Press Release - China Glaze Autumn Nights

FALL INTO THE BEAUTY OF RICH COLOR

China Glaze® Introduces 12 Luxurious Shades

Los Angeles, CA – (July 2013): As the season begins to change and the weather cools, China Glaze® invites you to step inside for an evening of cocktails, gossip, flirtation and gorgeous nail color with the new Autumn Nights collection. Gab with the gals, clink those glasses and cheers to a fabulous Fall with nails that strike up a conversation.

The China Glaze® Autumn Nights collection includes:

Gossip Over Gimlets: Platinum shimmer soiree

Goldie But Goodie: Eternal rust gold shimmer

 Strike Up A Cosmo: Sparkling rose gold shimmer

      Rendezvous With You: Shimmery purple affair

Public Relations: Impressionable violet gunmetal shimmer

Kiss My Glass: Feisty blue gunmetal shimmer

Tongue & Chic: Playful emerald shimmer

Scandalous Shenanigans: Rich blue shimmer

Queen B: Regal blue-purple crème

Charmed, I’m Sure: Gracious purple crème

Don’t Make Me Wine: Reserve-worthy red-violet shimmer

·         Red-y & Willing: Frisky red shimmer

Cheers to China Glaze® Autumn Nights, available in September 2013 at fine salons and beauty supply stores as open stock colors, 6 piece box collections, 6 piece counter display, 12 piece counter display and 36 piece rack. China Glaze® is free of DBP, toluene, and added formaldehyde.

China Glaze® nail lacquers are available through salons and professional beauty supply stores nationwide. For more information, please visit www.chinaglaze.com or follow China Glaze on Facebook (@ChinaGlazeOfficial), Twitter (@ChinaGlaze) and Pinterest (pinterest.com/chinaglaze).

FNUG Gold Stiletto

I've always wanted to try a FNUG polish so I was thrilled to get this polish to review from Llarowe. FNUG is a Danish brand that was started by Charlotte Fnugg Munksgaard. I was curious about the name so I looked it up. I figured I'd share that little tidbit. For those of us in the states this is a hard brand to get. Luckily, we can get FNUG and other international brands from Llarowe!

Gold Stiletto is a yellow gold metallic polish with a golden shimmer. In the bottle you can see tiny pieces of coppery particles but they don't seem to translate to the nail.

The formula is amazing, it applied nice and smooth. I could definitely tell that I was using a high quality nail polish. The first coat was a bit sheer but it was completely opaque by the second coat. It is extremely sparkly and shimmery which I of course love. 

Here's a macro of my nail. It looks like I painted my nails with real gold. 

This is a macro of the bottle. It looks a bit different on the nail then in the bottle doesn't it?

 It's quite lovely.

As you can tell by the pictures, the bottle is really small. It's 8.5 ml which is a little more than half of the size of a standard bottle of polish. This brand is more expensive as well, around $14.00 a bottle. There are many shades including this one on Llarowe's site that are for sale. Gold Stiletto is currently on sale for $8.00. Now, I'm not saying this brand is overpriced. I own quite a few bottles of polish that are on the expensive side. I just want to make you aware of how much polish you're getting for your buck. 

This was my first experience with FNUG and I'm quite impressed. There are many shades from this brand that have quickly jumped onto my wish list. Have you seen their holos? Oh my...

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*The product in this post was provided for review. 

Colors by Llarowe Behead the Drama Queen and Beautiful Creature

If you are a polish addict like myself you are probably familiar with Llarowe. You probably also know that she now has an amazing nail polish line sold on....you guessed it...Llarowe.  I recently received a lovely package of polish to swatch for her and was so lucky to have Llarowe Behead the Drama Queen! and Beautiful Creature be two of those polishes. 

Behead the Drama Queen! (I adore the name) is from the Haters Gonna Hate! collection and Beautiful Creature is from the Beauty in Nature collection. I happened to swatch Behead the Drama Queen! first and then thought Beautiful Creature would look really pretty layered on top. 

Let's talk about Drama Queen first.

Colors  by Llarowe Behead the Drama Queen!

Llarowe describes Drama Queen as being a deep teal green that shifts navy to purple with hints of sapphire with intense shimmer in sunlight. 

 

What you see definitely depends on what lighting this chameleon is in. I swatched it on a cloudy day unfortunately. In my house (under daylight bulbs), I saw a lot of deep emerald with a really pretty tealish blue that borders the nail. The entire nail looked more blue depending on how I turned my hand.

You can see the blue shift on the corner of the bottle in this picture. 

This is one of those polishes that will have you staring at your hand all day. Drive with caution. 

 Sorry for the weird photo. I liked how you can see more blue in the polish so I wanted to show it.

Another weird angle but it really shows the blue flash. With the color shifts and blinding shimmer, this is a gorgeous polish. 

Alright, now let's take a look at Colors by Llarowe Beautiful Creature on top of Behead the Drama Queen.

Colors by Llarowe Beautiful Creature

Beautiful Creature is a glitter topper that has multiple colors and sizes of glitter in a clear base that's loaded with shimmer. I love the color palate of these glitters. They look very tropical and summery together. The splash of lime green and bright pink is my favorite part. 

 Love it!

