return and be sold again?
All Polished Gamers Box items are exclusive to the month’s box. BUT a monthly “respawn” began late 2020. Each month a max of 5 makers will bring back an item that was released in a previous Polished Gamers Box. These items can be the original formula, or a 2.0 new formula.
The items that return are up to the makers, but be on the look out in this group or in brands’ fan groups for polls on what could / should return!
Link to the Canadian Group Buy: https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLSdf8f_KwM-xXzv3YS9dIbLX4vUlJy4jMK3M1cWzPC0wrvurjA/viewform
All of my swatches are using Cuticula’s peel off base coat (unless otherwise noted) and are topped with Vapid Lacquer’s Quick Dry Top Coat
I also top that with Red Eyed Lacquer’s Tips Matte-r Matte Top Coat
1422 Designs
Hey! You Get a Special Clearance!
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Description: A vivid pink crelly with violet shimmer and matte blue hexes in 2 different sizes. This is a sister polish to Cruisin’ in my ATV from the Mario box!
Price: $12.00 USD
Cap: 75
Inspiration: Mall Madness
My swatches are 2 coats of polish and topped with 1 coat of top coat.
Now when 1422 said that this polish was a sister polish to Crusin’ In My ATV from the Mario Box, I got excited because that polish was so cute and fun and this one definitely is as well! I actually snagged some side by side photos of the two polishes and those are down below!
I love this shade of pink because it’s vivid but also like “calm” in a way. I can’t explain it really, but it’s just such a nice vivid but not overwhelming shade. And with the shimmer and glitters it’s just a perfect mix. The violet shimmer is definitely one of my favorite parts of this polish and it just glows–I hope I was able to show that off in my low and bright light photos!
I actually did one thin coat of polish and then I tried a thick coat and I definitely recommend applying this polish in thicker coats. I think the crelly applies very nicely with thicker coats instead of thinner ones. The thick coat evened out and spread so nicely that I was even able to cover up a smudged spot where I bumped my nail in between coats. It also dried quickly after that thick coat so I wasn’t afraid to top coat not too long after applying the polish. I also felt no texture on my nail after one coat of top coat.
Alchemy Lacquers
Survive!
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Description: Survive! is a azure blue jelly nail lacquer with green/turquoise/blue transparent shifting flakes and blue/purple shifting shimmer
Price: $12.00 USD
Cap: 200
Inspiration: Survive! was inspired by the game board from the board game of the same name
My swatches are 2 coats of polish and topped with 1 coat of top coat.
Insert Owen Wilson “Wow” here because this polish is fabulous! I’m pretty in awe of all the flakies and shimmer and the jelly mixed with the flakies gives this polish so much depth. The polish base color and the flakies compliment each other so very well and I cannot wait to wear this one again soon! I do want to mention that I had to do some color correcting on my photos because the shifting flakies photographed almost more of a sky blue, but to my eye I see them as more green like in my brush shot, so my photos now convey what this polish looks like to my eye.
The polish applied very easily and one coat may appear a little thin so that you think you’ll end up needing 3 coats, but 2 was definitely plenty for full coverage. It builds up fast! You will not need to fish for flakies or anything like that either!
All Mixed Up Lacquers
Sorry Not Sorry Vinyl Sticker
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Description: Every time we knock someone back to home we say Sorry! But we are Not really Sorry!
Sorry! Not Sorry! vinyl sticker with colorful game pieces is perfect for any surface you like to stick it.
Price: $6.00 USD
Size: 3 in x 4 in
Cap: 50
Inspiration: Sorry Board Game
All Mixed Up Lacquers has created a super cute Sorry! inspired decal this month! This one features all the colors of the game pieces and my favorite part is just the sheer sarcasm of the Sorry Not Sorry! text portion. This decal is pretty detailed so be sure to check out my application photos below for tips and tricks for applying the decal. I of course wanted to put this decal on my IKEA Alex shelves like always!
AMUL was also kind enough to send me this decal with and without the blue-lined application sheet so that I could take photos of the decal without the sticky application sheet on it (the one with the blue lines). But yours will come with that application sheet so you can immediately stick this wherever you would like!
