tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-54717684305329279922011-12-20T13:20:01.487-05:00Travel, both literal and figurative. Traveling through topics like beauty, fashion, travel, art and culture, and whatever else I feel like....Euridicehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/18261200248361358285noreply@blogger.comBlogger1571100tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5471768430532927992.post-80130604520394775302010-04-07T23:48:00.001-04:002010-04-07T23:49:34.209-04:00

I love the name of the Barielle nail polish "A Bouquet for Ava" so I'm using it as the inspiration for my drugstore haul from this weekend. Doesn't it look like a nice bouquet arranged on the platter like that? The Rimmels are from CVS from a few weeks ago. I have never purchased anything from Rimmel, but the display looked enticing, and I love dark colors. The rest of the nail polish is from

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 The Dutch Nail Blog is hosting a Surprise Puppy Giveaway! Why Puppies? You can win a number of Catrice polishes from the new collection depending on how many puppies are born! Open to international followers. Helen at Just Nice Things showcases an all-time classic nail varnish from OPI's Russian Collection. How unique is NARS Purple Rain? The Swatchaholic calms the Purple Rain lemming with a

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Hi, be sure to check out the blog of my lucky giveaway winner. Skulda posted the gorgeous Spin Me Round that she won from my very first giveaway. It looks gorgeous on her, and the cookies don't look half bad, either!! Yum, check it all out at Skulda's Claws.

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Okay, I have a confession to make. I am a little dispirited. Maybe that's one of the reasons why I haven't posted as much in the last two weeks. You see, I am in love with the Color Club collection "POPtastic." A lot of the colors are NEONS. Wonderful, poptastic neons. But you see, the neons don't love me back. Or rather, they don't love my freaking camera! Wail! I took loads of pictures of

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Suddenly, out of the blue....Blue! Literally! I love a wide variety of colors, and I never had had a favorite color except possibly purple. Too many gorgeous colors to choose from to have a favorite! If anything, I love color combinations, with my favorites being purple and green or purple and yellow. So, I guess maybe a month or two ago I started lemming for some serious gorgeous medium blue

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Continuing with Color Club's POPtastic Collection, I give you "Almost Famous," a bright, neon yellow creme. Now I began this series for the POPtastic collection with Wham! Pow!---a crossing guard vest orange....like, if you worked at an airport directing airplanes around and forgot your orange cone thingies, you could just use your hands as long as your nails were painted with this orange.

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I am loving pretty pale spring colors, but let's not forget the brights and neons!! Perfect for summer, intense brights and retina-scorching neons in all sorts of amazing colors, please!! Color Club's POPtastic, one of three collections they released for spring 2010, delivers these bright flourescent colors and then some. I LOVE this collection! The colors literally POP right off your

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Babbling Brook has her head in the clouds and to be quite honest, with all the sunshine around us right now I can't blame her.  Check out her cute mani using OPI's Suzi Feng Shui... I promise it'll bring a smile to your face. And after you too get your head out of the clouds... take a trip with Konadomania down by the sea! Tuli has been having fun finger painting thanks to Nicole... LITERALLY,

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I haven't posted in a few days...I must confess something, actually. I've been a bit distracted by trying to decide on a possible handbag order! Yep. You can turn the handbag addict into a nail polish addict, but you can't take the handbag addict out of the nail polish addict! Er, or something to that effect. It rained all weekend, but I still have much to post from my picture-taking last

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I've decided it is high time I continued my exploration of the BB Couture Hands of Hope Collection, which paid part of the proceeds for aid to Haiti. This is the polish that captures that pretty, cool spring day after a few dreary days of rain and clouds....the sun is out, and the fresh green buds and leaves are showing. Ah, spring! New growth!  I have been into the pale colors, recently. And

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I've written before about how I am not into pinks. Pinks and reds, both, I guess. They are the traditional colors for nail polish, and I guess I am much more interested in the less conventional, "fashion" nail colors. When I was playing with Color Club's "I Believe in Amour" I actually had to remind myself of this apathy toward pink! Yeah, I forgot for a moment that I am not supposed to like

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Hi, I've heard back from both winners of my very first giveaway so I think I can announce this now!! I did a random drawing, and here they are: 1st place: Skulda  yay! She will receive a China Glaze Kaleidoscope and a set of the Milani 3D Holos!! Congratulations!! 2st place: Rebecca yay!! She will receive some Milani 3D Holos as well!!! Congratulations! I am just overwhelmed at the response

