No-buy?

I announced on Dreamwidth the other day that my New Year's resolution was a nail-polish no-buy. For the whole year. We'll see how it goes, of course, but I'm really going to try. I need to Shop My Stash for real, because I have a ton of stuff I've never worn and a lot more that I'd really like to wear again. It's really not as much about the money as about making myself wear what I've got!

(Disclaimer: treatment products and stuff like that don't count. I can buy base-coat and top-coat if I actually need it, but no cheating and buying stuff like Essie TLC that's base-coat and color.)

I keep meaning to post more here but time keeps getting away from me. I think one problem is that I've been unsatisfied with the quality of my pictures, and it's not something I was exactly terribly fastidious about in the first place. My poor iPhone SE (the old SE, not the newer one) is nearly 5 years old. I think I may have to ask for a new one for my birthday this year! Maybe that will get me kick-started again. (I haven't been posting pictures on Instagram much either.)

Even if I don't have new polishes to talk about, I'm still going to try to post now and then. There are other polish-related things to talk about! (I do have maybe a dozen polishes I bought over the fall - including one of the aforementioned TLC colors - to talk about, too.)

Oh, look, I actually do have some pictures! This is CG Green With Jealousy:

The picture is pretty crappy (and the application is worse, to be honest) but I do really like this polish. This is from China Glaze's Halloween 19 collection. I think I found this on Polish Pick. (One thing I can do even if I'm not actually buying polish is point other people to things I like!)

This is an old polish - Cougar Attack! - over a brown base. One of my fall favorites

This is Succulent Garden, which I know a lot of people love, but it just wasn't terribly flattering on me. It's pretty, though. (I bought it in a set from Nordstrom with Velvetine, which I haven't tried yet. Hopefully that one will suit me better!

NOTD: Sorry Not Sorry (over Through The Grapevine)

Here's what I'm wearing right now:

This is two coats of Mega Strength Sorry Not Sorry (made by Sally Hansen) over one coat of Megalast Through The Grapevine (made by Wet n Wild). I'm not entirely sure if I needed to put an undercoat under this but I decided brighter is better. I really really like this polish.

This is Through The Grapevine on its own:

I posted these pictures on Instagram, and I said there that I feel like I would want a second coat of this if I was going to wear it on its own. For layering, I thought one was plenty. On my monitor, at least, it looks brighter here that it did in real life.

Pac-Man!

Wet n Wild released a whole set of Pac-Man stuff, which is so adorable I couldn't resist it even though it's not really anything I need at all. I did refrain from buying absolutely everything - in fact, I didn't even buy the nail polish! - because it was not very interesting colors, I thought. But I bought a couple of items from Ulta, and then more from WnW directly later on.

This is the Game Over eye palette:

I'm linking Kathleen's video below, partly because she compares this to a recent Anastasia rainbow palette, and she says it totally compares favorably, and this one is $9.99 as opposed to $45. (This whole collection is limited edition, so if you want something from it, better go grab it fast!)

Here's the lip scrub - Bonus Fruit!

I feel like they even got the font right. (Can you tell I have feelings about Pac-Man?) I bought the two items above first, and then later I kinda went on a lip scrub binge from WnW - they were having a sale - so here's my new lip-scrub collection:

I am not big on green apple scent or taste, really - the  rest of these definitely are more my kind of thing (although the green apple is okay, not obnoxiously scented at all). The pink and black one at the bottom is from the Rebel Rose collection, I think, and so far that one is my favorite.

So from WnW I also got a gift set which included many of the Pac-Man items I didn't buy the first time around:

This is the Powder Kit, and it has the blush palette, the powder brush, and the little pellets of bronzer. Kathleen also loved this brush, and I have to say I don't disagree. Plus, it has a handle full of floating glitter, so coool. (Imagine what we would have made of all this in the 80s...)

Many of the kits still seem to be on WnW's website at the moment. Don't know how long that will last, though.

I also bought another little box of pellets which is "blushlighter" but for some reason I don't seem to have a picture of that. It works much better than I expected, though, I like it. I may end up giving the bronzer away, though, because I doubt that I will use it.

And then I bought this to experiment around with. It's the kind of thing I probably will use some of the time, at least.


Here's Kathleen, with a nice take on rainbow eyes from the palette:

(I can't really visualize myself wearing it, but it's still pretty!)

