China Glaze Cirque Du Soleil: Worlds Away Collection - Part One

Hello All! I hope that every one of you had a wonderful holiday!

Today's post is half of the China Glaze Cirque Du Soleil Collection!
I'm pretty sure everybody has seen this by now, I'm sorry to be so late on posting it!
 
Whirled Away, It's A Trap-eze!, Escaping Reality, Def Defying, Hanging in the Balance, & Creative Fantasy.

Creative Fantasy

I tried my best to capture this color, well to capture all of these bright colors in this collection!
My camera was being a bit difficult :)
I love this shade, but it is very sheer. I used 4 coats above for opacity.
Even though it is a jelly, and sheer.. it was a little thick.
Not goopy, and it applied easy but it was a little bizarre to me!
I don't plan to wear this alone much at all, but I will use this for layering and nail art.

Hanging in the Balance

Such a gorgeous blue! Bright, applies easily in two flawless coats.
I have heard rumors of staining but I haven't had any yet (using basecoat)
Definitely a favorite!

Def Defying

These sort of greens always pull me in and I want them all even though I know it isn't that unique of a shade.
The formula was easy to use and smooth, I used three coats for opacity.

Escaping Reality

I had a hard time capturing this but I did my very best!
We always do our best. Sorry, had a quick Dollhouse flashback there :)
I used three coats for opacity. Application was good, not amazing but not difficult at all.

I left in a picture of this without topcoat, Creative Fantasy dries this way as well.
Sort of in between a matte finish and a rubber finish.

It's A Trap-eze!

This polish is seriously crazy. I am pretty positive that this is the most glitter packed polish I own.
Application is surprisingly easy considering the amount of glitter.
You do have to be a bit careful and go a little slowly, but it really applies pretty well.
I used three coats of this glitter packed wonder!

Whirled Away

I used about a coat and a half of Whirled Away over Escaping Reality, Hanging in the Balance, Def Defying  and Creative Fantasy.
I like the look of this a lot but I feel like there should be more glitter in it.
I'd like if the white hex were a bit less sparse too.
I swiped on a layer and the amount on my nails was less than I expected.
But next time I will try bu only dabbing and see how that works.

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I really love this collection, it isn't perfect but it is my favorite China Glaze collection of the year by far.. maybe even ever! It is just so up my alley and I love the variety!


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A Whovian Christmas!

Merry Christmas and Happy Holidays!
You know, I typically love the holiday season, and Christmas in particular.
I'm usually SO excited, can't wait to wrap presents, singing Christmas carols..but not this year : /
I am excited to see Skylar open her gifts when she wakes, but I am very excited for the Christmas episode of Doctor Who to come on! So rather than just do a normal Christmas manicure, I opted (well..attempted) for a Doctor Who themed one!

My awesome husband bought me a Dalek ornament and I just knew I had to feature it with this mani!

I used Zoya Ginessa for the base color on my pointer finger and my pinky, then used striping tape and China Glaze With Love to try for the candy cane effect.
My middle nail has Zoya Dove as the base color.
I used Essie No Place Like Chrome, Milani Signature Gold, LA Colors Black Striper, Illamasqua Nuture, Wet N Wild Spoiled Permission to Proceed and Zoya Purity to make the 11th Doctor's Sonic Screwdriver. However it smudged then I used topcoat : /
For the Tardis I used the black LA Colors striper, Cult Nails Time Traveler, Zoya Purity, China Glaze With Love, and China Glaze Glittering Garland. The base polish is Pahlish Your Slver Lining.


I HAD to take a few pictures with the Sonic Screwdriver :D

Here is a Macro of Pahlish's Your Silver Lining-stunner!


I hope you all have a fantastic holiday!
Who else is watching Doctor Who tonight?!

Nostalgic Nail Lacquer New Wave Winter Collection - Swatches & Review

Hey guys! Today's post is the Nostalgic Lacquer New Wave Winter Collection!
Prepare to drool if you love crelly's like me!

Karma Chameleon, Girls On Film, Mad World, Personal Jesus, Rock Me Amadeus, Take On Me.

Karma Chameleon
"a milky white base with a sweet rainbow of pastel colored glitters in various sizes"

I feel like Karma Chameleon is the perfect Easter polish and i plan to wear it then!
Three easy coats to opacity.

Girls On Film
"a bubble gum pink base with hot pink and purple glitters in various sizes and shapes."

Three coats for full opacity with Girls On Film. This is another favorite!
It matches my daughters room too!

Mad World
"a dazzling mixture of approximately 100 different glitters (and growing!). Hexes, squares, diamonds, shreds, hearts, stars, circles and bars!"

I used 1.5 coats of Mad World over Zoya Audrey.
This is officially (at least as of now) my FAV multicolored glitter topcoat ever. SO MUCH GLITTER.
Buy this. You will not regret it! It goes on so well even though it is glitter packed, and has so much variety.
I really love the fact that each bottle is a little different too. They are all special.

