Spotted in NZ: Sally Hansen Lustre Shine Colletion

I spotted the new Sally Hansen Lustre Shine collection in Farmers on Friday. This is a collection of duochrome polishes, similar to the China Glaze Bohemian Collection. 

These polishes are "An intense and radiant nail lacquer infused with real silver. Inspired by the lustrous color flip of molten, liquid metal and the iridescence of a peacock feather. Creates an iridescent effect on the nail."

These are retailing for NZ$12.99, which isn't bad because when I was in America last year I saw these for about US$7.99.  However do note that these bottles are only 10mls (regular polishes are 15mls)

Lots of Love

Lisa

Sally Hansen Lavender Sky

I went to one of those make up sales a few weeks back.  These sales pop up every few months in Wellington so I went along and broke my no buy again.  Often they have Sally Hansen Prism polishes for super cheap. And I got lucky last time, by finding 5 of these, all for only $3 each (that is super super cheap for a nail polish in New Zealand).

Here is one coat of Sally Hansen Nail Prisms in Lavender Sky over black.

Sally Hansen Lavender Sky over Black- sunshine

This is a pale blue duochrome, that when layered over black flashes between purple and green (but mostly purple).  It is a super fine shimmer.

It seems that a lot of the polishes I have obtained lately are designed for layering over others. I am quickly running out of black polish to put under all of these pretties.

In other news its now only 11 sleeps until me and my husband head of to America and Canada for 5 weeks. I AM SO EXCITED!!!!!!! I am going to buy so many polishes!!!!  Also stay turned for a giveaway while I am on holiday.

Lots of Love
Lisa

Orly Frisky

This was my mani for Wednesday and Thursday last week.

Orly Frisky - White light

This is three coats of Orly Frisky with an accent nail which had one coat of Sally Hansen Bling-tastic. Bling-tastic is a teal blue glitter with bigger bits of silver glitter scattered throughout its clear base. This lasted the full two days with out chipping, however even with a base coat Frisky stained my nails a funky yellow colour (I find that turquoise colours are the worst at staining nails).


Hope your all having a great weekend.
Don't forget to enter my nail art Give-away.


Lots of Love
Lisa

Sally Hansen Lady Luck

Lady Luck is from the new Gem Crush collection that arrived in New Zealand shops last week.

Sally Hansen Lady Luck - sunshine

This is four coats. The first few are thin and the glitter is sparse, but after 3 coats you can see how pretty this is. Its a clear base, packed full of little dark fuchsia pink glitter and bigger holographic silver bits of round glitter.  It looks amazing in the sun. I find that this collection last better on my nails without a top coat (I usually use Seche Vite but this makes it peel of all in one). 

This is a favourite of this collection. Its fun and girly and out there all in one.

The Gem Crush collection is at Farmers for $13.99 at the moment.

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

Sally Hansen Glitz Gal

Glitz Gal is another awesome glitter from the Sally Hansen Gem Crush Collection.

Sally Hansen Glitz Gal - Natural Light

Sally Hansen Glitz Gal - Funny the sun was setting and its not shade or sun light

This is a fine charcoal coloured glitter in a clear base with bigger bits of silver holographic glitter particles. This is three coats. It is pretty and looks gorgeous in real life.

I wore this one to work last week. I had sealed it with a coat of Zoya Amor and Seche Vite. This I don't think was a good idea. the nail polish pealed off my nails in sheets over the day. I have found that these glitter polishes last much better with out top coats (you just have to get over that funny feeling of bumpy rough polish on your fingers)

11 sleeps to go till the wedding now!
I will try and post some pics of my hens night when I can find the energy.

Lots of Love
Lisa

Sally Hansen Big Money

Sally Hansen Big Money - Shade

Sally Hansen Big Money - Sunshine

Big Money is another glitter packed polish from Sally Hansen's Gem Crush collection. It is a clear base with little bits of gold glitter, and bigger light pink bits of glitter. This is three coats. These two colours go well together to form a nice nudish subtle glitter. This is a glitter I could wear to work easily.

Lots of Love
Lisa

Sally Hansen Be-Jeweled

I'm getting a bit behind on posting all of my NOTDs. I have been changing my polish pretty much everyday during the week but then can not always be bothered posting them. My bad.

This is last Sundays NOTD.

Sally Hansen Be-Jeweled - Sunshine

Sally Hansen Be-Jeweled - Shade

This is from the 2011 Gem Crush glitter collection that Lisa bought back from America for me. This is three coats. It is a light purple glitter in a clear base, with bigger light pink bits of glitter. i loved the way is sparkles in the sun. It is really pretty.

