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MeMeMe - Lapis
Frosty pale blue Oh dear, this, the last of the vintage MeMeMe's is not so much of a win.Lapis is a metallic/frost pale blue that looks almost silver in direct sun.Swatches are 2 coats with a lot of...
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Vintage Valentines - Sally Hansen New Lengths - Espresso Frost
Warm red/brown shimmer Myself and fellow UK nail blogger, Lina-Elvira from Pretty Perfect Beauty have cooked up a plan for February to show off some of our older polishes, hence Vintage Valentines.We...
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Vintage Valentines - 17 - Space Babe
Lilac/silver pearly foil Welcome to the second Vintage Valentine! This polish comes from 17, which I don't think is a particularly 'covetable' or collectable brand. 17 or Seventeen is a Boots...
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Vintage Valentines - Rimmel 60 Seconds Extreme - Zeitgeist 878
Stunning plum/green duochromeRimmel were probably the first nail polish brand I was aware of. Back in the 70's they marketed themselves through double page ads in women's weeklies like Woman and...
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Vintage Valentines - Rimmel 60 Seconds - 560 Odyssey
Lilac/silver pearl Apologies - I got caught up yesterday and didn't get time to post.So here's my delayed Vintage Valentine. Another Rimmel 60 Seconds from the '90's but I think we'll all agree this...
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Vintage Valentines - L'Oreal Shock Proof - Plum Mystique 700
Plum pearl Today's valentine comes from the early years of this century, by that I mean 2002ish!The oddly named L'Oreal Shock Proof range (why does your polish need to be shock proof?) is also...
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Vintage Valentines - Mary Quant - B11
Soft blue/green jelly This may be the newest Vintage Valentine I'm going to share but I don't feel too bad as Mary Quant is a very vintage brand!This polish is, I think from 2008, but Mary Quant has...
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Vintage Valentines - Revlon Streetwear - Scary 061
Luscious blood red jelly Revlon Streetwear is definitely one of my favourite vintage brands. As I'm sure most of you know, Street Wear was Revlon's answer to the Hard Candy and Urban Decay's of this...
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Vintage Valentines - LO'real Jet-Set - 255
Orange pearl I've already shown you a vintage L'Oreal Shock Proof, now here's a Jet-Set.I'm not sure when Jet-Set was launched, I think before 2000? The colours and formula are pretty variable, some...
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Vintage Valentines - Yardley - Bronzed 29
Warm brown/bronze shimmer Yardley definitely takes the prize for the oldest brand featured this month. Yardley of London was established nearly 250 years ago in 1770.Yardley have mostly been known...
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Vintage Valentines - Botanics - Sea Holly
Blue/purple shimmer Botanics is a brand from Boots, the UK drugstore. Whilst Botanics still produce skin and body care products, the make-up range disappeared many years ago.I have a small collection...
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Vintage Valentines - Revlon Top Speed - Daring 992
Beautiful warm red/gold duochrome Gah - for some reason this didn't post on Saturday as scheduled - so here's my belated Birthday post....Today (21st Feb) I'm a little bit more vintage myself - that's...
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Vintage Valentines - Urban Decay - AC/DC
Purple foil Definitely one of the most desirable vintage brands, Urban Decay was first released way back in 1996.All of my Urban Decay polishes are second generation from around 2001. I did have a...
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Vintage Valentines - Hard Candy - Violet?
Pastel pink/lilac creme Another collectable vintage brand is Hard Candy, first produced in 1995. I have a couple of first edition Hard Candy polishes and one from the second edition when they changed...
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Vintage Valentines - Nails Inc - Chelsea
Lilac creme with secret shimmer So my last Vintage Valentine comes from my largest collection, Nails Inc. I have over 550 unique Nails Inc colours and focus on collecting the older releases which all...
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Avon Matte - Inky Blue
Matte dark blue This is a strange one, look at these bottle picsA gorgeous purple with swirls of copper/pinkish shimmer right?Not on the nail...On the nail it's the Inky Blue of the shade name. I...
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China Glaze - IDK
Pale purple holographic Back in early 2008 China Glaze launched the OMG collection of 12 holographic polishes, 6 warm and 6 cool toned. I just have two from the cool toned collection.IDK is a...
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Nocti - Pocket Change N27
Pale gold shimmerOh blimey, I really fell off the blogging wagon, not sure what happened but I'm back now!I picked this Nocti up from ebay, back when any brand I'd not heard of would catch my eye. I...
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Kleancolor - Metallic Fuchsia
Foil finish fuchsia My first Kleancolor on the blog, from my small collection of foil finish polishes from this US brand that I picked up somewhere random. Metallic Fuchsia is a shimmer/foil finish...
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Nails Inc - Clifford Street
Dusky purple creme with scattered fine gold glitter Clifford Street was part of the Midas Touch and Gold Rush Collections (which might even be the same thing!).It's a very dusky, grey toned purple,...
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