Mooncat ‘Baroquen’ Collection – Swatches & Review

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Every week I am getting little pushes and reminders of why I need to hurry up and continue to catch up on all of my reviews and collections for this blog because the polishes and products won’t be around FOREVER. And alas, it was the announcement that some of the polishes included in this next collection were being retired for me to finally get the review on up on the blog and I’M SO SORRY.

So, today we’re looking at a collection from Mooncat, and every so often Mooncat will move along some shades from their inventory to their ‘Dearly Departed’ list and so that means when that polish next sells out, they won’t be restocked and they’ll gone for good. It can be moments of not selling enough, or pigments not being available or making room for new polishes (but I can’t say for sure, I’m not a part of their business). And 2 of the shades in this set shall be dearly departing (it looks like one might already be departed). Like I said, yet another push for me to finally catch up on posts because I have so many Mooncat collections just sitting in my drawers that deserve their time and they could all just be a ticking time bomb (and a lot have departed shades already). I promise I’ll blog future collections before they fully depart from this earth.

ANYWAYS. This is the ‘Baroquen’ collection from Mooncat and this set features 8 super sparkly shades. Mooncat always has the most poetic paragraphs about their sets and so for this set we have the lyrical description: “From the tattered pages of a storied heartbreak…set against the lavish excess of a most grandiose era, comes 8 delightfully devastating chapters of an ill-fated folly”. The full set is sold out, but you can still find individual shades on the Mooncat website.

And even though some shades are sold out, I do still want to post about this collection, as it could still be helpful, whether you find one of these shades in a destash or already have them waiting in a drawer. Or you could be just curious about past collections as a little archive. Well, now we’ve waited long enough to see these shades, let’s get on into the swatches already!

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OPI ‘The New OPIcons’ Spring 2026 Collection – Swatches & Review

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It’s a new YEAR and a new SEASON of OPI and we’ve finally caught up to the current year of releases!! (At least with OPI, we’re getting there, okay. Yes I WILL continue to reference my big blog catch up on every single post, thank you). It somehow doesn’t feel like a new polish season until I’ve swatched up the newest OPI collection, and it’s now been that way for TEN years. That’s right, I’ve been swatching OPI collections and shades for ten years now on this blog. It started back then with just the 3-4 shades I liked most from a collection, because on a college budget I couldn’t yet afford full lines. And now here we are in 2026. I’m now married with a dog and a condo and life is so different, but OPI continues right along, and continues always being the most popular and most read posts on the blog. It’s the foundation of it all and I’m still enjoying swatching the newest releases. And while it’s only been 10 years of swatching for me, it’s been FORTY-FIVE years of existence for OPI!

So for their 45th anniversary and newest Spring collection, OPI decided to take a look back, and take inspiration from their bestselling and classic shades from the past decades. They then used that inspiration to release 12 new “remixed” shades. That’s right, remixed, so don’t worry, they’re not re-releasing your favorites and changing them but instead making new modern counterparts to pair along with them. I always love a brand taking inspiration from their past, and it was so fun to learn about their history as I researched every iconic shade.

As always these polishes are available from Beyond Polish (code GingerlyPolished gets you 10% off if you shop there. I would earn a small commission if you use that code, so no pressure as always!). They’re also available on PolishPick.com, another place I love to buy from.

Let’s get on into these swatches!

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Wet N Wild ‘Chameleon Chrome’ Collection – Swatches

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Pencil Eyeliners
Liquid Eyeliners
Highlighters
Lip Foils
Eye Foils
Eyeshadows

Last year, 2025, Wet n Wild surprised us all and dropped their ‘Chameleon Chrome’ collection, which was a new set focused on shimmery and shifty sparkly pigments for the eyes, lips and face. That original drop included 4 pencil eyeliners, 2 highlighters, 2 lip foils and one eye foil (that was forgotten for the group photo oops).

And of course, the crowd went wild. I mean even the idea of drugstore multichromes?? Multichromes have long been a more expensive product, after all the pigments themselves are more expensive, so the idea that alternatives could be coming into a more affordable space was INTRIGUING.

