Lumiere & Cassiopeia

So I bought several things from HB Beauty Bar, one thing from ILNP, and then a couple of polishes from KL Polish. I showed a Cassiopeia mani already but here are swatches for both of them, Cassiopeia and Lumiere.

Kathleen's polish names are kind of all over the place, I think deliberately, but she mostly sticks to one or two words or a short phrase (offhand, "That's What She Said" comes to mind). So here we have Cassiopeia, like the constellation, and Lumiere, presumably after the Beauty & the Beast character. These are not from the same collection - Cassiopeia is from the Winter collection, and Lumiere is from the Colourpop collab - do you call it a collab when it's sort of with yourself? What it is is colors to match the lip colors that she came up with for CP previously. Anyway, here's Lumiere. I know I watched the video for the Lips & Tips/KLxColourpop collection when it came out, and she said it's harder to match the colors up than you'd think. What looks good in a lip color isn't going to look as good in a polish, necessarily - or in some cases the pigments don't really match up well. I don't have any of the lippies so I don't really know how well she succeeded.

Honestly I have to say that I'm not in love with Lumiere, as a color - it's pretty much just your basic dusty rose.

On the other hand, the only other dusty rose I can think of offhand that I have is a Rimmel one that I've never really been all that into. And I do have Zoey, which was from KL Polish's first collection a year ago - but that seems to me to be much more neutral. I didn't pull out Zoey to compare, though. (On KLP's website: Lumiere, Zoey. Definitely similar, but Zoey is more tan-looking, and not as pink. Less saturated, I guess?) Anyway, I'm sure I will wear this, even if it ends up mostly getting used for layering.

I already showed my Cassiopeia manicure - I really like it a lot.

It's a very-dark-brown holo - like a night-sky effect.

Added: KL Polish does have a promo going - I don't see it promoted on the website but I'm pretty sure it was running through the 30th. It's "Make Your Own Bundle" - put three polishes in the cart and you will see it. It's three polishes for $19.95 - I assume you do still have to pay shipping. It shows up as the 3rd polish having a huge discount. I put three in my cart but I couldn't quite make up my mind to hit the checkout button. If it had been running before I bought these two I would have been on it like a shot. (The three I put in the cart were Mia, Mindy, and Casino Night.) Partly I backed off because I was thinking that Kathleen's birthday polish is bound to show up soon, and would I rather have that? And I won't know the answer to that til I see it!

Added (2) (in case anybody happens to be looking): I got an e-mail with the birthday polish and it goes on sale Feb. 1. It looks like golden glitter and holo glitter. (I think the video is probably on YouTube, either on Kathleen's channel or the KL Polish channel, if not both.) Honestly, I don't think that sounds like something I really need, unless it looks really fabulous when it's swatched. I have gold glitters out the kazoo. (But then, I'm pretty sure I said that last year, too, and then I went "well it's champagne" and bought it anyway, and I'm not the least bit sorry.)

Added (3): here's the video, and apparently it's a sheer topper, which does make a difference. Still, I'm waiting for swatches, for sure.