Priti NYC Horned Poppy

Happy weekend! Hope yours is fabulous! We're having a heat wave for a few days, so after I finish this post, I'm going to find a cool place to hide out. :-)

I'm really excited to have received a few Priti NYC polishes to share with you. Today, I'll start off with Horned Poppy, a soft daffodil yellow with subtle silver shimmers in a pearly finish.

Horned Poppy was originally released as part of the four-polish Priti NYC Turkish Sorbet Spring 2012 Collection. It's a flattering and wearable yellow, soft and not too saturated. Like most yellows, it's a little thin and streaky on the first coat, but builds up to even and opaque coverage in three coats. I'm really liking Horned Poppy, both for its color and its formula, and it earns a spot as one of my favorite yellows. :-)

You can find Horned Poppy on PritiNYC.com for $13.50 for 0.43 fl oz, and you can use the code PRITISPECIAL for 10% off valid until August 1st.

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Winners Announced for Zoya Stunning & Irresistible Collections Giveaway!

Congratulations to Julie and Nicole for being the winners of the Zoya collections! I've already emailed them and have heard back from both. :-)

Thank you so much to everyone for participating and for your continued support of me and this blog. I'm already planning the next giveaway, so be sure to keep your eyes out over the next few days. In the meantime, keep doing what you love and keep polishing! ♥

Sephora by OPI Mermaid to Order

Hi there! Hope this post is finding you well! :-)

I was at Sephora the other day and saw that the Sephora by OPI polishes were all on sale for 50% off! The rumor is that the Sephora and OPI collaboration is coming to an end, and Sephora is discontinuing their Sephora by OPI polishes... hence the sale. So I picked up the one polish I have been eyeing for quite some time, but have just never made it into my shopping cart for whatever reason. Mermaid to Order is finally mine! :) It's a rich and vibrant duochrome green/teal/blue polish with a metallic finish.

Oh my gosh, how beautiful is this, right?! It has everything I adore in a polish: jewel-tone, duochrome, metallic, shimmers, and teal! The center color is green, and then as you tilt your hand, you'll see teal and then blue move in from the edges. The more you tilt your hand, the more teal and blue you will see. The formula is great, and application is easy peasy. Each coat comes out thin and smooth, and you just need the standard two coats for opacity. There are some brush strokes due to this type of finish, but most of that goes away once it dries.

You can find Mermaid to Order at Sephora for a retail price of $9 for 0.5 fl oz, but all Sephora by OPIs are currently 50% off for only $4.50.

Zoya Stunning & Irresistible Collections Giveaway - One Day Left!

Just a reminder that my Zoya Stunning & Irresistible Collections Giveaway is coming to a close soon. You can still enter for a chance to win the complete Zoya Stunning Collection and the complete Zoya Irresistible Collection. The giveaway is open until tomorrow night, so if you haven't entered yet, you have one more day to do so! :-)

To enter, just click HERE. Good luck, everyone! :D

China Glaze Keepin' It Teal

Hi, you guys! Happy middle-of-the-week! :)

Today, I have another of the jellies from the China Glaze Sunsational Collection for you. Keepin' It Teal is a cool-toned, teal-leaning green with a squishy jelly finish.

It's thin and easy to apply, building up coverage evenly, if a bit slowly. What you see in the swatches is three coats, and it's decent coverage at that, though still a little sheer. If you want a more opaque finish, you'll probably want a fourth coat. This one isn't particularly neon or even that bright, but it's still a great color and it dries to a high-gloss shine. :)

You can find Keepin' It Teal at your local nail salons and at beauty stores such as Ulta and Sally Beauty for a retail price of $7 for 0.5 fl oz.

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China Glaze You Drive Me Coconuts

Good morning to you! :) I'm up bright and early today. My husband woke me up at 5:30 this morning, then promptly fell back asleep. I couldn't do the same, so I thought I might as well get up and get something done. I have to say, if I could change just one thing about me, my top wish is to be a heavier sleeper. I so envy the folks who could just fall sleep anytime and stay sleeping through everything.

Today, I've got another one of the jellies from the China Glaze Sunsational Collection to share with you. You Drive Me Coconuts is a bright magenta pink with hints of purple and a squishy jelly finish.

This has such a fantastic formula! It goes on exactly as you would hope for a jelly, smooth and thin with no application issues. It's also nicely pigmented and builds up coverage quickly. You can probably get away with just two coats for this one, but I did three for the swatches and it's almost totally opaque at that. :)

You can find You Drive Me Coconuts at your local nail salons and at beauty stores such as Ulta and Sally Beauty for a retail price of $7 for 0.5 fl oz.

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China Glaze Shell-O

Hi, you guys! Happy start of the new week! Hope your weekends were fun and relaxing! :)

Today, I've got one of the jellies from the new China Glaze Sunsational Collection to share with you. Shell-O is a bright coral pink with a sheer jelly finish.

The application is surprisingly even, coming out in thin and smooth coats, with each coat drying to a glossy finish. And there's enough pigmentation to build up coverage nicely. What you see in the swatches is three coats. Although it's still a little bit translucent at that, the slight sheerness works well with the jelly texture.

