My Stash - By The Numbers

This last week I have been super busy organising my mums 50th Birthday Party. It was last night and after a week of baking, cooking and organising today I get a pjamma day all to myself.

I thought I would share some numbers about my stash.  If you guys are keen I can also do a picture post of my helmer(s) draws and show you what it looks like.

Brand	Number
A England	10
All that Glitters	1
Butter London	16
Catrice	3
China Glaze	67
Cirque	9
CND	2
Color Club	132
Daring Digits	1
Darling Diva Polish	1
Deborah Lippmann	23
Elixir Lacquers	1
Enchanted Polish	2
Essence	5
Essie	5
Essier	1
Finger Paints	6
Girly Bits	9
Gosh	3
H&M	3
Hare	7
Icing	9
Illamasqua	1
Inglot	4
Island Girl	8
Jade	1
Jessica	3
Kleancolor	2
Lilacquer	2
Lynnderella	3
MAC	3
Make Up Store	1
Max Factor	1
Milani	6
Misa	3
Models Own	22
Nails Inc	5
Nfu Oh	18
Nicole by OPI	24
Nubar	5
OPI	185
Orly	26
Ozotic	18
Pantone Universe	3
Paris Sparkles	3
piCture pOlish	6
RBL	1
Ruby Wing	8
Sally Hansen	21
Sephora by OPI	23
Sinful Colors	1
Takko Lacquer	1
Zoya	25

This is a total of 749 polishes spread across two helmers and sorted by brand. This does not include top and base coats or any treatments. I also have a bunch of destashed polishes not counted in here.   I am also waiting on orders from Lush Lacquer, A England, Darling Diva and Glitzology to arrive.

Hope your having a great weekend.
Lots of Love
Lisa

Color Club Neon Fracture Collection

This picture is from the Color Club Facebook page.

Left to right: The Big Bang, Burst Thing's First, Bomb-blast-ic, Shock rock, 

Living on the Edge, Take a Crack at it.

I think these look totally cute. Who knows how long this fracture trend is going to last?  China Glaze and OPI are also still releasing more shatter/crackle polishes. So its not ending any time soon then.

These are available online here in America for $8 each.

Lots of Love

Lisa

Spotted in NZ: Sally Hansen Gem Crush

The Gem Crush Collection by Sally Hansen has made it to New Zealand.

 Left to Right: Showgirl chic, Big Money, Cha-Ching, Blingtastic, 

Bejeweled, Razzle Dazzle, Lady Luck, Glitz Gal

I found these in store at Farmers today.  The odd thing I noticed was that Glitz Gal and Big Money had different caps/lids than the rest of the collection (luckily all the lids on my collection match).

Sally Hansen NZ announced on their Facebook page last week that these would have a recommended retail of $12.99. But when I bought the last one to complete my collection today at Farmers they were $13.99.

Lots of Love
Lisa

Models Own Hed Kandi Collection

This was just posted on Models Own Facebook wall.

NEW from Models Own - the Hed Kandi collection! We’ve joined forces with Hed Kandi to create an exclusive collection of nail polishes inspired by the party capital of the world, Ibiza! Includes (from left-to-right) the flirty Beach Party, a sunny, bright and intoxicating polish inspired by the world famous sunsets on the White Isle; Balearic Cool, a crystal aquamarine blue inspired by the waters of Formentera; Disco Heaven, a glittery, gold disco bomb; Ibiza Mix, a dense multi-coloured day-night sparkle; Hedonist, a no inhibition hot neon coral. Launching online from April 10th and available in select Boots NOW! Which is your favourite?

Ohhh and don't the two glitters just look amazing?!

Lots of Love
Lisa

Color Club Blossoming Collection

Color Clubs Spring Collection for 2012 is Blossoming. It contains 5 pastel shades and Diamond Drops which looks like large odd shaped pieces of silver glitter. These are already for sale in America on the Color Club website. This collection will be coming to New Zealand in August.

Lots of Love
Lisa

2011 in Review

Well it is 2012 here already. I can not believe how fast 2011 went. Mainly because I haven't lost any weight and I get married in exactly 5 weeks and now I am starting to freak out.

2011 The Year of Crackle

2011 really was the year of the crackle nail polish. There were crackle offerings from OPI (Shatter), China Glaze (Crackle), Color Club (Fracture), Models Own (Smash Up) as well as Sally Hansen, BYS, Nicole By OPI and Sephora by OPI to name just a few. They all had the standard black, with most collection also containing white, silver, gold and an array of other colours.

