Wednesday, May 4, 2022

Past Polish Pickup Hit The Bottle Swatches

Nothing to Disclose
Press  Sample

Hey there!  Welcome to my first blog post in well over a year!  I thought I'd pop on here to create a bit of a reference for (almost) all of the Hit The Bottle shades that have been available through Polish Pickup.  I love Hit The Bottle and have been lucky enough to get a lot of her non-PPU polishes as press samples but I like to support the brand so I have purchased every stamping polish that she's put out through Polish Pickup since I first discovered that PPU was a thing (except that two I did receive as samples which I will mark with an *).  Since it's almost time for PPU Rewind this year, I thought this would be a good time to post the swatches I've done of them over my blogging break.  I believe Michelle may post a poll for people decide on which shades they want brought back in her Facebook fan group but don't quote me on that.  I know that not all of the ingredients are available anymore so they won't all be a possibility but fingers crossed that your favourite is!  Also, some of these are still available for purchase from Hit The Bottle, Beautometry and Lantern & Wren (off the top of my head) so you might not even need to wait for Rewind month!   Also, if you're a fan, you may want to check out my 2018 blog post where I swatched all the non-PPU polishes to date.  I do have more swatches to add to that so I should update it soon. 
Note: there's some funny stuff going on with the formatting of the text in this post, with regards to spacing and font.  I cannot, for the life of me, figure out how to fix it right now.  Hopefully it's not too off-putting or confusing!  


For all of these swatches, I stamp with plate KN1 over black and white cremes.  The index and pinky nails show 2 coats alone.  All swatches have top coat applied (usually Vibrant Vinyls Fast & Hard top coat).  I take my photos in a light box with 5K bulbs.  I try to be as color accurate as possible but my camera doesn't love some colors so I'll note if the color isn't accurate.

Start The Day With Bubbly
June 2019
lilac with pink/copper shimmer




Guilded Mystique*
August 2019
metallic silver lavender with gold shimmer




Magna Opus
September 2019
gold, bronze, green multichrome




A Vermillion To One
October 2019
bright poppy red creme




To Thine Own Elf Be True 
November 2019
pale apple creme (a little darker than photos show)




Staring At The Embers
December 2021
neon slightly-coral orange creme




Your Fuchsia Looks Bright
January 2020
bright magenta/fuchsia metallic with blue shimmer




Tiddalik's Laugh
February 2020
grass green with gold shimmer




Lapis of the Gods
March 2020
cornflower blue creme




Stonewashed & Windswept
April 2020
very light grey creme




Electro Candypop
May 2020
turquoise creme 
Note: not recommended to use as regular polish as it stains so I swatched it but didn’t keep it on for an extended period of time




I Am Woman, Hear Me Pour
June 2020
warm-toned purple shimmer




Positively Charged
August 2020
hot pink creme




Colliding of the Realms
September 2020
antique gold with pewter finish and olive undertones




Holy Indecision Batman
October 2020
navy/black with blue shimmer




Putting' On The Ritz
November 2020
pink metallic with gold shimmer




La la la...I Can't Hear You
December 2020
metallic dark teal




Slitherin' Serpentine 
January 20201
military green creme




Strike A Posy
February 2021
pinky purple lilac creme




Free To Flutterby
March 2021
neon mint green creme




Divinely Decadent
May 2021
brown-leaning antique gold metallic




From The Ground Up
August 2021
mustard yellow creme




Sweeten The Teal
September 2021
teal creme




Dead Or O-Live
October 2021
pastel olive green creme




Knits and Giggles
December 2021
pinkish greige creme




Give It A Weigh Now
January 2022
red-toned brown creme




His Royal Freshness
February 2022
turquoise with gold shimmer 




Just Because
March 2022
bright orchid (warm purple) creme




Happy Oxidant
April 2022
pastel neon yellow creme




Swept Away
May 2022
sand-coloured creme




Not My First Rodeo
June 2022
vintage brick red creme




Shore Thing
August 2022
pale grey-ish blue creme




Bendless Love
October 2022
steel blue metallic




Baubles Deep
November 2022
deep plum with blue/purple shimmer




They Call Me Caramello...Koala! 
December 2022
caramel-coloured creme




Gaze of the Gorgon
January 2023
dirty sage green creme




B-A-B-Y, Baby

February 2023

dusty, antique pink creme

Note: top coat does change the color of this polish


No top coat

With top coat



Books & Cocoa 

March 2023

mid-toned warm brown creme





Once and Flor-al 

April 2023

deep plum/burgundy creme





Bun Intended 

May 2023

very dark grey creme (almost black)





Sell You An Egret 

June 2023

muted apricot creme with subtle shimmer





Where Time Melts

August 2023

antique gold metallic





Boots n Skirts

October 2023

deep forest green creme 





This Too Shall Pass

December 2023

dark gray-toned blue creme 





Those are all the swatches I have for now but I will try to update it as I receive my orders.  Hopefully your favorite comes back for Rewind month!

'Til next time...