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Are you ready to rock?

5/21/2020

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We have a ton of new goodies in the shop, plus some popular items that have been restocked. Here's a (hopefully) complete list!
  • Wonky Wards: base & top coat in temporary bottles with weird brushes and a tiny discount. Includes scents that pair with some past PPU Lotion sets!
  • Stronger Than My Inner Demons collection
    • Stronger Than My Depression
    • Stronger Than My Anxiety
    • Stronger Than My Pain
    • Stronger than My Mania
  • Monsters & Magic collection
    • Unbridled Chaos
    • In Love with A Sweet Kiss
    • Toss A Coin to You Witcher
    • Death & Destiny
    • Power & Prophecy
    • Hmm... Fuck.
    • Do it the Bard Way
    • I Talk to My Horse
  • ​Limited Edition Mother Earth collection
    • Dark Side of the Moon
    • Heart of the Ocean
    • Respect Your Mother Earth
    • The Sky's the Limit!
    • Mother Earth Loves You Berry Much
    • Protect Your Mother Earth
  • More PPU Leftovers added to the drawer including March and April '20
  • Lotion of Immortality
    • Feb '20 (Keeper of the Forest, Soot Sprite Shenanigans, She Likes My Spark, and a very limited edition pre-order for a 4 oz jar of Keeper of the Forest and She Likes My Spark)
    • March '20 (Mother Earth, Father Sky, Moon Child, My Only Sunshine)
    • Monsters & Magic (A Pie with No Filling, Unbridled Chaos, Where the Fuck Are My Clothes?!)
    • and more! (Cabin in the Lost Woods, Goblin King, Hero's Shield)
  • Very limited stock of scented Elemental Ward in our normal bottles
  • Some of our customer favs have been restocked...
    • Dark Matter
    • Always
    • It's My Birthday!
    • Trapped In A Dream
    • Our Princess is in Another Death Star
    • VOID, Sweet VOID
    • Reflections in the Water
    • Shadows of the Past
    • Wibbly Wobbly, Timey Wimey
    • Not 100% A Dick
    • Breath of the Wildlings
    • Ride Eternal, Shiny and Chrome
    • Whoever Said I Was Merciful?
    • Stone of the Mind (GOLD)
    • Stone of the Soul (ORANGE)
    • The Moment You've Waited For
    • Lost in the Forest
    • Make It Rain
    • Secretly A Sea Witch
    • Wild & Untamed
    • Octarine-a of Time
    • Trial By Fire
    • Lucky Sharms
    • Light of My Life
    • Stone of Space (BLUE)
    • Be Whoever the Fuck You Want
    • Question the Nature of Your Reality
  • and tons of new Funky Chunky glitters added!

We hope to restock more in a few weeks once our regular bottles are back in stock.
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Spoon Levels: Critically Low

9/24/2018

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Hey everyone. I've been falling behind on some things recently, and before I go into why I've faltered I'd like to apologize to you all.

You folks spend your time and hard-earned money on the pretty things I create here at Lucky 13, and I'm sorry there are times when it takes too long to ship out or I don't respond to messages quickly. I want you all to know I appreciate all of your continued support and understanding so much more than words can say.

Secondly, I'd like to apologize for not being as honest about why I've fallen behind as I'd like to have been. It feels weird to talk about my disabilities, but since it's recently heavily impacted my ability to work I think it's time to stop feeling embarrassed for silly reasons.

I've been experiencing chronic joint pain for the last 7 years, since I was 23. I've seen over a dozen doctors and every one of them has said there's "nothing wrong" with me and sent me away to wonder if it was all in my head. I'd spend hours looking for something that explained my seemingly random symptoms, but nothing fit 100%. In January 2017, I was diagnosed with Fibromyalgia, and I began trying to accept that pain is simply a part of my life now. I've talked about this before, and having friends who understand is helpful, but I still wasn't satisfied with the answer so I kept looking.

Earlier this year, I came across another explanation that really made sense. It explained some of my "silly human tricks" I've been doing since I was a child, the weird way I've always sat (until my pain caught up with me), even why I bruise so easily and my scars look different than other peoples'.

