No-buy update, and some deals

Deal alert:

• This one is good until tomorrow morning only, and I doubt that anybody who doesn't read my Twitter (and thus has theoretically already seen it already) will see it here in time, but I feel compelled to post it anyway: Hautelook has what appears to be the whole Orly SmartGel system at a substantial discount. The polishes are $7.50 and they have the LED lamp for half-price, and remover and a lot of other bits and pieces too. I didn't stop to figure out whether it would be everything you need because I am trying to resist buying it, but it looks like it might be. (Ooh, they have Rage, too. Rage isn't flattering on me - see here for my experiments with it last fall - but I know a lot of people adore it.) (Edit: I apparently left the link to Hautelook off the first time. That's now corrected.)
• A different Nordstrom Butter London deal, but still a good one (at least if you like pink): basecoat and top coat and Trout Pout for $27. They must just be switching the deals out as they run out of stuff. Which is smart. (Ooh! and Essie fall collection minis! And... more stuff that I'm trying not to look to closely at. There are some Lippmann sets in there, too.)

Since I keep blathering on about my no-buy thing - and I did successfully resist the Hautelook OPI sale last week - I will tell you what I've decided. The new rule is, I can buy one or two things a month, starting in August, but the Butter London I've already bought counts as one of my purchases for August, meaning I can only buy one more. I thought of saying I couldn't buy anything else at all in August and I decided that sounded like a rule that was made to be broken. I have a much better chance at sticking to it if I allow myself to buy one more thing. (And no, a Lippmann 3-pack does not count as one thing. ONE thing, ONE bottle of nail polish. I'm speaking mostly to myself here, you understand.) This time of year, I imagine that's likely to be something from one fall collection or another.

I am still wearing Hot Cinnamon but it is definitely starting to show tipwear and I imagine I'll change it out tonight. When I put Hot Cinnamon away, I put it in the box with the fall colors (i.e., oranges and browns), instead of with the rest of the reds, because I decided that's really what it is - a very red-leaning dark coral, I guess you'd say. The reds that look best on me are neutral or cool reds, and Hot Cinnamon is just not one of those. I still like it, though, and I'm sure I will be wearing both it and Sugar Rush a good bit this fall. (Question: if I still wanted to look for a cool-leaning version of this, what options are out there? Zoya Chyna?) (and that's an affiliate link, fyi)

As far as what's next, I imagine it's time for another fuchsia, but I haven't narrowed it down further than that yet. I will of course report back later.