MollyHell's Grab Bag! - Rimmel Blood Red

Picked this one up cheap after Halloween, there may still be some around.

Rimmel Blood Red:

MollyHell's Grab Bag - Sinful Love Nails and Sinful Pinky Glitter

There's a sale at Walgreen's this week, buy one Sinful, get the second free! I think it runs through Sunday, Novermber 22nd. Here's two Sinfuls I bought, for a total of $2!

Sinful Love Nails:


Sinful Pinky Glitter:

China Glaze Wizard of Ooh Ahz Returns!

I got a great package today! Whee! Wizard of Ooh Ahz Returns! Here is what China Glaze has to say about it:

"Click your Ruby Pumps and come travel with China Glaze down the yellow brick road to meet "The Wizard of Ooh Ahz"! Just in time for the holidays, China Glaze is re-releasing the ever-so popular Wizard of Ooh Ahz collection! Very similar to the original version that was released in 2001, these colors will remind you of exactly why China Glaze glitters are always in the forefront! Colors in the 6 piece acetate include:
Ruby Pumps: An all time red glitter favorite!
Good Witch: Pink Frost with specks of pink micro-glitter
C-C-Courage: Purple Frost with specks of purple micro glitter
Dorothy Who?: Blue polish with massive amounts of silver and blue glitter!
Cowardly Lyin': Gold frost with specks of gold micro glitter
the Ten Man: Silver frost with specks of silver micro glitter

China Glaze will take you to that special polish place, some where over the rainbow with these gorgeous glitter polishes!"

The formula is good, stays in place. This stuff is a bit sheer, all of these pictures are three coats. It dries quickly. VERY sparkly. These pix are on glue-on nails (except Ruby Pumps). All have topcoat, which I think the frosts need as they dry semi-matte. Without further ado, the polishes:

Let's start with Ruby Pumps, ruby red jelly with red glitter. This has not changed from the Ruby Pumps they always sell, so it's of course gorgeous.


The Ten Man, frost with tiny bright sparks of silver. Glitterier than the picture. The tip of the bottom finger is how glittery the polish actually is, also the gold and pink and purple.


Cowardly Lyin' is also far glitterier than the picture. Rely on the bottle to see the flash, as somehow this and the silver kinda photographed more showing the frost base than the micro-glitter.


China Glaze Dorothy Who? is a nice medium blue jelly, kind of a light cobalt, with silver and blue tiny glitter, and I also see light purple micro glitter in there too. Even blingier than in the picture.


Good Witch is a very pretty medium rose frost with tons of pink micro glitter. Once again go look at the bottom finger tip of The Ten Man picture to know how sparkly this really is.


C-C-Courage is my favorite. A dark grape purple frost with a somehow dusky tinge to it, it has not only great little micro-stars of purple glitter but a super all-over purple sheen to it.


So there ya go. I do not know if these are glass flecks or not, the insert I quoted only says they are glitters. I will email China Glaze and ask, then update this post. Also there is no appearance of the rumored on Twitter redo of Emerald Sparkle with gold glass fleck. I know they re-released Emerald Sparkle recently in a sort of themed re-release of old colors for the Holidays, called "Love You Snow Much", which also had Ruby Pumps in it. Maybe the redo of Emerald Sparkle is a fiction, or maybe it'll come later. I'll try to see if I can get an answer on that.

OPI Winter 2009 Holiday Wishes Collection!

OPI's Winter 2009 Holiday Wishes Collection consists of two parts. One half is six reds called the "Glamour Reds", and the other six polishes are the "Dark & Neutrals". First let's get the formula out of the way - this was uniformly easy to apply and non-staining, and easy to remove, though the large grain shimmers took a bit more effort. I love OPI's wide brush. It does make the curve at the top of the nail a bit difficult, but it allows for such easy application otherwise. So formula is no problem here.

Let's start with the Darks & Neutrals. I'd say this part of the collection was pretty damned terrific.

I'll start with what I consider the weakest polish of these six, OPI All A-Bordeaux the Sled, and it's only the weakest because this is simply a standard dark wine vampy jelly. So given that it's unoriginal, you have to admit it's incredibly hot. I got the mini set which included this (only $6.11 at TransDesign) and feel no need for a big bottle, but I wouldn't be surprised if you do. It's a year-round great vampy.