I have Ehlers-Danlos.

What that means is that my joints don't know where the hell they're supposed to be hanging out, so they can partially dislocate (called subluxation) or even fully dislocate at any time. Also, my collagen doesn't heal well so my joints wear down faster than they should. This is a really painful thing to experience in one joint, let alone half a dozen across my whole body. On the up-side, my skin is as soft as a baby angel's buns. While my body feels like I'm 200 on the inside, I'll look like I'm in my 20s for decades to come. Silver linings!!

However, the pain on top of anxiety, depression, and bi-polar mood swings can make it a struggle just to want to keep going every day. Some days I just feel like a hopeless and broken human. I've had a lot of those days recently.

Waking up after a restless 6 hours, stuffing myself to the eyeballs with coffee, working in pain all day (and only achieving partial efficiency because of it) before collapsing to start the cycle again the next day has been driving me insane. I'm trying to maintain a better balance of efficient work and rest, and I'm learning.

I can honestly say that getting to "play with glitter" for a living is not something I take for granted, nor is success something I inherently deserve. But I want to continue working hard for it, every day that I can.

​Thanks for reading all of this <3
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Welcome to the VOID

6/13/2018

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 Wow.

Today, June 13th, marks 6 years since I launched our first collection, inspired by The Legend of Zelda. A lot has happened in that time, including a lot of ups and downs, personal growth, and spilled glitter. So much​ spilled glitter.

There aren't words to express how grateful and overjoyed I am that Lucky 13 continues to thrive and that I'm able to spend my days creating beautiful products and making people happy with them.

​Thank you so much, from the bottom of my heart. Whether you've been a fan for 6 years or if you just found us today. Lucky 13 wouldn't exist today without you!

To celebrate 6 years of sparkles, we're offering free US shipping through Sunday! We'll also be throwing in freebies in the form of discontinued or one-of-a-kind mystery polishes with all orders, so be prepared for some gifts of your own to unwrap!
~Click here to shop~
But wait! There's more!

Across the last few months I've been designing a mascot in collaboration with my sweetheart's sister, partially inspired by my cat 
Sagan. Introducing....
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VOID is a shapeshifting sweetheart that is the embodiment of the universe. So far VOID has shown themselves in two forms: VOIDcat and octoVOID.

VOID does not have a gender (the 'verse ain't got no gender!), and they currently have a preference for their cat form, but VOID continues to show more of themselves to the artist, PastelPastryClown!

You can pick up stickers of VOIDcat and octoVOID by clicking HERE! These stickers are weather-resistant and look beautiful anywhere!

If you only order stickers, use code INTOTHEVOID for free shipping.
Stay sparkly!

Love,
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Giveaway of the Galaxy Winners Plus $5 Coupon for You!

6/19/2017

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The Giveaway of the Galaxy recently ended, and the winners have been spoiled!! Thank you to everyone who Liked/voted during this contest, we hope they've inspired you.

Most Votes

@leftforread won $50 shop credit for her freehand Star Lord nail art over Not 100% A Dick. I love how this turned out, that cassette tape is unbelievable!
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Freehand cassette tape by @leftforread

Personal Favorite

@jinxy728 and @designsbylunafreya each had multiple entries, so they BOTH get $25 shop credit for their hard work!

You Win, Too!

You can enjoy $5 off all orders $15+ with coupon code HIGH5 thru June 27th, only at Lucky13Lacquer.com 🌟

We already have more nail art contests planned, so keep an eye on our Instagram and keep paintin' those pretty nails!

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These ladies worked hard on all this beautiful art, which is your favorite??
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Giveaway of the Galaxy on Instagram!

5/3/2017

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Hi everyone,

It's been a while, we've missed you! We recently moved to a new city and needed to get settled in, but things are smoothing out and we're ready to celebrate!!

