Violet & red-violet wheel

I find the color "violet" vaguely confusing. Maybe it's because I'm from Texas and I had never seen a violet growing in the wild until I first went to Ohio to visit my in-laws. (My mother-in-law looked at me like I was insane when I saw one on the ground at the park and said, "What's that?" I had no idea that was how they grew.) Anyway, for whatever reason, I have trouble with the difference between purple and violet. I suspect I'm not the only one. But when a purple starts having noticeable red tones, then I know that's a red-violet. (I also tend to use the term blue-violet for blue-leaning purples, mostly because that lets me avoid the word "blurple" which I think is just an ugly word.)

So this wheel starts with some fairly neutral purples but then shades very much into red-violet.

(more under the jump)

Blue-green link post

As I said about the green post, this really should go with the nail wheels, but I didn't think of it at the time I was doing the first few, so I'm gradually catching up with these on the ones I've already posted. It's as much for my own use as for anybody else's.

wheel: http://deliciouscolor.blogspot.com/2013/09/blue-green-nail-wheel.html
stash: http://deliciouscolor.blogspot.com/2013/04/stash-part-7-blues-and-blue-greens.html

layers:
Zuza and T-Teal and Glee:

http://deliciouscolor.blogspot.com/2013/08/zuza-and-glee.html

http://deliciouscolor.blogspot.com/2013/06/teal-and-glee.html

Maisie and Nail Junkie http://deliciouscolor.blogspot.com/2013/04/yeah-im-nail-junkie.html

East Village http://deliciouscolor.blogspot.com/2013/06/east-village.html

From other blogs, about Mermaid's Tale and dupes: 

http://www.onceuponapolish.com/2013/01/sally-hansen-mermaids-tale-notd.html

http://gothampolish.blogspot.com/2013/03/sally-hansen-complete-salon-manicure.html

blue-green tag: http://deliciouscolor.blogspot.com/search/label/blue-green

Stash additions

Apparently I got so involved in the whole nail wheel business that I forgot to post this lovely picture:

...which is recent additions to my stash, many of which I have worn already. I think I've worn everything except Mermaid's Tale and Girls on Film, at this point. I've had Quick Jeanius on for several days now, and before that I wore F*ck and Run over Unforgettable Heart. (Next time I want to try it on its own, actually - maybe I'll do that next!)

For the record, here is what's in this picture (by columns going left to right, since that's basically how I arranged them):

• (1st column) Quick Jeanius - which as noted already, is navy-blue shimmer with some purple in it
• (2nd column) Baby Bellini - very similar to the other Cocktail Colours, sheer and shimmery
• Mermaid's Tale, blue and green glitter, I think this is supposed to be a dupe for some Lippman - is it Mermaid's Dream? I am too lazy to look it up right now (Later: Oh! It's actually a near-dupe for Across the Universe, apparently.)
• (3rd column - all Nostalgic Nail Lacquers) Girls On Film - pink and purple glitter in a paler pink base
• As If! - black, white, and pink matte confetti of various sizes, in a clear base
• F*ck and Run (I'm not editing myself there, that's how she spells it) - red jelly packed with red & pink shimmer

I guess I should say for the record that while I purchased all of these on my own, as I always do, I did get a free upgrade to full-size on the Nostalgics even though I paid for minis for a couple of them. I don't know that she has any idea that I'm a blogger, anyway (and I am a pretty damn obscure blogger, at that), so I'm really guessing that that was just because she's clearing out these colors. Anyway, I am happy enough with them that I just placed another order, which you will of course hear about in great detail later. (It's only a couple of bottles, and sale ones at that. I've been relatively good lately.)

Another nail wheel coming soon.

Green

This is mostly for my own benefit, although other people may be interested, you never know! It just occurred to me that I should have been doing this as I went along with the nail-wheels, so I'm going to do link posts for the nail wheels I've already posted and then hopefully do this for the rest of them as I go along. (I have 8 wheels completed and a 9th one started, and I'm not anywhere near through all of my polishes. But I've only posted maybe 5 of them, I've lost track.)

So, this is not necessarily everything I've ever had to say about every green polish, but it's things that I want to be able to find again later, at least:
Green nail wheel (which I shouldn't have buried under the picture of the purple-and-confetti mani, but you live and learn)
Greens in my stash (from April)

Rikki and Irene is not a combination I put on the nail wheel, but I really liked it so I want to remember that! Also Ivy League and Zuza (at the very bottom of that entry, and which I came up with to tone down Ivy League, since it's too yellow for me). Also Maisie over Ivy League - which was pretty but had the disadvantage of taking many coats of Maisie to have much effect. And right before that I did Maisie over Emerald City.

