Huge Swap Haul! Things I Couldn't Get In Canada

Okay, I told you about that EPIC swap I did awhile back... I don't want to bore you to tears, but I did want to show you what I got in the swap really quickly.

One of these days I'd like to start doing Youtube videos about stuff like this.  And then I could just link to the video.  I'm probably completely kidding myself thinking anyone would be even remotely interested in watching anything like that, but really, I think I would have so much fun doing it that I wouldn't really care :p  But then I get to thinking about why I'd have so much fun doing something like that, and I start to feel kind of narcissistic and insipid and decide against it again.  But then I watch videos like this and this and especially this and want to do it again.....  ugh.  Anyway, I'll try not to drag this on....

Okay, so this swap was courtesy of the awesome jn_woods.  I don't know if you're a follower, Jen, but if anyone is on MUA and thinking of swapping with her, I highly recommend it - the woman is a CP wizard, people! :)

Okay, so these are in no particular order, since Blogger is not letting me rearrange my photos right now:

This is Love My Nails Glory, Essie Pink Parka and Sinful Innocent, which I think is a dupe for OPI Who The Shrek Are You?  Oops.

Pure Ices in Beware and Strapless.  Both intended for frankening.  I think this is like my fifth bottle of Strapless :p

 This is Zoya Luna, Nova and Collette - obtained for me during Zoya's "LIPPY" sale earlier this year, which of course wasn't available to Canadians >:p

 Hard Candy Mr. Wrong and Lava.  My sister stole the ring from Mr. Wrong.  We have Hard Candy at Walmart here now, but of course, NO NAIL POLISH!  AWESOME!  THANKS WALMART CANADA!  >:p >:p

New York Summer Amaranth and Hot Baby Blue, and Sally Hansen HD Byte and Wavelength.  We eventually got these HDs in Canada, but not at the time I requested them.  I didn't want to wait 2 months till we got them here :p

 This is the Milani.... Hot Metal collection?  Liquid Metal?  Arrrgh.  I fail.  I know Milani had two collections of chromes (and then put out another with metallic reds and oranges....it's like, oooookay), and I got both of them, but I don't recall which was which.... to be fair, I never actually saw the display myself in person  :p  Anyway, I think this one is the Hot Metal collection.  I think.  These all have names with "melt" in them.... and they have been reviewed to death so I'mma move on...

 And here's the other collection.  These have computer-y names... and they look more like Liquid Metal, so I'm gonna guess these are those.  I don't remember all the names of them right now, and I don't want to go look, so.... oh man, this post sucks soooo bad, doesn't it?  :(  Sorry.

 These are Massinis, as you can see :)  They are super-pretty and blingy.  I'm so happy I finally got these, but ........ whyyyyy don't they sell these in Canada?!?  Sad face.

*EDIT - As I was reading this, when I read "as you can see", I looked up at the picture and saw.... that the bottles say "Studio M" on them now.  I IZ SMRT.....  Yeah.  Massini renamed itself Studio M a long time ago... and come to think of it, I may have seen the makeup in a store around here... so maybe we'll see Studio M polishes soon?

These are Essence Color & Go's.  Once again, not in Canada :(  I already had two of these from swaps - Pool Party and Underwater, and now I am the proud owner of Check Me Out, No More Drama, What Do U Think and VIP Appeal.  Stupid names, but whatever.  I read on the board that What Do U Think is a dupe for Chanel Orange Fizz.... really?  I dunno about that, but it's a cute colour.

LA Splash polishes!  The coveted Golden Seahorse, Sparkling Oceanspray and Sparkling Stratosphere.  Once again, never seen in Canada.  I feel like if I search dollar stores hard enough I'd find these one day, but I know it's a lie....

The entire collection of the summer LE Wet N Wilds!  Now, we have WnW in Canada, but we'd never, ever see new collections like this, let alone LE ones.  And I never thought I'd be able to obtain all of them, but I did!  :D 

Okay, I had a couple of more things to show you, like the names of the WnW polishes, not to mention the crown jewels of my swap!  :(  But blogger is NOT letting me upload photos right now.  At all.  I click on them to upload them, and nothing happens.  I realize this post really, really sucks, and I apologize.  Hopefully blogger will stop effing with me soon and I can go back and edit this.  If you're reading this before I have a chance, once again I'm sorry  :(  My next post will be better, i promise!

