Color Club Poptastic Day 7: Poptastic

Color Club Poptastic Day 7.
Today is the final Poptastic day. This is the polish called Poptastic. It is a bright neon medium pink.

Color Club Poptastic - Sunshine

This is my favourite of the Poptastic collection. It is a bright neon medium pink. This is 3 coats. 2 coats was ok but 3 evened it out and it was so smooth afterwards. This is another slightly runny polish. Dry time is quick and like I said it dries nice and smooth.

This is brighter in real life than it appears in the photos. This to me is the most neon of the 7 polishes. When I think of neon I cant help but only associate it with highlighters. I love highlighters.

All up this is a cute little selection from the larger Poptastic range. I was suprised at the difference in the thickness of these polishes over the 7. But all the colours are cute, and wearable. Now I just have to wait for nicer weather to take advantage of the summer colours coming out.

So that ends our 7 days of Poptastic. What was your favourite of the 7? Would you wear these? In summer or all year round?

Lots of Love
Lisa

This polish was sent to me for review.

Color Club Poptastic Day 6: Pucca-licious

Color Club Poptastic Day 6.
Color Club Pucca-licious - Medium creme purple.

Color Club Pucca-licious - sunshine

This is 2 coats. This one had the best consistency of all 7 polishes. One coat gave good coverage but 2 was perfect. Dry time was quick, but it dries with a slightly matte finish.

This polish is not what I would call 'neon' and doesn't seem overly 'bright' either. It is just purple.
This is a more blue than OPI Funky Dunkey, and a bit lighter.

6 polishes down, 1 left to go tomorrow.

Enjoy your Friday :)

Lots of Love
Lisa

This polish was sent to me for review.

Color Club Poptastic Day 5: Warhol

Color Club Poptastic Day 5.
Color Club Warhol. This is a darker neon bright pink. This is one of my favourites from the Poptastic collection.


This is 2 coats. There is a slight visible nail line after two coats, I think this is more because it is slightly runny so the coats are thinner. A third coat would be perfect, but two works fine. This is more neon and brighter than some of the other polishes in this collection, and I like it. It is a neon you could wear every day and it wouldn't be too out there.

Lots of Love
Lisa

This polish was sent to me for review.

Color Club Poptastic Day 4: Almost Famous

Color Club Poptastic Day 4:

Almost Famous - Bright Dark Yellow - not so much 'neon', but definitely bright.

Color Club Almost Famous - Sunshine

Yellows are notoriously hard to get right. This one is interesting. It was quite runny, but very opaque at the same time. The 1st coat went on streaky, the second coat was better, but I ended up doing 3 coats to make a smoother finish. But surprisingly there is no visible nail line after 2 coats. The colour is dense.

I think as a yellow creme Color Club have done a good job with this one. I'm glad it is not thick and gluggy like other yellow polishes are. This is the darkest yellow in my collection.

Can you believe we have had two sunny days in a row! AMAZING! but still freezing cold, you can still see your breath outside when you breath (even at 11 in the morning).

How do you feel about yellow cremes? Yay or Nay? Would you give this one a chance? Or is it just a tad too bright for you?

Lots of Love
Lisa

This polish was sent to me for review.

Color Club Poptastic Day 3: Chelsea Girl

Color Club Poptastic Day 3
Color Club Chelsea Girl. Wow can you believe that it has been clear blue sky here all day today. Although it is still freezing cold. I took this picture this morning as there was a big slip at the bottom of my street so had to wait a while for the road to open so I could get a bus to uni :(

Color Club Chelsea Girl - sunshine

This is three coats. This was on the runny side, and for such a dark colour I cant believe that it needed three coats to get rid of any visible nail line (this was three thin to medium coats). It was not streaky at all and the dry time was quick.

This is the darkest colour in the 7 piece Poptastic collection I have. Not so much 'neon' but definitely a 'bright'. I really want to layer something over the top of this as it seems like it would make a great base coat for something. Its now on my list of things to do.

Chelsea is my favourite name - I plan on naming my first born girl Chelsea!

Lots of Love
Lisa

This polish was sent to me for review.

Color Club Poptastic Day 2: Wham! Pow!

Color Club Poptastic Day 2.
The second polish I tried from the Color Club Poptastic Collection was the bright orange Wham! Pow!

Color Club Wham! Pow! - sunshine

This polish was much runnier than yesterdays Twiggie (I'm using this as the standard, but it really was thick). This is 2 coats and there was a slight visible nail line. This was not streaky at all. It is slightly less yellow than the picture shows, so is nicer in real life. I feel this is the most 'neon' of this 7 piece set. It is by far the brightest. I do not have any other polishes in my collection to compare this to, so in that sense it is unique (to me). This polish is definitely a summer polish. Yay I cant wait for summer.

Lots of Love
Lisa

This polish was sent to me for review.

Color Club Poptastic Day 1: Twiggie

Color Club Poptastic Day 1.
Twiggie was the first polish I tried from the Color Club Poptastic Collection. This is a minty green creme.

