Wheel Y9: Halloween Polishes

Getting this wheel of Halloween polishes in on the last Wednesday before this year's holiday. I had some camera trouble the day I painted and photographed this one, so please forgive the uneven quality in these shots. I fear my trusty point and shoot may finally be coming to the end of its useful life but I'm hanging on to it until it's well and truly dead.




1. Fright Night Claw Polish Creepin' It Real (2 coats)
2. Fright Night Claw Polish I'm Here for the Boos (2)
3. Fright Night Claw Polish Ghostly Glow (2) [coffin bottle shape was definitely more interesting]
4. OPI Ghostess Mostess (3)
5. Sally Hansen New Lengths Ceramic Glow in the Dark (2)
6. Fantasy Makers Glo Money Glo Problems 92)
7. Fantasy Makers Roach Busters (3)
8. Fantasy Makers Queen of Envy (3)
9. Fantasy Makers Witch Black (2)
10. Fantasy Makers Goosebump Suit (2)
11. Fantasy Makers Ghouls Rush In (3)
12. skull polish unlabeled pink (2)
13. skull polish unlabeled other pink (2)
14. skull polish unlabeled orange (2)
15. skull polish unlabeled other orange (2)
16. skull polish unlabeled shimmery pink (2)
17. skull polish unlabeled green (2)
18. skull polish unlabeled blue (2)
19. skull polish unlabeled purple (2)
20. Disco Lights unlabelled microglitter (3)


Bottles 1 through 5:



6 through 11:


12 through 14:



15 through 17; these were part of the great stash smashem up of 2014 (post here, scroll down), but I never got around to cleaning them and decided they looked suitably zombie-like for Halloween as they are:



18 through 20:


















The first six of these were supposed to glow, but only the first five did. I was impressed that the Sally Hansen held its own against the newer polishes, and disappointed that the Fantasy Makers was a dud (maybe I needed to shake shake shake it some more?). The Disco Lights (#20) did show a very very faint glow; not sure it was meant to or just caught light from the others and reflected since it is a very pale polish).



Edited to add that Nail Wheel Wednesday will be going on a planned hiatus until December, as I've now posted all the ones I've painted and am away from my stash until U.S. Thanksgiving.

September and October Displays

When I published my last display post at the end of August, I had every intention of not letting too much time pass before my next one. Yeah, right. It's been nearly two months. And unfortunately it's not like I've been making my rounds and taking display pics and just not posting them; I've been slacking on the display hunting as well. I know there are ones I've missed, and you'll see that some I came upon way late, long after they were picked over. I wish I could promise to do better, but my schedule continues to be unpredictable with demands on my time that prevent me from wallowing in my love of nail polish the way I'd hoped to when I stopped working. I know, I know—very much first world problems over here. Enough of my blathering; on to the displays!

Rite Aid had a four-polish Bonita Nail-o-ween set with nail stickers.



Bonita Tickled Pink looks more like a spring collection to me, but it just showed up at Rite Aid. Left to right: Tulips Wonder, Blooming Orchig, Summer Punch, Tickled Pink, Cherry Blossom, Deep in Love.



Another display for the Bonita Gel-On line appeared at Rite Aid. Six shades here: One and Only, Tech Savvy, Feelin' Lucky, Hollywood High-Rise, Purple Craze, Bleau Bar. (Yeah, the display says "bleau", not "bleu".)



The limited edition Allure & Butter London colors were displayed on the top of the Butter end cap at Ulta: I'm on the List, Disco Nap, Nude Stilettos, Statement Piece, It's Vintage, Lust or Must, Violet's Revenge, The Sweet Spot, So Major, and Front Row (the last four only in duo kits).



The China Glaze Ghouls' Night Out display for Halloween was pretty sparsely populated by the time I saw it at Sally Beauty. I'm sure other bloggers have thoroughly covered these by now.



Way back when I was still on vacation in Idaho, I spotted the Essence Love & Sound display at Fred Meyer. Knowing I'll have access to Essence when I move somewhat makes up for no longer having Meijer and Five Below stores like I do here in Michigan. This display has four "desert matt" polishes (a fine textured matte finish): Blue-chella, Glastonberry, Make Life a Festival, and Feel the Vibe. I was so very very tempted to scoop these up, but mindful of the eleven Helmers plus overflow at home, I resisted.



