This is our Anti-Valentines collection. If you’ve been with us a while you’ll know I HATE Valentines Day! Always have! I dreaded it when I was in school. It made me terribly uncomfortable to have to write valentines to classmates I didn’t like. Anyhoo, because of this, I don’t do typical lovey-dovey Valentine’s crap! So this is the Women Done Wrong Collection. I’m including a small write up of how they were done wrong. Feel free to skip it. There’s no quiz;)
This is our annual Valentines collection. If you’ve been with us a while you’ll know I HATE valentines, so instead of the typical valentines day collection. We give a spotlight to incredible women that have been done wrong throughout literature, history, music, and current events. So this is our Valentine to Women Done Wrong. I’m including a small write up of how they were done wrong, below the polish description. Feel free to skip it. There’s no quiz;)
Boudica- is a gunmetal grey jelly with green shimmer, holographic shards, and iridescent flakes in gold, blue, and green. Boudica is the Celtic Warrior Queen that took Rome with a vengeance!!
Boudica’s husband left his kingdom to his daughters and the Roman emperor. When he died, Boudica was flogged, and her daughters raped. She led an army of British Rebels and burned down city’s, leaving destruction in her wake! She even managed to terrify Nero the then ruler of Rome. She is quoted as saying “I will not stop till I’ve enslaved all men!’
I welcome you to the Fraver Collection!! I made this based on a friend’s new book. He has spent his professional life being a Broadway poster artist, and I got inspired. Carrie (yes that Carrie) He did the Broadway poster. Obviously I wanted the flame look here. So it’s a red jelly with gold and silver irregular cut flakes. For the disco ball, I used holo flakes. The dimensions on this are incredible!
I welcome you to the Ancient Egypt Collection!! I’m a huge history buff, and this is as close as I’ll get to being Lara Croft!?? I wanted a collection that would scream opulence, and regality! I think that’s what we all have in mind when thinking of the era. So you can expect lots of sparkle, gold, and dimension!
This is “Cleopatra,” a Silver holographic flakie bomb! It has silver, and holographic flakes, in different sizes! the dimention on this is amazing. It’s a real eye catching stunner, and I don’t mind saying my favorite polish to date!!
I welcome you to the Ancient Egypt Collection!! I’m a huge history buff, and this is as close as I’ll get to being Lara Croft!?? I wanted a collection that would scream opulence, and regality! I think that’s what we all have in mind when thinking of the era. So you can expect lots of sparkle, gold, and dimension!
This is “Eye Of Ra,” a random cut gold flakes, and Holographic Flakies. The dimension on this collection is amazing. It’s a real eye catching stunner!! Not a polish for a wall flower.
This is The Fraver Collection; inspired by the Drama Desk award-winning artwork of Frank “Fraver” Verlizzo, as captured in his book “Fraver By Design.”
As a Broadway Legend he has spent his professional life designing theatre poster art. There are images that are in our minds because they were in his first. I’m so honored to have done this collection, not only as a fan, but as a friend.
Personal note; We love you Frank and are so very proud to know you and proud to call you family!
Frida Kahlo – she is a minty aqua creally with pink, green, and gold iridescent flakes that shift aqua, lavender, and amber
Frida Kahlo was promising student headed for medical school until a traffic accident at age eighteen, that killed several people and fractured Kahlo’s ribs, displaced three vertebrae broke her legs and her collarbone. An iron handrail impaled her through her pelvis, fracturing the pelvic bone. This caused her lifelong pain and medical problems. The illness forced her to be isolated, and made her reclusive. One of her friends Andrés Henestrosa stated that Kahlo “lived dying” Eventually, She began a relationship with Rivera, who was 20 years her senior, and had two common-law wives. Regardless, her father approved of Rivera, who was wealthy and therefore able to support Kahlo, who could not work and had to receive expensive medical treatment undergoing an appendectomy, two abortions, and the amputations of her toes, and countless other operations, during her marriage. While that both had extramarital affairs (both with women) it was his affair with her baby sister that hurt her most. Through her pain she paints, throughout her life it was her outlet, but was not given recognition for it, while husband was for his works. Finally in 1954 she finally had her first show, and it opened to great reviews!! By that point her pain was unbearable, and simply breathing was excruciating. One week after her first and only show, Frida Kahlo Died. The official cause of death for her was pulmonary embolism, although no autopsy was performed. Kahlo, in fact, committed suicide. The nurse, who counted Kahlo’s painkillers, stated that Kahlo had taken an overdose the night. She had also given her husband an anniversary present that evening, over a month in advance. She was 47 years old.
