CND's Shellac Flash Mob

On my bucket list?  I want to be in a flash mob.  Please check out this hilarious press release from CND!

CND's Shellac Flash Mob at Premiere 2011!    

  

June 2011 - On Sunday June 5, 2011, CND captivated attendees at Premiere Orlando 2011 with the first ever CND Shellac Flash Mob. Check out the video from this surprise performance and lyrics below:

Shellac Flash Mob June 2011 - Official Video

Full Lyrics

ROBYN

AHHHHHHHH!  Help!   Someone help!!

MOEISHA

Are you ok?

                                               

ROBYN

No!  I chipped my nail and I just got them done this morning!

                                               

MOEISHA

Oh my god...girl, do you not know!?!?

                                   

ROBYN

What!?  Know WHAT?

                                               

MOEISHA

Girl, I don't know how you been livin without a little shellac in your life!                                                       

MOEISHA

What you want

Lady, I got

ROBYN

What I need?

MOEISHA

Do you know I got it?

All You ask ask them

Is for a little SHELLAC when you get there

                                                                        (Back up girls: -It won't chip a bit)

Hey lady                                                          (Not a liitle bit)

when you get'em done                                   (It won't chip a bit)

Sister                                                               (Not a little bit)

ROBYN

It ain't gonna do me wrong... while I'm workin?

                                                                        (3 girls  & MOEISHA "no")

New Girl - from crowd

Ain't gonna do you wrong while you're cookin?          

                                                                        (3 girls:  & MOEISHA no)

ROBYN

All I ask them                                      (4 girls:yes?)

Is for a little SHELLAC when I get there

                                                            (It won't chip a bit)

Hey Lady                                            (Not a little bit)

when I get'em done             (It won't chip a bit)

Oh Yeah                                             (Not a little bit)

MOEISHA

It ain't gonna take long, with zero dry time!

2 Duet girls  (from audience)

And your nails, girl they will shine!  

So give them your fingers

And just go get'em done                    (get'em get'em get'em get'em)

Yeah lady                                            (get'em get'em get'em get'em)

Go and get'em done               (It won't chip a bit)

Yeah                                                    (Not a little bit)

-      JACK - "Stop, Stop everything!  You ladies can't do this here!"

-      MOEISHA "Oh No?" shows them her shellac nails with a sexy look

-      Security Guards  "Oooooo"

-      MOEISHA -  "Help her out boys!"

ROBYN

Ooo, my nails                                      (oo)

Slicker than honey                                           (oo)

And guess what?                                            (What?)

Didn't cost much money?                   (woo)

But the Richest color that I've seen    (oo)

Is shinin on my nails now                                (Shellac, Shellac, Shellac, Shellac)

Yeah ladies                                                     (Shellac, Shellac, Shellac, Shellac)

Shellac it to me                                                (Shellac, It won't chip a bit)

Last for 14 days, now                          (Not a little bit)

ALL GIRLS!!!!  CHORUS

S-H-E-L-L-A-C

Painting Fingers Flawlessly

S-H-E-L-L-A-C

It cures With UV3

MOEISHA RIFFING-

Oh,

(Shellac it to me, Shellac it to me, Shellac it to me, Shellac it to me)

Goodbye Hassle, 

(Shellac it to me, Shellac it to me, Shellac it to me, Shellac it to me)

Ohhhh (It won't chip a bit)

Hello Life (Not a little bit)

CHORUS

S-H-E-L-L-A-C

Painting Fingers Flawlessly

S-H-E-L-L-A-C

It's made by CND!

Oh (Shellac it to me, Shellac it to me, Shellac it to me, Shellac it to me)

A little Shellac (Shellac it to me, Shellac it to me, Shellac it to me, Shellac it to me)

Yeah, Lady (It won't chip a bit)

A little Shellac (Not a little bit)

SHELLAC!

About CND

Founded in 1979 and based in Vista, CA. CND is the global leader in professional nail, hand, and foot beauty. Deeply committed to advancing the nail care industry, CND devotes significant time and resources to product research and development, education, and customer support. CND is an industry-leading advocate for the role of nail care in personal beauty and fashion.

Jesse's Girl Sunset Blvd

Moving through my Eye Dusts from Jesse's Girl, today's shade is Sunset Blvd, a red base with shimmering gold in it.

