OPI~Touring America

OPI's Fall Collection is called Touring America.  It is a 12 piece collection of a wide array of shimmers and cremes ranging from corals to greys to very dark shades.  I found that most of this collection had a 'dustyness' to it.  This collection isn't my favorite and overall, I was pretty disappointed in Touring America.  I did pick up 3 of them and here they are.
 
Honk If You Love OPI is my favorite.  It is dusty vamp creme!  What a gorgeous shade of polish!

I Break For Manicures is a dusty eggplant creme.  I really loved this one in the bottle, but when I applied it, it was too dusty or grey for me.   

Get In The Espresso Lane is a dark brown creme that has just a slight hint of green to it. 

I still would like to pick up Road House Blues from this collection, but it seems to go fast around here.  I know this collection has been out a little while, do you like, love, or pass on OPI~Touring America?

China Glaze~Metro Collection

The Fall 2011 collections have been out since summer and I figured it was about time I get these up!  The Metro Collection by China Glaze is a 12 piece collection ranging from shimmers, to glitters, to cremes.  I have 3 of the polishes from this collection, two glitters and a to die for creme!

Skyscraper is a blueberry base with silver glitter.  In the bottle, this color pulls more purple, so I was a little surprised when I applied and it was blue.

Midtown Magic, how do I describe this one?  Bare with me-It is a brown/burgundy base with gold, brown, & I think I see green micro glitter.  I can't tell if this has a duo chrome to it or if it has a slight holographic to it.  It is a really cool and trippy color.  And it is gorgeous! 

Concrete Catwalk is they grey creme I have been searching for!  It's more of a blue-ish grey, but I just love it!

What do you all think about this collection?  Is it a hit or a miss?

Dr.'s Remedy

First off, I want to welcome the new followers that I have aquired in the last week or so.  Thank you for checking out what I have to say about my favorite subject.  I hope you like what you read and see!

Dr.'s Remedy is a new line of polish that is "enriched with naturally occuring antifungal ingredients like tea tree oil, garlic bulb extract, vitamins C and E, and wheat protien".  Tea tree is my favorite antifungal trick.  I use it for all sorts of things.  Dab it on a blemish, use it to clean stretched ear piercings, I use it after waxing, if you have a fungus on a nail, treat it with tea tree.  I love tea tree!  Dr.'s Remedy is the first-ever nail polish approved by the American Podiatric Medical Assoc.  You can find Dr.'s Remedy on their website or by calling 1-877-323-NAIL.  These polished are $17 each.  Each of these polishes went on nicely and I didn't have any issues with them.

Heather Grey is a putty grey creme.

Ruby Red is a beautiful red shimmer.

Dark Brown is just that, a dark brown creme.  This color is my favorite of the 3.  I am always on the hunt for a color that doesn't exisit and here is my dark chocolate brown!  It's dark, but till looks brown even indoors.

Essie~Winter 2010/2011

With all the buzz about Spring Collections popping up here and there, I thought I'd better get this amazing Winter Collection up for you to check out.  Essie's Winter 2010/2011 is made up of 6 beautiful creme polishes.  I have 4 to share with you.  I found these pretties at Ulta.

Hot Coco is just that.  It is the color of a warm cup of hot chocolate.

Smokin' Hot is a beautiful dusty grey-lavender-mushroom creme.  It is a bit darker on the nail than in this picture.

Masquerade Belle is a great dark warm red creme.

Luxedo is the favorite amoung this collection for me.  It is a black-purple jelly!  Absolutely gorgeous!

Essie~Fall 2010

Happy Wednesday everyone!  This is the last of the Fall 2010 polish collections that I have to share with you.  It may still be fall, but there is snow 30 miles up the road from my house and it is 38 degrees outside today-that is winter behavior, lol.  Essie has stepped out of the box in the last year and offered some amazing colors!  Their Fall collection is no exception.  I have 4 of the 6 colors, Merino Cool, Sew Psyched, Limited Addiction, and Little Brown Dress.

Merino Cool is a beautiful muted lavendar-taupe creme. 

Sew Psyched suprised me.  I didn't care for it much in the bottle, but I love it on my nails!  It is a sage green with just a touch of shimmery pearl.

Limited Addiction is a great brick red creme.

Little Brown Dress is a dark, dark brown creme. 

