Time once again to clear out my display photo folders. Since my last
display post, I've once again hunted for nail polish in several states, not just the one I live in and the one next door where a lot of my friends are. It's been a busy summer of travel for me, for sure.
As expected, fall collections are in stores now, and the Halloween specialities are also starting to show up. What I haven't seen are the Revlon polishes for the Shoot the Moon collection. I asked in a Facebook group, and no one else seems to have seen them in the wild, either. I've found no swatches online (some of the makeup from the collection, yes, but not the polishes), and the only bottle shot I've seen is one found by a blog reader (thanks, Dawn!) on the revlonliveboldly.com page (not secure so I'm not linking) that could be a Photoshop creation for all I know. I inquired to Revlon via their main website but so far haven't gotten a response. One person in a Facebook group I'm in got told by Revlon that the polishes were sold out, which seems unlikely ... if they were ever in stores, there would be some sign of them somewhere online.
I've yet to see a display for the China Glaze fall collection that a) was organized so I felt I could see what all the colors were or b) had the collection name on it (it's Ready to Wear). I saw it first at Sally Beauty, in a display which had some of the holos in it, too, and some Gelaze shades.
Then I found this shelf at Fred Meyer and took the time to pull out one of each color to line up in front; I think this is all the shades. Left to right: Throwing Suede, Mustard the Courage, Swatch Out, Aut-umm I Need That, Chic Happens, Pleather Weather, Sample Sizing Me Up, Central Parka, Vest Friends, You Don't Know Jacket, Pay It Fashion Forward, Haute Blooded.
Ulta did have a labeled display of the fake nails (sorry, "Pre-Glued Designer Nails") for China Glaze Ready to Wear. There were two designs, both in medium length almond shape. One was a rusty brown magnetic look and the other black with gold spatter.
I was keeping an eye out for the new colors of Essence Out of Space Stories and found them at the Fred Meyer closest to my house (which is about an hour and a half away; thus is the price I pay to live on a beautiful mountain with a beautiful lake nearby). They were in a display called Holo Wow!, which has mostly makeup in it, but also the two nail polishes: Mermaid of the Galaxy (turquoise/teal) and Guardians of the Unicorn (lilac). As I mentioned last time, I'd heard these were also showing up at Meijer, but I did not see them there when I was in Meijer country in Illinois.
Essie's fall collection is Say It Ain't Soho, which I saw first at Rite Aid. Shades here: Empire Shade of Mind, Booties on Broadway, Say It Ain't Soho, Stop Drop & Shop, It Takes a West Village, and Fall for NYC.
At Ulta, Say It Ain't Soho was fitted into a section of the regular display.
On the end of the nail polish display unit at Ulta, there were Essie Gel Couture shades in the Avant-Garde collection. Interestingly, this was a different assortment than I'd seen in the Avant-Garde display at Rite Aid that I shared in my
last display post. Top to bottom: Avant Garment, Exhibit A-Line, Bold Boundaries, Set the Seam, What's the Stitch, and Dye-Mentions. The only two here that were also at Rie Aid are Bold Boundaries and Dye-Mentions.
Sally Beauty has a Finger Paints Holographic collection, which actually appears to be mostly holo polishes (though I've heard the rainbows are better in the bottle than on the nail). Front row: Red Rocket, Cosmic Chaos, Fantom Fuchsia (not holo). Back row: Pixie Dust, Majestic, Solar Flare.
Not only was there nothing new in the nail polish sections at the Five Below stores I went to on my last couple trips, the sections themselves were shrinking. Bins that used to be full of polish now have random beauty products in them. One of the ladies in the Five Below polish group I'm in on Facebook said a sales associate told her they're phasing out polish entirely. That makes me sad.
Fred Meyer had a display of Fright Night Claw Polish. This lineup is very similar to the one I saw
last year at Meijer. Front row, left to right: Ghouls Night Out (red microglitter), Where My Witches At? (lime green, probably glow in the dark), Gettin Witchy With It (black creme), Creepin it Real (bright purple), Ghostest with the Mostest (white ghost glitter), I'm Here for the Boos (off white, likely glow in the dark). Tucked in the other rows are a couple additional colors: Skull & Crossbones (black, orange, and white skull and crossbones glitter; this is the one not a carryover from 2017) and Polk-a-dots (black and orange round glitter).
