NovaLash Eyelash Extentions

*Photo located on NovaLash's website.

On July 12th delayed until spring 2011 :(, I'm getting a complementary set of NovaLash Eyelash Extentions [official website | Facebook Page | Twitter Page] put on from Bella Bella Salon [official website], where I got my purple hair.  Whew, that's a lot of links in a sentence.


Bella Bella is going to start offering NovaLash and were giving out 5 free applications, so I snagged a spot.  This procedure costs about $300 as they apply each lash by hand and it's lash by lash.  I was told that they will fall out with my natural eyelashes, in 2-4 weeks.  I could come back in 2 weeks for a reapplication which would run about $45, or just let them fall out.  I did fail to ask what color they are using, as I've seen on their website that they have green, purple, and blue.  I'd like to stick with just black, hah.


I have a huge love/hate with fake eyelashes... love the way they look - still haven't figured out how to put them ON myself, so this is going to be awesome.  While I'm not going to stop nail polish blogging (yeah right), I am branching out a teeny tiny bit.  Later this month, I will also be reviewing beauty products for Beauty Debutante [official website] and writing as a guest blogger.  Wee!


I'm pretty excited about the whole thing, so expect a post in the coming weeks about it!  ^_^

China Glaze Bogie

I'm a huge purple fan, so I figured that Bogie from the Vintage Vixen 2010 Fall Collection would be right up my alley.  It's not bad, honestly.  It reminds me of a few other colors though, but I'd have to do a comparison to be sure.  China Glaze lists this as "plum frost with shimmer"


I used a base coat of Seche Natural, one coat of Bogie, and a top coat of Seche Vite.

Polish consistency was good - I love only using one coat.  You can see the shimmer a bit and it is very "plum" like in shade.

I do really like how frosts look in the shade/indirect light - it's smooth like a shimmer but not brush strokey like a metallic.  Quite pretty overall.

China Glaze [official website] can be found online through several etailers, including my favorite Head2Toe Beauty [official website], Sally's Beauty Supply [official website] as well asTransDesign [official website].

Disclosure: The product[s] in this post was [were] provided to me by the company for consideration.  For more information, please read this post.

Claire's Glitz and Glam Franken

Remember this "gem"?

Yeah.


Well I poured some out, added a few ballz, put in 10 drops of CND Blackjack, poured a bit of Cover Girl City Lights and went to town shaking that bad boy.


End result?

Sorry y'all, it's still a hot mess.

The CND Blackjack helped tone down the neon pink and shaking the polish definitely made the polish more opaque.  However, all the silver hexagon glitter got kinda mucked up.

This is going in my "2011 Zoya Polish Exchange" pile, providing they have one again.  :)

400 Followers Giveaway [US & Canada]

As you may or may not have known, the past 3 weeks, I've been pretty insanely swamped with my house remodel.  We've been working on lighting, plumbing, wall repair, window repair, repainting... you name it.  I just recently broke a nail right before starting to stain 50' worth of cabinets, so I'm currently back to nubbins although my next few blog posts are with my long nails (pre-written, you know).


I've been given a unique opportunity from CSN Stores [official website] to host a giveaway to all my USA and Canadian readers, so what better time than during my 400 Followers Giveaway!  One winner will receive a $40 Gift Certificate that may be redeemed in any of CSN's 250 online stores.  They don't sell nail polish (boo!) but they literally have millions of products to which you can enjoy - just check out their website (above) and enter your desired product in the search box.  You do have to pay for your own shipping, the gift certificate is only for your actual product.  This giveaway runs from today, 1 July until 12 July at midnight:01 GMT (or 8 p.m. CST on 11 July for me).

1: You must be a follower through Google Connect.

2: You must fill out the form at the bottom of this post.  (For your convenience, I have turned off comments)

3: You must live in the USA or in Canada.


Let the form begin!  Please feel free to tell your friends, Tweet or Facebook this post.  I greatly appreciate it!

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400 Followers Giveaway! [Everyone]

You didn't think I forgot, did you?  This giveaway runs from today, 1 July until 12 July at midnight:01 GMT (or 8 p.m. CST on 11 July for me).


Thank you to all who follow my blog - it really makes me feel special and like what I'm doing is enjoyed by others.


While I love buying and sending out giveaway prizes, this last giveaway took the wind out of my sails.  One winner never contacted me, FedEx wanted to charge me $101 to send a package that didn't even weigh a pound... so this time I'm doing something a little different.

1: You must be a follower through Google Connect.
2: You must fill out the form at the bottom of this post.  (For your convenience, I have turned off comments)
3: You must have a PayPal account.


Yes, I said you must have a PayPal account.  So my first thought was to give out Gift Certificates to the winners from Amazon.  I LOVE Amazon.  However, not everyone (international!) can use Amazon.  So I decided I'd use eBay.  However, that means the winner has to use eBay.  Blah.  That didn't really work either.  So I'm giving out "PolishGalore Gift Certificates" to four lucky winners for $10 each.  You will receive the $10 in your PayPal account that you can do whatever you want with it - buy online (some polish companies like ManGlaze accept PayPal!).  Please note that you are responsible for any fees or taxes that PayPal charges you to withdraw your $10.


Of course, you don't HAVE to buy nail polish with your $10 - go nuts. ^_^


Let the form begin!  Please feel free to tell your friends, Tweet or Facebook this post.  I greatly appreciate it!

