Remember this promo picture of Nicole by OPI Bring On The Tinsel from the Holiday Magic Winter 2010 Collection? Well, I received this color in the mail, and it's not a brown gold glitter. Surprise!
Quite different, eh? I think of tinsel being a goldish brown with some hint of green and red (thanks Mom), but this is more of a blue tinted silver. It's actually made up of tiny red, blue, green, silver and gold glitter in a clear base.
Here's a simple coat test - and oh yes, it was super hard to remove (being a glitter and all), but the formula was fine - no problem there.
If worn alone, I'd go with 3 coats but if worn with a base color underneath, 2 coats will do.
I used a base coat of OPI Natural Nail Base and a top coat of OPI Top Coat. SUN!
You can really see the blue and green pushing through.
Shade!
Oh Tinsel - I do love you. Maybe this year I'll show y'all my awesome (and CHEAP) way to make a table top Christmas tree using wire hangers, tinsel, and Christmas lights ^_^.
Nicole by OPI is available beginning at ULTA, Meijer, Harmon, HEB, Sears, Wal-Mart and more for around $8 a bottle. For more information, visit their website, follow Nicole by OPI on Twitter or become a Facebook fan.
Disclosure: The product[s] in this post was [were] provided to me by the company for consideration. For more information, please read this post.
Soooo I don't know what happened with Migi Nail Art - their rep totally disappeared on me, so I'm sorry there wasn't more information posted about the giveaway, but thank you to the 54 readers who signed up. I'll be verifying and adding up the entries and posting a winner soon. ^_^
The post to sign up for my $25 Apothica Giveaway is still located here but due to an angry computer virus, the Tweet didn't get posted until today for 2 extra entries.
This is the Tweet from Apothica that you need to ReTweet in order to get 2 extra entries for my giveaway.
If you already signed up for the giveaway and now want to RT the above tweet for 2 extra entries, just fill out a new entry form - I'll just merge whatever is a duplicate manually. Thanks!
I don't know how this beautiful shade sat on my testing shelf for so long... It's amazing! Zoya Julieanne is from the 2010 Fall Wicked and Wonderful collection (Wicked) and is listed as a Byzantium purple sparkling metallic. So apparently Byzantium is just a dark shade of purple - knowledge is power ^_^
I was absolutely thrilled with this color. I always forget how smooth Zoya applies and am always happy with it when I put it on. I used a base coat of Zoya Anchor, 2 coats of Juileanne, a top of Zoya Armor and another top of Seche Vite (to make it dry faster for me).
Look at that beautiful color in the bottle! And holy cow, my nail just all of a sudden got super long! It almost takes on a glass fleck look instead of a metallic. Lovely.
In the shade, you can really see the richness of this color. The ONLY downside was that inside in ridiculous yellow light (I hate yellow light bulbs), this color was super dark - almost black. I was in church with my son when he said "I like your nail polish" (we're still working on indoor voices) and I noticed two women kind of look at me and wrinkle up their noses. Oops. ^_^ I ended up wearing this color for a couple of days because it was just so stunning. Love it.
Zoya [official website] can be purchased on their website for $7/bottle.
Disclosure: The product[s] in this post was [were] provided to me by the company for consideration. For more information, please read this post.
Did you take advantage of the Rescue Beauty Lounge, who by the way, is now on Twitter, 50% off sale? When I heard rumors (which are still just rumors) that this would be the last sale of its kind, I narrowed it down to 4 shades and pulled the plunger. I do own Scrangie but realized last night that I haven't officially swatched it yet - and I need to!
One of the 4 colors that I purchased is Cherry Love, listed as a "Popsicle-fuschia, the love child of hot pink and sizzling red. When pink is too tame and red is too expected, give this glamorous shade a try." I always have heard from other bloggers that the Rescue Beauty Lounge cremes are super smooth but I did find this one to be just a bit thick. I'm not sure if it just needed time to adjust to the Texas humidity (is that real?) or what - but I didn't have that hard of a time applying - just needed to wipe a little extra off my brush.
I used a base coat of Seche Natural, 2 coats of Cherry Love and a top of Seche Vite.