I don't normally love browns, but I like Ginger Bells!. It's a great orangy brown creme which absolutely gives me a Fall feeling. It's sleek and shiny, and could go with so many outfits. I used this as the base color for my Migi Nail Art gingerbread man. I think OPI did a great job capturing that kind of fall baked goods feeling with this one. Mmmm, spicy!


Holiday Glow is a prune-like brown/purple with small silver glitter. It's fun, but it's not the standout of this collection.


OPI Sapphire in the Snow. I want to stab someone in the face I love this polish so much. I wish on the finger it was the same color as in the bottle (I found it a bit darker), but it's so cobalt it almost glows from within. It's incredibly gorgeous even if it is so dark. I LOVE this!


Even with the beauties we have already seen, OPI Shim-Merry Chic and the next polish are the real stars of this collection, in my opinion. Shim-Merry Chic is a bronze shimmer/frost just jam-packed with soft pink/gold/bronze flakes, and tiny rainbow flecks. The picture doesn't begin to do justice to its beauty.


OPI Merry Midnight is a wonder. It's a violet jelly also chock full of that gorgeous soft-shade jewel tone flakes that Shim-Merry Chic has, and also the same pinpoint rainbow shimmer. It's so festive, so pretty, so mesmerizing!



The other half of the Winter 2009 Holiday Wishes Collection, the Glamour Reds, well, it's a whole lotta red. I love reds and even I think this is too many. Luckily they are all gorgeous.

Comet Loves Cupid is kinda like All A-Bordeaux the Sled, in that it's been done, so I don't quite understand it's inclusion. I think it's a bit too bold for most people, but it is very sizzling stuff.


OPI Meet & Jingle is a yummy bluish red cranberry-colored frost. Luckily it's only minimally streaky. I like it well enough.


OPI Glove You So Much is a kind of blackened burgundy. It's in that strange place where could be a slight frost, or a subdued shimmer. I kinda go with frost, but it has very little streaking and damn what a color!!! This color is stunning.


Smitten With Mittens is a new top ten entry in My Favorite reds. Deep, rich, and packed with huge shimmer, this just screams fancy party. It makes me feel like I am putting on my best to go celebrate. The color is great and the shimmer is eye-popping.


The last two Glamour Reds are Crimson Carol and Dear Santa. Despite the pictures, Dear Santa and Crimson Carol are quite similar in real life. I kinda don't see the need for both. So pick one, they're both very, very pretty. Dear Santa is slightly darker, Crimson Carol is slightly bluer.



TransDesign sells a mini pack I already mentioned with Comet Loves Cupid, All A-Bordeaux the Sled, Holiday Glow and Shim-Merry Chic, for $6.11. It also has three other polish boxed sets consisting of two full sized Holiday Glow polishes with a bracelet for $9.98. Nice gift! Enjoy these. I think it's a wonderful collection.

*Note: All but Holiday Glow are photographed with glue-on nails!

MollyHell's Grab Bag! - Orly Midnight Star

Yeah, I don't like frosts, but this one's color, and the metallic quality make it a huge favorite of mine.

Orly Midnight Star:

New MAC Magic, Mirth and Mischief Holiday 2009 Nail Lacquers

These came out two weeks ago. I got them one week ago. You'll notice I didn't rush to bring you a post like I usually do with new MACs. That's because in an already lackluster nail lacquer year for MAC, this is probably the most unoriginal, boring "collection" yet. Two streaky metallic frosts in silver and pink is what MAC gives us for a holiday we already know has some spectacular offerings to compete with. Gee, thanks. I'll keep my $12.00 plus tax. Who fell asleep after Style Black???

MAC $$$$$ Yes:


MAC Lucky Number:

Color Club Wild At Heart Fall 2009 Collection

FINALLY I have these. I am in love with this set. It's got great vibrant colors, a healthy helping of holographic glitter, and only one boring color. Even the boring color has glitter! The formula is good, Color Club formula is nice and manageable for the most part, though frosts are almost always streaky and the ones in this set are pretty much no exception.

Onto the colors!

Color Club With Abandon is a strangely named black jelly with large grain brown shimmer. It manages to be dark but STILL be brown!! Would OPI please take notice?? Easy to apply since it's a jelly, needs two or more coats. I woulda named this one Do It In the Dirt.


Color Club On the Wild Side... ah here's that aforementioned streaky frost. What a waste of a gorgeous shade. Pure frosts like this look so old-fashioned and messy. But what a color!


