Defiant Pedi

MeMeMe Defiant, that is :). It's a European polish. Drool ladies.

I was feeling something dark. This is two coats Defiant with one thin coat of Color Club Holiday Splendor from my haul yesterday.

Here is Defiant in a couple different lights. At its darkest it only looks black out of the corner of your eye. When you actually look at it, it's just super dark teal.

Here is is topped with the thinnest coat of Holiday Splendor I could muster, to add a little glitter bling.

Holiday Splendor is holo glitter in a bright green slightly teal jelly base. The glitter flashes blue, green, and gold.

My combo ended up a slightly darker ChG Atlantis....crap lol but quite a bit more green. The more I look at it, the more I like it and realize that it's different!

Haul: Holiday Color Clubs

I went to my Ross to look for Color Club sets, originally for friends because I was undecided. I saw them in person and had to have them.

Color Club Beyond the Mistletoe Collection

LtoR: Beyond the Mistletoe, Holiday Splendor, Sugarplum Fairy, Gingerbread, Candy Cane, Jingle Jangle

Color Club Foiled Collection

LtoR: Perfect Mol-ten, Antiquated, Cold Metal, Hot Like Lava, Foil Me Once, Lumin-iceient

And then a friend mentioned to me that the colors in both collections match up quite well...

Interesting huh? Ooh I wonder what one Foiled would look like with a light coat of a different Mistletoe? Or of course I could layer them for a little more pow.

Thoughts? Have them? Want them? If you are nice to me I'll pick some up for you :). 

Preview: Zoya Feel Collection

I'm really excited about this ladies! I finally got added to a media list :). This is my first press release.

FEEL collection

Six full-coverage winter cream neutrals

This is Zoya's winter collection, opaque neutral cremes. Normally I wouldn't be as excited about a collection like this, but I've been interviewing for internships and at least one requires natural or close to it nail colors. I'm trying to convince my fiance that if I get that internship he should buy me this entire collection :D. 

I enlarged the colors so you can get a better look. I like a lot of them!

Here is what Zoya says about their collection:

FEEL Beautiful!

Every season the color experts at Zoya create dozens of new color collection options. This year, one of those “secret collections” just had to be seen now rather than later. FEEL by Zoya Nail Polish delivers six new, highly pigmented, full coverge neutrals for right now!

Zoya FEEL Collection

• Kristen (ZP591): Full coverage, gull gray cream
• Carey (ZP592): Full coverage, periwinkle gray cream
• Megan (ZP593): Full coverage, taupe gray cream
• Kendal (ZP594): Full coverage, rose quartz beige cream
• Kennedy (ZP595): Full coverage, pale french beige cream
• Avery (ZP596): Full coverage, blonde beige cream

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.

Find Zoya FEEL 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.

FEEL by Zoya

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

www.zoya.com

Available November 15, 2011. 

You should be able to find Zoyas at Zoya.com, Ulta, Whole Foods, and some salons. 

Looking forward to this collection?

Happy Halloween!

I did something simple for Halloween this year. I've been working on nail strengthening and really busy with school and wedding planning. I used some fun Halloween polishes!

It's the red in the Funky Fingers 2011 Halloween set. They're unnamed. I topped it with WetNWild Tangled in My Web and a Pumpkin Polish glitter. 

Here is the pumpkin polish I got from Rite Aid. It's orange foil hex and bar glitter. It is horrible quality lol, but still fun. They really stick up and are hard to place. 

This is Tangled in My Web, flat black hex glitter.

And here is the red all by itself. Gorgeous rich red that is vampy without being too dark, shimmer with a little frost. I totally painted this in the car haha. Not too shabby right?

This year for Halloween we stayed home and gave out candy :).

 I made the bowl :).

Jeremy and I carved a pumpkin together. He wanted it to be a vampire lol!

Autumn Crafts!

You guys know I'm not only about nail polish and makeup, but also anything crafty (which to me includes polish and makeup). I made this wreath for the fall season :D. 

Here is a close up.

I started with a plain grape vine wreath and used all natural items to decorate it. I used dried flowers from my garden, black beard wheat, and orange seed pods.

Seasonal crafts are so much fun. Have you done any this year?

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!

Free Target Beauty Bag

I got my free Target Beauty Bag that was available a few weeks ago. They did one last year as well. It's a package of free samples and coupons that comes in a cute zippy bag.

It's so cute! Even nicer and a little bigger than last year. 

It came with free samples of Loreal Youth Code face lotion, Burt's Bees day lotion, Pond's evening sooth face wipes, Tresemme Naturals s/c, Garnier Fructis s/c, and John Freida s/c. It also came with a Target coupon for all these items and a few more. 

Honestly it kinda sucked...but it was freeee!!! The best part is the bag lol. I used the face wipes and they're nice, and I will use the John Freida hair stuff, but that's really it. Anyone want to trade some random cheap stuff for some samples lol?