Big Display Catch-up

I need to paint more wheels before Nail Wheel Wednesday can resume. Today I've got displays collected both close to home and on my travels. It's been ages since my last display post back in June, so let's get going. I've been in a few Walmart stores lately, but only one them had a display for Bettina, a brand I don't recall seeing in a quite a while. This was pretty picked over, with colors in the wrong slots, but I still thought it was interesting.

 

One Walmart I was in had a display of various Dashing Diva nail strips, some with Halloween designs.

 

Also at a Walmart, I saw a new to me brand: Entity Clean. The bottles say they're breathable, so guessing they're like the Orly Breathable line. The ones I saw were shoved in a display for other brands, and I never found their proper place, so I'm not sure how many shades there might be total. The ones I did see: Pure Allure, Let's Be Honest, Light & Love, Lady in Pink, Top Coat, and Black Silk.

 

As far as I can tell, Essie's Handmade with Love collection came out this past summer, but I don't seem to have included it in a display post before. The best shot of it I have is this display at a Meijer I was in during my travels, which had the colors right next to those in Swoon in the Lagoon. Left to right: Piece of Work, Paintbrush It Off, Cut It Out, In Pursuit of Craftiness, Pencil Me In, Sew Gifted, Crochet Away, Handmade with Love, To DIY For. I did also see a display for this collection at Ulta which was seven slots wide and had the red/orange shades in the back.

 

Essie's fall 2022 offering is Off the Grid. I saw it first at Fred Meyer, where they'd tucked it under the fake nails for some reason. Left to right: Force of Nature, Risk-Takers Only, Hike It Up, Bold & Boulder, Off the Grid, Transcend the Trend. I've also seen the collection at Walgreens.

 

Fred Meyer had two shelftop displays of Halloween fake nails. This one has the imPress designs (and one set of nail strips from Kiss that maybe got misplaced).

 

And this one has the Kiss designs (and one Fright Night by Ardell set stuck in there that I never saw a whole display for).

 

At one of the Walmarts I was in, there was a section in the core nail polish area for Just Add Sun polishes, which change colors in the sun. There's space for 24 colors, though not all of them were there when I happened upon them.

 

You may recall the Kokie Green polishes I've shared this year. I did finally see them in the wild at a few Meijer stores in the Great Lakes states.

 

I try to remember to check the LA Colors section at Fred Meyer as that's where they slip in new stuff rather than have separate shelftop displays. This time the new stuff was Color Mania, some bright pearly shimmers. Left to right: Fandom, Hooked, Super Bloom, Squeeze, Fanatic, Chaotic, Lyrical, and Culture (of course the purple is sold out, so I'll have to check back).

 

I usually see Morgan Taylor at Sally Beauty if I see if anywhere, but this Plaid Reputation display was at Fred Meyer. Six shades: Follow Suit, Tartan the Interruption, Tailored for You, It's All About the Twill, Wool You Love Me, Tweed Me. I did later see a display of this collection at Sally Beauty, too.

 

I only managed to see one post-worthy thing at a CVS, four Poparazzi polishes in that uppper right section of the display where they seem to put the small seasonal offerings. The four colors here: Curfew, Snow Dusting, Into the Fog, and Not Your Basic Blue. Seems like more a winter set than summer but who knows how long they were there.

 

I got to pop into a Five Below store on during my recent travels and found a couple Pretty Woman displays I hadn't seen before. The first was Jelly Glaze. Six shades here: Royal Navy, Orange Crush, Yelly Jelly, Forest Glaze, Passion Fruit, and Mint for You. The two greens look very similar in the bottle, but I checked that they had different items numbers so can only assume they look different on the nail. I won't know because in a suprising turn of events, I didn't buy any of them, remembering how very many jelly polishes I have at home that I don't use much.

 

The second was the mostly empty Glow in the Dark, which was down to one polish of the six names on the display. The one color was in the slot for Light Show. The empty slots were Glow Up, Let's Rave, Luminous Ice, Flash On, and Fluorescently You.

 

I keep being thankful for Sally Hansen. Maybe they're not coming out with new lines as often as they used to, or quite as many special collections, but they haven't given up entirely the way other brands have. This past summer, they came out with another limited edition neon collection in the Miracle Gel line, Make Your Mani Pop. I saw it at both Ulta and Walmart, in a separate area of the core section. Bottles at Ulta, left to right: Un-cone-ditional Love, Worth Melting For, Anything is Popsicle, Lemon Drop Pop, Sea-riously Cool.

 

The one polish missing from the Ulta display above is a topper called My Flavourite, seen here at Walmart.

 

At a Meijer on the road, I saw a Sally Hansen display I haven't seen anywhere else, though I have seen the polishes tucked into core displays at places like Walgreens and Ulta. It had Covergirl makeup on one half and Sally Hansen on the other: Color Foil, Insta Dri Luxe Finish, Xtreme Wear, treatments and top/base coats.

