Categorized: Copper

I am finally getting around to posting some of the polish I got in London!

GOSH Cosmetics is a pretty cool cosmetics brand that hails from Denmark. They started as a pharmaceutical company more than 60 years ago. In the 1950′s, they expanded into producing toiletries including cosmetics and fragrances.  They now sell their products in over 60 countries, but are relatively new to the USA (yes they DO ship here!).

Another big plus, they are rated “Cruelty Free” by PETA, yay!

They have some really nice nail polish colors which I came across in a SuperDrug store. Considering this is “drug store” polish, it ain’t cheap! In US dollars these came out to around $9-10 dollars, but I HAD to get them anyway (not knowing I could get them online at home of course).

The formula on all of these was really great, I didn’t have a single issue and they were pretty opaque as well. Check ‘em out!

Metallic Green

Metallic Green is a very pretty celadon green color. This is the exact color of an old MAC polish I had about 8-10 years ago that for some dumb reason I got rid of! This is a “true” metallic, in other words, there is no mistaking this finish for shimmer or anything else. I didn’t have much of a streaking issue as you can see. This was two coats.

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Deborah Lippmann is releasing a really cool limited edition set of 3 colors called Celebrate in order to celebrate the 10th anniversary of her company. I would like to take back
everything I said about their bad customer service. Deborah read my
blog post about that awhile back and emailed me. She was “mortified”
(her words) that no one had gotten back to me and apologized. She also
gave me her personal contact info. I was blown away by this because
this is Deborah Lippmann personally contacting me! She was so
gracious and sweet and I am very grateful about the whole thing.

Ok
enough of the sappiness and onto the collection! The polishes are all glittery, super blingy and fabulous. Check ‘em out!

Superstar

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Zoya keeps on bringing us the good stuff! They have two more collections out for fall 2009 (alongside the Matte Velvet collection) which are Truth and Dare. This one, called Truth, features half warm/half cool metallic shimmers.

The formula on these was totally excellent. Smooth, opaque no streaks, just perfect like most Zoya’s are. Enjoy!

Penny

Penny is a light copper and the name is very apt. It looks like melted pennies. I didn’t think this would work on my skin tone, but I pulled it off! This was two coats.

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I swatched these quite awhile ago and just haven’t had the time to post them. They are just some random Barielle colors that I ordered. They run the gamut of colors and finishes but none really stole my heart unfortunately. Check ‘em out.

Amuse is a very pale frosty blue with a strong silver shimmer to it. It was fairly sheer so I used three coats. It didn’t blow my socks off though, I wish it had been more blue.

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MAC’s latest makeup collection is called Style Warrior and they included three new nail polishes. I swatched these the second I got them last night, I was so excited! So keep in mind that the light isn’t the best since the sun was starting to go down. Also my nails are NUBS right now. Had to cut them WAY down because they are splitting like mad. I really don’t think they like all this swatching and polish

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