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Posted by Jeannie on: September 3, 2010, at 11:18 am in category: Nails, OPI, gray, sheer, shimmer I went to Ulta a while ago, armed with a coupon and knowledge that OPI was B2GO. I don’t normally buy OPI polishes, as you may know – I tend to think they’re a bit expensive and I don’t really like their trillions of reds or their stance on etailers. I will say, though, that I’m slowly coming around to OPI – I LOVELOVELOVE their brush, and the formula’s kinda excellent, plus there’ve been a few polishes from each of their latest collections that I’ve been FORCED to buy cause of the awesomeness. All this to say that I’m not real familiar with the brand and the polishes. Sometimes in salons, I amuse myself and annoy the people I’m with by pointing to China Glazes and listing out the names of them without looking at the labels, but with OPI I might recognize…a couple from Shrek and Hong Kong, maybe? And that is IT.
So anyway, I’m wandering through the OPI section, not really looking for anything in particular, just looking for polishes that catch my eye. And there, on the top row, my eye snaps to a pretty, faintly gray creme. I didn’t hesitate to snatch it up and hug it to my chest in glee without actually inspecting it as I normally do. I had obviously found my perfect polish, and I WAS BUYING IT. The other two I ended up buying required my normal debating and comparing and hemming and hawing and opening them and shaking them and holding them up to the light, but I KNEW that Moon Over Mumbai was just certain to be my new favorite polish. It was so light! And so creamy-looking! With the OPI formula and brush! And gray, I adore grays! It was love.
On the way home I had my bag of polish in my lap and I would peek into it and admire MoM, tucked in among the other OPIs and the Ultas I’d gotten, and I couldn’t wait to get home and try out my new perfect polish.
Needless to say, when I finally opened the bottle my hopes were dashed and my heart was broken and I actually considered returning the damn thing because I just have no use or patience for sheer white shimmers. It’s pretty enough I guess for what it is, but it will always remind me of my dashed hopes.
3 coats.
I thought this would be a good time to use another OPI that I don’t like much, to try to liven up MoM a bit. This is one coat of the sheer Can’t You Sea? layered on top. Blah.
Posted by Jeannie on: September 1, 2010, at 10:49 am in category: Nails It’s September 1st and the Zoya color spoons have finally been announced, so I thought I’d get an order in now…but they don’t seem to have spoons available for all of their polishes yet. Most of them, though. Bummer, and odd to me since I’d have thought that everything would be ready on the 1st, since they specifically requested bloggers to not release the information until today. I guess I’ll try back later!
Posted by Jeannie on: September 1, 2010, at 4:32 am in category: Frenches, Nails, glitter, nude, red, sheer Just a simple french manicure I did using China Glaze Innocence and Ruby Pumps. I really liked it! The sparkliness didn’t really translate in my picture, but I enjoyed having just the tips blingy. Ruby Pumps is always my go to glitter whenever I do anything like this because it adds so much sparkle without the buildup of an actual glitter polish, and it’s fairly opaque, but I was worried that it would look like blood under my fingernails. The obvious solution to this is for China Glaze to make Ruby Pumps in every color of the rainbow.
Also, I must say again that Innocence is the PERFECT french base color, seriously. It made my nails look healthy and clean (two coats) and I admired them the entire time I wore this manicure.
Posted by Jeannie on: September 1, 2010, at 12:01 am in category: Nails OK, I really love this idea. I haaaaaaaate buying polish based on crappy online swatches, though really Zoya seems to have some of the most accurate swatches that I’ve seen. I’ve previously had a random color palette thrown in with my Zoya order before, and the colors on the palette were (of course) perfectly accurate, because they seem to be made of actual polish dollops. AWESOME.
I LOVE that the shipping is free, and I LOVE that what you pay for the spoons will be basically given back to you next time you make an order. This is an awesome idea, Zoya!
Do you REALLY love nail polish? Have you ever purchased a color online or from a color chart only to find that it doesn’t match the picture? Have you always wanted to be able to try on nail polish the way you do clothing?
Well, what if you could see EXACTLY how any Zoya color would look on YOU before you buy it? What if you could make sure you ALWAYS get your perfect pink? Or perfect red. Or purple! ANY color! Any shade, EVERY TIME! Well now you can…
Zoya presents a new way to shop for nail color – The Zoya Color Spoon!
