Zoya’s Wicked collection

Initially I was not too thrilled about these polishes. I’m not a huge fan of glitter or microglitter polishes - they’re nice enough, but they’re a right pain to remove, and they don’t hold nail art too well. All was going well in my world, I...

China Glaze’s Jolly Holly

This polish is “metallic” the way most Zoya nail polishes are “metallic”, rather than the more-familiar (and more expected) China Glaze metallic finish - there's a silver sheen over the color, but they don't look as metallic as the Khromes or the Romantiques. The first coat was brighter, and a...

China Glaze’s Little Drummer Boy

My weekend outing: the good stuff

My weekend trip to the mall was not a total disaster. I walked through JCPenney to get to the mall, and walked past their misses' knit tops, which were marked as doorbuster sale items. I got three - all the same style, different colors - and paid for 3 what I'd...

China Glaze’s Jingle Bells

When I applied this color, the first thing I thought is, “Wow, that looks an awful lot like <a href=”/such/obsessive/addictions/zoyas_uli/”>Uli</a>.” Comparing the two in the bottles, JB looks more golden and cooler than Uli. It's the same on the nails: Uli...

I paid someone to do this to me

So yesterday I went to Bare Escentuals for a makeover. Unlike other BE artist events that I attended, they had a great “beauty profile” for everyone to indicate their preferences for face, eye, and lip. This looked incredibly promising! I indicated that I wanted a more dramatic eye look. (Their...

BareMinerals’ buxom Misty

I think this is my least favorite of this kit. I have two clear-with-glitter colors already - <a href=”/such/obsessive/addictions/bareminerals_buxom_dominique/”>Dominique</a> and <a href=”/such/obsessive/addictions/bareminerals_buxom_hope/”>Hope</a> - and while I like those two, I...

Week Wrap-up: Bare Escentuals’ Buxoms

At $18 for .15 oz of lip polish or .03 oz of lip pencil, these are some of the pricier lip colors out there. (By contrast, Nars lip glosses are $24 for .28 oz of product, Nars lip pencils are $24 or .086 ounces of product.) They claim to increase lip plumpness, as well as protect and...

BareMinerals’ buxom Sunny

Winter 2010 Giveaway #1!!

December 16: Giveaway is now closed: winners - Galen (international) and emac059 (US) Start Date: November 15 End Date: December 15 My giveaway for December will have 2 winners, one US, one international. (I'm splitting it up because international customers kind of got left hanging when Miss K. had to shut down international ordering...