Rainbow Honey - October 2014 Mystery Bag

Well hi!

I picked up Rainbow Honey's mystery bag this month because *mysteries* but also because I haven't gotten one in a while and I missed it. I went with the $10 mini version because *broke* and still made out like a dang bandit.

Included in this month's mini mystery bag:

Cafe Con Leche 5mL - Basically couldn't have been named anything more appropriate. Super creamy nude with gold and silver shimmer: the perfect polish for my skin tone for mannequin hands! Smooth, easy formula. 2 coats + topcoat under OttLite.

Zi 5mL - Purple jelly packed with blue, gold, magenta and silver micro glitter. It almost looks like a glass fleck, but like, a micro glass fleck, if that makes sense. A bit on the thin side color-wise, this guy built to opacity in 3 coats. The first picture is under OttLite, the second is under crappy kitchen light to show more accurate color/shimmer (both swatches are with topcoat).

All Your Base base coat 15mL - Full size! Yeah girl! I, uhhhh, very rarely wear base coat (scoff!) because of how often I change my polish, but this one apparently has pretty good reviews. I actually got the mini size of All Your Base a few months ago and HAVE used it, thank you.

L'orange Ganache nourishing lip balm .15oz - I can never have enough lip balm during the winter. This one smells like chocolate with maybe a hint of orange, but I mostly just get chocolate. And it tastes kind of sweet, which is nice, because nothing is more disappointing than a yummy smelling lip balm that tastes like nothing. :( I have it on right now, and it feels, you know, nice. My lips are happy.

Sweet November Eu de Parfum Rollerball 4mL & Shimmer Soap .5oz - I loooove sweet scents, so this couple is perfect for me. I'm glad RH includes an info card detailing the products or I would have described this scent as 'Um... sweet... there's like, vanilla and maybe, like, some caramel notes..?' Officially, Sweet November is "a warm sweet musk with notes of coconut and vanilla sugar". It makes me want to wrap up in a big, warm blanket and lay in front of a fire surrounded by Christmas lights.

Like, I HATE winter, mind, but I really love feeling cozy. This smell makes me feel very cozy.

So heck yeah, right? I'm never disappointed with these bags, especially for the price. I love how much of a variety of products are included, too. It's nice to see an October mystery thing that isn't specifically Halloween-related.

Colors by Llarowe - Oops! Bag

Truth Time: I am a total mystery junkie. It's like, the chance of getting something awesome completely outweighs the risk of getting something lame. I can't get enough.

I just.. I just need one more hit... of mystery.

Anyway, Colors by Llarowe (whom I have a strong affinity towards as well) had a thing called Oops! Bags which contained three mystery (squeal!) polishes that were, you know, goofs.

Goofs, she says! Behold, these so-called goofs:

1. Oopscat
This guy shifts from gold to deep violet and has linear and scattered holographic particles. Are you serious with me right now? I'm thinking this was some kind of version of Hellcat that didn't make the cut. It's insane to me that Ms. Llarowe looked at this polish and was like "no... it needs to be better".

And just in case the second picture there didn't convince you of this polish's insanity:

You're welcome.

2. Radiant Tank Tops
I know radiant orchid is the buzz color of the year and I was pretty unimpressed with it originally. I'm still not completely won over by it yet, but I also don't want to not sit with it at the lunch table anymore. This polish looks like Tank Tops and Flip Flops but with that radiant orchid vibe. Actually, the more I look at swatches of Tank Tops and Flip Flops, the less I know what I'm talking about. Eh... well... literally I could have just said "this looks like Tank Tops and Flip Flops but brighter."

3. Trueshine... Mooncolors...
This one, if you somehow couldn't tell, looks like True Colors and Moonshine ran into each other really fast and became one thing. If I had to choose (which it's not like anybody is forcing me or anything) this would be my least favorite of the three, if only because vampy colors like this look a bit vampire-esque  on my pale, spindly fingers.

The Colors by Llarowe Oops! Bags sold out in five minutes apparently at the last restock. I'd LOVE to get another one this time around but I don't know if I'll be so lucky again. Either way, this is one of the loveliest collection of mistakes I've seen.