Nail polish mega post!

It all started last December with a secret preview of the Hello Kitty collection at Sephora; I saw the nail polish and thought the bottles it came in were the cutest thing ever. I didn’t particularly care about the quality or color of the polish when I ordered it, I just wanted the adorable bottles! When I finally got to use it, I was pleasantly surprised. Minty is the perfect retro turquoise I had been looking for for months—it even matches my KitchenAid. Bubblegum is a classic and adorable girly pink.

Then, less than a month after receiving the Hello Kitty polishes, I was introduced to Zoya by way of a promotion. On offer were three bottles of my choice just for the cost of shipping—which was less than the cost of one bottle. Jumping on the opportunity and spending way too much time looking through the 300+ colors Zoya sells, I settled on Ali, Hope, and Kelly. I wore Ali as French tips with Bubblegum, since I really wanted to try both of them out and just couldn’t wait. No pictures of Kelly; it’s a fairly standard asphalt grey.

By the time I finished playing with those, Zoya served up another promotion: buy one get one free from the summer 2011 collections—Sunshine, Summertime, and Mod Mattes. After looking at some swatches online to get a better idea of what the colors looked like, I picked Apple, Faye, Kimmy, and Sooki. Apple is great layered on Minty because I don’t have to use much of either polish to get great coverage. Since I still hadn’t tried Hope yet, I thought doing tips in purple-gold Faye would work out great. It turned out to look like prom dress trim though. Or some royal curtains. I didn’t like it at all. :( The only time it looked sort of decent is under my nightstand light.

Thankfully I didn’t have to keep it for long, because the best color ever arrived at my doorstep: OPI’s Teenage Dream from the Katy Perry collection. I obsessed over this color for two weeks after finding out it existed, before finally cracking and buying it. No words can describe how much I’m in love with this sparkly champagne pink with holo glitter. It’s my new favorite color and I will be very upset when I run out. The best colors always have limited production runs, it seems. :(

Kimmy and Sooki are next on my list to try; since they’re both red, layering one on top of the other seems like a good way to go. And since the Zoya Earth Day Nail Polish Exchange is in full swing, I’m going to soon have even more colors to play with!