Bottle Spam Saturday: Old School Edition (Pic Heavy)

You all voted, and old school polishes won this week's bottle spam! I have a poll up on the sidebar for next week's bottle spam, so please vote in what you're interested in seeing.

I put probably too much thought into this bottle spam. I was trying think what constitutes as an "old school" polish?

What I ended up doing is dividing this into 2 categories.

1. The polishes I've hung onto for whatever reason before I got in nail polish (pre 2008). All of these I purchased when they were in stores.

2. The older polishes I've acquired since being into nail polish. These all are not necessarily HTF, but they definitely are polishes you can no longer walk into your standard drugstore or beauty supply store and find. Majority of these I've found sporadically at Dollar Tree, got through swaps/blog sales, or ordered online.

#1 Polishes I've Owned the Longest

Maybelline Wet Shine Diamonds-Peach Glimmer, Nina Ultra Pro-Bloodi Mari, Revlon-Get Reddy, Sally Hansen Chrome-Burmese Ruby, & OPI-Red Dazzle

Cover Girl Nailslicks-Very Berry, Sally Hansen Fire Opal-Amber Opal, Sinful Colors-Sagitta, & Sally Hansen Nail Prisms-Ruby Sapphire

That's it, well that's all I managed to bring to Florida when I moved here 2007. I know I had more polishes, but there whereabouts are unknown :(. It's interesting to see my color choices prior to my obsession. I liked lots of reds, magenta, and purples. There is a not a lot of variety here! There are no cremes either. I never wore cremes. I'd have to say the oldest polish here is the Cover Girl Very Berry. I have no idea when I got it, but it's old!

#2 Older Polishes I've Acquired Since My Obsession!

Cover Girl IceSlicks- Anti- Freeze, Cover Girl FrostSlicks-Goldfront, Cover Girl Crackle- Boo! Hou!, & Cover Girl Nailslicks- Midnight Forest

Naturistics- Galaxy, Naturistics-Icicle, Sinful Colors-Agaci, & Sinful Colors- Suede Shoes

Wet n' Wild- No Name Jelly, Wet n' Wild- Shameless, Wet n' Wild- Limitless, & Wet n' Wild- Black Ice

Max Factor- Vivid Violet, Max Factor- Pink Flame, China Glaze Channelesque, & OPI Glacier Bay Blues

Sally Hansen Hard As Nails- Dimension,  SH-Diamond Dust, SH Nail Prisms-Purple Diamond, SH Xtreme Wear- Showtime, SH Crystal Chrome- Peach Crystal, SH Nail Prisms-Ruby Diamond, & SH Nail Prisms-Golden Tourmaline

Maybelline Express Finish- Sand Coral, Mayb Express Finish- Turquoise Seas, Mayb Wet Shine Diamonds- Into the Sunset, Mayb Wet Shine Diamonds- Pink Fantasy, Mayb Wet Shine Diamonds- Firefly, & Mayb Wet Shine Diamonds- Dragon's Kiss

Mayb Wet Shine Diamonds- Brassy, Mayb Wet Shine Diamonds- Plum Solitaire, Mayb Wet Shine Diamonds Gems- Red Heirloom, Mayb Express Finish- Purple Aluminum, Mayb Express Finish- Red Aluminum, & Mayb Express Finish Glitter- Red Comet

Maybelline Colorama- Orange Spritzer, Cherry Pop, Burgundy Blaze, & Rose and Shine

Maybelline Colorama- Gives Me The Chills, Ruby Rays, & Frosty Pink

Revlon Top Speed- Solar, Revlon Color Illusion- Crimson Sparkle, Revlon Dark Pleasures- Scarlet Letter, Revlon Street Wear- Prince Charming, Hologram, & Psychedelic 


That's all she wrote! This is way more than I ever thought I had. I really miss these older polishes especially Revlon Street Wear. I remember having a few of these and middle school, and I have no idea where they went! :( In hindsight I'm sure all of us would of hoarded those polishes knowing how rare they are now.