You can find Shell-O at your local nail salons and at beauty stores such as Ulta and Sally Beauty for a retail price of $7 for 0.5 fl oz.

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China Glaze That's Shore Bright

Hi, you guys! Happy weekend! It's another Saturday of facing off against the giant blackberry bush in our backyard, and I think we're starting to make good progress. Another two weekends, and we should have it all cleared out... hopefully lol. :D

Today, I've got another bright creme from the China Glaze Sunsational Collection to share with you. That's Shore Bright is a bright vivid purple with a cream finish.

It has a great formula and is easy to apply. It goes onto the nails in thin and smooth coats, and I just needed the two standard coats for opaque coverage. I found that it dries onto the nails just a shade more blue than what you see in the bottle. Although this is bright and intense, I wouldn't say it's really a neon, but it's still fun none-the-less. :)

You can find That's Shore Bright at your local nail salons and at beauty stores such as Ulta and Sally Beauty for a retail price of $7 for 0.5 fl oz.

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China Glaze Neon & On & On

Hi, you guys! Happy Thursday! :) I've got a short week this week because of our office move, so I just have to make it through today and finish packing my office, and then I'll have a 3-day weekend. Yay! :D

Today, I've got another fun creme from the China Glaze Sunsational Collection to share with you. Neon & On & On is a bright coral pink with a creme finish.

This is another fun and bright color in the collection! This was a tough shade to capture though. Depending on the lighting, the amount of brightness that comes through varies, as does the amount of pink or coral in the shade. It dries just a shade brighter on the nails than what you see in the bottle. The formula is thin, so I needed three coats for everything to even out and get good coverage.

You can find Neon & On & On at your local nail salons and at beauty stores such as Ulta and Sally Beauty for a retail price of $7 for 0.5 fl oz.

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China Glaze Highlight of My Summer

Hi there! Hope your week is going well! :)

I'm so excited to have a selection of shades from the China Glaze Sunsational Collection to share with you. It's a 12-piece neon collection with six cremes and six jellies, and today I wanted to start off the collection with a favorite of mine. Highlight of My Summer is a bright mint green with a creme finish.

Oh my gosh, I love this color! It's bright and beautiful, and I don't remember a color in recent memory that's quite like it. However, its formula isn't the best. It's kind of thin and runny, but also streaky too, so application is a bit of a challenge. For me, I felt like with each stroke, you have too much polish at the start near the cuticle, but then by the time you reach the free edge, there's some pulling because there isn't enough polish left. I did three coats for the swatches, and while it's still just a smidgen streaky, it wasn't too bad at that point. Dry time is nice and fast, and it dries just a shade brighter on the nails than what you see in the bottle. While application isn't the best, I feel like the beauty and uniqueness of this color totally makes up for it. :)

You can find Highlight of My Summer at your local nail salons and at beauty stores such as Ulta and Sally Beauty for a retail price of $7 for 0.5 fl oz.

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Salon Perfect Bang

Hi, you guys! Hope your weekend is fantastic so far! :)

Today, I've got the other polish I wanted to share with you from the Salon Perfect Neon Collision Collection. Bang is a mix of small matte glitters in bright yellow, pink, and orange all in a sheer orange base.

The formula for this is a tad better than for Zapped, though it's still tricky to apply. I did three coats for the swatches, and they still look a little clumpy at that. The orange color does a better job of masking any imperfections though, since it's a bit closer to skin color than Zapped. The Salon Perfect brushes are narrow, so I think some of the application problems come from that. It's just much harder to get even glitter distribution with a narrow brush than a wider one.

After having tried a few colors from the Neon Collision Collection, I think the colors are bright and fun for summer. And they are unique, at least to what's on the market from the rest of the main stream polish brands. I think using a similar base color before applying the glitters will help a lot in masking any of its unevenness.

You can find Bang exclusively at Walmart stores for a retail price of $3.98 for 0.5 fl oz.

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Salon Perfect Zapped

Hi, you guys! How's this week treating you? Mine is good, but busy. At work, we're preparing for an office move next week. Currently everyone has their own offices, but we'll be moving into a different building which only has "team rooms". Yep, I'm pretty sad that I'll be losing my own space at work. We had the open house of the new building this week, and next week we'll be taking training on how to work in a team room lol. I laugh without mirth. (>_<)

Salon Perfect recently announced their new Neon Collision Collection, which combines the trends neon and matte glitters into six bright shades. I want to share with you two of the colors from the collection. Today I've got Zapped, a mix of small matte glitters in bright yellow and blue all in a sheer green-tinted base.

The sheerness of the green base means that the color you see on the nails comes predominantly from the glitters, so it's mostly yellow on the nails while the bottle appears more green. I found application to be quite tricky. The glitters aren't very dense and tend to clump onto themselves, so it was hard to get even coverage. The first coat goes on sparse and patchy, which sets the tone for the rest of the coats to follow. Since the glitters tend to clump together, each additional coat adds more glitter to the areas that already have glitter and doesn't fill in in areas that were bald to begin with. I did three coats for the swatches, and there's still some glitterless patches remaining.

You can find Zapped exclusively at Walmart stores for a retail price of $3.98 for 0.5 fl oz.

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