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Zoya "Wicked and Wonderful" Fall 2010

It's fall time!  Well, it's mid summer time, but in the polish world, all the fall collections are on their way out.  Zoya is bringing out six new metallics and creams (cremes) starting today.  Following in China Glaze's footsteps, Zoya has been previewing their Fall Collection via their personal blog as well as on their Facebook Fan Page. (China Glaze was using their Facebook Fan Page)


From looking at them, I must say, they look pretty awesome.  I'm still iffy on cremes, but Zoya has made some good ones (Flash collection anyone?).  Edyta looks AWESOME, as does Kym.  I was wondering why some of the names are so unique (Kym instead of Kim?), and why they don't have a Krystal (or even a Crystal) yet.  One day, Zoya... one day.



Zoya Wicked Collection
Edyta (ZP525) - fern green sparkling metallic
Julieanne (ZP526) - byzantium purple sparkling metallic
Cheryl (ZP527) - chocolate bronze sparkling metallic
Karina (ZP528) - garnet red sparkling metallic
Carrie Ann (ZP529) - venetian red sparkling metallic
Kym (ZP530) - cardinal mauve sparkling metallic


Zoya Wonderful Collection
Kelly (ZP519) - paynes grey cream
Stacy (ZP520) - mahogany red cream
Burke (ZP521) - sienna red cream
Kristi (ZP522) - crimson red cream
Cola (ZP523) - desert sand red cream
Shawn (ZP524) - myrtyl green cream


Zoya [official website] can be purchased on their website for $7/bottle.

China Glaze Hey Doll

When I first read the release of Vintage Vixen, China Glaze's 2010 Fall Collection, I was most excited about Hey Doll, which was listed as a rose frost with shimmer.  I adore rose colored nail polishes since that's what my Mom wore when I was a little girl.  Actually it may have been more of a rose gold, but it was just very classic, elegant, and hey, it was Mom.


I used Seche Natural for my base, 2 coats of Hey Doll and topped with Seche Vite.  Unfortunately, I did not fall in love with this polish.

Oddly enough, the shimmer is pretty muted and the rose was almost too brown for me.  I have a hard time calling this a "red" until I put it against the browns of the collection - then you can tell it's red.  But if I just picked this bottle up on its own, I'd be slightly confused.

More oddly still, in the indirect sun, there was almost a raisin purple brown showing.  This color just didn't win my heart, and that makes me a sad panda.

China Glaze [official website] can be found online through several etailers, including my favorite Head2Toe Beauty [official website], Sally's Beauty Supply [official website] as well asTransDesign [official website].

Disclosure: The product[s] in this post was [were] provided to me by the company for consideration.  For more information, please read this post.

China Glaze Ingrid

This is another one of those bottles from the Vintage Vixen collection that I kind of just looked at going "um"?  Thankfully Ingrid is not an "um" color!  Listed as "greige creme with copper microglitter."  Okay seriously, what is greige?  Merriam-Webster says that it's "being in an unbleached undyed state as taken from a loom - used of textiles".  Ohhh, it's a French word.  That explains it.


Okay back to reality - so I was really excited about the copper microglitter.  If you remember from the other day, Goin' My Way? had a copper shimmer... you know I'm not the biggest fan of gold (in jewelry especially) but copper is pretty neat.


I used Seche Retain for my base (had some nail issues), only one coat of Ingrid, and topped with some Seche Vite.  The formula on this was the same as the others but with more opacity, so I only needed one coat.

Look at this beautiful application!  It's just the right color of muddy brown and I love it.

I think this is one of those colors that is like Rescue Beauty Lounge "No More War".  I think you're either going to love it or hate it.

Heh you can see my camera and other hand in this indirect sun picture.  No shade - I kept getting green hands.


You really didn't see as much of the microglitter in this shade, but that was okay with me!  In the bottle, up close, you can see it suspended in the creme, but on the nail, not so much.  Overall, this is a definite keeper.

China Glaze [official website] can be found online through several etailers, including my favorite Head2Toe Beauty [official website], Sally's Beauty Supply [official website] as well asTransDesign [official website].

Disclosure: The product[s] in this post was [were] provided to me by the company for consideration.  For more information, please read this post.

Essie "Made In The Shade"

Do you see what I see?!  A glitterly blue?  Go Essie!  I may have to pick that one up even though I'm getting a small collection going of sparkly blues.

Essie can be purchased on their website [official website] or etailers like Head2ToeBeauty [official website] or TransDesign [official website].

China Glaze Swing Baby

Hey look - more Vintage Vixen!  Swing Baby is listed as a taupe frost with silver micro glitter.  Boy, they weren't kidding.  I'm not even going to mess with talk, just picture spam.


I used Seche Natural for my base, two coats of Swing Baby, and a top coat of Seche Vite.

Smell that frost.  It looks a little bit like a metallic in nature.  This next picture was by accident but shows off some bling in the frost.

The bottle is showing some rainbow in it, you see them?!


Then I turned my back and got an indirect sun picture.

Uh, whoa.

I mean, WHOA.

Bling!  I'm seriously at a loss for words on this color.  It was a complete surprise.  I'm feeling this frost thing, really.

China Glaze [official website] can be found online through several etailers, including my favorite Head2Toe Beauty [official website], Sally's Beauty Supply [official website] as well asTransDesign [official website].

Disclosure: The product[s] in this post was [were] provided to me by the company for consideration.  For more information, please read this post.