Meow Cosmetics has re-released their Christmas collections...and released several more besides! Check out the collections from previous years: 12 Pains of Xmas Glacial Grove Snowflakes Merry Mayhem Winter Spirits Ghosts of Xmas Past Then head over to Meow's holiday shop to see all the goodies, old and new. Watch for...
Beauty blogs have recently (in the past four months) and repeatedly had their content duplicated, without their permission, on paid-blogging site Luuux.com. Initially Luuux.com claimed that they would get to work screening content, putting up mechanisms for people to report content violations, et cetera. While it seemed a...
So it's been a while now since I started using nail polishes fairly heavily…and, like everyone else on the planet, I've formed some opinions. In the past two years I've used several polishes and top/base coats from Borghese, China Glaze, Del Sol, Nubar, OPI, Sally Hansen, and Zoya....
When this collection was released, there was one color that really caught my eye: this one. The others…were nice, but nothing overly different or unique or wow. This, though…this was gorgeous. A deeper, almost smokey blue-green, it kind of reminded me of Aromaleigh v1's Abyss. It's absolutely...
Ki is the standout color in the Suede collection: a deep dark violet duochrome (or actually, polychrome) in a collection of softer, more neutral shades. The only other dark color in that collection is Dea, a reddish-chocolate creme. I could so easily post half a dozen photos of Ki, in...
Another microglitter from the Wicked collection. Zoya's microglitters all have a foil finish after two coats that I really, really like…and unlike foils from other companies, it's durable and won't scratch if you look at it sideways. (Nor will the foil finish be dulled by using a topcoat.) In...
I knew when I got this - thanks to several other blogs - that the polish would be sheer. I actually kind of like the effect I get with two coats: a little more opaque than a French manicure, but not by much; the pearl/glitter finish; the bright white...
There's just the tiniest touch of orange undertone in this color. It's a brighter red, but it's not truly orange-red. In the bottle, this looks a bit like Isla, but with microglitter and without the blackening undertones. On the nail, though…it's definitely a deeply red pink (or a coral-pink...
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That third picture is Sugar Plums compared to the shirt I was wearing the day I took these photos (day 2 of this manicure.) I did my usual shirt-choosing routine which goes roughly thus: stagger out of bed, stumble over the cat, veer towards the closet, grab a shirt. I didn't...
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