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

Essie Ruby Slippers

Yesterday I met on of my followers Morgan. She is moving back home and then going overseas to live for a few years, and so she is sadly selling her nail polish collection. I brought a couple off her, and she so amazingly kindly gave me a bottle of Essie Ruby Slippers.

Essie Ruby Slippers - Natural light

This is a thick red jelly full of rather large chunks of red glitter. There is a few silver glitter bits as well, and in the sun has a slight orange glow to it. Here I did one thin base coat and 2 thicker coats over top (2 thick coats would be fine, but more than one is definitely needed). I feel because the glitter in this is so big, the polish becomes really lumpy on the nail. Top coats still leave a lumpiness underneath.

This is much darker than Nubar Fire Sparkle, with much larger bits of glitter. I do not own China Glaze Ruby Pumps so unfortunately I can not do a comparison for you guys sorry.

If you live in New Zealand you can find Morgans nail polish auctions on Trade Me. Search for her under her user name mandy8595.

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

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

Coral Peach Holo Comparison

Taking a step back from the Neons today (there will be more later in the week) and here is another Holographic Comparison for you.

Left to Right: OPI Bay Bridge Sunset, China Glaze TTYL, OPI DS Reserve

First up is OPI Bay Bridge Sunset. This is one of the very sought after polishes from the Japanese Exclusive Yokohama Collection. I am working on getting more from this collection, but when they are asking for US$30-$40 for each bottle on ebay, I have to say No. That is flat out ridiculous, and I hope they stay on there forever and never sell, because no polish is worth that much. Luckily one of my bridesmaids is going to Japan in November so fingers crossed she can find some then. :)

OPI Bay Bridge Sunset - sunshine

OPI Bay Bridge Sunset - sunshine - closer up

This has a scattered holographic effect. 2 coats, that went on perfectly. It looks like it is full of glitter dust, and is very pretty.

Second is China Glaze TTYL. Now I don't actually know what TTYL stands for (naive I know - sorry) But if you know what it means please let me know :)

China Glaze TTYL - sunshine

As you all know by now I Love the China Glaze OMG Collection. This is 2 coats, which apply easy and dry fast. The holographic is this is linear (straight lined) and appears to make each finger look like a little rainbow in the sun. This one has the strongest holographic-ness of the three polishes (but that may just be because it is easier to see because it isn't scattered out).

The final polish is OPI Reserve from the Designer Collection. I saw some of these on ebay going for quite high prices as well, I think I bought most of mine a year ago and I paid regular prices for mine, so I'm not sure why this is happening.

OPI DS Reserve - sunshine

Designer Series polishes are said to have "Diamond Dust" in them, creating the holographic effect. This is again a scattered, slightly muted, holographic appearance. I thought it might have been a bit pinker than the other too, but it isn't really. Again 2 coats, that applied easily and dry time was average.

Finally is the side by side comparison:

You can clearly see the difference between the China Glaze linear holographic and the scatter holographic of the other two OPI polishes. DS Reserve has bigger glitter and holographic particles than Bay Bridge Sunset. All three have a very similar colour appearance.

My recommendation would depend on how holographic you want your polishes to be. If you want the in your face holographic - you would go for the China Glaze (this is still the easiest and cheapest of the three to get). DS Reserve may be easier to get than Bay Bridge Sunset, so eiter is fine if you can get it.

I hope this helped :)

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