While I'm waiting for my air conditioning to freeze my bedroom to a cool 65 degrees I thought would make a quick blog post and update you all on what's happening.

Introducing...The Totally Buggin' Collection!

I've created 3 new shades that are inspired by the film Clueless. All 3 shades are made up of matte glitters in a clear base. Here are some awful close up shots of them. I will be taking much better swatches within the next few days. I promise! This is just to give you a rough idea of what they look like.

Way Harsh

Rollin' With The Homies

As If!

How You Can Get Them (and the others!)...
I've decided to do something different from my usual restock. A lot of you expressed interest in a pre-order/wishlist type of solution and so that is what I'm doing. So if you are interested in the above 3 shades or any of the other Nostalgic Nail Lacquer shades, here is what you should do:

Send an email to nostalgiclacquer(at)gmail.com with the subject line "add". I will then add you to my contacts and you'll be on the mailing list.

What I will do after I've gotten all of your emails and I've got everything together, is send you a link to an order form that you will fill out. Then I will begin filling all of the orders in batches. I will not fill orders alphabetically or anything. I'm just going to run down the spread sheet and fill them in the order that they were received.

By doing things this way, it will almost definitely take me longer to process your order unless you are one of the first ones to complete the form. But it will also ensure that you'll get what you want without having to refresh my shop 50 times :P

I know...I suck at emails...
Ladies, if you have emailed me and not got a response, I really am sorry. I get a TON of spam and sometimes your emails get lost in the shuffle or sent to my spam folder. I am going to make a concerted effort to sift through everything tonight though. And if you got an obnoxious "auto response" from me when you didn't really have a question...oops. Sorry again. The settings in my email program confuse me and I couldn't figure out how to get it to only be sent to people with questions about a restock :/ Basically, I'm a hot mess with email at the moment. But I am trying to change that! :P

Hopefully this has answered all of your questions. If not, it's okay. I will be mass emailing all of you before the order form is sent out with instructions and guidelines. But, as always, you can still ask a question anyway :)

Firstly, I want to apologize to anyone who was unsuccessful in obtaining my lacquers this afternoon. I believe that Big Cartel is a great service, I just don't think it is equipped to handle the type of business that I run. Meaning that it is not a good solution for people who have weekly restocks with many people trying to buy the same product at one time. I am sorry for making some of you waste your time on a beautiful Saturday :( Truly. It makes me sad to have disappointed anyone.

I think it is safe to say that there is a lot of trial and error involved when you start a small business such as Nostalgic Nail Lacquer. And I know that many other indie polish gals have experienced the same types of issues that I experienced today. It's tough to find a perfect solution. But I am working on it. I promise! I never want this to happen again.

I am sifting through emails, making lists, and will get to invoicing at some point tonight. Because of the unexpected cart issues, I may need a few extra days to properly process everyones orders. But, as always, I will try my best to get everything packed and at your doorstep as quickly as humanely possible. But please also bear in mind that tomorrow is Mothers Day and as my mom is not in the greatest health, I'm going to try and spend as much of the day with her as I can. I will, however, work as many hours on Monday as I possibly can. I hate having orders that aren't shipped!

Thank you to everyone who has been understanding about this. I really appreciate it! If you emailed me, you should expect an invoice between this evening and Monday.

xoxo
Erin

- Tomorrow is restock day! So set your alarms and head over to the shop at 12pm EST tomorrow :) This time around I will only be stocking the 2nd (and last) half of the 7 Deadly Sins of Summer collection. I wanted to stock ALL shades but I ran into a few snags. One being that I just couldn't find the time to make so many lacquers and so many people were anxious for me to restock. I had to make a decision and I chose to restock sooner with just the Sins. I apologize to anyone that may negatively effect :(

- Oh, yeah, the second snag!

Know how some of my lacquers have a fine lavender glitter in them? Well, the supplier of said glitter has turned out to be unreliable in terms of their labeling. They keep sending me plastic craft glitter, which, as you can imagine, melts into a goo in the nail polish base. Suffice to say, there's no way I can use it. So I am now in search of a new resource for this glitter. The part that sucks most about this is that one of my most popular shades (Rayanne) can not be produced without it...

Please don't be alarmed though. I have not even tested this glitter, let alone made any of your lacquers with it. I can tell just by looking at it that it's not the right stuff :P

But I'll find a resource. Of that I am certain. I just hope to find it in the next 7 days...

- BASE! Yes, base...again :)

I found some, obviously. And I have to tell you, I cannot stop raving over it. It's noticeably different from the stuff I have been using thus far, but all of the differences (imo) are positive ones. It's thinner, which means that it's easier to work with. It has a super shiny finish. It also ships out to me much faster. All of these pros combined means that working with this base will make it far easier for me to create the lacquers in higher volumes. This means more lacquer, more often.

- I am working on a new collection which features MATTE GLITTERS! If you check out the facebook page you can get a few glimpses of the rough drafts.

- And finally...the update I have been putting off for quite some time now, but sadly has to be made...........

