Never Enough Nails

NerdLacquer Hyperspace Bypass

2012-01-27T09:30:00.000-05:00

NerdLacquer is definitely winning all kinds of awards in my personal beauty book. The polish I have for you today, Hyperspace Bypass, is one of the most unique polishes in my collection. I dare you to name a dupe for this polish. Double dog dare!!!

Hyperspace Bypass is a golden yellow jelly-ish base packed with medium yellow glitter, maybe some silver/gold glitter, large yellow gold hex pieces, medium silver holo pieces, and of course, that stunning black glitter. It looks like the black glitter is present in at least two sizes. This polish is incredibly unique-looking. I am obsessed!!

I love yellow polish, but very often it's difficult to work with. Hyperspace Bypass is not, possibly due to the jelly-ness of the base. This is three coats and I am quite happy with the result. NerdLacquer's polishes do not seem to have that problem that some glitter polishes have, where you can't get the "good" glitter to come out of the bottle. I didn't use any special application techniques here, just regular strokes of the brush, and I have all kinds of glitter on my nails!!

If the above picture doesn't make you drool/order this immediately, you need to check to see if you are actually a fan of nail polish. I already own this polish, but that picture makes me want like 20 more bottles!!!!!

I cannot stop gushing over these NerdLacquer polishes. I wore All of Space and Time for about 5 days until this morning, when I took it off to swatch Hyperspace Bypass. Now I'm wearing Hyperspace Bypass as a full mani!! I need to order more NerdLacquer polishes STAT.

NerdLacquer polishes, including Hyperspace Bypass, are available on Etsy.com.

Maybelline Dream Bouncy Blush Cancels My Other Spring Blush Orders!

2012-01-26T16:52:00.002-05:00

OK so here's the deal: I don't really buy drugstore make-up. I spend all of my make-up money on expensive brands like NARS and Chanel, and I end up with little left over for drugstore brands. I think I was about 12 years old the last time I bought a drugstore blush. However, I was hell bent on getting the new Maybelline Color Tattoo 24 Hour Eye Shadows (review coming soon!), and bumped into some reviews of the new Maybelline Dream Bouncy Blushes. So, last night when I purchased three of the Color Tattoo e/s, I grabbed a Dream Bouncy Blush in Candy Coral. The picture above shows Candy Coral swatched heavily on the top and lighter on the bottom.

Now, please bear with me and the pictures I attempted to take of me wearing this blush. I am adept at nail swatch pictures, and I do OK with arm swatches of make-up, but I can not for the life of me figure out how to take good face pictures of myself without looking like an alien. In these pictures I am wearing Candy Coral on my cheeks. It looked much brighter in person, but still looked natural and pretty.

I think you can see Candy Coral better in this picture taken with flash. However, I look cross-eyed. I promise that I am not, in fact, cross-eyed LOL. But my cheeks are glowing and beautiful, so I had to share this picture!! I'm also wearing Maybelline Color Tattoo e/s in Fierce and Tangy, but more on that later!!

Again, heavily swatched on top, lighter on bottom. I love this blush so much that I could go on for hours and sound like a raving loon. So, to try to consolidate my thoughts, I'm going to do bullet points.

blended

This blush has AMAZING texture. Somewhere between a gel and a creme, but feels light as air on the skin.
Buildable pigmentation. You can wear this blush really sheer, if you are afraid of too much color, or for a lazy day. You can also seriously pump the color up for lots of color! Just apply a few more layers.
Ease of use- Apply with your fingers and blend!
Price- $8 for 5.6g of product
THE COLORS, DUKE, THE COLORS!!!! Currently comes in 10 colors, including the awesome-looking Hot Tamale and Orchid Hush.

These are just a few reasons why I am now obsessed with Maybelline Dream Bouncy Blushes. I will be acquiring the other 9 colors very soon. In fact, all 10 colors are on Ulta.com right now and I have a 20% off code. So I can order all 9 for about $58 + tax!! I paid $50 for just one Chanel spring blush!! I was also intending to order the new YSL Gel blush for $30. But now, I'd rather put that $30 towards almost 4 Dream Bouncy Blushes!

Maybelline Dream Bouncy Blushes are available now at drugstores, or online at Ulta.com!

Sally Hansen x White + Warren for Winter!

2012-01-25T22:56:00.001-05:00

Check out this great collaboration between Sally Hansen and White + Warren!

SALLY HANSEN TEAMS UP WITH WHITE + WARREN

TO PAMPER AND PROTECT YOUR HANDS THIS WINTER

Frigid weather doesn’t mean you have to say goodbye to flawless hands. Nail authority Sally Hansen is teaming up with luxury cashmere designer White + Warran to offer consumers the warmth of beautiful gloves that they can slide their perfectly primped hands into. For a limited time, every consumer who purchases a pair of White + Warren Fingerless Gloves from the White + Warren website will receive a complimentary Sally Hansen Manicure Set filled with manicure must-haves.

