I Won!! Lex Cosmetics...PeaBow

Good Morning,

Do you remember on January 30, 2011 I asked you to vote for me?  Well, guess what!  I won!!  I entered into a contest with Lex Cosmetics.  My color of choice won! Thank you so much for voting for me *-*  Peabow is now available here .  If you purchase $1.00 will go toward animal protection. 

PeaBow is a Blue/Purple it's what I would describe as a Bluple.  It's a cream with hint of blue shimmer  flashing through.  I used 3 coats.

Blues and purples are hard to capture.  In real life it has more purple in it.

Here I used bundle Monster Plates BM15 and BM212 along with Konad Special Nail Polish

Don't throw darts at me. Lol!

  "When I look at a beautiful peacock it reminds me of my creator looking at how artistic the world is and as I look up into the sky seeing a colorful rainbow is a reassuring promise."

(I hope you like Peabow)

Until next time please have a great nail polish day. (✿◠‿◠)

China Glaze Island Escape Summer Collection Swatches/Review

Good Morning,

I have the Island Escape Summer Collection to show you.  This collection is great for the summer.  I love all the colors.  They are bright and fun.

                                  Blue Iguana

Turquoise Blue glass fleck with a hint of purple.  The formula is thin so I needed 3 coats

Papaya Punch 

Orange creme that's not as bright as a neon.  I used 2 coats

108 Degrees

Glass fleck Fuchsia with a flash of pink shimmer needed 2 coats

Electric Pineapple 

Yellow green creme or chartreuse needed 2 coats

Cha Cha Cha 

Yellow tone green with a flash of yellow shimmer needed 2 coats

Senorita Bonita

Purple with red shimmer needed 2 coats

From the bottles I didn't think this collection was all that special.  Once I applied them I fell in love.  I used 2 coats on all except Blue Iguana which needed 3 coats to get to bottle color.  It's a nice variety of colors in this collection which included my favorite colors blue, green and purple.  The cremes were easy to apply as well.

These were sent to me for review  

Until next time please have a great nail polish day. (✿◠‿◠)

Win It Wednesday with Revlon!

Good Afternoon!

I have a couple of awesome Revlon's that are just awesome to have.  Top Speeds.  During last year everyone was getting the top speeds from CVS with a coupon. About a week ago one of my Walgreen's had a manager's special for .99 cents can you believe it!?

Royal is a must have.  It's a gorgeous royal blue jelly.  I adore it because it's blue and it's a jelly!  Next is Electric it's a sunshine slightly shimmer yellow.  Many are comparing it to Chanel's Mimosa.  I have seen side by side swatches and I could not tell the difference.  It was said that the Revlon has the better formula.  Way to go Revlon!  Next is Black with Envy.  Now when I saw the display at Ulta it didn't look special to me but I picked it up anyway and I'm glad I did.  It's a beautiful black with a tinge of green shimmer.  It's a really close dupe to Chanel's Black Pearl.  High five to Revlon!

Here are my swatches:

                        Royal

It dries to a semi matte finish

Added one coat of Revlon ColorStay topcoat. These pictures are from my post back in December

Electric

It does have a slight shimmer

I wanted to see what it looked like with a coat of Revlon's Banana Blaze Glimmer Gloss. A pretty yellow sparkly glitter.  My picture doesn't give it justice.  I applied 2 thin coats and one thick coat of Electric. 

                            Black with Envy

Great formula only needed 2 coats

From the bottles Chanel Black Pearl has more green in it.  On the nail it's only a slight difference.  They are close.  I used 2 coats on both.  I think Black with Envy is just as pretty!

Can you tell the difference here?

or here?  Very close right?

Now Time for Win It Wednesday!

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Until next time please have a great nail polish day. (✿◠‿◠)

Nubar Spring Garden Collection Swatches

Are you enjoying Spring Time?  I surely am.  There are lots of spring colors to go around.  Nubar has a beautiful collection for us that will take us through an Earthen path of a Spring Garden.

                                         Pink Lily 

Pink Lily:  A lovely pastel pink creme.

one coat of Dewdrop 

Earthen

Earthen: A light pastel grey creme

one coat of Dewdrop

Baby Sprout

Baby Sprout: light pastel green

one coat of Dewdrop

Blue Hydrangea

Blue Hydrangea: light pastel blue

one coat of Dewdrop

White Peony

White Peony: An off white creme

one coat of Dewdrop

Yellow Primrose 

Yellow Primrose: A Pale yellow creme

one coat of Dewdrop

Purple Aster

Purple Aster: A pale lavender creme

one coat of Dewdrop

Honeysuckle

Honeysuckle:  A bright bubblegum pink.  Sorry my picture is washed out.  Wrong setting on camera.  It's much more deeper.

one coat of Dewdrop...Still Honeysuckle is a little more deeper.

This collection was fun and will be great in your collection if you like pastels.  My favorite is Yellow Primrose because I don't own any really pale yellows.  My absolute favorite is Honeysuckle because it's jell-ish!  All the rest are cremes and they are streaky.  The best way to apply streaky polish 2 thin coats, then a thick coat and let dry between each coat.

Dewdrop is a multi-glitter in a clear base that gives each one a fun look.

 
These are available at bynubar.com

These were sent to me for review

 Until next time please have a great nail polish day. (✿◠‿◠)

Hot Half Moon: Color Club I Always Get My Man-darin

Hello ladies,

The city of Philadelphia is decorated with brightly hued tulips. I found the urge to mirror their cheerful tones in today's manicure.

With a tiny brush, I created the half moons freehand style. An easy method is to paint a vertical line from the cuticle area upward and form an arch on either side. Because Ultra-Astral is a glitter polish, I first defined the half moons using Raspberry Rush. I couldn't resist adding a coordinating orange rhinestone.

While I love the look of the glitter French tips, I found Ultra-Astral difficult to sweep across the nail in a perfect curve. I would recommend layering the Starry Temptress Colors over a thinner neon of the same hue. This method worked flawlessly for the half Moon. I will try it for the tips in the future.

I Always Get My Man-Darin is a yellow-orange polish with diaphanous green shimmer. This shade appears more yellow in bright light and soft orange in medium to low light. I wore this polish without embellishment for a day before adding the funky french and the half moons. I painted two coats over a whitening base, which left a hint of visible nail line. This manicure shows two additional coats for opacity.

I hope my hot half moon manicure brought a glow to your day.

The polishes featured in this post were sent to me for review. I Always Get My Mandarin and Raspberry Rush are from the Wicked Sweet Collection. Ultra-Astral is part of the

Starry Temptress Collection.

For a chance to win the seven piece set of neon glitter polishes, stop by the

Starry Temptress Giveaway! to enter.

Happy painting, ladies!