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

Color Club Magnetic Force

 

 Color Club Magnetic Force - sunshine

Color Club Magnetic Force - shade

Magnetic force is from the Color Club collection also called Magnetic Force. It is a deep dark plum colour. This is two coats, the first applied normally and the second coat applied one finger at a time and then transformed using the magnet on the end of the bottle cap.  This is relatively easy to do, but a little time consuming as you have to do each finger separately. 

As I said in my last post on the topic, Color Club polishes only have one magnet pattern which is a disappointment.

Have a good weekend.
Lots of Love
Lisa

This polish was sent to me for review.

Color Club Hipnotic

Look what arrived in the mail today.....


Color Club Hipnotic. This is my first Magnetic polish and I couldn't wait to try it out.

Sorry about the crappy condition of my nails. For some reason they are just not growing at all. I'm waiting for some new nail hardener to arrive in the mail.

Color Club Hipnotic - Natural Light

This is a beautiful colour. A deep burgundy shimmer colour. It is lighter on the nail before you use the magnet on it.

This was a lot easier than I had imagined it to be, although it is slightly time consuming. You apply the first coat of polish as normal. Then one nail at a time, you apply the second coat of polish, (I used a thick second coat) and then hold the magnet over your nail for 5-15 seconds (I just counted to 15) Unfortunately because of the magnet being held over the nail you can not see the pattern forming, which would have been cool.

The Color Club magnets are attached to the top of the bottle (they remove off the handle of the polish for easy use) and have a little ridge which you can use as a height guide for how far away you hold the magnet from your actual nail.

Color Club Magnetic Force Magnet

I do have a few issues with these. All six Color Club polishes come with the same magnet pattern. This means to get the other shapes (diagonal lines or star) you will need to purchase a magnet from another brand. Secondly because I have little short nails, you do not actually get much of the wavey pattern showing up on the nail.

Overall these polishes are more fun than I thought they would be. They are very easy to use and a great way to add something extra to a regular mani.

Lots of Love
Lisa

This polish was sent to me for review

Spotted in NZ: Color Club Magnetic Polishes

Magnetic Nail Polishes are finally making their way to New Zealand. These haven't quite yet been spotted in New Zealand but they are not far away! The following press release is from Color Club New Zealand.

INTRODUCING MAGNETIC FORCE: THE NEW MAGNETIC NAIL POLISH COLLECTION FROM COLOR CLUB

MARCH 2012 – Auckland, New Zealand - Color Club NZ Ltd, distributor of the New York based nail color company announced today the debut of Magnetic Force, the new magnetic nail polish collection coming this April. The Magnetic Force Collection features six nail polishes -- from Cop an Attitude to Steel of the Night and Electro Midnight. This new vegan, formaldehyde, toluene and DBP-free collection comes with a magnet cap that creates a one of a kind wave design on the nail. To use: Apply two coats of polish, while the second coat is still wet, hold the magnet over the nail for 5 seconds and a wave design will appear.

Introducing the Magnetic Force Collection by Color Club:
SCI-FI: GOLDEN GREEN
COP AN ATTITUDE: COPPER
HIPNOTIC: BURGUNDY RED
MAGNETIC FORCE: PURPLE
STEEL OF THE NIGHT: BLACK STEEL
ELECTRO MIDNIGHT: NAVY BLUE

Color Club’s Magnetic Force Collection will be available in New Zealand from mid-April 2012. All Color Club products are made in the USA and are not tested on animals.

A favorite of celebrity manicurists and nail color fans worldwide, Color Club is renowned for its high performance rich shades and exceptionally safe products. From the brightest neons, to glitter and French, all nail colors are vegan, formaldehyde, toluene, and DBP -free – and made in New York, NY with the best raw materials. Color Club is available in New Zealand in selected Pharmacies and Fashion stores including Amazon Surf & Skate.

Lots of Love
Lisa

Color Club The Great Divide

The Great Divide is one of the fracture polishes in the second batch by Color Club. It is beautiful in the bottle. It is a Dark blue full of green and gold glitter, that would be gorgeous as a regular polish (I wish it was a regular polish)

Color Club The Great Divide
(Sorry the pink bits in the bottle are the reflection from my pink camera)

Color Club The Great Divide over Color Club OoooooLaLa - Natural Light

Lots of Love
Lisa

Color Club Oooooo La La

Color Club Oooooo La La - Sunshine

Color Club Oooooo La La - Shade

Oooooo La La is from the 2009 spring Femme Fatale collection.
I wore this polish on my toes for my wedding. It is a nice dense white with a hint of shimmer. It is slightly frosty/pearly but has very nice and smooth finish. This is three coats.

