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My Top Picks of 2013

Wow was this hard to do!  There has been so much great new polish this year.  I feel like I left something out or passed something over.  There's one notable blank spot.  I never swatched my OPI Euro Centrale picks and it's still weighing on me.  I also completely forgot to swatch Haven't The Foggiest, which seems oddly appropriate.

You'll notice a few patterns here.  There's a lot of blue and green, for starters.  It was a great year for both colors!  The brands are a bit obvious too.  Lots of Sinful Colors, lots of Sally Hansen...if you read this blog often, you know what I like.  Some are standing in for whole posts where there was just too much awesome to be represented here without taking over.  I felt like I should include a texture or two because they were such a huge deal this year...but I didn't.  If I did a second list for "honorable mention" it might include one of the L'Oreal Gold Dust shades or maybe Essie Lots Of Lux....maybe.

I've seen a few people ask others to name their favorite collection of the year, but I can't!  There are few I bought entirely.  Color Club Fiesta (only swatched Sunrise Canyon so far) and Harlem Lights, Revlon Evening Opulence, Sinful Colors Haute Rebel and Sweet Nothing...I can't think of any others.  If I had to pick a favorite, Haute Rebel might be the one.  It's not mindblowing, but there's nothing I don't like.  Not a single bad formula or unflattering color....it's just simple and "edgy".  If I can split the Sally Hansen Designer Collections up by designer, then it's a more emphatic toss-up between Tracy Reese or Prabal Gurung's fall collections....but even bending the rules I can't really pick.  This year was terrific!

I tried to cut my list down to a reasonable length, but even small and buddied up, there are a ton of photos.  Blogger won't let me write down at the bottom of the post for some reason (it threw several fits about this format as is), so there's no closing line.  Please get comfortable, click to expand the post, enjoy, and click the links if you wanna know more about any of these polishes.


Sinful Colors
Beau Khaki
Revlon
Heavenly and Urban
Sinful Colors
Truth Or Dare
Color Club
Beyond

Sinful Colors
Calypso
Sinful Colors
Endless Blue


Sinful Colors
Sweet Nothing
Revlon
Supertitious and Celestial FX
FingerPaints
Itsy Bitsy Spider
Orly
High On Hope
L.A. Girl
Brilliant Blue
L.A. Girl
Teal Dimension

Revlon
Sandy Nude
Revlon
Mocha
Revlon
Trade Winds

Revlon
Jungle
Revlon
Amethyst over Jungle
Sally Hansen
Shoot The Moon
L'Oreal
Miss Candy collection

L'Oreal
Miss Candy collection
Sally Hansen
Butterscotch

Nicole by OPI
Totally In The Dark
Claire's
Splatter Paint
NYC Shimmer Blast
OPI Glints Of Glinda
Maybelline
Clearly Spotted
Born Pretty Store
Holo Polish 11
Spoiled by Wet n Wild
Vamp n Vinyl
Sally Hansen
Angel Bite
Sinful Colors
New Wave
Sinful Colors
Opening Night
Sinful Colors
Silver Screen
Sinful Colors
Rain Song and Graine de Poivre
China Glaze
Budding Romance
CoverGirl
Appletini
Dance Legend
Robots vs Humans
KleanColor
3D Duochromes
Picture Polish
Majesty
Rimmel
Bronze Princess
Zoya
Flynn and Maria-Lousia
Sinful Colors
Leather Loose
Sally Hansen
Private I
Sally Hansen
Gold Setting
Sally Hansen
New Wave Blue
Sally Hansen
Malbec
Sally Hansen
Loden Green
Sally Hansen
Night Watch
Sally Hansen
Perfectly Poppy
Sally Hansen
Xtreme Wear Fall glitters
SinfulShine
Slick
China Glaze
Charmed, I'm Sure
China Glaze
Rendezvous With You
SinfulShine
Amazonian
OPI
This Gown Needs A Crown
Color Club
Sunrise Canyon
Revlon
Autumn Spice
Revlon
Italian Leather
Dance Legend
Tops For Dark 603
SpaRitual
Invention
OPI
Peace & Love & OPI
OPI
Muir Muir On The Wall
Sally Hansen
No S-pear Time
Sally Hansen
Chop Chop Copper
Dance Legend
Termo 165
Claire's
When In Chrome
Color Club
The Uptown
Color Club
Williamsburg
Orly
Purple Poodle
Orly
Pixie Powder and Teal Unreal
Color Club
Lady Holiday
Color Club
Baldwin Blues
Essie
Sable Collar
OPI
All Sparkly And Gold
SpaRitual
Illuminate collection
SpaRitual
Illuminate collection

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