We're hosting a giveaway and nail art contest on Instagram to celebrate the new Guardians of the Galaxy Vol 2 movie coming out May 5th. Follow us and enter to win on Instagram, but you can review the rules and prizes for the giveaway & nail art contest here.
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ENTER ON INSTAGRAM HERE

It's everyone's favorite time again: time for free stuff!! The new Guardians of the Galaxy Vol 2 movie releases May 5th, and we want to celebrate with you and your nails!

✨ Giveaway of the Galaxy Nail Art Contest! ✨

Enter your Guardians of the Galaxy inspired nail art for a chance to be one of 7 winners, entries will be accepted until 5/28 and winners will be announced after a short voting period. Keep reading for details!

RULES:
🌟 Must follow @Lucky13Lacquer
🌟 US & Canada only
🌟 Your account must be public so we can see your entries
🌟 Post your entries before May 29th
🌟 We will re-post ALL manis on our account and open a short voting period for the $50 winner
🌟 7 winners! FIVE (or more) random entries chosen by playtime with our kitties will win $5 credit to Lucky13Lacquer.com, our personal favorite will get $25 credit, and the most Likes during our voting period will earn $50 credit, good toward anything in the galaxy your heart desires!
🌟 We really want to see your artistic skills on this one!! Take risks, make mistakes, get messy, and have fun!
☄️ If you have read all the rules, comment on this post saying "You look Marvel-ous!" and tag your friends for 1 bonus entry per friend for $5 prize! 💙

TO ENTER:
🌟 Like this pic
🌟 Follow us @Lucky13Lacquer
🌟 Post a new Guardians of the Galaxy inspired mani to your IG account. Tag #GiveawayoftheGalaxy and @Lucky13Lacquer in the comments (1 entry per day for $25 OR $50 shop credit)
🌟 Tag friends in the comments of this post (1 entry for $5 shop credit per friend you tag)

EXTRA ENTRIES:
🌟 1 extra entry toward $5 credit if your mani includes a Marvel-inspired Lucky 13 polish! We've released 24 Marvel-ous polishes across the years, ask us in the comments of THIS post if you're not sure!
🌟 There is no limit to how many times you may enter, but each mani must have at least 2 completely new nails to be considered a "new mani"
May the odds be ever in your favor❣️

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Personal Update: When the Glitter Hits the Fan

8/4/2016

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Isn't there a saying about the best laid plans still going awry? There is, I saved you a Google!

For the last few months, Erin and I (Anya) have been slowly preparing to move out of our apartment and into a house with family. The house we planned to move to had plenty of land with room for a garden.... it was a wonderful plan! We've been preparing for so long, we'd even begun putting off collaborations and other opportunities on the assumption that within a few weeks we'd have twice as many eager hands to help with Lucky 13 work.

Sadly, in a few short hours, that all came crashing down. A huge (yet so minor!) misunderstanding regarding keeping my cat (Sagan) indoors vs outdoors led to us changing our upcoming moving plans.

Originally, we had planned to move to Bonney Lake, WA sometime mid-August to early-September. Now we have hopes to find a home in the Portland, OR (or other Oregon cities nearby) area instead!

If you know of any houses in the Portland(ish) area with a huge yard or land and plenty of room for 5 adults, 2 cats, a dog, a tortoise, a business, and an RV please let us know!
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New release, discontinued polishes

10/26/2015

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Lots of new, limited edition, and discontinued polishes happening today! Let's get right to it.

New Release: Fury Road

Our newest collection is inspired by Mad Max Fury Road. 7 polishes plus one limited edition polish. The Fury Road collection will be available long-term; Glory Awaits in Fallhalla, the limited edition from this collection, will be discontinued December 7th.
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Limited edition/limited stock

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There are only TWO Trick or Treat Yo' Self boxes available and then they will be gone for good!!!

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There is also a new batch of Orphan polishes available. This time around, we've separated them into Orphan sets and individual Orphans, as some polishes look best as a set.

For those unfamiliar with Orphans, these are prototypes that didn't meet the specific idea in mind. These are all still great quality polishes.

