Mid-October Display Report

Of course I've been out and about in recent weeks snapping photos of nail polish displays around metro Detroit, and today I'm sharing what I've found since my last report on the subject.

Starting at Ulta, Piggy Polish has a display that they might have made just for me. It's got three glitters in it, all "Karen colors": Teal it Like it Is (blue green microglitter with turquoise hex accents), Confetti (red violet microglitter with gold and green string accents), Among the Stars (lilac microglitter with pink hex accents). One of each went into my basket as soon as I was done taking pictures of the display.



There was also a Halloween display from Piggy Polish, called Nocture-Nail. Three shades here, too: Pumpkin (orange creme), I'll Get You My Pretty (lime creme), and Nocture-Nail (glow in the dark). I don't recall seeing a glow in the dark from them before, but the two cremes look familiar, like maybe they're old colors with new names.



When I was at Meijer, checking to make sure they hadn't restocked the pumpkins with colors I didn't already have, I realized that I'd missed some polish in the Halloween section before. I'd seen these double-ended wand-type things but for some reason skipped right past them; I guess the shape made me think they were lipgloss or face paint. I have a French manicure pair of polishes packaged like this and don't like it, mostly because no matter how I store it, polish is potentially seeping into the threads on one end or the other or both.



Revlon has an all-pink display out for what my husband calls "Boob Month". I spotted this one at Rite Aid. These are all core colors, near as I could figure out: Sweet Tart, Sheer Petal, Fuchsia Fever, and Pink Chiffon. They probably figured I wasn't going to buy more pink cremes anyway so why bother making new ones. (Okay, I know that had nothing to do with it, but I enjoy my fantasy that the nail polish world revolves around me.)



I'm not sure what's up with Milani. Rather than getting new stuff in front of me, they put out a display with the One Coat Glitter colors (now core, though not all stores carry all the colors) and their black Krackle (which showed up at Walgreens over a month ago). Strangely, this display was called Mewow Look at My Nails, which is the same thing the one with the Fast Dry colors and Krackle was called when it appeared at Walgreens. I'm in favor of recycling generally, but not so much when it comes to nail polish displays.



Of course the new Sinful Colors display I saw at Rite Aid is another OPI knockoff; this time it's Destination America, their version of OPI's Touring America. In a comment on an earlier entry of mine, Purple Green Panda gave me a heads up to look at this one more closely because it was supposed to have two new colors in it. Here's what I found, left to right: Envy (seen it), Big Daddy (ditto), Cross My Heart (yawn), Georgio (not familiar to me but I need another dark red like I need to gain 10 pounds, which is to say, not at all), Slate (new, a pretty grey shimmer), Winterberry (also new, also pretty, a taupey purple shimmer), What's Your Name (old), Daddy's Girl (old).



Also at Rite Aid, I saw a new City Color display called Blue Moon, which had three shimmery polishes: a blue with tiny silver glitter scattered in it, a silver, and a purple.



At a different Rite Aid, I saw some differently shaped City Color bottles in a display called Glo; I'm not sure if that's a collection name or a new line from them. Because City Color polishes have never had names on them before, I hadn't picked up the Blue Moon bottles to check, but since I'd never seen this type of bottle from City Color, I did want a closer look and found these had names. Very basic names. Left to right: Dark Red, Red, Reddish Purple, Grayish Brown, Dark Blue, and Dark Green.






You know what I haven't seen? Any more Wet 'n' Wild On the Prowl displays since that first one at the end of September. I was sure that once I arranged a swap for Tangled in My Web, which I did earlier this month, I'd start seeing these at every CVS I went to, but no. Does Wet 'n' Wild not want me to buy their stuff? Do they not realize that even after I have the colors I want, I often get more to swap and give away? Milani at least lets me order direct, somewhat mitigating their wonky distribution.

What I have noticed popping up from Wet 'n' Wild at CVS are some adorable Fast Dry minis packaged in sets with 7 bottles of color, a top coat, and little nail file. The shades appear to be core ones I mostly have already (including Party of Five Glitters), which helped me resist taking home these super cute little bottles.



I assume those minis are intended as Christmas beauty gifts, as it's coming up on the time of year when perfume and bath product sets start to take up more and more shelf space in drugstore beauty sections, space that I think should be filled with nail polish, of course. The approaching winter holidays aren't all bad news for nails, though; my Rite Aid already put out the winter limited edition Sally Hansen Salon Effects Strips. Five designs here: Plaid About You (black and red plaid), Peppermint Twist (pink/red/white diagonal stripes), Snow Bunny (red on white stars that remind me of a ski sweater), Prep's Cool (black/silver argyle), and Winter Fun-derland (blue/silver glitter on black).



Rite Aid also had what I'm guessing is the Wet 'n' Wild New Year's collection, called What Happened Last Night?, which has eight sparkly and jewel-toned Wild Shine colors. I've got a couple problems with this display. First, the only thing new about these colors is the names, and second, a couple of the names are just too hard partying for my taste. Maybe I'm just old and cranky, but I don't think there's any need to associate nail polish with drinking so much your vision, balance, and ability to tell who you're kissing all start to falter. The silvery scattered holo glitter polish you can grab from the core display that's called Kaleidoscope is renamed I'm Seeing Double, the silver Metallica is I Can't Stand Up Straight, and Burgundy Frost is Whose Lips Are These. Hallucinate, the off white scattered holo glitter from the core line (hmm, never thought about that name) is redubbed Tipsy on Bubbly, which is about as hard as I party these days. The remaining ones have celebratory names that I'd be all for if the colors weren't just rebottled core shades: Caribbean Frost becomes 5,4,3,2,1 (teal shimmer), Sparked becomes Pop the Cork (rose glitter), Egglplant Frost becomes Ring in the Year (blurple shimmer), and Frosted Fuchsia becomes The Countdown Begins.



Bed Bath & Beyond is the first place I've seen Revlon's holiday collection, Spice It Up. This one doesn't say limited edition on it, so seems like these colors might end up moving over to the core display in the new year, which is a good thing since there are some I really like the looks of in the bottle. There are eight shades: Ignite (red shimmer), Mistletoe (green with gold shimmer), Cheers (dusty rose creme), Varnished (old gold shimmer), Snow Bunny (white shimmer), Glitz & Glam (rose glitter), Spice It Up (burgundy shimmer), Decadent (deep blurple shimmer).



Here's a close up of Mistletoe, which was the one I had the hardest time leaving in the store (I'm sure it will be mine before too long, I'm just hoping to wait until it shows up where I can get it a bit cheaper without having to remember to bring a big unwieldy coupon to the store with me).



See anything you like? Anything you've already bought?