Protect your hands against the drying effects of cold winter weather with White + Warren’s luxe cashmere fingerless gloves, and beautify your nails with Sally Hansen’s ultimate manicure kit. The nail essentials set includes:

Expert Nail File – to help you achieve the perfect shape for your nails;

Nailgrowth Miracle Serum – for instantly softened and smoothed cuticles that resist dryness and damage as they grow;

Complete Salon Manicure in Right Said Red – an all-in-one formula that delivers base coat, vivid color, growth treatment, strengthener and top coat in one smooth polish;

Dry, Chapped Hand Cream – an ultra-moisturizing, gentle lotion that leaves hands touchably soft all season long

NerdLacquer All of Time and Space

2012-01-24T08:30:00.000-05:00

You all know by now what a glitter fiend I am, and I do a love unique polishes. Let me tell you, it's hard to get more unique polish than those that NerdLacquer is creating. NerdLacquer is an Etsy store selling custom-blended polish like this beauty, All of Time and Space. All of Time and Space is a seafoam green/blue base filled with very fine silver and purple glitter, medium sized silver glitter, large purple glitter and large silver hex glitter. There might even be more kinds of glitter in there too!

This is three coats of All of Time and Space and you can see a little bit of VNL. You could always layer this over a mint green or pale blue creme, but I like it alone. This applied really well and there was a ton of glitter in every brushstroke.

What sold me on this polish is the unique combination of the pale pastel green with the purple glitter. That's not a combination you see a lot and I love it! NerdLacquer's polishes have very interesting color combinations and I can see myself buying a lot of these. I also ordered Hyperspace Bypass and will be showing you that soon. Gorramit is definitely next on my list, and I think I might order it in this trio, because I want Shiny too!!

Now, it appears that All of Time and Space is currently out of stock, but if you're desperate for it before she officially restocks, I think you can order it in a set of 6 polishes of your choice. There is a note at the top of her page that she is running a little slow on orders, but mine came pretty quickly. NerdLacquers are quite a bit easier to obtain than Lynnderellas, so you should be able to get this polish if you want it!

Let me know if you decide to order anything from NerdLacquer!! I might be obsessed!!

Woohoo!

2012-01-23T10:11:00.001-05:00

800 followers, thanks everyone!! Stay tuned for an 800 follower giveaway in the next week or so!

SinfulColors Why Not? (do a crazy dance?)

2012-01-22T09:00:00.000-05:00

SinfulColors Why Not? is a gorgeous swimming pool blue creme. Why Not? is very bright, but not neon, and nicely pigmented. It also has an extra benefit.

The name reminds me of this song from Hilary Duff's excellent Disney film The Lizzie McGuire movie. Cinematic brilliance, I tell you. Man, I loved that movie. I think I watched it like a month ago (ok, probably kidding with that last bit) (no, I really did watch it about 5 months ago).

Anyway, back to SinfulColors Why Not?. This polish was pretty pigmented, this is two coats. It also applied pretty nicely. It was a tad streaky on the first coat, but evened out with the second. Like I say every time I review a SinfulColors polish, how can you beat $1.99 polish that applies well, only needs two coats, and is a beautiful color?? You can't!!!

So... whyyyy not? Take a crazy chance! Whyyyy not? Do a crazy dance!!!

SinfulColors polishes are available at a Walgreens near you!

Have a Fleck Festival with Zoya!!!

2012-01-20T08:00:00.000-05:00

I was in the mood to sport some flakies over a neutral, and what better way to do so than to sport Zoya's new spring collections?? For my neutral polish, I picked Zoya Cho, a pale vanilla shimmer from the True collection. I applied two coats of Cho for my base.

So then I went to pick out which of the three Zoya Fleck Effects polishes I would use and naturally, I decided to use ALL THREE! I layered on one coat of Zoya Opal, one coat of Zoya Maisie, and finally, one coat of Zoya Chloe.

The final look is super pretty and interesting to look at, but also very soft and subtle. By the way, the sun was shining when I took these, and it looked spring-like, but MAN, it was freezing!!!!!!!!

The Zoya Fleck Effects and True collections are available now online at Zoya.com.

Products provided for review. Please see my Disclosure Policy.

Irish Dance Nails!!!

2012-01-19T13:15:00.000-05:00

Hey guys, my post on the Irish dance fashion blog, Feisionista, is up!! Check it out here!! You can even see actual pictures of me in my Irish dance costumes!! Woohoo!!! But don't worry, there are several nail polish looks in the post too, including two Essie polishes, the Irish flag on my nails, Swarovski crystals, and more!

