Categorized: Putty

Misa Precious Moments is new for spring and features six new creme finish polishes.

Misa does cremes very, very well, and though these may look boring, they are very soft and pretty colors. Maybe not all totally unique, but their formula (for the most part) is really excellent. Most were two coats, and I LOVE their bottle shape. I know, it’s a small thing, but I really do love the way they look lined up. They never tip over, sit right next to each other, and have a nice heft to them.

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If you haven’t yet heard by now, you have been living under the largest rock on the planet. China Glaze Capitol Colours is their latest 12-piece collection for spring, and of course, is a tribute to the upcoming movie The Hunger Games, which is based on a series of best-selling books from Suzanne Collins. The movie comes out in March ( I will be there with bells on!)

Let me say, if you have not read the three books in the series (The Hunger Games, Catching Fire and Mockingjay) RUN to the store and get them! I read them about a year ago and aside from The Girl With The Dragon Tattoo series, these are some of the best books I have read in years and years. Yes they are technically “young adult” but are not written in a juvenile or off-putting way for an adult. They are nothing at all like the Twilight series (which I get asked a lot). The story grabs you, sucks you in and is totally amazing. I died a little when I finished them, they were that good.

This collection of polishes includes twelve new colors with a variety of finishes. I did have a few issues with the formula of some of them, more on that below.

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MAC Dazzlesphere for holiday 2011 is a collection of mini kits packed in these super cool clear “ornaments”.

There are three mini gloss kits, one mini nail lacquer kit and three crushed pigment kits. The only ones not mini sized are the crushed pigments.

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Hey there!

This is just a quick and dirty review of MAC’s new color called In The Buff, which is part of the To The Beach collection. There is another color called Scorcher which I think is a coral creme. It didn’t appeal to me so I didn’t buy it.

Here goes!

In The Buff

In The Buff is a camel/putty colored creme. Some people were calling it avocado green, which I don’t agree with at all. It much more camel, or brownish to me than green, but I do see some green in it. Someone mentioned that this might be similar to Kelly’s Green from BB Couture, but as you can see here, they are very different. Mine is what I think of as a true avocado green. I really liked this when I saw it online on other people, but I have to say I’m not really loving it so much on myself. I thought it would be this great, “weird-ugly” color, but it turns out with my skin it just kinda looks ugly. Sigh. Maybe I’ll give it a go later, but right now I’m not feeling it.

The formula was really nice, I think they are finally getting the hint! It went on very smooth in thin even coats, and I only needed two for full opacity.

How are you feeling about this one?

-VV

Here we go with Part II of Barielle’s All Lacquered Up collection for fall 2009. There are quite a few that I really love in this set and not a single one that I didn’t like or that didn’t flatter me. Totally spot on! Peep ‘em out!

Putt-E-On Me

Putt-E-On Me is a fabulous mushroom taupe creme. If you have been reading my blog for awhile, you know that mushroom colored polishes are some of my very fav and now this one joined the rest of them. There is something that’s so “out of the norm” with colors like this and that’s why I like them. I like wearing colors that you won’t see people like Dina Lohan or Paris Hilton’s mother wearing (yuck). This was creamy and opaque in just two coats.

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