After this last batch of Sins lacquers, I will sadly be increasing my prices. Instead of each lacquer being an even $9, I will be charging $9.75. I hate doing this. I truly do. And please believe me when I say that this does not come from greed or entitlement or any other nasty descriptor. The fact is that between the cost of shipping supplies, glitters (most of which have also gone up in price. Some by nearly 3x...), taxes, and the ever fluctuating bottle prices, it's just something that I have to do to stay afloat. If I could get by in this economy by charging $0.50 I would gladly do it. Sadly, I cannot :( I hope you guys understand!

Hello again! Just another quick update to keep you all up to speed.

The next restock is going to take place tomorrow- Wednesday May 2 at 8pm EST! 

The 7 Deadly Sins of Summer collection will sadly not be restocked this week, but all of the other shades I sell will be. This bums me out cause it's really just a reflection of how poorly I planned in regards to the great suspension base shortage of 2012. But I promise to make it up to you. Perhaps with a couple giveaways? :)

And speaking of that base, I have some from a second supplier being shipped out any day now. The only (small) con is that it will ship from California just like the base from TKB does. This means it'll take a whole 7 days to arrive. But hey, what's one more week, right? :)

I am also frequently filling orders for Overall Beauty, so if you ever get a jonesing for some Nostalgic Nail Lacquer in between my restocks, head on over there!

The first batch of The 7 Deadly Sins of Summer collection sold pretty quickly, with only a few of both Wrath and Greed still available. Thank you! Thank you! Thank you! I hope those of you who were able to get them love them as much as I do :)

I am still in the process of printing and packing and all of your packages will be mailed on or before Thursday at the latest :)

While I've got you here, I do have to talk about something not so fun. Isn't that always the way I write these blogs?! :P

Base.

By now we are all well aware of the great suspension base shortage. I do have a large amount of it ordered though. Enough for weeks and weeks of lacquery goodness. But it's still in the process of being made and it will be weeks before it is even shipped out to me.

Right now I have approximately 1 half gallon of base and I have an order for Overall Beauty to fulfill with it, as well as a couple orders for ladies who wished to have birthday gifts etc made for their friends. I'm really not sure of how much I will have left over after that, and I'm quite frankly a little bit terrified.

But the plan is this:
I always have a few extra lacquers hanging around in my workspace drawers and such, so I will take inventory of those and work on creating a very limited number of my most popular shades for next weeks restock. This would include: Rio, Duckie, Rayanne, Angela and Jordan.

Once the order of base comes in I will be working 3x as hard and often on creating a very large batch of ALL of the shades, including the 2nd batch of the 7 Deadly Sins of Summer. I'm just praying that the base comes quicker than I am expecting it. One can always hope, right? :)

In more hilarious news-
My father is dying to retire from the University and wants to become partners with me! And pretty much every person in my family has come to me looking for a job :P I'm still mulling over the possibilities. It would be nice to have someone help out with the shipping... hehe.

Oh, hi!

Those of you who are members of my facebook page have probably already seen the sneak peeks at the 7 Deadly Sins of Summer collection. I've been trying to answer all of the emails I've gotten about them but I figured an official blog announcement would be easier and more informative.

So...here's the deal:

There are 7 shades. One for each of the deadly sins. Lust, Envy, Gluttony, Sloth, Wrath, Greed, and Pride. They are limited edition. There will be 50 of each shade for sale. HOWEVER...right now I only 25 of each shade to sell. The reason I did a half batch is because a. the base shortage is in full effect and although I am placing an order for some later today, it will be weeks before I have more. and b. I want to give everyone a chance to get them. So if you miss them this time around, there will be another 25 of each shade released sometime in the (near???) future.

They will be available at the shop at 12pm noon EST on Saturday (4/21).

There are NO reserves on these. If you have an order on hold with me, I cannot reserve any of these for you. Normally I would but it wouldn't be fair as they are a limited edition. Nor can I place any more orders on hold. If you place an order, it will be shipped asap. I apologize :( I'm just trying to make things as simple as possible in order to cut down on confusion/mistakes during the packing process.

My other, non limited edition shades will not be available this week. I know that this is a bummer for those of you who were interested in Duckie/Rayanne/etc as well, but again...I am trying to keep things as simple as possible and my daily schedule is a bit hectic so I didn't have the time to create those as well. I hope you understand :/

The good news is that I will have *some* base left after the 7 Deadly Sins of Summer is completed and I will be making some of my more popular shades for you guys.

If you have any questions, please feel free to email me. Just keep in mind that I am a little behind on emails :P And please read all of my policies/about page at the shop before ordering. It will answer a lot of your questions. Thank you!!! And see you Saturday :P

The shop is officially restocked!

As always, please keep in mind that if you are going to order more than 7 lacquers that you should either email me first or I will automatically send you an invoice for the extra shipping cost (roughly $5).

Also keep in mind that this is the last batch of Underground and Riot for the foreseeable future.

Happy shopping!