Cutie Colada

This is Rimmel "Cocktail Colour in a Flash" in Cutie Colada. I have several of these and they are fun.

This one in particular is really sheer, so if you don't want to do several coats of it (and I mean, like, four, and I'm not sure it'd be opaque even then), you'll want an undercoat. It looks pretty nice on top of darker greens, as I recall - anything darker, which means practically any green except a pastel.

Here is the whole bunch. I haven't worn these lately, but my memory is that neither of the other two I have (the blue one and the purple one) are near this sheer. The blog I just linked to calls them glass flecks and while it wouldn't have occurred to me to describe them that way, it doesn't seem inaccurate.

Ho Ho Holodays

This is Lacquer Lust Ho Ho Holodays, which was part of a limited edition trio back a couple of years ago:

It's a slightly silvery-green scattered holo. It's not really what I would call a holiday green, or a kelly green - it's more of a spring green, really. I actually really like it. It's not too yellow, it's not too bright, it's not too pale. (Like the three bears, only with nail polish.) I showed it next to Zoya Rikki a couple of years ago, and they looked very alike in the bottle, but not so much on the nail. Rikki is much more metallic.

Lacquer Lust is still around but this polish, being LE, is long-gone. (That's true of a lot of the polishes on this wheel, actually.) (Ooh, look at this green - Poison Ivy.)

NOTD: Tastes Like Purple

I now have Smith & Cult polishes on the way (thanks to a timely Neiman-Marcus coupon) - more on that when they arrive. Because of that I'm definitely trying not to look at P-Pickup again. (I will say that if I was going to buy something it would be this - and frankly, if it wasn't $14 I would've caved already. I'm surprised it's not sold out, but being at the dead bottom of the list may have something to do with that - maybe they ought to alternate going A-Z with going Z-A!)

I read backwards in this blog for a couple of weeks, and I found that I have a couple of things I don't seem to have mentioned, and that's probably because I ordered them (from eBay) and promptly forgot about them - two more China Glazes from the Rebel collection, and one random Essie that I got it in my head I would like. Those are here and I've swatched them but I haven't taken pictures yet. I'll wait to tell you about those when I have the pictures. (It's kind of amusing/annoying to me the way I feel excessively guilty about some things I buy and not at all about others. I guess those were cheap enough that they didn't trip the guilt-meter. The Smith & Cults were a huge bargain compared to their normal price, so I guess that's why I don't feel that guilty about them, especially, either. The Pretty Serious order was a bit larger - but not really that much - so that's the one my conscience is pinging me about at the moment.)


This is Night Owl Lacquer's Tastes Like Purple, which was a limited edition for last month's Polish Pickup (this month's is ending today, I believe). Not terrific pictures by any means, but good enough to kind of see what's going on in there.

The one above is indoors; the one below was in indirect sunlight:

(For good measure, here's the swatch pictures I posted last week.)

A couple of funky greens

These are some new pictures of polishes that I had already done perfectly good entries for (linked below), but which I did new swatches of anyway. I lumped this whole wheel into the category of "funky greens" even though some of them are funkier than others, as I mention below. You'll see some more polishes from this wheel in coming weeks.

This is Slightly Unstable from Paint Box Polish, a fun shifty blackened green with some holo glitter. This was an LE polish a couple of years ago, so it's pretty certainly not easily obtainable.

• Here's where I talked about it before.
• The whole Women of Harry Potter collection (the one above is the Bellatrix polish), from Ashley is Polish Addicted

Here is Pretty Serious The Singing Seed, from the Museum of Naileontology collection:

• Previous entry about it (in which I actually say it's not that funky a green, but then when I was swatching the other day, it felt like it belonged in that category to me)
• Here's the set that includes this one (I have all three of these, actually) - I think there is a new or new-ish set out now but Pretty Serious' website is being cranky at the moment so I can't verify that. - Aha, now it's decided to cooperate - here are the current ones from Naileontology, which doesn't include this one.

Delilah

Here is Zoya Delilah:

This was one of the first Zoyas I bought, back in 2011 or so, and it's still a current color. It's a red glitter, but a fairly subtle one. It's a bit sheer, too, but it's pretty opaque in two coats.

(I've thought about destashing this, once or twice, since I don't seem to actually wear reds that much and I have a lot of them, but so far I haven't been able to bring myself to. This one has survived when even An Affair in Red Square didn't. It's a little different than anything else, I guess that's why.)

Rags To Riches

In March I always like to go into St. Patrick's Day mode for a while (even though I'm not Catholic and hardly ever drink, go figure). Anyway, here is a nice dollar-bill green, Rimmel Lasting Pro in Rags To Riches:

It's metallic-ish but not like a full-on foil or anything. Anyway, I am falling asleep so I won't try to go on about it - that way usually lies madness. However, I will say that as far as I know this line is discontinued, so maybe not easy to get your hands on. There are other things fairly similar to it so it's not something I would go to a lot of trouble to hunt for. (YMMV.)


Note: I previously talked about this polish here.

Polish Pickup

Note: I re-read this and decided to move the swatch pictures up closer to the top and move the part where I was being chatty about reorganizing, etc., down below that. So if you want to read that part, scroll down.

Earlier this week, my Polish Pickup polishes arrived - I got two, and this is the first time I've bought from them. (I had to start another new wheel for them!)

Before I get to that, I checked and the next Polish Pickup appears to start on Friday. By the time I post this that will be "tomorrow" - it only stays open a few days and some of the polishes go fast, so go and grab what you like!

This is Tastes Like Purple, from Night Owl Lacquer (is that a synesthesia joke?):

I have that on and I'll put up the mani pictures later on. It's a gorgeous purple, obviously, and it has blue bits and I think flakies as well as other shiny stuff. (Almost all these Polish Pickup polishes - maybe indie polishes in general these days - have 10 zillion things going on - thermals, shifts, holo glitter, scattered holo, etc. Not that that's a bad thing!) Here is somebody else's swatches for comparison.

And the second one I got was The Pie Hole:

This would be one of those funky greens I was talking about (see below), although this one didn't make that wheel because I'd already filled it up before this got here. This one has not quite as much going on, but I still like it a lot. It's basically jade (maybe slightly grayed out) with copper glitter. Very cool.


(I also had a weak moment and ordered several things from Pretty Serious, but part of it is pre-orders so I don't expect that to turn up for several weeks. Because of that I'm going to try not to look too hard at the new Polish Pickup. Except I'm weak and I've already looked and I want that Zombie Claw polish.)


I mentioned last week that I was re-organizing and since I also had a list of what I thought needed to be swatched again (mostly because of really crappy out-of-focus pictures the first time around - really I wouldn't even recommend looking at that link, it gives me a headache), I did several wheels' worth of swatches while I was organizing. I did a whole wheel of pink, one of reds which you've already started seeing, a whole wheel that's mostly "funky greens" that I'll probably try to work in starting soon - maybe tomorrow - since it's more or less seasonally appropriate for March, and then one night over the weekend I sat and watched Age of Ultron and did two purple wheels. So I can't complain about not having anything to post for a while.

(I feel like superhero movies are a good thing to put on while doing something like this that's going to divide your attention, because for the most part I've already seen them multiple times and don't really feel the need to look at the screen constantly. However, Age of Ultron is pretty much the exception on that because I saw it once in the theater and never have seen it since. I remembered the basic plot and not much else. But the Thor Ragnarok and Black Panther movies both refer back to it so I decided it was time to rent it - not buy. I'm still not that into it. It's watchable but it's never going to be one of my favorites.) (Those two, above? Maybe are my new Marvel favorites.)