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I was a bit puzzled how Orly "Bloom" could be a spring collection, although I ended up really liking it a lot. Orly "Sweet" is, on the other hand, the quintessential spring collection with six pretty pastel colors. I purchased the set and played with four of the colors---I wasn't feeling the pinks, which are never my favorite, I'll get to those later. First of all, above left to right: Pixie

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  This post continues my swatches and review of the Color Club Pardon My French collection, which is one of three 2010 spring collections from Color Club. "Oh Naturale" is an interesting milky orangey-peach. It's hard for me to put my finger on what exactly the color is. It's definitely peachy. But it has a bit of orange to it. It's not nude. I thought perhaps it was cantaloupe sherbet, a very

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Okay, so much polish, so little time!! I have the following collections: OPI Hong Kong. China Glaze Up and Away, and Color Club Rebel Debutante, but also Barielle's 6 spring colors, BB Couture Hands for Haiti, and Orly Sweet. Because I've seen a lot of posts on the Hong Kong, Up and Away, and Rebel Debutante, I've been working on posts on Color Club Pardon My French and Color Club POPtastic,

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  On the same visit to the CVS drugstore that I scored my Milani holo haul, I also picked up a few of the Milani neons. I believe that Milani has 8 of these neons, while the CVS seemed to have 6, and I selected 4: left to right, "Fresh Teal," "Rad Purple," "Dude Blue," and "Techno Red."    The teal seemed to be a real teal (it seems so many things labeled teal aren't really my expectation of teal

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Tuli's Nails shares her festivities during Purim with us and creates a colorful manicure that's perfect for the celebration. Chromatic Misadventures brings us a host of Models Own swatches this week in an array of colors Phresh Mentality found a little inspiration in Rihanna's Rude Boy video for the  phresh design she's brought us this week. Have nail issues or questions you'd like to discuss

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  Wow, the response to my very first giveaway has been just tremendous!! And continuing with the Follow for Holos, aka Holla for Holos, theme, I present here a comparison between the Milani holos (which are part of the giveaway) and the Kaleidoscopes that I have (8 out of 12 in the collection). The purple Milani "Hi-Res" is rather a grape purple (like grape juice, not the wine-colored grape), and

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     Now that I've finished my series on my 8 China Glaze Kaleidoscopes, I'm compiling pictures of all of them in one post for handy-dandy reference! Yay. And, of course, some works of art (bottle shots) to kick things off right. Links are given to each of the posts for more information about the individual polishes.  I am missing 4 of these polishes. If you know where I can get them, please let

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  I have so many different things to post, aaagh! I need to continue with my Color Club Pardon My French review series, but I also have to keep the holo giddiness going in honor of my first giveaway, Holla For Holos!!  When I was putting together different bottles of polish to try to describe the color of China Glaze He's Going in Circles" I came up with a pairing with China Glaze Refresh Mint

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  "Take Me To Your Chateau" is a lovely pale blue, perfect this for spring's palettes. The packaging on the Color Club Pardon My French collection set proclaimed that these colors were "sheerly chic," but I reached for this pale blue first, and it has to be one of the most opaque polishes I've ever seen!     The formula is good, but I had just been messing around with some polishes that have a

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I have to apologize here. My internet is down at home so I thought rather than get behind in my blogging I'd stop by a Fedex Office and do a couple of posts. Argh! This connection is the slowest ever, a complete rip-off to charge people for internet access and give them this. Fedex Office, if you are reading this, you suck!! So, instead of doing a lot of work and scheduling several posts for

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  Okay, here are the other swatches I did very quickly last weekend. I also purchased about 3 additional Essence polishes, including a gold and a black, but did not try them on yet.  Index finger to pinky: lavender ("No More Drama" 27), a shimmery medium purple ("Break Through" 26), a darker purple ("Plum Perfect" 28), and a dark pink red ("So Glamourous" 11).                                So,

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   Y"all, I am so SORRY! I did not mean to take this long to post the rest of my quick Essence swatches. Gee, if I am going to take THIS long I might as well start over and do actual GOOD ones, lol!  So, index to pinky, I have the yellow ("Sundancer" 23), green ("Check Me Out" 18), sparkly turquoise ("Pool Party" 17), and dark blue ("Underwater" 24). It's time for Sundancer's close-up:   Check

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Phresh Mentality paints a few PHRESH mani's in an effort to raise funds to help Haiti Helen's Nice Things has swatched a Ciate Paint Pot color, but you have to click the link to see which one. :) Naive Nails has a little Lilly on her tips brought to you from Zoya, of course! Konadomania is felling a little lot spring like and she is showing it off... on her nails! The Swatchaholic brings out

