Free beauty tips: Peach

Showing posts with label Peach. Show all posts

Color Club Japanese Glitter: Calendula for Joy

Above & Below: Calendula for Joy shown using 3 coats. Above picture is with no flash under an Ott light, below photo is with a flash.

Below: 2 coats of Calendula for Joy used as a top coat over Orly Wild Wisteria.

Below: As long as we're experimenting, here is the look after a matte top coat.

This evening I have for you the third of eight Color Club Exclusive Japanese Glitters that are new to Victoria Nail Supply. Calendula for Joy is most similar to Twinkle Peach, although it's actually got more of a peach tone than Twinkle Peach! Names can be deceiving though. You can see Twinkle Peach along with I Love You in the post below this one. Calendula for Joy is quite sheer, much like Twinkle Peach. I used 3 coats, but it's quite obvious in the photos that many more would be needed for an opaque look. As I mentioned earlier, some of these are better suited used as a top coat over another polish, or as a base coat with another shade over them. I'll be working on swatches of the remaining 5 shades for tomorrow's posts, as well as showing some of them as both base and top coats.

New Color Club Exclusive Japanese Glitters

Above & Below: Bottle pictures of the newest 8 Color Club Exclusive Japanese Glitters. Above are what I color the 'colored' ones, and below, the 'similar colored' ones! Top L-R: Bishop's Weed, Blue Hawaii, Dazzling Orange, Fresh Mint. Below L-R: Calendula for Joy, I Love You, Twinkle Peach, Sparkling Cassis.

Below: I Love You, shown in 2 coats. This is much more pigmented than Twinkle Peach, shown below. This is technically called Rose, I Love You, but the label reads I Love You. It applies true to the bottle color, which is a bright rose pink with tiny multi-colored glitter.

Below: I Love You with a matte top coat.

Below: Twinkle Peach, shown using 3 coats. Clearly, 5-6 coats would be needed to bring the color up to the bottle shade. This is a very pale shade of peach with the same multi-colored glitter. However, the glitter is not as bold in color, due to a lower contrast against the lighter base shade.

Below: One coat of Kleancolor's Neon Sapphire over Twinkle Peach. I like to use these glitters as bottom coats or top coats with other polish shades.

Today I received the newest 8 Color Club Exclusive Japanese Glitters that Victoria Nail Supply recently added to their stock. I swatched 2 of the shades so far, and will be working on the other 6 today and tomorrow. I used three coats on Twinkle Peach, and as you can see, it needs several more than that! I Love You applied better, as I used 2 coats. I see in the photos that perhaps 3 would have looked nicer. I Love You is much more pigmented than Twinkle Peach. For those of you who have some of the glitters from Color Club, you know that the formula is somewhat jelly-like. It takes a little trial and error to apply them evenly and at the right thickness. What I like the most about these glitters is that they work well as a base color with another coat of polish over them as shown above with the blue Kleancolor (Neon Sapphire), and they work even better as a top coat over a darker polish shade. I prefer using them in this fashion, rather than by themselves. I'll do a few swatches using them under and over other polishes, coming up.

Posted in Color Club , Glitter , Peach , Pink

Konad White Pearl Special Polish

Good morning, Dear Reader!

WowSoCool has some new Konad goodies in, and I have one of them to show you today: Konad White Pearl Special Polish. I tried it out yesterday over Chanel Peche Nacree using Konad plate m9 for the pattern, and it was really nice to use.

White Pearl is quite thick, but I left it that way and found that it was just right for stamping. It's opaque, makes very clean stamps, and was super low maintenance. I also found in applying top coat that it doesn't smudge, much like Konad Black Pearl Special Polish. Here's White Pearl over Peche Nacree.

Konad White Pearl Special Polish over Chanel Peche Nacree with m9

I'm always more excited about new Konad stuff than new polishes because it can be used with every polish, so it just seems like a bigger deal to me. This one, White Pearl, I will definitely get a lot of use out of.

That's the update for today, Dear Reader. Until next time, love and nail polish to you!

Posted in Chanel , Konad , Long Nails , Nail Art , nail polish , Peach , White

Chanel Peche Nacree

Good morning, Dear Reader!

