Although I may not post Lancome polishes in quantity on this blog, I actually have a nice little collection of them. However, most of them are the older 10ml bottles that were going for $20. Recently Lancome has veered away from the 10ml bottles and have reissued everything to the 6ml bottles for $15. Which [...]
I am convinced that the Metro DC area is a black hole for drugstore polishes. Usually it takes stalking several drugstores to find some of the latest polish exclusives. But one of my forays into a Rite-Aid a few months ago uncovered not only a ton of different polishes, but many on sale. Borghese is [...]
My favorite place in the world to buy nail polish is Nordstroms. It’s an event I indulge in about once a quarter to pick up all the new polishes. I love talking to the saleswomen, especially with January (isn’t that the coolest name?) who keeps informed on what’s coming down the line (although I think [...]
Anyone that thinks a name is just a name may be right when dealing with every day matters, but not when it comes to marketing. A black creme cannot really be unique. Some applications may be better than others, but really, what can you do to differentiate a black creme? Not much. Black mattes might [...]
With Halloween right around the corner, I rummaged through the stash to swatch some of OPI’s older “Not for Sale/Promo” Halloween holiday polishes that always seem to find their way to a retail shelf one way or another. Fortunately this year, we didn’t have to go through this convoluted process of getting full size bottles [...]
Now that we’ve covered the Xtreme Wear glitters, let’s move onto the new shimmers. The shimmers in this line are very appealing as a group, but are not that unusual on an individual basis. These all sport an extremely sparkly shimmer that leans to glass flecked. With two coat coverage and the less than $3 [...]
This group of Diors contains one older bottle and three newer bottles with the wider brushes. Now normally, I am less than thrilled with wider brushes. And when I realized Dior had moved to this wider style, my heart kind of fell. When I went to apply the first one of the newer colors, I [...]
I have some very mixed feelings about the latest Nars Night Series offering. I LOVE the concept. And when I saw the bottles, I swear my heart skipped a couple of beats. But then I started swatching and my enthusiasm lagged. This is highly unusual as my love affair for Nars polish is pretty [...]
Back to the Castledew polishes! This is where the Castledew polishes start getting interesting. There are some colors here that I’ve just not seen anywhere else. Fantasy Black is a black/grey base with predominantly silver glitter and slightly smaller red glitter. However, there is also the sporadic blue and green glitter. Highly unusual, no? You’d [...]
I actually have had most of these Castledew polishes for a few months before I got around to swatching them. In the meantime, I had bought and swatched the Serena Glam Slam OPI polishes. So when I returned to the Castledew bottles, I had to giggle as the first two of these were so very [...]