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I very recently got yet another VNS haul which included the three spring 2010 Color Club collections. I had just gotten two earlier CC collections that I’ve yet to delve into, but I’ve gotten very interested in this brand, and, well, it’s time for spring collections!! I don’t know the stories behind the collections and can only base comments on the products in front of me. I’ve seen quite a few

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ETA: Hi! Thanks to everyone for the wonderful response to my very first giveaway!! Entries are now closed. Thanks, and good luck!! Well, it's my giveaway so I can name it whatever I want, lol! No matter how corny. I accidentally ordered an extra bottle of Spin Me Round from Victoria Nail Supply. Thus, my loss (buying the extra I don't need) is going to be someone else's gain!! If you are a

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  Open up your lovin' arms and watch out here I come! Okay, I've got song lyrics in my head as I put together this blog post. And the energetic song is quite fitting for this awesome polish, the last in my 8 part series on the China Glaze Kaleidoscopes. "Spin Me Round" is a light, milky brown holo. On one hand, it's perhaps the most neutral of the Kaleidoscopes that I own, but on the other hand

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  This past weekend I decided to try to find the elusive Milani holographic polishes that I had been hearing so much about. I decided to try a 24 hour CVS branch that sometimes seemed to have the special polish collections, and voila!! There was a nice, pristine, full display of the Milani holos. Yay! I immediately snatched them up.  These polishes are quite similar to the China Glaze

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   I tried on most of the Essence mini polishes that I got from ULTA, and I've divided it up into color families. Today I have the oranges and pinks that I got. (Oops, I will have to update this post later with the specific names of the polishes!) The oranges:      The pink-toned:       On my thumb, kind of a peachy orange:    Altogether now!                Two closeups, below, the oranges on

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  It's My Turn is the blingiest of the China Glaze Kaleidoscope polishes that I have! I wasn't sure at first how to describe the color...kind of a brownish yellow mustard color? Perhaps it's best described as a mustard-gold. Regardless of the base color, the kaleidoscopic crystals really GLOW in multiple colors as soon as they are exposed to the light.  Starting indoors, bottle and nails:     

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  I was excited that German cosmetics company Essence was coming to ULTA in April, according to something I had read.  Well, I was pleased as punch to get the tweet that Essence was in ULTA stores NOW! It was at the end of a long day Friday, and I immediately shut down my laptop and ran quickly to ULTA to check it out. Well, I called first, one must be prudent even when one is being rash. Essence

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  He's Going in Circles is a fresh spring color with plenty of holographic pow! Another beauty from China Glazes's Kaleidoscope collection, this polish is a light green, perhaps somewhat of a seafoam green but with a good amount of blue. However, but I would not call it an aqua. Looking at it next to its very blue sister polish below, one can see the greenness.     Holding it next to the mint

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    Rated Holographic is a dusty pink holographic polish from the China Glaze Kaleidoscope collection, and it's the current entry in my series on the Kaleidoscopes. It is lighter and has a good amount of brown in it when compared to Don't Be A Square, which is more of a strawberry pink. Rated Holographic is in the bottle on the right, below:    In my pictures, I have two coats with China Glaze

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Time to continue my series on the Kaleidoscopes from China Glaze! I had some time this past weekend to try on the rest of the ones I got recently from Victoria Nail Supply. So, here we have "Kaleidoscope Him Out." This polish is a lovely light blue, perhaps something like a robin's egg blue. First I'll show it indoors where you can see the cyrstals in it without the bling, then moving on toward

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   All right! I am picking up steam here with with the China Glaze Kaleidoscope selections. I think this one might just be the prettiest!! It's "How About A Tumble," lovely lilac with glittery holo goodness just dying to bling out from beneath its smooth surface. First we have the bottle love, in the sun, above, and perched nicely in the snow of Snowpocalypse the First, below, for a shade shot.