Halloween means a variety of Fantasy Makers displays at various stores. Here's one from Rite Aid:



The tombstone polishes this year are Glo' Money Glo' Problems (glow in the dark), Bloody Marie (red), Whiteout (white), Black as Knight (black).



Nail applique stickers (from another display configuration that had all four designs): Queen of the Dead (skulls and flowers), Snow Queen (snowflakes), Egyptian Queen (crocodile), Window Queen (spiders and webs).



FingerPaints did a collection of minis for Halloween, only two shades of which were left by the time I spotted them at Sally Beauty: Candy Corn and Under Your Spell.



Some Walgreens got the Halloween collection of Incoco nail polish strips: Witching Hour (orange/black), Ghoul Friends (skulls/flowers), Mischief Makers (jack o' lanterns), Wicked Web (spider webs), Going Batty (purple/black), and Spooktacular (ghosts).



The L'Oreal Chateau Royal collection doesn't look especially autumnal to me, but here it is: Vineyard Blush, Wine Spritzer, High Spirits, Pinot Purple, Wicked Wine, Sangria Splash, and Pass the Vino.



I saw Orly In the Mix at Sally Beauty. Six shades here, best viewed on the swatch rectangle, as the display hides half of them: Freestyle, Electropop, Turn It Up, Off Beat, Indie, Midnight Show.

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There is another Orly Color Blast Disney collection at Walgreens, this time for Villains: Ursula, the Evil Queen, and Maleficent. As with previous collections, these all look like Orly shades rebottled. Ursula is on the left; I think it's very unfortunate that there is no purple here. Single bottles on top are Fathons Below and Sinister Sea Witch; duos in front are Flotsam and Jetsam (something I didn't get the name of with Power Hungry) and Poor Unfortunate Souls (Sign the Scrolls with Have We Got a Deal. Evil Queen in the middle gets individual bottles of Take a Bite and Queen's Crown with duos Royalty (Bring Me Her Heart with Magic Mirror) and Magic Spell (Extreme Vanity with Sleeping Death). Maleficent on the right has bottles of Diablo and Mistress of All Evil and duos Dragon's Wrath (Univited Guest with Cast My Spell) and Evil Sorceress (Touch the Spindle with Ageless Sleep).



Rite Aid once again had the Phantom Frights Halloween displays, including the pumpkins (ridged bottles again; Meijer never got these this year that I saw). All of the shades looked like things I'd seen before; I think this is the first year in a long while that I bought no new pumpkins.







It feels like it's been a while since I saw something new from Revlon, so I was happy to spot the Fiery Temptress display with two nail colors: Untamed and Uninhibited.



Sally Hansen has eight limited edition shades of Xtreme wear in the Fall into Color display: Femme Feather, Heritage Red, Out for Oxblood, Fall Flare, Strike Gold, Hard Cider, Boho Blue, and Gypsy Jade.



There are six LE Insta Dri shades in the Mani in a Minute display: Misty Rose, Mauvelous, Wicked Wine (two slots), Wild Iris, Cerise Spark (two slots), Emerald Express. (There is another Mani in a Minute display with additional Insta Dri colors, none LE, and nail art supplies; you may run into that at CVS).



There are also fifteen limited edition colors of Sally Hansen Complete Salon manicure in the Runway Collection display for New York Fashion Week Fall 2015. Front row: Gold Glass, Yummy Yam, Winter Sky, Beige Glass, Rose Glass. Middle row: The Last Adventure, Maasai Red, Candied Apple, Leaf Peeper, Violet Glass. Back row: Clean Slate, Lady T, Midnight Affair, Spring Moss, Rendez-nonoo.



As per usual, SinfulColors has a bunch of stuff out. The Oh Snap collection is described as "runway colors with vintage flair". Left to right: Rose Dust (repromote), Plum Luck (new), Ink Positive (new), No Filter (new), 24/7 (times 2; one of these slots should be Retro Rosie, a new shade, and the other should be Clear Top Coat, but apparently this store ran out of those and stocked with excess 24/7), Purple Haze (new), Antique Your Interest (new).



