Super Mega Haul!!!

It's not news that I am an avid polish purchaser, but throughout the past few weeks, I seemed to have accumulated tons! I purchased a vintage lot of polish on ebay, bought a couple from blog sales, received some gifts, and stumbled upon many at stores for good prices! I figured all of this polish merited a separate blog post. I still have some manis to share with you, and I will be posting them soon.

Vintage Loreals! top row: Fatigues, Orangeade, and Mandarine bottom row: Sea Violette, Sea Lily, and Spice

Julie G- You-niverse, Essie- Play Date, Butler Please, and We're in it Together

OPI- On Her Majesty's Secret Service, The Living Daylights, My Address is Hollywood, I Eat Mainely Lobster, and Chocolate Moose

Candeo- Zef, OPI- Midnight in Moscow, Megan Miller- Lemon Ice, and China Glaze- Kaleidoscope Him Out

OPI- Hey! Get in Lime, Paris Couture for Sure, Skip the Gift Wrap, and Dulce de LEche

ORLY minis found at Marshall's! Cotton Candy, Pure Porcelain, Meet Me under the Mistletoe, and Take Him to the Cleaners

Pretty & Polished- Bubble Tea, Diner Daze, Cuttlefish, and Black Swan

vintage Maybellines- Lilac Haze and Two Timer and Covergirl- Midnight Forest

Max Factor- Starlet Satin, Bombshell Blue, Rose Garden, and Momentum Moss

I have these all grouped together in one picture, because I found ALL OF THIS on clearance at Sally's and applied the $10 off birthday coupon, and got everything for about $20! Top Row: China Glaze- Roguish Red, Bizarre Blurple, Blue Bells Ring, and Bend over Backwards. Bottom Row: China Glaze- Red Satin, Def Defying, Red Pearl, ORLY- Unlawful, Sally Girl- unnamed pink mini and ORLY- Rose Radiance mini

Color Club In True Fashion minis (another Marshall's find!) Model Behavior, Port-folio, First Looks, and Editorial

Covergirl Crackles- Boo Hou and Ghost and Covergirl- Anti-freeze and Gold Front

More older Covergirls! The Continuous Color ones are a bit newer than the Nailslicks. Here's Fireworks, Classic Red, Spiced Tea, Wedding White, and Quicksilver

Purple Colorphase

 

I decided to experiment with some color changing polish. This brand is called Colorphase and I found it at Rite Aid. It is in a double-ended bottle, with a purple foil-type shade on one end, and topcoat and a striping brush in the other end. The light purple shade is applied first and then it changes to a darker purple when the topcoat is applied.

Here it is in a different lighting. This really didn't take that long to do. It had a really neat effect! 

Here's the light purple on it's own in artificial lighting without the flash. This needed two coats and it had a pretty good formula.

Artificial lighting without the flash

One downside to this is that you can't use any topcoat, or else the entire color will become solid. I was under the initial impression that the topcoat it came with was the only one that activated the color change and I went to use Seche Vite after the mani was done. I had to redo it because the effect went away. I am too dependent on fast-dry top coat, and the mani dented a little bit. It didn't last long at all because I couldn't use topcoat.

Throughout the past week I got some new additions:

New Candy Lacquers! These came right on Halloween :)

ORLY Mattes: Solid Gold, Blue Suede, and Purple Velvet

Zoya- Electra and Storm and Liquid Lacquer- Jewel of the Nile and Mockingbird

Maybelline- Matte Grape, Covegirl: Purple Frost, Pink Reflections, Cranberry Cream, and Cherry Brandy

Maybelline- Sunsparkle, Sally Hansen- White Veil, Maybelline- City Slick, Layla- Flash Black, and Loreal- Raven's Strength

Sephora + Pantone Universe- Reflecting Pond, Evergreen, and Parachute Purple and NARS- Superstar and 15 Minutes

Zoya Zuza

 I'm wearing a pretty one today! Zoya- Zuza is from this past summer's Surf collection. It is a blue shimmer with some green to it. It's actually almost a teal. It looked slightly more green in person. It's showing up more blue in my photos.

