Wild and Crazy Beloved Child

More Wild and Crazy? You bet! I go through phases in which I obsess over a specific nail polish brand for no particular reason. I've gone through it with Revlon Street Wear, OPI, China Glaze, and now Wild and Crazy -- it's this insatiable desire to collect every single bottle in existence. I have at least 40 of them by now, and if they weren't so dang hard to find, I'd be hoarding many more. 

I'm also posting about this brand so much because documentation of it is quite sparse. There aren't many swatches out there, and I haven't seen a full color list. It was just another cheapy brand that fell to the wayside, and it's a bit of a shame. I'm an archivist and preservationist by nature -- I don't like things being lost to history. Even if it's just a crappy 99¢ bottle of nail polish, I want there to be documentation of it somewhere.

And so today I bring you Beloved Child. I'm the proud owner of 2 bottles of this polish - twice the purple frosty goodness! Here it is in 2 thin, easy coats.

(Yes, my nails are short and square now. Had a couple of small breakages and figured I'd quit while I was ahead. I actually kind of like them like this!)

The frostiest medium purple known to man. I can't believe I ever disliked these kinds of polishes! I think it was mostly because the majority of vintage polishes I inherited from my mother were some variety of frosty purple, and I resented her for not picking more interesting colors. But in reality, I love a good purple! I also love a good brushstroke-y icy polish. Put them together and you get something like this -- how perfect is this color for winter? I'm partial to dark shades during the colder months, but a good frost encapsulates the frigid, ice-covered landscape of winter so well. I think I'll have to induct this one into my regular rotation well into spring -- this color just brings a smile to my face.

Until next time... PEACE! xoxo