More OPI On The Red Carpet!!

2012-01-19T13:08:00.001-05:00

Former wrestler and actress Stacy Keibler walked the 69^th Annual Golden Globe Awards red carpet with George Clooney on her arm and OPI nail lacquer in Did You ‘Ear About Van Gogh? on her hands. This new nude, which complemented Keibler’s classic look, is part of the Holland collection, launching in February for Spring/Summer 2012.

Laura Linney, nominated for Best Actress in a TV series for her role in The Big C, paired her purple-hued dress with the jewel-tonedOPI nail lacquer Congeniality is My Middle Name, a limited edition shade from the Miss Universe partnership.

China Glaze GR8 from the OMG Collection!

2012-01-17T08:00:00.000-05:00

Every now and then, blogsales feature amazing treasures for dirt cheap prices. I am always on the lookout for China Glaze OMG and Kaleidoscope polishes. I found China Glaze GR8 at Strych from Pretty in Dayton's blogsale for the low low price of.... FREE!!!!!! She was including GR8 as a throw in if you purchased another polish!! Gasp! I obviously found something else to purchase immediately and requested GR8 as my throw in.

direct sun

GR8 is a gold holo that actually isn't overwhelmingly holographic, but pretty nonetheless. I just really am still mad at myself for not buying the entire OMG and Kaleidoscope collections when I had the chance. I thought mainstream companies would make lots more holos, but obviously, they haven't really. Indoors and in low light, GR8 is only a little bit holo. The holo effect shows up more in sunlight, but it's still pretty subtle.

shade

GR8 applied well, not streaky or difficult at all. I used three coats. It was actually more opaque than I thought it would be. I almost got away with two coats. The formula was a little bit thin, but not runny.

If you have the chance to pick up this polish at a low price, I would recommend getting it. I like gold polish and gold holo polish is always very pretty. I do wish China Glaze would do a collection of real holos again.

Born Pretty Store Design Templates for Nails

2012-01-15T09:00:00.000-05:00

Born Pretty Store, my favorite online source for nail art treats, offered to send me these lovely nail stencils and I couldn't wait to try them! A package of these design templates comes with 10 different designs, 9 are pictured above. The package of 10 different designs is super inexpensive too, it only costs about $4!!

Closer shots of the designs. I think the ones in the top picture, all the way on the left, might be my favorites. I also like the sunburst design below, all the way on the right.

Now, I used the 10th design, a flower, for my first attempt at using these. The flower is probably the most complicated of all of these designs, and I really should have picked an easier one. The flower has all different pieces- a stem, 6 petals, two leaves, and the middle of the flower. This makes all kinds of different places for me to mess up this design LOL. But, along the way, I learned some tips for using the Born Pretty Store stencils that I want to share with you.

I used OPI Sparrow Me The Drama for my base coat and NYC Blackula for the flower. Now, my tips for using these:

Make sure your base polish is COMPLETELY, 160% DRY. If it is not, you will take the base coat off when you remove the stencil. This is why I have no pinkie finger in these pictures.
Make sure the polish you use for the design is COMPLETELY, 200% DRY before you peel off the stencil. I obviously did not, hence the smudging of the petals.
I would cut the edges of the stencils down. I found that the stencil would not lay flat on my nail when part of the edge was over my finger. This made the petals look smudged because the stencil wasn't actually touching my nail.
The package suggests sticking the stencil to your hand first, like you would do with scotch tape when using it for nail art. However, I didn't think these were very sticky to begin with. When I stuck them to my hand first, they wouldn't stick to my nail.

I think if you follow these tips, and maybe if I follow my own tips, your design will come out awesome!! I will be posting the sunburst design next and I think it will come out better, as it doesn't have so many little pieces in the design. Most of my problem here was caused by my impatience and inability to wait until thing are dry.

Overall, I think these nail art stencils are adorable!! They are an easy way to get cool nail art looks without being too talented at nail art. As long as you can wait for polish to dry, you can do amazing looks with these stencils. I can't wait to try the sunburst pattern. I was thinking of doing sunset colors for it too, like an orange sun on a yellow base!!

These Design Templates for Nails are available now on the Born Pretty Store website. They are listed under the Nail Art Stamping category, here is the direct link. And remember, for 10% off at Born Pretty Store, enter code ERJ61.

These stencils were sent to me for review by a representative for Born Pretty Store. OPI Sparrow Me the Drama and NYC Blackula were also sent for review by PR agents for their respective companies. For more information, please read my Disclosure Policy.

China Glaze Spring 2012 ElectroPop Preview!

