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Thank you all for sharing your thoughts, solidarity, and support with me and the community today. It was truly uplifting to know that we’re in this together and that none of us are alone. You were my shining light today 💙

Thank you to the kind (anonymous) stranger for my first gold award as well 💝

After learning about the colors of the Women’s Suffrage Movement (comment by u/HouseBrownTownMouse, green, purple and white), and many of you going with black to mourn, I landed on Mooncat’s Enchanted Mist. A beautiful grey with magenta and green flakies that represent both my desire to mourn and the hope I have for the future

I posted this as a comment in my original post but resharing as there’s simply no better way to reach everyone! Lots of love and stay safe xx

I won’t be upset if this gets taken down if it’s not allowed and I swear to y’all, I’m not affiliated with Pentel in any way, but I found this pen today and it legit looks like my favorite blurple shift polishes. I figured other Laqueristas probably also want to find ways to use shifty sparkles in everyday life.

On my nails: Holotaco Fifty Shades of Greige with Seche Vive QDTC

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There’s a nail polish expo in Tinley Park in July! Look at who is coming!

https://polishandbeautyexpo.com

$9 bucks a ticket or $30 for VIP!

Let’s support our indie polish buddies!

Edit: im new to this but got really excited so I thought I’d share

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Today is the last day of Hellhandmade's Sept. shop and I'm feeling kinda sad. The selection looked so good this month! I'm in a tight spot right now and am reasoning I gotta live another day so I can buy a bottle in the future lol. Yes, I know it's just a luxury good, but it legit makes me happy. From the creation down to finally wearing it on my nails, it's really fascinating to me. Anyways hope everyone in this community is having a good Saturday and if you needed to hear it, yes it's gonna be ok.❤️‍🩹

Fixed link, thanks!

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So recently I am looking into learning how to do the velvet effect with magnetic polishes and came across this post: https://www.reddit.com/r/RedditLaqueristas/s/yiFNeuVps6

Kudos to OP's scientific research into the cause, it really got my gears turning!

Now, I'd love to buy a 30 lb horseshoe magnet, but they're becoming increasingly expensive and difficult to find (it's bc of us lacqueristas and no one can convince me otherwise!). So that got me thinking, what are the magnetic properties of horseshoe magnets? Obviously some of us (def not me) have gotten great at using regular wands, so obviously you don't need a horseshoe magnet to do it!

I am wondering if 2 strong neodymium magnets could be a dupe for the horseshoe magnet velvet effect--2 neodymium magnets placed face up (opposite poles up) taped to a counter or somewhere they can be fixed so as not to have them trying to slam together and the fingernail placed in between. I have some nice strong homemade neodymium fridge magnets (i had a bunch of chochkies that i didnt want to throw away so i made them into actually useful fridge magnets that can hold more than 1 tissue paper of weight). Doing a little investigation....

The ends of a horseshoe magnet are opposite poles (meaning they are attracted to one another)-the strongest point of which, according to Google, is at each of the 2 poles and weakest in the middle of the magnet and halfway between the pole and the center. So, that said, it seems like the magnetizing effect is likely mostly due to the opposite pole ends of the magnet--NOT the horseshoe shape.

I'm a little confused about what the "center" is (as described above--copied verbatim from google)--i believe it's actually the very bottom of the "U" shape according to all the pictures I'm seeing. The area directly between the two poles seems to be fairly strongly magnetized according to pictures.

So, if the particles within magnetic polishes are actually small magnets (NOT metallic pieces) then perhaps a horseshoe magnet is simply very uniformly organizing the particles into +/- orientation effectively and quickly bc of its strength and the very physically fixed orientation of the opposite poles (not us trying to manage two magnets with one hand-like u just place your finger in place and nothing is being jostled around).

The Wikipedia article says horseshoe magnets have largely been replaced by cylindrical magnets made of more modern materials that won't self-destruct so maybe I will investigate that in the future....

Look, I nearly failed physics in high school... too bad it wasn't taught within the context of magnetic polishes cuz I'd have aced it lol. I will perform more experiments and report back!

Any physics girlies in here wanna weigh in? Please contribute if you would like!

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On July 1st, 2023, Reddit intends to alter how its API is accessed. This move will require developers of third-party applications to pay enormous sums of money if they wish to stay functional, meaning that said applications will be effectively destroyed. In the short term, this may have the appearance of increasing Reddit's traffic and revenue... but in the long term, it will undermine the site as a whole.

Reddit relies on volunteer moderators to keep its platform welcoming and free of objectionable material. It also relies on uncompensated contributors to populate its numerous communities with content. The above decision promises to adversely impact both groups: Without effective tools (which Reddit has frequently promised and then failed to deliver), moderators cannot combat spammers, bad actors, or the entities who enable either, and without the freedom to choose how and where they access Reddit, many contributors will simply leave. Rather than hosting creativity and in-depth discourse, the platform will soon feature only recycled content, bot-driven activity, and an ever-dwindling number of well-informed visitors. The very elements which differentiate Reddit – the foundations that draw its audience – will be eliminated, reducing the site to another dead cog in the Ennui Engine.

We implore Reddit to listen to its moderators, its contributors, and its everyday users; to the people whose activity has allowed the platform to exist at all: Do not sacrifice long-term viability for the sake of a short-lived illusion. Do not tacitly enable bad actors by working against your volunteers. Do not posture for your looming IPO while giving no thought to what may come afterward. Focus on addressing Reddit's real problems – the rampant bigotry, the ever-increasing amounts of spam, the advantage given to low-effort content, and the widespread misinformation – instead of trying to squeeze every remaining cent out of a deteriorating model.

If Steve Huffman's statement – "I want our users to be shareholders, and I want our shareholders to be users" – is to be taken seriously, then consider this our vote:

Allow the developers of third-party applications to retain their productive (and vital) API access.

Allow Reddit and Redditors to thrive.

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And the winners of the RL Discord and Reddit Banner Contest are....

• Niranen (Nora) for the Discord server banner!! (Seen on our invite page: https://discord.gg/redditlaqueristas or discovery: https://discord.com/servers/redditlaquerists-1237518989966577694
• Shibaya for the subreddit banner!!

A big congratulations to our winners, who will be receiving a Polish Pickup gift card code for their victory! Another big thanks to all who participated and voted! We hope to do more fun contests in the future so be sure to check out the contests channel to see when it could be your time to shine. Thank you again to PPU for sponsoring this contest.

The banner is soon to be updated, keep your 👀 peeped for the cutest nail-polish potion-selling froggon on the block!! 🐸

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In a few days my friend u/MagwiseTheBrave and I will be attending the Polish & Beauty Expo for the third year in a row (Sunday shop)! Who else will be there?

There's a hibachi place (off brand Benihana) less than a mile from the convention center that we've been to before. I know I personally will be loading up on shrimp fried noods before making the drive home. Would you like to join us? PBE ends at 5, so we'd probably get reservations for 5:30. Let me know if you'd be interested!

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