Lots of Love
Lisa

Color Club Foiled Collection

Color Club New Zealand announced that Foiled collection will be the Autumn release in New Zealand. The Foiled Collection is six luxurious liquid shades with a chrome-like shine and the look of molten metal. Color Club’s Foiled Collection will be available in New Zealand from 20th February 2012.

The following swatches are all two coats. The application is easy and the dry time on these is super quick. You can dip the brush in the polish once and paint a whole hand load of fingers.

Color Club Perfect Mol-ten - sunshine

Color Club Antiquated - natural light

Color Club Cold Metal - sunshine

Color Club Hot Like Lava - natural light

Color Club Foil Me Once - sunshine

Color Club Lumin-icecent - sunshine

I am crazy busy at the moment, with my wedding now only 3 weeks away. I have so much to do!

Lots of Love
Lisa

These polishes were sent to me for review.

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

Color Club Shabby Drab

Shabby Drab is from the 2011 Back to Boho collection. It is the only polish I have tried from this collection so far and I really like it.

I started a new job this week (actually its a secondment but its like having a new job) and I was trying to find not too outlandish colours to wear on my nails the first week in case I freaked people out.

I have a top the same colour as Shabby Drab so I decided to wear it.

Color Club Shabby Drab - White light

This is three coats. It is a very purple toned grey. In some lights it almost looks lilac coloured. It is a nice smooth creme.

Color Club Shabby Drab (accent in OPI Save Me) - White light

I added a coat of OPI Save Me to my ring fingers as accent nails. I loved this mani so much I wore it for Thursday and Friday. So far at work no one has commented on my nails. I dont think I am willing to tell them how many polishes I have yet though. Well see how it goes.

4 weeks out from our wedding now and I am starting to get stressed and nervous and excited. I have so much to do.

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

My Pre-Christmas Haul

My partner flat out refuses to buy me nail polish (for Christmas or my Birthday).
So I have to order them for myself and try not to think about what currently owed on my credit cards.

At the start of December I ordered the Models Own Beetle Juice collection. (I also gave my best friend Lisa a set for Christmas)

Five beautiful duochrome polishes I cant wait to start trying out. This set comes with the Models own 3 in 1 base coat/top coat & Gloss. and because I ordered before Christmas it came in a cute little models own box.

A couple of weeks ago I posted that www.usanailsonline.co.nz was having a sale on their boxed Color Club sets. I picked up both sets of the Back to Boho collection for $69.

Not too sure these fit with whats in the shops at the moment in New Zealand for summer, they seem more like autumn/fall/winter colours to me.

Lastly on Christmas Eve MJ Nail Bank announced on Facebook that they had the Nicki Minaj OPI Polishes in stock. Whoohooo out comes my over used credit card again. (I blame pay pal, its so easy to use and you don't even notice the money is gone until the bill arrives at the end of the month)

Left to Right - Save Me, Fly, Metallic 4 Life

These beauties arrived in the mail today. These are the three I picked up. The shatter is pretty but I don't think I would use it enough so I passed on that.

We have had 5 amazing days of sun here in Wellington, but the weather today and for the next few days is not looking so good. Hopefully I do get some sun at some stage so I can do some swatching.

Please be careful if you are out on the roads this holiday season!

Lots of Love
Lisa

Color Club on Sale in New Zealand!

Color Club Nail Polishes on Sale in New Zealand!

You may be interested to know that we are cleaning out our 7 packs pre-Xmas.

All of them are half price on our website www.usanailsonline.co.nz That includes the latest USA ranges that haven’t even released officially in NZ yet.

Prices range from $29 upwards.

The sale starts now, and stocks are limited. First in first served.

Check them out for some great deals. I just ordered both 2 packs from the Back to Boho collection for NZ$69.

Lots of Love
Lisa

Color Club Alter Ego - Reveal Your Mystery set

This is the pastel set of polishes from the 2011 Color Club Alter Ego collection. These come in a 7 pack called Reveal Your Mystery which also includes a Milky White Basecoat. All swatches are three coats.

Color Club Get a Clue - Sunshine

Color Club Revealed - Natural Light

Color Club Incognito - Sunshine

Color Club Secret Rendezvous - Natural Light

Color Club Sheer Disguise - Natural Light

Color Club Give Me A Hint - Sunshine

The Alter Ego collection is available in stores in New Zealand now.