Assorted new polishes

I thought this was some kind of Nordstrom house brand but apparently it's not, it's a nail salon's house brand. This is Satellite:

It's $18 - which I guess if you look at Jin Soon and Lippmann, that's par for the course for those kind of brands. I would never have paid that, but Nordstrom gave me a "note" (meaning a coupon, basically) for $10 off anything, and I used it on this. This is a sort of deep grayed-out teal, I think? It will be awesome for fall.

Going from high-end to low-end, I've heard a couple of people mention the Kiss Gel polishes which you can get at Dollar Tree, so I went and looked at the store nearest us. It's not the biggest Dollar Tree around, and they didn't have a big selection, but I ended up bringing True Romance home with me:

It will also be a nice fall color. (Note that you can see it in the picture up top, and it looks much darker - maybe I had added another coat? If so I failed to note that on the wheel.) I'll be interested to see what kind of wear this gets - and I may go check out a bigger Dollar Tree and see if I can find some more colors.

And then I bought a bunch of stuff from Wet n Wild which I'll show soon, but included in that was one nail polish, Megalast Through the Grapevine:

I don't exactly need any more berry-ish colors, but this is really pretty. I feel like this may have been in the same collection with Careful It's Vine-tage back a year or two ago, but I didn't find any confirmation of that in a quick search.

Dollar Store polishes

My husband likes to wander into the Dollar Tree occasionally, and several times lately I've ended up with little gifts he's bought there, which is fine with me! (I have nothing against the Dollar Tree but for some reason I hardly ever go there.)

Anyway, for Christmas I got a few. This one is a brand called Sassy + Chic which I had never heard of. It doesn't seem to have a name other than the number, so as you can see this is 903:

This is a really pretty color, though!

I'll have to remember to report back on the wear for this.

Then I got some Wet n Wilds - for one thing, he forgot that he had already bought me Red Red and bought it again, this time packaged with a red lipstick. Now it's only a dollar so it's not a big deal, but I said, let's make a new rule - don't buy me any more reds. Because he's bought me like four or five red nail polishes over the years and I usually wear them once so he can see I'm wearing them, and then I don't ever wear them again. So it's a waste, although I didn't say it that way to him! But anyway, then he also got a set that had these two, Tickled...

...and Sparked:

I tried it by itself (that's the lower one on the wheel), and I tried it over the baby pink - I liked that one better.

Topic Tuesday: favorite drugstore polishes

What are your favorite drugstore nail polishes in your collection?

This is not this week's question; this one was from early October and my brain apparently just skipped right over it at the time. I have a good many drugstore polishes, virtually all of which are at least a few years old. It seems to me that drugstore polishes have fits of trying to do interesting things, but in the last couple of years they've (mostly) given up on that. So I really haven't been paying much attention to them recently. I've bought a couple of Sally Hansens this year and that's about it. (Plus the Essence which made the top 10 and which I'd practically forgotten about!)

But anyway, the question just says drugstore polishes, it doesn't say they have to be new ones. So I went through my spreadsheet and compiled a shortlist. Unsurprisingly, my first try at a shortlist was very long, but I whittled it down to a top 10. (I'll put the long list at the bottom, here, in case anybody's interested.)

I was wondering if the way people define "drugstore" brands has changed. You can buy several of the brands I think of as "salon" polishes - OPI, Essie, etc. - in drugstores and that's been true for several years. But I did not include those here.

In alpha order by brand (with links to the ones that aren't pictured here):

• Essence Out of Space Stories - Space Glam (the only new-ish one here)
• Insta-Dri - Chop Chop Copper
• Nicole by OPI - Cinna-man Of My Dreams
• Salon Perfect - Who Ya Gonna Call?
• Sinful Colors - I Love You
• Sinful Colors - Nail Junkie
• Spoiled - Cougar Attack
• Xtreme Wear - Disco Ball
• Xtreme Wear - Pumpkin Spice
• Wet n Wild Fast Dry - Dancer Is The Best Reindeer

A lot of fall-toned colors here. Chop Chop Copper:

Cougar Attack (over black):

Pumpkin Spice (which as you can see is a top-coat):

(Also, I believe that's Cougar Attack in the swatch underneath P-spice here. You can see that it looks a good bit different than over black.)