 

The Luxe Finish Insta Dri shades were the most interesting to me. There were eight of those: Triple Threaqd, Silk Is, Glos-Sea, Sleek-a-Boo, Spill the Velvet-ea, Lavish Lilac, The Queen's Velvet, and Extrava-grey.

 

In late summer, Sally Hansen put out the Back to School limited edition Insta Dri collection, another collaboration with Sour Patch Kids. I saw this at Fred Meyer in a display that also had the Luxe Effects in it and a few core colors, too. The Sour Patch are in the front row, starting after the empty slot: Main Squeeze, Tis the Sea-sun, Your Pine-ness, Tropink, Plum-believable, Maliblue Twist, Pink Punch. Based on the little circles of color on the display board, I could see there were two Sour Patch colors missing from here. Some online research told me they were Red Berry, a red shimmer, and Simply Sublime, a pink/blue/yellow glitter topper, which I then ordered online.

 

In stores now, there's a ten-color limited edition Miracle Gel collection for The School for Good and Evil. This shelftop display was at Fred Meyer. Left to right in the front row (the back is core): Can't Settle Won't Settle, Fresh Villany, It's Better Being Bad, Magic Mirror, Lesso Go, True Beauty Comes from Within, The Storian, Not What It Gleams, Lovey Dovey, Good is Great.

 

Here's the display for the collection I saw at Walmart. The limited edition ones are in the top two rows, with core filling out the rest.

 

And here's how it looked at Walgreens:

 

There's also an Insta Dri Glow in the Dark collection out now for Halloween. I saw it first at Sally Beauty. Front row, left to right: Purple Potion, Witch Please, Creep It Real, Squad Ghouls, Fa-boo-lous, Ghosted. Back row: Gourd-geous plus core colors Black to Black, White on Time, Clearly Quick, Hail Cherry, and Cinna-snap. A couple of these limited editions (Creep It Real and Fa-boo-lous) look like repromotes, though the bottles are a bit different.

 

I also saw a standing display for these at Walmart but it was very picked over by the time I got to it.

 

The Sally Hansen Xtreme Wear Hispanic Heritage Month display is all core colors, but it's more than any other brand did as far as I know.

 

There are three new Miracle Gel toppers in addition. So far I've only seen them tucked into the core section. Here they are at Meijer: Crystal Top Coat, Sugar Top Coat, Unicorn Top Coat.

 

I was surprised to see a Salon Perfect Halloween display at my local Walmart just a few days ago, as they've had Halloween stuff out for weeks. Guess this just showed up later; it was in the beauty section rather than the seasonal area. It's called Bewitched and has fake nails, core and limited edition polishes, and false lashes as well as Fright Night colored hairspray.

 

The ten polish slots were nicely labelled. Four core at the left side: Crystal Clear Top Coat, Oil Slick (black creme, missing here), Heart Strings, and Traffic Cone. Six limited edition next to those: Alien Apple Bobbin', Head in the Stars, On My Milky Way, I Need Space, Universe-al Glow, and Celestial Chic (empty). The next day, I had to go down to the city and saw this display there (in the seasonal section). It was more picked over but did have Celestial Chic, which turned out to be a red polish. I was hoping for purple but oh well.

 

Walmart once again had the big four-sided Halloween display with SinfulColors and LA Color polishes, Kiss and imPress fake nails, and false eyelashes.

 

The interesting thing on the SinfulColors side was buried in among the core colors and Sheer Mattes and Essenchills that we've seen a lot of, there were the Bee Envious shades, only two of which were ever in any of my stores before.

 

I never saw all of the Bee Envious in one store; the most I found in one place was five: Busy Being Queen, Amazzzing, Buzz Off, She Stings, and Save the Bees. The one I had to dig out at another store was Honey Child, a pale peach.

 

The LA Colors side looked to have mostly the same things as last year.

 

The fake nails side had most (maybe all?) of the designs that were in the displays at Fred Meyer from earlier in this post plus some plainer colored ones.

 

Remember when Wet 'n' Wild would have a special collection nearly every month? That's been a while. Now we're lucky if we get one set of fake nails, as with this Care Bears collaboration I saw at Fred Meyer.

 

 

There was also one set of fakes in the Wet 'n' Wild Halloween display at Meijer. See if you can spot them.

 

Well, that was a lot. I've bought a fair few polishes from these displays so hope to get some swatching done soon.

Road Trip Displays

Today I've got the displays from my travels last month that I decided to not try and jam in my last display post. The only sign of the China Glaze Dippin' Dots collection I've seen is the duo pack with circle glitter at Ulta. Shades here are Lemon Ice and Strawberry Chillin'. I would love to find the whole collection so I can complete the set because I love me some Dippin' Dots.

