OPI – Do You Lilac It?

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I love purple. I love every shade and variation of purple. Sometimes, I look like a deranged Barney with my purple make-up, purple glasses, purple clothes, purple shoes, etc..

Anyway, this is an old nail polish color that I had admired but never picked up…probably because I am on purple polish overload. I saw it on my last trip to my nail polish supply place so I just grabbed it on impulse. It’s actually a really beautiful color, but I am sure that I have similar colors. I’m still glad I got it.  (Nail polish addict denial)

Bisous mes chéris et à bientôt!

Nubar Jellybeans – Spring 2012

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I really like pastel colors so I was excited about Nubar’s Jellybeans collection. Once I saw the polishes, they reminded me more of Jordan Almonds rather than Jellybeans. I ended up purchasing three shades before getting the full collection. There were other shades that I found too similar to other colors in my collection so I passed on them for now. Since my camera has been so finicky, I determined that the only way it will sort of focus is under direct and bright sunlight. Go figure. Anyway, here are the swatches for the three polishes I purchased.

This one is so aptly named. It remind me so much of the flesh of a kiwi that I wanted to whip out my nail art stuff and paint little black seeds all over my nails. I don’t have a similar color in my collection so I’m happy I got this. The only thing I didn’t like was how sheer this polish is. I had to apply 4 coats and the last one was on the thick side. Normally, I hate polishes that require more than 2 coats, but I’ll let it pass this time.

I loooooove this one! It reminds me of the blue raspberry ICEE’s that I used to beg my mom for when I was a kid. The formula on this was also super sheer. Is this going to be the norm for this collection?

Baby poop. Is there any other way to describe this color? I actually do like it because it’s one of those ugly pretty colors. I don’t have any similar colors in my collection. This one was opaque in two coats.

I will definitely pick up a few more colors because I love the shiny almost-jelly finish. Why do the nail polish Gods have to do this to me!? Are you going to get any colors from this collection?

Bisous mes chéris et à bientôt!

New Polish

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Sorry for this crappy iphone picture but I wanted to share the new polishes I acquired recently. The 4 at the front are from new collections for Spring 2012: Nubar Jellybeans and Essie Navigate Her. My usual nail polish place had the whole Jellybeans collection but I only got three of them because I wanted to try the formula first. If I like it, there are a few other colors that I will probably pick up.

The other polishes in the back are older colors from China Glaze and OPI’s Do You Lilac It? How could I not have this color yet?????

Nubar: Blue Rasberry, Kiwi, Toasted Marshmallow; Essie: Orange, It’s Obvious!

OPI: Do You Lilac It?; China Glaze: Fuchsia Fanatic, Papaya Punch, Italian Red, Paper Chasing, The Ten Man

Is it weird that I had a dream about nail polish? I swear I was having dreams about swimming in bottles of nail polish à la Uncle Scrooge:

(Go to the :18 mark)

Unfortunately, this is probably what would happen to me instead:

 

C’mon! I wasn’t the only one who watched Duck Tales religiously…and Chip ‘n Dale Rescue Rangers…and Tale Spin. Ok, I’m a geek. So back to nail polish.

I also wanted to share this video that I recently came across on youtube. Her youtube name is PlasmaSpeedo and she does really cool nail designs.

If you are a nail polish afficionado, you know that you have uttered many or all of these phrases…repeatedly.

Thanks for stopping by and reading all my incoherent ramblings.

Bisous mes chéris et à bientôt!

R.I.P. Camera

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I think that my ancient digital camera is on its last leg…errrr, lens. The camera that I currently use to take pictures of my nail polish swatches was purchased in 2004, and it is a Kodak model that looks  ridiculously big compared to new models. It is also a 3 megapixel camera. Can you say upgrade? You might have noticed that my last post, Essie Sunday, has blurry pictures. For whatever reason, my camera refuses to focus. I took pictures of the swatches I did today, and they all looked really bad. Sooooo, I have decided to not upload anymore swatch pictures until I can get a better camera. I appreciate all the visitors I get looking for swatches–especially for the China Glaze Magnetix Collection and the OPI Holland Collection. I hope  to be able to get a camera in the next month or so. There are so many collections coming up that I’m drooling over so I’m going to get right on it.

This could actually be a good thing because this will give me a chance to write more about other things. That could be a good or bad thing.

So thanks again to all of you, my lovely nail polish fanatics from all over the world. I will be back to swatching soon!