Nail Junkie:

Original (not-at-all-short) shortlist:

• Bonita Salon - Peonies Gone Wild
• Color Club - Hot Couture
• Color Club - Nail-Robi
• Color Club - Snow-flakes
• Cover Girl Outlast - Pyro Pink
• Cover Girl Outlast - Seared Bronze
• Essence Out of Space Stories - Space Glam
• Insta-Dri - Chop Chop Copper
• Insta-Dri - Cocoa A Go Go
• Insta-Dri - Jet Set Jade
• Insta-Dri - Quick Jeanius
• Jesse's Girl - Fire Fly
• Jesse's Girl - Glee
• Julie G - Butterflies & Rosebuds
• Julie G - Sugar Plum Fairy
• L.A.Colors (Color Craze) - Jewel Tone
• L.A.Girl 3D Effects - Black Illusion
• L'Oreal - Jolly Lolly
• Maybelline (Color Show) - Black In Mirrors
• Milani - Purple Gleam
• Nicole by OPI - Cinna-man Of My Dreams
• NYC Crystal Couture - Ruby Queen
• NYC In a NYC Minute - Fruit Punch
• Revlon - Hypnotic
• Revlon Colorstay - Fall Mood
• Revlon Colorstay - Rain Forest
• Rimmel Cocktail Colour - Apple Berry Smoothie
• Sally Hansen CSM - Mermaid's Tale
• Sally Hansen Diamond Strength - Private I
• Sally Hansen Miracle Gel - Adrenaline Crush
• Sally Hansen Triple Shine - Slick Black
• Salon Perfect - Who Ya Gonna Call?
• Sinful Colors - Gilded
• Sinful Colors - I Love You
• Sinful Colors - Kissy
• Sinful Colors - Nail Junkie
• Spoiled - Cougar Attack
• Studio M - Slammin' Red
• Xtreme Wear - Disco Ball
• Xtreme Wear - Pumpkin Spice
• Xtreme Wear - Rockstar Pink
• Wet n Wild Fast Dry - Dancer Is The Best Reindeer
• Wet n Wild Fast Dry - Teal Of Fortune
• Wet n Wild 1 Step Wonder Gel - Peri-wink-le Of An Eye

Various grays and blacks

I'm piling all of these into one post so I can go on and talk about something else next week. I don't seem to have a lot to say about grays and blacks, generally.

First we have Essence Beauty Beats As Long As You Love Me, which apparently is tied to Justin Bieber somehow. I am the wrong generation for Mr. Bieber, but I believe this is one of his song titles, and I seem to remember that he was actually involved in the making of this polish line in some way, as well.

As you can see on the wheel, it's very similar to Wet Cement - maybe a little darker - but it's a shimmer.

This is Black In Mirrors, which is from the famous (or actually sort of infamous) Maybelline Brocades collection. There were other colors in this collection that got a lot more buzz, but this one is my favorite out of the couple that I have.

There was a year or two when all the mainstream companies were making polishes like this - 2013 is when my spreadsheet says I bought this. I think they were trying to compete with indies, it seemed like. Now all the drugstore brands and even the brands like OPI and Zoya seem to have decided they are better off sticking with the tried and true things - red and pink cremes, for example - and have mostly given up on doing this kind of crazy thing. (Although just when I really think that's true they do something interesting again.) Anyway, all that aside, this is antique-ish gold and silver in a jelly base, it's really fun.

I showed Dirty Baby earlier this year when I bought it, and I'm throwing it in here just because it seems to go with this bunch. I still haven't worn it. But it seems like a fall-to-winter color so I imagine I'll get around to it sometime in what's left of this year.

(It seems like a slightly-toned-down version of Black In Mirrors, really - except I don't think it has gold in there, just silver.)

And then, because I actually used it as a base for this whole wheel, and I don't think I've ever actually done a swatch post for it, here is Wild Shine Black Creme:

This is my go-to black for swatching. I have this old bottle, which is maybe on its last legs (the label certainly is), and I also have a couple of the newer bottles. But I don't really wear it on my nails much.

Peri-wink-le Of An Eye

It's summer now, and one of the colors I always like to wear this time of year are these kind of watery blues - this is 1 Step Wonder Gel Peri-wink-le Of An Eye:

Honestly, I don't think this reads as really periwinkle, it just reads as blue - but maybe if I put it next to a more conventional pale blue I'd do better at seeing it. This is a current color, and I have had good luck with these Wonder Gel polishes as long as I don't try to take the "1-step" business too seriously. I have gotten the best results when I just treated it like a normal polish and wore it with my regular base-coat and top-coat. (Which I rotate - I don't stick with just one brand. Actually I may be talking about that tomorrow if I get it written, or if not hopefully sometime soon!)

