Polish Bloggers Network: Lacquer Link Love 1/29/10

* A few fellow bloggers help Babbling Brooke come up with a Konad of the Day that's a dazzler.

* Lavender lady bugs in silver spacesuits, Naive Nails shares her very cute, but accidental mani.

* Bright Lights Big Color brings out the Vampy Varnish as she shows off the stunning OPI Blackberry Chutney

* Blogger Euridice continues with her Rescue Beauty Lounge binge posts and shares a limited edition polish we lacquer fiends love.

* To help those of you who might be taking advantage of Models Own's special 72 hour sale and in celebration of the fact they now ship internationally, Helen's Nice Things has decided to compile some of her personal Model Own Swatches, for reference and your polish viewing pleasure.

* Polished Beauty Blog brings an old color back to life and shows a good thing can never go bad

* Cucumpear shares with us her "applicious" mani that will surely leave you thinking about a Golden Delicious apple.

* Polish Galore shows a shade I've deemed her new lucky polish and a few personal highlights as well. <- that's me!

* Manicure Mommas has received her first Diamond Cosmetics package and shares with you the 8 new editions to her collection.

* Polish Up breaks out a diamond dust polish and shows just how diamonds sparkle in the light.

* Chromatic Misadventures continues her "Week in Red" and shares with us different shades of this classic hue.

And now, on to the Network Giveaways....

* Tuli's Nails is having a fabulous V-Day giveaway for all her fabulous followers, so be sure to check her blog for the details.

* Also, Babbling Brooke is having a contest to Thank all of her wonderful followers and has tons of goodies she plans to share as well.

China Glaze Drive In

I got the job!  Starting tomorrow morning, I'll be working for a local high school (!) with their Media Technology program.  Considering I got my bachelor's degree in Radio/TV, this excites me, greatly.


While Gelato was a good interviewing color, tomorrow is my first day with the kids, so I wanted something that would pop, without being too off the wall and scary.  I liked the vampy colors of Retro Diva, so I decided on China Glaze Drive In.


This color is a very shiny shimmery red almost the same color of Ruby Pumps sans glitter.  It also reminds me a lot of Cherry Pie from the Summer Days collection (glass fleck).  Either way, I think it's a nice introduction color to these kids, who are going to be seeing a lot of different nail colors in the coming year ^___^


Sadly, I painted my nails at 9:00 p.m. so no outdoor sun/shade or bottle pictures... instead it's just my "sunlight" bulb from my lamp.  I got my light box in, but I still need to pick up some lamps for it, and iron the backdrop - I don't even think I own an iron :o


I can't wait until my nubbins grow out.  I used Seche Natural this time to help smooth out my ridges, and two coats of Drive In.  I could have gotten away with one, as this is a very nice smooth and highly pigmented shade, but I like going for two just to make sure I didn't miss anything.  I topped it off with a coat of Seche Vite.  Despite how orange it photographed, there's very little orange to it , more stop light red than tomato red.

And an original picture from the first time I threw this shade on.  My best friend really liked this color - it's such a come hither color!

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].

150+ Followers Giveaway [Winner]

Thank you to the 110 wonderful readers that all signed up for my 150+ Followers Giveaway!  To make it simple and easy, you were each assigned a number by the way you comments (first person was #1, etc).

Then I went to my rusty trusty Random Numberizer located at http://ma.tt/tools/random-number/ and asked for a number between 1 and 110 and I got this:

YAY #19 aka Flavia http://www.blogger.com/profile/12188655207393958559

I've sent you an email from krystal[at]polishgalore.com  so I can get your mailing information.

If for some reason, I haven't received a reply by next Tuesday at midnight:01 GMT, I will redraw for another winner.

Thanks again and I'll be holding my 300 followers giveaway if/when I get there!

China Glaze Gelato

Tomorrow I have a very important meeting regarding my future (can I get more cryptic?) and I went out and bought a new pair of pants and a top... then it was time to decide my nail polish color.  This is the shirt I'm wearing (regardless of what you think, LOL I've had some choice comments) from Maurices [official website].

I love the pop of pink but I know I can't go as wild with my polish color.  I pulled some colors from the Creme and Glitters collection, and finally decided on China Glaze Gelato.

This is a nice creamy pink with a slight dusty rose tint to it.  I figured it would be a nice neutral shade to go against that hot pink collar.

It was near sundown but I grabbed a couple of pictures - this was in the remaining sunlight - you can see how it's a nice smooth pink almost giving me "mannequin hands".  This was 3 coats, but honestly I should have gone with 2.

And one picture in the shade - again, a nice soft pink.  The application on this was nice and buttery as well, I used 3 thin coats but I ended up smudging it shortly after - got impatient.

Eep!  Web camera fail.  This makes Gelato look very pink - more bubblegum pink.  This was an older picture, as you can tell.


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].

China Glaze Peachy Keen vs V

Today I have another comparison post after looking at all my polishes, and wondered "Is this the same color?"

On the left is China Glaze Peachy Keen from the Up & Away collection and on the right is China Glaze V from the X Collection.  Peachy Keen is described as "nectar" and V is described as a "coral creme" - already by just the bottle pictures you can see that Peachy Keen is lighter and less orange than V.

This is two coats of each color - in the sun, you can tell that indeed, these two bottles are not the samer. V is much more orange and oddly a little more streaky than Peachy Keen.

Same with the shade picture - Peachy Keen is more vibrant and well, peach.  Well I tried!  Indoors sometimes, I can't tell what's what, especially the way I have my polishes in acrylic spinner shelving units.  (I'll have to take pictures soon.)  

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.