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I'm a little late posting these, and I really need to focus on some of the Fall collections that I'm getting behind on.BeforeI know it, I'll be posting them under my discontinued/hard to find label if I don't step up myswatching!Chanel'stribute collection for NY Fashion Week Fashion's Night Out includes three creme shades, all perfect for Fall.

Overall Beautysent out their newsletter Sunday and it sounds like she's having a little sale! The Saints of Ruin Collection and both the Guys and Gals Infamous Lovers sets are on sale for $50.00. Use codeSummer09to save $3.00 on all orders over $25.00. Kim mentioned that the sale is for 3 days only, so I'm assuming it ends tomorrow. She recently reorganized theBB Couturespolishes into color families, which makes searching very easy now. Sign up for her newsletter if you haven't already (right column of her site).

Above & Below: Romeo是一个乡村红色的粉色奶油阴影with fine silver and lighter pink glitter. The glitter is subtle, but it is noticeable. As always with most BB Coutures, I used 2 coats and had great coverage. The top photo was taken outdoors, while the photo below was taken with an Ott lamp.

This post concludesOld School Week, so I hope you've enjoyed seeing some of the older polishes! I should do aMaybellineWeek, because I have at least 30 more of the older Express Finish colors, but we'll save those for another time.

Above & Below: Wild Violetis a fuchsia based violet shimmer that flashes a blue-toned iridescent violet. I wouldn't call it a duo chrome, but it does have a little bit of color-shifting action going on.

I saw 2 new-to-meSally Hansen Complete Salon Finishdisplays at Meijer this morning and picked up some shades that looked interesting to me. There were 2 table top displays and one had 7 shades--2 of each color. This particular display hadCommander in Chicin it, but I didn't recognize the other shades. The only one I picked from that group wasSo Much Fawn, the pale coral on the right in the top row shown below.

The other display was much larger, having 14 shades, again with 2 of each color. I believe this is the Fall Tracy Reese Collection. There were plum cremes, a purple glass flecked type shade, a silver, a couple of shades in the taupe family ranging from dark to light, a deep fuchsia shimmer, red shimmer, and the 5 I picked up below.

Above:Top Row L-R-Fedora(light taupe creme with subtle shimmer,Evening Fog(light greige creme),So Much Fawn(pale coral creme). Bottom Row L-R:Golden Ticket(various shades of gold glitter in a peach tinted clear base),Sequin Scandal(deep olive shimmer with gold and lighter olive glitter),Downtown Rubies(red glitter in a light burgundy tinted clear base).

I have a comparison for you today of the much coveted and discontinued China GlazeChannelesquevs. China GlazeBelow Deck, one of the shades included in theChina Glaze Anchors Away Spring 2011 Collection. The photo of the color wheel I'd originally posted showed Below Deck looking rather dark, and I took a few photos without a flash and it did look very dark, much like the photo Yen sent over originally. But now that I have the wheel to do an actual comparison, it does indeed look veryChannelesque-y.

Above:The swatch next to the bottle looks every so slightly darker, but I would say it's 99% close to the originalChannelesque.

Below:A look atChannelesqueby itself using 2 coats, outdoors in natural lighting.

Today I'm working on a couple of reader requests I've received recently. First up, is a comparison to a polish I showed you yesterday, Sally Hansen Shining Moment compared with China Glaze Swing Baby.

Above:The certainly seem to be similar based on the bottle appearance.

Below:Upon closer inspection (click to enlarge), you can see the differences. China Glaze Swing Baby is more silver and Sally Hansen Shining Moment is more golden/taupe. The glitter in the China Glaze polish is also more pronounced. Both shades are shown using 3 coats in varying degrees of outdoor lighting.

Below:This is kind of odd to show you the cotton ball comparison after removing them, but I always get a better idea of a polish base coat by examining the product in such a way. As you can see, Shining Moment (left) has a much greater concentration of taupe and less glitter. Swing Baby has a more grey base and quite a bit more glitter.

Here are the 3 shades I picked up fromSally Hansen's Fall LE Insta-Dri Collection, which includes a total of 8 shades. There were some berry and purple cremes and shimmers, and another silver metallic shade, if I remember correctly. These can be found in a tabletop display that also holds some Lip Inflation glosses in similar tones.

Above: Instant Coffeeis a darker taupe shimmer with tiny multi color glitter. There is the slightest hint of bronze in there as well. It has a more metallic look in brighter lighting, and more of a shimmer appearance in lower lighting.

Below: Golden Flash, a pink/peach/gold shimmer with mainly gold glitter also has a metallic look in brighter lighting. In lower lighting, the glitter combined with the base shade gives a soft, textured plush look.

Below: Metallic Momentumis another metallic type finish with silver glitter. This somewhat foil-like shade is a medium silver tone that reminds me in color of the back side of aluminum foil, if that makes sense!

I spotted a newSally Hansen Diamond Strengthdisplay last week when I picked up the XTreme Wear LE colors, and this is the only one that interested me. I also picked up a few similar toned shades from Sally's Fall Insta-Dri Collection, which I'll have up next. Shining Moment is a darker golden bronze shade that looks more taupe in the bottle. It's filled with tiny multi colored glitter that appealed to me in the bottle a bit more than it does on the nail.