Happy Saturday!

Blast from the Past!

Current Song: All Star- Smash Mouth

Today I wanted to share with you some of the oldest polishes I have. These are all polishes I've managed to somehow keep in my collection over the past possibly 10/11 years? I wasn't into nail polish growing up, yet they seemed to have traveled with me through my stages in life.

As I'm writing this post I'm listening to all the tunes from late 90's-early 00's to get in the spirit of things. I must admit my taste in music back then was pretty stereotypical preteen-teenage junk. There was a lot of NSYNC, Britney, Mariah Carey, and etc. I'll update you on each song I'm on while I'm posting these polishes. You have every freedom to cringe and rag on my terrible taste in music!

Note: Songs are in no related to the polishes just what is randomly playing on my iTunes!

Cover Girl Nailslicks- Very Berry

Current Song: Genie in a Bottle- Christina Aguilera
Very Berry is probably the oldest polish in my collection. I think I've had this since 1998 or 1999 when I was 12-13 years old. The awkward years. Words cannot describe the horror of those preteen years. Very Berry is a fuchsia with silver and blue shimmer throughout. It's a very pretty color. I'm surprised the formula hasn't changed since I first purchased it. Unfortunately, there is no genie in this bottle of polish, but I'll live.

Maybelline Wetshine Diamonds- Peach Glimmer


Current Song: You Oughta Know- Alanis Morissette
I think Wetshine Diamonds came out around 2000-2001, so I was around 14-15. I LOVE this color and I still adore it after all these years. It is a beautiful sheer peachy-coral with gold iridescent color mixed in. The formula of this one definitely took a turn for the worst. It was a chunky mess, but I revived it with some nail thinner and I couldn't be happier. I think this is a very happy color obviously not in tune with this Alanis song, but that's what you get with shuffle on iTunes!

Sally Hansen Nail Prisms- Pink Rose Diamond

Current Song: Pop- NSYNC
Feel free to laugh at my NSYNC song. NSYNC had a significant impact on my teen years. I was in love with them. They were my first love and will always have that little special place in my heart LOL. I believe the Nail Prisms came out in the early 00's. I MISS THESE SO MUCH! These were gorgeous. I know I had more but lost track of some. This is a nude-pink holographic. It's very blingy. I love holos and these were great! The formula on this went very thin. It's still usable but it's very watery.

Sally Hansen Nail Prisms- Ruby Sapphire

Current Song: Blue-Eiffel 65
Well this definitely isn't blue, but it does have blue shimmer throughout it! This like the previous one was released probably in the early 00's. I don't see much Ruby in this. I'd say it's more a of purple with blue/green shimmer. I don't find this holographic, but more of a duochrome. A very unique shade. I miss this Sally Hansen! The HD's are pretty cool, but I remember they used to have more unique collections more frequently?

Sally Hansen Chrome- Burmese Ruby

Current Song: I Wanna Know- Joe
I pretty sure the Chromes came out around 2003-2004? I remember buying this one on purpose. My high school colors were blue & red and in Texas where I grew up like the saying goes everything is bigger. Pep rallies, football games, and etc were HUGE events in high school. I got this polish to match my red & blue attire for a school pep rally. I was in marching band in high school and played the flute. I remember flute section always dressed up extra school spirited on Friday football game days. Shoot me. I didn't really like being band and wasn't into school spirit, but I went along with it all :P. Anyways! Burmese Ruby is a true red chrome. It has that mirror finish. This color is OK. I'm not too fond of it now. I haven't worn it in years and I remember why, it chipped like crazy!!!

Current Song: Iris- Goo Goo Dolls
That's all I hope you all enjoyed my trip down nail polish and music memory lane. You definitely have the freedom to make fun of my music tastes from back in the day!

What are some of the oldest polishes in your collection?

Happy Friday!