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        China Glaze "Don't Be A Square" was one of my priority polishes, but when I went to order it I ended up getting all the other polishes from the same collection: "Kaleidoscope." I just couldn't help it. These glittery yet smooth holos are awesome, and I knew they would be! But back to "Don't Be A Square," which is a pretty strawberries and cream pink out of the light but takes on a very

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  I had mentioned that at first I wasn't sure what the point of Wandering Vine was since it seemed similar, if probably not quite as dark as, Orly Enchanted Forest from the fall 2009 Once Upon A Time collection.Well, I must be scientifically thorough in my reporting---here's the comparison! Hey, which one is which? This picture is indoors with overhead light, and so you can't see the subtle

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I tried out the China Glaze OMG series after a recommendation from a commenter last fall. OMG! They have a slick metallic surface with a blaze of holographic goodness. Kind of like a psychedelic oil slick effect! These holo polishes are super cool.Well, turns out I needed to learn about yet another China Glaze collection of holos: Kaleidoscope! Like the OMGs, the Kaleidoscopes are super smooth

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Polish Pixel Pig has found her perfect shade of gray and now she wants to share it with the world. Thanks Zoya!The Dutch Nail Blog showcases the cutest V-Day mani and traditional colors weren't invited to this nail session.The Swatchaholic has a wonderful comparison of Chanel Particuliere along with some other gorgeous taupes. A few may be on your lemming list.Bright Lights Big Color decided to

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  Here is the fourth and final polish I purchased from the Orly Bloom collection: Wandering Vine. I wasn't sure what the point of this green was...it just seemed kinda like "Enchanted Forest" from the wonderful Orly "Once Upon a time" collection of fall 2009. It was getting a lot of buzz, though---and I guess "Wandering Vine" is not as dark as Enchanted Forest. So...I went for it! Wandering Vine

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Pure Petunia is a deep pink-purple....or...purple-pink? Mauve-y pink? What is this color? It's neither a pure pink nor a pure purple, regardless of being "Pure Petunia."It's a lovely, rich, dark, yet not too dark, pinkish-mauvish purple (or however it should be described). This polish is a creme that goes on with a very nice application, the same as the others in the Bloom Collection from Orly.

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I thought this color was a nice purple when I saw it in ULTA, but when I took it out of the bag at home, my first reaction was: hey, what's this black Orly in my bag?" Lol!Wisteria is a dark grape purple creme, or maybe even a dark blurple creme. A blueberry-purple grape mix, if you will! I am wearing a couple of coats topped with Orly In a Snap quick drying top coat for a nice glossy surface.In

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Ooh, I love this hot yellow and hot pink color conbo!No, this isn't an advertisement. I'm not getting anything from Barielle. I just wanted to post a reminder that if you spend $60 at Barielle.com, you get 15% off and free shipping. Not bad!Also, the six new shades for spring are posted on the site. I went to take advantange of the sale last week because I desperately need more polish remover (I

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Okay, time to start the reveal of the Orly Bloom collection. I've warmed up to this selection of colors quite a lot from my original ambivalence. I bought four out of six colors, and Ginger Lily is the only shimmery one. Ginger Lily is a darker reddish-orange. A burnt reddish orange?Below, again, we have Ginger Lily on my ring fingernail, with China Glaze Free Love on the middle and Cruising on

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I couldn't find the OPI "Alice in Wonderland" glitters at my local ULTA, so I had to take matters into my own hands and order them from Victoria Nail Supply as part of my recent VNL binge.Boy, am I glad I did! These two glitters---Mad as a Hatter and Absolutely Alice---are phenomenal. Glitter can be incorporated into a nail polish in all kinds of different ways. My favorite is a nail polish that

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My relationship with Orly's "Bloom" collection got off to an iffy start. I wasn't sure if I really wanted any of these polishes. They looked pretty in the pictures, but not really compelling. I don't know, maybe they were too...dark?? Or they didn't look pretty together?Well, fastforward a bit. I chose a few of them in ULTA. Wandering Vine, the green, was getting good buzz. There was a purple

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I had a great time swatching today in the sun and 25 degrees F!! Ha ha. It was fun wading in the snow just far enough outside my backdoor to get some sunlight on my hands to take pictures of the nail polish swatches.What a birthday! Gee, how generous to give me enough snow to call it the "Snowpocalypse!" Gee, you shouldn't have!! Well, I don't mind all the snow, and the storm was kind of exciting

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I downloaded a free new background. I like having a dark background to pop out the pictures. I like the basic Blogger layout pretty well, actually, but what I really want is three columns!UPDATE: Followed HTML editing instructions posted by the lovely Cucumpear in the comments, and I now have three columns! yay! I downloaded the background for 3 columns, and I'm good to go!I've chosen some link

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My lilac standbys from last summer were Essie St. Lucia Lilac, for a milky pale lavender, and OPI Do You Lilac It? When playing with the new Essie Lilacism from the spring 2010 Art in Bloom collection, I wondered how close Lilacism would be with St. Lucia Lilac. Well, turns out they are pretty close! Above is an outdoor sunlight picture, and below is an indoor picture in filtered sunlight. The

