Monday, September 29, 2014

NYC New York Color Fashion Queen collection

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NYC New York Color Fashion Queen collection includes some of the most glittery-est polishes I have seen in awhile. There are some gorgeous jewel-toned colors (they all are really) for fall and the application on these blew me away. I thought of NYC being one of the underdogs of mainstream brands. But my mind has changed! They have stepped up their game and produced some off the charts amazing polishes. 6 of these polishes are their 'Crystal Couture' polishes, the other 3 are shimmers and cremes. The Crystal Couture polishes are jelly and metallic polishes with glitter. They all could have been one coat wonders!! I always use at least 2 coats so I did that, just to show how crazy opaque they are. The dry time is seriously a snap. By my second coat the first was pretty much completely dry!!! These all retail for $1.99. I live in a smaller town but find mine at Walmart, and do believe I have seen NYC at K-Mart as well. I will like below to their site for more info in finding stores near you. Ready  for some sparkly..... 

Crystal Couture
Blue Majesty, Fashion Queen, Queen's Jewels, Rule The City, NY Princess & Ruby Queen 


 Blue Majesty
A blue jelly polish with aqua glitter

 Blue Majesty



 Fashion Queen
A gold metallic polish with light gold glitter

 Fashion Queen



 NY Princess
A purple jelly polish with lavender glitter

 NY Princess



 Queen's Jewels
A green jelly polish with light green glitter

 Queen's Jewels



Ruby Queen
A Red jelly polish with raspberry glitter

Ruby Queen



 Rule The City
A charcoal metallic polish with red glitter

Rule The City




Queen Of They City, Crown Gold & Royal Chic

Crown Gold
A true gold metallic cream polish

 Crown Gold



 Queen Of The City
An eggplant shimmer polish with an intense wine colored glow

 Queen Of The City



Royal Chic
A deep chocolate brown cream polish

Royal Chic 

Too sparkle or not to sparkle.......... is that really a legit question? lol! 
~Melisa

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Friday, September 26, 2014

Smokey Mountain Lacquers

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I had the pleasure to paint my nails with this divine holo today. Smokey Mountain Lacquers Raging Hormones! Love in a holo bottle! This is a sheerer cherry red intense holo polish. I have 3 coats on in the photos below. The holo in this polish is insane! It is so eye catching. I love it. The application was great. The coverage was good. It's on the sheerer side but very buildable. I also tried some cuticle oil. I have here the Sage/Basil/Mint. It sounded fun so I was super stoked. When I smelled it I was in HEAVEN! This is one of the cleanest scents I have smelled. And with a cuticle oil it's nice to have my hands smell clean and light. I really enjoyed this. It is a light oil, so no heavy greasy feeling, and was very conditioning to my cuticles. What else could you ask for. It does it's job and smells delightful! The bottle is a pretty good size. 13ML, so fairly large. :) and a roller ball to boot! This stuff is great! 

Raging Hormones

Raging Hormones
direct sunlight

Raging Hormones
artificial light with flash


I wish there was a scratch and sniff function 

Super holo and heavenly scented! Get you some! 
~Melisa
  
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Monday, September 22, 2014

Zoya Ultra PixieDust

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Introducing Zoya Ultra PixieDust! 3 incredibly desirable super chunky glitter matte polishes! These colors are right up my alley! I am over the moon about these 3 polishes. With all PixieDust polishes it is best to use 2 coats and no topcoat. They dry to a matte textured finish that is not too rough to be uncomfortable. The removal is fairly simple. A little tougher than a cream polish but not near as hard to remove as a chunky glitter polish. Zoya hit the nail on the head lol! 

Arianna, Noir & Oswin

 Arianna 
A blue toned red wine matte texture polish with large red hex glitters.

 Arianna 

 Arianna 



 Noir
A deep plum matte texture polish with large red hex glitters.

Noir

Noir



A true red matte texture polish with large crimson hex glitters

 Oswin

 Oswin


These polishes sale for $10 on Zoya's website, which will be listed below.

There is also a video that Zoya put out to help show how it is best to apply the PixieDust polishes 


How best to apply PixieDust!!

~Hope you enjoyed the sparkly goodness in this post! ❤ ❤
~Melisa

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Tuesday, September 16, 2014

Square Hue September Sydney box

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Guess what ladies??!! Square Hue is a monthly subscription box of polish! Yup that's right all polish! I am in love. You receive 3 bottles of polish (15ML each) monthly. All the boxes are themed, as a passport to different places to go. All the polish names represent that place or something memorable from that specific place. This box I have is from Sydney! Their September box. The subscription costs $14.99 + $5.00 USPS shipping, totaling $19.99 a month! That is AMAZING for these polishes!  Let's talk formula..... I have to be honest I was very curious about these polishes... The formula tho... holy moly, it is like silk.  They glide on with such ease and are so buttery smooth. I could very easily have only used one coat but I use 2 all the time so I just stuck with what I do! :)  .....and can we just look at these bottles!! They are the freaking cutest.

Crown Street, King Street & Oxford Street

Crown Street, King Street & Oxford Street

Your box comes, in a standard white mailer box... :)

...but the inside has the cute Square Hue logo, white crinkly worm packing, and the box actually has little cut outs where each polish rests on it's travels to you! 

Each box comes with a card (passport) telling you the theme of the box, this one is Sydney, and the colors are on the side with the names. It also has rather large numbers under the theme so you remember what month and year this collection is from! 09.14 = September 2014 Super cute idea! 

Crown Street
An orange metallic polish with gold micro shimmer

The bottle says Crown Drive but everywhere else says Crown Street. I just went with Crown Street. All the bottles also have the month and year the collection is from, for easy remembering. 



King Street 
A deep merlot high gloss cream polish




Oxford Street
A gold metallic polish with orange mirco shimmer. 


These colors absolutely SCREAM Autumn to me. I couldn't have been happier with this box.... especially trying it for the first time.  I.AM.SOLD. Definitely try it out!
~Melisa

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Monday, September 15, 2014

Pop Beauty beauties!!

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Some beauties from Pop Beauty!! Awesome ultra bright colors. Will have your ready to catch some attention. These were so bright they tricked my camera lol, a few times. The formula was good,  they applied good too. I have on 2 coats of polish in each photo below. I only had one that was tricky but given it's color I expected it, but I still love it.
On to some fun bright filled photos. Grab your sunglasses and check these out....

Pacific Hoot, Mandarin, Radioactive, & Yellow


Mandarin
A florescent mandarin orange cream/jelly polish. HOLY bananas this is AMAZING!!!





Pacific Hoot
A florescent azure blue cream/jelly polish 





Radioactive 
An electric green with a blue iridescent sheen. GORGEOUS!!! 





Yellow 
A florescent neon yellow cream/jelly polish. I had to add an extra coat to this one. I have ran across this in most neon yellow polishes I use. So I expected it, but it was WELL WORTH IT!!! Look at that glow! 




Ultra super bright, and amazing! Just how I wanted to end this post!! So what do you think of the polishes!?
~Melisa

*these sale for around $10

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