Color Club Snakeskin

Snakeskin is one of 3 charcoal/silver polishes from the 7 piece Diamond set from the Untamed Luxury collection.

Color Club Snakeskin - light box light (I still don't know what to call this)

This one is a charcoal colour with a very fine gold shimmer running through it. This one only needs two coats and has great coverage. I find with each new Color Club collection their formulas are getting better and better. This colour does seem to fit in well with the rest of the Untamed Luxury collection - especially with the gold shimmer.

Lots of Love
Lisa

Spotted in New Zealand: MAC Quite Cute

Yay Blogger is working again!

Yesterday (Friday) Kirkcaldie & Stains had a an event during the day to launch MAC's new Quite Cute collection.


I stopped by on my lunch break. They had a girl dressed up in pink (looking cute but not as insane as the model in the picture) and handing out cute as scratchies, where if you matched three things up you won a prize.

They had a girl making balloon animals, I got given a green dog, but couldn't work out how to get it home on the bus without looking a bit silly.

The polishes in this collection are:

Ice Cream Cake - Creamy blue pink
Little Girl Type - Creamy pale lavender
Mischievous - Creamy pale blue mint

All three are limited edition creme polishes. Retailing in New Zealand for $26.
I didn't pick up any of these as they aren't really unique. Compared to the Venomous Villains collection they seem a bit average to be honest.

Lots of Love
Lisa

Light box results! + Sportsgirl Iris

I spent the weekend building a light box because it is now winter here and I wasn't sure how I was going to get any good photos in the rain and dark weather we have everyday.

IT WORKS!!!!!!

Here is the first photos I took using the new light box.

This is the polish I picked up from Sportsgirl when I was in Australia a few months ago. On a side note, most of the fashion stores we have in New Zealand come from Australia and I am surprised we don't yet have Sportsgirl over here.

Sportsgirl Nail it! Iris - (here is where I normally say what type of light this is taken in, but I am not sure what to call this type of light - any ideas?)

This is three coats. The first one it sheer, but the colour builds quickly, and you can get away with two coats here. It is a faint shimmer/frosty colour, that is very conservative. This is the only Sportsgirl polish I bought back with me, I picked this one because my grandma was named Iris.

Didn't it work well? And I took these photos at 9pm at night! I can now do my nails at night and take photos before I wear the polish for the next day and not have to worry about how it wears and having sun to take good photos.

You can follow the same tutorial I used to make your own light box here.

Lots of Love
Lisa

Color Club Red Velvet

This looked like an interesting polish hiding in my seven pack of Untamed Luxury Diamonds.

Color Club Red Velvet - sunshine
enlarge the picture to see the red glitter better

This is a black polish base, with little bits of red glitter in it. It is still glossy and not as matte looking as the photo makes it seem. Even though its a black base the glitter still sparkles through. This was 3 coats, the black is a little thin, so to get it a black enough black you need at least 2 coats. This was a little tricky to take off due to being full of glitter.

Lots of Love
Lisa

Spotted in New Zealand: OPI Pirates of the Caribbean collection + a small rant

Over the weekend OPI released the Pirates of the Caribbean collection in New Zealand stores.

Top: Skull and Glossbones, Mermaid's Tears, Steady As She Rose, Planks A Lot

Bottom: Sparrow Me the Drama, Stranger Tide, Silver Shatter

I also found out that Farmers has increased their retail price of OPI to NZ$26.90 a polish! This is INSANE!!!!!! $24.90 was already far too much to pay and now it is just ridiculous. I am not sure whether this is Farmer's fault or OPI's but I for one am not happy about it. Thank goodness for e-tailers that ship to New Zealand.

The only one I am interested in getting from this collection is the purple Planks A Lot, but I will not be rushing out to get it.... especially not from Farmers. I already have the p2 silver crackling top coat, so will not be investing in the OPI one.

Have you seen this in your local store? How much were they selling it for? Do you agree with me that NZ$26.90 is daylight robbery?

Lots of Love
Lisa

Color Club All That Razz

All That Razz is another one of the three extra polishes released by Color Club as an extension of the Poptastic Neon collection from summer 2010.

Color Club All That Razz - sunshine

It is a bright pink that reminds me of the furniture my Barbie had when I was about 7. This is three coats. It starts of thin but the colour builds up well after the second coat. It applies nicely and dries quickly. The visible nail line isn't so noticeable in real life, but the camera seems to capture it more than it should.

I am informed that these three new colours will be available at www.usanailsonline.co.nz soon for New Zealand purchase.

Lots of Love
Lisa

This polish was sent to me for review