Color Club - Broken Tokens

Color Club - Kiss & Break Up

There are still more crackles to come in 2012, starting with the plum coloured Super Bass Shatter in OPI's Nicki Minaj collection as well as a Glitter Crackle collection coming from China Glaze.

Best new Brand: A England

I only have 4 of these polishes but I love them all. The names, the colours and especially the formula on these.

A England - Isuelt

Best Product: Orly Bonder

I know this isn't a new product for 2011, but this product has been a manicure life saver for me. When a polish used to chip within a few hours on me, I know get a full solid day without chips (trust me this is good for me).

Best Holographic Polish: A England Tristam

The A England Mythicals collection contained two deep dark holographic shades. Tristam (a dark blue) and Lady of the Lake (a dark purple).

A England - Tristam

Best Collection of 2012: Color Club Wicked Sweet

I love this collection. Bright shimmery neons with ulta violet flashes of blue that smell AMAZING. I especially love I Always Get My Man-darin as I have no other polish quite like it in my collection.

Color Club - I Always Get My Man-darin

We know that next year sees the Zoya Fleck Effects collection coming out (argh more flakies), along with OPI's Nicki Minaj and Holland collections. China Glaze has a collection of neons coming out for summer as well as their promised Hunger Games collection.

Who knows what else will come in 2012. Hopefully more from A England and Models Own.

May 2012 be the year of holos and flakies!

Lots of Love
Lisa

OPI Nicki Minaj Collection

Its official! OPI today confirmed on their Facebook page the existance of the new Nicki Minaj collection, due out next year. And I will gladly admit I am totally excited about this collection - bot because I love Nick Minaj but because the colours look great.


From the OPI Facebook page:

Despite what you've seen online, we wanted to make sure you got accurate information from us. The Nicki Minaj collection consists of a deep shimmering purple Shatter called "Super Bass" and these five Nicki-inspired colors: "Metallic 4 Life", "Save Me", "Fly", "Did It On 'Em" and the bubble gum hue "Pink Friday".

Are you excited about this collection?

Lots of Love
Lisa

Spotted in NZ: OPI Touring America Collection

Look what we found at Farmers today.....

OPI Touring America collection (Winter/Fall 2011)

I didn't realise at the time but there is an empty spot in the middle of the display. Thanks again to Lisa taking sneaky pictures on her iphone for me.

I am not going to get any of these polishes (especially not at NZ$27 each that they are at Farmers). There is 6 dark brown/taupe/grey colours and six red/pink/purple colours. (edit: my bad there are actually 4 micro-shimmer polishes in this collection and the other 8 are cremes)

Lots of Love
Lisa

Spotted in NZ: Orly Birds of a Feather

The Orly Birds of a Feather collection has made it to New Zealand

Finally New Zealand is starting to get polishes not long after they release over seas - (unlike the six months we normally wait) Although as I am typing this I realise we still haven't had the Orly Cosmic FX collection here.

Orly Birds as a Feather Collection

• Fowl Play (purple sparkle)
• Lucky Duck (green creme)
• Nite Owl (beige shimmer)
• Peachy Parrot (coral shimmer)
• Sea Gurl (grey shimmer)
• Sweet Peacock (blue shimmer)

I saw these in Farmers yesterday. They had a full untouched display. I think these sell for about $23 each. I like to wait until Farmers had buy one get on free on Orly - which they some times do, unlike the meager 15% the have off OPI.

I didn't pick any up myself. Fowl play looks like a pretty close match to OPI Merry midnight, but as I own this already I didn't think I needed two. None of the other really stood out to me.

I was hoping that New Zealand would be getting Orly's Pin-up and Happy Go Lucky mini collections as these are much more my colours, that a bright and glittery.

Lots of Love
Lisa

Color Club Starry Temptress Collection

So instead of doing 6 separate posts I thought I would stick these all in one big one. All swatches are 3 coats.

Color Club Space Case - Sunshine

This is by far my favourite of the collection. It is the only one that doesn't finish matte like. This one is like a glittery versions of Color Clubs Electro Candy and appears to have the ultra violet shimmer running through it. Definitely the star of the collection.

Color Club Ultra-Astral - Sunshine

This one appears slightly oranger in the picture than it is in real life. The sun also makes it appear less opaque than it really is.

Color Club Wink, Wink, Twinkle - Sunshine

Color Club Wink, Wink, Twinkle - Shade

This is a pinky purple which looks more colour accurate in the second picture.

Color Club You Got Soul-ar - Sunshine

Color Club You Got Soul-ar - Shade

This is a bright orange neon. Not so yellow toned in real life as it appears in the pictures. Neons are so hard to photograph well!

