Wheel Y6: Violet Shimmers

I painted the star of this episode of Nail Wheel Wednesday back when I was going gangbusters with my swatching project and was just about caught up in some of the categories, meaning I had fewer options when deciding which 20 polishes went on each wheel. Thus this collection of violet shimmers has a range from light to dark, purple to blurple, dusty to clear. A couple blues even snuck on here.



1. Love & Beauty Dusty Blue (3 coats) [such a subtle shimmer I might as well have put on a creme wheel]
2. Nic's Sticks Vio-let's Go (3) [love the golden shimmer in this one; don't like the packaging]
3. Nicole by OPI Back to Reality TV (3)
4. Sinful Zeus (3) [3 & 4 are showing their dark side here; see comparison I did of the two for their lighter, more blue side]
5. Finger Paints Grape Gumball (2) [needs topcoat]
6. Ulta 3 Sweet Violet (2) [hello brushstrokes]
7. Barielle Jess' Champagne Toast (2) [definitely needs topcoat but I do like the pink glitter in it]
8. Zoya Neeka (2) [I'd forgotten how pretty this one is, with its gold highlights]
9. Zoya Nimue (2)
10. Anna Sui 200 (3)
11. Ma.nish.ma Blaster (3) [pretty, but looks like it needs to be layered over a dark base; also, it's been ages since I saw any ma.nish.ma in stores]
12. Ulta Purple Haze (2)
13. OPI The Color to Watch (3)
14. Ulta Ka-bloom (1)
15. Claire's Periwinkle (3) [really pretty; I think I need to start going to Claire's again]
16. Revlon Mystical (2)
17. Sally Hansen Nail Prisms Garnet Lapis (3) [needs a dark base]
18. Ozotic 506 (2) [one of my nail polish regrets is not buying more Ozotic back in the day]
19. OPI Glacier Bay Blues (3)
20. OPI Russian Navy (2)


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