BCB Lacquers
Kicked Out Of Candyland
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Description: Kicked Out Of Candyland is a black cherry red with red shimmer and ruby micro flakes
Price: $13.00 USD
Cap: 100
Inspiration: Inspired by an image of a dark and twisted Candyland
My swatches are 2 coats of polish and topped with 1 coat of top coat.
This polish is actually a one coater! It applied like a dream and I really just did two coats of polish out of habit. 2 coats just always feels nicer in a way haha! I love how velvety smooth this polish looks and it actually dries matte. Once I put the matte top coat on over the glossy top coat, I just couldn’t stop staring. It just gives it such a perfect velvety look. It’s gorgeous in different lighting conditions as well and the micro flakes are the perfect addition. I love that they are somewhat subtle so that when you really look close they just pop! This is also just such a gorgeous shade of red and I cannot wait to wear this polish again very soon!
Color Spectrum Polish
POP! Goes Perfection
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Description: A red base with gold shimmers and navy blue to purple shifting ucc flakies
Price: $12.00 USD
Cap: 50
Inspiration: Perfection
My swatches are 2 coats of polish and topped with 1 coat of top coat.
Ooooo what a gorgeous red! The shimmer and blue/ purple shifting flakies are the perfect companions for this red jelly! I am quite obsessed with this polish. The flakies may seem to blend in a little bit and appear black, but as soon as you see your nails at the right angle, the blue / purple shift is there and it just looks fabulous! I love that you can see the flakies in the first layer of polish as well. This polish matte really accentuates the flakies and glitters too!
It applied quite easily and 2 coats was plenty for full coverage. The smaller brush helped me apply this one very easily and precisely and I love that! Everything laid down nice and flat and I only needed one coat of top coat for complete smoothness.
Geekish Glitter Lacquer
Sagrada
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Description: A silver holographic base with a primarily pink shimmer and purple-green-blue UCC flakies
Price: $12.00 USD
Cap: 75
Inspiration: The stained glass themed game Sagrada
My swatches are 2 coats of polish and topped with 1 coat of top coat.
Fair warning, but I am very biased about this polish. I LOVE any silver holo shimmer filled polish with a passion and this is no exception. I love the flakies that are in this one and I really just can’t stop staring at my nails. This polish is my weakness. The mix of pink shimmer with the purple and blue flakies is such a perfect pairing as well. I also think the shimmer is easier to see in person–I don’t know if my photos do it justice. And matte! Gah this is just so pretty. This is definitely one of those polishes I’m considering getting a backup of because I know as soon as I use it again I’ll start panicking about running out.
It also applied very easily and everything laid down nice and flat.
Jen & Berries
Anything Can Happen
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Description: A pale pink crelly with pink shimmer and a mix of UCC flakies
Price: $12.50 USD
Cap: 100
Inspiration: The Game of Life – High School Edition
My swatches are 2 coats of polish and topped with 1 coat of top coat.
This is such a cute dainty polish! I LOVE the mix of flakies that this polish is filled with and they just shine and shimmer–even more so in person! I love that you can make out their individual colors between the layers of the polish as well. It’s also much easier to see the smaller flakies and how they shimmer in my bottle shots above and in person–I just couldn’t quite capture their beauty! 😉 I am also obsessed with this polish matte! It just looks so delicate and lovely.
This polish applied like butter and everything laid down nice and flat.
Profound Sass
Power to the Meeple Keychain
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Description: Hand cut (with a jeweler’s saw) aluminum Meeple keychain “Power to the Meeple” hammered into it, plus some dice/meeple designs
Price: $11.00 USD
Cap: 23
Inspiration: Meeples are my peoples!
Ingredients & Size: Aluminum meeple, stainless steel keyring
Profound Sass has created the perfect keychain for this months theme! It’s basically Meeple-ception! There’s a Meeple on a Meeple. Yo dawg I heard you like Meeples, so we put a Meeple on a Meeple….Okay I’m done. Anywho, this keychain is perfect for well, putting anywhere. Clip it to a bag, to your keys, to a notebook, just wherever you want to show your love for board games! The keychain is cut and stamped by hand so keep in mind they all may vary just a little bit from mine, but you will receive the same design as the one you see here. This one is definitely going on my keys and I may have to fight some folks for a backup or two for gifts! 😉
Red Eyed Lacquer
This Is The Way
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Description: A white crelly with blue, green, gold, silver metallic flakies and a blue/green shifting shimmer
Price: $12.50 USD
Cap: 100
Inspiration: The Child Monopoly
My swatches are 2 coats of polish and topped with 1 coat of top coat.
