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March 31st, 2009

Orly Prepster for Spring 2009

Sometimes I feel like I have split personalities! Mainly I am a rocker chick; I love lots of eyeliner, dark nails, heavy metal, etc. However I have this crazy other side that’s totally preppy! I LOVE argyle and the color combo of pink/green. Give me an alligator polo and some plaid Chuck Taylors and I will wear them with glee. smile Orly Prepster for Spring 2009 Anyway that brings me to my point which is that Orly has a new collection for spring called Prepster. A couple of these I loved, a couple weren’t my favs for me, but overall the collection is really great. Pics taken in sun with no top coat.

March 30th, 2009

MAC Peppermint Patti

MAC’s new Sugarsweet collection included Peppermint Patti, which is one of two nail polish colors that came out. The other one called Seasonal Peach does nothing for me so I didn’t get it. The pic below was taken in sun with no top coat but for some reason my skin was BRIGHT red in every pic! I had to touch this one up to reduce the red (which you can still kinda see around my nails) but the color of the polish is accurate.

So like most everyone else, this one was really streaky and thick for me. I needed three coats to get it pretty much even, but you can still see a bit of streakiness. The color itself is a great minty green creme. Not sure I am thrilled with this one, I would give it a 6 out of 10 stars overall. You can find this (it’s currently sold out) on MAC’s site here and it retails for $11.00.

Ciao for now!

March 27th, 2009

Vampy Varnish and Ideeli

Exciting news folks! Ideeli.com, which is a high-end, members only shopping website has started a blog and yours truly will be writing a column for them all about nail polish! The site just went live and my article is on page 5, where the Essie bottle picture is. Check it out!!

http://blog.ideeli.com/

March 27th, 2009

Dashing Diva Manhattan Collection – Part II

As promised, here is part deux of the Dashing Diva Manhattan collection (until I order more that is). These are the more unusual and cool colors, I think. I truly love them all and I think you will see why. As mentioned in the other post, I had no application issues at all with these. Pics taken in sun with no top coat.

West Village is a really chic looking caffe latte colored creme. It’s definitely not one of those basic beige neutrals that you see some companies spew out over & over every season. This one looks edgier and more “mushroomy”, which I love! This was three coats.

Dashing Diva Water Taxi Dashing Diva Manhattan Collection Part II

March 26th, 2009

Dashing Diva Manhattan Collection – Part I

As you may already know, Dashing Diva has about 100 new polishes in their Manhattan collection which was released a couple months ago. I reviewed some back in December I believe and liked them a lot so I have some more to review!

I really love Dashing Diva, their colors are fabulous and they don’t stick to one “genre” like boring work colors or neutrals. Their formula is really spot on, I never have issues with them. There are two parts to this saga and part one which I am showing today is the more “classic” of the set. These are all variances on the color red and two in particular I really love. Pics taken in sun with no top coat.

Dashing Diva 5 Heels Dashing Diva Manhattan Collection Part I

5″ Heels is a really great bright orange/red shimmery frost. The shimmer is gold colored and very subtle. I think this polish would look great on a wide variety of skin tones because it’s kind of middle of the road in terms of cool and warm. This was three coats.

Dashing Diva China Town Dashing Diva Manhattan Collection Part I

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