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Nail Polish Graveyard



Every once in a while, you'll come across a beauty product that checks all the boxes.  Texture, colour, price, availability, it just works.  Then one day it'll be abruptly taken from you on a brand's whim to discontinue.  Why do you do this to us?!

OPI At your Quebec and Call is the most beautiful olive -- it contains the right amount of bronzey-gold flash, which complements my warm-olive skin perfectly.  I purchased five bottles of this in 2009, and this is my last one.  I have yet to find another olive polish as unique or beautiful.

Chanel Le Vernis Kaleidoscope was a limited edition metallic that I decided too late that I wanted to back up. Tod hunted down a bottle for Christmas one year -- I've been caught between not wanting to use it and being afraid I'll waste it if I don't.  It is the most beautiful pewter, one of my favourite metals in the entire world.

Sephora by OPI 212 A brown-based black laced through with multicoloured microglitter, copper flakes strewn about like dying embers.  At a glance it is the most perfect, pebbly balance between chocolate, bronze and copper, leaving people wondering exactly what colour you're wearing. The first time I saw it, I knew I had to have it.

Also for my Canadian loves -- Happy Thanksgiving!  Hope you have a very happy holiday!

14 comments :

  1. Happy Thanksgiving, girl!

    That OPI shade is amazing! Incidentally however, I just received my Rescue Beauty Lounge order today and I think Scrangie 2.0 might be in the same vein (maybe less green and move olive/khaki/dirty bronze) so check it out!

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  2. That Chanel shade is gorgeous! They should consider making it into a permanent line.

    Reflection of Sanity

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  3. All beautiful shades! I can understand your sadness, but look at it this way: it's just an opportunity to find new, equally lovely shades to fill the holes in your collection. :)

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    1. Aw. That is the nicest way to think about it! Maybe Scrangie 2.0 can fill the hole in my heart!

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  4. i love the chanel polish! it's pretty. i have a few of chanel as well, they sometimes have very unique colors.

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  5. These are all so pretty! Too bad you can't find any of them anymore :(

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    1. I knowwwww. Maybe on eBay, but internet shopping is still a relatively new concept for me. #oldperson

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  6. Oooh, Kaleidoscope *.* Hope you had a great Thanksgiving!

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  7. Gosh, all three of these look like such beautiful, unique shades! Discontinued favourites are the worst!

    -Jen

    www.vibrantbeautyblog.com

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    1. My biggest regret was a Revlon skin lights lip gloss that came out in like, 2001. I've never found anything as magical.

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