The Lab is Now Open!

Welcome to The Polish Lab! We started The Polish Lab with the usual goals: to provide info on polishes, supplies, and different types of manicures; to alert followers to any great polish sales or promos we learn of;  and, yes, to host an occasional giveaway. But we also founded The Polish Lab with another aim. Polish isn’t just about pretty colors and nice nails. It comes with memories attached—some humorous, others poignant. Polish can help us celebrate good times and survive the tough times. And perhaps most importantly, polish can serve as a path to friendships that would never have formed otherwise.  At The Polish Lab, we want our readers to share those experiences with us and with each other.

Although we have no intention of adhering to a rigid schedule—and you won’t see each of the following features each week-- there are several topics you can expect to see from us on a somewhat regular basis:

Mystery Mani Monday: We invent the mani. You guess the polish. (Don’t worry—we’ll give you a hint or two).

Test Tube Tuesday: Frankens and other highly experimental endeavours!

Wish List Wednesday: An exercise in honing your polish lust to a few select shades. Better focus means less money wasted on shades you only kinda-sorta-maybe-a-just-a-little wanted, when you could’ve spent that same money on the polish of your dreams. Besides, it’s fun to see what colors other polish addicts are lusting after!

Tag Team Thursday: Keep in mind, there are two of us running this lab. On Tag Team Tuesdays, we’ll each paint our nails with the same color, then compare notes. Will our data turn out the same? Will we reach the same conclusions?

Five Finger Friday: Five fingers; five colors. Side-by-side swatches of similar colors or five colors from a certain collection. It’s the wham-bam-thank-you-ma’am of polish swatching.

Sparkle Saturday:  On Saturdays, we all need to take our lab coats off and add a  little bling!

Super Supply Sunday: Having great looking nails isn’t just about the polish. We’ll review files, cuticle oils, mani tools, beakers, you name it!

The Holo Grail: A review of what’s hot and what’s not in the world of holographic polishes.

Polish Personals: We ask a question. You give the response. This is when you get to tell us your craziest or saddest or funniest nail polish stories. And we’ll share ours, too. Here’s where the experiment gets really interesting. Scientists have hearts too!

Don’t forget—we won’t do each of these features each week. As all scientists know, it’s important to be flexible!

Whether you’re a nail novice or a polish princess, a lover of a classic colors or a fan of funky polish, a long-taloned lady or a short-nailed man, we invite you to be our lab partners!

And that our blog has officially been born, we need to have a little birthday party, don’t you think? But we’re not asking for gifts. Instead, we’re going to give one lucky reader a gift! So be sure your read our blog later this week for details about our Birth of a Blog Giveaway!

Let the experiment begin!