Categorized: Matte

If you haven’t yet heard by now, you have been living under the largest rock on the planet. China Glaze Colours From The Capitol 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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BB Couture Men on Film is the second new collection from them for spring. It’s the “manly” side of the collection.

This set features matte nail colors. Four of them are matte and two have a shimmery/matte finish. Actually they’re more satin-like than truly matte.

I did have some issues with the formula with most of these. The matte (non-shimmer) ones are VERY thick. They’re kind of hard to get even with no streaks. I felt I needed two coats for maximum coverage around edges especially, but it was so thick it made it even streakier. The shimmer/mattes ones were less thick and easier to work with. No streaking.

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Happy Saturday!

Saturday is THE best day of the week and here’s why:

• The previous week is in your rear-view mirror
• You don’t have to work the next day
• You get to sleep in for TWO days in a row
• You get to stay up late!
• You don’t have to work the next day. Oh whoops I think we covered that one

But I digress.

We are here to discuss the new OCC nail lacquer collection for spring/summer 2011 called Lo-Fi.

Lo-Fi consists of six new color with various finishes.

I must admit, I find this collection to be a little “meh”. I feel like some of these colors we’ve seen a lot of and some just missed the mark for me personally.

The formula was a bit all over also. Some were thick and very opaque, while others were thin and sheer and yet another was…chunky? Hmm.

A.V.

A.V. is a whitish grey with very fine rainbow colored shimmer. I like the color of this one and feel it’s fairly unique. The formula was very thick and opaque, you almost only need one coat, but I did use two. Nice!

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Zoya is releasing three new limited edition matte colors for summer 2011 called ModMattes.

As with normal matte nail polishes, they are meant to be worn over your nail with no base coat or top coat to keep the matte finish as true as possible.

• Phoebe - sky blue matte shimmer
• Mitzi - limey green matte
• Lolly - barbie pink matte

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“Is there anything more enduring (besides love and heartbreak) than denim? Jeanius is a celebra- tion of the journey – country cousin to haute couture – the whole world wanted to go on since America made it a national obsession. Since tooth-and-nail workwear jumped the pond in farmer’s overalls to gussy up in the glam of the great Paris couture houses…France may take the credit for creating it in 18th-century Nimes (de Nîmes = DeNim), but bright young American women took it higher! M∙A∙C keeps up with a Jeanius collection of moody blues and indigo ink, the quantum of modern cool, with four new limited-life denimized Eye Shadows, along with new limited-life shades of Lipstick, Lipglass, Blush and Biker Blue & Frayed to Order Nail Lacquer. Like the faux-metal “snap” on the Eye Shadow…completely riveting.”

MAC Jeanius for spring 2011 has arrived and ever since I saw the promo pics I was super excited about this collection.

I am a huge jeans girl, have been my whole life. Jeans are what I wear almost every single day, and now I can wear ‘em on my face

This is a rather small collection featuring 16 items. Let’s take a closer look.

LIPSTICK ($14.50)

• Acid Washed – Grayish beige with gold pearl
• Riveting Rose – Deep burgundy with blue pearl
• Pretty Please – Pale pink pearl

LIPGLASS ($14.50)

• Painted On – Grayish beige with gold pearl
• Indigo Pink – Deep burgundy with blue pearl
• Docile – Chrome pink peach with gold

EYE SHADOW ($19.50)

• White Jeanius – White with silver pearl
• Diva in Distress – Mid-tone grey with silver pearl
• Motorhead – Mid-tone dirty blue with copper pearl
• Stovepipe – Black Black with copper pearl

PENULTIMATE EYE LINER ($17.50)

• Rapidblack – True black

PENULTIMATE BROW MARKER ($17.50)

POWDER BLUSH ($19.50)

• Overdyed – Bright magenta (satin)
• Pink Cult – Mid-tone dirty neutral pink (matte)

NAIL LACQUER ($14.00)

• Biker Blue – Black base with purple and blue pearl
• Frayed to Order – White matte with soft pink duochrome pearl

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