Color Club Wild at Heart, well, I don't think I have ever taken a better picture. It applies like a dream, and looks like it was sprayed on by a professional. Trust me, this one will look just as good on you. It's not a holographic, but it has enough holo glitter to pack a very nice punch and to look sleek and shiny. And what a great, deep purple.


Color Club Love 'em Leave 'em, huh? I woulda named this Renegade Attorney, or Slightly Naughty Secretary. It's BEIGE. This needed to be canned and replaced by a rich ruby red with holographic glitter. they could have filled a large need in the polish world but gave us something you could probably get away with at work, but frankly is too boring for anywhere else, despite the nice holo glitter.


Rule Breaker is a gorgeous teal frost but it has so much shimmer added as well that it applies a bit better than On the Wild Side. Beautiful color, just I think it'd be best worn without color coordinating your clothes with it.


Color Club Wild and Willing is not done justice by my picture. It's a slightly sheer golden brown jelly with very vibrant shimmer. It reflects tons of light. it also has a small shot of gorgeous rose/green duochrome. Just fabulous.


So why am I so interested in the names? Who knows. I know no one cares about the names. They just made me go WTF this time. Heh.

O! A Daily OPI! - OPI Copper Mountain Copper

OPI Copper Mountain Copper is a kind of brick red semi-frost. It's multifunctional, could be work, could be play! You decide.

OPI Copper Mountain Copper:

O! A Daily OPI! - OPI Give Me the Moon

OPI Give Me the Moon is a more opaque version of OPI Breathe, it's also a darker blue.

OPI Give Me the Moon:

O! A Daily OPI! - OPI Yokohama Twilight

I totally love OPI Yokohama Twilight, and I pretty much hate frosts.

OPI Yokohama Twilight:

O! A Daily OPI! - OPI Sahara Sapphire

They recently released this one. If you like dusty semi-metallics pick it up, it is easy to apply and of course, it's shiny!

OPI Sahara Sapphire:

New Sinful Professional Colors

I don't know who in your town carries this, here I get mine at Walgreen's. And luckily a sale, Buy One Get One FREE is going on just in time to buy these great new colors!!! At $1 each (on sale) how could anyone say no?? They have a good formula, dry nicely even if you layer the glitters on thick (just give them a bit of time) and they are pretty. What else do you need?

Sinful Frenzy, purple and blue glitter in a colorless clear base:


Sinful HD Nails, simple grass green frost:


Sinful See You Soon, a black jelly with blue shimmer, like Zoya Kotori:


Sinful I Miss You, a sheerish purple jelly with rainbow glitter. LOVE:


Sinful Call You Later. The Genius of this is the varying glitter size. It has tiny gold glitter for maximum coverage, and big green glitter for color and bling. Fantastic.:


Sinful I Love You, a nice purple shimmer:



Sinful Nail Junkie. My favorite! A lovely ocean blue jellywith small and large glitter that flashes gold, teal and cobalt blue. A stunner.:



Sinful All About You, again small gold glitter to give coverage, and large orange glitter to add a warm tone and sparkle.:




And some others I hadn't noticed before that I picked up on sale:

Sinful Sugar Sugar, red shimmer:


Sinful Vacation Time, a nice mauve creme:


Sinful Let Me Go, a nice lavender frost with a duochrome goldish/blue duochrome shimmer. On the sheer side:


Sinful Rich In Heart, black jelly with red shimmer:

China Glaze for Days! - China Glaze Eyes Like Sapphires

Eyes Like Sapphires - beautiful azure blue frost with added large grain shimmer. Kinda like stars coming out at dusk.

China Glaze Eyes Like Sapphires:

Nail of the Day! - NYC Pink Quartz

I picked this up in a display of new polishes. I like it. It's a dusty rose, and I know it looks like a frost but it's really more of a very, very heavy shimmer. Whatever it is I like it! It was a display of stuff that was called something or other about Pink. Yeah, I'm a great help, huh.


Nyc Pink Quartz:

Every Day an Essie! - Essie Aruba Blue

Now this is a nice summer polish. A vibrant ocean blue. Makes me want to go to an island somewhere and... okay I'll keep the rest of my fantasy to myself.

Essie Aruba Blue:

Every Day an Essie! - Essie Pink Lemonade

Fun shade! This pink has some body to it, which is why I like it. It's a frost though, which does not suit me. But it looks fresh and summery.

Essie Pink Lemonade: