Halloween Beauty Blogger Giveaway Winner!

Major congrats to Becky M who won the Halloween Beauty Blogger Giveaway!  Becky, who has her own blog, won with this tweet.  Thank you to all who entered and I hope you stick around PolishGalore for lots more polish fun!

Glitter Gal Nail Polish Competition

I have not yet tried this Australian brand of holographic and sparkle polishes, but I just might have to after this contest!  Glitter Gal is hosting a re-branding/naming competition (similar to what The Painted Nail is doing), where you offer names, and someone will have their names picked!  Full details are provided in this YouTube video from the owners.






Some highlights:

• Competition ends 11 November 2011, Australian time, so best to have them in by 9 November just so you don't miss any deadlines!
• You must email your entries to competition@glitter.com.au  Don't forget the "au" part of the email address!  (For security reasons, I have not linked the email address, but you can copy and paste!)
• The winning entries will receive a full range of the 3D holos and sparkles in the new larger bottles!
• All judges decisions are final and Glitter Cosmetics retain the sole rights to the winning names.
• You may enter as many times as you like AND the competition is open to all countries.
• If 2 people have the same winning name, the person who submitted first is the winner.

I've already sent in my names - I'm not highly creative, but I did have a couple of ones that I considered to be good... and one I named after a dear friend in the UK who would be tickled purple (!) if the name was chosen.  Good luck!

Additionally, if you're in the US and wondering where to buy some Glitter Gal, my friend Kim at OverallBeauty has them!  And some are even on sale!

Zoya Feel

Happy November!  This is a big month for me, and while I wish my fellow NaNoWriMo blogger Destany a great success this year, I'm actually sitting out for the first year in three.  While I jump start my blog again (with all these pretty fall and winter collections I have!), please start off by enjoying this press release from Zoya!

2011/12 NAIL POLISH MUST HAVE

FEEL

Six full-coverge winter cream neutrals

FEEL Beautiful!
Every season the color experts at Zoya create dozens of new color collection options. This year, one of those “secret collections” just had to be seen now rather than later. FEEL by Zoya Nail Polish delivers six new, highly pigmented, full coverage neutrals for right now!


Zoya FEEL Collection
• Kristen (ZP591): Full coverage, gull gray cream
• Carey (ZP592): Full coverage, periwinkle gray cream
• Megan (ZP593): Full coverage, taupe gray cream
• Kendal (ZP594): Full coverage, rose quartz beige cream
• Kennedy (ZP595): Full coverage, pale french beige cream
• Avery (ZP596): Full coverage, blonde beige cream


Zoya is the new color of fashion...


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


Find Zoya FEEL 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.


FEEL by Zoya
Sug. Retail $8.00 per 0.5 fl.oz. bottle (US)
www.zoya.com


Available November 15, 2011.

Color Club Foil Me Once

Another from the Color Club Foiled collection is Foil Me Once, a pinkish lavender purple metallic.  I had icky indirecy sun this day, so I apologize for the darkness of them.  I used a base of Zoya Get Even to cover my ridges, and 2 coats of polish.  To keep the metallic sheen, I did not use a top coat.

Why hello indirect sunlight!  I like this color a lot better than the Lumin-icecent just because I think it goes better with my skin, but formula wise?  Perfect.  Metallics are pretty awesome things - normally opaque in 1-2 coats, have some shimmer to them... look futuristic.  Speaking of, I need to think of a Halloween costume as I'm now going to a party (bleh, I'm not one for Halloween, to be honest).  Any thoughts?

And this indoors with the flash - I was trying to put some cuticle oil on too so that's why my pinkie looks super shiny.  Speaking of shine - look how shiny these nails look!  No top coat!  Really!

Color Club is located on several etailers, including Head2Toe Beauty which has it for $3.00.  You can also Like them on Facebook and Follow them on Twitter.

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

Color Club Lumin-icecent

I'm jumping all over the place again and today I have Color Club's Lumin-icecent from the Foiled collection.   This was a group of metallic colors that are very reminiscent of the China Glaze Khrome or Romantique collection.  As with metallics, they will show every ridge or dent in your nail (if you have them like me!).  


I used a base coat of Zoya Get Even, 2 coats of polish and I decided to go without a top coat because I loved the shine that these colors produce on their own.

So this was before a manicure - can you tell?  My cuticles were horrible, especially my middle finger!!!  I love the base color of this blue - it reminds me a bit of Zoya Crystal - without the gold.

I'm not sure how I feel about metallics.  I think they are pretty awesome but they are also awesomely shocking on the nail.  I like the idea of toning it down with glitter, crackle/shatter or even some Konad.

Indoors with a flash - kinda fail on this one.  But at least you can see that metallic blue ... and a bad polishing job.  Hah, seriously - fail Krystal... fail.

Color Club is located on several etailers, including Head2Toe Beauty which has it for $3.00.  You can also Like them on Facebook and Follow them on Twitter.

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