Love & Beauty Dark Purple is a dark purple (who'd have guessed?) with dense blue and pink microfleck shimmer.
This is really a stretch of "spring-ish" since it turned out darker than I'd expected. It's quite sheer and I needed three coats for opacity. I'm almost 100% sure that it's long-gone, since I think Forever 21 changed their polish line considerably at some point since my last trip to the mall. They're not in the L.A. Girl bottles like this anymore, but a square one like CoverGirl.
I've been trying to remember where I got Bailamos, but I'm drawing a blank. I wanna say it was Marshalls. I know I found it at CVS during their huge Orly clearance last year, but the jerk behind the counter said it was full price and wouldn't budge from that opinion. Harrumph. I was really grumpy about that, since it was one I'd wanted for a while and I thought I'd be getting it for a good price. All I know is that I found it somewhere at some point and here it is. I know a lot of people miss these old bottles, but I never liked that ugly gray cap. As for the polish itself, it applied really nicely and without brushstrokes or streaking. I love it!
FingerPaints Owlin' At The Moon has pale green foil shreds in a clear base.
I...I don't know! I bought Owlin' At The Moon during a Sally Beauty clearance event on a whim. It was part of the same collection as Itsy Bitsy Spider. Application was kinda frustrating, since the shards want to bunch together. I wound up dabbing it on with the brush. Do I like it? Dunno. It's unique, I'll give it that much.
Milani Peacock is a sky blue cream.
I love the color of Peacock, but not the formula. It bubbled and went on thicker than I like...but it still needed two coats. I may thin it before wearing it again. It's from last year's Fantastical Plumage collection which never made it onto the blog because I found it at CVS oddly late and...that seasonal issue again, I just didn't feel like swatching my picks from it in September.
Sation Videogame Vixen is a mix of silver and black microglitter and small-ish hexagonal glitter in a clear base.
This was a Marshall's find a while ago. I have sizeable regrets over putting a bottle of Ego-friendly back on the shelf...and then never finding another, of course. This is why I have so much polish. I hate that feeling, so I wind up shrugging and buying pretty much everything that even vaguely interests me. Videogame Vixen applies easily and is probably more wearable than Ego-friendly, since it's got a clear base, but I'll always wonder what might have been....or maybe I'll just buy it on ebay.
NYC Pure Orchid is a deep, yet vibrant purple cream.
LOVE!! I had a little bubbling, but I'm hoping thinning might help that. This is two coats and I'm crazy for its intensity. Hope I can make it work next time. It's from the '12 Color Rush collection, which was new right around the time I went really nuts for polish. *sigh* Memories... It feels like forever ago! I'm glad they didn't keep doing this style of bottle though. That huge cap is awkward!
OPI Significant Other Color has a sheer lilac base with dense green-to-pink duochrome shimmer.
I love this OPI duochrome shimmer a little too much. I also have Fireflies and Sonic Bloom, even though the shimmer in all three is probably the same stuff! I don't even care, it's that pretty. Of the three, Significant Other Color is (I think) the only one that's available in the "Big 3 Free" modern OPI formula, which my bottle is. Lungs be damned, toluene makes such a difference in the application! Compared to its similar black label sisters, Significant Other Color just doesn't apply as smoothly or as evenly. I do prefer the Pro-Wide brush though. It's still beautiful, even if it's doing its best to hide Pure Orchid's slight bubbling. I think we need a second photo...
I think the last photo in the joke post was the first thing on the blog that I've ever done "for" The Beard. He laughed really hard when I told him my idea about using weird props, even suggesting a few himself. That last one is a bottle of Cherry Dr Pepper dessert topping, which we bought as a joke pretty early on in our relationship. I don't think it's ever been opened, but it's become a go-to for laughs. Whenever someone says their dinner "needs...something", wonders what to put on a salad, etc someone else (usually him) will usually either suggest the Dr Pepper topping or hand it over. When he saw it in my post, he laughed again and gave me a hug.
This year I didn't see any really outstanding jokes on the internet in general (like 8-bit Google Maps in '12) or in the polish community (like Scrangie's extra finger last year), but I did see a couple of good ones. Imgur won the general category, I think, with the Viralizer. In the polish sphere, my favorite was Scrangie again, with some new trends. I was gonna do a cat hair mani, but changed my mind over the weekend. Good thing I did, because that's what Vampy Varnish did! A YouTube'er did one too, I think.
What were your favorite jokes, pranks, and gags this year?
I liked that with reddit's, if the webcam detected a cat, it entered cat mode. It was amazing. And yours made me giggle! I enjoyed it.
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