After picking up all of those lovely little products, I took the photos of the products and the swatches and edited them up and even drafted it and then … listen, maybe it all stalled and was just sitting in my drafts for the MONTHS since then. WHOOPS. (If you’ve read any recent posts, you’ll know that the entire blog was stalled from some lack of motivation.) But thank god, these first products are still around and seem to be new permanent additions to their product line!!! So the review will still be relevant!!

As that draft was just rolling around in the back of my brain, suddenly we had a surprise again! Wet N Wild then dropped an expanded new release from this line earlier this year, with more shades in the existing products, as well as other entirely new items. This new drop included 3 liquid eyeliners, 2 new highlighter shades, 3 more lip foils, 3 more eye foils, and the most exciting to me, 6 single eyeshadows. Multichrome items in general was exciting, but MULTICHROME EYESHADOWS at the drugstore was UNPRECEDENTED. Sure, maybe we had somewhat shifty, duochrome products come and go, but never full mulitchromes! Drugstore eyeshadows had long been underwhelming, so I almost thought it couldn’t be done. I snatched them all up immediately as they became available and added it to my pile to work through.

This post is going to be a true roundup and overview, so we’ll be looking at ALL of the products in the collection, both sets of drops. I’m a fiend for Wet N Wild collections and I love to try out everything and every shade. The 2nd release pushed me to finally dust off the started draft (and the blog in general) and just get it out into the world. I do want to continue to review more makeup, and this is a good yet LONG starting point.

It’s a beefy one to read today so to help you navigate, I’ve included chapters above that’ll bounce you around to the specific product categories! From there you can scroll to swatches and initial first thoughts. I bought all of these products from Walmart – but in each section I also linked to Wet N Wild’s website listing for each individual product.

Let’s get on into these swatches!

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OPI Infinite Shine ‘Good Enough to Treat’ Winter 2025 Collection – Swatches & Review

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WE’VE MADE IT. We’re finally reviewing the final OPI collection of 2025! I’ve been in the depths of the great blog catchup here, and while I still have so many reviews to get up, I wanted to give myself a more attainable goal to start. And that start was the OPI collections. They’re always the most popular posts on my blog, so the least I could do was catch up the history and get timely. This is the final one (of last year), so we’re now in the current year, it’s all a big deal to me. It’s helping me to feel more motivated and accomplished, and I’ll be able to continue to chip away at the pile of other reviews just waiting for me.

But back to OPI, let’s talk about this winter collection! This continues the ‘Good Enough to Treat’ theme for Winter 2025. OPI always drops a 2 part collection for each season, with 12 lacquer shades and then 12 different Infinite Shine shades. I always review the regular lacquer collection first so feel free to click on over to that post to see those shades (and then come back here too, please and thank you).

I’m going to give the same spiel about the Infinite Shine line that I have in my other posts if you’re unfamiliar with it. “The Infinite Shine shades are the ones with the silver caps instead of black, and they run a few dollars more per shade than the regular lacquer. They’re more expensive as OPI claims they’re a long lasting formula that can deliver up to 11 days of “gel-like” wear. These are not gel shades, just gel-like. (If it’s a true gel formula, it’ll be in an opaque bottle as light can cure it). As always, I swatch so often that I can’t fully speak to the longevity. So I’ll be reviewing these shades by color and application, and from there you can make a purchasing decision! In the end you decide what to do with your own money!”

These are still available on the Beyond Polish website, so you can still pick them up, even here in 2026! (If you do shop through Beyond Polish you can use code GingerlyPolished for 10% off! It is an affiliate code so I would earn a small commission, so absolutely no pressure if that makes you uncomfortable).

Now let’s get on into the swatches!

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OPI ‘Good Enough to Treat’ Winter 2025 Collection – Swatches & Review

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Omg hi there! It’s getting HOT and humid (we truly have some thick air) here in Chicago, so obviously it’s the perfect time to dip back into winter with some icy polishes, right? If you haven’t seen other posts, I’m still on my journey of catching up with posting OPI reviews, and we’ve made it to the final season of 2025.