Both sun pictures show a heavy gold flash, despite all the pink base showing in the pan.

In the shade, you can see more of the pink base, less of the gold - still very pretty.  This is one of my favorite colors for eyes.

Indoors with the flash, you can see a good mix of the pink and the gold - very lovely.  I can't wait to wear this out on the town!

Jesse's Girl sells for $4.99 a piece online or at Rite Aid stores. You can visit Jesse's Girl on their website, Like them on Facebook and Follow them on Twitter.

Disclosure: The product[s] in this post was [were] provided to me using store credit for external work I provided.  For more information, please read this post.

Color Club Back to Boho

Please enjoy the following press release from Color Club

*COLOR CLUB BACK TO BOHO Collection*

New Bohemian 70’s Inspired Collection Coming This Fall

Color Club, a New York based cosmetic brand specializing in nail and lip products announced today its new “Back to Boho” Fall 2011 Collection. The new collection features twelve 70’s inspired longwearing nail polish shades perfect for creating an effortless “Boho Glam” look. The collection will be available in September of 2011. With fun bohemian vintage inspired names, the Color Club “Back to Boho” Collection shades include:

Nomadic in Nude – a must have neutral for the season; off white and creamy

Earthy Angel – Gorgeous creamy camel

New Bohemian – a new 70’s take on Tiffany Blue

Shabby Drab – Purple Greige The ultimate boho color

Rad Nomad – Purple brown crème

Red-ical Gypsy – Boho chic red, a new take on a vintage classic red

Boho Mojo – Silvery, beige pearl            

Nouveau Vintage – The perfect understated vintage frosty gold

Voodoo You Do – The perfect charcoal grey for the season with blue undertones

Artsy Crafty – The ultimate muted military green

Blue-topia – Just as it sounds, the perfect shade of deep blue

Rebel Spirit – Deep chocolate brown creme

Color Club is all about color and renowned for its fun, high performance rich shades and exceptionally safe products. All nail colors are Formaldehyde, Toluene, DBP and paraben-free - and made in New York, NY with the best raw materials. Color Club products are made in the USA and are not tested on animals.

ABOUT COLOR CLUB

Color Club is a nail polish brand developed by Forsythe Cosmetic Group.  Founded in 1979, the Forsythe Cosmetic Group is a New York-based cosmetic company widely regarded worldwide as a pioneer within the professional beauty industry. A global brand with products represented in more than 95 countries, Forsythe was one of the first companies to recognize and address the needs of the professional nail salon, a new phenomenon at the time. Rather quickly, the Forsythe name became synonymous with excellent, performance-proven products available in a diverse range of eye-catching shades. Today, more than three decades later, the Forsythe Cosmetic Group remains a vanguard in the beauty business by constantly introducing new concepts and elevating industry standards. Forsythe manufactures every product it offers, a practice that ensures superior color-matching quality control and the ability to respond quickly to consumer demands for the latest and most exciting trends in nail color, nail treatments and lip color.

For additional information on Color Club please call 1-800-221-8080 or visit www.cosmeticgroup.com.

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Jordana Giveaway

Please enjoy the following press release from Jordana!

 

“LIKE” JORDANA ON FACEBOOK TO WIN A POLAROID POGO INSTANT DIGITAL CAMERA

Be the lucky winner to get a Jordana Polaroid Pogo Instant Digital Camera and start capturing your hottest summer looks! Encourage your friends to “like” Jordana on Facebook for a chance to WIN. Once you “like” Jordana you will be directed to the Pogo Giveaway where you can ENTER NOW to win. Simply click FACEBOOK below to be directed to Jordana’s page

“LIKE” JORDANA COSMETICS ON FACEBOOK

*Contest ends July 15^h at 11:59 AM PST

For additional information, please visit http://www.facebook.com/jordanacosmetics to enter. 

OPI It's Totally Fort Worth It

Continuing with the Texas collection, this is It's Totally Fort Worth It.  For the record, I kind of avoid the Dallas-Fort Worth area, sorry friends.  It's just way too far north for me.  Now, this color is weird.  It LOOKS like a grey creme but it's not.

Welcome to a grey shimmer.  I used a base of OPI Natural Nail, 3 coats of polish and a top of OPI Top Coat.  I decided to shift my hand so you can see that this is anything BUT a creme.