My OPI Collection, In It's Entirety

Okay, so I randomly decided on a whim to count all my OPIs.  I attempted to photograph the entire thing, then I set about identifying each polish.  I'm just going to post the pics, and then all the labels below it.  It's a lot to sort through, but at least if you see a polish and wonder what it is you'll be able to find out.  Or you could just compare it to your own OPI collection.  Or... whatever, fine, you know what?!  I really don't know what the point of me doing this was.  But the point is, I did it, and now I'm going to post it just so I feel like I didn't waste two hours of my life  :p 
OPIs are not my favorite brand of nail polish - probably my second or third or fourth, realistically - but I do own a lot of them because they are so easy to find, and for a while there I really had a hook-up and I was able to buy a lot of the core colours for a dollar or two each :)  So my collection kind of grew.  And I mean, I do love my OPI.  They are good polishes, for the most part.  Certain ones definitely inspire a special kind of lust in me that few other brands can.  And they have created some of the coolest colours of all time.  So even though the company itself is ridiculous and stupid and can go pee up a rope, I do love their polish.  As you will be able to see. 

So... are you ready for this?

Okay.... I'm warning you.  This is ridiculous.  Downright laughable.  I own 181 OPIs!  including minis.  So....you wanna see?  You really wanna see my ENTIRE OPI collection?  Well.... okay.... you asked!  :p

This is the main OPI drawer of my Melmer... so far I have one drawer dedicated to OPIs, and the rest just on random stands around my room.  I'm going to have to dedicate another drawer to them soon - in the new Melmer I plan to buy soon, most likely.  You're probably gonna have to click on the picture to see all the numbers, but maybe not.

Also, please excuse the mess that is my room.  I'm reorganizing my closet - it doesn't always look like this, I swear!  :p

1. How To Jamaica Million 2. You Don't Know Jacques - Suede 3. Pearl Of Wisdom 4. Alpine Snow 5. Bubble Bath 6. We'll Always Have Paris - Suede 7. Skinny Dip'n In Lake Michg'n 8. Happy Anniversary 9. Elephantastic Pink 10. Kyoto Pearl 11. Princesses Rule! 12. Meet Me On The Star Ferry 13. Suzi And The Lifeguard 14. Lincoln Park At Midnight 15. Flower-To-Flower 16. Bling Dynasty 17. And This Little Piggy 18. Russian Navy - Suede 19. Wing It! 20. Lincoln Park After Dark 21. Mod About You 22. Black Cherry Chutney 23. OPI Ink 24. OPI Ink - Suede 25. (unknown unlabelled pinkish nude) 26. 18K Ginza Gold 27. Moon Over Mumbai 28. Here Today...Aragon Tomorrow 29. Sweet Heart 30. Don't Know... Beets Me! 31. Purple With A Purpose 32. Jewel Of India 33. Mrs. O'Leary's BBQ 34. You Don't Know Jacques! 35. Light My Sapphire 36. Give Me The Moon 37. Louvre Me Louvre Me Not 38. Russian Navy 39. La Paz-itively Hot - Matte 40. Cozu-melted In The Sun 41. Shim-Merry Chic 42. Manicurist Of Seville 43. Lemonade Stand By Your Man 44. Need Sunglasses? 45. Russian Navy - Matte 46. Yoga-Ta Get This Blue! 47. Can't-a-Berry Have Some Fun? 48. It's All Greek To Me 49. Brisbane Bronze 50. Dress To Empress 51. Bright Lights - Big Color 52. The "It" Color 53. Dating A Royal 54. Jade Is The New Black 55. Dutch Tulips 56. Royal Flush Blush 57. Suzi Skis In The Pyranees Suede 58. Miami Beet 59. I'm Not Really A Waitress 60. Hot & Spicy 61. Banana Bandanna 62. Green-wich Village 63. Here Today...Aragon Tomorrow - Suede 64. Amazing Lazing Lilac 65. Nomad's Dream 66. Holiday Glow 67. Malaga Wine 68. My Chihuahua Bites! 69. In My Back Pocket 70.Suzi Says Feng Shui 71. Gargantuan Green Grape 72. Do You Lilac It? 73. Tickle My France-y 74. Sand In My Suit 75. Royal Rajah Ruby 76. Bogota Blackberry 77. Flit A Bit 78. Midnight In Moscow 79. All-A-Bordeaux The Sled 80. A Oui Bit Of Red 81. No Room For The Blues 82. Sea? I Told You! 83. My Big Break84. I'd LikeTo Thank 85. Hollywood Blonde 86. Have You Seen My Limo? 87. Dim Sum Plum 88. Red My Fourtune Cookie 89. Thanks So Muchness! 90. St. Petersburgundy 91. Witch Arm? 92. Off With Her Red! 93. Glow-Ink In The Dark 94. Tattoo You Want Candy? 95. I Love Mummy 96. (unknown blueish silver) 181. Suzi Says Feng Shui.  Wow, that was ridiculous.  And the last one is 181 because I missed it at first :p