2012-01-14T12:36:00.002-05:00

Los Angeles, CA - (January 2012): "Where heavy metal meets rocker chic, China Glaze® introduces the Spring 2012 collection, ElectroPop. Inspired by all things girly, edgy and fun, the 12 shades of ElectroPop bring out the inner rock star in all. For flash and glam this spring, China Glaze® hits the stage in style!

ElectroPop Shades include:

Kinetic Candy – Touch the sky in light blue crème

Electric Beat – Periwinkle nails for a wink worthy performance

Aquadelic – Pool blue for nighttime gigs and daytime fun in the sun

Gaga For Green – Green lacquer for the girl craving the limelight

Sunshine Pop – Shine in the spotlight in bold yellow

Make Some Noise – Rock the mic in tangerine

Wicked Style – Party cocktail tropical punch

Fuchsia Fanatic – Fuchsia pink for the rocker diva in us all

Gothic Lolita – Steal the show on girls night out in seductive purple

Dance Baby – Hit center stage in cotton candy pink

Sweet Hook – Blow a kiss in dreamy lilac

Techno – Glitter confetti polish for a dazzling topcoat finish or all over finger tip bling

ElectroPop is also available in:

· 6 Piece Collection of “Brights”: Techno, Aquadelic, Sunshine Pop, Gaga for Green, Make Some Noise and Wicked Style

· 6 Piece Collection of “Lights”: Fuchsia Fanatic, Dance Baby, Electric Beat, Kinetic Candy, Sweet Hookand Gothic Lolita

· 12 Piece 3D Counter Display

· 36 Piece Rack

ElectroPop will be available February 2012. Individual shades retail for $7; 6 piece collections retail for $42."

What do you plan to get from this collection? I'm going to pick up Electric Beat, Aquadelic, and possibly Techno. Techno reminds me of China Glaze Nova, a favorite of mine from the 50 Specialty Glitters collection.

NOTD: Orly Rock Solid

2012-01-13T12:26:00.002-05:00

Today's Nail of the Day is Orly Rock Solid, a lovely little gem that has been sitting in my untrieds drawer for awhile now!! Rock Solid is from Orly's Mineral FX collection, which came out this past fall. I am not sure why I let this beauty sit untried for a few months. I really love it!

Orly Rock Solid is a gunmetal gray metallic base with small silver glitter and medium sized holographic glitter pieces. The holo glitter is what makes this polish awesome. Now, I have seen some swatches of this polish that don't contain as much holo glitter. I gave my bottle a really good shake before application. I also kind of swirl the brush towards the sides of the bottle before applying some glitter polishes. You know how all of the glitter kind of gets stuck on the sides? If you angle the brush towards the sides while it's still in the bottle, you can pick up some extra pieces of glitter.

blurry holo goodness!

I did three coats of Rock Solid for these pictures, but two was nicely opaque for wearing this polish. The formula was excellent, really nice to apply! It also dried quite quickly, if that's a factor for you. I used top coat in these pictures, and Rock Solid seemed pretty smooth after just one coat of clear top coat.

I am really loving this beautiful polish and can't believe I left it sitting in the lonely untrieds drawer all this time!! Orly Rock Solid and the other Mineral FX polishes are available online at nailsupplies.us.

ASK Cosmetics Ultimate Bare Naked Nail Challenge

2012-01-12T22:30:00.000-05:00

Listen to this great idea ASK Cosmetics had:

"Would you like to transform your dry, cracked, peeling, weak nails into great-looking, jaw-dropping, attention-grabbing nails with just one simple step, one easy-to-apply product? Are your cuticles dry and cracked, growing down your nails, possibly the source of unsightly hangnails? Do you want to get rid of your artificial nails perhaps? Would you be interested in kicking the annoying habit of nail biting? If you are not 100% happy with the appearance of your nails and cuticles, and would like to be a participant in our Ultimate Bare Naked Nail Challenge, read on and follow the steps to become eligible."

If the Ultimate Bare Naked Nail Challenge sounds like something you'd like to do, visit Lisa's Nailcare Blog to see the details!! I would love to participate myself, but unfortunately can't take that much time off from blogging!!

Kaley Cuoco Sporting OPI at People's Choice Awards!

2012-01-12T20:45:00.001-05:00

Wanted to share this info from OPI, mainly because I LOVE LOVE LOVE The Big Bang Theory!! And I also love a good accent nail!

"Last night, The Big Bang Theory’s Kaley Cuoco hosted the 2012 People's Choice Awards at L.A.'s Nokia Theatre, wearing her now trademark “lucky” manicure with two-toned nails styled by OPI celebrity manicurist Beth Fricke. Cuoco wore OPI Nail Lacquer in Bastille My Heart on all her nails, except on her two ring fingers, which were painted with Nicole by OPI Nail Lacquer in Follow Me on Glitter.