Ghostest with the Mostest detail:
Skull & Crossbones detail:
Polk-a-dots detail:
I found the Fright Night Halloween fake nails at Rite Aid. Top row: Elegant (matte black), Red Velvet (red flocked), Claws (shiny black). Bottom row: Spider Web (black/red/white spiders and webs), Black Widow (red with black spiders and webs), Poison (white with black skulls and crossbones).
Walgreens had the Kiss Halloween display with fake nails and nail art stickers.
Sally Beauty was the first place I saw OPI's fall collection, Peru. (Or Perú, as it's shown on this display.) Left to right: Suzi Will Quechua Later, Don't Toot My Flute, Grandma Kissed a Gaucho, Yes My Condor Can-do, Como se Llama, I Love You Just Be-Cusco, Machu Peach-u, Somewhere Over the Rainbow Mountains, Seven Wonders of OPI, Lima Tell You About This Color, My Solar Clock is Ticking, Alpaca My Bags.
Tucked into the upper right of the display are four Infinite Shine primers: Ridge Filling, Strengthening, Conditioning, and Brightening. A different Sally store had these pulled out on their own:
There are three Sally Beauty exclusive shades for OPI Peru: Take a Hike on the Inca Trail, Spice of Peruvian Life, You Crossed the Nazca Line. (There are also some Ulta exclusives but I haven't seen them yet; my closest Ulta has been a dead zone for polish recently.)
At Ulta, Peru was tucked into the main display, both on an end with regular and Inifinite Shine formulas (see below) and on the side (not pictured because it's backlit and I don't have time to figure out how to get that to show up nicely).
There are three Ulta exclusive Peru colors, which were either mostly sold out or mostly not yet stocked when I saw the display: Andean Culture Club, I Archeologically Dig You, Ayahuasca Made Me Do It.
NW Beauty had this display of the regular formula shades for Peru:
The mini sets have Suzi Will Quechua Later, Grandma Kissed a Gaucho, Somewhere Over the Rainbow Mountains, and Como se Llama.
NW Beauty also had an Infinite Shine display for Peru, which I was only able to snap a photo of because another customer asked a question and drew the sales associate away from the front counter:
Looking at the swatch stick for this collection at NW Beauty, I was uninspired. While I can appreciate that OPI needs to have reds and pinks to appeal to the masses, and that lots of folks don't have eleventy billion creme polishes already like I do, and that these colors do appear in the landscapes of Peru (and autumn in the US is spring in Peru so that could be why this reads more like spring to me), I really, really wish the collection looked more like the bright textiles in the photos on the display—where's the yellow and orange, or a rich brown shimmer? I might pick up a couple if I see them on clearance later but I'm not excited.
Rite Aid was in the process of setting up their Halloween section when I was there this past Saturday (seems rather late by recent standards), but they had put out one display of Pumpkin polishes called Cast a Spell. There were three shades here, all made in the USA and distributed by Pacific World Corp.: Boo-tiful (black and white glitter), Fantastic (black creme), and Creep It Real (orange creme). The display calls these "Spellbinding Nail Polish" and "Groundbreaking Nail Polish". I don't think either of those are true, but it's always fun to see the pumpkins back.
At Fred Meyer, I saw the Sally Hansen Miracle Gel Sunset Splash display. I'd seen all of these shades before in other displays, including core displays (even though the display says "limited edition"). Slots, left to right: Sundown Socialite (sold out), La Vida Lilac, Metro Midnight, Hunger Flames (core), Malibu Peach (core, times 2), Electric Pop (core, times 2), Topcoat (times 2).
Also at Fred Meyer, they had a Sally Hansen Color Therapy display called Therapy Head to Taupe with some limited edition colors in it. Starting at back left: Dusty Plum, Pink and Harmony, Falling Deep, Bronze Reflection, Cashmere Calm, and Diffused Light. There's also cuticle oil and top coat in the display.
