Holiday blues series, surprise no. 4

Above + below, three coats each

Above, three coats each

Above and below, two coats each

Above, one coat each

Oh, gee, I think I feel a gradient coming on employing the first four …

Ta-da!

Top row:

Ulta Indi-go Girl (a real sleeper favourite of mine)

SOPI Indi-glow with the Flow

China Glaze Let’s Dew It (purchased recently at red-tag discount since I heart my Ulta IG as stated above, and saw no need for this one at full price)

Bottom row:

Sinful Colors Ice Blue

OPI Give Me Space

China Glaze Skyscraper

xx blueberry milk tea

New in: a full parcel stacked three rows high

I spent the entire Friday (aka Black Friday) following U.S. Thanksgiving hovering over my computer at intervals, leisurely adding varnish after varnish to my cart on the Ninja Polish site, then meticulously editing, until I ended up with this:

Nfu-Oh 37, 40, 46, 51, 56, 59

Nfu-Oh Aqua Base (for holographic varnishes), 62, 63, 64

Layla 11 Shock Pink

I didn’t order as many Nfu-Oh holos as I would have liked, since I was skittish about duds.

These three, however, are a trio of winners.  Lots of magic holo fairy dust in those bottles …

Hits Meninas Superpoderosas/Powerpuff Girls Docinho

Layla Ceramic Effect CE 56 – a really wow warmer-leaning green with a dusting of pale sheen.  Have a hunch I’m gonna really like this one…

Ludurana Aurora Boreal Magnifica – a perfumed aqua blue holo

Ludurana Aurora Boreal Emocionante – a perfumed crazy multichrome

Layla Ceramic Effect CE 63 – Chocolate Truffle.  I’ve wanted this one forever, sight unseen.

It’s better than my wildest dreams … more multichrome and faceted than I had imagined, better than OPI Teas-y Does It and the Nubar Chocolate series combined … and that’s not having been let out of the bottle yet 🙂

Tristam, Sleeping Palace, Guinevere, Galahad

Red Show 06, 07, 09 … these are even more incredible than I had anticipated.

New Prism 06 Teleportation, Top for Darks 603, Top for Darks 608

Don’t Tell Mademoiselle!

Meet Me at Coral Island

The Pinky & The Brain

Fred Said Red

Bloody Mary to Go

Robert’s Red Ford

Hello Kitty Lemon Pie Kit: Mint, Gum, Melon

Hello Kitty Apple Pie Kit:  Sweet, Candy, Apple

Hello Kitty Blueberry Pie Kit:  Blueberry, Plum, Fizzy

Fizzy leaked some gunky glue-like stuff onto herself and Blueberry.

All three bottles are otherwise clean and open fine.

I’m so weary of scrubbing up bottles that I left these as is :/

Copper Pot, Indigo, Coffee Love, Magic Flow

I put these together as my Viva El Salvador! group, since indigo and coffee used to be major exports until they were seemingly outshone by the maras.

Color-Changing Garnet, Mystic Glacier, Divinity

My chosen gifts with purchase 🙂  Divinity has an even better reputation than Clarins 230!

Lightshow, Nonfat Soy Half Caff, Leotard Optional, Glimmer More, Pink Platinum

I also bought yet another backup of SOPI Metro Chic, since who knows when we’ll see these old bottles again?

This was a mid-week discount retailer pick-me-up whilst awaiting the brick o’ varnish that arrived at my doorstep today. 🙂

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PFF Series: Intermezzo to OPI I Sao Paulo Over There

For my PFF alelvi123, who got me hooked on this whole mauve-greige-taupe-purpleish-brown Sao Paulo spectrum…

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Etude House – Petit Darling Nails Milky Way Purple (matte)

Orly – You’re Blushing

Max Factor Nailfinity – Boji (thanks to hollycoffeebean for this one)

China Glaze – Below Deck

Catrice BCL 2011 LE – Sydney (thanks to zuckerpuppe for this one)

 

Essie – Merino Cool

Flormar – 427 (thanks to vladaviv for this one)

Sephora by OPI – Metro Chic

Misa – Coffee Pick Me Up

Sally Hansen Nailgrowth Miracle – Fearless Fog

 

Catrice – From Dusk to Dawn, non-shimmer version (thanks to alelvi123 for this one)

Zoya – Normani

Sinful Colors – Graine de Poivre

Barry M – Cappuccino (thanks to alelvi123 for this one)

China Glaze – Foie Gras

xx blueberry milk tea

Nicole by OPI Fall 2012 Target exclusive – For Gold Times’ Sake

This collection is not supposed to be available until August 1, 2012, in Target stores only. I found mine, however, hiding out on a recessed, dim bottom shelf almost two weeks earlier. Way to go with the merchandising, Target! Make us old ladies hit the floor and dig in the dust bunnies to unearth these treasures…

When I discovered this, I clutched it to my chest like a newborn and carried it around the store for a good hour, only stopping to examine its splendor in the high fluorescent lighting and convince myself that I really DO need another rendition of Chanel Graphite, albeit with multichrome flash and predominant twinkly bright blue, pink and yellowgold microglitter. Yeah, baby! MY baby!

L to R: Essence Rich & Pretty, Color Club Snakeskin, NOPI For Gold Times’ Sake, OPI Number One Nemesis, SOPI Absinthe Makes the Heart, OPI Lucerne-tainly Look Marvelous, SOPI 212-Sephora, Tony Moly GT03 Mars

Other variations on this theme:

BeYu 330
Chanel Graphite
Deborah Lippmann Chain Reaction
Estée Lauder Explosif
Gosh Galaxy
Jessica Smoky Feather
L’oreal Valiant
Lumene Trouble Maker
Nicole by OPI Just Busta Mauve
Zoya FeiFei