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Wet N Wild x Hersey’s ‘Trick or Treat’ Collection – Swatches & Review

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(WHEW, I had big plans to get this up before Halloween and then I’ve been seeing so many movies in theaters and Halloween weekend took me down!! It’s been fun and maybe someday I’ll stop apologizing for getting posts up late).

HAPPY HALLOWEEN, Y’ALL. I absolutely love this time of year. Fall is my favorite season, and even though it’s been much warmer than I would like, it’s still felt so cozy overall. It’s my first year in this new neighborhood with our new place and everyone on the street has gone all out in decorating for Halloween and we handed out candy for the neighborhood kids and it’s the closest thing to “Stars Hollow” I’ll get here in Chicago. It’s also my very favorite season for makeup and nail polish – most especially when brands actually decide to do Halloween specific releases. It doesn’t happen often, so I make sure to appreciate them when we do. AND OH WE ARE APPRECIATING THIS YEAR.

The brand who has always been on the forefront of releasing these wanted Halloween themed sets has been Wet N Wild, and as mentioned they’ve continued TREATING us this year. They did drop another edition of their usual Fantasy Makers collection (post also on the way) but then decided that wasn’t enough and released even more!! Absolutely no TRICK here (sorry).

So in this first post we’ll be looking at their ‘Trick or Treat’ collection. It’s only fitting that this collection is in collaboration with Hersey’s to feature a variety of candy-inspired products from Hersey’s, Reese’s, Jolly Ranchers and Twizzlers. We have face products, an eyeshadow palette and a whole smattering of lip products. I have everything except for one lip balm (I can’t explain why I exercised self control for that one product).

I know I’m posting past Halloween itself but most of these products are just fun little neutrals and candy doesn’t stop after the season. I’m eating it all year long after all. So let’s get on into the swatches already!

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What’s Up Nails ‘Spooky Spice’ 2024 Collection – Swatches & Review

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Well hello there, and welcome to another post from the Great 2024 Backlog! We have a fall collection here, but the shades are all very much available on the Whats Up Beauty website, so this obviously means it can be spooky all year round. Keeping it short and sweet with my yapping (at least in this introduction), so we can dive right on in to my other yapping.

Today we’re looking at the ‘Spooky Spice’ collection from Whats Up Nails, which is a sub-brand under the Whats Up Beauty umbrella. If you’ve never shopped on Whats Up Beauty, they sell nail polish, makeup and various tools, both from their own brand as well as from many other indie brands. It’s a good little website, and if you’re looking to try out a variety of indie brands, this is a good way to purchase individual items and save on shipping! (They’ve also recently been putting out the most gorgeous makeup products and I just might have to get my little hands on some soon). They don’t release new nail collections too often, so I was so excited to swatch these up.

This release features 9 new polishes. We got a nice little range of colors here overall, and the use of shifty, sparkly flakes connects them all. This whole time I’ve been pondering and wondering how it’s a Halloween collection – but then Whats Up Beauty themselves doesn’t even fully call it a Halloween release, it just happened to release around then, so okay that’s on me. Some of the polish descriptions clearly indicate this collection spans all of the fall events and feelings of the season and that makes more sense to me. You know smart that that’s what they went for the whole time.

Okay I’m done pondering, let’s get on into the swatches!

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ILNP ‘Fright Night’ Halloween 2023 Collection – Swatches & Review

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Yes, I’m posting a Halloween collection on November 1st, but I make the rules and I say HALLOWEEN CONTINUES. We’re not stopping until every spooky shade has been given its time. And who am I to ever limit what colors you can wear by season – Halloween polishes are for any time of the year.

With that note in mind, I’ve already waited long enough to discuss these shades. Let’s dive in already.

This is the ILNP ‘Fright Night’ collection, and as you can guess by the color palette and name, we’re looking at yet another Halloween collection – thank you for blessing us indie brands, we are in your debt. This features 6 what I would personally call “classic” Halloween shades – they just feel like classic scary movies to me somehow – with the squishy blood reds, and bright navy blues, oranges and greens. There’s so much shimmer and sparkle here, it’s just adding that air of supernatural magic to them. Am I truly romanticizing nail polish? Yes, but that’s my favorite thing to do, and what else would you expect from a nail polish blog.

These 6 shades are available from the ILNP website – their collections always stick around for a while, so need to worry about this one disappearing before you’re ready. But let’s get on into the swatches already!

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China Glaze ‘Serpentine’ Halloween 2023 Collection -Swatches & Review

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Each and every year, as the weather gets cooler and the days get shorter, we slowly head into my favorite season, fall and then after that, spooky season. That mystical, magical time of October, and most importantly Halloween. And every single year I sit patiently just waiting for China Glaze’s newest Halloween release.

We aren’t blessed with Halloween collections by many mainstream brands (except for a brief Essie exploration, who remembers the Blue Moon set), but China Glaze has always held up their place as the mainstream Queens of Halloween, always giving us 6 new shades without fail. These collections are usually something a little different and experimental – I mean just look at previous release Don’t Let the Dead Bite. They get a little weird, it’s always a little bold and I’m always here for it.

And this year is no different! Today we’re looking at the 2023 Halloween release, and for this season we’re inspired by our favorite ancient icon, Medusa. Who doesn’t love her and her powers of turning men into stone, I see no negatives. And that gives us ‘Serpentine’, a set of 6 sparkly and shimmery shades, all inspired by our slithering goddess. There’s a lot of deeper shimmers here, with a sort of grungy feel to them all.

As always, I bought these from my favorite, polishpick.com. They’re also available from Beyond Polish as well! (On that site, you can use my code GINGERLYPOLISHED for 10% off individual items – that’s an affiliate code so I will earn a small little amount on each purchase, as always no pressure to use it!)

Now let’s get on into these beautiful swatches already!

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