OPI Mad As A Hatter

I know I keep posting more and more impossible to find nail polishes. I'm sorry :-( but I had a crappy (well not that crappy but I was feeling a bit down) week and I need to pull out the big guns. And by big guns I mean polishes I try not to wear anymore because I've loved them too much.

OPI Mad As A Hatter was nearly not mine, I searched everywhere in 2010 for this, the salon near my apartment at the time kept getting more and more in, but I  kept missing them! They had a crap load of Absolutely Alice (which I never did buy... which I'm not really sad about) and the two boring reds but I always seemed to just miss the last MAAH. Fast forward to June 2010 (so not that far forward) my family went to Disney to celebrate my undergraduate graduation and there in the middle of Mouse Gear was a handful of MAAH! I had given up hope at this point, because I ran into a girl in the bathroom of the California Grill who was painting her nails with MAAH and she told me she found in the Great Britain pavilion in EPCOT so as soon as I could I went to the GB pavillion (our favorite resort is walking distance to the International Gateway entrance of EPCOT so it wasn't really much of a problem) and I was crushed when I found they were all out. Anyway, kind of an out of order story, but you get the point; I spent weeks stalking my local salon while also checking everywhere that sold OPI near me (which is a lot), basically ran from the top of the Contemporary resort to EPCOT to find out it wasn't there, but then found it in a different place in EPCOT. It was the most perfect thing at that point for me. (And I was only in that part of Mouse Gear because I was looking for my BFF who was working there at the time). Very lucky on my part, and it made the stressful year of 2010 much better for me.

ANYWAY, I know no one wanted to read that but I just had to tell the story of this polish. I seriously wore this from June 2010 until Novemeber 2010. And I only really stopped because I started wearing some of the OPI Burlesque polishes (only the best collection known to polish kind) and I went crazy for Orly Rage with China Glaze Party Hearty on top. So this bottle has seen some love.

Onward to the less than stellar photos.

I seem to have used up all my words earlier. MAAH is similar to all the Burlesque glitters (except for Sparkle-isous) with silver and purple as the base and then the rest of the colors mixed in. The dark purple with the silver seems to make the multi color mix stand out more (compared to the Burlesque glitters).

Due my lack of enthusiasm for more recent collections, I have reflected a lot recently about all the collections I felt were "amazing" back 5 years ago when I really started collecting. At first, I thought it was more of an exceitment for getting back in to nail polish (I loved nail polish ever since I was little, I wasn't too in to make up as a kid just nails); but I think it was partly the timing and partly the fact that some really neat things did come out 2010 and 2011. I guess I'll just have to keep waiting :-)


~drastic actions

I hope everyone had a good memorial day weekend 





because this song is stuck in my head :-), and it reminds me of my twin brother, who for the last few years has not lived in with in a block of me :-( it is hard to be away from your twin (at least for me)