Discontinuations

To make room for new polishes, we've added some of the We Are the Crystal Gems collection and a few older polishes to the Last Chance bin at discounted prices.
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Holo-Addicted is being discontinued so that we may reformulate it using real Spectraflair! Currently it's made using a Spectraflair alternative and only a few bottles remain.
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Pumpkin Cat-Astrophe, October's limited edition, will be removed from the site on November 7th along with the Ghouls' Night In collection.

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Ghouls' Night In Halloween Collection

9/23/2015

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Good evening, boils and ghouls!

We've just released our Halloween/Fall collection, Ghouls' Night In, which is inspired by 6 spooky and scary movies.

Grab your popcorn and a cocktail and let's watch some movies! You can click each polish's name to go right to its page in the shop.

You've Got Red on You

Let's start things off with something lighthearted and fun: Shaun of the Dead!

You've Got Red on You is a blood splatter inspired glitter topper with all shapes and sizes of red and fire red holo glitters. Make any mani a blood splatter mani!
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You've Got Red on You over Redrum
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You've Got Red on You over They're Eating Her, Then They're Gonna Eat Me!
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You've Got Red on You over They're Coming to Get You, Barbra
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You've Got Red on You over Dark Matter

They're Coming to Get You, Barbra

Next up is a classic: Night of the Living Dead. No, Barbra's name is not a typo. In the original film her name is spelled Barbra, not Barbara!

They're Coming to Get You, Barbra has a grey crelly base with white, silver, and black hexes and black holo hex.

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They're Coming to Get You, Barbra
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They're Coming to Get You, Barbra topped with You've Got Red on You
Can someone go grab popcorn?? 2 movies in, I need something to snack on!!

Don't Fall Asleep

Let's put on A Nightmare on Elm St, next. We can admire how babyfaced Johnny Depp was back in the day!

Don't Fall Asleep is a pale grey to dark grey thermal base with blood red micro flakes. Like blood splattered across your bedroom ceiling at night....or something trying to break through into our world.
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Don't Fall Asleep
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Don't Fall Asleep
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Redrum

Heeeeere's Johnny! Next up is The Shining.

Redrum is the perfect dried blood red creme. This would be wonderful for a blood splatter mani.

The label on top of each bottle has "Redrum" written exactly the same as in the film!

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Redrum
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Redrum

Good, Bad, I'm the Guy with the Gun

I don't know about you but by now I need a little bit of silly mixed in with my horror. It's too late in the night and my house is creaky!! How about we put on Army of Darkness?

Good, Bad, I'm the Guy with the Gun has a deep midnight blue base with maroon/copper/gold/green and hints of blue color-shifting flakes.

This polish is so deep and complex and impossible to capture everything in a single photo.
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Good, Bad, I'm the Guy with the Gun
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Good, Bad, I'm the Guy with the Gun
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Good, Bad, I'm the Guy with the Gun
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Good, Bad, I'm the Guy with the Gun. Backlit to show blue base
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Good, Bad, I'm the Guy with the Gun. Blurred to show how this polish seems to glow in sunlight

They're Eating Her, Then They're Gonna Eat Me!

OH MY GOOOOOOOOOD!

Finally, by the end of the night we're all sleepy (and more than a little inebriated, probably) so let's go back to something fun! Troll 2 is perhaps the best bad horror movie ever!

Slimey emerald green jelly base packed with silver holo micro shreds. The perfect shade of plant-goo green.

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They're Eating Her, Then They're Gonna Eat Me!
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They're Eating Her, Then They're Gonna Eat Me! topped with You've Got Red on You

We also have a few other polishes that aren't a part of the Ghouls' Night In collection but were released at the same time. Let's check out the monthly limited editions first!

Glory Awaits in Fallhalla

Our first LE for this month is partially inspired by Mad Max Fury Road and further inspired by the beautiful colors of falling leaves.

Glory Awaits in Fallhalla (a play on Valhalla) has a dark navy blue base with red holo, orange holo, gold holo, and dark moss green hex.

