OPI My Private Jet

Yes, it's that one. Not the one with the brownish glitter. Not even the one with the blueish glitter. The original, pre-three-free hard-to-find holographic My Private Jet. I bought this ages ago and never got around to trying it. Now that it's become something of a notorious desire of a lot of lacquer heads, I figured I should give it a shot. Brown base (it's not black; I've see a lot of people say it's black, it's not I tell you) with a gorgeous linear holographic siren song in a bottle.

In the bottle.

I'll come right out and say it. I don't think I like it. It's not that I don't enjoy the color sitting on my nails right now. It's definitely got its own charm. I just feel let down when it doesn't translate from the bottle to the nail, and this one doesn't.

Update: Zoya polishes - Julie & Ibiza

See there? You didn't even know I was wearing Ibiza, did you? That's because for the last week or two I've been concentrating on trying to get my new baby, Dreamy Lacquer Company, in a viable position to really make and sell some gorgeous polishes. Forgive me for ignoring you, please?

Now back to our regularly scheduled programming! I love Zoya's colors. Their polishes are so rich and beautiful, I just can't seem to get enough of them. I picked up 10 new colors a couple of weeks ago in the ZOYA2013 promo...to go along with the Ornate collection I bought in December and FeiFei, which I'd picked up somewhere along the line and my namesake polish, Dana, which I found on the Ulta clearance rack totally by chance in November. And didn't I buy two more a couple of days ago off Ulta's clearance rack? Yes, I did!

Update: Fawn and Belle

Doing this one a bit early 'cause it looks bad and needs to come off. And that is not an indication of how the polish held up at all. That's not saying the Sally Hansen didn't chip (and predictably in the first 24 hours), just that it's not as bad as it looks. Bear with me, I'll explain.

First of all, yes, about 15 hours after I finished. Right after the shower the next day, the polish on my right thumbnail was starting to peel back. I caught it before it was a full on chip to glue it back down. This was the prevailing theme the whole week. There were no tiny little bits here and there, it would start to peel, I'd see it in enough time to do some repairs.

Sally Hansen So Much Fawn and Cirque Fleur Est Belle

I was going to go with some kind of a dark vampy red this week then I remembered I got my new Cirque a few days ago. Nuts to that vampy red.

I'm not much for the girlie girl shades but every once in a while one takes my fancy and Fleur est Belle really captured me. About two months before it was even released. It's a limited edition shade available only from Mei Mei's Signatures so if you're interested you'd better get on it. It's already sold out once already.

Update: TonyMoly Galaxy Jupiter

Gush. Gush gush gush gush. Okay, complain a tiny little bit. But then gush gush gush gush gush again. Love hearts, me.

Sorry, just getting my template together. Ready?

This polish. If this polish were a deity, we mere humans would bask in its glory and write hosannas and hallelujahs to its beauty, perfection, and divine influence. It was that outstanding. Really. I'm already looking into other TonyMoly polish lines to see what else they offer that might be worth the shipping to me. I'm also tempted to jump right into the next galaxy (really just planet) in the collection. Love it.

Etude House Dear My Party: Halloween Day and DJ Purple

I lasted a few days with my last polish before I got totally bored. So this morning I took it off (update to come) and started playing with a couple of glitter polishes I've had for a while. They're from Etude House's Dear My Party collection, Halloween Day and DJ Purple. Halloween Day is a blue/purple fine glitter with larger pink hexes in a clear base. DJ Purple is a larger purple hex glitter, also in a clear base. Jess called it a sequin polish, which is not a term I'm familiar with, but I knew when I heard it she'd hit that particular nail (polish) on the head. From the first pictures, Jess thought I had done a sequin manicure using a kit I'd completely forgotten I'd bought from Sephora, the Ciate Sequined Manicure set. Meanwhile I thought she'd very cleverly recognized something I had no clue about or had coined a new phrase!

Zoya Julie and a little something extra

I love a good bargain. More polish for less money makes me very happy. Which is why when Zoya pulled out their Three Free sale on Facebook, I claimed that offer posthaste and ran to their site to start picking and choosing. I ended up buying a bunch of other polishes along with the Three Free, one of which was Julie, a metallic soft wisteria purple color from Lovely, the Spring 2013 collection.

TonyMoly Galaxy Collection Jupiter (GT05)

Dana found these ages ago and I ordered the whole collection from ebay shortly thereafter. Because glitter! Pretty glitter. They aren't all glitter, the base polish is there, but still...wow glitter. A bit holo, too, there are definitely different color flashes in there. TonyMoly is a South Korean brand, lots of different collections. This is called the Galaxy collection...with five planets in it. Yep. Hey, as long as Earth is there, who cares about the rest?

WE ARE THE CENTER OF THE GALAXY!!