In all the Walgreens I hit up looking for one, I never saw a complete display of SinfulColors Truly Madly Sparkly. This one below was the closest. Left to right: Starlet Fever (new), Sinfl Sunrise (new, but belongs to 3D Glitter collection, which I never found the display for anywhere; this slot should be filled with Let Me Go, a core shade), Teal Midnight (new), Interstellar (new), Snow and Teal (new), Hit the Dance Glow (new), Palm Breezy, Just Glisten (new).



There's a variety of Halloween displays from SinfulColors. Rite Aid had Dressed to Kill. Left to right: Glow in the Dark, Splatter Spell, Courtney Orange, Starry Night, Ruby Ruby, Let's Talk, Glow in the Dark, Clear Coat. These are all either repromotes or core colors.



Meijer had a gigantic Dressed to Kill display with a different assortment of colors. Left to right: Happy Ending, Black on Black, Let's Talk, Courtney Orange, Snow Me White, Glow in the Dark (whole center section), GoGo Girl, Copper Pot, Starry Night, Skele-bration (new), Splatter Spell, Aubergine.



Walgreens has You Glow Girl, either in the corner cap as seen below or in a sidekick. The new colors here are Skele-bration and Go Batty, a sky blue glow in the dark with shaped glitter. The others all looked to be core or repromotes. The corner cap has glow in the dark nail stickers but the sidekick I saw did not. (There were other full nail stickers in a Target display I saw online but not in person).





Wet 'n' Wild Here's to the Wild Ones has six MegaLast limited edition shades, most of which look very very similar to LE shades from prior years. Left to right: Thrift Shopaholic, Gettin' Inked, Stop and Mel-the-Roses, Pop-Up Bluetique, I Moss Have It, and Keep Vinyl Alive.



There are some limited edition shades in the top section of the Whim display at Ulta. Left to right: Tall Dark & Rich, Cable Knit, Press Tour, Faux Real, Statement Maker, th-INK, Midnight Mischief, Fallen Sunset, Crackling Embers, #Trending.



Ulta has been keeping pretty timely with their Zoya stocks lately. Focus & Flair for fall was there at the end of summer. Top row: Tris, Cinnamon, Aggie, Ember, Giada, Estelle. Bottom row: Charli, Desiree, Hannah, Janelle, Lidia, Sia. You can see I'm off my game here: I didn't even notice several of the bottles were wrong way round until I pulled this pic up to crop and watermark it.



Zoya Naked Manicure popped up at Ulta before I'd really seen much about it online. Top: Pink (to brighten; no surprise it's sold out as muggles love pink), Buff (to warm), Nude (to soften), Mauve (to deepen), Lavender (to correct yellow), White (to correct free edge). Bottom: Naked Base, Satin Seal Topcoat, Glossy Seal Topcoat.



And of course, since Christmas starts earlier and earlier, I've already seen some winter holiday displays, but I just don't want to encourage that sort of thing, so will save those to post after Halloween.

Halloween and Other Displays

I had some Halloween content from Sally Hansen and SinfulColors in my last display post (and some from Bonita way back in July), but today I have lots more, along with some non-spooky collections.

Bonita got their Halloween collection out a few months ago, but they also have a fall collection, Colorful Palette, out now. There are eight art-themed shades: Florence, Dali's Memory, Ballet Rehearsal, The Kiss, Monet's Garden, Da Vinci Code, Rembrandt's Muse, and Starry Night.



It'd been a while since I saw any new Color Club in stores, but recently the Seven Deadly Sins display has turned up at Bed Bath & Beyond. Shades here: Friends with Benefits, Under Your Spell, Fierce, Indulge Me, You're So Vain, Obsessed, and Dirty Money. This display is not clear, but I believe these are textured polishes.



Five Below had some DC Comics Girls polishes, which all come with capes. I just wish they hadn't included a pink; none of the pictured super heroes appear to have pink in their costumes, so the pink feels super stereotypical to me.



Fantasy Makers by Wet 'n' Wild is back with tombstone shaped polishes; this year they have skulls printed on the caps. I saw this display at Meijer. The 2014 shades are Ghouls Rush In (hot pink), Goosebump Suit (orange), Glo' Money Glo' Problems (glow in the dark), Roach Busters (lime), Witch Black, and Queen of Envy (green).



