Well, I wound up hauling nail polish at Ulta today! 'Figured I might as well come in and share the love.
Got the whole
Orly Surreal collection and
CG's Halloween collection (that one is really the best Halloween collection they've ever done), plus the OPIs I'd wanted from San Francisco and a a few Zoyas. Orly and CG was buy 2, get 1 free, which basically lowered the price down to what I'm used to paying online, which is why I went to town.
Surreal is much nicer in person than in any of the internet photos I've seen. Angel Rain and Purple Poodle are just awesomesauce and truly different and richer than a lot of similar colors out there floating around. Teal Unreal is unexpectedly rich and classy too. I can't wait to fiddle around with Digital Glitter - it's very offbeat and complicated looking.
I hadn't been really planning on scoring a bunch of CG Halloween, but wow, it's a gorgeous collection. I even really like the black texture. The black, silver, white and copper glitter, Boo-gie Down, is a glamorous and grownup glitter, sort of Glitz 'n Bitz ver. 2.0. It's going to look great over fall colors like copper foil or concrete grey or deep red. The black and gold and purple, plum and copper glitters are extra good versions with lots of textural contrast and the red, blue and green glitter is totally bitchin' - it's going to look crazy out dancing in a club with a digital LED light system….I'm gonna wear it over a neon polish and dance all night!
I got the emerald green satin
Zoya Giovanna. The blurple Neve looked great in the bottle but was more boring swatched, so I skipped it. That bright gold flakie top coat is beautiful, though. Then I got the pale Dove, which I actually don't already own something similar to. Got a 3 piece nail treatment kit in the bargain.
Of the OPIs I got Peace & Love (of course) Alcatraz Rocks (of course) and In the Cable-Car Pool, which is the perfect wine cream I've been waiting for for a long time - dark but not blackened or brownish and very rich, deep and vibrant - just right for my skin tone. Plus
On Her Majesty's Secret Service, which is going to look crazy layered with Sparkling Garbage - got a free top and base coat from getting these four.
I'm REALLY glad all the local Ulta locations are a pain in the butt for me to get to, because this was a ridiculous pile 'o polish for me, the Picky Polish Party Pooper! I'm gonna take off my current mani (Orly Rose Pixel, which is totally glam) and get to testing it all out!!!!! Gonna have lots of polish WORK to do.
Nice picks! You got OHMSS, too! It's lovely as well as Giovanna. I also ordered the black-gold glitter from CG Halloween and half of the Surreal collection this week!
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Anneri
This is my new mani with Sparkling Garbage over a minty Sinful Colors np:
Of course we've had practically no sunlight today but I was nevertheless slightly disappointed. In my Imagination it's much more awesome than in reality lol!