Cuoco also sported a similar two-toned OPI manicure at the 2011 Emmy awards; this look was hailed as one of the evening’s best accessories to walk the red carpet.

Zoya Bevin and Zoya Opal Make a Good Couple

2012-01-11T09:00:00.000-05:00

I intend to do many many more manis using the Zoya Fleck Effects polishes, so I thought I'd show you one with one of my favorite colors from the Zoya True collection. This little number is two coats of Zoya Bevin with two coats of Zoya Opal.

Let me just say that I LOVE this combination. Opal looks amazing with Bevin. There is something about paler colors with flakies that is really stunning, yet soothing too. It looks like sunshine on water sometimes.

Yup, just like sunshine on water on a warm balmy spring day. *Sigh*. At least I can wear warm-weather nails, right??

The Zoya Fleck Effects and True Collections are available now on Zoya.com.

These polishes were sent to me for review by a PR agent for Zoya. For more information, please read my Disclosure Policy.

Zoya True Collection Feels Like a Warm Breeze!

2012-01-09T20:30:00.000-05:00

I wanted to get the swatches of the Zoya True Spring 2012 collection up before they are officially available for sale tomorrow. This collection really screams spring to me. It kind of helped that the day I swatched them was very spring-like, warm breezes and sunshine were out for most of the time I spent swatching! There is definitely hope that winter will come to an end. If you need more encouragement to get through the winter, look at the lovely spring polishes!

First up, we have Zoya Lotus. Lotus is a gorgeous medium purple with large pink shimmer particles. I REALLY love this finish that Zoya is doing with this large, very visible shimmer. They just call this a "metallic", but you can really see all of the shimmer particles. Metallics usually have very smooth, flat shimmer that provides an overall frostier feeling. This finish is much cooler and more unique. They should give it a cool name, like... "Super Shimmer" or "Ultra Metallic". LOL, maybe I'll let someone else do the naming.

Above, you can see that Lotus is still beautiful in the shade and low light, but it really sparkles in the sun!!

Look at all of the pink shimmery goodness! Lotus was opaque in two coats and the formula was very good. I will comment more on the formula of all of these at the end.

Next up we have Zoya Bevin. I love this color!!! I know it may not be the most unique in the collection, but I am a sucker this kind of green every time. Bevin manages to be different than other greens like this in my collection though, so if you love this color, go ahead and get it. You won't have a dead-on dupe.

I used three coats for Bevin, although I think two would have been fine if I weren't photographing it. It seemed sheer on the first coat, and maybe a tad streaky, but the second coat really smoothed it all out and made it nicely opaque.

Zoya Tru is a darker purple with golden shimmer particles like the shimmer in Zoya Lotus. I LOVE the color of Tru!!! It's a really gorgeous deep and jewel-like purple without leaning towards the too-dark side. This is the kind of purple destined to become a favorite in my collection. I do not own anything like this, especially since the shimmer finish provides such life and depth to the polish.

I love Tru even in the shade, like below!! This was two coats for perfect opacity. I love this on my fingers, but I think this is going to be an INCREDIBLE pedi shade!!! When I finally get over my vampy pedi stage, I will put this on immediately.

Zoya Skylar has the same awesome large-particle shimmer as Tru and Lotus. You can't call a polish finish this amazing just "metallic"!!! It's so much cooler! Skylar is a dusty slate blue with silver large shimmer particles. So much awesome. Please gaze:

See what I mean about being able to see every single shimmer particle? So cool. Skylar was probably opaque in two, but I did a third coat because I wanted to really show it off in the pictures. I am kind of obsessed with this one, can you tell?

OK, so I said the sun was out for most of the time I was swatching, but unfortunately, the clouds came out for Zoya Farah. My skin looks like a very weird gray color here, so sorry about that! Farah is a beige gray creme. I found Farah to be more gray than any of the Feel/Touch colors. Those were more nudes, this had quite a bit of gray in it. It made me think of putty.

The above picture is probably the best color representation of this polish. This took three coats to be opaque. It looked very sheer on the first coat, but don't worry, it builds up well.

And the sun returned for Zoya Cho!! Cho was much more flattering on my skin tone anyway! Cho is a pale vanilla shimmer. It reminds me of real vanilla ice cream, the kind that is a little yellow, not stark white.

Cho was the least pigmented of the bunch. This is three coats and I could still see some visible nail line. I like the color on me a lot, but I think I would need four coats to really love it. I also wish this was a bit more metallic. Zoya called this a vanilla shimmer metallic, but it's not too metallic. It's more of a soft shimmer.