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It's high time that I continued my reveal of the Essie Art of Spring collection. I've tried out New Whimsical, a milky lavender-pink, and Van d'Go, a milky salmon-y peach. Now for the minis in the cute four-pack. I've already bemoaned that they didn't just give you a six pack of Essie minis, since it seems the packaging was the right size and could have accommodated it.So, first let's take a look

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Polishing the Nails showcases 3 new nail polishes in the cutest little bottles, in shades that are perfect for Spring. Naive Nails shows off her Mannequin Hands using OPI's gorgeous shade Dulce de Leche. Trust me, these are not your typical mannequin hands! Check out swatches of OPI Hong Kong's Meet Me On A Star Ferry from polishSWATCHES and dare to fall in love with this shade. Is Taupe

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I am enchanted with my new purple beauty from BB Couture, Cap Haïtien. I naturally have to wonder if it duplicates anything in my fledgling collection. Last summer I wore Essie St. Lucia Lilac for a super pale lavender and OPI Do You Lilac It? for a brighter lilac.Did I inadvertently duplicate Do You Lilac It? I pulled my bottle and went to work!First, the bottle comparo. They are kind of close

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Gee, what to post, what to post....continue with the Essie Art of Spring collection that I had started? Or continue with my BB Couture Hands of Hope that I had sort of started. That's a toughie!Okay, I can't resist, I'm continuing with the Hands of Hope Cap-Haïtien....it's PURPLE!! Not a pastel but a lovely light to medium purple. I heart this pretty polish!Here are some pics of Cap-Haïtien on

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So, last Friday I went to ULTA and did not find the OPI Alice In Wonderland collection there. I did find the Orly Bloom collection and made a few selections, as well as the Essie Art of Spring (see my Neo Whimsical and Van d'Go posts). When browsing the regular shelves, I caught a glimpse of the most beautiful, metallic, dark cobalt blue: Essie Aruba Blue.Wow!! It is kind of similar to Mesmerize

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Ha, ha, I don't have an Oscar but rather the "Best Blog Award." I've been tagged by the wonderful blogger RijaH of Polishing the Nails, an awesome nail blog. Thank you so much!!!Let's see, there are certain rules I must follow in order to fully claim my award."The rules of this award are as follows: 1. To accept the award, you must post it on your blog with the name of the person who has granted

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Well, I reported that I got my Hands of Hope BB Couture collection from Overall Beauty.So, today was beautifully sunny if still a bit below freezing. Yay, swatching time! I put BB Couture Bassins Bleu on first and began snapping some pics. My camera battery died, as expected, so I reached for the additional battery. Um, it wasn't there. Oh. Uh. So, I went around searching for my battery

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Yay! My Hands of Hope special collection BB Couture polishes came this Friday! These are my first BB Couture, and I was convinced to get this set when I saw them on Body and Soul. The colors are fresh and spring-like, great for spring and summer! The colors include a light turquoise blue that leans green (Bassins Bleu), a pale baby blue (Kyona Beach), a light purple (Cap Haitien), a milky pale

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A few fellow bloggers help Babbling Brooke come up with a Konad of the Day that's a dazzler. Lavender lady bugs in silver spacesuits, Naive Nails shares her very cute, but accidental mani. Bright Lights Big Color brings out the Vampy Varnish as she shows off the stunning OPI Blackberry Chutney Blogger Euridice (that's me!) continues with her Rescue Beauty Lounge binge posts and shares a limited

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Alternate title: China Glaze Good Witch? meets Chanel MingLast weekend I was working in Boston at a conference. I wasn't feeling so hot the Thursday night before I left. Friday I felt much better but knew that when I got to my hotel in Cambridge that I would need a) a nap, and b) a shower. Yikes! I ran out of time and it looked like I was going to have to go out with naked nails!! Ugly naked

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I love color. I love pretty much every color. Most of all, I love combinations of colors, which is why I have never had a favorite color. (If I had to choose, I would go with purple, but that's another story for another day).One color I really don't like? Peach!Gasp! I know, it's the color for spring, or at least one of them. I did manage to embrace coral last spring and summer, though, so I

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ha ha, the obligatory astro turf shot...don't all nail blogs have those??I really want to enjoy the moment and not spend the rest of winter obsessing over spring clothes or colors. It's time for the winter darks and the bright winter sparkles. With all the new pale spring polish colors coming out, however, I am finding that a little spring preview in my life is not such a bad thing. Yep, I gave

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It's been a few months since I posted pictures of my kittehs. They are such fun and are also a major comfort to me at times when I need that. Last June I went up to Boston to go to the Boston Early Music Festival and brought my cats with me. Here are some fun pictures I took of them hanging out and enjoying luxury hotel life!Teddy hanging out on top of my turquoise half-trench (so fashionable!)

