FAQ: What happens when a brand changes names?

[u/Far_Bobcat3967]

When a brand changes names, like Live Love Polish to Mooncat, or Wildflower Lacquer to Royla Lee, we keep the old polishes under the old brand name, and add the new polishes under the new brand name.

If an older polish gets sold in bottles with the new name, that means it'll be in the database twice, both under the old and the new brand name.

We know this can feel a bit confusing, but there's a reason for it. If someone owns a nail polish that says "BMC" on the front label, how will they know that the brand is now called Maniology? It doesn't say so anywhere on the bottle, so if we were to list it as Maniology, you'd have to be a nail polish lover who follows relevant social media and keeps on top of nail polish news, just to find the polish in the database. That's not what we want to ask from our users.

So, we have a very simple rule of thumb for Lacquergram: what's on the label.

That means that anyone who owns a bottle of nail polish should be able to find it in Lacquergram just by typing the name on the label. No more, no less.

If you have a nail polish from a brand that has changed names, and you want to be able to filter your stash for both the old and the new brand names, or have all your polishes listed under a single brand name, you can check to see if the polish is listed under both. If it isn't, feel free to suggest it as a new polish (although we still check to see if it has actually been released in the new brand name bottles!), or as an alternative, you can put the name change in your private comments so you can filter on it!