Not much to note on this post, I'm not showing you swatches or anything, I'm just so excited I had to share! I have been waiting anxiously for China Glaze's Capitol Colors collection to com out; some of them look stunning! I had a dream the other night that I saw the shades on other people, but I couldn't find any of them anywhere. Well, I went out looking today even though most places give tomorrow as the official release date, but I had noticed on Hot Topic's website that they say they will be available as of today. So on the off chance they had them in-store as well, I went to my local mall's Hot Topic, and they had the display on a table front and center! There were only 8 colors of the 12 left, and only 3 of those were shades that I wanted, but I snatched those three up. I asked the guy who rang me up if they had any more hiding somewhere, and he said no, but he also told me that they'd had them since the 22nd! He cited a special licensing agreement.
And then he tried to ask me if I was excited for the movie, and it took me a half second to process that. Oh yes. There is a movie. Yes, I am excited for the movie, and I told the cashier as much. It looks like it will be really neat. But I haven't read the books. When the cashier heard this, his eyes went wide and his jaw dropped. "You haven't read the books!?" he gasped in disbelief, as if he couldn't understand why I'd be so excited for nail polish if not for the superficial tie-in to a series of books written for adolescents. Don't get me wrong, I'm not against Young Adult books, it's just not my genre of choice and so I haven't read anything in that genre for years. Frankly, I don't get much time to read anything non-academic, and by the time I do get to read something non-academic, I either read non-fiction or one of the Classics I haven't been required to read for school yet. (Or Star Trek novels. But Star Trek novels don't count.) And they always make great movies of the books anyway, so I get to consume them that way.
Anyway, happy fun nail polish time!
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| China Glaze: Dress Me up |
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| China Glaze: Foie Gras |
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| China Glaze: Harvest Moon |
I will definitely show you swatches next time I switch my nail polish! You better bet I am trying each of these babies out before I re-do my manicure. But I'm not ready to give up my sweet leopard print nails just yet; they're still going strong, and they make me happy :P
Love the mani! You are getting good at the stamping! The polishes are awesome! Foie Gras looks great! Movie? Books? Not a clue... yes, I live in a bubble...
ReplyDeleteHaha, it's a bubble that includes makeup, so it sounds like a nice bubble :) Foie Gras was definitely one of the shades I was more excited for out of the ones they had available, I can't wait to try it out.
DeleteThese look really interesting! My roommate is absolutely obsessed with the books and has been counting down to the movie for weeks. I keep showing her pictures of hunger games-inspired makeup looks and nail polishes, she's loving it all! I haven't read any of them myself, though, so I just enjoy the creativity of it all. :)
ReplyDeleteI'm so loving your leopard nails, btw!
Thank you! I am giving my leopard nails their own post in the near future. They're kind of silly but I love them! And I feel the same way about Hunger Games; I love all the makeup looks coming out of it, but I don't know anything about the stories that the movie trailer doesn't indicate!
Delete(ps- I keep meaning to mention that I appreciate you so much for being such a loyal commenter, despite the terrible fact that I am so bad at returning them! You are amazing, girl!)
ReplyDeleteAnd thank you! I love all the bloggers I follow, and I like letting people know that I read by leaving comments :) I absolutely do not expect any in return, though I do enjoy getting feedback! Thank you for commenting as often as you do!
DeleteFoie Gras? Really? OMG That is absolutely disgusting! But all of the shades look gorgeous... love your nails!
ReplyDeleteYeah, I'm not too sure about the names... I guess they're each supposed to represent a commodity from the districts in the books. So I guess it's fictional Foie Gras?
DeleteI love those colors!
ReplyDeleteMe too! :)
DeleteI hate these new names! The earlier names that China Glaze came up with perfectly matched each of the important characters and their qualities but they had to change them because something happened with the licensing agreement and the movie company. Blah. The new names have little to do with things in the books...
ReplyDeleteBut I can't wait to track them down!!!!!!!
I know, I heard about that whole kerfuffle... Lucky for us, they're still great colors! I've seen a couple of blogs break down the connection between the commodities the polishes are named after and the district that is linked with that commodity, which seems like a pretty clever way of getting around the change in the licensing agreement!
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