Every incredible Zoya nail color made will now be available as a spoon so you can try it before you buy it! This is a revolution for the online nail polish consumer and salon and spa buyers alike who previously only had online color representations or printed color charts as a guide. Never before have you been able to try so much color for so little money out of pocket. This is same Zoya color that comes in the bottle poured into small nail shaped wells to create a tester color spoon – you can see every subtle detail of the color and hold it up to your nail to see exactly how it will look. Plus, the amount you pay for the spoons will be added to your account in the form of code that will be available for use on a future Zoya purchase and BONUS Zoya will ship the spoons to you at no charge. “It’s amazing that we will be able to do this for our customers – there really is nothing else like it in the nail polish market today” stated Leo Reyzis, VP of Marketing at Zoya.
So quit the color guessing game when purchasing nail color online and try any one of Zoya’s over 300 formaldehyde, toluene, dibutyl phthalate and camphor free, vegan friendly shades. Now you can be sure that the color you try is the exact same color you buy!
See it – Try it – Buy it!
Zoya Nail Spoons – $0.50 ea. (free shipping on all spoons – value of spoon(s) will be added to your account for a future zoya.com purchase).
Zoya Nail Spoons will be available at www.zoya.com starting September 1, 2010.
Here’s how it works…
Simply visit www.zoya.com, select a color(s) to try, click on the coordinating Zoya Color Spoon option in the product ordering area to add the color spoon to your shopping cart. Order as many as you would like. After your order has been approved and processed, zoya.com will ship your selected color spoons out for you to try and email you a confirmation along with your spoon value code (code will also be available under the “my account” section of www.zoya.com so you never have to worry about losing it).*
* All Zoya Color Spoon sales are final. One time personalized spoon value code. Zoya Color Spoon value code can be applied to any polish or treatment item at www.zoya.com. Code cannot be used to purchase additional spoons.
Posted by Jeannie on: August 31, 2010, at 4:11 am in category: Color Club, Rebel Debutante, brown, creme, nude, taupe These are both from Rebel Debutante, of course. And wow, these swatches are terrible! I can tell from the swatch quality, how excited I was to try a particular polish. I don’t really know why these have been just languishing on my untried shelf for so long, really, they’re perfectly nice. But I guess I need bright colors and shimmer or glitter to get my attention. 
Best Dressed List
3 coats.This is such an interesting reddish neutral. Like a light terra cotta, maybe? It’s pretty original imo.
High Society
3 coats. Grayish, purplish taupe. This has of course been the season of this sort of color, but this polish didn’t really get much love in that category, I don’t think. I’d guess it’s because it’s so much lighter than the others I can think of. It’s more neutral, less edgy.
Posted by Jeannie on: August 30, 2010, at 10:58 am in category: China Glaze, Nails, X, creme, purple I guess I’ve taken a bit of an unintentional hiatus lately, I’ve been such a bum about posting for the past couple of weeks. The thing is that I’m still taking pics and uploading them and saving them as drafts…I guess I just can’t be bothered to actually hit the post button! I swear, WoW sucks my life away, I should never have started playing again.
Ugh! See how this polish pretty much just looks black? Well, that’s the problem with it. IF I HAD WANTED A BLACK POLISH, I’d use my beloved OPI Black Onyx. This is like ordering something at a restaurant and getting something different, and having the waitress claim it’s what you ordered.
I’m not against dark polishes at all, but I really hate polishes that are so dark you can’t tell what color they’re supposed to be. I wish it had some purple shimmer or something. It was such a pretty, deep purple in the bottle! It’s not that bad, I guess, it’s just not what I ordered! Oh well, one for the swap pile!
This was 3 coats, I think.
Posted by Jeannie on: August 26, 2010, at 6:48 pm in category: China Glaze, Nails, Vintage Vixen, blue, shimmer Ooooh, so pretty! I love this shade of blue, it reminds me of a worn-in pair of jeans. 2 coats!