This is random stand #1, where they're playing nicely with Zoyas, Lippmans, Illas and Chanels:

97. Merryberry Mauve Glitter TC 98. Paris Couture For Sure TC 99. Thrills In Beverly Hills TC 100. Glitter Bit Of Music TC 101. Goldilocks Rocks! 102. Merryberry Mauve 103. Vodka & Caviar 104. Got The Blues For Red 105. Maliblue 106. My Fave Wave.

A stand hanging on the wall by my bed:

107. Who The Shrek Are You? 108. Fiercely Fiona 109. Ogre-The-Top Blue 110. What's With The Cattitude? 111. Can You Dig It? 112. Rumple's Wiggin' 113. Funkey Dunkey 114. SRO (Standing Room Only) Silver 115. Damone Roberts 1968 116. She's Golden 117. Fireflies 118. Blonde Date 119. Brand New Skates 120. Baby It's Coal Outside 121. Breathe Life 122. Maine-iac Mauve 123. Ate Berries In The Canaries 124. Sahara Sapphire 125. MPJ (teal flash) 126. MPJ (brown poo) 127. MPJ (holo) 128. (is actually China Glaze Strawberry Fields, not an OPI - oops)

The second stand, on my dresser, completely full:

129. Man Of La Mancha 130. Movin' Out 131. Rent 132. Thoroghly Modern Millie 133. Mamma Mia! 134. That's All Bright With Me! 135. Dress To Empress 136. Lucerne-tainly Look Marvelous 137. Ski Teal We Drop 138. Color So Hot It Berns 139. Glitzerland 140. Cuckoo For This Color 141. Yodel Me On My Cell 142. The Color To Watch 143. Lincoln Park After Dark 144. Black Tie Optional 145. Have You Seen My Limo? 146. Sonic Bloom 147. Who Are You Wearing? 148. Ocean Love Potion 149. Peel Me A Gobi Grape 150. Merry Midnight 151. Smitten With Mittens 152. Call My Cell-ery 153. Sit Under The Apple Tree 154. Hey! Get In Lime! 155. Parlez-Vous OPI 156. Done Out In Deco 157. Sand-erella 158. Blue Moon Lagoon 159. Coral Reef 160. You Ottaware Purple 161. At Your Quebec And Call 162. Glacier Bay Blues 163. Rainforest

And the third stand, with my DS and Alice polishes, playing with Anna Sui and miscellaneous others:

164. DS Chiffon 165. DS Reflection 166. DS Reserve 167. DS Tapestry 168. DS Extravagence 169. DS Treasure 170. Mad As A Hatter 171. Absolutely Alice 172. DS Sapphire 173. DS Jewel 174. DS Glow 175. DS Glamour 176. DS Mystery 177. DS Illuminate 178. DS Elegence 179. DS Coronation 180. Ghostess With The Mostess.

Okay, this post was ridiculous.  I don't even really know why I just put it up. Guilt, likely.

*EDIT - I just realized two things.  1.) Even though I said #128 was a China Glaze, not an OPI, I still included it in the count.  Derpderp.  And 2.) I missed an OPI, cuz it was hiding in one of my other purses.  And it's one of my favorite colours - Significant Other Color! So, minus the ChG and including that, the final number is still the same... wow, that was entirely pointless, wasn't it....

