Happy Sunday! I have 3 more blogs for you today.
First up today is Concrete and Nail Polish. This is run by sisters April and Ashley. They feature a lot of blue (which I love) but also quite a bit of nail art. I love that it's not just Konad, but also nail pens or free handed designs.
Next is Dr. Frankenpolish. Owner Amanda mixes her own nail polish creations using her own extensive collection, as well as some pigments and embellishments. She was featured in a NAILS magazine article here. This was another one of the original blogs I first subscribed to, and I even purchased about $50 worth of frankening supplies because I thought "Pfft, I can do that too!" Well, I can't do it, and I ended up actually mailing my supplies to Amanda, hah.
Third is not a nail polish blog but actually a jewelry blog. I came across this blog after my friend Jen of FrmHeadToToe (I'll be linking to her blog another day) modeled some DSK Jewelry and I am absolutely obsessed with all the jewelry that DSK creates using loads of Swarovski which I collect. I haven't made a purchase yet, but with very reasonable prices and a huge client base, I'm just itching to make a purchase.
Enjoy!
Oh Zoya, be still my heart. When I saw the first swatches of Kelly, I was just overwhelmed. Is it dusty purple creme? Is it purply grey creme? (Okay seriously, I can never figure out if it's grey or gray, so I'm going with grey.) Now, it was just about to POUR rain before I took these pictures, so I took as many pictures as I could and bolted in the house for one more swatch.
I used a base of Zoya Anchor, one coat (one coat!) of Kelly, and a top of Zoya Armor.
Here in some indirect sun, it looks soooooo dark grey and you can just barely see the purple.
And yet when I rotated my hand, bam, hello purple! Very happy with this color and I can't wait to wear it again this fall. Kelly is from the Fall 2010 Wonderful collection, available on Zoya's website now.
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.
I'm such a sucker for red glitter. While I was picking up my OPIs and Color Club Revvvolution, I also saw this very beautiful gem from Color Club - Ruby Slippers. This is a red based polish with loads of red glitter.
I used a base coat of Seche Natural, 2 coats of Ruby Slippers and a top coat of Seche Vite. Yum.
Check out that sun glitter goodness!
Look how beautiful this is in the shade?! It's almost brighter than China Glaze Ruby Pumps. It literally just jumps off my nails. Definitely beautiful.
Barielle's Fall 2010 Collection, "Style in Argyle", came across my desk and I was really intrigued by all the browns in this collection. I don't normally purchase browns even though they don't look bad on me at all. I think I'm still warming up (haha) to browns since it's such a non-conventional color to me.
Unfortunately, I couldn't get a good bottle picture - it kept coming out orange instead of brown. Cashmere or Loose Me (what a name!) is a soft brown with copper pearl. It looks like just a creme in the bottle but when I took it out in the sun, BAM hello copper pearl. When I was just looking at it, I was thinking it was more of a bronze shimmer, but hey, tomato, tomato. Wait, that doesn't work when it's written...
I used a base of Seche Natural, 2 coats of Cashmere or Loose Me and a top coat of Seche Vite. Here's some sun!
In the shade, you see more brown, no shimmer on the nail (just in the bottle).
Notice the new bottle? Before it was "Shades by Barielle" with the circle, and 0.50 fL oz. Now it's Barielle Shades and they did lower the content by 0.05 fL oz. I like both bottles, but this new bottle shows off the color more (since the logo isn't large and in the center).
Disclosure: The product[s] in this post was [were] provided to me by the company for consideration. For more information, please read this post.
The place that I bought my OPI My Private Jet, also had bottles of Color Club so not only did I want to get a bottle of Revvvolution, but I wanted to get 2 bottles. So you imagine my surprise when I saw this.
Now, I could almost swear that my "One" bottle is much lighter than my "Two" bottle. I even Tweeted about it and Color Club responded saying that it shouldn't happen. Well... ^_^
Revvvolution is a black holo which just makes my day - it's everything I love in a polish. I used a base of Seche Natural, 2 coats of Revvvolution and no top coat.
Here in the sun, I really think that my Two is darker than my One, just like the bottles.
Holos hate shade. But you can see in the shade that there are different base colors of black here - One is more gray. Well, either way I still love this polish.
