NOTD: Layers of raspberry

I wore Kashmir for nearly a whole week, and I never remembered to get a picture of it. However, here's a whole post full of Kashmir swatches - unfortunately the giveaway at the end of the post has ended. Honestly, I have to say that in real life the glittery stuff in Kashmir doesn't show up quite as well as it does in those beautiful photos - however, it shows up enough to make this far more interesting than a standard purple. I really loved it, in fact.

The next thing I put on was Formula X Hyped, a new purchase. I wasn't really supposed to be buying anything else, but it was Formula X! on sale!! something I am apparently powerless against. I only bought two, although I bought some other sale items that were not nail polish, as well - like the retractable kabuki brush. Besides Hyped, I got Metamorphic, a gray glass-fleck-looking color, and also a Sephora Collection mini, in Tiramisu, which is brown. (It was $1.) Anyway, Hyped is a sort of Radiant Orchid color, a bright red-violet with lots of shimmer and a matte finish - but I wore HK Girl over it so it's very shiny. It's one of those colors I couldn't stop staring at. However, it turned out to be rather chip-prone, and after a day I patched it and started playing with Daphne's Disco Party. I don't have pictures of either of these stages, but basically I did a really terrible attempt at a fade mani and wore that for a day. And then it occurred to me that Are You Jelly? (which I also got recently) was a pretty similar color to Hyped, so I made it into a jelly sandwich, which is the thing I do have a picture of (not a great picture, at all, but hey, it's what I've got):

This is visibly wearing, and I'm wondering about Hyped, on the bottom of the sandwich, but Hyped has been on for 72 hours now, so if you look at it like that it's not bad. I didn't put any more topcoat after Are You Jelly, so that might be part of the problem too - but on the other hand there are multiple coats of HK Girl underneath it - and my bottle of HK Girl is getting down to the bottom now, so it's getting very sludgy down there. (They were thick coats, is what I'm trying to say.) And I'm not even sure what basecoat I used. So the jury is still out on this, really. But boy I love the color.


Nail polish linkage: ooh, Nouveau Cheap notes that Kiko Cosmetics' online store is now open in the US. This is a European brand that I only know about from hanging around with nail junkies, and they have some colors that I've long coveted. (I'd better stay away from that website for a while!)

I don't see anything up on the website, but does everybody already know about how Llarowe is scaling back? I got a couple of e-mails about it, and I assume many of you guys are on the same mailing list I am. There's going to be a big clearance sale coming soon, in any case.