Nevermind Everlasting: Top 10 Fall Favorites: Nail Polish

Hey guys! Today I thought I'd do something that I don't do much on here, to coordinate with a YouTube video I'm about to film. I've picked out some of my favorite fall nail polishes to show you. I've started off with the bottle shots, and then there are swatches at the end. I apologize for the lack of actual nail swatches; I'm currently out of acetone, and my WalMart is terrible about keeping it in stock.

All the red-purple-blue colors

First up is Color Club Winter Affair. This is a gorgeous burgundy fleck polish with hints of gold, orange, and purple. It doesn't actually show on the nails as multi-faceted as it appears in this shot, though, so it looks a bit more like a plain dark red that's just really sparkly. As someone who doesn't really like plain shimmer/metallic finishes though, I like this one a lot!

The next color is Queen of West Web-erly from OPI. This is a gorgeous color, although it's quite runny and sheer, and requires 3-4 coats for anything near opacity. It has a shimmer finish, but the shimmer is quite subdued, and there are no streaking problems like many shimmers have.

Sally Hansen Complete Salon Manicure is a gorgeous eggplant/aubergine colored creme polish. I've had it on my toes for the past few weeks, and it's just dark enough to scream "Fall!" without being barely distinguishable from black. It applies very smoothly and evenly, as do most of the colors from this line.

Salon Perfect Playful Plum is a gorgeous berry color with specks of blue shimmer in it. They don't look like chunks of blue glitter on the nail, they just give it an overall blue tone and shimmer. I think this might be a perfect dupe for China Glaze's Gowgirl Up, which is a polish I loved years ago and I used a significant portion of the bottle I had. Salon Perfect and China Glaze are owned by the same company, IIRC, so that dupe would make sense.

The cosmetics line from Bongo is fairly new at KMart (and, I believe, exclusive to KMart), and most of the colors were fairly boring/normal to me, but this one stood out. Poppin Bottles is a slate blue with specks of bright blue iridescence. This does take 3 fairly thick coats for opacity, but I've been wearing two over coordinating undies.

The Chameleon line was recently downsized, so I'm not sure if this polish is still available, but I've had Waltz for quite a while and only recently started using it. I really can't put my finger on what makes this one look so special to me, but I wore it a few days ago and couldn't stop staring at my hands. The duochrome effect isn't quite as strong on the nails as it appears in the bottle, so I think the tint around the edges just makes it look like it has a bit more depth to it. Or something like that.

All the neutral colors

Flash Back is one of the polishes from a newer (I'm not sure if it's currently still the newest) collection from NYC. I've been absolutely obsessed with these kinds of neutral, slightly multicolored fleck/foil polishes lately, which I'm sure you can see from my next few favorites. What's kind of unique about this one is that the particles are aaaalmost small enough to just be shimmer, but not quite. This gives a very unique effect, but the color makes it not too "out there" and I think this would even be work-appropriate, in some less restrictive offices.

Zoya Edyta was another polish that I'd had for years and only recently discovered that I liked. The base is sort of a blackened green, with orangey gold flecks in it. It goes on very smoothly, and is opaque in two coats.

You may have noticed that this "Top 10" actually has 11 polishes in it. That's because these two are so similar, they pretty much count as one. Revlon Rich is a new, limited edition (I assume) polish this fall. But Sally Hansen Shoot the Moon is in the permanent line as far as I know, so if you miss out on Rich, Shoot the Moon should make a very near (if slightly more expensive) dupe. Both take about 3 coats for opacity, 4 if you want to make sure, but neither gets too goopy to work with. As I mentioned above, both of these are that multicolored neutral fleck appearance that I've been absolutely obsessed with lately.

Finally, Revlon Elusive is probably the most unique polish I've tried lately. Unfortunately, it doesn't get quite as bright on the nails as it is in the bottle, but there's definitely more visible glitter than I was able to capture in my swatch below. This is a great example of companies going for the "indie" effect in their polishes, with a black jelly/crelly base, and multicolored glitter. There's larger teal and green hexes, as well as tiny fuchsia/pinkish microglitter in there. Since I bought a backup bottle of this, I've actually been thinking about experimenting with this polish and diluting it about 1:1 with clear polish, then layering over black undies to see if the colors look any better that way.