OPI Swiss

Happy Friday!  I don't know about you, but I am so glad it's the weekend.  I have 3 very tired little ones who started school last week and they are looking forward to playing the Wii and going to the outdoor mall for live music.  I am looking forward to it too!

Anyways, I have 2 more lovelies from the OPI Swiss Collection.  Today I have I'm Suzi & I'm A Chocoholic and Yodel Me On My Cell.  Wild names, huh?  These 2 went on flawlessly and have great coverage with 2 coats

I'm Suzi & I'm A Chocoholic is a gorgeous warm brown creme.  (I would do anything for a lip gloss this color.  If you know of any, let me know)

Yodel Me On My Cell is a beautiful turquoise with fine blue, teal and green shimmer.  It is a lot like the mermaid colors we have seen this summer, only deeper.  OPI did a fabulous job taking a really hot color and deepening it to take it into the fall.  The bad new is that it hates my camera.  This is not a blue polish.  I tweeked the picture as best I could to get it truer to its really color. 

Just look at the color, it's as close as I could get.

China Glaze~Vintage Vixen

Here are the last three Vintage Vixens: Emerald Fitzgerald, Goin' My Way, & Jitterbug.  Thank you China Glaze for a beautiful fall collection!  These beauties will be available within the next couple of weeks and your favorite China Glaze hot spot.

Emerald Fitzgerald is going to make the green polish lovers very happy.  It is a beautiful dark teal green with teal and silver micro glitter.

Goin's My Way screams fall to me.  It is the perfect brown with golden copper shimmer.

Jitterbug is a great gunmetal grey with silver sparkle.

Thank you China Glaze for sending these polishes to me for review.  I love them and them all are beautiful fall beauties!

Zoya, Zoya, Zoya

Zoya is enabling us polish addicts once more with a deal too good to pass up.  The details can be found here but in a nutshell, they will exchange a minimum of 6 old nail polishes for brand new, beautiful Zoya polish!  You just mail them the old, pay $3.50(shipping & handling) per bottle and you'll get a great package full of great new polish! 

Here are a few Zoya swatches to help with your polish selections.  Charity is a dusty lavender with pale golden shimmer.

Coco is a beautiful pinkened brown creme.  This polish has been on my Zoya wish list for months and I finally got it!

Nephratiti is pinkish red with hot pink shimmer.

So, what polishes are you going to get???

Sparitual-Hush

I have a pretty Autumn brown today, Sparitual Hush.  Hush is from their Fall 2009 collection.

Hush is a mid-toned brown creme.  There is nothing too exciting about this color other than it's a nice brown and when on well.  That's probably why it's taken 3 months to swatch and post it.  Too many other great colors out there right now!

Sally Hansen

Sally Hansen has great nail polish and I love that in the last few years, they have stepped out of the box and introduced more trendy and edgy colors.  Brick Wall, Strobe Light and VIP Pink are from the X-treme Wear line and Mochachino is from the Insta-Dry line.
Brick Wall is classic deep red creme

Strobe Light is pink glitter fest

VIP Pink is a sweet shimmery pink with fine pink glitter

Mochachino, first of all, what the heck is up with the brush?  It is about 1/2 inch wide, crooked and flat.  I found it very difficult to use.  The polish is a brown with a copper shimmer

3 New Barielle

I took advantage of Barielle's sale, buy 2, get 1 free, twice!  I bought 6 of their new Fall shades.  Today, I have 3 of them for you.  I love each and every color I got.  Sometimes you don't always get the color you think you're getting when you order off the web.  Its not so sunny in sunny California today, so the pics are just a tad off, but still close.

The first color is Make It A Latte.  It is a chocolate brown with a brown shimmer.

Slate of Affairs is a great slate color with blue shimmer.

Get Mauv-ing is a great creme mauve

The buy 2, get 1 sale is still going on, so scoot over to Barielle and get some polish!

MAC Fall 2009 Picks

Today, I have 2 new MAC colors for you. The new line, overall, doesn't impress me. They have 6 new, limited edition colors. The 2 colors I chose are For Fun and Rich, Dark, Delicious. For Fun is a purple creme and my favorite of the 2. Rich, Dark, Delicious is a dark chocolate brown, almost black creme. It's a lot like the color Molasses from a couple of years ago, just a tad lighter. Overall, they are nice fall colors.

~Rich, Dark, Delicious~

~For Fun~