destashing is all the rage, but i'm old school with a bin for the unexceptable. upon a bad swatch or wear, i chuck said polish. every 3-4 months, when the bin is full, i take it to work and let my co-workers pick through. while it is cleansing to purge, i think of it more as a constant curation of my careful collection. many polishes that i destash are quality, but are not a good fit for my skintone, or too much like another polish favorite. most of the polishes featured here are from late summer, early fall ... so many pastels, neons, etc. here are the recent cast offs. "friut machine" butter london this swatch looks okay, but i fought with this formula. this pink creme is not unique enough for me to deal with it again. i heart butter london so much, but this polish just wasn't me. a mini pack of the "la la land" collection orly spring 2017 blue="forget me not" lavender="as seen on tv" pink="cool in california" glitter topper="anything goes" there was a lot of hate for this collection upon release. i dipped my toe in just to be sure. the pastels are sheer, which is fine, but they are also quite streaky. this combo neccessitates many coats on the nail, or you're left with a hot mess: making the color opaque is the only remedy to streaks. a sheer but level pastel would be lovely. these were a mess. the glitter topper took a lot of fishing to get anything on the nail. if you read this blog, you know that i found orly's summer and fall collections incredible for 2017. this spring collection is clearly the jar-jar binks of an otherwise stellar year of polish. "lets meet" sinfulcolors this yellow was one of two "lets meet" polishes that i picked up this spring. one, a yellow creme (here) and the other, a dark yellow shimmer (featured in my september favorites blog). both polishes are also coded 928 ... so an early sc polish. normally, i would keep this yellow creme, but i already own so many. this formula is nothing special or even good, so i chucked it into the bin. "highlight of my summer" china glaze this is on many a youtubers "must-have" lists for neons or china glaze polishes. i don't know if it's just this bottle, but the formula is thick, streaky and goey. laucquer thinner didn't save it. "breezy blue" sally hansen xtreme wear i mentioned in my original sally hansen xtreme wear blog that i was destashing this polish. it was not near the same quality as the other sally originals. like orly's "la la land" polishes, it suffered as too sheer and too streaky. but i have heard reviewers recommend this polish, so buyer beware. "mellow yellow" sally hansen xtreme wear i was pretty anti-mellow yellow in my orginial sally hansen xtreme wear blog. i don't have the new version of this polish for comparison. please let me know what you think of this. for now, it is in my bin. "pink ribbon" butterlondon photo is okay, but this took too many coats to build up against the streaks. i own many similar cremes with better formulas. i recommend "biscuits" by floss gloss and "faux pearl" from orly's holiday 2017 collection. here a link to my butterlondon haul. "a touch of vamp" opi i liked this orange leaning red creme. easy to apply and i liked the look. but it chipped in less than 8 hours, and i just think that is way too soon. "road trippin'" orly
many reviewers have great things to say about this highlighter yellow neon. i found it gloopy, thick, streaky and awful. i gave this polish three different chances and gallons of lacquer thinner. perhaps i got a bad bottle. all i know is that it is no longer in my collection. happy de-stashing, bitches. Thanks for reading.
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November 2017
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