Wheel O11: Glitters from Brands No Longer in Stores

Nail Wheel Wednesday is back from vacation with glitter polishes from brands I used to be able to get in stores but no longer can. Look Nail Color used to be at Rite Aid and Fred Meyer; now there a few colors on Amazon but the brand's website has gone private. Kohls was the only place I ever saw Candie's. Whim was an Ulta exclusive brand.



(all have clear topcoat in addition to glitter coats noted below)

1. Look Ocean Mist (3 coats)
2. Look Twilight's Last Gleaming (3)
3. Candie's Supernova Sky (3)
4. Candie's Enchanted Night (2)
5. Candie's Over the Rainbow (3)
6. Candie's Dream Pink (2)
7. Candie's Champagne Frenzy (2)
8. Candie's White Noise (2 coats, over half black base)
9. Candie's Candy Hearts (3)
10. Candie's Disco Chic (2)
11. Whim Sparkle Sparkle Everywhere (3)
12. Whim Dreaming in Glitter (3)
13. Whim Midnight Wink (3)
14. Whim Rule the World (3)
15. Whim A Girl's Best Friend (2)
16. Whim Is My Tiara on Straight (2)
17. Whim Catching Confetti (2)
18. Whim Rock N Stroll (2 over skintone base)
19. Whim Frosted Cupcade (2 over skintone base)
20. Whim This Calls for Cava (2)


Bottles 1 through 5:



6 through 10:



11 through 15:



16 through 20:

Last Displays of 2015

With the year quickly drawing to a close, it's time to fit in one last display post. Today I've got a mix of the last few things I saw in Michigan before I left and what I spotted on my first official display hunting trip in Idaho last week. Some of these are holiday displays I probably should have made an effort to post earlier; some look more like spring releases out early.

At Fred Meyer in Idaho, I saw the Essence Mountain Calling display. When I got to it, there were three polish colors left: Snow Alert, Let's Climb Mount Beauty, and Today is Fun Day. I relly wish I knew what other ones there were ... this is a perfect collection for me right now, what with just having moved to a mountain.



In the core display for Essence, they had Nail Candies, which I hadn't seen before even though I don't think they're new to Essence. Left to right: Peachy Keen, Sweets for the Sweet, Always in My Mint, empty slot for Sugar Pie Honey Bunch, Oh Lolli Lollipop, Soda Pop & Candy Shop, Like Love Birds, A Hint of Mint.



FingerPaints holiday offering is 'Tis the Season to Sparkle, which thank goodness isn't all glitters or I would have had to buy them all. Left to right: Golden Glaze, Tinsel & Tidings, Romanesque Rouge, Vintage Vincent, Be Merry & Sparkle, Sterling Sculpture.



I first saw the L'Oreal Mad for Plaid display at Bed Bath & Beyond in Michigan; I also spotted it at Fred Meyer in Idaho last week. This has seven cremes and a golden metallic: Classic Check, Plaid Please, Regal Red, Schoolgirl Chic, Tartan Teal, Bundled Up, Navy Knit, Pop of Plaid, and Feeling Kilty.



At a Walgreens in Idaho, I saw a different new L'Oreal display, Bohemian Beauty. This looked to be seven cremes and a glitter, but it was hard to tell as it was on a high shelf. I had to hold the camera over my head to get the shot. Left to right: Sunkissed Silver, Boho Babe, Peaceful Pink, Radical Rose, Flower Crown, Blissful Blue, Totally Turquoise, Gypsy Glitz.



The only place I've seen the Orly Infamous display is at Sally Beauty. There are six shades in this one, only five of which my store had when I got there. Front row: Frenemy, 15 Minutes of Fame, Gossip Girl. Peeking out from behind the front row: Scandal, Front Page, empty slot for Makeup to Breakup (dark dusty teal blue creme).



Walmart is once again part of my display hunting rounds now that I'm in Idaho because it's one of the only chain stores that carry polish in the small town closest to me. They have Pure Ice Shine with Gel Tech, which is that brand's version of the no-light gel system with color and a special topcoat. I didn't take the time to document what the shade names were because it was two days before Christmas and just being in the store made my head hurt with all the chaos around me.



At Bed Bath & Beyond in Michigan, I saw the Revlon Love is On display with new core shades: Stunner, Romantique, Adventurous, Vivacious, Hypnotic, Irresistible, Desirable, Passionate. I later spotted it at Ulta as well.



The Sally Girl Winter Wonderland display with scented nail polish and remover pads was still on the counter at Sally Beauty as of last week. Four polishes here: Pine Tree (red shimmer, for some reason), Vanilla (silver glitter), Peppermint (red glitter in white base, that makes sense at least), and Sugar Cookie (red and green glitter in light tan base).



Sally Hansen has apparently reformulated Complete Salon Manicure (again? seems like they've done this before). Now it's got keratin. The relaunch display, which I saw at Ulta, is full of what I think of as "muggle colors" from the existing core collection; I mean, I wear them sometimes, but they're pretty tame. Front row: Clear'd for Takeoff, Plum's the Word, Raisin the Bar, So Much Fawn, Shell We Dance. Back row: Red My Lips, Ruby Do, Wine Not, Pat on the Black, Pink Pong.



These new Complete Salon bottles have two numbers on the top; not sure what that's about.



Ulta also had a display of Sally Hansen Miracle Gel, touting it as "new & improved". These new shades are much brighter and more interesting on the whole than the Complete Salon repromotes. Front row: Pink-terest, Electric Pop, World Wide Red, Byte Blue, Let's Get Digital, Digi-teal, Gigabryte. Back row: Head Bang, Scarlet Starlet, V-amplified, Motley Hue, Punk-ish Purple, Rock On, Stilettos & Studs.



On my last trip to Meijer before we left Michigan, I finally saw the Studio M holiday display, 'Tis the Season. Most are core or reissues, but there were a handful of new shades. Top row: Red-ical Gypsy, Gingerbread, Blue Funk, Flurries (new), Hot Cider (new), Gold Mine (new), Baldwin Blues, Kaleidoscope. Second row: Party Girl, Slammin Red, Trinket (new), Sexy Siren, Jingle Jangle, Sex Symbol, Slammin Red, Sparks Fly. Third row: Holiday Splendor, Antiquated, Sparks Fly, Berry and Bright, Mamba, Glitterati, Drama Queen, Holiday Splendor. Bottom row: Poparazzi, Lust, Northern Lights (new), Magnetism, Purple Medallion, Love Light (new), Savoy Nights, Wish Upon a Rockstar.



Ulta had the limited edition Whim winter collection in a separate section of the core display. There are ten shades in this group: Cocktails & Fairytales, Blush & Bows, Sapphire Slipper, Dreaming in Glitter, Moonlight Moments, Sage of Innocence, Sheer Embrace, When the Clock Strikes, Thyme to Celebrate, Let's Cuddle.



That's it for now; pretty short for a display post, but I suppose that makes sense since it's only been about a month since my last one. I expect we'll be awash in spring displays soon; I hope I can get out there and catch them before they get picked over. I'll be interested to see how quickly things move here versus back in Michigan.

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.