The OPI Winter release for this year was called ‘Good Enough to Treat’, and it’s a set of 12 shades that OPI says is inspired by classic holiday treats. Each shade is either sparkly or absolutely juicy on the nails, so I definitely get the candy dish inspiration

As always, these beautiful shades can either be purchased from PolishPick or from Beyond Polish (if shopping from Beyond Polish you can use my code GingerlyPolished for 10% off items – it is an affiliate code so I would earn a small little commission from it if used, no pressure if that makes you uncomfy!!)

No need for me to yap too much more, I’ll let the shades and swatches speak for themselves! Let’s get on into it.

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OPI Infinite Shine ‘What’s Your Mani-tude’ Fall 2025 Collection – Swatches & Review

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We’re continuing with my Great Blog Catchup of 2026™ and it’s time to finish FALL. Yes, on May 1st, it is obviously the last day of fall and soon it’ll continue on into winter, this is how seasons work (well I guess they do in the Southern hemisphere), and it’s not because I didn’t blog for months and it just all makes sense obviously.

So yes, today we continue on through our journey of 2025 OPI releases. For each seasonal collection, they’ve been releasing 12 shades in the regular lacquer formulas, and then 12 different shades in the Infinite Shine formula. I already reviewed the regular lacquer shades, which you can see here. If you haven’t read any of my other Infinite Shine reviews, I’ll give you a quick overview on what OPI says makes it different and special.

The Infinite Shine shades are the ones with the silver caps instead of black, and they run a few dollars more per shade than the regular lacquer. They’re more expensive as OPI claims they’re a long lasting formula that can deliver up to 11 days of “gel-like” wear. These are not gel shades, just gel-like. (If it’s a true gel formula, it’ll be in an opaque bottle as light can cure it). As always, I swatch so often that I can’t fully speak to the longevity. So I’ll be reviewing these shades by color and application, and from there you can make a purchasing decision! In the end you decide what to do with your own money!

These are still available from Beyond Polish – a site I absolutely love and always recommend! When shopping there you can use code “GingerlyPolished” for 10% off your purchase (that is an affiliate code so I would make a tiny bit of commission if you use it. If that makes you uncomfy at all, absolutely no worries at all!)

Let’s get on into the swatches!

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ILNP ‘Thorns’ Collection – Swatches & Review

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If you’ve been paying attention, you’ve seen that I’ve been on an absolute tear of publishing up posts this past week, and while I won’t make any grand declarations (I’ve done far too many of those in the past that I didn’t keep up) I’m feeling good! Instagram hasn’t brought me as much joy lately, so instead of focusing my attention of posting multiple swatches there each and every day, I’ve started on the mountainous task of working through swatched up collections in need of posts. So keep on following along with me, there’s a lot of polish on the way. It’ll be a lot of catching up on “older” releases from the past couple of years as well as sprinkling in a new set here and there in between.

In these moments of non-blogging, there have been a few brands that I decided to fully collect and therefore have piled up on my desk and in my drawers, and I’m telling myself that before I can buy more of them I need to work through some previous collections. In this post, we’re looking at one of them, ILNP! (Well to be fair, I did have quite a few collections from this brand gifted to me for my birthday, and my mother doesn’t need to know that she was enabling.)

Let’s start right out with this first quad! This is the ‘Thorns’ collection released last year, and it features 4 vampy jelly shades. They’re all deep and dark on the nails and have you covered for when you’re feeling vampy. ILNP is great at keeping collections around for quite a while so these are available on their website!

Now on into the swatches!

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OPI ‘What’s Your Mani-tude’ Fall 2025 Collection – Swatches & Review

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Oh as I look upon these colors again, it does remind me how much I love a fall shade. Fall is absolutely my favorite season both weather wise and color wise, and this is me saying to myself you can wear any color any time of the year! But also OPI seems to put some of their best work on into a fall release, and (spoiler) this collection was no exception.

