Blogs of Note

Happy Sunday!  Here are 3 more blogs.

First today is Happy Berry Naiad.  Owner Berry is from Singapore and features a lot of polish that I haven't seen before.  She has medium length nails and does some nail art, but mostly just posts swatches which is great because again, most of it is all so new to me!


Next is I Love Nail Polish.  Owner Wan lives in Canada and has long nails.  She does feature a lot of nail art but also provides picture tutorials which is great.  She also posted a ton of uniquely flavored KitKats which I just recently found out about in the past 2 years and I'm dying to try.  She's been on a bit of a break but it's still fun to read her archives. 


Last today is Konaddict.  She has been on a bit of a break, but you can still search her blog for Konad tutorials.  She wears gel nails but they are medium length and her tutorials seem very easy to replicate which is great for a non-artist like myself.


Enjoy!

Zoya Stacy

My best friend and roommate in college was named Stacy.  It was rare that people remembered there wasn't an "e" in her name.  Stacy is listed as a mahogany red cream in the Zoya Wonderful 2010 Fall collection.  I really do enjoy Zoya - I'm glad that I found out about it through the blogging world.  The nearest place to physically but Zoya is over an hour away but I did hear they have been seen at Ulta (also, an hour away), but of course you can buy online directly from their website, which is nice because they always have great customer service and shipping costs and turn around.

I used a base coat of Zoya Anchor, 2 coats of Stacy and a top coat of Zoya Armor.  The color actually goes on a lot lighter with the first cost and darkens up with the second - pictures tell the story.

The formula was really nice with Stacy - instead of being a lighter red like the 1 coat, it's more of a darkened wine color.  Look familiar?  I'll have a comparison post tomorrow.

There is 1 coat on the ring finger but 2 coats on the rest of my hand - when I originally picked the color of stain for my cabinets, I picked "mahogany" but my cabinets look a lot lighter than Stacy right here.

In the shade, you can see that Stacy darkens up a bit.  It's definitely more red than brown, and while this was listed as a fall color, I see how it would be pretty in winter too!


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.

Barielle Wool You Marry Me?

Barielle Wool You Marry Me? is listed as a plum brown creme from the Style in Argyle Fall 2010 collection.  It definitely seemed more wine plum looking to me, almost a dark raspberry?  If you think this looks like a certain Zoya, you are very close, but more on that later.


I used a base coat of Seche Natural, 2 coats of Wool You Marry Me? and a top of Seche Vite.  The formula was very nice - not too thick, not runny.  I think this would look better on longer nails but I'm still rocking the nubbins.

As you can see, in the sun, you can see just how warm this color is.  In the original promo pictures, I thought this was WAY more brown than it really is - which is good because I'm still nervous about wearing brown polish... I think it's just too dark for me, but nope this was really more of a red for me.

Now in the shade the color darkens up but it still reminds me of more of a rum raisin in my little mind.  I never thought I'd be this bad at telling colors until I had to find ways to explain literally every color on the planet.  ^_^  Yay for variety though!

Barielle retails for $8/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.

Revlon Autumn Berry

I live in a semi-small town and rarely have a place to buy polish outside of Sally's.  I have a Wal-Mart and an HEB, but that's it.  My HEB decided to remodel the entire store and in their moving of cosmetics, I noticed a bunch of Revlon's with a $2 off ticket attached.  I realized I didn't own and Revlon and took the opportunity to grab one.

Autumn Berry is a wine red with a tiny bit of gold in it.  However, the gold was more in the bottle than anything else.  It's definitely a shimmer and a good fall color at that.  I used a base of Seche Natural, 2 coats of Autumn Berry and a top of Seche Vite.  The formula was good - no pooling/not thick.

In the sun you can see a tiny bit of the gold shimmer - it wasn't very pronounced though.

In the shade, the color is much darker red - like a berry wine.

Indirect sun was my favorite here.  You can see the shimmer but also the base color well.  Overall it was worth 


Revlon can be found in several grocery and drug stores - price may vary from $3-5.  Check out their website for more information.  You can also follow them on Twitter or like them on Facebook.

Urban Decay Eyeliners

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I've said it before, I'm obsessed with Urban Decay.  When I saw this email, I immediately clicked on it to buy these eyeliners.  Urban Decay's 24/7 Eyeliners are the ONLY ones that I have been able to use on my waterline without the liner running into my eyes.  I love Zero (their zealous black) and enjoy Ransom (bright iridescent purple) but this includes NINE of them, so I'm stoked.  I already have a full size of Zero (two actually), and a mini of Whiskey from the NAKED palette, and a full sized & mini Ransom (from the Book of Shadows 3), but WHO CARES.  Eyeliner is awesome.  Hah.