Hi everyone!
Longtime lurker/commenter, who finally decided to post!
As a girl with a tight budget, limited self-control and, a growing passion for nail polish, I was wondering everyone's tips on finding codes and sales with all indie polish makers.
I would love to know which sales you are waiting for in the year and, to your knowledge, which brands offer coupon codes. I don't mind if you self-promote your affiliate codes (I think it's alright with the sub rules), good for you and good for us other laqueristas! And I also don't mind if you mention obvious sales like Black Friday, since maybe some brands have some specific ways to participate 🤷♀️
I know Cracked often has lots of 10% codes from affiliate swatchers when they promote a new collection. But I'm fairly new to the indie nail polish game (1-2 years), so I would love to rely on our sub's collective experience to know more and help me try to plan my budget on sales 😅
Thank you in advance!
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Pics for attention 🙂
BKL Princess of starlight (2 coats) and on one pointer finger Cracked Don't eat that (2 coats) after smudging it 2 seconds after mani was done…
Top coat KBShimmer Clearly on Top.
Entire mani over 2 coats of Glamrdip Clear instead of doing tips (last pic)
by HumbleTimeTraveler
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I don’t have tips for sales, but there is also a reddit nail polish swap site, with folks trying to destash. Many polishes are on discount there: [https://www.reddit.com/r/RedditLaqueristaSwap/](https://www.reddit.com/r/RedditLaqueristaSwap/)
When Cracked does 20% off sales, you can stack the 10% codes for a total of 30% off. I’m not sure how often they do the sales, but it seems like at least a couple times a year?
Lyn B Designs does a 50% sale off every month, which is a great deal.
Other than the Cracked Memorial Day sale I mentioned in another comment, I know EdM will be doing a sale at the end of May as well for their anniversary. A really great way to stay on top of sales is to join the Reddit Laqueristas discord and keep an eye on the “Deals and Discounts”, plus any brand-specific channels you may have your eye on.
ILNP has one sale a year, it’s for about a week or so over Black Friday. I believe it’s 25% off but not totally sure of the amount.
I believe Mooncat does two 20% off sales a year – one in the spring, coming up soon, and one in November-ish. Collabs are excluded.
Cracked does 20% off sales fairly regularly throughout the year. I think you can usually stack the 10% codes.
Fancy Gloss doesn’t do any sales at all.
LynB has sales almost monthly iirc. Emily de Molly I believe has an anniversary sale soon, and another in November. Colores de Carol does flash and discontinue sales announced periodically. There are some indie and boutique brands at Beyond Polish, which has frequent sales on those and drugstore as well. (Unfortunately for our wallets) this sub often has lots of news on current and upcoming sales 💸🤣
I’m constantly getting emails from Cirque offering 20% off
Glitch Lacquer seems to having a mini sale on their website. I know Mooncat’s lunar sale should be coming relatively soon too.
I wishlist a anything I can (on all websites that allow it) for black Friday timeframe and then look at the PPU sale mega page in the beginning of November to make my decisions on which makers I will be focusing on.
For the rest of the year, it’s really only very sparing. There are a couple swatchers I watch (Polished Yogi, Linry, Nicole Loves Nails) that are low FOMO but will give a heads up about upcoming sales. I can make decisions from there.
Lmao I am here looking for the same info as you.
I specifically am waiting for news about a Cracked sale and my research/digging through Reddit has lead me to think they *might* do a memorial sale the end of this month.
Fingers crossed, I have a handful of jelly polishes I have had my eye on!!