And here's the green tag for this blog, in case you should feel impelled to search further.

(This is NOT an affiliate link - I'm just adding it because I happened to see it: Zoya greens. I'd like to have every one of those.)

Purple nail wheel

This is the most neutral part of the purples - not predominantly either blue-violet or red-violet. (I may not have that many blues, but I have a ton of purples.)

(List and more pictures after the jump)

1. Quick Jeanius
2. Royal Invite
3. Nightlife
4. Orbit (1 coat of base, glitter on tip)
5. Vinyl
6. Plum It
7. Who Are You Wearing?
8. Empty Stocking
9. Purple Potion (SH Xtreme Wear)
10. Amethyst
11. Mira
12. Celebutante
13. I Don't Bite
14. Purple Haze
15. Winterberry
16. Harmonie
17. Eternal Beauty (1 coat)
18. Lotus
19. No More Waity, Katie
20. Lillibet's Jubilee (1 coat)

I think that if these are supposed to be the neutral ones, there are a couple here that don't belong. I really thought that Quick Jeanius would be far too blue for this wheel, because it looks blue in the bottle, but actually it looks right at home. The one that's really more blue than I realized is OPI Who Are You Wearing? - #7. And Purple Potion (9), especially, is too red-violet, and should be on the next wheel. (There IS a Purple Potion on the next wheel, in fact, but it's a completely different polish.) #3 and #5, Nightlife and Vinyl also seem to have more red-violet bases to them, although it's almost impossible to tell after you get a couple of coats on, with the dark ones.

Nothing here has black undercoats and such like I've been doing on other wheels. I did sort of layer the coats, especially on the dark ones, where you could see what just one coat looked like, because in a lot of cases it lets you see what the base color is.

Here's 1 through 3:

4 through 7:

I don't know how well you can see the glitter - I put some on just the tip of #4. The glitter part of the bottle is almost empty.

8 through 10:

11 through 14 (but out of order: RBL is 14, Sephora 13, Ulta 12 & Zoya Mira 11)

15-18, also out of order - 15 & 16 on the bottom, 17 & 18 on the top:

And the two BLs are 19 and 20. Don't let No More Waity Katie fool you into thinking it's gray just because it looks like it here, though. It has a very definite purple cast to it.

Today's mani is from nail wheel 3: Hard Candy Crush on Lava. It's beautiful. Very much in Bad Fairy sort of territory, although I don't think it's anywhere near being a dupe to that.

And the next wheel after this is more purples, but shading more into red-violets. 

Blue and blue-violet nail wheel

Moving on around the wheel, we've had greens and blue-greens, now we have blues and blue-violets. The lesson here, to me, was how few real blues I actually have. I had to go fairly seriously into the blue-violets to fill the wheel up.

Here's everything I put on this wheel:

And here's just the wheel itself:

1. Shy (3 coats)
2. Cabo Cruise (2 coats)
3. Apple Berry Smoothie (2 coats)
4. Liberty (2 coats)
5. Mesmerize (2 coats)
6. unnamed blue mini (2 coats)
7. Blue It (1 coat)
8. Blackout (2 coats - but didn't really need it)
9. Midnight Cami (2 coats)
10. Indigo (2 coats)
11. Montana Sky (2 coats)
12. Blueberry Fizz (2 coats)
13. Pacific Blue (1 coat)
14. On a Trip (2 coats)
15. Not So Blueberry (2 coats)
16. Grape Going (2 coats)
17. Fiji (3 coats)
18. unnamed purple/blue glitter mini (partly over Jet Black)
19. Dancer Is the Best Reindeer (partly over Jet Black)
20. Apple Berry Smoothie (1 coat) over Jet Black 

This is numbers 1-4:

#1, Hard Candy Shy, is so pale I never wear it. Colors like that are why I never buy pastels. The Fergie, Cabo Cruise, is the one that stained the hell out of my nails, to the point that I've been afraid to wear Zoya Liberty, #4, because I've heard stories about it staining, too. (I'll get over it sooner or later, because it's a beautiful color.) #3, Baby BelliniApple Berry Smoothie,* is quite sheer, like all the Cocktail Colours I've tried, but it's really pretty. That's also it over Jet Black as #20.

*The names of the Cocktail Colours make no sense to me. Cutie Colada is green, Apple Berry Smoothie is blue, Baby Bellini is purple. Apple Berry Smoothie in particular confuses me; in my brain that should be the green one.

This is 5-8:

5 and 7 - Essie Mesmerize and Xtreme Wear Blue It - are pretty much the only things I own that are what I think of as middle-of-the-road blues - royal blue would be the conventional name for that, I guess! Everything else is either superbright cyan blue or a very dark blue or a blue-green, it seems - including #6, which looks royal blue in the bottle, but went on cyan.