In the sun, you can see how smooth the formula comes out - I do love how cremes look on the nail, which is funny... years ago I was all about glitter and nothing more. Now I love the look of glitter on other people because I know how hard it is to remove heh.
One shade picture - just a tiny bit of VBL, but I may be the only person to see it - you can see a bit of red-blue in the bottle, but not too much.
Now, I've heard (again from other bloggers) that RBL doesn't play well with Seche, but I didn't have any problems. I have 3 more colors here plus Scrangie and so I may be doing a wear test soon. ^_^
Rescue Beauty Lounge is available for sale on their website for $18 a bottle. You can Like her on Facebook as well as follow her on Twitter.
Happy Sunday! I have 3 more blogs here for you.
First today is Vampy Varnish. Blog owner Kelly has short to medium nails and has also started to blog about makeup too. She gets some advanced releases of certain brands, so she's a good one to watch if you like reading about things way ahead of time. I do wish that her RSS would load the whole post the first time. I always have to click the "Read more" from my reader, which I haaaaaate because it loads in a new tab but I'm more inclined to comment because it does load the blog ^_^. Kelly also created a line of nail polish with BB Couture found here.
Next is Inside Of My Purse which actually a Turkish blog but owner Zuzu writes in both Turkish and English for her readers. She has short nails and reviews a lot of cremes with other finishes as well. She recently moved so she was on a bit of a break since everything has been packed up.
Finally today is A Polish Problem. I love that she promotes other blogs every Friday in her "Blogger Round Up" which includes new and just new to her blogs. She's one of the people who inspired Blogs of Note. She was also listed as a Top 50 Nail Blog by SpaBeautySchools.com. Megan has short pear shaped nails which I have never seen before. It's great to see a variety of nails out there, and blogging has certainly done that.
Enjoy!
Oh look! More icky weather! I seriously couldn't get a good picture of Jolly Holly to save my life due to the cloud coverage. Everything just looked gross which is sad because China Glaze Jolly Holly from the Winter 2010 collection is a super pretty dark green shimmer! China Glaze actually had it listed as a forest green shimmer.
I used a base coat of Seche Natural, 1 coat of Jolly Holly and a top of Seche Vite. Very nice formula - completely opaque in one coat. I'd also like to mention that I didn't have any staining of my nail or of my hands after wearing this color - something that always scares me with greens.
I really am sorry for just having this one nasty cloudy picture - I promise the color is pretty dang awesome! Additionally, I think it would be very beautiful with some Konad stamped in Cheers To You!
Disclosure: The product[s] in this post was [were] provided to me by the company for consideration. For more information, please read this post.
As you may have seen, my Apothica giveaway just started last night and I got an email that their sister site, SkinCareRx is having a Friends and Family sale from now until 1 December, 2010!
This code will give you a 25% discount on SkinMedica and other brands which now accepts PayPal (and frankly, I prefer using PayPal these days, personally!)!
Friends and Family Coupon* Code: FF25
*Excludes some brands.
Disclosure: The above post is a paid insertion in exchange for a gift card from the company. I do not receive any compensation if you click on the links in this post or if you use the Coupon Code for a purchase. For more information, please read this post.
Just in case you haven't heard, nubar is offering 30% off retail orders of $30 or more now through November 30th with code NOV3030. Free shipping on orders of $75 or more after the discount is applied. Visit them at www.bynubar.com to take advantage of this offer!
There has been a rash of websites popping up using other bloggers' pictures and in some cases, their own blogs. I thought I was slightly immune because I'm still new to the game, but I'm not a spring chicken anymore.
Please do feel free to report these posts as well - here's the ones of mine that I know (and have reported) so far.
Again, I did NOT authorize users taking my images and/or blog postings.
China Glaze Gelato http://www.luuux.com/health-beauty/china-glaze-gelato
China Glaze Ingrid http://www.luuux.com/health-beauty/perfect-fall-nail-polish-0
China Glaze Seduce Me http://www.luuux.com/health-beauty/china-glaze-suduce-me
Nicole by OPI Bring On The Tinsel (image only) http://www.luuux.com/health-beauty/what-i-did-my-make-gift-cards
Sephora by OPI Club Scene Queen http://www.luuux.com/health-beauty/sephora-opi-club-scene-queen