Can you see the sheer tonight?

In the shade, it's a bit more opaque but barely.  It also seems really more of a gloss.

Finally indoors with the flash (and one nick later), you can see that this color lacks some serious punch.  I was really kind of sad because there's nothing special about this for me.  No duochrome, no sparkles... boo.  Then again, that's kind of how I feel about Fort Worth :P

OPI is available at Professional Salons, including Beauty Brands, Beauty First, Chatters, Dillard’s, JCPenney, Pure Beauty, Regis, Trade Secret, and Ulta, for $8.50 ($10.95 CAN) suggested retail for each Nail Lacquer. Please visit their website for details [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.

Jesse's Girl Kiwi Rose

Photo Courtesy of Jesse's Girl Cosmetics

A few months ago, I was given the opportunity to help Jesse's Girl Cosmetics with their nail polish line, and in return for my work, I was offered store credit.  I decided to take my store credit and purchase the Eye Dust - A Collection - 28 shades in all.  All come sealed in a 2.5 gram pan with a sifter insert (note to self, I'm still learning how to use sifters properly) and a label that unfortunately has to be destroyed in order to open the container.  As you can see, the top lid has the company's logo and the bottom of the container has the ingredients list.

Today I'm testing out Kiwi Rose - Product 80580.  It's a light yellow with green flash, a lot like their nail polish Fire Fly.


This swatch was just the sifter insert removed and placed on my arm, no primer was used.

In the sun, you can see how it has a strong yellow glitter flash to it.

Turned to the side, you can start to see a bit of green in the glitter (obviously not green grass in this picture... it's over 100 degrees right now!).

In the shade, you can see the light yellow base.

To show the opacity of one pass of this product, here's indoors with the flash.  You can see that it does carry quite a bit of glitter and can look very yellow/green which is a great accent color (any time, if you ask me!)


I have 27 more shades here and some of them make me DROOL, so hope you like this little new feature of me finally going through all my eyeshadow/pigments!  I'm hoping to add another spreadsheet soon to my site, so you can easily go through those as well.  :)

Jesse's Girl sells for $4.99 a piece online or at Rite Aid stores. You can visit Jesse's Girl on their website, Like them on Facebook and Follow them on Twitter.

Disclosure: The product[s] in this post was [were] provided to me using store credit for external work I provided.  For more information, please read this post.

OPI Suzi Loves Cowboys

Well Suzi, I love cowboys too.  :)  From the Texas Collection, Suzi Loves Cowboys is a medium brown creme.  It's almost the color of the cowboy hats you see in movies, but for the record, a lot of us wear black cowboy hats.  Goes better with the clothes, you know.


I used a base of OPI Natural Nail, 3 coats of polish and a top of OPI Top Coat.

A friend of mine was looking over my shoulder while I was editing and said "I really like this color."  It's not a bad color at all.  However, this is definitely not me right now.  I would prefer it on shorter nails I think?  Also, I have a son - and you can just imagine what this color reminds me of.

If you're looking for a good brown - well, this one was good!  I think it's a great Konad base - look how smooth and opaque it is.

Indoors you can see a tiny bit of nail on my pinkie but the rest of the fingers are definitely opaque.  Good color - just not for Krystal.

OPI is available at Professional Salons, including Beauty Brands, Beauty First, Chatters, Dillard’s, JCPenney, Pure Beauty, Regis, Trade Secret, and Ulta, for $8.50 ($10.95 CAN) suggested retail for each Nail Lacquer. Please visit their website for details [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.

OPI I Want To Be A-Lone Star

I was born in Texas, lived here for 7 years, moved away for 7 years and then my family decided we needed to be home.  It's been 14 years since I've been back and I love this state.  When OPI announced that they would be coming out with the Deep in the Heart of Color/Texas collection, I was ecstatic.  I'm still wondering if I can ask a salon (nicely) to keep their display model because I am obviously a big fan of where I live.  Now this collection had 6 cremes and shimmers and then 6 "sorbet" polishes, also known as jelly polish.  Unfortunately, among nail salons, this was NOT well received, but we'll get back to this later.


I immediately gravitated to I Want To Be A-Lone Star, "a starry Texas-sky blue".  Now, I've never really see a starry sky blue (how is that even possible?) but I was still very much in love with this color.  I used a base of OPI Natural Nail, 3 coats of polish and a top of OPI Top Coat.