I was doing my nails with this colour on Sunday when my mum turned up 30 minutes earlier than she was supposed to (we were going out to do wedding stuff) and I didn't have time to put a top coat over this glitter. The polish lasted well with no chips at all, but was bumpy and not smooth at all. But as i found out later on in the week whilst wearing another polish from this collection with layers of Zoya Armour and Seche Vite was that whole fingers of polish were flaking off at once. So I think they last best with no top coat, but I need to get used to them being bumpy and not smooth.

16 more sleeps to go!

Lots of Love
Lisa

Nail Polish Presents

My best friend Lisa just got back from America and Canada and bought me back some goodies!

Sally Hansen Gem Crush Collection - Razzle Dazzler, Glitz Gal, Big Money, Cha-Ching, Showgirl Chic, Be-jeweled and Bling-tastic (7 out of 8 of this collection)

Sepohora by OPI - Spark-tacular!, G-listen To Your Heart, Looks Like Rain, Dear, Sugar Plum Fairies Gone Wild

Nails Inc Connaught Square and Fitzroy Square, Wet n Wild It's All in the Cut and Give me a Price Quote, Deborah Lippmann Glitter in the Air and Rescue Beauty Lounge Scrangie

These are a combination of my birthday present, Christmas present and what she managed to get for me with some money I gave her! AWESOME!
I have so much swatching to catch up on. Lots and lots of glitter!

Lots of Love
Lisa

Spotted in NZ: Sally Hansen Complete Salon Manicure

Just spotted these at Farmers in Wellington. The other Lisa wasn't with me today so this is taken on my phone camera. I dont have an iphone so its not the best picture sorry. Looks like there are 14 polishes in the range released here. The colours didn't look overly exciting, so I didn't buy any. I could not for the life of me find the price of these polishes. In New Zealand stores don't usually stick price stickers to products, instead you have to search the shelves for a label with the price.
Farmers has Sally Hansen at 20% off at the moment.
They also have Orly for $16.99.
And you can get a free OPI shatter polish when you purchase two other full price OPI polishes.

Sale pictures from the online catalogue at www.farmers.co.nz

Lots of Love
Lisa

500 Follower Give-away

****GIVEAWAY IS NOW CLOSED****

Hi Lovely Ladies,

The number of followers has been fluctuating between 495 and 499 for a while now, so it is about time for the:

NEVER ENDING OBSESSION 500 FOLLOWER GIVE-AWAY!!

Prize 1 consists of:

• OPI Start to Finish
• Zoya Color Cube Enchanted Evening
• Sally Hansen Blush Diamond Nail Prism
• OPI Pink Shatter
• Glitter Gal Marine Blue 3d Holographic
• Glitter Gal French Kiss Lip Gloss

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Prize 2 consists of:

• Splitting Image (blue Fracture)
• Clean Break (White Fracture)
• Kiss & Break Up (Pink Fracture)
  

Provided by the wonderful people at Color Club New Zealand

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All prizes are brand new and unused.
They have been purchased by me for you.
Apart for prize 2, which is provided thanks to Color Club NZ.

Two winners will be drawn.
The first name will win prize one, the second will win prize 2.

This competition is open to any one in the world.
You just need to be a follower.
Competition will close on the 30th of September.

Just leave a comment below telling me:
1. Your follower name (1 entry)
2. What country you are in (1 entry)
3. What nail polish you want most in the world (1 entry)
4. If you tweeted or blogged about this giveaway (2 entries)

Lots of Love and good luck
Lisa

Sally Hansen BLU

This is one of the polishes I bought just before Christmas from the Sally Hansen Hi-Definition Collection. I went back about a week later and all that was left were the orange and yellow polishes from this collection. A few weeks after that and there were none left. Luckily I got in right at the start :)

Sally Hansen BLU - Natural Light

This was three coats and i was quite surprised because I had been warned that these were quite sheer (although in saying that this is still the only one I have tried yet). I really like this blue. I couldn't find anything else like this in my collection. It took a little while to get used to the slightly longer brush (the stalk bit) but after that was fine. No clean up needed.

I'm looking forward to trying out some more from this collection. I think it really is a summer collection, as the colours are quite bright.

Don't forget my Zoya giveaway. Entries close tomorrow night.

Lots of Love
Lisa

Spotted in NZ: Sally Hansen Hi-Definition Collection

Here in New Zealand we normally just have the Sally Hansen treatment products, but today while out Christmas shopping we (me and Lisa - yay shes back from her holiday) found a full display of the Sally Hansen Hi-Definition collection.

Picture from: www.beautyandfashiontech.com

The Sally Hansen website says:

• The Color: Pure, vivid pigments with multi-dimensional color & vibrance.
• The Technology: Patented formula with Real Liquid Crystals for multi-dimensional color and iridescent shine!
• The Result: Dazzling, Lustrous High-Definition Color.
• Available in 8 Luminous Shades!
• Toluene, DBP, and Formaldehyde free.

