Awash in purple

My god, I have a lot of purple nail polish. And the picture below was taken before the addition of the all-purple Butter London set (see last entry). This was every bottle of polish I could find that I could convince myself was purple. (And there is a list of names after the jump.)

L-R and top to bottom, and see here and here and here for more about brands and such, because I have talked about most if not all of these recently and I'm too lazy to go through it all again! (Note that I also have a purple label which will take you to every single entry about purple):

1. Eternal Beauty
2. Lotus
3. On a Trip
4. Daul
5. Purple Potion (Fantasy Makers)
6. Scandalous
7. Roxy
8. Plum Attraction
9. Carly
10. Winterberry
11. Jem
12. (starting the 2nd row) Perrie
13. Harmonie
14. Mira
15. Amethyst
16. Purple Potion (Xtreme Wear)
17. Celebutante
18. Purple Rush
19. I Love You
20. Fiji
21. (mini) unnamed Color Theory glitter
22. Dancer Is the Best Reindeer
23. Who Are You Wearing?
24. Plum It
25. Convergence (mini at beginning of 3rd row)
26. Purple Pizzazz
27. Ultraviolet (neon nail wand duo with white)
28. Kieko
29. Break Through
30. Domestic Goddess
31. Violet Femme
32. Purple Haze
33. Not So Blueberry
34. Orbit (nail art duo)
35. Goin' Grape
36. Empty Stocking
37. Nightlife

(I added links to some of these, and as usual, Zoya links are affiliate links, not because I'm actually getting anything out of it - thus far I really haven't - but because they're easy to do.)

Everything below is awfully tl;dr, but I wrote it and I'm posting it. Some of you who are nail junkies/color junkies enough might possibly be interested!

One interesting thing is that Gimme a Grape Big Kiss was not purple enough to make this group. You can see it in the box at the top left. It is a sort of red-violet, but I decided it looked more pink than purple next to the rest of these. (I saw at least two polishes on Zoya's purple page that they called purple and I didn't: Juicy, Alegra - those are both in the fuchsia/pink category as far as I'm concerned.) (Note that there are also a number of things missing; Zoya Kierra is one. The BL's are not the only things not in this picture.)

Another thing that surprised me was that I have more blue-violets than red-violets, although I have many of each. The first 3 on the top row, almost the whole first half of the 2nd row except for Perrie (plus Fiji, toward the other end), and four polishes on the bottom row toward the right all lean pretty blue. The redder ones are Roxy, Plum Attraction and Carly on the top row, Perrie on the 2nd row (in a very pastel way), and the whole first half of the bottom row. Violet Femme is fairly neutral (meaning neither red- or blue-leaning, for my purposes) and so is Purple Rush, above it, and the very dark ones at the middle and lower right. (Looking at the 3 new additions, the BL's, which I have in front of me: Pitter Patter is more or less one of the dark neutrals, although I would say it leans just a bit red, if anything. Lillibet's Jubilee is so silver it's hard to tell, but I would say it possibly inclines just a bit blue. Waity Katie is very neutral, but probably a bit blue, too. It's easier to tell these things why you have them all lined up like I did for the photo above!)

I don't think I've mentioned here that I have three more Zoyas on the way, including Suri - very blue-violet, Suri is. I resisted the Zoya promo where you got the 3 minis free with a $10 purchase, but I fell for the one where you buy Liberty and get 2 other polishes free - partly because I had decided in between there somewhere that I really, really wanted Suri. (The other freebie I ordered was Rikki.)

Also in my notes is stuff about which polishes are more greyed out and what's lighter/darker - I might type some of that up later but right now I just don't have the energy.