500+ Readers Giveaway!

We're having a giveaway!  Thank you to all my readers, and in honor of hitting 500 readers at the end of this summer, I'm having a huge giveaway with 5 lucky winners!

China Glaze Grand Prize

• All 12 colors from the Fall 2010 Vintage Vixen collection
• Body Drench Quick Tan Tanning Mist sunless tanner
• bye bye blemish for acne anti-acne cleanser
• bye bye blemish for acne drying lotion
• SurgiCare face cream smoothing hair removal
• Gena Nail Brite Whitening Scrub with nail brush
• Seche Retain
• Seche Recondition
• Seche Plus
• Seche Vite
• China Glaze Fast Forward Top Coat
• Andrea Eye Q's Eye Makeup Remover Pads 
• Duo eyelash adhesive
• Ardell Runway Lashes "Claudia"
• Ardell Fashion Lashes Natural "110"
• Ardell Fashion Lashes Natural "109"
• Ardell Fashion Lashes Natural "Scanties"
• Ardell InvisiBand Lashes Glamour "Fairies"
• Ardell InvisiBand Lashes Glamour "105"
• Ardell InvisiBand Lashes Glamour "101"
• One new bottle of Seche Natural provided by me (because I love the stuff!)

China Glaze Hotsy Totsy

• Jitterbug – Grey chrome with silver micro glitter [review]
• Bogie – Plum frost with shimmer [review]
• Hey Doll – Rose frost with shimmer [review]
• Foxy – Burgundy frost with shimmer [review]
• Ingrid – “Greige” crème with copper micro glitter [review]
• Swing Baby – Taupe frost with silver micro glitter [review]

China Glaze Cat's Meow

• Goin’ My Way – Brown frost with copper shimmer [review]
• Riveter Rouge – Deep red shimmer [review]
• Classic Camel – Khaki crème with gold micro glitter [review]
• Emerald Fitzgerald – Turquoise green frost with shimmer [review]
• Midnight Mission – Navy blue frost with silver micro glitter [review]
• First Class Ticket – Deep purple frost with shimmer [review]

Mish Mash Nail Prize

• Incoco "24 Karats" dry nail applique and polish removal cloth
• Zoya Nidhi [review]
• Evil Shades Nightmare duochrome holo [review]
• Evil Shades Nightmare periwinkle blue holo [review]
• Nailene So Natural short length, square shaped 71000

True Blood and iTunes Gift Card

• True Blood - the complete second season (Region 1 discs)
• $10 iTunes Gift Card

1. You must be a follower of PolishGalore.  Be sure to leave your GFC (Google Friend Connect - What is it, how to join it post here) ID in the form for verification.  Both domestic and international readers are welcome, but please note that you will be responsible for any customs fees that your country may impose.
2. You may only win one prize, but you may enter your email address for which ever prizes you wish to win (for example, you may want to win the Grand Prize and the Mish Mash Nail Prize).  You are not required to put your name under each prize, but you definitely can do that!
3. OPTION BONUS ENTRY - Follow my Twitter and tweet the following phrase "Follow @keysgoround and http://www.polishgalore.com for a chance to win one of five awesome prizes!"  Only public Twitter accounts will have their entries validated.  Be sure to write your Twitter username in the appropriate section so I can mark that you have done so.  Your extra bonus entry will be added to the prize of your choosing, so if you do Tweet, also leave which prize you want your extra entry for.
4. Example
1. Twitter username: IEatFlies
2. Add my entry to prize: China Glaze Grand Prize

This giveaway runs for October 1-October 18 at midnight:01 GMT (or Sunday, October 17th at 7 p.m. CST).  GOOD LUCK!

***Many thanks to China Glaze and AII, Zoya, Incoco, Nailene, and HBO for their donation of prizes***

This giveaway is now closed.

Zoya Tiffany

Zoya Tiffany is another from the Winter 2010 Flame collection that comes out today on their website.  This one is listed as a soft champagne sparkling metallic.  I've always loved kind of the soft rose gold colors - since it's what my Mom wore all the time when I was a kid, but this is definitely a lighter version of that.  The formula was great, no messiness.  I used a base coat of Zoya Anchor, 2 coats of Tiffany and a top coat of Zoya Armor.  Cleanup was easy but as with Crystal, I needed to wash my hands afterwards to get all the microglitter off.

