Girls Best Friends Jewelry






Hello lovelies!
Today I'm showing you an adorable brand I have found a couple days ago on Facebook and I felt in love immediately! 

Its a Portuguese handmade jewelry brand featuring everyday objects turned into the cuttest small fabric pendants. 

Olá
Hoje trago-vos uma marca adorável que encontrei no Facebook há uns dias! Fiquei apaixonada pelas peças e tinha que partilhar comvosco.
A Girls Best Friends é uma marca de joias feitos artesanalmente que transforma objectos do nosso quotidiano nas peças mais pequenas e adoráveis que já vi. 




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GBFs Concept
"GBF© values the individuality and therefore exists to create and develop versatile design products for each woman.
Designed by Ana Rita de Oliveira and executed in Portugal in a traditional way, GBF© products are also inspired in harmony and versatility.
On Ana Rita's point of view, harmonious products are those who function on itself but when combined with others are able to add them an extra value and, versatile products are those who don´t impose their way of application or utilization.
GBF© believes that the magic is in the personal discovery of this features in everything around, like in friendship, where the most valuable things and persons are progressively revealed on the relationship with them. 
GBF© as a Brand stand for a gradual knowledge of its products by the women who will realize progressively that those may be more than they appear... As they're being collected, a new family will be created and increased in an atmosphere of harmony: each purchased product will always be well accepted and incorporated by the previous one into the family dynamics.

The GBF© goal is to make products that can be used and combined together and between collections, avoiding the existence of totally isolated products with a unique function or application.
This concept of family products and relation between them will become more obvious as the collections are being revealed.

On the other hand, GBF© traditional execution and the handmade quality finishes are a sign of appreciation of the individuality like should happens in a harmonious family, by the way products are produced by individuals to individuals with the certainty that each one will always be unique and made specially for its user.

GBF© presents itself with a first Trendycollect© collection dedicated to fashion accessories, but in the future will present new collections dedicated to other women interest areas...and not only..."

All image credit to GBF's Website

*A* Aphrodite Lacquers [Indie Guide Project]


Hi Girls & Boys!
I'm so happy to be back with another Indie Brand !
Today I'm presenting you Rebecca. the maker of Aphrodite Lacquers ! 


Olá meninas & Meninos !!
Estou super feliz por hoje vos trazer mais uma marca Indie !
Hoje Apresento-vos a Rebecca, a criadora dos lindíssimos Aphrodite Lacquers!



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For those who don't know what I am talking about (Follow me through Facebook to know a lot more!) I am making an Indie Guide A-Z! This will be a huge project and a enormous pleasure to do! So .. what am I going to do? Everyday, I'm going to show you a different brand of Indie Nail Polishes (and some of their major stockists too!! )
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name:  Rebecca

brand name: Aphrodite Lacquers

from: Portland, OR

started: spring 2012

story behind the brand name: I wanted a name that made me think of pretty things, and beauty, and love for all that is feminine.

a special polish/collection: The Springtime in Paris collection is pretty special to me, it is the very first collection that i ever came up with. I kept putting off actually making it because i wanted it to perfectly match what i had envisioned.

addicted to polish before making polish: I was definitely polish addicted before i started making polish. Actually I have spent kind of an embarrassing amount of money on nail polish.

blog: No blog before or after. I wouldn't be a very good blogger. I'm kind of loner, and I keep to myself in my own little world. 

favorite thing about making polishes: the creative part
least favorite thing about making polishes: the business part

a curious thing about a client: I have made a new bestie in the polish world after she purchased some of my polish and we started talking. She is the writer of the blog "The Obsessed", and we email each other like 5 times a day with nail polish world gossip, new colors, and good sales!!


something else I'd like to share: polish is my hobby, I actually have another job that I work a lot of hours at. most days I work 13 hour shifts at my other job. So I am actually pretty bad about keeping in touch with people and about answering my customers emails in a timely fashion. By the time I get a chance to sit down and answer emails on my first day off, there are like 50 emails to reply to that have built up in my inbox.... LOL so I guess I end up being kind of a polish recluse...









SuperNova
This is a gorgeous black gelish based glitter filled with pink and purple glitter. I applied two coats of supernova over Miyo Black. The glitters spread like butter and look amazing! I felt in love.  Lasted around 3 days. 











*Supernova sent for review*


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Personal Notes from Betty:
Thank you so much for being part of this Guide Rebecca! Even tho our little accident (The first package with nail polishes got lost in out wonderful delivery system) everything worked out fine! Thank you once again for all your support! 
Once again I  show my total support for Indie Makers and my full respect for their work. I will not translate the interviews because words and meanings get lost in translation. I hope you understand. Please pm me or comment bellow if you have any doubts.  If you are an Indie Maker and wont to participate in the project, please contact me through Facebook or email (blog.bettynails@gmail.com). You are still in time!  Don't Forget to come tomorrow ! 



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I hope you loved today's Post!
What was your favorite part? Let me know all in the comment section bellow! 
 Please do comment, follow and share if  you liked, your feedback is very important to me and to all the girls that invested in this project!
Kisses & See you tomorrow !



*This is a post for the Guide A-Z :Indie Brands*
You can find all the info in the Guide A-Z Indie Brands Page,on the top of the Blog, or check  the Indie Guide Tag. 
*pictures taken from Aphrodite Lacquers  Pages with Rebecca's Permission*
*Jewelry from ClothingGloves, sent for review*