You can purchase these polishes from Llarowe of course! You can tell that the Colors by Llarowe line was created by a polish lover who understands what her fellow lacquer heads want. There is something for everyone from this brand; cremes, glitters, shimmers, and holos. Oh the holos. They're good. Very good. 

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Different Dimension Vulnerable and Just Keep Swimming

I am SO excited to show you two amazing holos from Different Dimension. This is a fairly new to me brand and I've been very impressed so far. Vulnerable and Just Keep Swimming are beautiful holographic polishes and they have fabulous formulas. Holos used to be so hard to work with, requiring an aqua base, being a pain to apply, and then peeling off the next day. Ugh! I used my regular base coat (Duri Rejuvacote), applied two coats, and then Seche Vite for my top coat. The formula is extremely smooth, it practically applies itself. You probably won't believe me but they were very close to being one coaters but my nails are too long. Two coats were just right. I know, hard to believe right?

All pictures are outside in the sun. You can still see the holo effect inside but it is much more subtle of course. Just Keep Swimming has a stronger holographic effect than Vulnerable. Both are incredibly beautiful. Ok, put your bibs on here comes the holo!

Different Dimension Just Keep Swimming

This makes me want to jump in the closest pool or jump on the next flight to Hawaii. Sneaking into a pool would be free (but illegal) but tickets to Hawaii are expensive right now...Lush bath?

 The combination of this deep blue and strong holo effect is perfection. 

 Excuse me while I put this back on...wow...


Simply amazing! I'm in love with this polish.


Different Dimension Vulnerable

Could this be a work appropriate holo? What do you think?

Humina... humina... humina... (yes, I'm a dork).

 

I love the combination of the neutral color with the holographic sparkle. Divine.

Different Dimension Vulnerable and Just Keep Swimming is available at Llarowe. 

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*Products provided for review. 

Cult Nails Dance All Night Collection

With the latest collection from Cult Nails (Road Trip, Anyone?) on it's way to my mail box I decided it was time to get this post pulled together. Dance All Night has three cremes, three glitters, and a fabulous waxy top coat, Wax That. To prevent redundancy, I'm going to tell you about the formulas first because they were very consistent. 

The cremes were two coaters (almost one) with slightly thick but smooth and self leveling formulas. I wore two coats in all of the pictures. They were easy to work with, not to mention freaking gorgeous. The glitters are all in a clear base so you can put them over anything. I don't think you can use them on their own, they seem to be designed to be glitter toppers. I used two thin coats on all swatches except for one (I'll mention that with the picture). The glitter payoff was pretty good. I didn't have to manipulate anything and got an even amount of glitter on the entire nail. Cult Nails Wax That Top Coat is so much fun. I want to put it on everything! It's exactly as it sounds, it makes your polish look waxy and it's awesome. All I needed was one regular coat to get the effect.

Let's get to the good stuff, shall we?

 
Cult Nails Faded is a blue toned grey creme.

Cult Nails Faded with one coat of Cult Nails Wax That Top Coat.

Cult Nails Faded with Cult Nails Center of Attention on top (two thin coats).

Cult Nails Center of Attention has rose hex glitter with duochrome (yellow/orange) micro glitter in a clear base.

Cult Nails Nakizzle's Shizzle is a bright robin's egg blue.


Cult Nails Nakizzle's Shizzle with Cult Nails Wax That Top Coat

 Cult Nails Nakizzle's Shizzle with three coats of Cult Nails Dance All Night.

Cult Nails Dance All Night has blue and green hex glitter with duochrome (yellow/orange) micro glitter in a clear base. I wanted to see how opaque I could get the glitter but didn't like how it looked that thick so I stopped. I prefer these glitters with thin coats so they are evenly spread and not clumpy.

Cult Nails Love At First Sight is a bright and bold light purple (close to lavender) creme. 

Cult Nails Love At First Sight with Cult Nails Wax That Top Coat (one coat).

Cult Nails Love At First Sight with two thin coats of Cult Nails Walk of Shame.

Cult Nails Walk of Shame has gold hex glitter and holographic micro glitter in a clear base.


The glitter toppers don't look very sparkly in my pictures but don't let that fool you. They are super blingy in real life. The glitter lays absolutely flat. Any piece of glitter that looks curled is not, it's how the light is hitting it.

I love this collection and can't wait to break out Wax That again. My must haves are Faded, Walk of Shame and Wax That. You know, if I had to pick (my must haves are really all of them). Which ones do you like? What do you think of the wax effect?

You can find Cult Nails, here.

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KKCenterHK - Black Circle Glitter

Hello everyone! Today I have a very simple mani using black circle glitter from KKCenterHK. The circle glitter is 2.5mm that comes in a little container. You get a lot of glitter in these containers, I doubt I'll every use it all! The circles are very easy to apply. I put on a coat of top coat on my nail, dipped my dotting tool into top coat to pick up the glitter, and placed it on my nail. To seal it in, put on another coat of top coat. That's it!

The glitter is a teeny tiny bit thicker than other loose glitter that I've worked with before. I could still feel the circles after two thick coats of Seche Vite. I didn't want to put on anymore top coat because I didn't really mind that it wasn't completely smooth. This is something to consider if you want your nails to be completely smooth. 

Here is my mani, what do you think? 

Cult Nails Faded, Cult Nails Doppelganger, and Black Circle Glitter 

You can find the glitter, here for $8.00 + shipping. 

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*Some products in this post were provided for review.