Color Club Twiggie - Sunshine

This is 2 coats. This is a thick polish, so two coats leaves no visible nail line. After two coats it is not streaky and has evened out. It is slightly yellower and brighter than this picture shows - the bottle picture is more colour accurate. (This whole collection was hard to get colour accurate pictures of) I actually really like this colour. It is a bluer version of OPI Gargantuan Green Grape, and requires a lot less coats of polish. Dry time is good and short and clean up is easy for this polish.

Hope you are all having a great weekend :)

Lots of Love
Lisa

This polish was sent to me for review.

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

Orly Oh Cabana Boy + Konad

This Polish is Hot!

Orly Oh Cabana Boy is from the aptly named Hot Stuff collection.

Orly Oh Cabana Boy - Sunshine

Orly Oh Cabana Boy - Up close

This is actually a little brighter in real life. It has a beautiful blue shimmery flash running through it. This was 3 coats, two was good, but three got rid of any visible nail line. This was easy to apply, with no clean up needed.

I then added pretty little hearts in black to this manicure.

Hope you are all having a great day :)

Lots of Love
Lisa

Color Club Tangerine Scream + Konad

This is the second polish I received from the Electro Candy Collection from the wonderful people at Color Club New Zealand.

Im not really an orange person but I thought I'd try it anyway.

Color Club Tangerine Scream - Sunshine

This is great as it is not just plain orange.
It dries slightly matte (when you see it in the shade) and the shimmer isnt too visible in the shade either, but in the sun this is awesome.


It has a subtle gold shimmer to it (not completely visible in this picture, but I assure you it is there), and also a tiny little bit of blue shimmer that ties it into the Electro Candy collection, which is seen in the sun, and it takes this plain orange neon all the way to the next level of amazingness.

I added some Konad stars from plate m3 using black polish. I think it is cute :)

What is your favourite colour from the Electro Candy collection? Do you wish you had them all like I wish I did? What do you wear your neon polishes with?

Lots of Love
Lisa

Color Club Ultra Violet

I AM IN LOVE!!!!!!!!!

I have wanted this colour for so long, it is part of the Color Club Electro Candy Collection.

This collection was released in 2009 for the rest of the world. But Color club has only just reciently come to New Zealand. Turns the Electro Candy collection was released at the start of summer here, along with the Flower Power Neon collection, but most retailers only stocked the Neon collection, which was a larger collection, and over shadowed Electro Candy. This broke my heart, and also explained why I couldn't find any of the Electro Candy collection in the numerous shops I looked in.

Luckily for me the Amazing people from Color Club New Zealand sent me a bottle of Ultra Violet and Tangerine Scream.

Color Club Ultra Violet - Sunshine

How AMAZING is this? Not only is it an awesome purple colour but it has blue shimmer to it too. This was three coats. It is slightly runny but still easy to apply, with no clean up needed afterwards. I wish I had this whole collection!!

LOVE LOVE LOVE!!

Hope you all have a great weekend, and may your fingers be just as awesomely coloured as mine!!

Lots of Love
Lisa

China Glaze Blue Sparrow

China Glaze Blue Sparrow (Neon)
My first China Glaze disappointment...

I was so excited when this bottle arrived in the mail. It looks so amazing. Glitter! Blue sparkley shimmery glitter. Well that's how it looks inside the bottle........not on the nail though

Its MATTE!!!!!!
When it comes out of its pretty sparkly bottle its matte! I didn't want a matte polish. If I did I would have worn some of my mattes that are designed to be matte. This gave no indication on the bottle of being matte. It does say Neon in brackets next to the name and I know neons are mostly matte but I wanted to cry. Its so amazing in the bottle and disappointing on the nail.

This is it with a top coat.
Slightly better but nowhere near as awesome as it looks in the bottle.

That's all for today.
I tried swatching some of the new OPI Softshades but its raining here and the colours are not showing though well at all in the photos. So I'm hoping for sun tomorrow.

Lots of love for the weekend
Lisa

Color Club Neons

Color Club is a brand that is really hard to get in New Zealand. Mainly because we are so far behind in the release of collections here. The current collections in shop are Glitter Vixen (out in America in Fall 2008) and Electro Candy (from Summer 2009). The New Zealand Winter Collections - about to be released, are going to be Wild at heart (Fall 2009) and Dance Musique (Fall 08). So you can see how far behind we are here. I also only know of a couple of shops stocking color club and they all have really little tiny displays.

Also in case you were wondering in New Zealand we spell Color as Colour. Typing just Color freaks me out and seems so wrong.

Anyway I bought two of the Color Club neons from my local shop.

This is Power Play.

And Power Play with the flash on.

This is Screamin' Fucshia.
I didn't use the flash here as it looks more colour accurate without it.

I found both of these polishes extremely runny. Dipping the brush in the bottle once and being able to cover a whole hand worth of nails. Both of these were 3 coats and you could still see a visible nail line, so a white coat underneath would have helped and it would have increased the neon-ness a bit more of the colours. Like most neons these also dry matte, So a top coat can fix that and make them shinny again.

Thanks for reading
Lots of Love
Lisa