New Sinful Colors and Revlon displays!

Wow, if you're a nail polish fanatic, it's a great time to hit up your local drugstores because new collections are coming fast and furious these days. Yesterday I was at my favorite Rite Aid and spotted the new Sinful Colors displays. As far as I can tell, these are actually new shades and not just re-promotes of core collection colors. Yay!

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Is it just me, or do you think the names of these shades don't really represent the actual colors at all? I mean, maybe Hot & Sour is close to the shade of actual hot & sour sauce, but why is the blue shade named Chopstick? I think I could have come up with more creative names for these shades! Great Wall could have been Pickled Ginger, and Chopstick could have been something like Yangtze River. There are so many beautiful images in Chinese culture that could have been drawn upon to name this collection, so it's kind of sad that a bright pinkish-coral was named Fried Rice (huh?). How about Aster instead? Aster is a very popular Chinese flower that actually comes in a shade almost identical to this color. What do you think?

Sorry for the tangent! Anyway, these colors are pretty though (even though, to my naked eye, they seem very similar to other existing Sinful Colors shades), but I WISH I knew what those two missing shades looked like! If you have seen this collection in person, please fill me in and let me know? I'm hoping there's a pretty green in there!

Moving on, here's the collection that had me at hello:

What do we have here? Another "vampire-inspired" drugstore collection! It's definitely the trend these days, right? It's impossible to see in these photos, but each of these polishes isn't what you think it's going to be. From a distance, they all look like basic shimmery polishes. But up close, some of these shades have glass flecks, micro-glitter, and other pretty effects. Vamp looks like a boring red at first, but up close it's got a very sparse amount of glass flecks floating in its shimmery crimson base, which give it a beautiful effect.

The real show-stopper, in my humble opinion, is Love Bite. I can't even begin to describe it here, so please check back because this shade compelled me to record a video in order to show you what's going on in this little bottle! I'll be posting it later today.

And finally, when I was at CVS I spotted this display:

Nothing new here, but this might be a helpful display for some of you who weren't able to find the 2010 scented polish collection and the much-coveted Daydreamer collection in your area, as this "Summer Favorites" display includes some colors from both and also from a nude collection I must have missed (anyone know what that collection was called?).

Speaking of the Daydreamer Collection, I want to take a minute to let you know that I've been told by a few readers that the shades in the Daydreamer collection, including the GLOSSES such as Lilac Pastelle, are now part of the permanent core collection and are no longer Limited Edition. I can't 100% verify that this is true, but definitely look for them in the Revlon permanent display and see if you can find them!

But here's the weird thing about the display above: I purchased Gray Suede when I first saw it in the Daydreamer display (click here if you missed that) but yet it's mysteriously missing from THIS display. Interesting! Also, two of the prettiest shades from the scented polish collection are missing: Grape Pop and Gum Drop (click here to see the original display). Do you notice anything else that's missing?

That's it for this drugstore report, but as always, I'd love to hear from you!