Birthday Haul!

Hi all,

Last week was my birthday which I let go by silently on my blog *winks*. But I did get some nail polish and bought some nail polish from a gift card and cash I got. I spent it well! I also got a couple of cd's and bought a few more, but this is a nail polish blog so I am sticking to the polish related stuff here. First you get the big overview, don't worry, I will show them up closer as well!

Seems a lot eh? Let's take a closer look!

From left to right:

• BlackStar Nail Polish - BO43 (lavender)
• BlackStar Nail Polish - BO54 (dark mustard)
• Yes Love - Matte - 2 (dusty plum)
• Yes Love - Matte - 10 (coral pink)
• Yes Love - Matte - 5 (silver)

Alas, no names. I got these as a gift from my best friend who knows I have a lot of nail polish, but not these. The Yes Love polishes are matte, am curious to see how they look.

This lot was a gift from my coworkers:

• Essence - Superheroes LE - 02 The Incredible
• Essence - Superheroes LE - 03 Power Girl
• Essence - Superheroes LE - 04 Super, Man!
• Essence - Superheroes LE - 05 Wonder Wow! Man!
• Essence - Superheroes LE - 01 Super, Man! (holo glitter)
• Essence - Superheroes LE - 02 Fantastic Girl (pink diamond glitter)
• Essence - Superheroes LE - 03 The Incredible (blue glitter mix)

I have already used some of these, like you can see in my geometric mani here.
 

With a Kruidvat gift card and some cash I got some more polishes:

• Catrice - 16 George Blueney
• Catrice - 35 Petrolpolitan
• Catrice - 37 The Effect Maker
• Catrice - 23 The Monkey Gets Funky

These 4 polishes will be retiring from Catrice's core collection next month or so, they were now half-price! I didn't have these, so I grabbed them while it's still possible! These are not the only ones that are being retired, but I either already had the others or did not particularly want them. You can view the entire discontinued list here. While I was at it I also bought the purple Catrice smokey eyes eyeshadow palette. I had my eye on that one for a while *winks*.

I bought more:

• NYC - 041 Live Hard
• NYC - 261 Red Me The News
• Essence - Magnetics - 12 Majestic green
• Essence - Magnetics - 09 Magic red carpet

I decided I need more red polishes, the NYC polishes I have are lovely, so decided to give these a try. The Essence magnetic polishes were half price as well, also because Essence is changing their core collection and these are leaving us. I hope they stamp well.

More Essences, again these are being removed from the core collection soon and were half-priced:

• Essence - 159 The green & the grunge
• Essence - 133 Oh my glitter!
• Essence - 161 Ciao oliviero
• Essence - 166 Mister rusty

I wanted a few more, but there weren't many left in the Kruidvat I went to *looks sad*. Not photographed are two Essence magnets (€1 each now) and a gold nail art set (some loose glitter and stuff, I already had the silver set).

And these beauties were bought by myself as a present to myself *grins*:

• I Love Nail Polish - My private rainbow (L)
• I Love Nail Polish - You're my boy blue
• I Love Nail Polish - Amanda Hugginkiss
• I Love Nail Polish - 1st And 15th

My private rainbow is a linear holographic top coat, the other polishes are also holos. I have not worn them yet, but my hands are itching to try them!

Any you'd like me to swatch? Let me know in the comments!