Wheel A: Purple Cremes, Mostly

Welcome to the premiere episode of Nail Wheel Wednesday, featuring the first nail wheel I ever filled in completely (I'd only used them for quick swatches before). Of course I started with purples, which means I about gave up on this series before I started because even after playing with the color correction for ages, it's still not quite right. But I shall forge ahead, since it's got to get easier after the purples. I don't have a master plan for this series, so we'll just have to see how far through my stash I make it before I get distracted or run out of wheels (or space to store them). It's already been an educational experience for me. It's easy to fool myself into thinking I don't have that many similar colors when they're stored by brand as I have them now, but the nail wheel does not lie.



1. Orly Plastix Purple Pleather (3 coats)
2. Ulta Celebutante (3)
3. Rescue Beauty Lounge Mismas (2)
4. Kiko 292 Light Grape (3)
5. Orly Rio Nights (3)
6. LA Colors Color Craze 563 Nuclear Energy (3) [This one is completely off; it's much brighter and redder than it shows, but adjusting the whole photo to make it look right threw everything else way off.]
7. Sally Hansen Complete Salon Plum Luck (2)
8. Orly Matte Purple Velvet (3)
9. Maybelline Express Finish Matte Grape (3)
10. Maybelline Express Finish Matte Plum (3)
11. Sally Hansen Complete Salon Pat on the Black (3)
12. Revlon Plum Night (3)
13. Borghese Ectasi Indigo (3)
14. China Glaze VIII (3)
15. Orly Wild Wisteria (2)
16. OPI Sapphire in the Snow (3)
17. Ulta Devious (2)
18. OPI Funky Dunkey (2)
19. China Glaze Grape Pop (2)
20. Orly Charged Up (3)

Obviously I've got some dupes and near dupes to weed out of my stash. The photo doesn't show the subtle differences I can pick up if I take the wheel into bright light and study it carefully, but even when I do, I have a hard time making a case for having six medium toned purple cremes, or seven dark ones of varying warmth. I'm thinking reorganizing my collection by color would make it easier to figure out which ones need to go, because I know for sure that I have still more purple cremes that didn't make it onto this wheel (Finger Paints Amethyst Atelier, for instance). I've no idea when I'll be able to make time to do that reorg, though. I thought about it this past weekend, but decided I'd rather do more swatching.