Display Dump and Done for a While I don't really know where November went. I kept meaning to post here but didn't. I'm determined to not let the month end without something going up in this space, and as often happens I've got a bunch of display photos that have piled up in my folders, so I'm going to get through those even though some are for Halloween which is old news by now (not surprising since my previous display post was two months ago. That's okay. I've been feeling for a while that this blog is more a historical record than anything. After I get this up, I'm going to take a break. My ..read more

I finally finally had/made/took time to get back to painting wheels, so Nail Wheel Wednesday is back. Today it's indie glitters from Polish Addict and Elevation. My spreadsheet tells me I only have seven shades from Polish Addict ... I feel like I picked these up from blog sales maybe or perhaps swaps when I was into that? Six of them are on this wheel; the seventh is apparently a holo which I must have put in another place to be swatched with other holos someday. Doing some poking around the internet, I think my bottles are from around 2013-ish going by the label style. By 2016, there was a d ..read more

For the second week of my trip, I wore a set of OPI fake nails, my first time trying this brand's offering. I chose 100% That Scorpio from their zodiac collection (I'll share other signs from that in a future display post). I'm not a Scorpio, but I really liked the purple/green/blue multichrome effect. This set's shape is Classic, which I'd call oval.   After I opened the package, I struggled to find sizes that fit my nails. The assortment was very much skewed toward the smaller end. Other brands I've used have had a more even distribution, and my hands are not small, so I wasn't sure I ..read more

As usual, I had the best of intentions for posting more here now that I'm home, except I've been sick. I spent the first week after I got home thinking I was just tired from travel. Then I woke up with a swollen, red, goopy eye and decided I needed to get that checked out. I also had some bug bites that were not healing well, so I had the doctor look a those too. She gave me some antibiotics for the infection she diagnosed, and I took those for almost another week, feeling worse and worse rather than better. I went back to the doctor's this past Friday and saw a different professional and got ..read more

Yes, it's been a month since I last posted. I was overly optimistic about what I could get done between my long trip and the shorter one I got back from earlier this week. But now I've managed to get through all the display photos I took on the long trip. I didn't document the shade names for these as I was limited in the time I could spend browsing in stores. Speaking of stores, I only went to ones I came across, so it was all Boots and Superdrug locations in London, Birmingham, and Southampton. I'd never seen a Barry M display in person before this one. It was mostly filled with Gelly shade ..read more

Hello! I am back from my month-long vacation which took me to/through 15 states plus one country outside of the U.S. It was a journey with a lot of different events and modes of transportation which took me and Mr. Karen to places both familiar to us and new. I put neutral (but a tiny bit sparkly because I'm me) polish on my toes and packed fake nails for my fingers and off I went. A few days before we left, I put on this set from imPress called Wash Away. It has light blue solid nails, light blue with tiny iridescent glitter nails, and light blue with a turquoise and navy flower and butterfly ..read more

I know I did a display post just recently, but I've seen a few more things since then, and I'm about to go on a month long hiatus so wanted to get them posted before that. Thus the rare Saturday post, as I've been running around getting ready for the trip and only able to sit and work on this today. I went back to those Ardell fake nails that I shared from Fred Meyer last display post, as I decided I wanted to try a few of the sets and saw one set that must have been hiding last time, a Flash & Sparkle set with gold reflective glitter.   Ulta had a Maybelline and Essie display nowher ..read more

Nail Wheel Wednesday is back with charcoal and black shimmers. Some of these seem like they might actually be textured, too.   1. Orly Color Blast Hearts of Steel (2 coats) 2. Rescue Beauty Lounge An Accidental Interloper (3) 3. Milani 176 2.0 (2) 4. Wet 'n' Wild Fergie Heels of Steel (3) 5. Jesse's Girl Black Satin (2) [satin finish] 6. elf Metal Madness (2) 7. Zoya Claudine (2) 8. Essie Gel Couture Hang Up the Heels (2) 9. Wet 'n' Wild Megalast Keep Vinyl Alive (2) 10. OPI Queen of the Road (2) 11. Sally Hansen Satin Glam Silk Onyx (2) 12. Sally Hansen Complete Salon Manicure To the Mo ..read more

Nail Wheel Wednesday should return next week; this week I've got a few displays I've seen while out and about. I'm still not back to my old display hunting habits (and don't think I ever will be but who knows), but do have to go into stores that have nail polish along with other things and sometimes I see things to take photos of. Let's kick things off with the three displays of Ardell Nail Addict fake nails I saw at Fred Meyer. There were some interesting things here I hadn't seen in fake nails before. This first display featured Flash & Sparkle nails, which have reflective glitter applie ..read more

Back when swapping was a thing, I was fortunate to get polishes from all sorts of interesting places. I've also gotten to go to a few interesting places and found polish on my own. Today I've got some glitters, mostly with smaller glitter pieces, from those places.   (all have clear topcoat in addition to glitter coats noted below) 1. Etos Effect Nails 01 (3 coats) 2. Barry M Silver Glitter (3) 3. Barry M Silver Multi Glitter (3) 4. Barry M Pink Silver Glitter (2) 5. Barry M Aqua Glitter (2) 6. Risque Nuvem de Paete (3) 7. Risque Granulado Rose (3) 8. Masglo unknown (3) 9. Mini 40 Second ..read more