Frida Kahlo is a Woman Done Wrong, and we honor and thank you!
Ida B Wells – she is a orange to purple she also shifts green and aqua. Finally she has iridescent flakes in pink and green. They shift lavender, aqua, turquoise, gold and amber
Ida B. Wells was born into slavery and freed by the emancipation proclamation she was an investigative journalist, with her own paper until the KKK destroyed her newspaper office and presses for telling the horrors of lynching complete with names. She was an educator, dismissed from her teaching post by the Memphis Board of Education due to her articles that criticized conditions in the black schools of the region. She was one of the founders of the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP).[1] but was originally excluded from the list of founders in her autobiography, Wells stated that Du Bois deliberately excluded her from the list. Du Bois felt women had no place in activism. Wells arguably became the most famous black woman in America, during a life that was centered on combating prejudice and violence, who fought for equality for African Americans, especially women. Despite men telling her to stay home and have babies!
At the age of 24, she wrote, “I will not begin at this late day by doing what my soul abhors; sugaring men, weak deceitful creatures, with flattery to retain them as escorts or to gratify a revenge.”
IDA B WELLS Bass Ass & Woman Done Wrong! We honor and thank you!
Jackie Mitchell – she’s a boys club blue with a strong purple shimmer that shifts aqua, and iridescent flakes in lavender and pink that shift green, gold, amber, and turquoise.
Jackie Mitchell was one of the first female pitchers in professional baseball history. Pitching for the Chattanooga Lookouts Class AA minor league baseball team! During the exhibition game against the New York Yankees, she struck out Babe Ruth and Lou Gehrig in succession when she was 17, baseball commissioner Kenesaw Mountain Landis voided her contract declaring women unfit to play baseball as the game was “too strenuous. Guess they were upset a woman could strike out their best players back to back. She tried to continue playing but eventually retired in 1937 at the age of 23 furious at being used as a side show attraction being asked to pitch while riding a donkey. The end of a promising career all because she was a woman!! Jackie Mitchell is a Woman Done Wrong, we honor and thank you!
Joan of Arc is a warm and beautiful brown jelly with gold sparkle. The flames are represented with red metal flakes that shift gold and green. Finally, I added holographic flakes for a spark;)
Joan Of Arc was a young peasant girl who said God spoke to her and told her to lead the French army to victory. She led her army in thirteen battles winning nine. In the end, Joan was ordered to answer some 70 charges against her, including witchcraft, heresy, and dressing like a man. She was convicted and burned at the stake at 19 years old. In 1456, an inquisitorial court examined the trial, debunked the charges against her, pronounced her innocent, and declared her a martyr.
I welcome you to the Ancient Egypt Collection!! I’m a huge history buff, and this is as close as I’ll get to being Lara Croft!?? I wanted a collection that would scream opulence, and regality! I think that’s what we all have in mind when thinking of the era. So you can expect lots of sparkle, gold, and dimension!
This is “King TUT,” a Blue & Gold Shifting flakes, random cut gold holographic glitter, and Holographic Flakies. The dimension on this collection is amazing. It’s a real eye catching stunner!! Not a polish for a wall flower.
