Categorized: Fall 2010

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The second part of the fall 2010 Dashing Diva collection included a few colors I initially thought I wouldn’t like, but wound up being kind of nice.

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Tira, Miss U

Tira, Miss U is an odd color. It’s a milky, greenish brown with fine gold shimmer. In the bottle it looked like a dull brown creme, but it turned out to be very different than I expected. I love the unusual color and was really happy to discover the shimmer. On the bad side, it’s a bit watery and uneven, so it definitely needs three thickish coats for total coverage. It reminds me a bit of Jessica Bittersweet, but a little darker and greener.

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It may seem strange to still be posting collections for fall 2010 since it seems like winter is so close, but it is still fall for 3+ more weeks!

Dashing Diva has released a new collection for fall of 10 new colors and I’ve got all but one to show you.

I don’t think Dashing Diva gets enough credit for their great colors. It seems like they are a pretty small company and people don’t hear about them often. They are harder to find also, unless you order online. But they do have a really great polish formula and some really spectacular colors.

This is part I of a two part series.

Greenport Grunge

Greenport Grunge is a metallic moss green with yellow, orange and pink shimmer. This is a glowy type of color and it’s absolutely gorgeous! Love the murkiness of the green. It was a little sheer, so I used three coats. It is very similar to OPI At Your Quebec And Call, so if you don’t have that one, you might want to snag this baby!

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UPDATE: Because I have lost my mind (and need more sleep) the earlier version of this post was 50% incorrect on the name of this polish. I kept calling it “Azure Chocolate” in my mind then somehow that translated onto the post, sorry about the confusion! This color is called Aztec Chocolate. Post has been fixed.

And the Dior Vernis addiction continues with Aztec Chocolate, which is part of their fall 2010 collection.

Aztec Chocolate is an amazing dark chocolate with gold shimmer.

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Yep, I’m on a Dior kick lately, as I previously mentioned. The nail colors they are putting out for fall and winter this year are too good to pass up in my book!

I must apologize for the sorry state of my nails at the moment. I got really sick of them yesterday so cut them super short. I do this pretty frequently actually but try to have a bunch of nail posts already lined up. Well I didn’t this time, and when I received this color I didn’t want to wait a few days for my nails to grow out. So if you run screaming into the other room in horror, I don’t blame you.

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BB Couture’s Infamous Lovers collection is twelve colors in total with 6 being “the men” and 6 being “the women”.

I reviewed the men the other day and today I have the other half.

Normally I think of the women as being the better half (haha), but not in this case. While there are some colors here I like,  I am definitely feeling the men’s side much more.

I feel like some of the colors here just weren’t as saturated and deep as I would have liked. The formula was good, though a few did need three coats, and a couple were a little gritty without a top coat.

Pocahontas

Pocahontas is a medium taupe base with micro-glitter in silver and pretty sparse pieces of black glitter. I like this color, but kind of wish there was more of the black glitter to make it extra interesting. This went on a little sheer and seemed more watery than the others. This was three coats.

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