Share - More swatches on OPI Euro Centrale collection

I thought I would share these swatches of the blues from the OPI Euro Centrale collection. I'm not sure about you guys, but I'm the type of person who just constantly look for swatches of upcoming unreleased collections. So when I do find swatches I get super excited and just have to share it!

The swatches are done by the Manicurator and here is the link to her blog. Hope you guys enjoy her post as much as I do!

Dec 17 addition:
See ENTIRE Euro Centrale collection swatch here!!

Haul - China Glaze from Transdesign

Hello everyone. I received my Transdesign purchase of China Glaze today! I was going downstairs to the mail room every hour to check if the parcel had arrived, and unpacked it immediately. Then I couldn't wait to share it with all of you, so I took pictures.

This was my first time ordering from Transdesign, and I have to say I am very pleased. They had great costumer service; I had emailed them about my purchase and they responded within 1-2 days. Everything I ordered was received, and the polishes were packaged extremely well to avoid breaking the bottles (this was very important I thought). It just took awhile to get to me (3 weeks!), since I paid with paypal and there were a couple of holidays (Veteran's day and Thanksgiving). Otherwise, I thought this was a great great experience and I would definitely be ordering from them again and recommend them to others. Now for the photos!

The polishes came in a box filled with little styrofoam S's, and as you can see each bottle was but into a China Glaze shipping box (with styrofoam in between bottles).

Here is the line-up of all the polishes I got. There are 10 since I thought I might as well get as many as I can for the same amount of shipping as I would pay if I got 6 or 7 bottles.

 Left to right: Lemon Fizz, Re-Fresh Mint, Peachy Keen

 Left to right: Snow Globe, Fairy Dust

Left to right: Deviantly Daring, Aquadelic, Wagon Trail

 

Left to right: Desert Sun, Jungle Queen

Hope you guys enjoyed the post! Now I gotta go and try to figure out how I can grow extra hands in order to have more finger nails to try all these beauties!

Bond Girl Manicure

So I did THE manicure of the month (as I like to call it since I am a James Bond fan) last week...the Bond Girl Manicure! I had been waiting for Skyfall the movie to come out since I saw the trailer for the movie at the beginning of the year. Then I was even more excited when I heard about the OPI Skyfall collection. So of course I had to do the Bond Girl Manicure when I went to see the movie. Man were the line-ups for the movie crazy, I still managed to get to the theatre early enough to get great seats. Oops, I'm starting to ramble...here are the pics!

 (With flash)

 (Without flash)

For the manicure I used OPI Goldeneye for the bottom side of the nails and OPI Skyfall on top. First I did the underside using 3 coats of the gold polish (letting each coat dry); in order to get opacity for the gold to really shine. This is important since when you put on a dark color like Skyfall on top the underside darkens quite a bit (so then you need the gold to compensate). I really wasn't thinking when I did the manicure, cause I started having pools of gold polish collecting under my nails. Then I saw another blog post a tutorial on the manicure and I face-palmed realising I should have used tape to avoid the mess. *sigh* you live and you learn right?

I love love looooved this manicure. It was my first time doing this type of manicure, I think the name is Louboutan manicure? (Named after the designer shoe brand that I wish I could afford!) So have you tried out this manicure yet? If you haven't watched the new James Bond movie...get your Bond Girl Manicure on and get to a movie theatre! I really enjoyed the movie as you could probably tell...^^

Swatch - OPI Chatters Me Up

Hello everyone, it's time for my first Nail of the Day post!
I picked up this polish at a Chatters salon at home after seeing it on a blog. It turns out this is apparently a HTF polish. Though I think it is quite common in a Chatters salon? Don't hold me to that! But I did see quite a few bottles at that particular Chatters, maybe that's because OPI made the polish especially for the salon chain. Anyway, without further chit-chat by me here are the swatches (somewhat pic heavy).

Natural light:

Warm artificial light:

Chatters Me Up is red/purple shimmer in a dark purple base. In the bottle you can also see some gold shimmer as well, though it is not noticeable on the nail. The polish also dried quite shiny and is extremely pigmented; I tried to show these in all the pictures:

Index finger - 2 coats without top coat

Middle finger - one coat without top coat

Ring finger - 1 coat with top coat

Removal of the polish was harder than creams but easier than glitters, typical for this type of polish. What would you call this kind of polish anyway? Foil? Glass fleck? Sparkle? Don't know, if you know the proper term for this type of polish please let me know!
Hope you enjoyed this posting and the swatch. This is now one of my favorite polishes, the colour is gorgeous! Love love looove!

Share - First Look at Mariah Carey by OPI Collection

Here is a preview of the upcoming Mariah Carey collection that OPI will debut in January 2013.

There will be 8 colours and they are divided into 2 categories: studio and stage shades. The stage shades feature the new Liquid Sand polishes which are textured with a matte finish and sparkle.

Studio Shades:
1)   A Butterfly Moment (This sophisticated and frosty tan nude has us all a-flutter)
2)   Sprung (Fall hopelessly in love with this shimmery copper)
3)   Pink Yet Lavender (This pink glitter with lavender shimmer has superstar shine!)
4)   Anti-bleak (This deep, creamy purple will lift your spirits)

Stage Shades:
1)   Stay the Night (Make it last in this matte black with red glints)
2)   Get Your Number (Wearing this matte blue with sparkles is a great call)
3)   Can’t Let Go (Hold onto this matte purple with dazzling sparkle)
4)   The Impossible (This matte fuchsia with star confetti will never give up)

Here's a more realistic view of the polishes:

 Left to right: Sprung, A Butterfly Moment, Pink Yet Lavender and Anti-Bleak

 Top left to right: Get Your Number, Can't Let Go, The Impossible and Stay the Night

Bottom left to right: A Butterfly Moment, Sprung, Anti-Bleak and Pink Yet Lavender

Below shows what the Liquid Sand polishes look like when on the nail.

Hope you all enjoyed this post! I am very excited for the two Mariah Carey collections, since I'm a huuuuge Mariah Carey fan!!! Which colours are you most excited about? And what are your thoughts about these new Liquid Sand polishes?

Share - OPI Euro Centrale Spring 2013 Collection promo shot!

I saw OPI posting a picture of their new and upcoming spring collection and just had to share it with you guys! So here are the colours for the upcoming OPI collection Euro Centrale

There are also websites here and here that have close-ups of the bottles individually.

I am so so so excited for this collection that is said to come out February 2013! Some I feel may be dupes for older OPI polishes, but we'll just have to find out. Which colours are you most excited about?

Haul - OPI Skyfall Collection!!

 So I went outlet shopping last week and came across a beauty supply store. I went in thinking I might try to find some OPI or China Glaze polishes that I have been searching for but to my delight I found the new OPI Skyfall collection!!! I was so excited I swear I stood in front of the display for a full 2 minutes not moving just trying to decide which ones to get! In the end I went with Tomorrow Never Dies, Goldeneye (a must have!) and On Her Majesty's Secret Service.

The nice lady at the store even put my polishes in a box!

 With flash
From left to right: Tomorrow Never Dies, Goldeneye,  On Her Majesty's Secret Service

No flash, indoor lighting

I am so very excited to have these! Can't wait to get more from the collection. Swatches of these will come soon!