Sation Holiday Golightly

Sation has quickly become one of my favorite professional/salon brands.  I do with they were more readily available to the average person but maybe one day!  (You can purchase online.)


Happy “Holiday Golightly” from Miss
Holidays are a time for all things fabulous: parties, presents, and polish! Miss Professional Nail (Miss) is ringing in the season with “Holiday Golightly,” a shimmering new collection of nail lacquers. These six sparklers are a great idea for fun stocking stuffers and to accessorize your New Year’s Eve look! 

Miss’ Creative Director Staci Dao wanted to celebrate the joy of gift-giving (and receiving!) by reminding us to pamper ourselves and our loved ones this season. Silver screen icon Audrey Hepburn captured our hearts playing free-spirited fashionista Holly Golightly, whose love of shiny gems helped inspire Miss in creating this wish list of winter stunners.

From the timeless, Tiffany-inspired blue to unique reds and greens, these luxe shades will light up your holiday season: “Under the Miss-tletoe,” a pearlescent pine green; “Feliz Navi-doll,” an icy crystalline grayish-white; “I Love Yule,” a velvety poinsettia red; “Let’s Mingle & Jingle,” a silver-spangled sapphire blue; “Holiday Golightly,” a glistening Robin’s egg blue, and “Stop Scrooging Around,” a gold-sparkled ruby wine. ‘Tis the season to channel our inner Holly Golightly and embrace the Miss mantra that “It’s the little pleasures that count…”

If you don’t the find the Holiday Collection under your tree, it will also be available online and in beauty supplies in late October.

All Miss products are free of DBP, Toluene and Formaldehyde.

Miss is an MBE (Minority Business Enterprise) certified company.

Recent NOTDs

If you follow me on Instagram, then I totally apologize for the repeat photos but I thought I'd share a few NOTD polishes I've been wearing lately!

Starting with some naked nails:

1 October
10 October
27 November

And now some color!

Sation Diamond Diggin' Diva

Color Club Harp On It
Layla Softouch
Ruby Wing Sand Dune (shade on left, sun on right(
Jelly sandwich of Cult Nails Bitten & OPI Servin' Up Sparkle
Cult Nails Disciplined with Jindie Nails Tried & True
China Glaze Glistening Snow

It's been fun wearing nail polish again!  I hadn't been wearing full manicures lately and missed it.

Cult Nails Behind Closed Doors

This fall, Cult Nails released the Behind Closed Doors collection which were all designed for Maria's friends and is her favorite collection this year.  There were many amazing surprises in this collection and Bitten has become my absolute favorite polish of 2012.  I even wore it for my engagement photos!


Behind Closed Doors - features 5 colors 

After Glow - a copper infused with a subtle pink shimmer
Bitten - a raspberry glass flecked polish 
Disciplined - a sheer but buildable soft grey with purple, pink and blue shimmer
Flushed - a true Blurple (blue/purple) buildable sheer with an intense purple/pink shimmer effect that appears to glow through the polish 
Coveted - a jelly deep green with metallic green flakes and subtle green shimmer.

Cult Nails [Website | Facebook | Twitter | Blog | Instagram: CultNails] is available in their shop for $10 a bottle.

PolishGalore Blog-iversary Sweepstakes #1


I looooove December! This year is going to be especially awesome, but more on that later.  I never thought three years ago that my little hobby would bloom into what it is today.  I've written almost 1300 posts, have had over 800,000 page views, there are over 2500 subscribers, I've attended two beauty conventions and spoke at one of them, and seen my nail polish collection go from a shoe box to an entire wall of my house.  I launched PolishGalore on 7 December 2009 so this month I plan on giving back to those who got me here!  

First up, the entire Color Club Halo Hues collection!  I actually won this collection from the Color Club Facebook page and then because of crazy shipping mishaps, I ended up with 2 sets, so I asked if I could include the extra set in my Blog-iversary and Color Club said "Sure thing!"  (Thanks lovelies!)

Due to shipping regulations, and my limited budget, this is only opened to USA residents.  Please wait for the Rafflecopter widget to load in full and email me at krystal@polishgalore.com with any questions as comments are closed.  The first Rafflecopter widget is to verify that you live in the USA but you won't be required to provide your full mailing address unless you are the winner.

The Rafflecopter giveaway will close at midnight on 8 December 2012 CST.

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NCLA Dirty Martini

It may be December but it's still hot here in South Texas so today I have Dirty Martini by NCLA.  This olive yellow-green creme is from the Fall 2012 "Going Out in LA" collection.

I used a base of Poshe, 2 coats of polish and a top of Cult Nails Wicked Fast.  This polish was very well pigmented and formulated.

Look how nice this is!  Now, on my middle finger you can see every single ridge I have.  To keep your ridges from being the center of attention, you can use a ridge filling base coat.  It's like a regular base coat but fills in the grooves of your nails so you have a smooth surface to paint on.  I like to buff my nails with a 4-way buffer that I get at Sally's Beauty Supply.  It's kind of cute to see my nubbin fingers - my nails are a lot longer now but I've also been religiously wearing at least a base coat on my nails, daily.

This picture is in the shade and while I didn't think it would be a color that I'd like, I LOVE it.  I don't know what it is about this color but it's not too pea-soup or baby projectile or any of the other images that I originally thought when I thought "olive yellow/green."

Especially in indirect light - I'm obsessed.  I think this color works well in other seasons as well - not just fall!

And finally, indoors with the flash - more yellow shows up here than in the other pictures.

While NCLA is definitely a higher end brand, I feel that it's totally worth the price tag for the formula and the range of colors.

NCLA [Website] [Facebook] [Twitter] [Tumblr] is available on the website for $16.00 a bottle and in a variety of stores.

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