At Walgreens, I saw a Sally Hansen Midnight Maven display for Halloween. This has core shades of Xtreme Wear plus three nail art pens.
The most exciting and unexpected thing I saw this round was a Sally Hansen Miracle Gel standee display in a Walgreens that's off my usual path but which I might have to make an effort to get to more often, as this is the second time they've had something I've not seen anywhere else. This "Create a Swirled Effect" display has two Miracle Gel Color Whirl polishes which appear to be like the OPI Black Spotted a lot of us were crazy to get our hands on when it first came out. It also has some limited edition base color shades to layer them over, as well as some core colors.
The top rows have the LE shades (topcoat is not LE, obviously): Make It Nice, Good Cheer-y, Frosted Berries, Marble-lous, Steampunk, Top Coat. Core shades in bottom rows: Beet Pray Love, Can't Beet Royalty, Wine Stock, Shhh-immer, Terra-Coppa, Get Mod, Adrenaline Crush.
Rite Aid had a Halloween Lip Smacker Disney Tsum Tsum display with four Smackers polishes that looked very similar to last year's. Shades here: Skellington, King of Halloween, Sorceress of the Sea, and Mistress of All Evil. All but King of Halloween seem to be reissues from 2017, which I
swatched last fall. There was an orange creme last year, with Sally from Nightmare Before Christmas on it; the King of Halloween we have this year with Jack is a brighter shade than Sally was. I didn't buy it because a) have a lifetime supply of orange cremes in my stash and b) I am annoyed that they did two of the same male character and got rid of the female character from the same movie.
Summer's not quite over, as I came across one more display variation of the SinfulColors Vanessa Hudgens collection. This Ombre All Day display at Walgreens had boxed sets of three colors from the collection: Beet Goes On, About Last Night, and My Tribe. The back of the box has directions to make an ombre manicure with them (I'd call it a gradient, but that wouldn't rhyme with "all day" so I see why they went with "ombre").
A Meijer store in Illinois was the first place I saw SinfulColors Radical Mattes display for fall. As often with these big sidekicks, it looked like a jumble of random colors at first, so I spent some time getting the top row and the first two slots in the second row filled with the new shades, three of which have "limited time" stickers on the caps and the other seven which have "matte finish" or "matte top coat" stickers. I left the rest of them mixed up, which I think means I'm making progress with my compulsions.
Top row: Shout (LE, not matte), Spark (LE, not matte), Rise Up, Brave, Fearless, Roar, Renegade, Rebel Yell, Defiant. Second row: Spirited (LE, not matte), Radical Matte Top Coat. The SinfulColors website doesn't show any collections past Wild at Heart, the summer neon shimmers, so I don't know if the three new shades without matte finish stickers are part of this collection or belong somewhere else; their shade numbers are consecutive and come after the shade numbers for the mattes. Other shades in this display, in no particular order: Acapella Ella, You Goji, Coco Bae, Gogo Girl, Hush Money, Tokyo Pearl, Forbitten Fruit, Soul Mate, Tempest, Fearless, Lie-lac, Ruby Ruby, Vacation Time, Rorange, Pink Smart, Hazard, The Full Monte, Dancing Nails, Endless Blue, Thimbleberry, Unicorns R Real.
I saw a small display for Radical Mattes at Walgreens. Colors here (all new except as noted): Easy Going (not new), Fearless, Rise Up, Radical Matte Top Coat, Brave, Defiant, Renegade, Rebel Yell, Roar.
So far, the only place I've seen SinfulColors' 2018 Halloween colors is Walgreens. The Conjured Color display has these shades, including three new ones: Cream Pink, Courtney Orange, Glow in the Dark, Witch Please (new), Bitten, Spellbound (new), Let Me Go, Bad Witch (new), Black on Black. This particular display also had Devil's Stare and Let's Talk tucked behind the other polishes, not in slots. A different Walgreens had Let's Talk in the slots in from and Let Me Go tucked behind, no Devil's Stare. So I'm not sure what this is really supposed to have in it. At least the three new shades have been consistent store to store.
I'm off on yet another trip soon, so unfortunately won't have time to swatch the polishes I grabbed from these displays for a while. Who knew retirement would be so busy? Not me.