Overall, I love the color palette of this collection. I think Zoya always nails the spring collection colors. They do something different every year, but it still always feels just like spring. I did feel the formula of these were maybe a little thinner and more watery than Zoya polish usually is. However, they all built up to full opacity in 2-3 coats, with the exception of Cho. The thinner formula was still very easy to work with and I had no problems with it, I just thought it was worth a mention.

If you can only buy one polish from this collection, GET SKYLAR IMMEDIATELY. If you can buy a few, get Skylar, Lotus, Skylar, Tru, Bevin, Skylar, oh, and Skylar. So, I'm suggesting that you get Skylar, if you couldn't tell.

It looks like the Zoya True Collection is available to add to your cart right now on Zoya.com!!!! Go get Skylar!!

These polishes were sent to me for review by a PR agent for Zoya. For more information, please read my Disclosure Policy.

P.S..... Get Skylar.

Zoya Fleck Effects: Chloe

2012-01-08T08:30:00.000-05:00

Would ya look at that?? Just look at it! I am obsessed with this combination right now!!!!! Zoya Chloe might be my favorite of the three Zoya Fleck Effects! Zoya describes Chloe as a "pink tint with mylar green and gold fleck effect", but it is so much cooler than that. Look at how many colors these flakies flash! Chloe is DEFINITELY a Never Enough Nails Necessity!

I see gold, green, blue, orange, copper, yellow, etc. etc.!!

For this look, I used two coats of Zoya Stacy under two coats of Zoya Chloe. I felt Chloe's flakes were a little more sparse than those in Opal and Maisie, but two coats was perfect!! When we're talking about this kind of gorgeousness, two coats is SO worth it.

Obviously, I just couldn't stop myself from taking pictures of Chloe! We're in love. Check out this close-up. GAHHHH!

It is highly possible that Chloe could be my favorite flakie of all time. It will require further "testing". Lots and lots of testing (a.k.a. wearing) this polish, but I will let you know if it is deserving of the title of My Favorite Flakie Ever!!!

Zoya Chloe and the other two Fleck Effects will be available on Zoya.com for pre-order on January 10!!!

This polish was sent to me for review by a PR agent for Zoya. For more information, please see my Disclosure Policy.

Zoya Fleck Effects: Opal

2012-01-07T13:58:00.001-05:00

The second Zoya Fleck Effect polish I have for you is Zoya Opal. Zoya describes Opal as a "green tint with mylar green fleck effect". The green flakies are essentially the same flakies that are in Maisie, but in a different color base. I found Maisie's flakies to have a more glowing look, but that could be the base color I used.

For this look, I did one coat of Opal over two coats of Zoya Suvi. Suvi looks a bit dusty, like acyual dust particles, so I think it dulled down the look a little. It may not have been the best base choice for flakies. But, never fear, for I will be showing you these flakies over many other colors (I'm taking requests for base colors as well!!).

I do really like these Zoya flakies. The flakes are large and plentiful in one coat. I hate having to pack on coats of flakies. They come off of the brush easily too, you don't have to try to coax them off.

I think I may like Maisie a bit better, as the flakes looked more vivid, but Opal is gorgeous as well and I'm super happy to have them both!! I can never have enough flakies!

The Zoya Fleck Effects collection will be available on Zoya.com on January 13th, although I think you can pre-order them starting on the 10th.

This polish was sent to me for review by a PR agent for Zoya. For more information, please see my Disclosure Policy.

Zoya Fleck Effects: Maisie

2012-01-05T14:52:00.000-05:00

I spent most of this morning swatching and writing a post for an Irish dance fashion blog (link to come later), but I had to squeeze in some swatches of the new Zoya Fleck Effects!! I decided to swatch Maisie first. Maisie is a blue jelly base with gorgeous iridescent green/blue flakies. The flakies in this polish are practically glowing!!

For this look, I used two coats of Zoya Cynthia as my base. I then used one thick-ish coat of Zoya Maisie. Yes, this is just one coat of Maisie!! Unlike other flakie polishes, where you have to layer on two or three coats for maximum flakie density, Maisie packs a punch in just one coat.

Maisie is also really shiny and dries to a smooth finish. I didn't use top coat in any of these pictures. Maisie was really easy to apply, and it wasn't difficult to get the flakies to look evenly spaced. Overall, I'd say Maisie is the best flakie I have used. I love Nubar 2010, but it takes more coats than Maisie to be as flakie-filled as I like. I also really love how Maisie's flakes look so vibrant and almost neon green. Amazing!!!If you are a flakie lover, you need Maisie. In fact, I'm making Maisie the first Never Enough Nails Necessity of 2012!