There's also a sidekick Fantasy Makers display with the tombstone polishes, holo glitter, and other makeup. The one below was at Meijer; there's a taller version I've seen at Walgreens



Fantasy Makers has fake nails designs for the holiday, too, in six designs: Queen of the Dead (colorful Day of the Dead skulls), Wildcat (tan/black leopard print), Devilish Queen (French mani with delicate blood spatter), Rock Starlet (bright stripes), Seeing Stars (galaxy), and Vampy Vixen (deep red). Some of these would be quite wearable post-Halloween.



There is no shortage of fake nails for Halloween at Meijer; they also had the Fing'rsPrints display of Ghoulish Glam designs. I was tempted by the spiders on lilac, but the nails looked a bit small for my hands.



The latest Fresh Paint collection at Five Below is called Karma. Four shades here: Lotus Begin, There's No Place Like Om, Yoga'nna Love It, and Namaste You Go.



Ulta had the Fright Night Claw Polish display. This year there are some new colors, which is good, but the coffin shaped bottles from prior years are gone, which does not delight me. Colors are Ghouls Night Out (microglitter), Howlin' for You, I'm Here for the Boos (glow in the dark), Gettin' Witchy with It, Where My Witches At, and Creepin' It Real. The bright orange, green, and purple are not colors I've seen before in the Claw Polish line.



These same colors/bottles also showed up at Meijer in a sidekick display along with other "costume accessories".



Fright Night has fake nails for Halloween, too; this display with six designs was at Meijer. Left to right: Blood Spatter Spider Webs, Vampire Bite, French Pirate, Blood Ooze, and Rise of the Dead. Spider Webs and Rise of the Dead are new; the others are repromotes from 2013.



Funky Fingers (available at Five Below) has a glow in the dark glitter collection out called Supernatural. These are priced at 2 for $5 rather than the 3 for $5 of the regular Funky Fingers. There are five shades here: Dia de Muertos, Pumpkin King, Oogie Boogie, Ghouls Night Out, and #Boo2U.



At Walgreens, I saw the Kiss Fashion Yourself Frightful display with four imPress fake nail sets, a set of Nail Tattoos transfers, four Nail Dress strip designs, and a set of Nail Artist stickers.



Later, I saw a display at Meijer with just the Halloween imPress designs, including a fifth one that wasn't in the combined display.



Meijer also had a separate display with the four Nail Dress designs, the Nail Tattoos, and the Nail Artist stickers, as well as two designs of Eye Tattoos.



Back to the imPress, CVS had a display with six Halloween designs.



In addition to all the Halloween stuff, Kiss also has nail art kits in the Disney Good vs. Evil display at Walgreens. There are four kits, two "good" (blue/pink, princess themed) and two "evil" (purple/black, queen themed).



I shared the tall Maybelline Fashion Rocks endcap display last month, but now some smaller shelftop displays are showing up at Meijer and other stores. This one had the I Got You Beige, Plum as You Are, and Greyz in Love limited edition polishes; I'm not sure where Fashionably Slate was, as there didn't even seem to be a spot for it.



One of the things I was looking for as of my last display post was the Milani Bedazzle display, and I did find it at Walgreens not too long after that. One of the eyeliners was already gone by the time I saw it, but all three Color Statement polishes were still there: Enchanted Sapphire, Enchanted Garnet, and Enchanted Emerald.



I'd never heard of the Miss Elegant Touch brand until I saw their Candy Dip display at Ulta. This has sets with double sided stickers and three pots of loose glitter, touted at "the fastest way to glitter nails" and "quick to remove". Colorways: Bubblegum (pink), Peppermint (blue), Lemon Sherbet (orange and yellow), Liquorice (gold/silver/charcoal), Blueberry Crumble (purple). According to the boxes, there are 18 stickers included, so not quite two manis worth, though there appears to glitter for much more than that. The illustrations on the display don't cover removal or why it's so quick; maybe they mean for you to peel the stickers off your nails.



The Fall Into Color display from Nicole by OPI, which I've seen at Ulta and CVS, has four shades in it: Berry the Hatchet (berry pink creme), Die He Wink at Me (periwinkle creme), Poised for Turquoise (medium teal creme), and Dazzling with Talent (Charcoal/holo microglitter). I believe these are new core colors.



