Apothica Giveaway Update

The post to sign up for my $25 Apothica Giveaway is still located here but due to an angry computer virus, the Tweet didn't get posted until today for 2 extra entries.


This is the Tweet from Apothica that you need to ReTweet in order to get 2 extra entries for my giveaway.


If you already signed up for the giveaway and now want to RT the above tweet for 2 extra entries, just fill out a new entry form - I'll just merge whatever is a duplicate manually.  Thanks!

Zoya Julieanne

I don't know how this beautiful shade sat on my testing shelf for so long...  It's amazing!  Zoya Julieanne is from the 2010 Fall Wicked and Wonderful collection (Wicked) and is listed as a Byzantium purple sparkling metallic.  So apparently Byzantium is just a dark shade of purple - knowledge is power ^_^


I was absolutely thrilled with this color.  I always forget how smooth Zoya applies and am always happy with it when I put it on.  I used a base coat of Zoya Anchor, 2 coats of Juileanne, a top of Zoya Armor and another top of Seche Vite (to make it dry faster for me).

Look at that beautiful color in the bottle!  And holy cow, my nail just all of a sudden got super long!  It almost takes on a glass fleck look instead of a metallic.  Lovely.

In the shade, you can really see the richness of this color.  The ONLY downside was that inside in ridiculous yellow light (I hate yellow light bulbs), this color was super dark - almost black.  I was in church with my son when he said "I like your nail polish" (we're still working on indoor voices) and I noticed two women kind of look at me and wrinkle up their noses.  Oops.  ^_^  I ended up wearing this color for a couple of days because it was just so stunning.  Love it.


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.

Rescue Beauty Lounge Cherry Love

Did you take advantage of the Rescue Beauty Lounge, who by the way, is now on Twitter, 50% off sale?  When I heard rumors (which are still just rumors) that this would be the last sale of its kind, I narrowed it down to 4 shades and pulled the plunger.  I do own Scrangie but realized last night that I haven't officially swatched it yet - and I need to!


One of the 4 colors that I purchased is Cherry Love, listed as a "Popsicle-fuschia, the love child of hot pink and sizzling red.  When pink is too tame and red is too expected, give this glamorous shade a try."  I always have heard from other bloggers that the Rescue Beauty Lounge cremes are super smooth but I did find this one to be just a bit thick.  I'm not sure if it just needed time to adjust to the Texas humidity (is that real?) or what - but I didn't have that hard of a time applying - just needed to wipe a little extra off my brush.


I used a base coat of Seche Natural, 2 coats of Cherry Love and a top of Seche Vite.

In the sun, you can see how smooth the formula comes out - I do love how cremes look on the nail, which is funny... years ago I was all about glitter and nothing more.  Now I love the look of glitter on other people because I know how hard it is to remove heh.

One shade picture - just a tiny bit of VBL, but I may be the only person to see it - you can see a bit of red-blue in the bottle, but not too much.


Now, I've heard (again from other bloggers) that RBL doesn't play well with Seche, but I didn't have any problems.  I have 3 more colors here plus Scrangie and so I may be doing a wear test soon.  ^_^


Rescue Beauty Lounge is available for sale on their website for $18 a bottle.  You can Like her on Facebook as well as follow her on Twitter.

Blogs of Note

Happy Sunday!  I have 3 more blogs here for you.

First today is Vampy Varnish.  Blog owner Kelly has short to medium nails and has also started to blog about makeup too.  She gets some advanced releases of certain brands, so she's a good one to watch if you like reading about things way ahead of time.  I do wish that her RSS would load the whole post the first time.  I always have to click the "Read more" from my reader, which I haaaaaate because it loads in a new tab but I'm more inclined to comment because it does load the blog ^_^.  Kelly also created a line of nail polish with BB Couture found here.


Next is Inside Of My Purse which actually a Turkish blog but owner Zuzu writes in both Turkish and English for her readers.  She has short nails and reviews a lot of cremes with other finishes as well.  She recently moved so she was on a bit of a break since everything has been packed up.


Finally today is A Polish Problem.  I love that she promotes other blogs every Friday in her "Blogger Round Up" which includes new and just new to her blogs.  She's one of the people who inspired Blogs of Note.  She was also listed as a Top 50 Nail Blog by SpaBeautySchools.com.  Megan has short pear shaped nails which I have never seen before.  It's great to see a variety of nails out there, and blogging has certainly done that.


Enjoy!

China Glaze Jolly Holly

Oh look!  More icky weather!  I seriously couldn't get a good picture of Jolly Holly to save my life due to the cloud coverage.  Everything just looked gross which is sad because China Glaze Jolly Holly from the Winter 2010 collection is a super pretty dark green shimmer!  China Glaze actually had it listed as a forest green shimmer.


I used a base coat of Seche Natural, 1 coat of Jolly Holly and a top of Seche Vite.  Very nice formula - completely opaque in one coat.  I'd also like to mention that I didn't have any staining of my nail or of my hands after wearing this color - something that always scares me with greens.


I really am sorry for just having this one nasty cloudy picture - I promise the color is pretty dang awesome!  Additionally, I think it would be very beautiful with some Konad stamped in Cheers To You!

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.