Piper Pink

 October is Breast Cancer Awareness month. 1 in 8 U.S. women will develop invasive breast cancer in her lifetime, and even men can get this cancer. To the survivors, the people struggling with it today, and the people whose lives have been touched by it, this is for you. Read my first post for more about how cancer has effected my life.

It's the last Monday in October! Time is flying by lately...yet going so slowly at the same time lol.

 This is one of my favorite pinks and one of my first Zoyas - Piper.

Piper is a lovely soft pink creme with a touch of mauve.

 It's almost peachy in some lights...

And quite dusty in dim light. I love how this polish changes. It's so simple, yet such a perfect pink. I've been into these "mom" colors for a while now.
Perfect two coat application, as with pretty much all Zoyas :P.

Feel free to join in the fun the rest of this month as we post a mani in support of breast cancer. Don't forget to tag your posts on Twitter/Instagram with #PolishUsPink!

Zoya Ornate Collection - Winter 2012

 This honestly may be my favorite complete Zoya collection ever. Aahh I love it when companies listen to the desires of "the people". So I bring you...the Zoya Ornate Collection of Winter 2012 :).

Aurora is a gorgeous purpley berry magenta jelly with scattered holo microflakies.

It shines so many different colors! Pairing a jelly with these holo flecks is brilliant, as it adds even more color and rainbows!

RAINBOW LOVE!

Here you can see the microflakies in the shade. This makes it so much more unique than just a regular scattered holo with round glitter particles. Brilliant!!



  Ziv is a super metallic microflakie bronzey gold. 

There are a couple different shades of bronze and gold mixed in, which makes it that much more interesting! Mmm like gingerbread!

 It's even super reflective in the shade. You can see my orange camera in it a little here :P.


Here's a close up of those microflakies.

 Logan is the perfect piney green with a metallic microflakie finish.

The green is tinted blue instead of yellow. It makes me think of a Spruce tree :). Definitely not regular green! Look how shiny this is!


Mmm and it's even better in the shade! You can even see the olivey green flakes in this on. So many shades of green all in one bottle! It's almost slightly duochrome.

This finish is just to die for. It's just like the finish on Ziv.



Blaze is a gorgeous berry red with scattered holo microflakies in a jelly base.

 I think I have found my new favorite red. A perfect shade that isn't true red, but darker and sexier...holo microflakies...jelly....Yea - Amazing!

It can look so bright, like a juicy apple...

 Or dark like a ripe raspberry...Yum! The finish on this is the same as Aurora.

Storm is a black polish with holo microflakies scattered throughout.

The finish on Storm is just like Aurora and Blaze.

 Ahh the rainbows :D

 In the shade it's still lovely but looks a little more like silver/gray microflakies.

Electra has loads of medium silver holo bar glitter in a clear base. 

It is SO rainbowy holo! Unusually awesomely holo, seriously!

Even in the shade the holo is definitely not hidden. This polish wasn't any harder to apply than any other bar glitter. It took only a little dabbing to get even placement. To keep them from poking over the edge I gently run the brush over the free edge last. You can grab the ones on the sides by sweeping the edges with a cuticle tool while the polish is still wet. I'm not a super fan of bar glitter, but this is pretty fun :).

It looks just like tinsel on the tree! This is one coat of Electra over Logan.

I had to stamp around with this collection (though I forgot to use Storm but I'm sure it would be just as good if not better than these). Of course I used Christmasy stamps!! They didn't show up perfectly like a black creme would on a white or anything, but I thought they were cute and fun. Because of the metallic finish you kind of have to angle them the right way to get the strongest visual effect. The red on gold was perfect though, so on less busy colors I think they'd be great for stamping.

Let me just say that every single one of these polishes had perfect two coat application with no issues (except the aforementioned Electra which was one coat and perfectly normal). 

You can get these polishes on Zoya's website - $48 for the collection of 6 or $8 for one.
If you sign up for an account with this link you'll receive a coupon for a free bottle of Zoya nail polish! If you add two more polishes to your order you even get free shipping. Awesome deal! So you could get this full collection for $40 and free shipping = $6.67 a polish.

Which ones do you like the most, and how do you think this compares to any other Winter polish collections (past/present/future)?

These products were sent to me for my unbiased review.

Nails for a Cause: Breast Cancer Awareness

October is Breast Cancer Awareness month. 1 in 8 U.S. women will develop invasive breast cancer in her lifetime. To the survivors, the people struggling with it today, and the people who are worried they might get it, this is for you.

I wanted to do something pink and feminine. This is two coats of OPI Excuse Moi from the new Muppets collection.

Excuse Moi has a pink jelly base with loads of pink microgiltter and some silver microglitter. There is a lot of small hex glitter in loads of colors - silver, yellow, green, pink, orange, and blue. I originally thought it was iridescent, but it's not. The application was great and looked pretty good even at one coat. Everything is great, except I've found superglitters like this chip more than other polishes. 

This is her darker side, and I think is looks like a strawberry with all those seeds. At certain angles the glitter really darkens up like this. 

And here's her brighter side.

And ladies, don't forget to rub your boobs! Here are boobs in support of people with breast cancer!

Save the tatas!

Manis for a Cause: Infant Loss and Awareness

I love doing manis for a cause. October 15th is Pregnancy and Infant Loss Remembrance Day. Yes I know I'm late, but it's still important to me. It doesn't need to be on our minds only once a year. For many people, it is in their minds every single day. I have never had to deal with this tragedy, but some people I love very much have. You know who you are, and I'm so sorry for your loss.

I used 2 coats each of OPI Sparrow Me the Drama for the pink and Zoya Breezi for the blue. Each was dotted with the opposite color with my small dotting tool. Then I stamped with Konad white on the ring fingers - a heart with wings for spirits of the lost.

Here is a close up of my accent nail stamp (BM03) and the awareness ribbon. 

Some of the other lovely bloggers I know also did manicures for this cause:

Nothing But Nail Polish

Jeanne's Creativity Spot

PrncessNails

Spectacular Nails

To baby Eli, Bryttan, and the babies who were never even named, to their families - I'm so sorry you never got the chance to experience life. It's not fair, and I won't forget you. 

Zoya Meadow

This is a mani from a while back in my to-post stash, so ignore the short nails. They're much more fabulous now thanks to OPI Nail Envy. This is Zoya Meadow, the same color I used as a base for the earrings I made recently.

She is a lovely, soft, slightly dusty, baby pink with a superfine but very noticeable gold shimmer. Lovely and girly! This is two coats.

I took some pics in different lights so you can see her different tones.

Here are outdoor pics with cute black flower nail stickers

She's so pretty and feminine :).

Happy Pink...Crap I Forgot

Yea yea so I blogged about something else on Wednesday instead. I did do a guest post for Amber while she's gone to Europe on holiday, and it's totally a pink wednesday post :D. Check it out yo!

Sneak peek pic!!! :O

WetNWild Hannah Pinktana

WetNWild Hanna Pinktana - Lovely formula, somewhat thin which isn't bad, soft powder pink with holographic microglitter. This is two coats over one coat of Areej.

I was kind of nervous about her application and still having visible nail line, so I went ahead and layered her over Zoya Areej. I honestly think now it would have looked nicer just as itself.

It really is more holoy than it looks, but it's very scattered and chill. Holo glitter is just so pretty. And these pics were a couple days after wearing it as well.