This month we have a double limited edition, Glory Awaits in Fallhalla will be available for both October and November!
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Glory Awaits in Fallhalla

Pumpkin Cat-astrophe

Our second Limited Edition for October is Pumpkin Cat-astrophe. It has a pumpkin orange crelly base with black hex, tiny fire red holo hex, and black kitty cat face glitters.

This polish is available until November 7th and will then be discontinued.
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Pumpkin Cat-astrophe

Unstoppable

Our latest charity polish is a plum purple linear holo.

$1 from each bottle sold will be donated to the National Coalition Against Domestic Violence.
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Unstoppable
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Unstoppable
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Portlandia Giveaway with Geek Chic Cosmetics & Lucky 13 Lacquer

9/16/2015

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Hey everyone, we finally have another giveaway to share with you all!!

Geek Chic Cosmetics recently found a small stash of leftover bottles of Dream of the 90s in her workshop and was kind enough to donate them for a giveaway. We've pulled out some upcoming Portlandia-inspired shades and some limited availability vinyl decals for the occasion!

Geek Chic's bottles are an older design and Portland is where the dream of the 90s is alive, so it felt appropriate to both begin and end this giveaway on a Throwback Thursday. This giveaway will have 4 winners and will only run for 2 weeks, ending 11:59PM PST on September 30th, so make sure you enter soon. You may repost this Instagram image once per day for an extra entry!

This giveaway is open to US residents only.
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a Rafflecopter giveaway
The grand prize winner will receive
  • Geek Chic Cosmetics Dream of the 90s (neon and black glitter topper)
  • 1 half sheet of "Put A Bird on It" decals (16 decals, 16 stencils per sheet)
  • Lucky 13 Lacquer Put A Bird on It (baby blue linear holo)
  • Lucky 13 Lacquer Is It Local? (rose linear holo)
  • Lucky 13 Lacquer Cacao! (dark chocolate brown linear holo)


Additional winners will each receive
  • Geek Chic Cosmetics Dream of the 90s (neon and black glitter topper)
  • 1 half sheet of "Put A Bird on It" decals (16 decals, 16 stencils per sheet)
  • Lucky 13 Lacquer Put A Bird on It, Is It Local?, OR Cacao! (1 winner for each option)
Geek Chic Dream of the 90s
Lucky 13 Put A Bird on It, Is It Local?, and Cacao!
Lucky 13 Put A Bird on It + Is It Local?
Lucky 13 Put A Bird on It
Lucky 13 Is It Local?
Lucky 13 Cacao!
Put A Bird on It decals
Put A Bird on It decals (cutting guides)
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Accio Lacquer, Accio Discount!

6/30/2015

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As many of you surely know, I (Jess) and Mishka of Accio Lacquer are very good friends and we work together often. I was lucky enough to have the opportunity to spend time with her in-person a few weeks ago and it only made our friendship stronger. We've even discussed the possibility of her moving closer to where I am! I can't even fathom how amazing that would be!

However, after Mishka returned home from her vacation she found that her dear kitty, Severus, was very ill from his diabetes. If my cat Sagan is my supervisor, Mishka's cat Severus is her Professor!

Just look at this little dork, how can you not love him the moment you see him??
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The good news is that Severus' vet remains positive about his recovery and the kitty is happy to get all the love Mishka can give him. However, such severe health issues have caused the vet bills to pile up to an unmanageable level.

Mishka has opened up a GoFundMe account to cover Severus' bills to make sure her baby gets the best care possible.
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As someone who has also had some very expensive complications with their beloved feline friend I aim to do everything in my power to help Mishka and Severus stay happy, healthy, and out of deep debt.

While I am recovering from my own financial difficulties due to kitties there isn't much I can do personally, but I do have the power to offer a discount for those who are able to support Mishka and Severus!

I am offering a one-time use code of 10% off for all who donate $5 or more OR 20% off for those who donate $20 or more to Mishka's fund.

If you enjoy reading Accio Lacquer I hope you'll support her in her time of need, even if the most you can do is $1 or spreading the word. Our furry friends are what keep us going when times get hard.
Please enjoy this soothing gif of my own kitty, Sagan, enjoying some love.
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