Oh my goodness. I. Love. This. Polish. I just can’t stop staring at the gorgeous flakies and the shimmer and just everything. I know this one is board game themed, but I can’t stop thinking that it reminds me of the beach, or like sea shells. Ugh it’s just gorgeous and I wish I had saved this one for last after swatching so I could wear it longer.
It applied like a dream and 2 coats look to be enough for full coverage. The shimmer is insane and gorgeous and it mixes perfectly with the gold and blue flakies. ALSO STAR WARS and Baby Yoda! Did you catch the Inspiration? It’s the Baby Yoda (okay, so technically it’s “The Child” version, but pfft. Baby Yoda sounds better) version of Monopoly! This is definitely a must have!
Swamp Gloss
Extremely Destructive Unicorn
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Description: A white to blue solar crelly with UCC flakes that shift violet/red/pink/bronze/gold
Price: $13.00 USD
Cap: 200
Inspiration: Unstable Unicorns
My swatches are 3 coats of polish and topped with 1 coat of top coat.
Well I hope I did this polish justice because I went ahead and tried to do things the hard way (for me at least). I took photos outside! Gasp! I definitely applaud folks that always take photos outside as it’s definitely something I still need practice at and the outdoor swatch photos I see always look so fabulous. 🙂
But as for this polish, how fun! I love the white to blue shift and the flakies are just stunning. Seriously, they shift so much! It applied very easily and 3 coats gave me full coverage but 2 looked to be enough for full coverage. Everything laid down nice and flat as well!
It was actually rather cloudy for a little bit when I tried to take pictures of the bottle and when I wore it, so I was able to get photos of what the polish will look like in cloudy conditions as well. It definitely still shifts to a lighter shade of blue then, but not as strong. It also shifts colors quite easily. It didn’t take long for the polish to turn to its full darker blue. I also think this polish is slightly darker blue in person than my direct sunlight photos convey just because of all the settings I had to mess with and the editing I had to do to edit out the bright sunlight glare. So take my photos with a grain of salt and be sure to check out the other fabulous swatcher photos!
Sweet & Sour Lacquer
Count and Capture
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Description: An orange leaning brown mustard crelly with red, silver, blue, and purple metallic flakies, and a hint of shimmer
Price: $12.50 USD
Cap: 100
Inspiration: Mancala
My swatches are 2 coats of polish and topped with 1 coat of top coat.
Now I believe I recall the maker herself saying that this polish was prugly (pretty but ugly or pretty ugly), but I disagree with the ugly part and I don’t even normally reach for mustard polishes! This filled-with-flakies polish is quite lovely and is so unique! I can easily say I have nothing even close in my collection. I do want to mention that it was difficult for me to capture the shimmer in my photos. My lights sort of drown out the green / yellow shimmer and I think it’s easier to spot in person–especially in the bottle itself. The metallic flakies just shimmer like crazy and steal the show a little bit. 😉 Mattified though, the shimmer stands out even more and I tried to capture it in these photos below.
It applied very easily and there is no texture to my nail even after just one coat of top coat.
Sweet Heart Polish
Let’s Get Twisted
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Description: Let’s Get Twisted is a gorgeous topper with gold to emerald to aqua aurora shimmer, pink to gold to green flakies, with red micro flakes and a mix of micro iridescent glitters
Price: $9.00 USD
Cap: No cap
Inspiration: The classic game that ties you up in knots, Twister
My swatches are 2 coats of polish and topped with 1 coat of top coat.
This GORGEOUS topper is insane. It shimmers so much and oh my the flakies in it! And just look at my photos of the topper matte–I adore it by itself matte the most I think. I normally prefer to wear toppers like this over a color, but honestly this one by itself is just do delicate and pretty that I can’t get enough of it by itself.
It applied very easily and everything laid down nice and flat. It also seemed to dry pretty quick as well! For two of my macro shots I show 1 coat of the topper over a black and white polish just so you have an idea of what it will look like over other colors too!
