Zoya Intimate Collection

Please enjoy the following press release from Zoya about their new collection launching 15 January.

intimate

a color romance

Temptations, whispers, dreams, secrets, illusions, liaisons, trysts... lingerie...kisses.

Zoya Nail Polish presents six new, elegant, full coverage yet revealing, metallics and creams for Spring 2011 to rendezvous with.

Marley (ZP542) - lavender pink with a whisper of metallic
Dove (ZP541) - delicate, pale gray cream
Caitlin (ZP540) - misty, moody gray violet cream
Dannii (ZP537) - sparkling, enchanted orchid metallic
Jules (ZP538) - soft, glimmering gold kiss metallic
Gemma (ZP544) - mysterious green/purple duotone metallic


Zoya is the new color of fashion... The Zoya Intimate collection was designed to recreate the custom looks developed for and inspired by the runways of New York Fashion Week - Spring 2011.


Ultra long-wearing, glossy nail lacquers by Zoya are free of harmful industrial chemicals like toluene, camphor, formaldehyde, formaldehyde resin, dibutyl phthalate (DBP) that are known to cause cancer and birth defects.


Find Zoya Intimate as well as over 300 other ultra high-fashion Zoya shades at www.zoya.com. As always, each and every Zoya color is made for women so we name them after women.


Intimate by Zoya - available January 15, 2011
Sug. Retail $7.00 per 0.5 fl.oz. bottle (US)

OPI Last Friday Night vs China Glaze Blue Hawaiian

While wearing OPI Last Friday Night, I was thinking it looked similar to the China Glaze Blue Hawaiian, one of the 50 Glitters and Cremes (also called Specialty collection) that came out last year.  Small down and dirty comparison here.


On my pointer and ring finger, I had OPI Natural Nail Base Coat, 3 coats of Last Friday Night and a top of OPI Top Coat.  On my middle and pinky fingers, I had Seche Natural, 3 coats of Blue Hawaiian and a top of Seche Vite.

While both are blue glitters in blue bases, you can really tell that these two colors are not dupes.  Oddly enough, you can really see how light the OPI blue is when it looks DARKER in the bottle.  Oh fun times.


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

OPI Last Friday Night

The other glitter in the OPI Katy Perry Collection was Last Friday Night - yet another one of her songs that I don't know.  I thought I was a Katy Perry fan until this collection, haha since I haven't heard of these songs!  I used to call her "Katy Pretty" on Twitter when I'd write to her... for the record, she never wrote back :\


I used a base of OPI Natural Nail Base Coat, 3 coats of Last Friday Night and a top of OPI Top Coat.  This is a blue glitter suspended in a blue base - much like Teenage Dream is a rainbow silver glitter in a pink base but this is not the same opacity at all.  I quit at 3 layers because I was getting impatient.

As you can see in the sun, this color is lacking in opacity by far - instead of a blue base with blue glitter - it almost gave my nails a frostbitten look.

The shade was a bit better but you can still see VNL quite clearly.


Here's a shot of it with Black Shatter.

Again, unlike Teenage Dream, this color just didn't pop out nearly as well - it just needed a thicker base to it. I'm sure it would amazing layered over an existing blue but on its own, it just didn't work for me.


OPI is available at Professional Salons, including Beauty Brands, Beauty First, Chatters, Dillard’s, JCPenney, Pure Beauty, Regis, Trade Secret, and Ulta, for $8.50 ($10.95 CAN) suggested retail for each Nail Lacquer. Please visit their website for details [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.

Blogs of Note

Happy Sunday!


First today is Daily Polish.  Owner Sara does really blog daily, although her most recent posts have been guest writers while she's on vacation in Israel.  She has short nails and has a LARGE selection of polishes to check out.


Next is Deez Nails.  This is one of the few blogs I've seen that uses false nails normally.  She wears both Nailene Active Square and Fing'rs brand Trophy Wife length.  There are many benefits to wearing false nails, and she has a great post on application and removal.  In addition to colors, she also has frankens and nail art.


Last today is Emerald Sparkled.  This is the awesome blogger who made the graphic used on mine and many other blogs.  Her name is Deniz, she lives in Turkey, and she has some amazing pictures and nail art in her blog!  Seriously, she's one of the best polishers I've seen - her nails always look beautiful.

OPI Not Like the Movies

How many colors do you count up there?  It looks like a green, a blue, almost a pinky purple...  I thought this color was going to be my new obsession.  OPI's Not Like the Movies from the Katy Perry collection is listed as a sultry silver but I really didn't see too much silver... except for the silver microglitter that was running through the bottle - quite a surprise to me!


I used a base of OPI Natural Nail Base Coat, 3 coats of Not Like the Movies and a top of OPI Top Coat.  I found the formula to be good, just a bit thin and not as build-able opaque as I hoped.

This is a bit what I would think deborah lippmann Wicked Game looks like - a different color at every turn of your hand.  


Update: Jenny from Polishology has a great comparison post here!

Check out this awesome view of the duochrome (trichrome?) in action with the green on my first two fingers and the purple gray on the last two fingers.  This was fun to play with it, for sure but overall wasn't quite what I expected.  I have to admit, it's much more fun in person than in pictures - I couldn't quite capture the range of colors you see on the nail.


And finally, a layer of Black Shatter over it all.

Unfortunately for me, all the purple disappeared after Black Shatter was applied and you were stuck with the purple.  While it's a beautiful purple, I loved all the swirling colors.


OPI is available at Professional Salons, including Beauty Brands, Beauty First, Chatters, Dillard’s, JCPenney, Pure Beauty, Regis, Trade Secret, and Ulta, for $8.50 ($10.95 CAN) suggested retail for each Nail Lacquer. Please visit their website for details [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.