Color Club Glitter Envy - Sunshine

Color Club Glitter Envy - Shade

A bright green polish. This one is quite colour accurate.

Color Club Otherworldly - White Light

This is a nice medium blue. This one turned out true to colour in the picture.

The formula on all of these polishes was great. All pictures are three coats. They all dried fast and the thickness of the polishes was just perfect. Color Clubs formulas seem to be improving with each new collection they put out. This collections formulas were also consistent across all the polishes.

The biggest problem I had with all of these colour (except Space Case) was that the colour is a little dense and drowns out the sparkle of the glitter, making the polishes dry matte. The glitter sparkles more in real life, especially in the sun, than it appears to in the photos.

This 7 piece set comes with a Starry Temptress Topcoat for "extra shine and twinkle!" I haven't used this in any of these pictures, but may experiment over some black later on.

Hope your all having a good weekend.

Lots of Love
Lisa

These polishes were sent to me for review. There is a couple of sets available on www.usanailsonline.co.nz for $59 a 7 pack.

Spotted in New Zealand: OPI Pirates of the Caribbean collection + a small rant

Over the weekend OPI released the Pirates of the Caribbean collection in New Zealand stores.

Top: Skull and Glossbones, Mermaid's Tears, Steady As She Rose, Planks A Lot

Bottom: Sparrow Me the Drama, Stranger Tide, Silver Shatter

I also found out that Farmers has increased their retail price of OPI to NZ$26.90 a polish! This is INSANE!!!!!! $24.90 was already far too much to pay and now it is just ridiculous. I am not sure whether this is Farmer's fault or OPI's but I for one am not happy about it. Thank goodness for e-tailers that ship to New Zealand.

The only one I am interested in getting from this collection is the purple Planks A Lot, but I will not be rushing out to get it.... especially not from Farmers. I already have the p2 silver crackling top coat, so will not be investing in the OPI one.

Have you seen this in your local store? How much were they selling it for? Do you agree with me that NZ$26.90 is daylight robbery?

Lots of Love
Lisa

OPI Pirates of the Caribbean Collection

This year OPI is releasing a collection for the fourth Pirates of the Caribbean movie. This continues on from their collaborations with Alice in Wonderland and Shrek last year.

Picture thanks to Claire at www.thebeautyscoop.co.uk/

These are all creme pastel colours. Who would have thought to associate pastels with pirates? I kind of imagined vampy purples and grungy greens. But in saying that all that the regular women in that time period wore pastels (I'm thinking back to the first movie where Keira was wearing giant big dresses in pastels with a giant pile of hair on her head)

Mermaid Tears : Light pastel seagreen
Stranger Tides : Lightest pastel yellow
Planks a Lot : Pastel muted purple
Sparrow Me the Drama : Smoky purple-pink
Scull and Glossbones : Pearly white shimmer
Steady as She Rose : Delicate rose pink

And of course they have added another shatter colour to the collection, with a silver shatter top coat! This is one I have to have!

This seems quite similar in the way they did the Shrek collection, a collection of 6 cremes. Some with a different finish would have been nice now that OPI has got us all addicted to glitter thanks to the Burlesque collection. Although I must admit from what I have seen these 6 cremes all look great with the silver shatter over the top.

Hope your having a great weekend.

Lots of Love
Lisa

OPI Texas and Katy Perry in New Zealand

For those who are wondering where it is......

The Texas collection is due for release in New Zealand on Monday the 14th of February. It will be sold in Farmers and Life Pharmacies as well as Kirks and other department stores and polishes retail for NZ$25.


OPI New Zealand has also said on Facebook that the Katy Perry collection will be released in New Zealand in time for her concerts in May. So don't worry - it is on its way!

Lots of Love
Lisa

Color Club Giveaway

Color Club New Zealand have kindly sponsored this latest giveaway here at never ending obsession.

Color Club has been in New Zealand for a while now and is selling their polishes for rrp$16 in salons, pharmacies and Amazon stores. You can check out a list of stockist here on the Color Club New Zealand website.

Color Club New Zealand has kindly donated the 7 piece (not available in New Zealand stores - and even I don't have a set!) Rebel Debutante collection.

Left to Right: Who are you Wearing, High Society, Best Dressed List, Charity Ball, Uptown Girl, She's sooo Glam, Ms. Socialite.

This is the perfect nail polish collection for autumn (or if you live in Wellington like me - it is perfect for the weather we are having now - which is grey and rainy). It is full of the trendy colours for autumn/fall including purples, greys and taupes. All seven of these polishes are cremes and perfect for day time work and sophisticated night time wear.

