Darling Diva Polish Muscle Car Diva Collection - Swatches and Review (Part 2 of 4)

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Good evening everyone! I am sorry for my absence the last few days but I am back with Part 2 of Darling Diva Polish's Muscle Car Diva Collection!  

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Elevation Polish Yeti's Broken Heart Skittlette!

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It's almost Friday! (Or it is already Friday for some of you!) Heading into the weekend I have my first skittlette of 2014! I used all Elevation Polishes for this mani -  Yeti's Broken Heart (Limited Edition), Caspian (SBP) and Lost in the Darkness (SBP). 

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Darling Diva Polish Muscle Car Diva Collection - Swatches and Review (Part 1 of 4)

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Who's ready for some hot polishes? Darling Diva Polish has released a collection based on muscle cars! I love me some muscle cars so I was super excited for this collection! There are 12 polishes total (11 new releases and 1 previous release) so I am breaking this collection into multiple posts to give each polish its time in the spotlight.

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Dior Diorific Minuit #995 - Swatches and Review

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Hello lovelies! Today several blogging friends and I decided to get together to show off one of our favorite luxury brands - Dior! I avoided trying Dior for a while but once I caved it was instant love.  They don't always fit into my budget but when they do I jump at the chance to grab another! The formulas are always amazing and I just love their brush.

Today I have Minuit from their Holiday Diorific Collection to show you. I bought this before Christmas but was waiting for the perfect chance to use it - the right nail length, the right event, whatever. Today seemed like the perfect chance! (Too bad I suffered a bad break just hours before applying it so I have super nubs now.)

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Darling Diva Polish Limited Edition Valentine's Day Duos - Swatches and Review

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Happy evening lovely readers! I have two new duos from Darling Diva Polish that are being released just for Valentine's Day! 

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Camouflage Nail Art

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Good morning and happy Thursday! I know Follow a Tutorial Week is over but I think following tutorials are a great way to grow and learn! I am still trying to improve my nail art skills so today I have a mani inspired by another tutorial from Sarah at Chalkboard Nails!

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SoFlaJo Goldstone (LE) - Swatches and Review

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We are over the hump of the work week! SoFlaJo is releasing a 3 polish collection for Valentine's Day called the Just Love Her Collection and I have one of them to show you tonight! Goldstone is very limited edition and it is available now so if you want it, don't delay!

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Elevation Polish Matsuda and a Gradient!

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Good morning! I have an older Elevation Polish to show you today - along with a gradient with one of the new Elevations. Just a word of warning before we get started - Matsuda is in the Last Call polishes meaning it will be discontinued soon! It is currently in stock so I'd suggest grabbing it while you can!

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Zoya Magical Pixie Collection for Spring 2014 - Press Release

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Are you ready for something exciting!? Now this is a fun way to start your Monday morning! I'm excited to see this brand new collection from Zoya - Magical Pixies! 

Believe in it...

Zoya Magical Pixie - a new PixieDust formulation, amped up with spectacular sparkle, creating the most magical Zoya PixieDust ever! Three new never before imagined textured, holographic beauties for spring 2014... 

ZOYA MAGICAL PIXIE 

• Cosmo: Silver Crystal Sparkle, Textured PixieDust with Mega Hex Iridescent Particles, Full Coverage Formula.

• Vega: Blue Opal Sparkle, Textured PixieDust with Mega Hex Iridescent Particles, Full Coverage Formula.

• Lux: Rose Quartz Sparkle Textured PixieDust with Mega Hex Iridescent Particles, Full Coverage Formula.

  $10.00 ea. (US)

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For BEST RESULTS when applying Zoya PixieDust: apply 2-3 thin coats of polish for full coverage to a clean oil free nail surface. Allow product to dry completely for full effect. Do not use a base coat or top coat. Top coat can be applied for additional glossy effects.

*BIG5FREE: Zoya Nail Polish and Treatment Formulas are free of formaldehyde, formaldehyde resin, dibutyl phthalate, toluene and camphor.

Find over 300 long-wearing, beautiful Zoya colors on www.zoya.com. Each and every color has a name as unique as the women who inspired it.

COMING FEBRUARY 2014 


ZOYA IS THE COLOR OF FASHION!

Available on Zoya.com

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What do you think? Are you excited for these? I have a love/hate relationship with textures but I can't wait to see how the addition of the holographic glitter adds to the finish.

Thanks for reading and happy polishing! ♥

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Vegan Cuts Beauty Box Review

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Good evening! I have something different to share with you tonight! Vegan Cuts is a company that focuses on all things vegan - food, clothing, shoes, accessories and beauty items. They have a shop with a multitude of all of these types of items and they also offer two different subscriptions boxes - a snack box and a beauty box! I am going to show you one of the beauty boxes tonight.

