Hard Candy - Beetle

NYC Peony

This doesn't look all that exciting in the bottle. But as I passed it in the display at Rite Aid, it caught my eye.

I was there in search of flashier colors, but I kept coming back to this, and for $1.99 (and BOGO 50% off) I said what the heck!

I'm glad I did, because this was a hidden gem! On the nail, it's totally gorgeous! It's got really pretty secret shimmer.

Dry time and wear were excellent!

Cosmic Midnight Blues

This is Midnight from the Wet n Wild Holiday collection I believe. It photographed kind of weird. To my eye it was more of a medium purple.

It has great holo glitter pieces that were hard to capture because there was no sun out.

Indoor lighting.

Midnight looked sort of familiar so thought I would compare it to Duri "Midnight Blues" which I have posted before and Sally Hansen XTreme Cosmic Blue, which is a LE this season and I don't think I have posted yet.

Index: Duri, Middle and Pinky: W-n-W, Ring: SH Xtreme

There is no top coat so they look a little chunky.

SH has some weird bar glitter that doesn't shine through because the polish is kind of dense.

Sweet!

Hello! There are 20 days left until Thanksgiving here in the US! Have you picked out your nail polish yet? I haven't even decided if we are going to host it at our house again this year! I guess I might want to figure that one out soon!

I haven't tried Maybelline polishes in probably 12 or 13 years. But, Rite Aid put this collection on 50% off and I thought I would give Chic Chocolate a whirl.

It had a very pretty secret shimmer to it.

Wear time was excellent.

What do you think? What Maybelline polishes are your favorite?

Lady Sings the Blues

I made the (longer than I thought it would be) trip to the Westchester in search of Lippman's "Across the Universe". The sales woman informed me that someone woman had bought the last three bottles of it. Yeesh! So I made myself feel better with these little pretties!

This is "Lady Sings the Blues". Isn't she beautiful!?

Sally Hansen - Purple Diamond - Nail Prism

Found it at Dollar Tree in a 2-pack with
a plain color Look at the holo-prettiness!

It's called Purple Diamond, but to my eye, it really is more pink than purple.
Whatever it is, it's gorgeous!

I almost think I like this more than China Glaze's LOL and BFF! Almost.

Halloween Mani!

This is what Halloween looked like at my house:

The bottom color was Petites Color Fever - "Black Diamond" with a layer of Lippman "Today was a Fairy Tale". One of my first full-size Lippman polishes. Supposedly it has "Virgin Diamond Dust" in it or something. But honestly, I bought it for the name, my nieces are obsessed with Taylor Swift, and I couldn't resist a polish named after one of her songs! :)

Hope everyone had a great Halloween!

Great Fall Color! - Zoya "Kym"

BORGHESE - MEDITERRANEO SEA

This one looked interesting on the shelf. It's a pretty medium blue with blue and magenta glitter. It seems to go on matte? I'm not sure if it's supposed to be a matte polish. The above and below pictures are index finger with top coat and middle finger without.

Now, even with topcoat, the chunky, lumpiness of the glitter doesn't go away. I generally find that pretty annoying. But this was such an interesting looking color, that it's almost okay.

Concrete next to Mystic Lilac

Here is Concrete, sitting on some actual concrete.
It's definitely got a lavender/grey thing going on. Very pretty. I could have sworn SH already had this color out and it was more putty colored, but it's included in the LE display in stores now and it looks like this. I found them at Rite Aid BOGO free.

This is concrete and mystic lilac side by side. Mystic lilac has a really pretty teal-green shimmer to it and it a slightly less grey lavender, if that makes sense.

Mystic Lavender

This is very sheer. It took maybe 4-5 coats to be opaque.

I wanted to love it, but once I had it on and wore it for a day or so, I didn't really like how it looked with my skin tone, and I almost never say that about any color. It's still a really interesting addition to my colection though.