At Rite Aid, I saw the NYC New York Color Fashion Queen display, which seems to be more Christmas/New Year's colors than Halloween. There are nine limited edition polishes here, the first six of them glitters: Rule the City, NY Princess, Fashion Queen, Blue Majesty, Queen's Jewels, Ruby Queen, Royal Chic, Crown Gold, and Queen of the City.



No Halloween season would be complete without pumpkin polishes, and they have once again arrived. Meijer was the first place I spotted any of the Phantom Frights displays, and I was surprised to see a new shape for the pumpkin bottles. Instead of being smooth round balls, this year they have vertical ridges like real pumpkins.



Other than the bottle shape, the big news in pumpkin polish this year are the skull and crossbones shaped glitters: black/white, hot pink/purple, and blue/pink.



In the other Phantom Frights display they had at Meijer, there were nail polishes with jeweled caps, either a jack o'lantern or a skull and crossbones design (with various polish colors).





Rite Aid has Phantom Frights displays, too—one for glow in the dark pumpkins, one for glitter and creme pumpkins, and one for the crystal cap polishes and other makeup items. Annoyingly, they're priced a dollar higher than at Meijer.





One thing Rite Aid has that I haven't seen at Meijer are the glitter shaker polishes in the center of the photo above. These have nail polish in the bottom and a snap top container of loose glitter on the top of the cap.

Walmart had the Spooktacular Style endcap display up the last time I visited. It's got Salon Perfect and Pure Ice in it, but the Salon Perfect is eyelashes, not polishes, and none of the Pure Ice colors looked new (there was a glow in the dark that I wasn't sure I'd seen before, but it looked no different than any other glow in the dark polish I have).



Bed Bath & Beyond was the first place I saw the SinfulColors No Text Red display, which has one shade, No Text Red, and topcoat. The idea behind this seems to be to paint your thumbs with red to remind you not to text while driving.



Walgreens appears to be the only place to find the Wet 'n' Wild Enchanting Halloween Looks display. This has both MegaLast and Mega Rocks polishes in it, though many are core shades being repromoted. In the Daring Downtown section, the LE polish shades are MegaLast Strobe Light Stunner (silver) and Happy Hour Hop (purple). In Haute Hollywood, LE polishes are Mega Rock Rising Star (gold/rose) and MegaLast Pot of Gold (gold). Eastside Enigma has two LEs: MegaLast Power Outage (black) and Roadwork (pewter). Venice Vixen polish LE is MegaLast Pleasure Pier (bright blue).



Finally, and I pulled these out of alphabetical order because I'd really rather deal with just one holiday at time, I have three Christmas/winter holiday displays I saw I Rite Aid in the last few days. The first one I spotted was SinfulShine Shining Lights. Unlike the NYC display, which is probably also for Christmas, this display can't even claim plausible deniability because not only does it have red and green, it has a Christmas tree lights motif. The big news here is a) Rite Aid has never had SinfulShine before (I've read it's been showing up at some Walmart stores and disappearing from Walgreens, too) and b) this display has the much sought after Prosecco. Shades here: Go Glossy, Rise & Shinier, Prosecco, Most Sinful, Amazonian, Mirror Mirror, Devious, and Wisp. None of these are new shades, though previously Prosecco had only been available in the somewhat hard to find Shining Bright Off the Runway display at Walgreens. I wonder if Prosecco was a late addition to Shining Lights, as the display card shows a gold and there is no gold in the actual bottle lineup.



The next Christmas display I came across is SinfulColors Holi-Dazzled (more red and green, plus a Christmas tree and Santa hat). The lineup: Sugar Sugar, Decadent, Let's Talk, Hottie, Out of this World, Twilight Twinkles, Pine Away, and Galax-Sea. Twilight Twinkles and Galax-Sea are new; the others are all core or repromotes.



The SinfulColors Holiday Wishes display has snowflakes and presents and a gold and blue theme. Colors here: Gilded, Gold Medal, All About You, Cinderella, Ice Blue, Endless Blue, Super Star, and Ice Dream. None of these are new, but Ice Blue was previously limited release so I didn't have it already and was happy to get it.



And now you know everything I know about nail polish displays around here at the moment. See anything you'd like me to grab for a future giveaway?