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Nail Art Theme Week: Follow a Tutorial - Nimbus Nail Art

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It's finally Friday! It'a also the last day of Follow a Tutorial Week. For the final day I decided to use The Nailasuarus' Nimbus Nail Art Tutorial. I've been wanting to use neons lately so I thought it'd be fun to try this using some super bright and fun polishes.

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Nail Art Theme Week: Follow a Tutorial - Dry Brush Technique

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Happy Thursday! It's nice to be on the downhill side of the work week! For today's manicure I followed a tutorial by the lovely Emily aka The Lacquerologist! 

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Nail Art Theme Week: Follow a Tutorial - Abominable Snowman

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Hello lovelies! I hope your week is going well! Mine feels like it has been about 3 years long and it's only Wednesday morning. Hopefully the day and the rest of the week will get easier from here!  On a more positive note, I am super stoked about the nail art I am going to show you today!

For today's tutorial I used another one from the lovely Jacki at Adventures in Acetone. This one she just posted yesterday but with all the cold freezing weather that so many of you are having I thought it was the perfect time to try to re-create it! So here is the abominable snowman - also known as a yeti!

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Indigo Bananas Cake or Death and Fiery the Angels Fell - Swatches and Review

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 Good evening! I have a couple of beauties from Indigo Bananas to show you tonight!  

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Nail Art Theme Week: Follow a Tutorial - Gradient Dots

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Good morning! For Day 2 of Nail Art Theme Week I decided to do some fun dots inspired by my friend Sarah from Chalkboard Nails. 

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Nail Art Theme Week: Follow a Tutorial - Adipose!

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It's the first Nail Art Theme Week of the year and this week we are doing nail art based on tutorials! Being a huge Doctor Who fan, I have been wanting to give my friend Jacki's (Adventures in Acetone) Adipose Tutorial a try for quite some time. I figured this week was the perfect chance to try!

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Zoya Awaken Collection for Spring 2014 - PRESS RELEASE

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NEW NAIL POLISH COLLECTION FOR SPRING 2014

ZOYA AWAKEN

Just as Spring emerges from a natural Winter slumber, Zoya Awakens to a fresh season of BIG5FREE* color...

Open your mind to the beauty of color discovery; the new, the unexplored, the excitement! 

Awaken by Zoya - Six new, full-coverage, dew-drenched creams and gold-kissed metallic nail polish colors for Spring 2014. Full of pure pigment, intense color and modern complexity that will take you far beyond the hazy, barely there hues of seasons past into a new world of chromatic joy.

ZOYA AWAKEN - 2014 SPRING

• Dillon: Green Mint Shimmer Metallic Full Coverage Formula.

• Rebel: Blue Sky Shimmer Metallic, Full Coverage Formula.

• Hudson: Purple Orchid Shimmer Metallic, Full Coverage Formula (Yes, it's a Radiant Orchid!)

• Dot: Pink Petal Cream, Full Coverage Formula
(originally created for fashion designer Zang Toi’s SS14 collection).

• Cole: Peach Whisper Cream, Full Coverage Formula
           (originally created for fashion designer Peter Som’s SS14 collection).

• Brooklyn: White-Gold Shimmer Metallic, Full Coverage Formula.

$9.00 ea. (US)

PLUS, A SPECIAL EDITION TOPPER

Create a nail color masterpiece. The multi-colored, holographic flakes of Zoya Monet lend an impressionistic color change option to existing color palettes. Never boring, this artistic topper can be applied as an accent or used as an overall color changer.

• ZP726 - Monet: Multi-Color, Cellophane Holographic Topper.
$10.00 ea. (US) 

*BIG5FREE: Zoya Nail Polish and Treatment Formulas are free of formaldehyde, formaldehyde resin, dibutyl phthalate, toluene and camphor.

Find over 300 long-wearing, beautiful Zoya colors on www.zoya.com. Each and every color has a name as unique as the woman who inspired it.


ZOYA IS THE COLOR OF FASHION!

Available on Zoya.com

I am so excited for Cole! Which one(s) are you looking forward to seeing the most?

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Favorites of 2013 Round-Up!

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Happy 2014 lovelies! I'm sorry I have been so absent lately. I got sick and it stayed with me for 2-3 weeks and just as I thought I was getting better it hit me again. I have been working on this particular post for 3 days  off and on and I am so happy to finally share with you my personal favorite polishes from last year!

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