Ruby Wing Spring Garden Collection

 

The Ruby Wing Spring Garden was released mid 2013 and is a collection of six colour changing polishes that are also scented. Today I have four of this collection to show you.

Ruby Wing Cut Grass - Inside

Ruby Wing Cut Grass - Sunshine

Cut grass is a pastel green that changes to a darker dustier green in the sunshine.  While it doesn't actually smell like fresh cut glass (which the Ruby Wing website says it does), it does smell nice.  To be honest it smells like my shampoo, it is floral scented, but I cant figure out like what flower, either way it smells nicer than grass. This is two coats and the polish applies like a dream. It is not streaky at all.

Ruby Wing Fresh Linen - Inside

Ruby Wing Fresh Linen - Sunshine

This is three coats. It has the thinnest formula of this collection and unfortunately does leave streaks on the nail. This one smells fruity - a lot like lemon, but a clean flowery lemon scent.  This one changes from a shimmery slightly frosty white into a light yellow colour.

Ruby Wing Poppy - Inside

Ruby Wing Poppy - Sunshine

Poppy is a vibrant pink jelly (although not quite as neon as the above picture suggests) which changes into a deeper burgundy colour in the sun.  This is two coats which apply perfectly for full coverage. This one smells rose scented, although I suspect it is actually poppy scented.

Ruby Wing Sunflower - Inside

Ruby Wing Sunflower - Sunshine

Sunflower is the glittery polish in this collection. It is a clear base packed full of gold micro glitter. This one is interesting because the glitter doesn't change colour in the sun, but the base it is in changes from clear into a bright yellow base, which makes the glitter look yellower and more golden.  This is three coats and I was surprised to see that it did actually provide good coverage in those three coats.  This one also smells flowery and shampoo like, although I am pretty sure its not the same scent that sunflowers have.

All in all I am happy with the four polishes I have from this collection and absolutely love that they combined colour changing polishes with scented polishes.  I was wearing Cut Grass all day today, however didn't really get time to get outside (and it was horrible) weather, so I didn't actually get to see it do its magical colour change.

Lots of Love
Lisa

These polishes were provided to me for review.

Deborah Lippmann Christmas in the City Gift set

Deborah Lippmann Christmas in the City 

Left to Right: Rockin' Around the Christmas Tree, Let it Snow!, Run, Run Rudolph

I bought this set from Nordstrom in America when I was there in October. Luckily they had started releasing Christmas polishes when we were over there.

Deborah Lippmann Let it Snow! - natural light

This is a thin white frost. This was four coats in this picture.  It looks very see through in the sunlight.  I think it may have turned out better with a white creme basecoat.

Deborah Lippmann Rockin' Around the Christmas Tree (over black) - sunshine

This is two coats over a black creme. It is green and red small and medium sized glitter in a black jelly base.  This has a coat of gelous over it as it looks kind of matte and not shinny without it.

Deborah Lippmann Run, Run Rudolph - sunshine

This is two coats over a red creme. It is a shimmer red with red/gold flakies.  This is quite a thin polish and the flakies are quite scattered in the polish so they are hard to capture on camera. 

Only one more sleep to go!

Lots of Love

Lisa

Nicole by OPI It's All About the Glam

Hi all!

Last week I started a new job as a Marketing analyst. I have never done marketing before, but my statistics skills allow me to do what I do with what ever sort of data is available.  Its long hours which I am having to get used to.  Its dark when I leave for work and well and truly dark when I arrive home each day.

Unfortunately my nails haven't taken any sort of priority these past 10 days.  My kitten has taken up residence in my light box, so I am finding it hard to take any descent photos. Sorry.  I'm also trying to convince the husband that we need a new camera - mine is now 3 years old, and I am sick of the pink reflection showing up in photos.

On another note I have a new give away coming up this week. so stay tuned for that!

