Nubar Shock Nail Wheel

There's this great little dusty shop that has a bunch of the old Nubar Shocks and Spells, and I've been slowly acquiring them whenever I'm on that side of town. This is my collection of Shock colors. I believe you can still find all of these colors in their current lineup with the exception of Sea Green.

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OPI Wheel #1

This wheel includes one of my favorite holiday collections ever, the 2009 collection. Merry Midnight, Smitten with Mittens and Ginger Bell are favorites.



last year's Ulta holiday exclusives:


Ginger Bells is one of my favorites. I wish I would have gotten a backup!


Glittah


I got Keys to my Karma and Vodka and Cavaier for my Clarins 230 franken. I don't think I've ever worn either on its own.


Movin Out is a beautiful duo chrome



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Ozotic Nail Wheel

I love my Ozotics and I cannot wait to get more. I'm so glad I found piCture pOlish! My collection is small, but I know I want to get more. Does anyone who knows their Ozotics want to suggest a couple of colors for my next purchase?

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So the reason I even wanted to grab Ozotics was for 518, a true beautiful red holo. 518 and 513 are just dazzling in the sunlight or under a lamp.


The glitter in 503 flashes gold, green and fuchsia, but it is so hard to capture all the colors on camera. Same with Rainforest. The 1st is Rainforest by itself and the one next to it is layered over black. It's quire sheer and really should be layered. It flashes green, blue and a tanish color.


Look at the stunning holo effect on 518 and 513...wow, huh? This is under my Ikea lamp.



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Essie Nail Wheel

I'm relatively new to Essie, so I only really have a few colors. My general opinion of them if that most colors are either blah boring or super vampy black.

Here are my colors, make sure to click to enlarge the picks:


Dive Bar is a nice basically black color with blue shimmer. Pretty in the sun, but it falls into my looks black pet peeve. Ruby Slipper, well, what can I say? It's red and glitter, so I love it! LOL.


I got One Day Without Blues from the Facebook giveaway, I think it was last fall. The other three I got at Ulta's B2G1 sale. I do love Going Incognito! I wore that sucker for a week and never tired of it.



Hope you all liked the short Essie spam 8-)
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Sally Hansen Prisms Wheel

Man, I wish I had more Prisms. When I first started collecting about 2yrs ago, I found all but one of these at the Dollar Tree. There were a ton more, but I just didn't know any better at the time. I was all about holos, so I only two 2 packs. Sigh. And I've never seen them since. I bought Golden Tourmaline, Turquoise Opal and Garnet Lapis on eBay.

Here are the colors. The holos are kind of sheer, so I layered them over black too. Make sure to click the picks to enlarge them:


Golden Tourmaline over black looks pretty close to Glitter Gal Red and Ozotic 518. So if anyone is looking for a bargain red holo, this is it:


I love me some duochromes!


If anyone is interested, I did some Popsicle stick swatches of these colors before, this is Turquoise Opal and the rest are here.

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Sally Hansen Opals Wheel

I was lucky enough to find all my Opals last year at the Dollar Tree. I'm missing 08: Violet Opal, but other than that, I think I have a full set of them. The Opals are very sheer and are meant for layering. Each color on the wheel is layered over Black. Most of these are untried (yikes) and I listed some of my favorites:

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Crystal Opal is a great duochrome, it flashes purple and green:


Pale Pink Opal flashes pink and blue. I love how Red Opal is actually green! LOL:


Earthen Opal is red and purple - so cool:


Flame Opal is another red/purple combo, but not as dramatic as Earthen Opal:


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Massini / Studio M Nail Wheel

I've been in a nail wheel swatching mode lately, so I thought I'd post a bunch of 'em in the next week. The first wheel is my Massini / Studio M colors. As many of you know Massini is only available at Meijer stores and is the same as Color Club. There are a couple of colors unique to Massini, but most of the colors are the same as CC's and even carry the same name.

Oops, I just realized I labeled one wrong. The glitter on the left is actually Drama Queen, not Magic Attraction. Sorry! Make sure to click the picks to enlarge them:


Here are some closeups, I labeled Drama Queen correctly in this one ☺


I think Flair and Frosted Kiss are unique to Massini. I Googled them under Color Club and couldn't find any matches. Also, the colors from the Wild and Willing collection were labeled on the bottle as only "Fall Promo Shade".




Slamming Red and Purple Medallion are both unique to Massini and are just brilliant in the sunlight:


Here's a sunlight shot of Slamming Red and Purple Medallion. They are amazing in sunlight!!


All of these glitters are top coat hogs, so I added a coat of Gelous 1st and two of a regular top coat afterwards. Hope you all liked the wheel today ♥

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