 

Disney has long since discontinued their Beautifully Disney makeup line, so I wasn't see any polish from them this trip. In one of their offsite outlet stores, though, I came across this rack of "Nail Polish". All the same shade in a disc-shaped bottle with a white cap topped with an iridescent jewel. I was tempted just because I don't have a bottle like this, and the generic label amused me, but I restrained myself, knowing I already have enough polish for several lifetimes at home, and if I swatched this and it was good, what would I do then? Can't buy more or other colors.

 

I saw the Essie summer collection, Isle See You Later, at Ulta. Left to right: Coconuts for You, Isle See You Later, Revenge's a Beach, Tropic Low, Break It Sundown, Set the Tiki Bar High. I later saw these at Rite Aid.

 

When I came across the Essie Movin' & Groovin' collection at Target it was so picked over that I assumed I must have seen it before and just forgot, but I can't find it in my blog anywhere, so here it is, helpfully with shades pictured on the display since all but two were gone: Love YOurself to Peaces, Along for the Vibe, Run Wildflower, Movin' & Groovin', Keys to Happiness, and Flae for Fun. The flowers on teh caps are cute, but seems they're all cremes and I think I'm good on cremes so I wasn't sad to not get any.

 

Target also had an Essie "DIY nail art for everyone" display that had the summer collection along the top, a random selection of other shades below that, and Expressie on the bottom, including new effects top coats with FX oon the bottles.

 

Toppers: FX 24K Gold, FX Oil Slick, FX Iced Out, FX Holo.

 

At CVS, I spotted an Essie Expressie display that said "only at CVS", but I'm not sure if that applied to all the colors here or just three on the left with "translucent finish" on their caps. Left to right: Skip the Track, Get a Mauve On, Mall Crawler, Millennium Momentum, Second Hand First Love, Air Dry, Buns Up, Throw It On, Crop Top & Roll.

 

I was fortunate to get to a few Five Below stores while I was in Chicagoland. I was sad to see the bins that used to hold so many polishes now have just a few with other beauty stuff filling the rest. I was happy to see actual displays of Funky Fingers, grouped into collections with names and everything. Not every store had these, and not every store that had them had the same one, but still, I'm glad the brand is still around. First one I saw was Full Bloom. Left to right: Raspberry Rose, Wild Lavender, Blue Jay (name is not flowery so maybe doesn't belong?), Forget Me Not, Midnight Rose. No idea what was in the empty slot as I only saw this display once.

 

The other Funky Fingers display I saw was She Bops, with Twist and Shout, Drop It Like Its Hot (sic), Boogie Nights, Feelin Funky, and Movin' & Groovin'. I did see this display at a second store, but it didn't help with knowing what the empty slot was for, as that display had two different colors in that space and wasn't clear if either belonged.

 

There were mini bottles of Nailtopia at Ulta, with the new white biodegrable caps. These are apparently three mini collections, but the order of the shades didn't quite seem to match the order of the collection names. Shades left to right: Carat Cake, Camelflage, Another One Bites the Rust, How You Dune, Kiwi to My Heart, Grape-ful for You, Blueberry Milk, Let's Taco 'bout It, You Are Plum-believable (sold out), I Need Vitamin Sea, How Blue-tiful, Whale Hello There (sold out), Aloe You (sold out), and Oh Kale Year. The collections are Nail Pop (I'm guessing those are the brights in the middle, maybe excluding the blues, with have leaves on their caps, not psychedlic swirls), Desert Sand (the earthy tones on the left), and Earthy Essence (the blues and greens on the right).

 

I also saw Nailtopia full size bottles at Meijer.

 

I've only seen OPI's summer offering, Power of Hue, at Ulta so far.

 

The display was pretty picked over (or not yet fully stocked), but here was a nice photo of the colors so I was able to Google when I got home and make some good guesses at which names went with them: Sun-rise Up, Sugar Crush It, Exercise Your Brights, Pink BIG, Go Grape Lengths, Don't Wait Create, Sky True to Yourself, Feel Bluetiful, Make Rainbows, Bee Unapologetic, Mango for It, The Future is You.

 

The only display I saw at CVS of the white-capped Poparazzi polishes seemed to be all things I'd seen before, with the exception of the Hint of Pink topcoat. This feels very "everything old is new again" to me, as I remember using a similarly colored Sally Hansen way back in the day.

 

In black cap Poparazzi news at CVS, I saw four slots that I think were the summer colors at the top of the display: Ring the Alarm, Cool for the Summer, Wave Rider (sold out), and Blue Heaven.

 

In addition to the previously mentioned Funky Fingers displays, Five Below also had displays for Pretty Woman polishes. First I came across was Butterfly Everything. These didn't have names on the bottles that I could see, just item numbers, but names were printed on the display itself: Cloud Nine (Item PW3950), She Flies (PW2699), Take Flight (PW2795), Spread Your Wings (PW4352), Inner Beauty (PW3369), Butterfly Garden (PW4345).

