Color Club Rebel Debutante Day 5: Uptown Girl

Day 5 of the Color Club Rebel Debutant Collection is a purple grey called Uptown Girl.

(Has anyone else spotted that I have posted these in the order they come in the box? - hehe)

Color Club Uptown Girl - sunshine

Color Club Uptown Girl - shade

This is a medium purple, which leans to the side of grey. I quite like it on my skin tone. I still have this feeling that these are great polishes for autumn/fall - I think it is mainly to do with the limited colours and the fact that all of them are cremes.

This is three coats. Dry time is great and its thickness and brush make it easy to use.
All of the polish in this collection are super shiny and glossy when they dry.

Lots of Love
Lisa

This polish was sent to me for review.

An open letter to china glaze...

Seeing as my last letter to Zoya actually resulted in a polish called Lisa, I thought Id try another one.

Dear China Glaze,

Why dont you sell your polishes in New Zealand? You make some great colours and I love your collections. I know our market is small, so I can understand this. Luckily I can get most of your polishes online and shipped to me for a reasonable price.

However you chose not to let etailers sell the Tronica collection.

This makes me sad. I need holos in my life and you are denying me.

Did you not think that you are alienating all the nail polish lovers in the world who don't have a Sally's near by? A quick search on the Sally's website shows that stores are only located in 6 countries. Surely there is enough of us in the rest of the world who buy your products that you wouldn't want to leave us all out. would you?

Ebay prices for these polishes are ridiculous and I don't like to fuel the people who take advantage of those of us who can not get these polishes easily.

So that is my little rant over.
Yours sincerely
Lisa

So if any one out there would be able to help me get my chubby little hands on some or all of the Tronica collection please let me know! I will swap or pay you and love you for the rest of your life!

Lots of Love
Lisa

Color Club Rebel Debutante Day 4: Charity Ball

Day 4 of Color Clubs Rebel Debutante collection is Charity Ball.

And I have to be honest here - I do not like this colour. It is a very orange brown. I cant bring myself to like it. Some of you might though.

Color Club Charity Ball - sunshine

Color Club Charity Ball - shade

This is three coats. the formula is great and so is dry time - but I cant just get over the colour. The picture in the sunshine is most colour accurate. This is another colour that is great for the autumn/fall season and I am sure you can find a matching coat or shoes for it.

Lots of Love
Lisa

This polish was sent to me for review.

BYS colour change polishes

Edit: Cosmetic Plus told me today that these polishes are a week away as their shipment was delayed.

Finally Colour change polishes are being released by a brand easily available in New Zealand!

BYS is releasing 7 colour change polishes that change colour based on temperature (usually controlled by washing hands in hot or cold water) - and some of them are even shimmer/glitters!! (all pictures and information is taken from www.bys.com.au)

Blue

Glitter Purple

Salmon

Glitter Blue

Bright Purple

Bright Pink

Royal Blue

I so can not wait! I think I might have to get them all!

BYS polishes retail from $5.90 to $8.90 in New Zealand, although sometimes it takes a while to get them here from Australia.

Lots of Love
Lisa

Color Club Rebel Debutante Day 3: Best Dressed List

Getting back to the Color Club Rebel Debutante collection - day three is a tan coloured creme called Best Dressed List.

Color Club Best Dressed List - sunshine

Color Club Best Dressed List - shade

The picture in the sun is more colour accurate. This is a brown creme. This is three coats to even out coverage. Its a nice dark neutral/nude colour. Again this is a nice colour for autumn/fall.

If you are from New Zealand and want to win the entire Color Club Rebel Debutante Collection click here to enter. Entries close in a week on the 10th of March.

I'm at home sick at the moment - having a full time job sucks when it comes to applying for sick leave and such. I feel like I shouldn't waste it, but I cant even sit at the computer for more than 30 minutes at a time.

Lots of Love
Lisa

This polish was sent to me for review.

Polish hunting in Melbourne

Chris and I booked our trip to Melbourne ages ago to see Tim Minchin play with the Melbourne Symphony Orchestra. If you have not herd of Tim google him and be prepared for a laugh. He is a genius.

My plan was to shop - and of course that included shopping for nail polish. I was mainly looking for Australian brands that are unavailable in New Zealand. This included Glitter Gal, Illamasqua and Ozotics pro polishes.

We flew into Melbourne on Thursday morning. Out hotel was in the middle of town and right opposite a giant Myer and David Jones.

Myer was up first. They recently opened an Illamasqua section there and this was my first stop.

Illamasqua polishes retail for AU$34 each. I bought a bunch for Lisa (the other one) but only got myself Baptiste as I was finding it hard to justify that much money on one polish.

I also found Make Up Store polishes in Myer. These are AU$26 each - so again I only brought one. Madeleine which is a nude bronze holographic polish. (Pictures of these down further)

Next door to Myer was a giant David Jones store. This had the biggest display of OPI I have ever seen in my life.
This stand was double sided and surrounded by other littler stands full of OPI. These were retailing for AU$19.95 each. They had the new Texas collection and the Katy Perry collection (although half of these colours were sold out).

In Australia the 2007 Japanese Exclusive Yokohama Collection is part of the core line.

Left to Right - Bay Bridge Sunset, Penny for your Thoughts, Baby Blue, Pinkerbell, Vintage Violet, Sweet love at the Ferris Wheel.

I brought 6 more of these and now have a couple of double ups. (If anyone is desperate to own Baby Blue or Bay Bridge Sunset send me an email).

Chadstone mall was my next stop. Here I discovered Inglot. We don't have Inglot in New Zealand. I loved the little shop they had. I got a pallet of four gorgeous shimmer eyeshadows (you get to pick your own colours) for AU$40. I also picked two polishes - a purple and a green - unfortunately these only have numbers and not names.

Left to Right - Make Up Store Madeleine, Illamasqua Baptiste, Inglot 319, Inglot 833

Lastly I found some Nicole by OPI in a random Hair Care shop in the center of town. These were $14.95 each.
Left to Right - Nail It! (Sportsgirl) Iris, Nicole by OPI Love your Life, Nicole by OPI Blue Lace, OPI Its Totally Fort Worth it, OPI Austin-tatious Turquoise

On the way through customes at the airport they had two OPI polishes for AU$25 so I picked up the only two polishes from the OPI Texas collection I was interested in.

So 15 polishes later I am a lot poorer and still don't have any Glitter Gal or Ozotic pro polishes. I tried so hard looking for them. Chris was super sick of polish hunting by the end of three days and I was getting depressed because I had run out of money and had no luck finding the Australian brands I was looking for.

Swatches will come later once I have some spare time. Hope you are all doing well!

Lots of Love
Lisa