Color Club New Fractured Shades 2011 - Press Release

COLOR CLUB FRACTURED

4 BRAND NEW SHADES TO BREAK IT UP!

New York, NY – October 2011 - From New York-based veteran nail polish brand Color Club, are four new beautiful shades that BREAK the mold. From left to right: Do You Want a Piece? Burgandy Burst, Explosion and The Great Divide.

Look out for these brand new Fractured shades coming soon on www.shopcolorclub.com and also in stores at your local retailer.

About Color Club:

A favorite of celebrity manicurists and nail color fans worldwide, Color Club is renowned for its high performance rich shades and exceptionally safe products. From the brightest neons to glitter and French, all nail colors are vegan, Formaldehyde, Toluene, DBP and paraben-free - and made in New York, NY with the best raw materials. Color Club products are never tested on animals. Color Club is available in over 95 countries worldwide.

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China Glaze Let It Snow Holiday Collection 2011 Swatches & Review

Today I have the glitters from the China Glaze Holiday Collection to share with you!



Glittering Garlard - dark emerald green jelly base with tiny green glitter throughout that combines to give a very sexy mani! It applied easily with only 2 coats to make it opaque. The glitter really pops on the nail and is not chunky at all.

Sunlight

Indirect Light

Blue Years Eve - blue jelly base with tiny blue glitter. It looks much darker in the bottle but on the nail it's actually more of a royal blue with a hint of green. I only used 2 coats but could have gotten away with a third.

Direct Light

Indirect Light

Ring In The Red - red jelly base with small and medium round red glitter. The formula on this one was very thin and required 3 coats. It's probably not unique to my stash but still pretty.

Sunlight

Indirect Sunlight

Champagne Bubbles - golden yellow foil with tiny silver glitter. This one was very thin and required 3 coats. Pretty color but I would have loved a little more glitter in this one.

Sunlight

Indirect Light

Tinsel Town - charcoal base with tiny silver and medium round glitter. I applied 2 thin coats to make it opaque. I'm in love with this one and can see myself wearing it a lot for the Holidays!

Sunlight

Indirect Light

Snow Globe - clear base with iridescent glitter that flashes white, blue, pink or green at different angles depending on the base coat it's matched with. I paired it with Glittering Garland and Blue Years Eve.



The glitters are quite cute and the colors are reminiscent of the Holiday Season. Champagne Bubbles actually reminds me of Christmas ornaments. All of the polishes applied smoothly with little issues except Champagne Bubbles which left a few streaks and like most yellows required 3 coats. Overall I like that the glitters are exciting but still work appropriate. My favorites are Glittering Garland, Tinsel Town and Blue Years Eve. I'm still waiting for Twinkling Lights which was sold out when I purchased the others. I'll post swatches when I receive it.

Thanks for stopping by! Have a great polishing weekend ;)

Nicole by OPI Holiday Glitter Collection - Press Release

Nicole by OPI Launches Holiday Glitters, Introducing New Sparkly Lacquers for the Season

Nicole by OPI announces new, limited edition Holiday Glitters! Featuring four shades packed with intense shimmer for the festive season, these lacquers transform fingers and toes into virtual jewelry. From traditional holly red and a warm fuchsia hue to metallic gold and inky blue, these shades make the perfect gift or stocking stuffer for any woman (or to keep for yourself!).

“The holiday season’s celebratory feeling lends itself to added glitz and glamour in fashion, jewelry, accessories, and most importantly – for nails!” explains Suzi Weiss-Fischmann, Nicole by OPI Executive VP & Artistic Director. “The four alluring Holiday Glitters shades offer a great way to add lots of color. Red and gold glitter tones offer a more classic holiday look, while magenta and sapphire blue incorporate rich, weighty jewel tones – which is another important trend for the season.”

The new Holiday Glitters nail lacquers from Nicole by OPI include:

Glitter In My Stocking

Give the gift of gold-glittery goodness!

My Sleigh’s in the Shop

In the meantime I rely on this mesmerizing magenta.

Orna-ment for Each Other

I can’t stay away from this tomato-red twinkle!

Snow-man of My Dreams

The “spark” was instant with this rainbow-packed blue.

Nicole by OPI Nail Lacquers and Nail Treatments contain no DBP, Toluene, or Formaldehyde. Nicole by OPI formulas are long-lasting, fast-drying, and salon-quality.

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These limited edition Holiday Glitters will be available November 2011 for $7.99 each in the U.S. at HEB, Sears, Stage Stores, select Target locations, Target.com, and ULTA. In Canada, lacquers will be retailed for $10.99 each in Shoppers Drug Mart, Loblaw and Zellers.

For more information, visit nicolebyopi.com. Follow Nicole by OPI on Twitter @NicoleByOPI and become a Facebook fan!

NOTD: Julep Maggie with Spectraflair Holographic Topcoat

Today I'm sharing my nail of the day, Julep Maggie. Maggie is a deep blue-purple with blue and purple shimmer. It appears more blue indoors and the purple is more obvious in the sunlight. I only needed 2 coats to make it opaque. The formula is great on this one and the colors are very concentrated.

