Apothica Giveaway

Many apologizes for being behind on picking my winner for the Apothica Giveaway!  I ended up with a total of 64 entries and the winner, randomly chosen via my iPhone randomizer was Grace W!


Grace, I have sent your information to Apothica so you can receive your $25 gift certificate.  Enjoy!

Urban Decay Spring Products!

Urban Decay is celebrating their 15-Year Anniversary this year with a bang!  There's the 15-Year Anniversary 24/7 Glide-On Pencil Set (which I'm SO getting next pay day), brand new 24/7 Glide-On Shadow Pencils (think eyeshadow and pencil all wrapped in one!), a new blending brush, Afterglow Glide-On cheek tint and 3 new mascaras... the Lush Lash System, the Supercurl Curling Mascara, and the Urban Lash Mascara for False Lashes!  Click on the picture to check out their website now!

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.