Metallica, Rain Check

Here is Wild Shine Metallica:

It's a pretty silver metallic, which is why it's still current, I guess (although not in this bottle, unless you find it at Dollar Tree like my husband did).

This is Wild Shine Rain Check (which is a discontinued polish):

Rain Check seems to be basically the same formula as Metallica, except with blue added to it. It's kind of a steel blue or gunmetal color.

Dollar Tree goodies incl. Jam Session

These are the little surprise gifts that I got from my husband for my birthday - I think they came from Dollar Tree. As I mentioned before, I had bought a ton of polish here and there recently (most of which I haven't showed here yet) and so I told him not to get anything else except something small. He's always pretty good at picking out little surprises like this.

None of this is anything I have, and these Wet n Wilds are all discontinued so I like collecting that kind of thing. (I'm not sure about whether the nail art polish is still current, but I never buy stuff like that so I don't mind having more, in any case. I'll probably use it for something or other eventually!) So L-R, we have Mega Rocks Jam Session, Wild Shine Rain Check and Metallica, and the the Art Deco nail art polish in Hilite. They all came in blister packs, and the Wild Shine ones were 2 to a pack so I guess he paid $3 for all of this.

Added: I realized just now that I am mixing up two different WnW lines, not for the first time. It's FastDry that's discontinued. Wild Shine has a newer, different looking bottle but is still current, and in fact Metallica is still in the lineup. Rain Check is discontinued, though, and so is Jam Session.)

Jam Session is just a purple glitter in a slightly tinted base:

It seems to have a couple of colors of purple - one lighter, one darker.

I couldn't even read this label, the print is so small. I googled it to figure out for sure what the name was, but you can read it here if you blow it up.

Careful. It's Vine-tage

This is Megalast Careful, It's Vine-tage:

For a while Wet n Wild was doing seasonal LE collections, and I wish they'd kept it up, because they were coming up with some great stuff. I really don't think I have anything else quite like this. It's a dark grape-ish satin/matte. (They call it a matte, I'm calling it a satin. It's not a true matte.) If you look at this wheel, the only thing that's remotely like this color is the thing at the top, which I'm pretty sure is Fowl Play, and that's a glitter, so not really comparable. Here's the whole collection, from fall 2014.

(I've still got tons of purple swatches, so I'll probably continue with those, plus start working in some other stuff next week. I've even got some discontinued/new-to-me Wet n Wilds, along with the new Pretty Serious and the Starrilys and the Zoyas and, uh, even more stuff I can't think of right now. My husband is starting to get that pained look when he comes in with the mail again.)

Azalea, Royal Highness, & Deception

These are not particularly pastel-colored polishes, they're just stuff I had in my picture file that looked spring-like to me. This is Zoya Azalea, which was from the spring collection two years ago, if I'm remembering right. That was the collection that had Leia in it as well, and Aster, I belive. (Leia is a good addition to all kind of polishes, I'm going to have to buy myself a back up bottle!)

It's not as pink as Rory, above it on the wheel. I think it's a hair more coral. Any of these paler pinks are always a good bet for easter. (More or less what I said about St.Patrick's Day holds here - I don't actually celebrate Easter. I do like the spring and chicks and bunnies (and candy) part of it. I just think of it as a celebration of spring rather than a religious holiday.)

I do have ombre-experimentations on my mind - I'm looking at these gradations of pink, and also the blue polishes I showed before. (Or purple would also be awesome.) We'll see if I really do it. I do have the supplies, or I have latex and sponges, anyway. That's all you need, right?

Here's a nice medium purple, Bonita Royal Highness:

This one is pretty packed with shimmer, and so offhand I don't know anything exactly like it, but most brands have something pretty similar as far as having a creme that's a similar color to this. I like shimmers better than I like cremes, so given a choice I'll always pick the shimmer - but I don't think this one is findable any more.

This is a jelly that was LE, Wild Shine Deception:

I love jellies as layering polishes but this one is really pretty on its own, too - but notice that it takes three coats to get there. That's pretty par for the course for a jelly, I'd say. (Look at this: this is another one that has faded noticeably in the last couple of years. More in the bottle than on the nail, though, it looks like.)