Here's a pic indoors. It appears more blue and the shimmer is not as obvious. I have very slight tip wear because this is day 2 of my mani.

For fun I decided to take it up a notch and added a Spectraflair topcoat (1/2 bottle of Wet N' Wild clear polish and a pea size of Spectraflair). I love the result! I've been lemming DS Glamour since forever and surprisingly this came out really close. There is a trick to applying Spectraflair. If it's applied too thickly it changes the color of the base to more appear more silver. Only a very thin layer is needed to create the holo effect.


Here you can see the thicker layer of Spectraflair on the index finger changed the base to appear more silver. I used a lighter layer on the other fingers which added a holo without overwhelming the base color. So the other nails remained blue after the topcoat was added.

This was a fun and easy way to jazz up my mani. So far I've only tried it over blue but I would imagine it would look great over several colors.

What Spectraflair color combinations have you tried?

OPI US Open, Serena Williams Glam Slam Duo: Pros & Bronze and Love is a Racket, Swatches

Hello, hello! Today I'm sharing swatches from OPI's US Open Glam Slam Duo Pack.

Love is a Racket. A red shimmer with pink-red flecks. It applied smoothly in 2 coats but I probably could have gotten away with a third. I love the result! It's very shiny without a topcoat and looks like red stained glass. Very beautiful.

Closer view.

Pros & Bronze. A gorgeous textured glitter that combines gold, burnt orange and pink which creates a sparkling bronze effect. It's so pretty it confused my camera. I used 3 coats and took a pic in direct and indirect light because it looks more golden at some angles. This polish is perfect for this time of the year because it contains many elements reminiscent of the Fall. It's definitely unique to my collection and my favorite of the two!


This Glam Slam duo is available now at Professional Salons that sale OPI, including: Beauty Brands, Regis, Trade Secret, Dillards, JCPenny and ULTA for $14.95 ($20.95 CAN) suggested retail price.

~The polishes above were sent to me for review.~

Nubar White Polka Dot

Hello lovelies! So sorry for my lack of posts this week. I'm still doing rotations overnight so I've been sleeping during the day and by the time I wake up it's too dark to take pics! Luckily this one is almost over but I had to do a couple of papers for a final grade. I wanted to write, "blah, blah, blah. i'm tired of school, let me outta here" lol, but of course I would've gotten a F. My current teacher is so nice that it's hard not to enjoy the rotation. I learned a lot and witnessed a few people die which was pretty dramatic but overall it's been a good last few weeks.

Today I'm rockin' Nubar White Polka Dot. My first Nubar ever, yay! I don't know what I've been waiting on, I guess I don't like to buy as much polish online as I do in person. I had to have this one after I saw the cute swatches on Body&Soul. They also have a black version called Black Polka Dot (very creative I know, ha ha). I didn't get that one because I have Uninhibited and I think they're similar. I almost forgot but I had to purchase this one off Ebay because I couldn't find it on Nubar's website.

For this mani I used one thin coat of White Polka Dot over Sally Hansen Sequin Scandal. WPD contains white hex glitter and tiny holographic glitter that goes from white to blue. The formula is quite thick which I guess is needed to suspend the glitter. It really jazzed up Sequin Scandal which was a lot darker than I expected. Overall I think this mani turned out quite cute. My only complaint is that my bottles is 1/5 gone after two manis.

Here's a pic in the shade.

Thanks for stopping by! I hope you're having a great Friday and exciting plans for the weekend. I'll post more pics and/or swatches soon.

Color Club Backstage Pass - Press Release

COLOR CLUB BACKSTAGE PASS COLLECTION

Get Your Rock Glam On this October with a new Rockin’ Glitter Collection from Color Club

September 2011 - New York, New York - Color Club, the veteran nail polish brand, announced today the debut of Backstage Pass, a new rockin’ glitter nail polish collection. The aptly named collection features six nail polishes -- from Wish Upon a Rock-star to Platinum Record -- that are sure to “rock your world.” Whether you’re a rocker – or just aspire to look like one – this new vegan, Formaldehyde, Toluene, DBP and paraben-free collection from Color Club is your ultimate backstage pass and sure to be a hit!

The Backstage Pass Collection includes:

Take the Stage: Gold Glitter with Silver Flakes

Wish Upon a Rock-Star: Multi-colored Glitter with Purple

Backstage Pass: Silver & Purple Hex Glitter

Platinum Record: Silver Glitter

It's a Hit!: Purple Big Glitter

Fame & Fortune: Red Base with Silver Flakes

All Color Club products are made in the USA and are not tested on animals. Products are available at shopcolorclub.com.

About Color Club

A favorite of celebrity manicurists and nail color fans worldwide, Color Club is renowned for its high performance rich shades and exceptionally safe products. From the brightest neons, to glitter and French, all nail colors are vegan, Formaldehyde, Toluene, DBP and paraben-free - and made in New York, NY with the best raw materials.

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