So I got my giant swap in, and my TD order, and I haven't really gotten much else that's major in the past little while... I got Essie Sew Psyched and MAC Bad Fairy today - yay! :)  And I plan on getting each and every one of those damn Burlesques when they come out.... which should be any day now.  I have them all on hold at my local salon - they're getting them in any day now and they're calling me when they do :)  And now there's all this NARS madness going on.... gah!  I think I'll hate myself if I have the opportunity to get Zulu and Mash and don't....  oh, my poor poor wallet   :p

Anyway, some day soon I'll post photos of the giant epic swap haul.... plus I have all the Orly Cosmix swatched, which I might as well post.  And all my NOTDs that I've been backlogging, as usual :-/  Oh well.  And coming up real soon will be the Burlesques :)  I'm sure I'll do a trumpeting post on them full of squees the day I get them :)

Okay, it's kind of late, and my friends are all sitting around me talking, and it's kind of distracting, so... good night!

Oh yeah, one last thing - RIP Greg Giraldo.  You guys ever seen the Comedy Central roasts?  That guy was one funny mofo.  I can't believe he's gone.  The roasts are all going to suck now  :(

Some Spam While I Wait For The Evil, Sadistic UPS Truck.....

Okay, I have to put this up quickly because my TD order should be here any minute....  The UPS page says "Out For Delivery"  and I'm sitting here waiting and watching for the truck.... I know, I need a life.  Whatevs.  Come on, truck.....  I'm going insane.  They're doing this to me on purpose, I swear....

Anywho, here's some more spam while we're waiting.... yes, I said we... You're waiting with me  :p

Lippmann Razzle Dazzle.  Really quite pretty.  From the Lippmann All That Jazz set, came with Some Enchanted Evening and Lady Sings The Blues.

Obligatory Blogger-flipped photo  :(

I liked this a lot more than I expected to.  It was kind of what I wanted WnW Night Prowl to be....

This is Kiko Cosmetics 270 over Sephora by OPI Read My Palm.  I know it looks like crap here - I couldn't photograph it properly for the life of me.  But trust me when I say it's an awesome glitter topcoat - it's comprised of tons of multicoloured pailettes that shimmer and reflect tons of different colours depending on the light and base colour....  I know they look yellow here, but overtop of this colour they mainly reflected blue and green... It looked very mermaid-like...

Aaargh.  This photo is blurry and bad, but your can sort of see the blue it reflects IRL...  It looked gorgeous, anyway.  I received this in a swap, but you can order Kiko Cosmetics through their website, I believe.  It frustrates me that I can't show you this topcoat properly though, so.... moving on.....

This was a recent KOTD.  It's the Barielle Blackened Bleu from the other day stamped with China Glaze Sci-Fi, and a konad plate..... I can never remember the names of the plates.  I fail at life.  Sorry.  But I did like the way this looked.

And this is my current KOTD.... current up until about ten minutes ago, that is, when I took it off in anticipation of my TD order arriving.... which still hasn't shown up, btw..... I'm seriously starting to get cold sweats....

It's like a "Still-Trying-To-Squeeze-Some-Use-Out-Of-My-Summer-Polishes" mani.  I'm kind of in love with it.  The base is an awesome polish from Claire's....

And yeah, its definitely hot :)  It's like a neon orangey-pinkish red.... ish.  It shifts between these three colours, depending on the light.  But it's definitely neon.  So bright and unique.  I don't own another neon like it, and I own a lot of neons.  This is probably the closest thing to a neon red that I have.... much closer than, say, China Glaze Rose Among Thorns, or something.  But it's beautiful.  And the application was seriously awesome - pigmented and not thick or gooey at all.  I did three coats but two would have been fine.  Three was easy to apply though - this polish is pretty thin.

Oh yeah, and I stamped overtop with Sally Hansen Insta-Dri in Expres-so Yellow... my favorite polishes for konad :)  Other than the Chromes and Romatiques of course.  Seriously, though, I've picked up so many of these just for konading - I find they work better than the actual Konad polishes!  I tried doing this mani with the yellow Konad polish, but it just would NOT transfer to the nail at all, and the bit that did transfer barely showed up.  So I tried again with this and got much better results :)  If you're looking for some good colours to konad with, I highly recommend picking up a couple of these - especially the primary colours and the pastels.