 

I am not at all sure that these matches between name are correct, as I saw this display at a different store and PW2795 was in the She Flies slot, while something labelled PW2699 was in the Inner Beauty slot but it seemed to be a different glitter mix than this one, so keep that in mind as I run through the rest of these Pretty Woman displays.

 

Pretty Woman Cue the Confetti: Best Dressed (PW4466), Confetti Canon (sic) (PW3291), Grape Soda (PW0900), Hit the Disco (sold out), Sing Out Loud (PW4499), Dancing Queen (PW4395).

 

Pretty Woman Hyper Brights: Clear Skies (PW2459), Prom Queen (PW4094), Flowers Please (PW3487), Grass is Greener (PW4104), Sunny Dayz (PW3624), Dandelion (PW4503).

 

Pretty Woman Pastel Paradise: Banana Split (PW4397), Dear Diary (PW illegible), Just Girly Things (PW4398), Berry Cute (PW4667), Slumber Party (PW4396), Garden Fairy (PW4401).

 

Pretty Woman Sweet Dreams: Royalty (PW4097), Hello Princess (PW4095), Confetti Pop (PW3297), Glass Slipper (PW3339), Fairy Dust (PW3622), Keep Dreaming (PW3625).

 

Pretty Woman Life of the Party: Chasing Sunsets (PW40?4), Pink Popsicle (PW4425), Pretty in Pink (PW4502), Happy Days (PW4032), Pretty Retro (PW4018), Stay Groovy (PW0902).

 

Ulta had the Sally Hansen Insta Dri Pride display for 2022, with 11 polish colors and two sets, one with the six main rainbow colors and one with the three trans pride shades. Left to right: Love Life Force, All the Heals, Here Comes the Sun, Peak of Nature, Blue Skies Ahead, Royal Harmony, Soul Model, I Pink I Love You, Cloud Divine, Unity Galore, Raven Midnight.

 

Walgreens also had the Insta Dri Pride colors in a slightly diffrent display, without the sets and with extra core shades.

 

The other new stuff out from Sally Hansen is the Friends collection in the Miracle Gel line. At a Walgreens, I saw this shelf top display for it. Colors in the front: Central Pink, Yellow Taxi, Stick to the Routine, Pivot, The One with the Teal, and Lavendoor (here packaged in a duo with Shiny Top Coat). In the back: Oh My Coffee, He's Her Lobster, How You Bluein, and Lavendoor (single bottles).

 

At Ulta, they were in a section of the core wall.

 

Ulta had the two pack as well as a three pack with Stick to the Routine, Yellow Taxi, and Shiny Top Coat.

 

Alternate Walgreens shelf top display:

 

Sidekick at Meijer, with a bunch of core colors:

 

I've seen swatches of some black speckled SinfulColors that people have gotten at Target, but no Target I stopped at had them. I did see two SinfulColors displays at Fred Meyer, though, starting with the new Power Paint line. Left to right: Play Hard, Pop It, 24K Drips, Sweet & Spicy, Thrilled, Never Not Working, Shine Honey, Diamonds on My Neck, Top Coat. There were a few other colors tucked in back behind those: Biker Jacket (black), Cari-bae-n (turquoise), Galaxy Gurl (dark blue), Ain't Having It (white) Plum n Berry (wine), Power Movers (red).

 

Fred Meyer also had the Bee Envious display which had a bunch of extraneous shades and only one of the two new ones. Buzz Off, the black, was sold out, but the yellow, Save the Bees, was there (tucked behind the Quick Bliss yellow in front).

 

Ulta has sets of fake nails from Static. These are $18 to $22 per set, so I did not get any. I do fine with the under $10 brands from the drugstore. Some of these Static ones are very pretty though, in an understated way.

 

I sadly did not see any seasonal displays for Studio M at Meijer, so I took photos of their holos instead. These were at the top of the regular section in the nail aisle, and priced at $6.99 (except for two slots marked $2.99). Left to right: Super Star, Constellation Queen, Worlds Apart, Moon Goddess, Miss Universe.

 

Well that was more than I thought I had. Good job, me. Not sure when I'll have more after this, as I'm not planning on going down to the city as much as I had been before this latest wave of Covid variants showed up. Still, I do have some unavoidable travel in July, so will probably see a few things then just by virtue of having to go get stuff at drugstores that I forgot or ran out of or didn't realize I would need. Last trip it was more at home covid tests and first aid supplies for an injured finger (all better now). I'll be keeping an eye out for the Sally Hansen transforming toppers I've heard about, and those speckled Sinfuls, and maybe the Friends ones, as now that I've seen the photos again I wish I'd gotten a couple of them.