Sally Hansen Xtreme Wear Mystic Lilac and Purple Gala

Oh boy! These new limited edition Sally Hansen Xtreme Wear polishes are so pretty I don't even know where to begin (click here to see pics of the display, which I showed you yesterday). 

If you read my post from yesterday, you know that several polishes in this new collection have the same effect. I noticed that Golden Child, Blue Icing, Cosmic Blue, Purple Fiesta and Cherry Punch all have a sparse amount of holo microglitter and holo bar glitter running through them. If you'd like to see Purple Fiesta check out Short and Sweet Nails' swatches here.

If you haven't had success with Sally Hansen polishes in the past, let me tell you that the Xtreme Wear formula has been nothing short of awesome for me in terms of application and staying power (and price! These retail for just $2.99 at Rite Aid). These babies wear like IRON for me, especially when I use Orly Bonder base coat underneath, and a good top coat to finish things off (I usually use Sally Hansen Mega Shine, but since I'm currently out of that, I used Seche Vite for these).

First let's start with this little lovely:

(enlarge these photos to get the full effect)

Sally Hansen Purple Gala (retail: $2.99)

Purple Gala required three coats for complete opacity, but based on how sheer the first coat was, I was very happy that it only required three (I really thought it was going to need four or even five).

I'm showing you a blurry photo so you can better see the different shades of glitter in this formula:

If you enlarge the above pic, you can see that there's gold, sliver and blue glitter in this polish. Stunning!

I've heard from a few of you that have said that this is a close match to Hard Candy Mr. Wrong. I thought I'd do a side-by-side comparison with an old photo of Mr. Wrong from my review of it last year, so that you can determine for yourself whether or not you think you need both shades:

 Be sure to enlarge this photo--I deliberately left it HUGE so that you can really see the differences. In my opinion, the glitter in Purple Gala is larger, and the base of Mr. Wrong is more silver. But then again, I know that Mr. Wrong leans toward purple on a lot of people (on me it's waaaaay more silver) so if you're happy with the purple tendencies of Mr. Wrong, well then you probably don't need Purple Gala.  I'm very happy that I have both, but I do think they both give off the same vibe.

And finally, here's the show-stopper of the two (in my opinion):

 Sally Hansen Mystic Lilac (retail: $2.99)

A lilac-greige with iridescent seafoam green microglitter? Ahhhh! SUBLIME! This truly might be my favorite polish of all time. I could stare at it all day!  Oh, and this one required two coats for opacity. Perfect!

I mentioned yesterday that I thought this might be a close dupe for the limited edition L'Oreal Delicate Dusk (click here and here for details about Delicate Dusk).  Well you know I had to show you a side-by-side:

Mystic Lilac: index and middle finger

Delicate Dusk: ring and pinky finger

I'd say that, minus the lovely seafoam green microglitter, we have ourselves a match! But do I regret owning both? Not a chance! I'm absolutely obsessed with lilac-greige, if you couldn't tell.

So what do you think of these two shades? If you haven't already, are you planning to pick up some colors from this new collection? I'd love to hear from you!