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Friday, December 20, 2013

Pointless Cafe's Best of 2013 Part 3: Top 5 Indie Brands Highlighted



Well it's that time of year again! Time for my personal favorites of the year. And it was NOT easy this year for sure because this has been the best year for polish that I can remember...ever.

Part THREE





So here's how I've decided to break it down - this list will appear in each Best Of post and be linked as I post for easy reference.

1: Top 15 Mainstream Brand Polishes - published
2: Top 10 Boutique Brand Polishes - published
3: Highlight: Top Five Indie Brands (with my favorites from each) - published
4: Top Indie Polishes of 2013 (excluding the Highlighted Brands) - published
5: Brand of the Year (with my top 15 from this brand) - published
6: Polish of the Year - published

Continued after the jump...




LOTS of indie brands made my Best of 2013 but there were SO MANY! So I decided that every brand who had 5 or more on my list would get their own separate post. There were five of them.

Again, we'll just go alphabetically. Settle in because this is a long one!

Above the Curve

Akiko


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Aphaea


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Caty Perry-Winkle


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Friday the 13th


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Poinsettia for Mom


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Scarlet


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Wisteria


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Girly Bits Cosmetics

Dancing Phalanges




Dash Away All




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Giggity Giggity Goo




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Ho-Ho-Hope




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Peel Here




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Remember Aja




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KBShimmer Bath and Body

Every Nook and Cranberry




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Plum Tuckered Out


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Teal Another Tail


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The Grape Beyond



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Turbulence



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Literary Lacquers

84 Charing Cross Road




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As the Waltz Was Ending


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If It Pleases You


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Sidewalk's End


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ThermoDynamics


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Pahlish

Blood of the Mountain


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El Topo Petit


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Little Caroline


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Mountains Beyond Mountains


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Olea Europaea


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Tenderest Touch


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Each one is linked to my post with my full swatches and review. Tomorrow I'll have my favorite indie polishes by all the other great brands. ♥

What do you think? Did any of these make YOUR list?

Stay tuned for the rest of the "Best Of" posts...counting down to my pick for Best Polish of the Year on December 23rd!



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14 comments :

  1. What a great list!!! Excellent choices, all of them!

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  2. Agreed, those are some of the best of the best this year!!

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  3. All of them are very nice, and I'm really happy seeing the love for Above the Curve. I'm a sucker for a pretty polish that benefits charity.

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  4. I am loving all of these! I am really enjoying your end of the year round ups!

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  5. KBShimmer - yes, of course. And I still love Enchanted Polish, though it becomes harder and harder to buy it.

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  6. thanks for making my christmas list for me, lol!

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  7. ooooh great list!! I am honoured to be on it!!
    And this is pretty much my wish list now!!!
    Thank you! ♥

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  8. Gorgeous colors! I drooled through this whole post.

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  9. wow I cannot fault ANY of those choice - fabolous drooly gorgeousness x

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  10. I knew this is a post I must not miss!
    These are such amazing swatches... just open my book and start writing the names...
    And yes, I agree - those brands did stand out this year!
    (as well as at least two others, that I suspect I'll be seeing in your next post ;-))

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  11. I love Girly Bits! They're one of the very first Indie brands I ever owed, so I'll always have a soft spot in my heart for Pam and her gorgeous creations! And I was more than thrilled to see Literary Lacquers on here! I've always said that Amy's gems need way more recognition (I bet this list took care of that part! lol!) KB Shimmer is a no-brainer. Christy is so great at keeping up with the new trends! Pahlish definitely earned their spot on the list too. Shannon's been cranking out pretties since 2010! But my personal fave is Above The Curve. Not only have they given us consistently great polish, but good karma too. I love that Angel donates $1 from each bottle to Shriners Hospital! All 5 are wonderful brands, and definitely deserving of the recognition :)

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  12. I'm probably one of the few not all that into all of these indie polishes (I'm not the biggest fan of glitter & holo, which seem to take up most of the offerings), but "Tenderest Touch" is just so incredibly amazing!

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