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I need to keep my Rescue Beauty Lounge Binge posts going, and the fourth binge post features Blogger polish "Scrangie." This polish is simply awesome. When I first put it on, I was mesmerized by the light green sparkles emerging from within the purple surface. I had to turn my hands to find the right lighting in order to see the exact shade of the purple base, in fact, and the purple is of a

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I am so proud of my invention: Glitter Fridays! See, if your workplace is already somewhat casual, then casual Fridays are not as fun, not nearly as liberating. So, what does one do? Something fun with the nails!! Maybe the environment is casual enough but a little conservative, in which case one of the China Glaze OMG holo polishes will introduce some color craziness. If you can, however, go for

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Just got back EARLY this morning from being in Boston on business. I had a nice weekend, saw some old friends, and felt good about what was accomplished. I wore some nail polish to report back on, stayed in a cute hotel that I will review, and also ate at a few cute places to mention. So, more on that coming soon!I joined the Polish Bloggers Network, which is allowing me to learn about a lot of

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ChromaticMisadventures brings you Victoria's Secret Rush Beauty with a Cherry on Top... while CucumPear swirls up some Green Agate on her beautifully water marbled tips. NaildPolishd brings to you the highly coveted American Apparel polishes in Mousse and Hassid and Body Soul Beauty has managed to get her hands on some new Milani Holographic nail color.You've Got Nail trials a Racing Green that

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After seeing some posts from Magic Maid on the Nina Ultra Pro "Velvet" polishes, I decided to grab one from Sally's and give it a try. I decided to take "the blue one" since that might be a color I don't have as much of."Velvet Seas" is a very pretty metallic silver blue...the kind of blue that shows greenish-blue in some lights. The "velvet"" aspect would probably refer to the effect of the

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Well, I'm still remembering the nails of November. This post should be about Ginger Bells from OPI, actually. I was determined to wear Ginger Bells on Thanksgiving because it was the perfect gingery, pumpkin-y color. Then, perhaps on that Friday, I would slip into some China Glaze Ginger, with its super sparkliness.But. I couldn't wait. I went for the China Glaze Ginger the day BEFORE

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I was saddened to hear last fall that Chanel Jade nail polish would not be available in Europe. Poor European nail polish/Chanel fans! Sure enough, when browsing the Chanel selections at Sephora in Barcelona in October (2009), Jade and Jade Rose were not there.A few days later I was walking through Geneva after an overnight train and prior to my evening train to Zermatt. Very nice city!I was

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After getting a comment on this blog recommending the China Glaze OMG collection of holographic polishes, I ordered six of them to try out. I wore the dark turquoise "DV8" around Thanksgiving, and was excited to try on the other five one evening in December. A bit later that evening, I was about to remove everything and select a nail color for the following day, but...wow! Those five soft and

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When I first saw the announcement of the Rescue Beauty blogger colors, I was really impressed. How cool is that, to accomplish so much with your blog that a top company lets you create your own polish?!?One of the colors I purchased during the recent 50% off RBL sale was "Orbis Non Sufficit," created by the blogger behind "The Polish Addict." I am not sure what the name means...er, the "world

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Oops, I need to keep up the momentum on my Rescue Beauty Binge! I've shown No More War, which was my number one lemming from RBL. Now it's time for "Recycle," the first polish that I tried when my haul arrived.Recycle is gorgeous. A major thing I noticed among many of the top nail polish bloggers is a major obsession with the color green. "Recycle" is often cited as the polish which sets the bar

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I FINALLY switched handbags. I'd been carrying my Rebecca Minkoff Nikki in dark crinkled patent since early October, with the exception of maybe one day. Whenever it occurred to me to use one of the other myriad purses on hand, I realized it was going to rain and better to just stick with the patent leather.Much as the Nikki is working great for me---it's my favorite hobo and now I'm thinking it

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Then follow! Follow! Er, that song was in my head as I started thinking about the NOTDs of November I haven't posted yet. "Try to remember the kind of September..." My nails of November include a couple of very lovely OPI Designers Series polishes. In this post I remember the first OPI DS I have worn: OPI DS "Illuminate," or as I call it "Caramel" since I can't keep the OPI DS names straight.I