This is 9-12:

I should have tried Montana Sky (#11) with a base of something to see how it did. I guess I'll have to try that sometime soon and report back! And as I said at the time I wore it, the blue Gumdrop one (12) is very silvery and pale - I really should have put it back at the beginning next to Shy.

13 through 16 is where we start segueing into blue-violet:

I thought at first that Pacific Blue, #13, was more periwinkle than I've found it actually is - it does have maybe a hint of that, but only a hint. Putting it next to On a Trip (#14) probably makes it look even more blue. 15, Not So Blueberry, is an outright blue-violet shimmer. And 16, Grape Going, is a duochrome with a strong blue flash.

And here's 17-19:

Fiji is another very blue-violet one (it's also quite sheer), and then we finish off with two purple-and-blue glitters, which look very similar on the nail, actually. Not quite dupes, but close.

Next up is the more neutral part of the purples.

Metallic nail wheel

I started off the nail wheels like I was going to go around the color wheel, and that is eventually my intent, but I stopped after doing green and blue-green in order to do all the metallics. It occurred to me later that I could have done the metallics according to their underlying colors - that is, I could have treated copper and rose-gold as pink, brass and gold as yellow, bronze as (I guess) yellow-green, and silver as gray. (This would incidentally have given me the advantage of having something to put on the wheel for yellow since I have NO other yellows whatsoever.) However, that's not what I did. I lumped all the metallics together with the few glitters that didn't fit anywhere else, instead.

1. Gold Rush over Jet Black
2. Tiara over Jet Black
3. Trailer Trash
4. Celeb City
5. Luna
6. Tiara
7. Twisted Tinsel
8. Gold Rush
9. Traffic Stopper Copper over I Only Shop Vintage
10. Traffic Stopper Copper over Jet Black
11. I Only Shop Vintage
12. Rage
13. Glitz
14. Funky Monkey (4 coats)
15. Crush on Lava 
16. unnamed copper shimmer
17. Holiday Spirit over Jet Black
18. R.I.P.
19. Party of 5 Glitters over Jet Black
20. unnamed silver glitter over Jet Black

Mostly these are two coats.

A lot of these have a black base, and as noted, I used Hard as Nails Jet Black a lot. It's not my very favorite black, and it's also my oldest, so I figured it was a good candidate to use here. It's mainly not my favorite because it takes 3 coats to be opaque, which makes it a bit of a pain to use here, but eh. In at least one case it smeared and became not-opaque again while I was dabbing glitter around on top of it. (See #10.) But anyway, it's black enough to get the idea.

Somehow the end of the wheel kept merging with the beginning, on many of these. I guess that's why it's a circle, right? Anyway, this is 1, 2, 19, and 20:

The gold one is an older Cover Girl polish, as is probably pretty obvious. I think it might be the oldest polish I have nowadays, although I'm not sure about that.

I was trying to be all organized, and I took some pictures with the bottles all lined up (don't get used to seeing this!) - this is #1-5:

I have to say that Trailer Trash - which is the Hard Candy, another older polish - is probably my favorite-ever silver, because it's a toned-down silver. It doesn't look that different than Celeb City, next to it, on the wheel, but I like it far more. Celeb City is always too blindingly metallic for my taste.

This is #6 (Tiara again) through 10, plus Jet Black, which as I mentioned before is all over this wheel:

11 through 15:

and 16 through 20:

I prefer the pictures where you can see the bottles AND the wheel, although I know it's a bit more difficult to sort out. This is 9-14 again:

And 14-18:

A couple of comments here: (1) I only own two multicolor glitters, in the Lippmann Happy Birthday sense: one is Party of Five Glitters, which is 19, and the other one is Sation Holiday Spirit, which is 17 and which is a much smaller glitter and which I like much better. It's beautiful. Party of Five Glitters doesn't really do that much for me. (2) I know last year I kept thinking Orly RIP really had copper glitter rather than orange glitter, but I suspect I was looking at it in direct sun when I said that because it looks very orange in these pictures. And (3) is that that unnamed glitter is much pinker than I thought it was. The colors in that set overall don't always look like you'd expect. (And I forget to wear them much, so I haven't actually tested nearly all of them out.)

Next up: I go back to the color wheel, and do blue and blue-violet.

Also, for the record, I've had a couple of manicures go by since I last posted. One was Colorstay Rainforest, which is a dark-green glass fleck, and which I totally love, and the other one was an oldie but a goodie, Sinful Colors Winterberry, which I guess you would call a sort of a slightly browned-out purple. It's really pretty, but it defies description, a bit. (Nouveau Cheap says here that it has some taupe in it, which I guess is maybe a better way to say it.)