Hello internet world, my name is Janice and I am the face behind Throwback Lacquer. You may recognize my nails from Glitter Gloss Garbage/Hey Aprill and my personal IG/Twitter, @the_asian_girl. I’ve been actively collecting nail polish since 2008 and keep a chronological spreadsheet with corresponding nail wheel swatches. I was inspired by @inegeek’s quest to swatch her entire collection, so I’m introducing the Reswatch Rewind! I’ll be posting a daily swatch from my collection for the foreseeable future; I have around 2500 polishes in my personal/non-PR-related stash. There might also be a bit of TMI and personal stories that remind me of said polishes.
My first swatch is OPI Eat’n Eggplant, from the New England fall/winter 1998 collection. It’s a brownish aubergine shimmer, opaque in 2 coats. I miss the silky smooth application of black label OPI shimmers and the thinner, pre-ProWide brushes.
Eat’n Eggplant actually predates my active collecting; I bought it at a salon while getting a mani/pedi for my cousin’s June 2006 wedding. I actually had my first brush with this polish back in January 2005. Do you guys remember when porn star pink-and-white French manicures were all the rage?! I thought I was the *~*cLaSsIeSt*~* bitch in the place whenever I had my pink-and-white acrylics in the mid-2000s. My college boyfriend was a huge fan of the look, so I faithfully came into the nail salon every other week for a fill. During one of those fills, I impulsively picked Eat’n Eggplant as my mani color, the same night we rolled on Ecstasy. Little did I know, that weekend would be our last as a couple, because he was also seeing a rich girl at his dorm. I had a lot of baggage from that relationship and wonder if I bought it back in 2006 as a bittersweet remembrance.