I can't wait to try the other two Fleck Effect polishes!! I will probably get those posted on Saturday or Sunday I hope, so definitely stay tuned!

Zoya Maisie is available starting January 13th on zoya.com, although I think you can pre-order them starting January 10th.

This polish was sent to me for review by a PR agent for Zoya. For more information, please see my Disclosure Policy.

First Post of 2012- Cult Nails Clairvoyant over OPI Grape... Set... Match!

2012-01-02T09:00:00.000-05:00

I wanted to do something special for my first post of 2012. This combination definitely qualifies. Unfortunately, my pictures do not qualify as special, as the sky was so overcast and gross when I took these pictures on New Year's Eve day. I absolutely suggest you try this combination so you can see how amazing it really looks.

I started out with two coats of OPI Grape... Set... Match. The OPI and Serena Williams duos were some of my favorite polishes of 2011 and Grape... Set... Match is so gorgeous on it's own. However, I really wanted to try out Cult Nails Clairvoyant too! I wanted to really pack the flakies on, so I did three coats of Cult Nails Clairvoyant.

I haven't mattified anything in awhile, and this felt right, so I added one coat of KnockOut Cosmetics Flatte Top. I personally LOVE matte flakies. They never get old!!

Since 2012 is shaping up to be The Year Of The Flakies, I thought this was an appropriate start to the year. Cult Nails Clairvoyant is a really awesome flakie polish, I love that it has all different color flakes in it. I actually picked it up from my girl Styrch's blogsale, but it is still available on Cult Nails. My local Ulta also still had the Serena Williams duo with Servin' Up Sparkle and Grape... Set... Match just about a week ago.

What are your nail polish hopes and dreams for 2012? Mine are the same as last year. More duochromes and holos.

OPI Grape... Set... Match was sent to me for review by a PR agent for OPI. For more information, please read my Disclosure Policy.

Zoya Spring 2012 True and Fleck Effect Previews!

2012-01-01T00:30:00.000-05:00

3...2...1... HAPPY NEW YEAR!!! Let's start 2012 off with a bang and check out the awesomeness Zoya has in store for Spring 2012!! The Fleck Effects = LOVE! I am really excited for these collections and have been bursting at the seams to share this info with you!

2012 SPRING NAIL COLOR by ZOYA

TRUE

HONESTLY, BEAUTIFUL COLOR

A fresh bloom of dewy color. Inspired by the runway looks of top designers

this collection features slightly muted and unexpected spring shades in six easy to wear,

full-coverage creams and metallics.

· Cho (ZP585): Full coverage, vanilla shimmer metallic

· Farah (ZP586): Full coverage, latte beige cream

· Bevin (ZP587): Full coverage, pale sage green cream

· Skylar (ZP588): Full coverage, silvered slate blue metallic

· Tru (ZP589): Full coverage, gilded purple orchid metallic

· Lotus (ZP590): Full coverage, light lotus purple metallic

and

FLECK EFFECT

MYLAR FLECK TOPCOATS

Zoya Nail Polish presents - three new mylar fleck glazes that can be worn alone or layered

over the new ZOYA TRUE collection colors for a unique and beautiful nail look!

· Maisie (ZP582): Blue tint with mylar green fleck effect

· Opal (ZP583): Green tint with mylar green fleck effect

· Chloe (ZP584): Pink tint with mylar green and gold fleck effect

Zoya is the new color of fashion...

Ultra long-wearing, glossy nail lacquers by Zoya are free of harmful industrial

chemicals like toluene, camphor, formaldehyde, resin, dibutyl phthalate (DBP)

that are known to cause cancer and birth defects.

Sug. Retail $8.00 per 0.5 fl.oz. bottle (US)

Available January 13, 2012

Find Zoya TRUE & FLECK EFFECT as well as over 300 other ultra high-fashion Zoya shades at www.zoya.com.

As always, each and every Zoya color is made for women so we name them after women.

What I'm Wearing- China Glaze Lorelei's Tiara

2011-12-31T09:00:00.000-05:00

I was originally going to take today off from any kind of blogging activities. I go back to work Monday and my life will become very crazy, so I felt like I needed a rest. However, I got so excited about this polish, I actually couldn't wait to blog about it! I love that feeling, that's why I started blogging! I am wearing China Glaze Lorelei's Tiara today and loving it! I also think China Glaze Lorelei's Tiara really deserves the Last Post of 2011!

Lorelei's Tiara is lovely silver glitter in a clear base with beautiful ice blue round glitter pieces. The ice blue pieces are plentiful and quite noticeable. I was originally afraid that this would just look like another silver glitter polish, but the blue pieces really set it apart.

