Darling Diva Polish Blanche

Blanche was one of the Darling Diva Polishes I received with my 5 for $25 deal.  

Darling Diva Polish Blanche (over OPI Tomorrow Never Dies)- Shade

 

Darling Diva Polish Blanche (over OPI Tomorrow Never Dies)- Sunshine

Blanche is made up of a tinted navy/purple base and contains extra large red hexagon glitter, larger light purple square glitter, medium yellow holographic hexagon glitter, medium light purple hexagon glitter, smaller blue hexagon glitter and little purple hexagon glitter. 

The big pieces of glitter in this are not too hard to fish out of the bottle. I ended up with a red piece of glitter on every nail. The big red pieces, along with all the other glitter lie flat on the nail. There is no curling glitter here. 

To be honest, the colours and glitter in this are not me. I wore this manicure for over two days, but unfortunately I did not warm up to Blanche. Formula wise this is a great indie polish though and I would recommend it, if you like the mix of glitter colours and sizes.

Here is a bonus picture of OPI Tomorrow Never Dies from the 2012 Holiday James Bond Collection.  It is slightly more purple than it appears in this photo.

OPI Tomorrow Never Dies - Sunshine

Lots of Love
Lisa

Color Club Angel Kiss

Color Club Angel Kiss - sunshine

Angel Kiss is the light teal green Halo Hue from the first set of Halo Hues released at the end of last year.  This is two coats. The formula is great and us easy to apply.

Color Club Angel Kiss - sunshine

For those of you in New Zealand you can get the first set of Halo Hues online here for NZ$19.90

Lots of Love

Lisa

Spotted in NZ: OPI Euro Central

The OPI Euro Central collection is out in New Zealand now. This is one of the first collections from OPI I am excited about, and I actually want the whole collection for myself.

This is why I will not be buying the whole collection in store in New Zealand:

Lots of Love
Lisa

Glitzology Bun In The Oven

Glitzology Bun In The Oven - Sunshine

Glitzology Bun In The Oven - Shade

This polish is super glitter! The swatches are only two coats.  Glitzology creator Stacy says that this polish was inspired by "traditional" boy and girl baby colours. It features pink and baby blue holo glitter, with pastel pink, blue and white squares and hexes in various sizes in a clear base.  The glitter all lies flat and can be smoothed out with a top coat.  I was really surprised by how full of glitter this polish was, and the fact that it was still easy to apply and get even coverage.

Glitzology polishes are available on Etsy here and at the moment if you use the code SINGLEANDHAPPY you can get 50% off your order (until Friday 22 Feb).

Lots of Love
Lisa

Ruby Wing Moonstone

Ruby Wing Moonstone - shade

Ruby Wing Moonstone - sunshine

Ruby Wing Moonstone is a light blue creme that changes to a pink tones purple in the sunshine.  This is three coats, but you could easily get away with two coats because the formula on this pretty much perfect, not to thick and certainly not runny.

Lots of Love

Lisa

New 2013 Polish collections

Here is a little round up of the commercial brand polish collections that have recently been released or are about to be released.

Zoya Pixie Dust - out now

Color Club Fiesta - out now in America

China Glaze Texture - Expected release March 2012

China Glaze Hologlam - Expected release March 2013

Models Own Ice Neon - out now

Butter London Sweetie Shop - out now

OPI OZ soft shades collection - Expected release March 2013

China Glaze Neons - Expected release April 2013

OPI Euro Centrale - Out now

Ruby Wing Spring Garden - out now

Orly Hope & Freedom Collection - out now

Zoya Lovely Collection - out now

Nicole by OPI Selena Gomez Collection - out now

Nicole by OPI Modern Family Collection - out now

I haven't seen any of these collections in New Zealand yet. OPI Euro Centrale was supposed to be released this week, but I haven't spotted it yet.  

Lots of Love

Lisa