Lots of Love
Lisa

Spotted in NZ: Color Club Mini Poptastic

I spotted these on Monday at Life Pharmacy.


They are totally cute little bottles. They would make great Christmas presents and stocking fillers. And would be great for younger girls.

The Poptastic collection is a great collection of bright creme shades. There were also 4 packs of Starry Temptress (bright glitter shades) and Wicked Sweet (neon fruit scented polishes).

The Poptastic Minis were selling for NZ$9.90 a bottle. I am sorry but I totally did not take note of the prices for the four packs.

I have some little bottles, they are 7mls (so half the size of a regular bottle), but still have a great sized brush that makes application easy.

Lots of Love
Lisa

Color Club Revealed

Revealed is from the 2011 Alter Ego collection, which is going to be in New Zealand Amazon stores about now, just in time for summer.

Color Club Revealed - Shade

Color Club Revealed - sunshine

This is three coats which applied easily (slightly thin) and dried quickly. Its a nude/peach colour that is pink toned. Its not so visible in the pictures but there is a fine pink shimmer running through this polish. Makes a regular nude colour a little bit more exciting. It matches so perfectly with colours coming out in stores now (like Forever New - I love that store).

Lots of Love
Lisa

Color Club Tattered in Gold

This is the gold offering from Color Club in their Fracture collection.

Color Club Tattered in Gold (over A England Galahad) - Natural light

Tattered in Gold is a metallic shimmery gold, and because of this it is more sheer on the nail. It feels like it needs to be thicker to get the gold to show up better, but obviously cracks different with different thickness coats.

I honestly found this really hard to pair with base coat colours. I just could not make up my mind over what to stick it over. If you have a gold shatter/fracture/crackle what colours are you using it over?

Lots of Love
Lisa

I found the perfect nude polish (for me)

I never thought I would find one, but low and behold I have.

Color Club Incognito - Sunshine

Color Club Incognito - Shade

This is three coats of Incognito from the Color Club Alter Ego collection. I realise that these photos make my hands look pinker than they really are. Incognito is a pale grey tones biege. It doesn't seem to have too much pink in it. It is a sheer jellyish creme polish.

The Color club Alter Ego collection will be in Amazon stores in New Zealand by the end of the month. I have more swatches of this collection coming in the future.

Lots of Love
Lisa

Color Club Clean Break

This is one of the fractures I was most looking forward to trying out.

Color Club Clean Break - shade

Color Club Clean Break - sunshine

Clean Break over Color Club Wicked Sweet, Disco Dress,
Peace out Purple and Raspberry Rush.

This swatches use different thickness coats of Clean Break, with a tick coat on the left, moving towards a thinner coat on the right. You can see how Clean Break cracks and fractures differently based on the thickness of the coat used. You can create fractures in different directions by brushing the polish on in a different direction.

I love the stark white of this fracture and the way that it can bring a skittle mani together as one. In the shade you can see how it appears matte. however it really is more of a regular creme polish.

Lots of Love
Lisa

This polish was sent to me for review.

Color Club Gimme a Grape Big Kiss

The rugby world cup has officially kicked off in New Zealand. The opening ceremony is on now. I'll be the first to admit that I cant stand watching rugby, but with only one tv in our tiny little flat, and a fiance who likes rugby, I cant avoid it as much as I would like. The world cup is the biggest sporting event our country will ever hold. It's a pretty big deal.

Color Club Gimme a Grape Big Kiss - White light

Now this was a purple that actually photographed well. This is three coats. This one is grape scented and comes from this years Wicked Sweet collection. I don't know if you have it in your countries but we have a brand of bubble gum here called Hubba Bubba and this polish smells just like the grape back the versions of that. Its a sweet, fake grape smell. This collection of polishes really does remind me of all the lollies and smells of when I was younger. I also love that the smell is strong enough to penetrate a top coat.

Lots of Love
Lisa

Color Club Kiss & Break Up

Kiss & Break Up is the fuchsia fracture polish from Color Club.

This has got to be my favourite one so far (but in saying that I am a massive sucker for pink still).

Color Club Kiss & Break Up over OPI Lucky Lucky Lavender - white light

Kiss & Break Up is a fuchsia fracture polish. This is a thinish coat. It crackles pretty quickly after application, as long as the polish underneath is completely dry.

Color Club Kiss & Break Up over Black - white light

Unfortunately this one didn't work the best over black. It appears slightly more purple. This here is a thicker coat.

Don't forget you can pick this up for only NZ$7.50 at www.usanailsonline.co.nz

Lots of Love
Lisa

This polish was sent to me for review