Red Red

This is WildShine Red Red (very imaginative name there):

This is a slightly pink-leaning red. I like it more than I thought I would looking at it in the bottle. It also seems to be basically a one-coater.

As I think I mentioned last week, my husband and I made kind of a pact a while back not to go overboard on Valentine's Day any more - particularly not on flowers. (I like roses but when I get a bouquet of them nowadays all I see is that big chunk of money going down the drain.) I guess he realized that I meant it because what I got this year came from Dollar Tree, I think - but honestly, I'm fine with that.

He got me Turtles and 99-cent nail polish and a fancy card, I got him a giant heart-shaped peanut butter cup. When you've been married for 30 years, I guess you know what each other like, (I don't actually need any more red nail polish but I didn't tell him that. Even with the fancy card, I probably spent more than he did. The peanut butter cup was all of $10.)

Gray's Anatomy

This is Wet n Wild FastDry Gray's Anatomy:

I guess this is named after the old textbook, not the TV series, since the spellings are different (the TV series is Grey's Anatomy) and also because this polish has been around a long time, although so has the TV series so I'm not sure it's that old. But anyway, this is a gray with shifty tendencies - similar to a lot of newer "oil slick" polishes but maybe somewhat more subtle. I found a comparison to Lippmann Wicked Game, if that helps you out any.

How old is it? I found a Scrangie post that's from very early 2011, so it may have been as early as 2010, actually. She talks about FastDry being a new line at that time, and as I discussed a week or so ago, this line seems to be discontinued now. But since it was around for some six or seven years, it's probably still findable at the usual Amazon/eBay-type places. Possibly it's slightly more expensive than it used to be (which was $1.99, I think) but probably still not as expensive as Wicked Game, I'm guessing.

(How old is Grey's Anatomy, the TV series? Apparently they are in season 14, which means they quite a bit older than the polish - but not nearly as old as the textbook, which dates back to 1858 and is on its 41st edition, according to Wikipedia.)

Teal Of Fortune

This is WnW FastDry Teal of Fortune:

This was one of my favorite polishes, fairly early on in my nail polish obsession. It might have been the first Wet n Wild polish I ever bought, because for a long time I was very snobby about it and thought that no good polish could be that cheap. It's a lovely teal-ish color. I think it has a jelly base or it would probably be darker. (I think of teal as being slightly darker than this, but this is dark enough that I'm really just nitpicking in this case.)

My spreadsheet says I bought this at Walgreen's in 2011, although I'm fairly sure the spreadsheet itself is not that old so that means it was just an educated guess. That sounds about right, though. I'm pretty sure it cost 99 cents or maybe $1.99 at the most. Apparently (see here) the FastDry line is now defunct, but their WildShine polishes still retail for 99 cents, according to that page. Actually I happen to know, because I bought a backup bottle of Black Creme just the other day, that my grocery store (H-E-B, that is) sells WildShine for 93 cents. And they had a 25% off coupon going at the time, and my final cost was 70 cents. I bought some other polish, too, although I can't remember at the moment what it was, and the coupon also worked for the shampoo that I had gone in for in the first place. That's why I love H-E-B so much.

NOTD: LOL (with & without Leia)

I just noticed that Lavender Out Loud spells out LOL, so that's probably what I'm going to call it in my head from now til eternity.

This looks like it has bald spots in this picture, but I think it's just a reflection. It went on very evenly in two coats, and I didn't see any bald spots at all. It seems to me that most of the polishes I have that are similar to this tend to be balky to apply, so if I'm right then this one is unusual. I'm going to have to poke around in old posts to see if there's actually any evidence of that, though.

I wore the Periwinkle polish all week last week without putting any color-changing or glittery thing over it, so it was too much to expect me to go another whole week, I guess. I put Zoya Leia on top of it, and I really like how it came out.

It looks here like it shifted more blue, doesn't it? Pictures can be really deceptive on purples, but on the monitor I'm looking at now, this looks pretty true to what I'm seeing in real life.

NOTD: Peri-wink-le Of An Eye

This is Wet n Wild 1 Step Wonder Gel in Periwinkle Of An Eye (or "Peri-wink-le" if you must), 2 coats.