In the sun, you can see how this is a soft peachy color.  It almost blends in with my natural nails slightly.  I love the whole duochrome silkiness that these colors have.  It's something quite new for me to see, especially after seeing all the fall frosts out.

This is why I love this color.  Check out all that gold in with that peach!  It's such a good color for an evening out with the girls or maybe a first date?  Nothing too flashy, but very feminine.  Out of the 6 colors, I've featured my favorite 3, and today I'm determined to swatch the other 3 before I go pick up my Venomous Villains MAC nail polishes I had on hold for me - yay!


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.

Zoya Valerie

Zoya Valerie is a deep purple from the Flame Winter 2010 collection.  At first, on the spoon I kept thinking it was just a dark purple, but oh no.  Check out this awesome bottle picture.

Reds?!  Gold?! What's going on here?


Sadly, this was horrible to photograph but I did the best I could.  I really didn't want to take this color off, and in fact, my friend snagged it from me as soon as I showed it to her, because she wanted to have her nails done with it.  I used a base of Zoya Anchor, 2 coats of Valerie and a top coat of Zoya Armor.  I also scratched my index finger with the door handle, so please excuse that.

In the sun you can really see the richness of the purple shine through.  The glass fleck like properties really make it shine, but it doesn't have any blue in it like China Glaze Stroll or some of the other recent blurples.

In the indirect sun, you can start to see the jewel toned purple really shine.  I'm seriously in love with this color (even more than Crystal I think!) and its richness.

Finally in the shade you can see that the color dries silky smooth - no grit or bumps.  Definitely an A++ in my book - great job Zoya!


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.

Zoya Crystal

When I first heard from a Zoya Fairy that a Crystal would be gracing a nail polish bottle, I nearly jumped out of my skin.  While I knew it was Crystal, not Krystal, I didn't know what color it was going to be, or when it was coming out, but when I got my Flame plate, I nearly died (in a good way).


Crystal is a frosty blue sparkling metallic.  As I mentioned before, I feel like these are very close the summer 2010 Sparkle collection because when I removed the polish, I had tiny microglitter particles all over my fingers that I had to actually wash off with a nail brush in soap and water (which I prefer doing anyway after removing nail polish).  I feel like this color could actually be Edyta's younger sister.  While Edyta was a fern green with a bit of olive gold, Crystal is a light periwinkle blue with yellow gold.  Interesting enough, this is very close to the colors of my Alma Mater, so I'm super excited and had to really swatch this NOW.


I used a base of Zoya Anchor, 2 coats of Crystal and a top of Zoya Armor.  I found the formula to be very smooth, no grittiness with the microglitter/sparkling metallic.  Very lovely.

I mean really, look at that!  Obviously we have some sun action here.  It's finally sunny so I'm swatching as many and as fast as I can while still taking time to record the details.  I'm actually hoping to have all 6 up today - but that's a LOT of blogging.  ^_^

In the shade, you can see more of the gold coming through - it almost reminds me of salt and pepper but instead of black and white it's blue and gold.  Love it.

A rare side bottle shot taking in indirect sun.  The polish almost looks like a foil to me as well - it just lays so well unlike some frosts (which is what I first thought of when I saw this).  Removal was a cinch, just like I said before, a bit of microglitter remained on my nails.  Definitely a unique color - seriously debating on a back up.


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.

Zoya Flame

Zoya Nail Polish presents six new metallics for winter 2010.  They reminded me a lot of the summer 2010 Sparkle collection because it left the same kind of fine microglitter on my hands and when I think metallic, I think China Glaze Khrome.  Anywho.


From left to right on the plate
Tiffany: soft champagne sparkling metallic
Gloria - pink champagne sparkling metallic
Crystal - frosty blue sparkling metallic
Lisa - celebration red sparling metallic
Sarah - possibly the prettiest sparkling red metallic ever! <- straight off the release, exclamation mark included
Valerie - deep purple baby in a sparkling metallic


Flame are available today, October 1, 2010 on Zoya's website.


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.