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3.07.2010

Tuli's Nails shares her festivities during Purim with us and creates a colorful manicure that's perfect for the celebration.

Chromatic Misadventures brings us a host of Models Own swatches this week in an array of colors

Phresh Mentality found a little inspiration in Rihanna's Rude Boy video for the phresh design she's brought us this week.

Have nail issues or questions you'd like to discuss with a nail specialist? Well get your questions ready because polishSWATCHES is starting a new blog series called "Nail Talk"... with celebrity manicurist Tashina, from Poochiez Nail Studio in Atlanta. Submit your questions by using the contact form at the top of the blog page.

Polishg the Nails shows off Adore from China Glaze. Have you ever seen this color from the 2009 Romantique collection?

Naive Nails channels the orient to bring us a a very pretty konadicure she's called the Jaded Tiger.

The Swatchaholic was able to get her hands on the Essence Cute as Hell collection and brings us some wonderful swatches of all the pretty pastel colors.

Travel with Euridice is sharing a Color Club Color that you absolutely have to get your hands on this spring. Or should I say on your hands?! :)

Polish Galore is showing off some hologram goodness. Hint: This color is sure to have you LOL. ;) <- That's me!

Manicure Mommas shed a little light on the new fun and quirky polish brand called Cheeky Monkey.

and Polish Freak is showing off a color that has set the polish world on fire.

Helen's Nice Things wants you to know they have a brand spanking new site AND a new web address at.... Just Nice Things! So have a visit and change your blogrolls accordingly from http://www.helensheenie.wordpress.com/; to http://www.just-nice-things.co.uk/

And now.....Giveaways!!!

Check out...

The Konadomania Giveaway in honor of her gaining 100 blog followers

and

The Chromatic Misadventures Giveaway in honor of her gaining 300 blog followers

Congratulations Ladies!!!

Zoya "Flash and Sparkle" Summer 2010 Collection

3.04.2010

I saw this email this morning and whoaaaaaa. I love glitters like I love my son (heh) so this makes me happy.

Please click on the pictures to view them bigger.

Zoya Flash Collection
Robyn (ZP513) - perfect turquoise cream
Perrie (ZP514) - soft lavender cream
Dana (ZP515) - american rose cream
Jolene (ZP516) - summer pink cream
Maura (ZP517) - electric crimson cream
Jancyn (ZP518) - soft tangerine cream

Zoya Sparkle Collection
Ivanka (ZP507) - mermaid green sparkling metallic
Charla (ZP508) - tropical blue sparkling metallic
Mimi (ZP509) - royal purple sparkling metallic
Alegra (ZP510) - fuchsia pink sparkling metallic
Nidhi (ZP511) - rich red sparkling metallic
Gilda (ZP512) - fashion pink sparkling metallic

CREAMS AND METALLIC GLITTERS FOR SUMMER? Whoa awesome. Very different from China Glaze's neons. Flash and Sparkle by Zoya will be available April 1, 2010. Zoya [official website] can be purchased on their website.

China Glaze LOL

lolololololol I absolutely love this color. China Glaze LOL is from the OMG! collection and is a medium dark purple with holographic rainbows inside. Yeah, that's my official review right there.

This was the second color I wore after I started wearing polish again (last year) and I just am in love with this color and don't nearly wear it enough. As with most of the OMG! collection colors, in the shade or indoor light, the color comes off with a bit of a shimmer, but out in the sun, WOW. Just wow. Wow in a bottle. To compare, the purple is lighter than China Glaze Grape Pop (2010 Up and Away) but darker than China Glaze Grape Juice (2009 Summer Days). I'm only talking the purple base, not the finish of the polish.

PICTURE HEAVY! I'm telling you, I love this polish! First some old pictures - notice the old water mark!

Horrible, huh? Now the bottle.

And a few blah shade pictures

And then the BAM!

Absolute yum. I also threw on some different finishes for you. In the above pictures I'm wearing Seche Natural as my base, two coats of LOL and a coat of Seche Vite top coat.

In the following picture, the base is Seche Natural, two coats of LOL, but different tops. The index finger has no top coat, the middle finger has Seche Vite and the ring finger has China Glaze Matte Magic. Matte Magic totally kills the holographic goodness.

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].

Barielle A Bouquet for Ana vs China Glaze Shower Together

3.03.2010

Yesterday after I put on my shades by Barielle "A Bouquet for Ana" I kept thinking that I had another color that looked just like it. So I got on the floor (my polish spinners got knocked down there since I needed the side tables for well, side table purposes again) and started looking. Finally I figured it out. China Glaze Shower Together. So I removed a bit of polish and did a little comparison.

The bottle in sunlight made me really feel that these were dupes. On however, was a different story. If you remember, A Bouquet for Ana was 2 coats (one thin and one thick). Shower Together was also 2 coats but in China Glaze fashion, it was two thin coats, no pooling into the cuticles. I used Seche Natural for the base coat and Seche Vite for my top coat.

You can start to see in the shade that this is not a dupe, but rather, cousins. A Bouquet for Ana (on my index and ring finger) is slightly darker than Shower Together (shown on the middle and pinkie fingers).

In the sun was the same story. Some of my sun pictures did not show a difference in the colors but there was a slight one - I could tell I was wearing two different blues. At this point, I got silly and threw on a coat of China Glaze Matte Magic because I realized I have like... 12 bottles. (I went nuts and bought 2 Sally's stores clear out when they were on sale for $1.99.)

Thanks for reading! I was able to grab a little bit of sun for my next manicure - it's one of my absolute favorites - the second polish I wore when I started collecting again!

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

Barielle A Bouquet for Ava

3.02.2010

I have another one of the shades by Barielle Wildflower collection colors today - "A Bouquet for Ava". This was one of the colors that 100% of proceeds will be donated to the Ovarian Cancer Research Fund when purchased at http://www.ocrf.org.

The formula on this one was a lot like June Bug - thick in the bottle, thin on the nail for the first coat, but totally opaque after the second coat. Barielle has called it a cool Caribbean blue, which is pretty accurate. I thought it also reminded me of China Glaze "Shower Together" so I did a comparison before I took off my manicure today (post later to come).

I used Seche Natural for my base and Seche Vite for my top coat. I must say that this color to me, is a jelly. It may have been the Seche Vite but that's okay by me because it's a keeper in itself.