 This only required two coats and the formula was great. I wore this for three days without chipping. I only had minimal tipwear. I own many blues and blues leaning green, but this isn't like any of my other polishes. I enjoyed wearing it! 

I also seemed to acquire a lot of polish this week!

 Here's the Pretty & Polished Hella-Wicked Halloween Collection. I cannot wait to try these!

 New Happy Hands :)

 Some blog sale vintage gems: Revlon- Racy and Covergirl Nailslicks: Rose Gold, Honey Plum Glow, and Cherry Truffle

 Maybelline- Downtown Brown, and a light gray NOX Twilight. It doesn't have a label on it and I wasn't able to figure out the name of it, unless it's just simply Twilight?

EPIC OPI dusty hunting goodies! 2 more sanderellas (which I'm holding on to for now), Greenwich Green, Live from NY it's OPI, Hollywood Blonde, and Charmed by a Snake

Green with Gold Glitter

Over the weekend I wore Zoya- Evvie topped off with Stila- City Lights. Zoya Evvie is from this fall's NYFW Designer collection, but it was released earlier this year in the limited edition Peter Som gift box. I do not know if City Lights is from a collection since it is in a mini bottle.

 These two shades were a great combination together. Green and gold usually look nice paired.

City Lights was a prismatic gold glitter. I only layered one coat of it over Evvie. In this blurred picture, you can see the different colors the glitter reflects.

 I took a couple pictures of Evvie before I layered City Lights over it. This is with the flash. Here it looks almost like a muted greenish gray, but it's much more green.

Without the flash, it is pretty accurate how this color looks in low lighting. The gold glitter brightened it up a lot though so that it didn't look as dark. Evvie is a pretty dark grayed green with some blue hints to it. It is definitely a fall color, but I'll wear those year-round. It also applied flawlessly with two coats.

I got some more epic nail mail for my birthday!!!

 I am in a local swap group on facebook and we participated in a secret swap. Sara from Spicey'z Nails was my partner. She sent me some sweet polish plus tons of goodies!! I got Hits-Afterglow, Essie- Mojito Madness, Sally Hansen- Purple Pizzazz, and a mini of Color Club-Wicked Sweet (which I hear smells like blue raspberry)

I also found a blog sale with some awesome vintage gems!! Here's Mary Kay- Mulberry Spice and Mocha Freeze, Maybelline- Ultra Violet and Terra Cotta, Wet n Wild- Black Ice and 428B, MAC-Butter, Sally Hansen- Purple Power and Lime Pop, and Wet n Wild- Love Affair

China Glaze Atlantis with Koi Accent

I just loved this mani! I am wearing China Glaze- Atlantis and I layered Rainbow Honey- Koi Pond over my ring finger. Another person in my local swap group on facebook posted a picture of this layering combo and I just HAD to try it because it was gorgeous. I cannot say that this layering idea was mine.

 Atlantis was released in the Speciality Color collection in 2009. It is still easily found online such as Trans Design. The formula is amazing. It's pretty thick, but it only needs two coats. It is loaded with prismatic glitter in a teal jelly base. A similar polish is Funky Fingers- Tinsel Town. Tinsel Town is much more green, and the jelly is also sheerer. 

I just love how the accent with Koi Pond turned out. It definitely reminds me of koi swimming in a pond, and the black and silver glitters are like rocks.  I did not want to remove this mani, but unfortunately it started chipping. That usually happens with thick glitters. Since I only used Koi Pond as an accent, I put it back in my untrieds boxes because it's so gorgeous it needs to be used for a full mani eventually!

My fiance and I spontaneously decided to go to a flea market today. I figured it would be a good opportunity to look for polish. I just love finding older bottles, and I'm still quite nervous to take the leap into dusty-hunting. It was really difficult to find polish. The ones that I found were buried under stuff and we didn't have time to rifle through everything. I'm just glad that I found a couple and didn't leave empty handed.