This give away is open to New Zealand residents only. And through this we are going to try and build more brand recognition in the Color Club brand in New Zealand and the never ending obsession blog. I want to be able to make this blog about New Zealand. What is available here and when and for how much. So it makes sense to have more New Zealanders following.

To enter:
1. Be a follower (give follower name and email address) (1 entry)
2. Tell me where in New Zealand you live (1 entry)
3. Refer your fellow New Zealanders on to Color Club and never ending obsession. Get your friends to follow and enter in the giveaway - if they mention that you referred them here you get another entry.
4. Tell me what polishes you like to buy from New Zealand (1 entry)
5. Tell me what you want to see on this blog - do you appreciate the "spotted in NZ" posts? BYS posts? how to order/swap with overseas? where I buy my polishes from? (1 entry)

Leave a comment in the comment section.
Closes March 10th 2011.

Good luck and lots of love
Lisa

Spotted in NZ: Orly 'Tis the Season

I am so glad the Orly is developing a bigger presence in New Zealand and that they released the Christmas collection at the correct time here (unlike their other collections that we get 6 months late). 2 hours ago I discovered the whole entire Orly 'Tis the Season Collection at Farmers - It hadn't even been touched yet.

Left to Right: Candy Cane Lane, Glitz & Glamour, Naughty or Nice, Rockin' Rocket, Winter Wonderland, Meet me under the Mistletoe.

Orly polishes retail for NZ$22.99 each but are on sale at the moment at Farmers for 2 for $24.98!!!! AWESOME. I picked up two of these today: Meet me under the mistletoe and Winter Wonderland. Swatches to come later.

Orly has also released this whole collection as a set of mini polishes. You can get three of these for $24.99 at Farmers at the moment. I'm not 100% sure on the regular price but I think they are about $10 each.

Lots of Love
Lisa

OPI Spring 2011 Texas Collection

OPI has finally realized that releasing images of their upcoming collections and information about them in advance is a better idea than trying to gag anyone who talks about them on the internet before their release date (like they did with the Burlesque collection).

This week pictures were released of the upcoming 2011 Spring collection based on and named after the American state of Texas. It seems a bit odd to base a collection on one American state when there are so many countries and places that don't have collections yet (they could do an awesome New Zealand collection based on our green trees, blue sky and black sand beaches - I want to be acknowledged if you do use this idea though OPI).

The last few days OPI on Facebook released swatches of the polishes from this collection. If your not already a follower of OPI on Facebook I suggest checking it out now that they are using it to inform customers of what they are actually up to. (http://www.facebook.com/#!/OPIProducts)

• Don’t Mess With OPI - A lean, mean, kick-grass forest green
• Austin-Tatious Turquoise – Cowgirls love this bodacious blue-green
• It’s Totally Fort-Worth It – A shimmery lavender grey that’s so worthy of you
• Do You Think I’m Tex-y? A “berry” sexy bloom of Dallas dahlia
• Big Hair…Big Nails – A rosy pageant peach
• I Vant To Be A-Lone Star – You won’t want to share this starry Texas-sky blue
• Houston We Have A Purple – A galactic red-violet that’s ready to “rocket-roll”!
• Suzi Loves Cowboys – But she loves this campfire chocolate shade s’more!
• San Tan-tonio – A “honey” of a ten-gallon tan!
• Too Hot Pink To Hold ‘Em – A red-hot pink-red that deals a winning hand
• Guy Meets Gal-veston – An “engaging” coastal coral. A very orange pink
• Y’all Come Back Ya Hear? – This Texas tangerine will be waitin’ for ya!

I am kind of glad to say that I am actually underwhelmed by this collection. There appears to be only one shimmer and a great deal of reds and brown colours. This is definitely good for my bank balance after the amazingness of the Burlesque collection (which I am still waiting for in the mail to arrive). I think that OPI came up with great names for these polishes but that is about it.

What are your opinions on this collection? Yay or Nay? and how do you feel about a collection based on one state?

Lots of Love
Lisa

Upcoming OPI Katy Perry and Serena Collections

OPI on Facebook just released pictures of their new collaboration collections due out in 2011.

Katy Perry Collection: "OPI will be ringing in 2011 with the Katy Perry collection complete with glitter, gun metal & black shatter!"

Left to Right: Last Friday Night, Not Like the Movies, The One That Got Away, Teenage Dream and Black Shatter.

Serena Glam Slam Collection: "The Serena collection has a bit of a twist. Sold as a two pack this coming January, you can get your hands on both "Simply Smashing" and black Shatter. This is the first set coming out for the Australian OPEN, and there will be more with more color combos as well!"