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Popping up recently in the special displays at the drugstores are new HIP (High Intensity Pigments) Eyeshadow Duos from L'Oreal in a "Crystal" finish. Today I have swatches from three of the five new duos.I haven't had a chance to try the shadows, but they struck me as subtle, shimmery, and metallic, with the potential for a bright, glimmer effect perfect for a winter evening...perhaps New

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"Peace on the earth, good will to men." Carrying over this holiday sentiment would be a great goal for the new year. Here's wishing everyone a very happy 2010! I am personally happy to leave 2009 behind. I did not care for the past year too much.What better Rescue Beauty Lounge beauty with which to start off my RBL binge reveal than "No More War?" A great sentiment, and a great polish! I had

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Yay, there is a Santy Claus! My Rescue Beauty Lounge order arrived Christmas Eve morning. Yay!Two items were on back order: "Teal" and "Dead Calm." Ironically, Teal is the color about which I was the most excited. "No More War" was the main color I wanted, but I fell hard for Teal when looking through the colors on the RBL site. I mean, a REAL teal!! So stoked for that one.Arrived and in my

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I had noticed there were other nail polish brands besides China Glaze and Orly's at Sally's but had just ignored them since I didn't know anything about them. I read about the Fingerpaints winter 2009 collection, available at Sally's, on Scrangie's blog, and decided that I needed to check out this collection for myself! It's pretty awesome. The collection contains six colors, two of which are red

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One of the more clever promotions around Thanksgiving was the Zoya Nail Polish "Green Friday." On the day after the American Thanksgiving, instead of the usual "Black Friday" sale, Zoya had a special where if you bought $20 worth of product, you would receive SIX FREE bottles of GREEN nail polish! The green polishes were: Veruschka (the wondrous velvet-like matte forest green), Midori (bright

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I can't remember the last time I used a whole eye pencil. Enter the 24/7 "Super Stash" from Urban Decay!The creamy smooth 24/7 pencils seem to be very popular, so I was psyched to get this little kit of mini pencils a few weeks ago as part of a little Urban Decay haul from ULTA (I've already reported on the outstanding Urban Decay Show Pony Shadow box). How cool to be able to try a variety of

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So, last Tuesday I took part in a super exciting shopping event: a 50% off sale at Rescue Beauty Lounge!! I have a moratorium on new polish purchases right now because a) I have no cash, b) I have too much polish and need to use it before buying yet more, and c) I wanted to blow it out on the RBL sale! And I did, ordering 11 bottles of polish!I haven't heard anything since ordering until this

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So much exciting polish has been released this fall that it is hard to keep track of it all. Add my discovery of wonderful past masterpieces, such as the China Glaze OMG series (omg! holo!), and even the most amazing polish can fall through the cracks.Which takes me back to the really cool little collection of chromes China Glaze released earlier in the fall: the "Khromes." A couple of these

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OPI really delivered on reds for the holidays this year! After I selected "Smitten With Mittens" I decided to add a couple of other glittery reds from this collection to see how they compared. (I can do such experiments when I have coupons and discounts!!)The two reds I purchased were "Dear Santa" and "Crimson Carol." They are both bright glittery red polishes that are very, very similar. The "

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Cute name! "Smitten with Mittens" is a glittery red polish that is a darker red than China Glaze Ruby Pumps---and therefore fills a need in the holiday subset of my burgeoning polish wardrobe. Smitten with Mittens is a very pretty red, indeed. The bottle shows a lovely vein of gorgeous gold glitter....oooh, red and gold, the best combination!!The interesting thing I noticed when putting on the

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Here are the polishes I would like to wear over the next several weeks.I'm thinking holiday glitz over the next few weeks, followed by some dark, gorgeous polishes, then more glitz for new years.January should be lots of sparkliness to light things up, along with the clear winter lights you see on a lot of trees in the cities, but also the dark, vampy polishes.February: I don't know yet. More fun

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Well, all I ever seem to do is publish posts on nail polish. So be it!Today I am dreaming of my wish list.Rescue Beauty Lounge - No More WarChina Glaze - Up and Away - upcoming collection, I want the whole thing!China Glaze - I have 6 of the OMG collection at the advice of a commenter on my blog. I want the rest now!China Glaze - Kaleidoscope - like OMG only glittery-er and more texture. I would

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When I was at my ULTA store a few weeks ago on the usual nail polish run, I found myself browsing the makeup. I already own an Urban Decay matte eyeshadow as well as the Urban Decay Primer Potion (UDPP), and all the little kits and sets were looking really tempting!! I helped myself to a couple of smaller eyeshadow kits in order to give other shadows a try. The Volume 2 of Urban Decay's "Book of