Posted by Jeannie on: August 25, 2010, at 7:53 pm in category: China Glaze, Nails, black, glitter, orange Well, it’s sort of been a week of nail fails for me. I’ve been not feeling very good lately so I haven’t really been posting, but I HAVE been changing my polish, and I just keep applying duds! I hated this polish. I know that everyone else just adored it, but I knew I wouldn’t like it from the start, and yet I STILL picked it up on clearance at Sally’s. It’s really, really bumpy. I used 3 coats of topcoat, and I still couldn’t defeat the bumpiness! I like the idea of this polish a lot, and I love that the glitter is different sizes, but it’s just…so orange.
This was 3 coats, and my GOSH, it was hard to remove.
Posted by Jeannie on: August 22, 2010, at 7:11 pm in category: Color Club, Pardon My French, creme, glitter, orange, pink I must say that I hated these. I’ve been procrastinating on swatching them for forever because I played with them when I first got them, and haaaaate. The cremes are too sheer, and the glitters are so chunky and gloopy, it seems like something that should be marketed for 10 years olds or something.
Oh Naturale
3 coats. This wasn’t so bad, this pale shade of orange was kind of nice. So sheer though!
Turn The Other Chic
1 coat layered over Oh Naturale. This one has the chunky, babyish glitter, but ALSO it’s tinted really orange. See how much it changed the pretty soft orange base color to a bright loud orange?
I Believe In Amour
3 coats. And look how streaky and sheer!! This shade of pink doesn’t work with my skintone, so I wasn’t inclined to continue adding coats of polish to even it out.
Hot Couture
1 coat layered over I Believe In Amour. blah. There’s not really any color in this base, like there is in the one above.
Posted by Jeannie on: August 14, 2010, at 8:04 pm in category: Color Craze, L.A. Colors, Nails, blue, coral, creme, green, jelly, neon, nude, pink, purple, red, sheer, shimmer, teal, white, yellow Yes!!!!! These were taking up SO MUCH ROOM in my untried section, and now I can move them OUT into my Melmers! I’m so proud of myself. I have ALMOST whittled it down to making all my untrieds fit on the display shelf my dad made me, EVEN with the addition of the Vintage Vixens I just bought (they take up almost a whole shelf on it)!
Now, I only have 17 of these, and I feel like there were like 22 of them. I just could never find the others, which really bugs me. All of these were 3 coats, except for Nuclear Energy, which took 4. All of the shimmers were sheer, and all of the cremes were jellyish, pretty much without exception.
OK, I’ve already worn a few of these: Atomic, Wired, Electrified, and Live.
Energy Source
Eh. This is a white, and that’s about all there is to say about it. Streaky.
Mega Watt
I’m pretty sure this polish is invisible. There’s a tiny bit of blue-ish shimmer.
Shock
I LIKE this one! I’ve actually worn it before. I wish I could find another bottle of it, cause my sister also loves it, and she puts it on every time she comes over so I plan to give mine to her. This is BRIGHT. It’s basically a neon, and it’s a pretty cantaloupe color.
Wavelength
Strangely, I like this one, despite the sheerness. It’s so cheerful and bright!
Current
Ick. Very sheer, but a pretty shade of green.
Electric Charge
I like this one too, it’s like a bubblegum pink with a few drops of orange. A very very mild coral.
Radiation
Oooooh, this one is lovely, really. More opaque than the other shimmers.
Magnetic Force
Oh oh oh!!! LOVE this one!!! Coral-y base with gold shimmer. VERY BRIGHT. Pretty much a neon.
Atomic
Yeah, I’d forgotten that I’d already swatched this one. Still really nice though, I will wear this one again for sure. I love the jellyish finish.
Phenomena
Really pretty color, I guess I’d call this a mulberry.
Transformer
Ick. This one was the only true jelly. I didn’t like the shade or the application, at ALL.
Hot Blooded
HOT red! I LOVE this one!!
Nuclear Energy
This one was more sheer than the rest of the cremes, and more streaky, so it took 4 coats. LOVELY color, though, so it was worth it. This is one of my favorites, but it’s still a little bit streaky.
Fuel
Ick. Bright pink with blue flash. Yawn.
Bright Pink
OK, this isn’t a Color Craze, just a random L.A. Colors polish I had, but I’d already swatched it before I realized that! Anyway, it’s niiiiiiiiiice. Love this shade of pink!
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