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Feb. 1st, 2021 11:58 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
impyMy Target order finally arrived. I am a bit irked about it running late but I won't fuss too terribly much about it since COVID and holiday messes are still likely for such things. But also maybe don't travel from Georgia to North Carolina and then circle back to SC?
No, the real annoyance was grabbing the box from the wall (where it was guaranteed to get soaked with the next rain band as well as being Super Fucking Obvious to any porch pirates wandering through, Fedex)and realizing I could hear the glass bottles clinking against one another. Unlike my Halloween Essie order, this one had them just thrown in a box with some of the air pillow stuff that allowed them to shift so they were all in the same corner of the box and only a miracle kept them from breaking. Two of the bottles did chip, but not in a cut yourself or even really notice it beyond running your hand over the bottle looking for flaws. Naturally they were the two colors I was already kind of regretting. I'll take pictures tomorrow, but You Know The Espadrille and Madrid It For The 'Gram are both more washed out than I was expecting. In the bottle, anyway. Not sure if that'll be the same on the nail or not, and Mom was eying one or both of them when I was telling her my mini tale of shipping woe. Target was kind enough to give me a partial refund and since I was just trying to get it on record not to ship glass without padding it properly, that was nice.
Wink of Sleep is definitely purple in the bottle, btw. Tomorrow we'll swatch things on my wheel of fun. Not my nails because I finally have them all the same color which I would normally link but uh, it's sold out and I'm too tired to hunt down a blog with swatches. Holo Taco's Got Cake? is way prettier than I thought it would be and I kind of regret not getting a second bottle but I also bought it because it was LE and I didn't want to decide later that I wish I'd gotten it. The promo pictures didn't do much for me but on my nails it's like fairy frosting. Which makes sense to midnight!me but morning me is going to have questions, I'm sure.
Mom's nearly done with her home health stuff. I wonder if they'll come and take the accessories on the last day of her regular nurse coming or if someone else will grab 'em all special like. *muse* More on things tomorrow.
Ozma and I are off to watch Netflix. ♥
Hrmm. This did not work as well as I wanted but it was a weird mix of blinding sun and freezing cold so this is what you get.
Got Cake? looked like ass in EVERY picture I tried (and naturally I didn't remember to bring my phone when I got the mail) and you will look at it on my nails and think, "ugh, pass" but this is as close as I got if you behold my pinkie. The bottle and pinkie show it more opaque when the light hits it and that's been my experience. Any light, doesn't have to be sun. It's weird but pretty.
The Essie rainbow isn't true to the teal, but did manage to catch the yellow and orange pretty decently. The teal looks brighter in person and I really love it when Essie does the little design element on their caps. It's so cute. The red also looks off but it's also just a red polish that I randomly fell in love with based on everyone's swatch videos showing it being perfection so... it's a red that doesn't lean orange. Woo! And that is still a purple polish, Essie people. Who keeps calling you blue? Though I do admit it's leaning a bit more blurple here than it has in anything else.
No, the real annoyance was grabbing the box from the wall (where it was guaranteed to get soaked with the next rain band as well as being Super Fucking Obvious to any porch pirates wandering through, Fedex)and realizing I could hear the glass bottles clinking against one another. Unlike my Halloween Essie order, this one had them just thrown in a box with some of the air pillow stuff that allowed them to shift so they were all in the same corner of the box and only a miracle kept them from breaking. Two of the bottles did chip, but not in a cut yourself or even really notice it beyond running your hand over the bottle looking for flaws. Naturally they were the two colors I was already kind of regretting. I'll take pictures tomorrow, but You Know The Espadrille and Madrid It For The 'Gram are both more washed out than I was expecting. In the bottle, anyway. Not sure if that'll be the same on the nail or not, and Mom was eying one or both of them when I was telling her my mini tale of shipping woe. Target was kind enough to give me a partial refund and since I was just trying to get it on record not to ship glass without padding it properly, that was nice.
Wink of Sleep is definitely purple in the bottle, btw. Tomorrow we'll swatch things on my wheel of fun. Not my nails because I finally have them all the same color which I would normally link but uh, it's sold out and I'm too tired to hunt down a blog with swatches. Holo Taco's Got Cake? is way prettier than I thought it would be and I kind of regret not getting a second bottle but I also bought it because it was LE and I didn't want to decide later that I wish I'd gotten it. The promo pictures didn't do much for me but on my nails it's like fairy frosting. Which makes sense to midnight!me but morning me is going to have questions, I'm sure.
Mom's nearly done with her home health stuff. I wonder if they'll come and take the accessories on the last day of her regular nurse coming or if someone else will grab 'em all special like. *muse* More on things tomorrow.
Ozma and I are off to watch Netflix. ♥
Hrmm. This did not work as well as I wanted but it was a weird mix of blinding sun and freezing cold so this is what you get.
Got Cake? looked like ass in EVERY picture I tried (and naturally I didn't remember to bring my phone when I got the mail) and you will look at it on my nails and think, "ugh, pass" but this is as close as I got if you behold my pinkie. The bottle and pinkie show it more opaque when the light hits it and that's been my experience. Any light, doesn't have to be sun. It's weird but pretty.
The Essie rainbow isn't true to the teal, but did manage to catch the yellow and orange pretty decently. The teal looks brighter in person and I really love it when Essie does the little design element on their caps. It's so cute. The red also looks off but it's also just a red polish that I randomly fell in love with based on everyone's swatch videos showing it being perfection so... it's a red that doesn't lean orange. Woo! And that is still a purple polish, Essie people. Who keeps calling you blue? Though I do admit it's leaning a bit more blurple here than it has in anything else.
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Date: 2021-02-06 12:23 am (UTC)And fairy frosting sounds like a very good description! I don't know if I could wear that color alone (it kinda looks like Private Jet) or if I'd consider it more of a topper, HURRAY for finding polish you love, though!! ♥
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