Old NOTD: Nicole In Your Hands

I absolutely adored this polish. About a year ago, I bought Lippmann Rehab and was very disappointed that even though the color was magnificent (a dark, slightly dusty blue jelly), it was so sheer. I built it up to four or five coats before I realized that it was never going to be opaque. I ended up swapping that one away and forgot about...

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Dare2Wear Prism swatches: Silhouette, Pirouette and Kiss the Rain

I'm not entirely sure what the story is with Dare2Wear polishes. I am under the impression that they are a relatively old brand, found mostly in dusties... except they have some newer collections like Disco Tech (mixed glitter awesomeness, omg). Anyway, I ordered these from BeautyWests.com against the advice of some NBers -- questionable...

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Even more stash pics: fauxnads that resemble real Konads

It's the day of my poster! 2-3pm today. And after that... I AM FREE!! (Sort of.) I'm at least free to enjoy the rest of my time in Boston. And I am so looking forward to that. Today I have even more nail stamp plate stash photos.... we're about halfway through my stash at this point. These I got from eBay about a year ago: a seller whose...

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Perfectly Pink - OPI Japanese Rose Garden

This season I've been really into three kinds of polishes - metallics, corals and pinks. I'll be showing you some more metallics soon (OPI Dazzled by Gold! Hold on to your hats!), as well as two corals that might be working for me (can't wait to share those and get your opinions...I may have finally found "coral success")!!I've got to tell...

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iHaul on vacation: the absolute best dusty hunt I've ever been on!

Exhausted. About to run out to dinner. Without a good light or a real camera so here are crappy pics of the labels. I hit at least 6 or 7 dusties today and paid between $5-8 for each. I'm so pleased! Dusty hunting is fun. I wish I lived near nail salons that are old enough to have old polish. (I think that's Creme de Menthe. I was disappointed...

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Nude for a black girl

This is the closest I have come to finding a polish that matches my skin color. You know...I don't mind it ON ME, but my skin color is kind of uggs in a bottle. So I've had a tough go of finding a close match. Nobody is really making the color.Brown Bag(1 coat)It's not perfect but it's close. The subtle shimmer isn't ideal but I cannot complain...

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Christian Dior Gold Nugget + Sale Reminder

As a present to myself for passing quals, I decided to get a polish I was really really really lemming. I'd be ogling Dior Gold Nugget on Piff for quite some time now and decided that this was basically the only occasion where I'd allow myself to go for it!It's here and you know what....I'm not sure. :(Here is Dior Gold Nugget in the pseudo-sun:And...

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Cheap thrills: Sinful Innocent and Happy Ending (...and a short-term goodbye til Sunday)

Today is going to be a ridiculously busy day: my formal second-year talk is at noon and I'm leaving to go to Boston tonight for APS (another red-eye) to present my poster. I recently spent some time swatching most of my Sinful untrieds and as usual, I find that the good ones are GREAT and the not-so-good ones make me want to return them because...

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Some Alice in Wonderland bottle comparisons and some of my mini mani travel kit

Before I forget, Polish or Perish now has a sale blog for the bunch of us to sell our polishes... mostly in order to raise funds to buy new polishes. kittytokaren posted the first sale today! Somebody on Nail Board alerted me to possible Absolutely Alice and Mad as a Hatter dupes the other day. Luckily, Ricky's NYC does online ordering now...

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Nail Polish Innuendos and Feminism

I'm so sorry I've been absent for so long. I've had a tough last few weeks, dealing with final papers and a grade that I feel is unjust. :-/ Long story short, I am SO done with school right now - though I have one semester left. This summer will be time for me to go to work in the mornings, hang out at the apartment pool, read, and work on...

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Inaugural Polish or Perish sale!

Woohoo! Time to unveil the sale blog!We decided it might be a cool idea to create a secondary blog - a place where the ladies of Polish or Perish could post about polishes that are going unloved in their stash and are looking for new homes. We will update everyone on here when there is a new posting on the sale blog, and I'm excited to say that I'm the first! Please check out the sale and let me know if there is anything you'd...

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Kittytokaren's Polish Sale!

I am kittytokaren, one of the ladies of Polish or Perish! These wonderful polishes aren't getting nearly enough love from me and they are looking for a new home!All of the polishes listed are new or swatched one time, unless otherwise noted. They are all as-is, no returns. All of the polishes I show in the photo are the exact bottle...

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Misa Forbidden Lust and Color Club Groove Thang

(2 coats)I am a SUCKER for any shimmery medium-purple. But this is eh for me. Not sure why. It even leans red, which is my preference. AND it glows like a fiend. idk idk. It's gorgeous but ijdk!(2 coats)The sound you hear is me deciding to get off my ass and do a swatch post of my favorite almost-blacks. They are the shunned by mainstream...

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A little candy coating: OPI Panda-monium Pink

A friend of mine recently got this colour done as a mani and told me that she loved the 'candy-coating' pastels that are out this spring. To us polish-speakers, she means cremes! But honestly I love the imagery of the candy coating so much, it made me pull the trigger on this polish. I wavered back and forth and back and forth on this one...

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STRANGEBEAUTIFUL Volume 1, Part II of II

The rest of the STRANGEBEAUTIFUL Vol 1 polishes... STRANGEBEAUTIFUL Vol 1 tyrian purpleNice even red-leaning purple. For those who have been following this blog for awhile, you'll probably know that I'm not a fan of this color generally. I have a ton of clothing in it -- and quite a few polishes -- but I just find it a really boring color...

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