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Holiday Glow is pretty if not necessarily the stand-out of the OPI Holiday 2009 collection. It appears to me to be a chocolate brown containing tons of tiny silvery glitter. You won't get the bling of bright colors and large flashy glitter, but instead a sophisticated dark polish that has a ton of sparkle. Perfect for winter!Outdoors:Indoors:The first coat goes on really sheer, and you can see

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....Ginger all the way! This entry in the OPI holiday 2009 collection seems more in line with Thanksgiving? It does answer my need for a gingery, pumpkin-y color in my fall color stash. I was determined to wear this polish for Thanksgiving Day. Unfortunately, I gave into my glitter ("ooh shiny!") weakness and put China Glaze "Ginger" on instead. At least, I applied it on Wednesday thinking I

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I know, I know, it's "Blueberries in the Snow," one of the polishes from the OPI Holiday 2009 collection, not GRAPES in the snow. Well, I'll have you know that I have snow in the yard, and when photographing OPI "Glove You So Much" I literally had grapes in the snow in the above shot. This polish, from the same 2009 holiday offering, is a gorgeous, glossy grape-burgundy. I cannot WAIT to do a

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This time of year offers all kinds of great kits and gift sets in the stores. What better way to sample a new polish brand than to get a cute little gift set to experiment with? I could not resist the "Apocalyptic Nail Kit" from Urban Decay, found at my local ULTA store and online from Urban Decay for $26.00The set consists of seven tiny bottles with polish names clearly labeled on the back, in a

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When I was in elementary school, I thought I wanted to be a mystery writer so my title today is a nod to that long-ago ambition. The mystery of the broken eggcup was a bit strange, but I was able to figure it out quickly enough.I haven't been in my dining room a whole lot lately, except to run through chasing a cat or two. So when I flipped on the light and started unpacking some dishes I brought

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This weekend I am wearing "Dance All Night" from MAC's Fall 2009 Nail Trend. I've been meaning to wear this, and I am loving it! It's a wonderful dark red creme. Oh, and the cuticle on the pinky = a small cut, not a polish boo boo! :-PFriday was OPI "Merry Midnight" from the winter 2009 collection. Its dark purple glossiness fit my need for dark nails perfectly, while the orange flakies and fine

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I discovered Obsessive Compulsive Cosmetics Lip Tars back in August when I was watching a lot of YouTube beauty tutorials, and I've been hoping to get some ever since. Sold in small, clear tubes, lip tars are highly pigmented lip colors designed to be mixed into custom colors. A tiny amount of the product goes on the lips with amazing coverage, so a tube will last a long, long time.I got the red,

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(Wednesday, November 25, 2009) I have a bit of a conundrum. I love the rich creme polishes that would be great for fall. When will I be able to wear them all, especially since I keep obsessing over glitters?! Fall is waning, and then it will be the holidays---time for glitters!! And then winter: time for dark colors rotated with more glitters to brighten things up. That's my plan.I don't have

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Wow! Look at how much of my new Chanel Chance Eau Fraiche I have used since buying it in October!I usually choose from my collection of Guerlain Aqua Allegoria, focusing on a current favorite. When I received my Chanel Jade polishes, I started using the enclosed Chanel Chance sample and decided I love it. When in Barcelona in October, I tried on the Eau Fraiche version and was equally smitten!

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These nails were from a day last week, to be exact. I thought I would try to make a small dent in my stash from the China Glaze specialty collections of glitters and chromes. I pulled out Latte, a beige "shimmer" that has really more of a pearlized finish. Looking at it through the day, the word that kept popping into my head was "nacre." Yup, it was really pearly.I had a few issues applying this

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If you haven't gotten China Glaze's holiday collection yet, then what are you waiting for?? Well, maybe you've already exhausted your nail polish allowance on all the fabulous glitters China Glaze has released this fall!China Glaze "Loves You Snow Much" collection features the famous "Ruby Pumps," a red glitter; a re-release of the popular "Emerald Sparkle," a gorgeous dark green glitter; "Tinsel

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Essie's holiday 2009 collection contains three colors based on candy. Yum!"Rock Candy" is a sheer pale pink; "Lollipop" is a plain red; and "Mint Candy Apple" is pale mint green. Mmm, candy! Cue up the Homer Simpson drool.To be honest, I like my candy with chocolate (caramel and toffee accepted, too). Hard candies such as peppermints aren't my thing, and in terms of the colors offered here, they

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