Personal Jesus
"a dark grey base with teal, white and purple glitters in various sizes."

I layered two coats of Personal Jesus over Finger Paints Stunning Stilettos.
I love this polish so much! I have worn it more in a month (total of four times) than any other polish I can think of! Grey is one of my favorite polish colors to wear. I also love the song it is named after!
The formula was a little runny but easy to work with.
It build up nicely but I prefer two coats over grey vs three coats alone.
For some reason I had the hardest time photographing this one though!

Rock Me Amadeus
"a white base with burgundy, black, aqua and purple squares and hexes in multiple sizes."

I used three coats of Rock Me Adadeus. Such a pretty polish.


Take On Me
"a milky white base with navy blue, orange, magenta and teal glitters that create an amazing depth. "

Take On Me makes me think of candy! I used three coats above.

I sandwiched Mad World with another coat of Zoya  Audrey.
Perfection. So delicate and pretty.
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This Collection as a whole has a really great formula. The crelly's are basically identical!
They go on really good but they are a tiny bit runny, I have a easier time doing level coats with a slightly thicker formula but these were still great.

This was my first experience with Nostalgic Lacquer and it was awesome!
 This is a really wonderful Collection!

Erin's polishes can be purchased at the following sites.
Etsy, Bigcartel, OverallBeauty, and Shoppe Eclecticco.
Priced at $9.75, $9.75, $10.00 & $14.50.


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Zoya Lovely Spring 2012 Collection Press Release

Zoya Lovely

Beauty is a lovely state of mind

Lovely, just LOVELY!

Spring is awash in six soft and lovely new Zoya shades including three dewy metallics and three fresh blooms of cream. Poetic in nature, this collection is sure to capture the beauty of the season like no other....

ZOYA LOVELY – SPRING 2013

Piaf (ZP652)

Fresh Forsythia Yellow Metallic - Full Coverage (Originally designed for Fashion Designer Zang Toi) 

GeiGei (ZP651)

Blushing Cherry Blossom Pink Metallic - Full Coverage (Originally designed for Zang Toi/SS13).

Julie (ZP650)

Soft Wisteria Purple Metallic - Full Coverage (Originally designed for Zang Toi/SS13).

Blu (ZP653) 

Lucky Hyacinth Blue Cream - Full Coverage 

Neely (ZP655) 

Earliest Spring Green Cream - Full Coverage (Originally designed for Peter Som/SS13).

Jacqueline (ZP654) 

Perfect Magnolia Nude Cream - Full Coverage (Originally designed for Peter Som/SS13)

Shipping January 01, 2013

Ultra long-wearing, nail lacquers by Zoya are BIG5FREE - all formulas are completely free of harmful industrial chemicals such as toluene, camphor, formaldehyde, formaldehyde resin and dibutyl phthalate (DBP) that are known to cause cancer and birth defects.

Zoya Lovely $8 (US)

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Whooz Polish Jewel Beetle and Rock Candy Swatches & Review

Hey all! Today's post is from a indie polish brand that is new to me, called Whooz Polish!

I have two polishes to show you today, Jewel Beetle and Rock Candy!




(L-R) Jewel Beetle, & Rock Candy.

Jewel Beetle
A glitter filled topcoat polish filled with small teal hex, holo silver micro glitter shards, and large white, blue, green and black hex.

I wore two thin coats over Sinful Colors Savage.
I am shocked at how much I lovee this, I really thought I would like Rock Candy more but Jewel Beetle took my breath away. So sparkly and stunning. The formula went on very smooth, and dispersed well.



Rock Candy
A  micro shimmer packed light grey jelly base, with light pink, blue, green and white matte hex and white squares.

I used 4 thin coats here. Yeah, I realize four is a lot of coats!
If you aren't patient enough for that I'm not sure I would purchase this.
I say this because I wore it three times, twice layered over grey cremes and once on it's own built up.
I really, really prefer it on it's own, or if I had a grey jelly that would work.
 I felt that it was a bit lackluster over the cremes, maybe it is just me though. I really wanted to love it. :( I mean look at the macro?! I wish it was a bit more opaque so I could use three coats.
 Formula wise this polish was wonderful. I felt it dried on the slower side.

Pretty Macros! <3

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All in all I think these were both really nice, I plan to keep playing with Rock Candy to see another way I like it without having to wear 4 coats though, maybe I will try a light blue! I need to buy a grey jelly!

I think Stephanie is onto something good here, and I really love her adorably cute owl labels!

 Make sure to check out Stephanie's Etsy shop!
The shop is currently closed, but should be open again soon.
The shop is open!!

Stephanie's polishes are priced at $8.50 each.

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