China Glaze Vintage Vixens Collection - Foxy

The Vintage Vixens collection from China Glaze last fall is one of my favorites. In fact, it was one of the first China Glaze Collections I wholeheartedly bought into in quite some time! I just loved the old fashioned feel of the colors, great for not only fall but any season. Foxy is hands down one of my favorite fall colors, however. A burnt red shimmer with a little bit of gold light in it, it just shouts fireplaces and changing leaves to me. It's not quite red, and not all the way coppery-brown either. Somewhere in between, and changing depending on the lights. Want to see more? Keep Reading!

Rescue Beauty Lounge Recherche

Hooray for fall! I have been itching to try out all these fall colors that have been sitting in my untrieds bin for so long. Here's a pretty one from Rescue Beauty that was part of the Iconic/Ironic Collection of 2011. This collection included some awesome colors, but I feel this one may be a little under appreciated so I am here to remind you all how great it is! 

Recherche is described as a "purplish dark brown—a smoky port for when you can't face another glass of pink champagne". I definitely think the description is accurate. In some lights, it's a deep dark brown and in others, it's a smoky dark purple. See for yourself - keep reading to see how this changes in different lights!

China Glaze Little Drummer Boy (Holiday 2010)

Even with new holiday collections coming out already, I felt like I should give a polish from last year some love. Who says we should only break these out once a year, anyway? Especially this shade - with the denim-y blue polishes coming out from Chanel and Nubar, this one still feels so current to me! 

 Little Drummer Boy is from China Glaze's 2010 Holiday Collection, and this one really stood out to me from the others - a dark, shimmery navy. How pretty, and not that traditional for the holidays! It's bold without being in your face at all - it's deep and somewhat muted. Want to see what I am talking about? Keep Reading!

Zoya Yara

When I first saw swatches of this beauty, I knew I had to have it.  Military-style, muted green is perfect this fall but add the gold glitter and I am hooked!  I've been saving this polish for too long, and I tend to do that - the bottles sitting in my untrieds bin are the polishes I most coveted, almost like I don't want to open them without a really good reason.  Well, today that reason is so I can share it with you!


Yara is from Zoya's Fall 2011 Smoke and Mirrors Collection and is described as a medium smoky olive drab with an illuminating splash of bright gold glitter.  Intrigued?  Keep reading!

Zoya Yasmeen, Valerie, Roxy, and Deborah Lippmann Razzle Dazzle

If there's one color I feel I own too much of, it's surprisingly pinkish blackened purples. I just can't stay away from them. I think it's because that's the shade I went to when I first started branching away from basic reds and pinks with my polish selections. It was almost purple, but not so much that I didn't feel comfortable with it.

Anyway, I have so many of these, and I love them all! Zoya, especially, really knows how to do this color right. I decided I had to compare them once and for all - in my mind, Zoya's Yasmeen, Roxy, and Valerie were basically the same shade but with different finishes, and I knew Deborah Lippmann's Razzle Dazzle reminded me of Zoya's Roxy. Have you always been curious about how close these polishes may be?

Zoya Harley, Zoya Dove, China Glaze Pelican Gray

I own several gray polishes, and more than any other shade I always find myself thinking I must own a dupe after I've purchased and applied a new one. So, I decided to sit down and compare three of my lighter grays to see how similar they really were. I knew Harley had shimmer, but to be honest I didn't notice it too much when I wore it alone.

Now you can see for yourself!

China Glaze Side Saddle

This one's from a little ways back, but I have yet to try any polishes from this Rodeo Diva collection and have been saving them for fall. Up first is Side Saddle, a plummy brown with gold sparkle. When the sun hits this color, the gold really comes through and the brown lightens up to a more red-based purple. Indoors, it looks like a pretty, warm dark brown. I love this color!

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Deborah Lippmann Don't Tell Mama, plus comparisons!

It felt as though I had been on a green hiatus, so I had to bust this one out of my untrieds for this warm fall day. Don't Tell Mama is described as a "mood ring blue/green" on Lippmann's website, but in the bottle it really seemed deeper than that - inky, almost. On the nail, it is like a blackened teal - not so black that you don't see the green tone, but definitely "moodier" than your typical jewel tone.

Lippmann polishes tend to be "jellyish" to me, going on light with coat number one and deepening in intensity with each coat thereafter. This polish, however, was fully opaque in ONE coat as you'll see in some later swatches.

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Deborah Lippmann - Hit Me With Your Best Shot

Described as a "glistening gun metal (shimmer)", this is my first foray into blackish polishes. I felt like this one wouldn't ever look too black, and I was right even though some of these pictures show otherwise. It's jelly-ish in finish, like most Lippmanns are, so it's not that intense and the shimmer really keeps the gunmetal gray from ever showing up as black. The shimmer, to me, comes from what looks like tiny multi-colored shimmer particles - it really does look like that sparkling finish in some car paints or, I suppose, in actual gunmetal (though I wouldn't know!)

Anyway, read on for swatches, a couple with some bad tipwear (apologies!)

Topped with Lippmann's Addicted to Speed topcoat.