Smoke and Illusion

Because I'm bored and I was surfing around on Zoya's website, I give to you some cool colors I've never paid attention to before (for the record, these are probably going to be affiliate links):
Anaka (a "glam pink")
Nimue
Suri - not actually new to me per se but now I suddenly want it. Figures. Last night I almost placed a Zoya order and then didn't because I couldn't decide on anything I "needed" to have badly enough. (Then later on I ended up ordering something from Llarowe instead. I really can't afford all this stuff I've neededbeen buying lately!)

I was originally looking for this color (Savita) which I found buried in my Pinterest boards, but apparently it is discontinued. Darn. From there I got to the purple page - I have a lot of stuff from that page already - Jem, Kierra, Carly, Juicy, & more - but I continue to find new (to me) and interesting ones.

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Well, in the "what's actually on my nails" category, the layers and layers of pink glitter did eventually chip, as I suspected they might, so I took that off this morning and put on Black Illusion, the one that's supposed to be a dupe for Zoya Storm Smoke. (Added: I always want to call it "Smoke" for some reason. Hopefully I have found and corrected the places where I did that - except for the entry title which I'm not changing at this point!) I haven't tried SmokeStorm myself, so I can't speak to that, but it does have the scattered holo like the other Zoya Ornates do. You can see it a little in the picture, at least!

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I found this picture that was labeled "stash 2011" and I was trying to figure out if this could possibly have been my entire stash at the time. (I suspect it might be, but only if I had cleaned out some of my really old stuff that I had before this!)

This was obviously after Karen sent me the "Wicked Wonderland" set (which was a blog prize and she assured me that I had indeed legitimately won, but then she probably had considerably fewer readers at the time) but it must be before we did our first swap, because I don't see any of that stuff. Also I recognize the spoils of a couple of online shopping orders around that time, which account for all the Orlys and Essies and the Butter London - I didn't have any of those brands before that. (Most of the Hard Candy's are in the Wicked Wonderland box and I think the Wicked Wonderland polishes were in the little pink Hard Candy bag, I think because I had all the minis in there.) The rest of my collection at the time was mostly drugstore polishes (mostly Revlon and L'Oreal and Sally Hansen), plus some OPIs which I was buying at Kroger's. Also, I was on a big SH Xtreme tear around that time - you can see a bunch of those lying on the bedspread in the middle.