Macro with lens light on
Macro with lens light on
The Sassy Shark
Polished Gamers pouch
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Description: That’s at least 37 points for me on the scrabble board! All from three magical words….Polished Gamers Box! Inside will be a glass nail file, cuticle pusher, and a mini nail buffer block! Now you have a place to keep all of your special Polished Gamers items!
Price: $15.00 USD
Cap: 75
Size: 8.3 in x 5.1 in
Inspiration: Scrabble board game
Materials: Canvas pouch, heat transfer vinyl
The Sassy Shark has created something fabulous and new for us this month! A pouch! This pouch also comes with a few extra goodies that you can start stowing in this PGB exclusive bag immediately!
The design was created and applied using heat transfer vinyl and it definitely feels like it is attached well. I did do a light scrape test using my fingernail and nothing came off, but since the numbers and box shapes are thin and smaller, I just recommend taking care of it so pieces don’t chip off. 🙂
The bag is fairly well sized and as you can see in my photos below, it can hold quite a bit. It can even hold stamping plates–including the Elder Scrolls Apipila plate that was available as part of the Elder Scrolls Polished Gamers Box.
This bag can hold my cellphone (Galaxy S10E incase that helps) and the bag itself fits in my purse! This is an adorable addition to any gaming or makeup or bag collection and as I write this, my fridge is breathing a sigh of relief that it has gone a month without more magnets being added. 😂 (But just kidding. It loves them all)
Tonshi Mountain Studios
Sugar Rush
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Description: Scent Notes: Cherry, Strawberry, Lemon, Pineapple, Goji Berry, Mango, Driftwood
Price: $4.50 USD
Cap: No cap
Size: 3.0 ounces
Inspiration: Candy Land
Ingredients: Parasoy Wax, Fragrance Oil, Colorant
KOOL-AID. THIS WAX MELT SMELLS LIKE SWEET SWEET FRUIT PUNCH KOOL-AID. So much so that I had to go and make a gallon of Kool-Aid when I got this in the mail just to stop myself from eating these dang wax melts. So uhh yeah, it was a whole thing. So buy at your own risk. This one smells DELICIOUS. 😉
Okay serious scent description time. I definitely smell the like, calmer, darker scent notes of the cherries and driftwood and that definitely helps balance this out from being sickly sweet. There are lots of sweet fruity flavors that blend well together and yeah. This is just an amazing wax melt. I may have to pick up a backup.
The scent throw is also insane on this one. It could be that I’m more sensitive to sweet sugary scents, but I swear I could smell this one throughout the whole house. It was awesome.
I also like to always mention to check out the “melt after” date just to make sure you’re melting the wax once is it ready to be melted! I haven’t had an issue melting before this date, but I am sure the maker knows what they are doing. 😉
Polished Gamers Box Respawn
The Polished Gamers Box Respawn continues!
Each month a maximum of five makers will be bringing back an item that was released in a previous Polished Gamers Box!
These will be available on the site during normal preorder times as listed above.
The Sassy Shark
Meme-achu
*Originally a PR Sample
Original Box: Pokémon, October 2020
Description: Pikachu meme magnet
Price: $7.00 USD
Cap: 45
Size: 2in x 2in
Low daylight 
Other July respawn items:
-Red Eyed Lacquer – Twin Sever Fist Cuticle Oil (2.0 scent version) (Sega vs Nintendo) ($5.25, cap 50)
A cuticle oil in a house blend of dragonfruit and tropical scents (pineapple, banana, and kiwi with spiced rum and coconut) in a CLICK brush pen.
-Atomic Polish – Just Cause (Diablo) ($12.50, no cap)
Just Cause is an opalescent color shifting shimmer polish. It has a pale blue base and is filled with shimmer that shifts green, gold, and red. This sheer polish builds opacity at 2-3 coats
Don’t forget!
When can I get the box?
The box will launch on the 15th of every month and will be available for preorder for a five day period.
Preorders will open at 11:00AM PST / 12:00PM MST / 1:00PM CST / 2:00PM EST
The turn around time will be approximately 3-4 weeks after the box preorder ends on the 20th of each month.
Where do I go to order the box?
polishedgamersbox.com
1 comment
Oh my goodness! Those polishes are amazing 😀