This is three coats. I would probably wear just two, but I thought three would be better in pictures. Three coats is nicely opaque, no bald spots or anything.

Lorelei's Tiara was my top pick of the Eye Candy collection from the very beginning and I am totally in love with it. I may pick up some more of the Eye Candy collection now!

Do you have any big plans for New Year's Eve? I'll probably be watching 24, as my boyfriend just bought the box set of all the seasons. We never do much for New Year's!

The China Glaze Eye Candy collection is available now at nailsupplies.us.

Chanel Spring 2012 Harmonie de Printemps

2011-12-29T09:00:00.000-05:00

I have an awesome boyfriend. Let me throw that out there. He is very supportive of my insane make-up and nail polish addictions, and readily agrees to buy me make-up for every birthday and holiday. This year's Christmas gift was very special- a large box of Chanel make-up!!! Most of it was from the Spring 2012 Harmonie De Printemps collection and I have some swatches/pictures of those items for you! Above, you can see that the order came in GORGEOUS complimentary gift packaging, a white and gold box with a beautiful snowflake design and Chanel logo.

Here are my pretty boxes inside the gift packaging. On the left is an eyeliner that is actually from the Fall 2011 collection, Khaki Platine, but I have wanted it ever since then. Then you have the Blush Horizon De Chanel, bottom right, Bagatelle glossimer, middle right, and Flirt Rouge Coco Shine, top right. Missing from this picture is a permanent product released in the fall, Mirifique Illusions d'Ombre eye shadow (that is getting it's own post).

The Blush Horizon De Chanel is the star product of the collection, in my opinion. Mainly because it looks gorgeous in the package. I am really sorry, but I haven't been able to convince myself to swatch this yet!!! I promise I will swatch it in the next few days and post a picture of me wearing it. But I needed to admire it for a few days first.

Above is a swatch of Flirt Rouge Coco Shine. Rouge Coco Shines are sheer lip colors that I personally love. Flirt is my fourth Rouge Coco Shine, so you can tell I like the formula a lot. If you like your lipsticks to pack a huge color punch and last all day, these may not be for you. I, however, like a nice healthy tint to my lips and I am constantly reapplying my lip product out of habit. I don't normally wear lipstick, but I find I can wear Rouge Coco Shines on any occasion because they are sheer and not too in your face.

Underneath Flirt is Bagatelle glossimer. Glossimers are very pretty shimmery lip glosses. They are usually not very pigmented, again, I like a more subtle lip. Bagatelle is probably one of the more pigmented glossimers, but is still very wearable for me.

I also swatched Khaki Platine eyeliner because I love it!! It's a green gray shimmery liner that I find to be really unique. It was kind of dark when I swatched this, so I may reswatch. It's more pigmented, shimmery and darker in real life.

The blush came packaged in this adorable velvet pouch!!! It also comes with a brush in it's own little pouch. I just had to take pictures of the pouches!!

More blush pictures, see the little brush? So cute!!! I promise to swatch this blush very soon!

The Chanel Harmonie De Printemps collection is online at chanel.com or at a Chanel counter near you.

Zoya Neeka- Gorgeous Year 'Round!

2011-12-28T19:00:00.000-05:00

I have to say, sometimes I like picking up polishes a while after they are released. I am slowly adding the Zoya Fall 2011 Smoke & Mirrors polishes to my collection, and it's nice to post them without 57 other people posting them on exactly the same day. I know that also means that you've probably seen them 100 times, but maybe you didn't have money at the time to buy them all, and you need a little reminder of how awesome they are! For example, Zoya Neeka. Awesome.

Zoya describes Neeka as: "A greyed amethyst with subtle red duochrome shimmer and bright gold glitter accents. A fascinating, unique shade that manages to be glittery but not too flashy." I copied their whole description because I actually think it's a good one. I definitely agree that Neeka is a greyed amethyst and that it is fascinating, unique and glittery without being flashy. I don't really see the bright gold glitter accents, but there is some very subtle red duochrome shimmer. I think you can see the red/gold flash in the shimmer in this picture below.

Indoors or in the shade, Neeka has that speckled egg look to it. It's not sparkly glitter, it's speckle-y glitter!

This is two coats, the formula was great. Maybe a little streaky on the first coat, but it all smoothed out with a second.

Zoya's seasonal collections are always available long after their release, which I love. I can easily get polishes later on. Sometimes it's hard to purchase a whole collection at once when you have other collections to buy as well as make-up LOL.

Zoya Neeka is available on zoya.com now. One of my goals this coming year is to try more Qtica products, by the way, so expect some reviews. Any ideas on what I should try first? Also, Zoya hinted that we might hear some news about their spring collection this week, YAYYYY!