It's All About the Glam is from the first set of Kardashian Kolors released by Nicole by OPI

Nicole by OPI It's All About the Glam - Natural Light

This is three coats. It is a bit thin, but another coat and it would be perfect. It is a shimmery white with a slight iridescent silver glitter that produces a "glass fleck" finish.  This is my favourite white to wear.

Lots of Love
Lisa

Color Club Oooooo La La

Color Club Oooooo La La - Sunshine

Color Club Oooooo La La - Shade

Oooooo La La is from the 2009 spring Femme Fatale collection.
I wore this polish on my toes for my wedding. It is a nice dense white with a hint of shimmer. It is slightly frosty/pearly but has very nice and smooth finish. This is three coats.

Lots of Love
Lisa

Color Club Clean Break

This is one of the fractures I was most looking forward to trying out.

Color Club Clean Break - shade

Color Club Clean Break - sunshine

Clean Break over Color Club Wicked Sweet, Disco Dress,
Peace out Purple and Raspberry Rush.

This swatches use different thickness coats of Clean Break, with a tick coat on the left, moving towards a thinner coat on the right. You can see how Clean Break cracks and fractures differently based on the thickness of the coat used. You can create fractures in different directions by brushing the polish on in a different direction.

I love the stark white of this fracture and the way that it can bring a skittle mani together as one. In the shade you can see how it appears matte. however it really is more of a regular creme polish.

Lots of Love
Lisa

This polish was sent to me for review.

Orly Winter Wonderland

I almost didn't buy this polish. I had originally grabbed the plummy colour Rockin' Rocket, but at the last minute changed my mind and picked up Winter Wonderland. I am glad I did.

Orly Winter Wonderland - Shade

This picture was taken in the sun as it is more accurate than in the sun. This is three coats. Each coat makes it more opaque and darker. This is another one of those glass fleck polishes out lately (especially by Orly) and I like it because it looks like snow. It is the prefect polish for Christmas and winter, and the name is very appropriate.

I ended up wearing this on Saturday night to Chris's work Christmas party. The theme was black and white musical. Most people were just going with the black and white theme. My dress was a long black ball dress (sorry no pics), so I wore white nails as I didn't want my nails to be too outlandish and black with all the people he works with (about 150 accountants!!).

Lots of Love
Lisa

Color Club Teenie Halloweenies

Halloween is not a big thing in New Zealand at all. There may be the odd halloween dress up party but it is more of an excuse for people to get drunk and dress skanky than anything else (I don't think I will be joining in at all this year). There is almost no trick-or-treating or anything like that here.

But color club does have the teenie halloweenies nail polish pack out for those in New Zealand who do want to theme their nails this year.

The pack contains 4 mini polishes. Silver glitter, French tip, orange revenge and black. These are 7mls each. I was quite surprised to see that these have good length brushes inside and not some stupid little mini brush that makes it hard to apply the polish.

Color Club - Silver Glitter, Black, French Tip and Orange Revenge - Sunshine

Theses are all 2 coats. The black is a really good one coater and the silver glitter worked really well with just two coats. All polishes were a good consistency and the white was surprisingly opaque.

The 3 colours topped with silver glitter - sunshine

The silver glitter in this pack is a clear jelly with smallish silver glitter in it. After 2 coats it gives almost complete coverage. I think it works great as a top coat on top of the other three aswell.

Color Club Wham! Pow! and Orange Revenge

Orange revenge is a dupe for Wham! Pow! from the 2010 Poptastic collection.

Unfortunately my camera refused to photograph these well at all and kept making them appear really yellow. The bottle pictures above are much more colour accurate. Both of these polishes are 2 coats and it is impossible to tell the difference between the two of them.

I think this is a great little collection for the New Zealand market. Although we are not getting the newest color club halloween collection like the rest of the world this is a great start for color club who are relatively new to the New Zealand market. These 4 packs are selling for $29.95, which is a good deal as the polishes aren't actually that small and have decent brushes with them.

Lots of Love
Lisa

These polishes were sent to me for review by the awesome people at Color Club New Zealand