Collection Spotlight - Pleiades
Artist credit: Caitlin Jones (@indicryptid on Instagram)
The Pleiades Collection: In Motion
Seven Sisters, Seven New Magnetic Shades
Alcyone
A deep blue base with teal aurora shimmer and a bright blue magnetic pull
Celaeno
A shimmery light orange-brown base with scattered holo micro flakes and orange magnetic pull
Electra
A decadent red base with subtle pink-green-gold aurora shimmer. This has both a pink-green multichrome magnetic pigment as well as a pink-purple shifting holo magnetic pull
Maia
A deep forest green base with holo pigment and a burst of bright purple magnetic pull
Merope
An emerald base with linear holo, red aurora shimmer, and a burst of bright green magnetic pull
Sterope
A shimmery polish that shifts from teal, to, blue, to pink, with a deep purple-pink shifting holo magnetic pull
Taygete
A deep purple base with scattered holo, and a pink-gold multichrome magnetic pull
Swatch credit: @indicryptid
Pleaides: Nail Art
Nail art swatches by Adam Murray,
@playfulpolishpal
The Pleiades, also known as the seven sisters, is one of the oldest stories known to man. Its true origins are unknown, but the best-known version of the story comes out of Greek mythology. This version of the Pleiades story has also been immortalized with a namesake given to the Pleiades constellation, where each star is named after one of the seven sisters, mirroring the famous Greek myth.
The story goes like this:
The seven sisters were the daughters of Atlas and Pleione. They were said to be incredibly beautiful, and they loved each other dearly.
One day, the sisters were wandering around the countryside when they were spotted by Orion - a giant, who terrified the sisters. Captivated by their beauty, Orion was immediately taken with all of them, Merope especially. He began to pursue them relentlessly. The sisters were frightened, and so they ran. But Orion refused to give up. In desperation, the sisters turned to Zeus for help to escape the pursuit. Zeus agreed, at first turning them into doves, but realized that would not make them completely safe, so he then immortalized them as stars in the night sky.
There are versions of this story all around the world, going back to some of our earliest known histories.
At the same time this myth was being told in Greece, in Australia, first nation cultures told this story as the Seven Sisters of Dreamtime, and the sisters were called the Mearame or Magara in some regions.
The really interesting thing about this is that no one knows for certain if the stories told at the same points in time, on nearly opposite sides of the world, is purely a coincidence. It may be a sign of some shared, lost history of a common story passed down through ancient humans. If both the Greek and Australian versions of the story share a common origin, then this story may be 70,000 years old, or even older, as European contact with Australia was not documented until 1788. Given the history of colonization and how many indigenous people were killed, how much culture was lost, it's lucky that we still know about these common threads of history. There are a lot of related mysteries around these myths, their contents, what they can tell us about astronomy and human culture, but I can only write so much here. It truly is a fascinating look back into human history, knowledge, and story telling.
The Pleaides collection launch date is October 10, 2026.
