NOTD: nails inc. "Pinkie Pink"

I loved China Glaze Draped in Velvet so much that when I received the new nails inc. pinkie pink yeseterday I thought they would pair so well together!

China Glaze Draped in Velvet (2 coats) accented with nails inc. pinkie pink (1 coat) on my pinkie finger

I got great coverage of the pink glitter with just one coat! It's a bit of a topcoat eater, so I used a coat of Gelous before I did my fast-dry top coat. With the "accent nail" still be quite on-trend right now, I think it's neat that nails inc. used that trend to create a BCA shade and named it to match the trend. Of course, I usually see the accent nail done on the ring finger, but *love* the phrase "pinkie pink".

Nails Inc “Paint Your Pinkie Pink”

The Paint your Pinkie Pink campaign is designed to raise awareness of Breast Cancer Campaign and to encourage sales of the Pinkie Pink nail polish to raise money for Breast Cancer Campaign. Nails Inc has created a limited edition bespoke pink glitter nail polish which will retail at $10. $1 (10%) from every nail polish sale will be donated to Breast Cancer Campaign. Breast Cancer Campaign was established in 1988 with the aim of researching the cure for breast cancer.

Price: $10, Available exclusively at Sephora.com
(note that it doesn't appear to be available yet)

Disclosure: Both polishes swatched in this post were provided to me for review purposes.

Giveaway- Three China Glaze Purples!

When Beauty Stop Online sent me some China Glaze purples to review, they offered to send me 3 bottles to giveaway as well!

Left to Right:

Royal Tease

Draped in Velvet

Let's Groove

The winner of this giveaway will win a brand new bottle of each of the shades pictured above. I'll use Rafflecopter to manage the giveaway and choose the winner. Good luck! a Rafflecopter giveaway Disclosure: Polish for giveaway was provided by Beauty Stop Online (thanks guys!)

NOTD: China Glaze Stella

China Glaze Stella

Today I'm wearing another gorgeous purple shade from China Glaze that Beauty Stop Online sent me to review. Beauty Stop Online offers China Glaze for just $2.99.

This is a red-based purple with red and violet microglitter and may just be my favorite of the four purples they sent me.

Details

Brand/Name: China Glaze Stella

Number of coats in pic/topcoat?: 2 coats topped with NYC Grand Central Station

Retail price: $2.99 from Beauty Stop Online

More info: Stella is part of the Retro Diva collection that was released in 2009.

Wow- WSJ article has such incorrect info about a nail polish pic!

photo source: taken by Sasha with my smart phone

page D4 of the 09-27-12 Wall Street Journal

Today the WSJ is all kinds of wrong with a nail polish pic they posted. They posted a pic that nail blogger Steffels took of a Lynderella polish called The Glittering Crowd, but in the article they said it was a polish by Deborah Lippmann and that the photo was taken by an Alice + Olive employee on their iPhone.

Text from the article:

"Barneys New York posted a traditional product shot of an $18 "mirrored chrome" nail lacquer from the Deborah Lippmann Collection to its BarneysNY account on the Fancy, which has almost 30,000 followers on the site.

A confetti nail lacquer from the same brand was offered for sale from the clothing brand Alice + Olive. Stacey Bendet, designer and founder of the line, posted onto her Fancy page a close-up photo of a woman's fingernails wearing the shade, which an employee snapped using an iPhone.

The nail-polish photograph on BarneysNY was "fancied" about 1,400 times. Ms. Bendet's polish photo was fancied nearly 9,000 times -- even though she has about 9,000 fewer Fancy followers than Barneys."

Photo caption:

"This nail lacquer was fancied nearly 9,000 times on thefancy.com."

So basically, either the wrong pic was pulled for the article, or Ms. Bendet is wrong about where she got her photo she "fancied"- it's certainly not an iPhone photo snapped by an employee since you can find the original photo posted by the nail blogger Steffels here.

NOTD: nails inc. Special Effects Sprinkles Nail Polish in Sugar House Lane

nails inc. Special Effects Sprinkles Nail Polish in Sugar House Lane

pastel grey with monochrome sprinkles

How fun is this polish? After I purchased Topping Lane and loved it, I had to go back and pick up the other three shades in this collection. The pic above is actually taken on Day 3- I painted Sunday night and took the pictures at noon on Tuesday. Not a chip in sight.

Note that these Sprinkles polishes do need a coat of Gelous to help smooth out the glitter.

Details

Brand/Name:  nails inc. Special Effects Sprinkles Nail Polish in Sugar House Lane

Number of coats in pic/topcoat?: 2 coats color topped with 1 coat of Gelous and 1 coat of NYC Grand Central Station

Price: $9.50

Purchased from:  www.sephora.com

Collection: The Special Effects Sprinkles Nail Polish collection was released in Summer 2012 and includes:

• Sugar House Lane (pastel grey with monocrome sprinkles)
• Sweets Way (listed as Sweets "Away" on Sephora's site - white with pastel blue, pink, and silver sprinkles)
• Puddling Lane (teal with navy and gold sprinkles)
• Topping Lane (pink with cerise, silver and purple sprinkles)

Ready for Fall: China Glaze Purples

I am SO ready for fall! We've had a few cooler days, but it got up in the nineties this weekend and it was HOT! Bring on the falling leaves.....

One of my very favorite nail polish colors to wear is purple, and I think purple is a perfect fall color. Beauty Stop Online offered to send me a few shades to review, so of course I picked some purples from China Glaze. Beauty Stop Online offers these shades for just $2.99.

Left to Right:

Royal Tease

Draped in Velvet

Let's Groove

Each swatch is two coats, and I cannot get over how much I love all three- even though they are pretty different!

Royal Treasure - A light purple frost. I got good application with two thinner coats.
Draped in Velvet - Magenta with small blue and pink shimmers. Fabulous application.
Let's Groove - Deep purple with violet and red shimmer. Easy application.

I'm planning a giveaway to post later this week, so I hope you can stop by and enter!

NOTD: Deborah Lippmann Ray of Light

Deborah Lippmann Ray of Light

Look at that flakie goodness!

I'm over the moon for this one. I saw another blogger say their bottle was thick and hard to work with, but mine applied wonderfully in two coats. I went ahead and did a third coat on the pinkie to see if there was that much difference, and I decided I like 2 coats best so I stopped.

In some lights, the flakes are green, and in others, red/orange.

Details

Brand/Name: Deborah Lippmann Ray of Light

Number of coats in pic/topcoat?: 2 coats topped with NYC Grand Central Station (pinkie has three coats of color)

Retail price: I can't recall where I purchased this, but it retails for $18

More info: Ray of Light was released in Spring 2012 and billed as "3-D Holographic Nail Lacquer"