This is Lilith, I wanted to give her back her garden of Eden filled with light and luscious color! She has green to blue shifting flakes, and holographic flakes to bathe it in light. Then I added gorgeous flakes is a myriad of amazing color flakes. Colors include but are not limited to, yellow, green, red, gold, purple & blue. She’s lovely ladies!!
Lilith was Adams first wife. She was created from the same clay as Adam, as opposed to Eve who was created from his rib. Lilith was banished from the garden of Eden for refusing to be subservient to Adam & having a mind of her own. She was thrown into hell and is considered the first demon.
I welcome you to the Fraver Collection!! I made this based on a friends new book. He has spent his professional life being a Broadway poster artist, and I got inspired. This is the Lion King – Here we have copper and gold flakes with micro red metal flakes added sparingly. I also added holo flakes here just to up the sparkle.
I welcome you to the Fraver Collection!! I made this based on a friend’s new book. He has spent his professional life being a Broadway poster artist, and I got inspired. Here we have Little Dancer it is a random cut gold flake masterpiece. There’s also shifting flakes in pink, green, and purple… each shifting at least three more colors! I finished it with holo flakes!
Malala Yousafzai she wears a lot of pink and purple so I made a combination of those colors. I would call this a heavy shifting iridescent? She’s not quite a multi chrome but not a simple iridescent either so I’m compromising with heavy iridescent. So she is a purpley pink she has little shifts green, gold, and aqua. She also has iridescent flakes in purple, green, and pink flakes that also shift aqua, gold, amber, and blue
Malala Yousafzai – also known mononymously as Malala, is a Pakistani activist for female education and the youngest Nobel Prize laureate. She is known for human rights advocacy, especially the education of women and children in her native Swat Valley in Khyber Pakhtunkhwa, northwest Pakistan, where the local Taliban had at times banned girls from attending school. Her advocacy has grown into an international movement at age 15 she was shot in the head by the Taliban She survived the attack but continues to live under taliban threats.
Maria Antoinette is a pastel aqua jelly with a strong pink shimmer, iridescent pick shards, as well as holographic shards. I also included iridescent flakes in pink, green, & gold.
Marie Antoinette- The queen of France was married at 14, and things only got worse. She was vilified by the French press from the moment she arrived because she was Austrian. She was accused of being promiscuous with men and women. Was the subject of pornography from the age of 14, and accused of being responsible for the French Revolution. The truth… She never had a single affair. She spent less than anyone else in the royal family choosing to wear a casual cheap white dress when at home. Who was the spender in the family? Well, it was her husband and his brother they spent it like it was water. Ultimately she was beheaded at the age of 37 and died the most hated woman in France.
This is Mata Hari, (inspired by her costume)- she is a gold flake base with jewel-tone glitter in red, blue, green, & purple flakes. Mata Hari was an independent woman (that was rare for the time), a divorcee, a citizen of a neutral country, a courtesan, and a dancer. This made her a perfect scapegoat for the French, who were then losing the war. She was held up as an example of what might happen to women of loose morals. When she was executed, she refused a blindfold, and defiantly blew a kiss to the firing squad just as they took aim. Gotta love her defiance!
I welcome you to the Ancient Egypt Collection!! I’m a huge history buff, and this is as close as I’ll get to being Lara Croft!?? I wanted a collection that would scream opulence, and regality! I think that’s what we all have in mind when thinking of the era. So you can expect lots of sparkle, gold, and dimension! This is “Nefertiti,” a golden brown dream worthy of the queen herself! It has gold, and holographic flakes, a brown micro glitter to top it off. It’s a real eye catching stunner!! Check out our social media to see these applied, and in motion! These are not to be missed!
I welcome you to the Fraver Collection!! I made this based on a friends new book. He has spent his professional life being a Broadway poster artist, and I got inspired. Here we have Obeah Opera it is a black jelly with gold flakes, and shifting flakes in purple, green, bronze & blue each color shifts atlas 3 other colors. Finally, she got topped off with holo flakes.
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