Morgan Taylor Best Dressed

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Y'all, it's hot. I cannot wait for summer to be over. Today I have a firey red from Morgan Taylor called Best Dressed. This is a foil/metallic finish with an orange-red-pink shift.

Zoya Coralie

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I have another polish from the Zoya Beachy Brights 3 collection and I'm almost through them all! Today I have Zoya Coralie, an electric watermelon pink creme. This was a super neon color!

Zoya Pinkie

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I got a little distracted and so I'm working on the final 4 polishes from the Zoya Beachy Brights 3 collection. This is Pinkie, a punchy tropical pink neon creme.

ILNP Flip Side (M)

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When I was preparing for my work trip last month, I considered wearing an ILNP Magnetic for the days I'd be gone so I pulled out a bunch of them. I thought it would only be right to swatch them before I put them back in my Helmer. Today I have ILNP Flip Side from the Illusions collection. Now, this says it's a magenta to orange to gold sparkle with blue to teal magnetic pigment. That's a mouthful.

Drunk Fairy Polish Flaminglow

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Today I have another new-to-me brand from my Pookie's Polish Swap that happened earlier this month. This is Drunk Fairy Polish Flaminglow, which was an aurora jelly nail polish with a pink base and blue shimmer flash.

China Glaze Short & Sassy

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Here's another vampy red shimmer from China Glaze! Today I have Short & Sassy, from the 2009 Retro Diva collection. This is such a pretty color and looks amazing for being 17 years old.

China Glaze Cranberry Splash

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I was so proud that I had cleared all the nail polishes off my desk and then bam, I have 30 more sitting here but that's a whole month of content so, yay me? Today I have China Glaze Cranberry Splash, a ruby red shimmer. This came from the 2012 Holiday Joy collection which also had some beautiful glitters in it.

Zoya Rio

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I'm back in the second half of the Zoya Beachy Brights 3 Summer 2026 collection and today I have Rio, a vivid molten red-orange shimmer. This color is GORGEOUS. It reminds me of the glass fleck polishes that made me fall in love with Zoya originally.

love, Angeline Almond Darling

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I'm going through another indie brand that I had a small obsession with - today I have love, Angeline Almond Darling from the Chateau Macaron collection. I can't find too much about the brand any longer since they closed shop but I believe I owned this entire collection.

China Glaze Under the Boardwalk

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YAY it's neon time! Today I pulled China Glaze Under the Boardwalk from the 2012 Summer Neon collection. When I was looking it up, it said that it was a bright plum jelly so uh... what happened. Did mine fade? No, come to find out, there were two versions of this polish. There was the light purple and then there was a raspberry pink which is the one I received. Fun fact, this polish was repromoted in 2015 in the Make It Rain-Bow brights trio.

Zoya Zelli

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Today I have the other Zoya polish from the Beachy Brights 3 that I hadn't seen before but it was a repeat color. This is Zelli, a vibrant hot pink creme. This is such a bright pink in person and on camera.

Zoya Alora (3)

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Zoya's Summer 2026 collection just came out and it's called Beachy Brights 3. Six of these polishes are from other collections and 6 are brand new. I wanted to check Alora to see if it was really the same one as before. This is a raspberry pink creme.

Glam Polish BANG!

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A different Glam Polish collection today - this is BANG! from the Knockout Collection and it's a bright magenta holographic polish. 

Glam Polish Bohemian Rhapsody

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Another throwback to 2015 with my Glam Polish Bohemian Rhapsody from the Gleek collection. This was in the height of Glee, the tv show and I bought the whole collection which consisted of nine polishes. This is a raspberry-pink holographic polish with holographic microglitter.

Glam Polish Did You Catch That?

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How (why) do I have 51 Glam Polish bottles? I swear, it's like a surprise every time I open my Helmer drawers. Today I have Did You Catch That? which was originally an orchid crelly holo with red holo microglitter, shimmer, and glass flecks. This was from the Under The Sea collection that came out in 2015. I do think my bottle may have faded because it feels more pink than purple.

China Glaze Hyper Haute

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I will never forget in 2011 when China Glaze said they were releasing their Tronica Collection which was supposed to be the remix of the OMG linear holographic polishes. I couldn't wait to buy every single one of them because I LOVED the OMG collection with all my little heart. Today I'm bringing you Hyper Haute, a raspberry "holo" polish.

Great Lakes Lacquer Leaves In The Lake

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Finishing up my Great Lakes Lacquer polishes and today is Leaves In The Lake. This is a dark navy jelly with red-gold flakies. This was part of the PolishCon 2016 Chicago exclusive. The brush on this was super fluffy.

China Glaze Strike Up A Cosmo

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I'm back with another China Glaze polish. This is Strike Up A Cosmo, a rose pink foil/metallic/shimmer from the 2013 Autumn Nights collection. I was really excited about this collection because I got to see it up close and personal at Cosmoprof North America. This was a 12 piece collection that had lots of beautiful jewel tones.

China Glaze Ho! Ho! No.

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Nearly 10% of my collection is China Glaze, and yet I've only worn about a quarter of them so I'm going through those drawers next. If you've been following my blog for awhile, you'll know that China Glaze was my first polish love and I was able to actually work with the brand for several years before they changed their PR and ultimately, their entire brand. Today I have Ho! Ho! No. from "The Grinch" Holiday 2018 collection. This was a collaboration with the animated Grinch movie that came out that year with Benedict Cumberbatch as the Grinch and Pharrell Williams as the Narrator.  This is a red based polish with gold microglitter.

cuccio On The Up & Up

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I'm having to play catch up and today I'm wearing cuccio Fall/Winter 2022 collection Speakeasy polish called On The Up & Up, an oxblood creme. Oxblood reds had a MOMENT in the early 2010s.