Okay, the UPS guy still hasn't come by.... If he doesn't come today, I'll have to wait until Monday to get my order!  The page still says "In transit" though.....  I'm going to quietly have a meltdown in the corner.  Hopefully I'll be back later.

NOTD: Barielle Blackened Bleu

Okay, just needed to post something. My NOTD is Barielle Blackened Bleu.

I really don't know much about this shade as far as when it came out or what collection it was part of.... all I know is this is one of my very favorite polish colours ever. This type of colour, that is - blackened glittery blues. There are a ton of these out there - pretty much every company has a polish that fits this description. And I own most of 'em, hehe.

This one is very very nice - indoors under low lights, it just looks black, but outside or under lights, it's got tons of blue microglitter, which is very visible on the nail. So pretty. I loves it.

This is it in direct sunlight.

Pretty.... I have a couple of other Barielle polishes - Berry Blue, Glammed Out Garnet, one or two others - that I need to try.  And I neeeeeed to find Falling Star!  I was so very excited to get this one, though.  I think you can order Barielle polishes through their website, which I think I just need to do - I got these through swaps...

Alright, I know I still have tons of stuff to post. I'll get on it, I promise!

Haul From August, Long Overdue

Morning.  Afternoon.  Whatever.

So all I have to show you today is a bunch of stuff I've gotten in August.  I got this stuff over the course of this month from TD, swaps or stores.  And I'm just gonna jump right into it this time  :p

Most of this stuff you will have already seen before and will be totally boring.  Sorry :(

First of all, my China Glaze Vintage Vixen set.  I got Goin' My Way, Riveter Rouge, Classic Camel, Emerald Fitzgerald, Midnight Mission and First-Class Ticket, and then I also ordered Ingrid.  I'm liking most of them, but to tell the truth I wasn't horribly impressed with this collection.  The colours just don't seem that unique.  I don't really like Goin' My Way (brown is probably the one polish colour I'm really not a fan of - I probably only have like three "actual" browns :p), and Classic Camel is guaranteed to look like puke on me.  And I'm kind of blah about First-Class Ticket as well.  Another blue-purple shimmer?  :-/  The rest look good, though.

Next, OPI's fall Swiss collection.  My selection from the collection, anyway.  I got Glitzerland, Lucerne-tainly Look Marvelous, The Color To Watch, Yodel Me On My Cell, Ski Teal We Drop, Cuckoo For This Color and Color So Hot It Berns.  CSHIB was a last minute addition.  I found these all at the same B&M salon I got the Shreks at a few months ago - they seem to get OPI collections faster than anyone else, and it's awesome. 

May as well continue on the OPI tangent... This is what I've amassed so far of the Holiday On Broadway collection.  L-R: Movin' Out, Rent, Mamma Mia, Man Of La Mancha and Thoroughly Modern Millie.  I got some of these from swapping, and some from TD (they're out of MOLM, though).  Notice anyone missing, anyone very important?  Yeah.  But I'm not paying $40 for it on ebay.  I really can't justify that :(  Maybe for Christmas.

More OPIs :)  L-R: Call My Cell-ery, Sit Under The Apple Tree, Rainforest (!), Glacier Bay Blues (!) and Sand-erella (!!)  The first two came from TD, the rest are all from awesome swappers :)  Soaper1 gave me Rainforest, and yelly21 is beyond awesome - I swapped with her for Sand-erella, which I'd been lemming forever, and she inlcuded another one of my all-time biggest lemmings - Glacier Bay Blues!! :D  I've never received something that's on my top ten biggest lemming list as an extra!  I was touched.  The NB is so awesome :)  I can't wait to wear GBB and Rainforest, but I'm trying to save them for fall...

Some Orlys.  L-R: Bailamos, Mirror Mirror, Royal Navy and La Playa.  I found Bailamos and La Playa at Shopper's Drug Mart, of all places!  I guess some SDM's have Orlys. now?  And free top/base coats!  Royal Navy was on my want list for a long time now - finally caved :)

Behold this beautiful sight...

Ahhh, my eyes!  OPI Need Sunglasses!!  Haaaaaaa......... I'm not funny. 
Srsly though, these are the coveted Lippmann Nordstrom exclusives.  L-R: Razzle Dazzle, Lady Sings The Blues, Some Enchanted Evening, Bad Romance and Across the Universe.  I love AtU, and I'm wearing Razzle Dazzle right now and I really really like it too.  I'll probably post a NOTD pic later on, so I won't go into too much detail now...  I've heard that LStB and SEE are both kind of disappointing... SEE kind of looks like a 99 cent Sally Girl polish.... but I'll try them anyway.  Since I can't return them :(  Hey, could Some Enchanted Evening be called Salmon-Chanted Evening?  Cuz...y'know.... it's pink?  OMG why am I actually making an attempt at jokes.  I should just hang myself for that one.  Or go work for OPI  :p

Wanna see another beautiful sight?

Okay, so these are not new, really, but I just noticed the other day that I've collected quite a few RBLs just from swapping.  Which is awesome.  Cuz these are spendy.  These are the RBLs I own: L-R: Lulu, Om, Starfish Patrick, Coral, Frugalista, Look Rich Be Cheap, Concrete Jungle, Dead Calm and Under The Stars.  I've only worn Starfish Patrick and LRBC.  I can't wait to try these others though.  UTS is one of those "night sky" polishes that I love so much - black with very fine blue and teal glitter.  Love.  Also, why are my bottles different heights?  :-/

Some Billies I got from Dollar Giant.  I like Billie polishes - pretty decent quality for a dollar each :)  They remind me of old WnWs.  The one in the middle is called Purple Haze.  The old man at the checkout at DG that rang them up for me said, "Aren't these three purple ones the same?"  "No.... they're.... actually slightly different...." I said, feeling like a certified lunatic.  That's pretty much the look he gave me, too.  Like, you have problems, lady  :p

And last but not least, I found the new fall Sally Hansen Xtreme Wears :)  In case you can't read the bottles, I picked up Purple Gala, Fireberry Red, Cosmic Blue, Concrete and Mystic Lilac.  These were the ones that appealed to me most.  I will admit, though, that after I bought them, I sat outside the store with my iphone searching the NB for any mention of these, just to see if there were any good ones that I should go back and get - hahaaaaa  <----------- iz dork.  I think my instincts are pretty spot-on, though  :)  I haven't seen any mention of Cosmic Blue, but it's the kind of polish that would probably appeal to me more that it would most people.  It's got bar glitter in it, ppl!  :D

Alriight, I will be back with a quick NOTD, and I know I promised you those stash pics, as well.  Also, expect another GIANT haul post in the next week or two :)  I have a huge, huge swap (huge.  like 100+ polishes huge :O) coming in the next few weeks here with all sorts of awesomeness in it that I can't get in Canada (she should get her end any day now, and should be mailing mine right after :)... and then there's the TD order I pulled the trigger on the other day with all the Halloween and Winter collection goodies coming in it!  :D :D  Good stuff like China Glaze Awakening, Orly Tis The Season, Color Club Untamed Luxury and (oh man) Orly Cosmic FX!  *squeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeee!!!  So yeah.  Lots of stuff in the next few weeks.  I iz excited  :)  And I plan on picking up Jade Dragon and Bad Fairy from MAC, but other than that, it's a no-buy until those OPI Burlesque glitters come out! 

Till later.....

Five Billion Swatches of What I've Been Wearing All Month

Hello all! Wow, I haven't posted in a month! I'm so so sorry... this obviously has been a really busy and hectic month. I know no one wants to hear my lame excuses or stories about what's actually happening in my real life. We just come here because of our mutual love/admiration/constant cravings for the polish, amirite? :D And for some reason, you look at my writing on my silly little blog here, and maybe identify with me? Or just feel superior. Either way, I hope you want to see five billion swatches of what I've worn this whole month - cuz that's what I'm putting up :p  Or most of it anyway.  There were a couple of days I didn't take NOTD pics.

Also, really quickly - I've gotten two requests to see some stash/collection pics, because y'all are thinking "my stash must be huge" and you "wanna see it!" I've taken a couple of photos, which I'll put up later, but here's what I'm thinking... yes.  You're right.  I have a giant np collection. Like, ridiculously huge. I usually stay away from those "How many are you at??" poll posts on MUA, because I see the numbers people post and I'm like, "wow.... maybe times that by five" :s and I don't want to seem like I'm some spoiled brat/hoarder.  Or rich.  I've been collecting NP since I was in 7th grade, but over the past two years my obsession really came about full-circle.  And I have... quite a lot now :p That's why I haven't posted collection or stash or storage pics before. But if I'm getting requests to do so, I was thinking.... would you watch a video of my stash and storage? It would be so much easier to follow. And I'll stay out of sight - you'll be forced to listen to my stupid voice, but that's all! Whaddya think?

I'll still post the collection pics I already took later.... wait, I already said that, didn't I...
 
Okay, enough talk.  Here we go - NOTDs from August:
 

This is Sally Hansen Spectrum, overtop of China Glaze Grape Juice. GJ was untried and Spectrum was new at the time, so I thought them a natural combination. I wish I'd tried GJ by itself, though, and I wish those SH's were opaque enough on their own.
 

Icing Chartreusely Yours.  This is the only true chartreuse I own, I think! :)  It's a bright yellow-green creme.  I fauxnaded overtop.  You probably saw that for yourself :p
 

Zoya Gwin....

OKay, blogger just decided to prematurely publish my post before I was done, so I lost all the pics I uploaded! I'm having to upload them all over again :(((( I seriously feel like throwing my laptop at the wall. Does Blogger ever do this to anyone else?? Lose their photos, randomly flip them weird ways, screw up your alignment...? It does this to me almost every time I post! Is it IE? It makes me not even want to bother writing >:(

Anyway... I think I can move on...  

This is Zoya Gwin after I coated it with OPI Significant Other Color.

The subtle gold/green flash in Gwin just wasn't doing it for me - I needed moar!

SIC is really one of my favorite layering polishes... it gives such a strong green/gold flash.  I was tempted to try Sonic Bloom over it as well, but I thought the blue tint would make it too murky.

This is Sephora By OPI Midnight Mambo. This was an online exclusive - not sold in stores. Which I think is stupid, because what if you don't have a credit card? This is such a gorgeous polish, everyone should have access to it!  I got this and 212 at the same time, and while I haven't tried 212 yet, I'm pretty sure that MM is my new all-time fave $OPI polish!  So pretty... a bright jelly blue base with very dense mulitsize and hex holo glitter.  What could be more perfect?  Well, one thing, but I'll show you that in a sec....

This is Toma Island Girl.  I got this in a swap, and it's an iridescent pearl colour with very strong blue and green flashes. 

Inside, it just looks like this most of the time:

But at certain angles, and in the sun, it's very opalescent and pretty. 

I couldn't really get all the colours to show up on camera :( of course, but I could see blue, green, purple, pink.... this is very very pretty.  It did take four or five coats to be opaque, though.  This would be nice on tanned toes, with a white underneath to help the sheerness.  Hmm... maybe I should try....

This is OPI Color So Hot It Berns, from fall's Swiss collection.  Sorry 'bout the chips.  I thought this would be a hot red, so I grabbed it at the last second when I first found the collection.  It's okay, a standard cherry-red creme.  I'm so bad at telling if a red is right for my skintone or not though.  I think they all kinda look the same  *hides*

This is Color Club Puccilicious.  Ignore the yellowness in this pic - the polish colour is the closest to real life in this pic.  This is a very blue-based purple.  It's not a blurple, it's definitely still purple, but with a very, very blueish tone.  Which = impossible to photograph.  Here were my attempts:

See?  Here in the sun, it appears very very blue.

As well as here, in the shade.  Oh well.  It looks IRL most like the first pic, and it's a gorgeous creme.  If you like purples, I'd highly, highly reccommend this one.  This is one of my very fave purple cremes.  I even like it better than China Glaze Grape Pop/OPI Funky Dunkey/RBL Mismas!  I just love the blue tone.

Okay, remember how I just said it doesn't get any better for me than $OPI Midnight Mambo?  Ahem.  BEHOLD!!!!

Yeah, I know everyone's seen it by now, but I can't help it.  I.  ABSOLUTELY.  LOVE!!!!!!!!!!