Simply Smashing and Black Shatter

CAN NOT WAIT!!!!

Check out the YouTube video here: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=W1piNxgXJzI

Lots of Love
Lisa

(Pictures and quotes were all taken from OPI on Facebook)

Color Club Teenie Halloweenies

Halloween is not a big thing in New Zealand at all. There may be the odd halloween dress up party but it is more of an excuse for people to get drunk and dress skanky than anything else (I don't think I will be joining in at all this year). There is almost no trick-or-treating or anything like that here.

But color club does have the teenie halloweenies nail polish pack out for those in New Zealand who do want to theme their nails this year.

The pack contains 4 mini polishes. Silver glitter, French tip, orange revenge and black. These are 7mls each. I was quite surprised to see that these have good length brushes inside and not some stupid little mini brush that makes it hard to apply the polish.

Color Club - Silver Glitter, Black, French Tip and Orange Revenge - Sunshine

Theses are all 2 coats. The black is a really good one coater and the silver glitter worked really well with just two coats. All polishes were a good consistency and the white was surprisingly opaque.

The 3 colours topped with silver glitter - sunshine

The silver glitter in this pack is a clear jelly with smallish silver glitter in it. After 2 coats it gives almost complete coverage. I think it works great as a top coat on top of the other three aswell.

Color Club Wham! Pow! and Orange Revenge

Orange revenge is a dupe for Wham! Pow! from the 2010 Poptastic collection.

Unfortunately my camera refused to photograph these well at all and kept making them appear really yellow. The bottle pictures above are much more colour accurate. Both of these polishes are 2 coats and it is impossible to tell the difference between the two of them.

I think this is a great little collection for the New Zealand market. Although we are not getting the newest color club halloween collection like the rest of the world this is a great start for color club who are relatively new to the New Zealand market. These 4 packs are selling for $29.95, which is a good deal as the polishes aren't actually that small and have decent brushes with them.

Lots of Love
Lisa

These polishes were sent to me for review by the awesome people at Color Club New Zealand

Color Club Untamed Luxury + Poptastic

OMG! OMG! OMG!

Color Clubs Untamed Luxury Collection looks AMAZING!!!

This is the Fall 2010 collection for the Northern Hemisphere, I am assuming this will be released next month sometime to all you lucky folks in America.

Pretty in Platinum, Wild Orchid, Positively Posh, Soft As Cashmere, Nothing But Truffle, Jewel of a Girl.
De-Luxe-Cious, Ms. Hautie, Red Velvet, Untamed Luxury, Resort to Red, Snakeskin, Covered in Diamonds.

How can you not be excited about this collection? Glitters, flakey top coats, Shimmers and amazing colours make this a must have collection! I cant wait.

This however is at least 6 months away for New Zealand. We run a season behind on Color Club polishes, so that collections are released in the correct season here.

In September the Poptastic Neon Collection will be released in New Zealand. This is the 2010 Spring/Summer collection, and replaces last years neon Flower Power Collection from last year.
I was lucky enough to receive the 7 piece sampler pack from Color Club NZ, and so with 7 colours and 7 days in a week, guess what next week will be? A week of Poptastic Neons (Hopefully - I'm waiting on a bit of sun, to get more colour accurate pictures of these neons, but it wont stop raining here!)

Hope you all have a great weekend :)
Lots of Love
Lisa

Mac and Disney

Mac and Disney have joined together to create the winter 2010 Mac Venomous Villains Collection. To say I am a little bit excited is an understatement. Disney and nail polishes are two of my favourite things in the whole world, so combining them is awesome.


They have created a range of products, including lipstick, blush, eyeshadow, eyeliners, pigments and more. All products in this range are limited edition products. They are due to be released in September 2010.

They have created three nail lacquers for this collection:

Bad Fairy - Red with multi-changing pigments
Mean & Green - Purple with teal pigment
Formidable! - Teal with pink pigment

These lacquers are retailing for US$12 each

(Thanks to www.temptalia.com for images and information)

These look amazing! The only problem is they probably wont make it to New Zealand. The last Mac collection Alice & Olivia (summer 2010) was not released in New Zealand, meaning this collection probably wont be either.

Last November me and my fiance went to Hawaii and LA on the best holiday of my life. I love Disney so much, my Disney DVD collection is huge and I love it, so to finally get to go to Disneyland was the most amazing experience of my life. Here are some photos from our trip.



Unfortunately no pictures with any of the Disney villains. I think they might scare the little kids if they were walking around all day long :P

Lots of Love
Lisa