piCture pOlish Splash

Splash is one of the new glitters recently released by piCture pOlish as part of their glitter collection.  

piCture pOlish Splash over Color Club Pure Energy - Shade

piCture pOlish Splash over Color Club Pure Energy - Sunshine

Here is 2 coats of piCture pOlish Splash over 2 coats of Color Club Pure Energy.  It is small and medium pieces of blue glitter in a clear base.  To be honest I wasn't overly impressed with Splash. It needed two coats just to get this light layer of glitter over the base layer.  

Splash is available from piCture pOlish retailers, including Gracie Lou in New Zealand (NZ$13.50).

Lots of Love
Lisa

Color Club Cloud Nine

Color Club Cloud Nine - Sunshine

Cloud Nine is the light pink holographic polish released recently by Color Club as past of the Halo Hues collection.  It is a light pink linear holographic.  This is two coats.  It applies nicely and dries quickly.  The holographic-ness in this is very strong. Even indoors they look holographic and outside in the sun it blows your mind.

There was a lot of hype around the release of this collection in America. It was delayed for a time and we can only assume it was to perfect the formula or increase the production of this collection.  Halo Hues are available in North America now.  The plan is for them to be released early next year in New Zealand.

Lots of Love
Lisa

Deborah Lippmann Mermaid's Dream

My Husband's work Christmas Ball (yes I said Ball, I am talking ball dresses and three course meals) was on last Saturday. I wore a full length mint coloured chiffon dress. For my nails I wore Deborah Lippmann Mermaid's Dream, which is a perfect match for my dress.

Deborah Lippmann Mermaid's Dream - natural light

This is a gorgeous light teal/mint green polish. It is a light teal (with a few bits of silver) micro glitter and has bigger bits of a darker teal/blue glitter.  This is three coats. It applies great, but being a glitter does take a bit of work to take off. I still have this on my toes at the moment and it is wearing well a week later.

Lots of Love
Lisa

Spotted in NZ: Kardashian Holiday Kolors

I stopped of at Farmers on my way home tonight and spotted the Nicole by OPI Kardashian Holiday Kolors.  These are $19.95 each. You can also find Nicole by OPI polishes as some Life Pharmacies in New Zealand.

Nicole by OPI Kardashian Holiday Kolors

Left to right: Kardashing Through the Snow, A Gold Winter’s Night, All is Glam, All is Bright, Here We Kome a-Karoling, Keeping Up With Santa, Deck the Dolls

Farmers also had two packs of polishes called Komplete Packages which a retailing for $26.99.  There is one set for each of the 6 female Kardashians. These contain one of their original Kardashian polishes and a top coat.

There are 6 sets:

 Kendall on the Katwalk & Top Coat Plus (Kendall)

Rainbow in the S-Kylie & Top Coat Plus (Kylie)

Disco Dolls & Top Coat Plus (Khloe)

Follow me on Glitter & Top Coat Plus (Kim)

Kourt is Red-y for a Pedi & Top Coat Plus. (Kourtney)

Sealed with a Kris & Top Coat Plus (Kris)

Lots of Love
Lisa

piCture pOlish Sunset

"totally neon for anyone who dares!" 

piCture pOlish Sunset is a highlighter neon orange crème polish.  Neon polishes are notoriously hard to capture on camera, and look different on ever computer screen.  

piCture pOlish Sunset - Natural light

piCture pOlish Sunset - Sunshine

This is three coats. On my computer screen the picture in the Natural light is the most colour accurate.  Sunset is a pink toned orange.  It applied great, but it was difficult to tell how much polish was on the brush.  I think this is because the brush is a clear/white colour and soaks up the all the bright orange.

piCture pOlish is available from their website in Australia (with worldwide shipping), Gracie Lou in New Zealand, and check out this page here for other worldwide stockists.

Lots of Love
Lisa 

This polish was sent to me for review.

Ruby Wing Zen Garden

"If nothing ever changed, there'd be no butterflies." - Ruby Wing

Ruby Wing is a line of polishes released by the same people who make Color Club polishes a couple of months ago.  I was lucky enough to get given 6 of these polishes while I visited the Color Club factory in New York while I was on holiday at the start of October.  I know, I know I totally haven't blogged about that yet. I tried to, but it was so long ago that I cant really remember it any more.  But I will give you a quick summary here now.

I was extremely lucky to be able to have a tour of the Color Club Factory.  The Forsythe Cosmetics Group is a family run business, that started in 1979, and is about a 45 minute drive from the middle of New York.  They do everything all inside one building, from marketing, to developing the polishes, to hand sticking on the labels and shipping out the polishes.  Polishes are made to order, so there is not a huge pile up of stock, and a polish is continually produced when needed.  Not only are Color Club polishes produced here, but a range of other polishes with other brand names. I was amazed at how small the building was and how such a big player in the nail polish world could fit their entire production into the building.  

Anywho here is some swatches of Ruby Wing Zen Garden. Ruby Wing polishes contain a unique photochromic compound that changes colour in UV light. So they are different colours outdoors and indoors.

Ruby Wing Zen Garden - Indoors

Ruby Wing Zen Garden - Outside

This is AMAZING! The polish starts off as a light lilac crème and once I stepped outside I saw it change and get darker and turn into a taupe crème.  I tried to get my husband to come outside and have a look, but he was not excited at all (unfortunately he doesn't understand the little things that make me happy). This is three coats, and the polish applied just like a regular crème polish. 

You can get these polishes in New Zealand in Amazon Surf stores or online from USA Nails Online.  Those in America can purchase these polishes online from the Ruby Wing website.

Lots of Love

Lisa