It was like Deborah made this polish just for me.  Blue.  Glitter.  Green tinges.  Gaaaahhhhhhh......  Yes, the hex glitter (or "sequins", as DL calls them) are big and chunky like in Ruby Red Slippers, but this combined with the jellyness of the dark blue and the glitter give it a gorgeous depth that really does make me think of space and night skies.  Awesome.  Automatically in my top 20 of all time.  Probably even top ten.  Oh yes, in case you don't recognize this, this is Deborah Lippmann Across The Universe.  Came in a set with Bad Romance, which I haven't tried yet.  I also got the All That Jazz trio with Lady Sings The Blues, Razzle Dazzle and Some Enchanted Evening.  I might post all that later as well, along with my stash pics.  Anyway, this was sold exclusively at Nordstrom's stores, I think... or so I was informed.  Now, we don't have Nordie's in Canada of course, so I believe you could also order them online through the store's site, but if you want this polish, I suggest you hurry up and pony up the twenty-something bucks (yes, I know) and grab it, because I'm not sure how long these will last...  I'm loving these high-end glitters, though.  So fun!  Owning them, that is.  Not the paying for them part :(

Sorry for my dry cuticles here.  This is a polish from Ardene's, called Royal Blue. I topped it with Sally Hansen Hidden Treasure here. It's basically a dupe for SH Pacific Blue... which is, for some reason, kind of htf where I live. I did have it already when I bought this... but I wanted it for comp purposes. Besides, they often have 10 for $10 cosmetics sales at Ardene's. So Canadian gals, if you can stomach the obnoxious 12-yr-olds the store is usually filled with, it might be worth ducking into Ardene's to check out their polish, especially if you can't find SH PB. Other than this and a bright orange, though, a lot of their colours looked like dupes.

This is LA Girls Disco Brites Hustle.  Sorry for the crappy pic, but it was the only pic I could get the colour to show up purple, not blue!  This is another blue-based purple, but this one's a jelly.  So pretty.  Competing with Dance Studio to be my favorite from the Disco Brites line :)

See how outside here it looks way more blue?  It's not this blue.  It's a dark purple jelly.  Yeah, that was not very helpful, was it  :p

Here's one of my FAIL-of-the-days!  ChG Blue Fox topped with Revlon Galaxy. I should have put Galaxy over something else - I thought this just kinda looked like dirt on my nails. Blue Fox was brushstroke-y as fack, too :/  It's a very old, non-B3F polish though - the writing's all rubbed off the bottle completely - so I'll forgive it.  It's like seeing your Grandma with her lipstick applied outside her lip lines, or something.  You love her, and her little faux pas somehow make her more endearing :)  I'll give Blue Fox another chance, and try Galaxy over something else - something darker.

This is a Jolly Ranchers polish, from a set I got a Claire's.  This is the Watermelon one.  Ugh - my cuticles are really really bad here. Sorry. I had to wash my car and dog, and although I used Cuticle Eraser and Lemony Flutter, they're back to looking like this within a few hours. Bah.

Yay!  It woudn't be Blogger without a flipped photo!  (goddamned son of a... #$%^&!)  Anyway, this is a warm pinkish-red with very fine pink shimmer. Is it unique? No. Does it smell? Not really... it kinda does at first, but it doesn't really smell like Watermelon Jolly Ranchers. Which sucks, cuz that's one of my favorite scents in the whole world, and basically why I bought the set. Maybe the Blueberry or Sour Apple polishes will be better?

So since it didn't smell, I decided to layer over it!

I layered it with HT, which looked ok and I should have left it, but then, since we all know I never know when to stop, I decided to put a coat of Sinful Green Ocean (because I've wanted it forever and recently RIS as an extra from an awesome, awesome lady) overtop... which did not look ok. The polish looked orange after I topped it with HT, and green and orange? Ew. It looks better in this pic than it does on my nails.... but now it's 10000 layers thick and it's gonna take me forever to remove it :p I have a day off today - maybe I'll just not leave my house instead :p

So that's it for right now.... back later with a small haul post, and later than that with some collection pics!  And let me know what you think of me making a stash/collection video!

Sid and his thumbs bid you adieu.