I don't know how well you can see this, but it does have very slight bald spots. Probably unless you're more nimble than I am with the application, this really needs 3 coats to be opaque. But in real life the spots are not noticeable unless you're looking really close.

I said I was going to make "what color is this" a series (I've used it as a tag for some time), but this is already a(n) NOTD post and putting both would have made the title awfully long. But the way this falls under that tag is, is this actually periwinkle, or just blue? I just looked Periwinkle the color up on Wikipedia and the "official" version of periwinkle is pretty much pale purple. (It's actually exactly half and half cyan and magenta - 20,20,0,0, in CMYK terms -but I looked up purple and violet and both of them are officially more magenta than cyan. So I guess that means that periwinkle is a blue-leaning violet - officially speaking.) However, like many other plants (lavender and lilac come to mind) the colors of an actual periwinkle bloom can actually be all over the place. So - like many of my "what color is this" tagged posts - the answer is unclear. This polish is pretty much blue, with maybe a drop or two of purple - I thought I saw a slight purple tinge in bright sunlight, at least. I'd still call it blue, but I wouldn't be surprised to find out that there's a periwinkle cultivar that blooms in exactly this color.

Here's the swatch I posted the other day, for reference:

Aside: Looking for an internet rabbit hole to fall down? If you haven't read up about the color purple and the color violet and the differences thereof already, start here. Warning: veers off into science very quickly. But I was really fascinated, especially with the part about "Tyrian purple" and the reasons why only rich people could afford to wear purple. (Short answer: because more than 10,000 sea-snails had to die in order to dye a handkerchief!)

Wet n Wild highlighter & pigments

Here's the last installment of my Wet n Wild haul - this was what started it, the "Unicorn Glow" collection, which is limited edition. There was a whole set of this stuff, but the set was sold out, and I was happy not to be tempted - I really wasn't sold thoroughly enough that I thought I really needed to buy the whole kit & caboodle. On the other hand, I can maybe justify some selective dabbling, since I have younger cousins who will be happy to get whatever I decide I don't want.

I'm pretty sure some of my cousins will end up with the hero product, the Unicorn Glow highlighter:

Not only is it all rainbow-colored but it's very glittery. I also bought a more subdued version as an alternative, thinking I was more likely to actually wear that, but it's just as glittery so I imagine both of these will get passed along unopened, really.

The pigments I am going to at least experiment with a little - I bought two of them, purple and blue:

Wet n Wild lip products

Yesterday I showed new Wonder Gel polishes that I got, but I didn't show the picture of the whole haul, so here's that:

This is something I ordered late one night a couple of weeks ago, so this pre-dates the two Sephora orders I showed last week - and price-wise, this was much less of a splurge than that was. Wet n Wild had a bunch of stuff marked down, and I was interested in some of the limited editions (Unicorn Glow!) and trying some lip products out. And of course I ordered several colors of nail polish while I was at it. (They have free shipping over $35 so I was trying to hit that mark. I also got an extra 10% discount that came in an e-mail, so with Wet n Wild's very reasonable prices I got a lot of stuff for barely over $35.)

Here are the lip products:

I really like the ombre one (the double-ended one) but I like them all pretty well. I never end up wearing matte lipstick like this Megalast by itself - it makes my lips feel too dry - so I end up using it as a basecoat, more or less, and this is a good color for that. (I've been doing this a lot with that Kat Von D I got last summer and it works really well.)

So the idea on the ombre one, in case you haven't seen this before, is that you use the purple like a regular lipstick and the pink only on the inner part of your lips - where you pucker, basically. I had seen pictures of this concept and I thought it looked interesting, but it's probably not really meant for somebody my age, any more than that highlighter is. Still, I think I'll enjoy playing with it. The color is called Mutually Beneficial, as you can see below.

I noticed that this product had some really bad reviews, but they all seem to be talking about how much they hate the other color combinations, not the quality of the product. I think most people bought the paler ones, which is the last thing I would buy. You can look at the picture above and see exactly what colors I like on my lips - I like things that lean at least a little purple, for the most part - berry and fuchsia colors and things like that. The middle item, the one that looks really purple is a lip gloss that was a limited edition color, and I took a guess that it would probably look much less purple in real life and I was correct. (It's called Violet in Furs and it was all of 99 cents.) The Megalast color is Back to the Fuchsia.

(I'll do another post later & talk about the remaining items. This is already plenty long.)