This is the ‘What’s Your Mani-tude’ collection and it released for Fall 2025 (yes we’re still on a cute little blog catchup, we’re getting so close). It has the traditional 12 shades, as well as a matching Infinite Shine counterpart (which I’ll review next). Featured are 10 beautiful cream shades and then 2 shimmers, so if you were fully jellied out after spring and summer, we circle back around to creams for fall. OPI describes it as “A Fall collection of nail shades straight outta the 90s but ToTaLlY now”, so you’ll have to tell me if this is reminding you of a time in the last millennia, outside of the themed names. I love a good rich cream shade, so I was practically drooling to get on into these shades.

These are still available on the Beyond Polish website. You can also find them on PolishPick as well! So let’s get on into the swatches!

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Holo Taco ‘Haute Garbage’ Capsule Collection – Swatches & Review

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Did you know APPARENTLY there’s a scientifically ugliest color? It’s Pantone color 448C, and though it has only been informally dubbed “the world’s ugliest color”, it’s already been put to work. In fact, that color then was “selected in 2012 as the color for plain tobacco and cigarette packaging in Australia, after market researchers determined that it was the least attractive color.” Who doesn’t love that!

Actually my favorite note about this shade was “The Australian Department of Health initially referred to the color as ‘olive green’, but the name was changed after concerns were expressed by the Australian Olive Association.” I’m learning so much just from buying nail polish. (And sorry, I’m still going to call it olive green, I don’t have any olive farmers beholden to me).

So with the knowledge of this so called ugliest color, Holo Taco was absolutely inspired and released a creme shade called ‘Born Ugly’. I hadn’t purchased the polish when it first released last April as I don’t love to pay shipping for just one polish (woe is me who’s bought every other collection so I had nothing else to buy at the time, it’s just so tragic). It was limited edition and then shortly sold out, so I put it to the back of my brain.

Fast forward one year later, lo and behold, it’s back! A brand new collection containing the famous shade dropped on April 1st and it WASN’T a joke. The ‘Born Ugly’ universe was expanded into the ‘Haute Garbage’ capsule collection. This set features 4 shades, including the original ‘Born Ugly’ creme along with 3 other lovely and ugly polishes. This collection is also limited edition, though at the point of writing this all 4 shades are still in stock on the Holo Taco website.

Are you feelin’ ugly enough yet? If not, let’s get on into these swatches.

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OPI Infinite Shine ‘Make ‘Em Jelly’ Summer 2025 Collection – Swatches & Review

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We’re continuing on through my blog backlog, and slow but steady we’ll catch up to Spring 2026, I PROMISE.

But listen, for each of their seasonal collections, OPI has been releasing two different sets of polish, 12 regular lacquer shades and then 12 Infinite Shine shades. That’s 24 whole shades per season and it’s a lot!!! Anyways, I did already review the regular lacquer shades here, and now it’s time for the ✨Shine✨.

Summer 2025 was the time to ‘Make ‘Em Jelly’ according to OPI and for this collection, they go on to say, “Strike a pose with our ballroom-inspired summer collection of translucent, milky, and glitter jellies and solid opaque nail colors”. I don’t know if I would say ballroom, but we do have a wide range of shades here, and while the finish is highlighted, there is only 1true jelly finish.

If you haven’t seen my other posts about the OPI Infinite Shine line, here’s a quick little rundown. OPI advertises it as a long-wearing formula, claiming it’ll lock onto nails like gel and give you the same shine. I am constantly swatching, so I can’t attest to the longevity of it, and instead will instead comment on the initial formula and application and colors themselves. This line comes in the bottles with silver caps, and tend to range from $1-$2 more per bottle than their regular lacquer shades. Is that extra price bump worth it? Y’all will have to decide.

These shades are still available from Beyond Polish now! (Code: GingerlyPolished can get you 10% off your order if you want. This is an affiliate code, so I would make a tiny bit of money if you use it – if that makes you uncomfy, no pressure at all!)

Let’s finally get on into the swatches!

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