OPI Holiday Wishes 2009: Shim-Merry Chic, Holiday Glow and Sapphire in the Snow

 OPI brought out a great holiday collection in 2009, and I'm so sad I missed out since I wasn't into collecting nail polish at that time. I have only been able to acquire three of them so far, but I'm glad to at least have these in my collection. I found Shim-Merry Chic and Holiday Glow at aveyou.com for 8.50 each, but I have no idea if they are still available there. I think Sapphire in the Snow was 7.00, but I found it on a blog sale.

Shim-Merry Chic has flakes and holographic glitter in a light brown base. It's a bit similar to Sephora-212, but this is lighter and the holographic glitter is smaller. I used three coats to get full coverage.

Holiday Glow seriously glows with all the gold microglitter it has. The base is a shimmery almost chocolate brown color. I really, really loved this one. I used three coats with a coat of topcoat to bring out the glitter.

Sapphire in the Snow is almost as multi-faceted as a gem can be. Sometimes you see this color and it's a dusty navy blue and other times it comes off as a dusty dark purple. I have heard this is similar to OPI Roadhouse Blues, but I haven't compared them. I used two coats on the swatches below.

 There a few more polishes I want from this collection, but I doubt I'll ever find them as cheap as I found these three. Merry Midnight alone goes for over $20 on blogsales. Oh well, like I said I am happy to at least have these in my collection. ^_^

Color Club Sugar Plum Yum and Very Merry Berry Swatches

 I only bought three polishes from the Scent-suous Collection that Sally's put out, since at that time I was on a bit of a low buy. I do regret not getting Santa's Cinnamon, though. I didn't pick that one up because I have tons of red glitters, but I should have gotten it just for the scent. *sigh

  Anyways, I have two swatches for you today. The first one is one coat of Sugar Plum Yum over OPI Sapphire in the Snow. This one has a very sweet grape flavored scent, like grape gum. These glitters are tricky to apply because they are so chunky, but they aren't so difficult to apply that it's frustrating either.

This one is one coat of Very Merry Berry over China Glaze Little Drummer Boy. It also reminds me of gum, but just regular bubblegum flavored gum.

 I am really kicking myself for not picking up Santa's Cinnamon after smelling these, since I love the smell of cinnamon in the holidays.  I don't know think these are at Sally's anymore, but I have heard that these are just scented dupes of Color Club's Backstage Pass Collection. ^_^