It's very much a grey-blue with a tiny hint of shimmer in it.  Very nice and muted.  This has less blue than China Glaze Sea Spray but it's in the same family for me.

Despite my hesitation on blues, this is definitely a blue I'd feel fine wearing.  I think it's a good wedding color.

Indoors with the flash and you can just barely see the shimmer.  So far, a good win for my home state collection - and much more to come!

OPI is available at Professional Salons, including Beauty Brands, Beauty First, Chatters, Dillard’s, JCPenney, Pure Beauty, Regis, Trade Secret, and Ulta, for $8.50 ($10.95 CAN) suggested retail for each Nail Lacquer. Please visit their website for details [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.

OPI Navy Shatter

I was pretty excited to try OPI Navy Shatter despite my fear of blues because from everything I'd seen, this blue ROCKS.  I decided to layer it over yesterday's Nicole by OPI's Not A Gold Bigger.

It didn't crack too well on my index finger but I LOVE the way that this shattered over my ring finger.  Such a lovely crackle and combination if I say so myself (my alma mater colors were blue and gold).

In the shade you can see a tiny bit of sparkle in the blue which makes it even cooler - seriously.

I love all the sparkle in this manicure and can't wait for football season so I can break this out for my college games.  :)


OPI is available at Professional Salons, including Beauty Brands, Beauty First, Chatters, Dillard’s, JCPenney, Pure Beauty, Regis, Trade Secret, and Ulta, for $8.50 ($10.95 CAN) suggested retail for each Nail Lacquer. Please visit their website for details [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.

Nicole by OPI Not A Gold Bigger

The final color in the Nicole by OPI "One Less Lonely Girl" collection is Not A Gold Bigger, a gold metallic.  Now if you've been reading my blog for awhile, you'll know that I'm not a big fan of gold anything.  This color still holds true to that fact, but that's just my color preference, not my polishing opinion of this formula/color/bottle :)


I used a base coat of OPI Natural Nail, 2 coats of polish and a top of OPI Top Coat.  The formula was smooth and opaque.

In full sun, you can see that this covers well and I don't have any bald spots showing.

In the shade, this looks more like a strong foiled nail to me (like Minx) which is cool since I would never have the patience to wear a color that long (I don't think).

Finally indoors with the flash (and a naked thumb), you can see that this is definitely an opaque color - no bald spots or VNL.  If you don't have a gold metallic by now, this is definitely a good one to pick up because of the "Perfect Brush" handle which I do like quite a bit (it's flat on one side) but it's not a unique color.


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.

Zoya Smoke and Mirrors

Please enjoy the following press release from Zoya!

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fall 2011 nail color

smoke and mirrors

...beautiful illusions

Zoya Nail Polish presents 12 enticing and mysterious new colors for fall 2011.

Zoya Smoke Collection

Jana (ZP564) - smoky mauve quartz cream

Petra (ZP565) - smoky eggplant mauve cream

Codie (ZP566) - smoky brown taupe cream

Anja (ZP567) - smoky palatinate purple cream

Cynthia (ZP568) - smoky Prussian blue cream

Dree (ZP569) - smoky camouflage green cream

Zoya Mirrors Collection

Nimue (ZP570) - smoky rich thistle metallic

Marina (ZP571) - smoky steel blue metallic

Tao (ZP572) - smoky slate gray metallic

Yara (ZP573) - sparkly olive green metallic

Neeka (ZP574) - sparkly amethyst purple  metallic

Jem (ZP575) - sparkly fandango pink metallic

Zoya is the new color of fashion... The new Zoya smoke & mirrors colors were designed and inspired by top fashion designers and beauty icons.

Ultra long-wearing, glossy nail lacquers  by Zoya are free of harmful industrial chemicals like toluene, camphor, formaldehyde, resin, dibutyl phthalate (DBP) that are known to cause cancer and birth defects.

Find Zoya smoke & mirrors as well as over 300 other high-fashion Zoya shades at www.zoya.com. As always, each and every Zoya color is made for beautiful women so we name them after beautiful women.

smoke & mirrors by Zoya - available July 15, 2011 (USA)

Sug. Retail $8.00 per 0.5 fl. oz. bottle (US)