Forgetting Nars Zulu

Do you remember, perchance, two (?) years ago when Nars produced a special edition dark green jelly creme (these are technical nail polish terms fyi) polish with Sephora and then no one could get it? Except for like $70 on ebay? And then they never made it again!?!? Well, it's been difficult for me to accept that Zulu and I would never be together, and I've rebounded more or less with China Glaze's (shimmery) Gussied-up Green, but the void of a dark green creme has remained unfilled in my life.

But lo, what do I see when perusing through magazines the other day? Not one but two fantastic new dark green creme polishes! I kind of lost my shit.

OPI's Here Today...Aragon Tomorrow from their Espana collection. Apparently it has a bit of shimmer in it, but I can't see anything here.

Jin Soon Choi's Beyond Jealous for MAC - this one has been described as a blacked-out blue green. Yummmmm.

There are actually quite a few greens out on the market right now, and I'm only somewhat bittersweet about the news that dark green is going to be the big color for fall 09 - now that it's trendy (or will be), it will look like I'm trying too hard, and then it will just look dated. Great. Anyway, here are two from Zoya which I think have a lot of promise:

At the left, Verushka, at right, Envy. Verushka is from Zoya's Winter 09 collection, Mattevelvet, which has a supposedly matte yet velvety texture - perhaps the equivalent to OPI's Suede collection? I haven't seen any of the other Mattevelvet colors in real life - this one won't be released until September 15th. I'm ordering me some of that Verushka, yes I am.

sources: alllacqueredup.com, scrangie, polishaddict.com