BYS Colour Change Salmon

I thought because BYS colour change purple ended up being so great and interesting I would try another of the creme colour changes from BYS. These seem to be selling well in New Zealand because they only had a couple of the colours left when I went back to get more the other day. So I picked up Salmon from this collection.

BYS Colour Change Salmon - sunshine - Cold

BYS Colour Change Salmon - sunshine - Hot

Salmon is a pretty accurate colour description for this polish. And a slightly better name than the other polishes have in this collection (e.g. purple, blue). It changes from a medium salmon peach colour to a very pale light salmon colour when it is warmed up.

This is three coats. It is a nice formula that is easy to apply and dries quickly. It does dry slightly matte though, but a glossy top coat fixes that problem (and as I discovered last time, the colour change still works with the top coat)

I finally got fed up with our lack of sun and crappy weather and spent today building myself a light box. I still need to get a new lightbulb, but hopefully it works out and I will be able to photograph swatches when ever I want to. Fingers crossed it works well :)

Hope your weekends are going well.

Lots of Love
Lisa

Color Club Space Case

I am just going to put it out there.... I think that Color Club created the Starry Temptress collection just for me.

It is perfect. Shimmery neons and rainbow glitter combined into amazingly awesome polishes!!!

Space Case is the first polish I tried out from this collection.

Color Club Space Case - Sunshine

Color Club Space Case - shade
(Enlarge the pictures to see the rainbow glitter better -
unfortunately compressing these pictures ruins them)

It is a medium neon pick full of rainbow glitter. It also has a ultra violet blue shimmer running through it like the Electro Candy collection polishes do. In saying that Space Case is a lighter pink than Electro Candy.

This is three coats. It is easy to apply and the formula is perfect.

Lots of Love
Lisa

This polish was sent to me for review.

Free Nail Polishes with Bride and Groom Magazine

What is better than free nail polish????

Lets be honest..... Nothing is really

Bride & Groom Magazine in New Zealand is giving subscribers two free full sized Orly nail polishes when you renew or start a subscription.

Orly Cut the Cake and Lift the Veil

The good news is a 1 year subscription is only $40 (saving about $24 a year) and you get two free polishes which retail in New Zealand from around $23 each. Bargain!

Lucky for me my subscription ran out with the most recent issue, so I re-subscribed last week, and got home to find my two new nail polishes in my letterbox. My next issue of Bride & Groom wont arrive until August though.

Lots of Love
Lisa

OPI Glam Slam Duo

As far as I know OPI is not releasing the Serena tennis collections in New Zealand. It isn't really a big sport here and I don't think they can cash in on it enough here. Unfortunately from my point of view rugby is the big sport here with the World Cup here in a few months.
My pack of Glam Slam actually came in this cute little packet, although it does seem a little bit excessive as half the packet is just empty plastic.

OPI Simply Smash-ing! - Sunshine

OPI Simply Smash-ing! - Shade

This is three coats and as you can see in the sunshine picture it is still a little sheer. It is however a gorgeous yellow limey green colour with a glass fleck texture. It applies easily with the pro-wide brush and dries quickly.

OPI Black Shatter over Simply Smash-ing! - Sunshine

To be honest I prefer the yellow without the black shatter over it. I just don't think I am Black shatters biggest fan. I dont like covering up pretty polishes with black bits. Mine went goopy and thick and it is hard to get consistent "shattering" across all nails, as some need a few strokes and then it just goes blah.....

As for my comment above I suppose the Black Shatter could be paired with a silver or white polish underneath and match the All Blacks colours and therefore be suitable for rugby :S

Lots of Love
Lisa

Color Club Peace Out Purple

Color Club Peace out Purple is one of three new bright neon polishes released by Color Club as an extension to the Poptastic collection.

Color Club Peace out Purple - Sunshine

Color Club Peace out Purple - Shade

This is a thin polish, but still glides on great. This is three coats and dries to a high gloss shine. I think it leans more to the pinky/fuchsia side than the purple side. The picture in the sunshine is the most colour accurate. It is a lighter version of Mrs. Robinson from the Poptastic collection (which I have yet to swatch - sorry).

At the moment the only place I have spotted these new colours is at www.head2toebeauty.com underneath the Poptastic collection.

Lots of Love
Lisa

This polish was sent to me for review.

Nail Mail Brightens my Mondays

Woohoo for mail arriving on Mondays and making my crappy first day back at work better :)

Alas my no buy is well and truly over.

My 7 piece Untamed Luxury Diamond Collection arrived today from www.usanailsonline.co.nz
This cost me NZ$59 and $3.90 for shipping. Without shipping it works out to $8.40ish a polish.
Pretty good bargain.

Swatches to come later once I have some time and hopefully some sun. If you only want a few of these polishes they are being sold in pharmacies and salons all over New Zealand for around $15 a polish.

Lots of Love
Lisa