I picked up three: Cyber (purple), BLU (blue) and Hi-Def (green). I would have got them all but I couldn't afford them all :(

These are retailing for NZ$19.99 and all 8 colours came with a free bottle of Sally Hansen Double Duty Strengthening Base and top coat. Farmers also has 20% of Sally Hansen products at the moment so get in quick and you will only pay NZ$15.99 a polish.

Lots of Love
Lisa

My First Swap

On a quick note before we start... I GOT A JOB! yay! From the 20th of December I will be working full time as an analyst at the New Zealand Ministry of Education. Can not wait. (More money = more polish)

A while ago I had asked my followers if any one could help me get the Nicole OPI Gossip Girl collection (not so much for the polishes but for the fact that Gossip Girl is my favourite TV program). Tina aka smoochiefrog from Manicure Mommas sent me an email last week telling me she had picked them up for me and we set up a swap. Just over a week later and we have both received our swap packages.

I am so excited. Tina is a lovely person and not only sent me the Gossip Girl polishes but also the whole set of Milani 3D holographic polishes and a Sally Hansen Nail Prisms polish (and some chocolate). I sent her back a bunch of BYS polishes including the black crackle one she wanted to try out and of course so Pineapple lumps.

Her is what she sent me:

Left to Right: Sally Hansen White Diamond, Nicole OPI Party in the Penthouse, Nicole...spotted!, Scandal secrets & sparkle, Too Rich for You.

Left to Right: Milani Hi-Res, Digital, 3D, Hi-Tech, Cyberspace and HD.

I cant wait to do more swaps. Admittedly postage to America is expensive but its totally worth it to have polishes that we can not get here.

If anyone else is interested in getting some BYS polishes and would like a swap feel free to email me.

Lots of Love
Lisa

Sally Hansen Ruby Diamond

When Lisa (the other one, not me) went to Australia for a conference a while ago she bought me back Ruby Diamond. This is from the Sally Hansen Nail Prisms collection. Tina (aka smoochiefrog from Manicure Mommas) informed me that these are quite old now and hard to find, which explains why Lisa found it in a bargain bin on sale. I did see these about a month ago in New Zealand at a cosmetics plus store, but in the weekend when I asked if they still had any left they said they were all sold out but they may be getting more Sally Hansen polishes back in stock later on. (fingers crossed)

Sally Hansen Ruby Diamond - sunshine

This is a great holographic polish. Only 2 coats is needed (but I seem to automatically do three for everything now). Very awesome pink rainbow finish. These photographs don't really do it justice. I really like it a lot.

With China Glazes OMG collection now on the hard to find list, I suggest it maybe easier to hunt some of these down (especially if you are in America). It seems like this would fit in perfectly with the other polishes in the OMG collection. I wish you all luck on your holographic hunts.

From what I know Sally Hansen is quite a big thing in other parts of the world, but here it barely features at all. Farmers sells the treatments and a very small selection of polishes but that is about it for New Zealand.

Lots of Love
Lisa

Upcoming Summer Trends: #5 Flakie Polish

The big polish of the American Summer this year was Sally Hansen Hidden Treasure.

This polish was HUGE in America. People layered it on top of EVERYTHING and then mattified it afterwards to make a whole different look to their manicures

This however is going to be a hard trend to follow in New Zealand. As Sally Hansen polishes are not available in New Zealand (we do get their treatments and other nail bits and pieces).

And to make it worse alot of the other flakie polishes are not available in New Zealand.

Color Club Covered in Diamonds top coat was release as part of the fall/winter untamed luxury collection (another 6 months away for New Zealand). Check out ebay if you can not wait 6 months and don't mind paying for the shipping.

Nubar 2010 - Best bet for this is to have a look online. I got my Nubar Sparkle collection online at Beverly Beaute.

But never fear all those whose hearts have just sunk at the prospect of not getting any of these gorgeous flakey nail polishes ............. Nfu-Oh is available in New Zealand.

I registered an account at the New Zealand Nail Academy, where you can order Nfu-Oh polishes from New Zealand.


The three I own (and as soon as I get a job I will be getting more of these!) are #52, #49, #39.
Nfu-Oh Flakiey polishes are slightly different to the others just mentioned as there is more than one of them and they are all tinted with different colours. $52 is blue/purple, #49 is pink/orange and #39 is green/white. I do love these polishes and try to match them to different base coats all the time (some posts on this coming up soon).

So that is it. The five big summer trends from the other side of the world this year. Hopefully we can carry them on into our summer here.

Lots of Love
Lisa