 In a box of Fantasy Makers false eyelashes, these gems were on the bottom. They're makeup sets and they had Glow and Vampish Red. Each one came with rings and black eyeliner. The Glow one came with the a glowing body stick and the Vampish Red one came with a vampy lipstick. I just wanted the polish and they were only $1 each. The seller did offer to sell me the whole box for $8, but it only had eyelashes (like 40 pairs) in it so I wouldn't have much use for them. Since these Wet n Wild Fantasy Makers have the tombstone packaging, they're much newer. They could have been from this year or last year. The Glow one was a little bit separated, but I gave it a good shake and it was as good as new. I'm happy that I found Glow, because that was one that I wasn't lucky enough to find when it was in the stores during Halloween season; plus I got it for less!

I found this one in a box of auto parts. This is Maybelline- Pink Mystique. It still had the original price tag of $3.99 on it, but I got it for a quarter. I wasn't able to find anything out about this polish through googling the name. I don't think that Maybelline makes the Express Finish line anymore but the brushes on these are huge!

Even though I didn't get that much, I still had a great time "treasure-hunting". I only spent $2.25 because I just focused on nail polish. My fiance spent a lot more. He found comic books, Star Wars glasses,  a couple vintage political pins, and a Pittsburgh Penguins framed Stanley Cup poster from 1992. I'm curious to try other flea markets. The one that we went to wasn't very organized, but I'm wondering if others would have their nail polish all in one general location? Have any of you tried flea markets? What were your experiences like? Do you have any tips to find polishes at these locations?

Zoya- Myrta

I just wore Zoya- Myrta. It is from this summer's Surf collection. It is a red-orange with silver shimmer- or it could also be considered coral. I have the mini bottle that I got in the Zoya Pinterest trio promotion. The formula is wonderful! It went on smoothly with two coats. It's very shimmery out in the sun also! I wish I would have gotten some sun pictures, but by the time I got home from work today, it was dark outside. This is with the flash in artificial light.

I also got some goodies!

 When Pretty & Polished restocked on Etsy, I purchased Boot Camp and Dalmatian Nation. I own nothing like both of these!

I'm in a swap group on facebook and today I did some shopping for the person I'm doing a secret swap with. I ended up getting some stuff for myself too! I got Wet n Wild- Blazed (it was on sale for 60 cents!), Milani- Red Jewel FX, and Maybelline- Twilight Rays- which looks like a gorgeous black with gold flecks. Twilight Rays was $4 and it only has .23 oz so that's pretty pricey for a drugstore brand- roughly the same cost per oz as OPI.  I didn't realize it until I got home. I literally was like "Ohhh this is a nice color!" and bought it on the spot!

Zoya Noel and Some Sweet Nail Mail

I finally decided to wear Zoya- Noel from the holiday 2011 Gems and Jewels collection. It's definitely one of my favorite blues that I own. Although out of season, it definitely reminds me of these vintage frosted blue Christmas ornaments that my mother used to have. It was very shimmery and almost like a foil- but not quite. I took the picture after wearing it for two days so there is some minimal tipwear.

Here's another picture without the flash in the sunlight.

I got some pretty sweet nail mail! I stumbled upon a blog sale with a ton of vintage polishes (which I love!!) Most of them were 50 cents to $1 each!

 Here are some old Wet n Wild Fantasy Makers that they release during the Halloween season: Mystery, Nightscape, Night Crawler, and Shinin'.

 I also scored some Maybelline Coloramas. I own a decent amount of these. I bought a ton of them at the dollar store in high school in packs of 3 for $1. I'm glad that I kept them all. This is Cocoa Motion, Ruby Rays and Candy Apple. The last one on the right is Mohda- Esmalte HD. I don't know anything about this brand. It was 50 cents and it looked unique so I just decided to get it. 

 I got two black label OPI's: Double Decker Red and SoHo Nice to Meet You. This Covergirl Sparkle topcoat is called Pink Twinkle and it has flakies in it!!

 Here are some gems. This Loreal's look OLD! I'm guessing late 80s at the earliest or early 90s. The bottle and cap design is so unique. These are both sheer "safe" colors. This is Pink Vibrant and Sea Shell.

Last but not least, Revlon Street Wear- Slick. It looks like a sheer polish with a purple flash to it. I finally got Max Factor- Fantasy Fire too!! I got this off of another girl in the local polish group I'm in on facebook. I don't really have any way to get international polishes, and I was so happy she was selling it. I can't wait to layer Fantasy Fire over black!