I got a couple of the Spring 2011 Chanel nail polishes yesterday, and I decided to wear one of them today. The two I chose were Black Pearl and Peche Nacree, and after a few days of wearing darks (I wore Chanel Strong over the weekend), I thought Peche Nacree would be a nice change of pace.

It applied really well, but it took three coats for me to get it opaque. Part of that is due to the bottle design, I think, where it has the little ledge to wipe off the brush as it is removed from the bottle - that meant I had to do really thin coats. If the coats were normal, I think two would be enough. The color is a delicate peach, and it has a shimmer that makes the finish look like a pearl, which I think looks really cool.

Chanel Peche Nacree Nail Polish, Three Coats

It's certainly not a must-have, as there are many similar shades out there, but since it's a particularly nice rendition of a peach shimmer and I'm partial to Chanel nail polish, I'm happy that I got it.

That's it for today, Dear Reader. Until next time, love and nail polish to you!

Posted in Chanel , Long Nails , nail polish , Peach

5 Finger Paints, 5 Less On My Untried Shelf!

Above & Below: Please disregard my cuticles. I used a different product (Avon) instead of my usual Sally Hansen cuticle remover and it was very hard on my skin and cuticles. Turquoise Tile is a perfect turquoise shimmer. Lilac Lagoon is also a favorite, with it's delicate color and subtle gold shimmer.

Below: Butterscotch Cookie is an eye-catching gold shimmer. It's bright and shiny, just as gold should be!

Below: Yellow Bikini and Ripe Peach are both nice creme-type shades that have the slightest hint of shimmer to them. My only complaint was that I needed 3 coats, instead of the usual 2.

With so many untried's, a problem I know many of us have, I decided to swatch some Finger Paints that have been patiently awaiting their turn! Finger Paints makes a great quality product, but because they're only available at Sally Beauty, I think they go unnoticed by a large percentage of people. The first two I swatched, Ripe Peach and Yellow Bikini, appear to be cremes. If you look closely, you can see the slightest hint of a shimmery sheen. I liked the shades very much, but I had to use 3 coats to get total coverage. They performed more like pastel creme shades do, which often cause me problems upon the application. The other 3, Butterscotch Cookie, Turquoise Tile, and Lilac Lagoon, applied in typical Finger Paints fashion: perfectly, in 2 coats. I'm not very helpful on when these came out and which ones may still be available, because I've had them for quite a while. I believe Butterscotch Cookie is from last year's holiday collection, likely making it hard to find. The other 4 I believe came out in their Spring 2009 collection, so they may still be available here and there. If anyone else knows any more information about their availability, feel free to mention it in the comments.

Posted in Creme , Finger Paints , Gold , Peach , Purple , Shimmer , Turquoise , Yellow

8 New VNS Color Club Japanese Glitter Nail Wheel Swatches

Above: This color collage shows the base colors most accurately. Below are a variety of photos taken indoors and outdoors (no sun, unfortunately) in different levels of light. Hopefully, you'll get a fairly good idea of how they look in real life.

Below: For reference, the colors on the board are 1)Blue Hawaii, 2)Fresh Mint, 3)Dazzling Orange (this is not orange, but actually yellow), 4)Twinkle Peach (more pink than peach), 5)Sparkling Cassis, 6)Bishop's Weed, 7)Calendula for Joy, 8)Rose, I Love You.

Last week I showed you bottle pictures of the 8 new Color Club Japanese Exclusive Glitters that Yen from Victoria Nail Supply sent me, and I received a polish wheel with the swatches from her today. I'm guessing they should have these in stock by the end of the month. Naturally, Fresh Mint was the one I was most looking forward to, but now that I have the swatches in front of me, there's a 3-way tie for my affections between Fresh Mint, Blue Hawaii and Rose, I Love You! Let me explain why...Fresh Mint is green, so that's my reason for liking it, pure and simple. Blue Hawaii is blue, so can I use the same reason I used for Fresh Mint? Rose, I Love You is a shade or two below a fuchsia, but it looks holographic because of the fine glitter and the color combination between the base color and the glitter. Bishop's Weed is another favorite of mine because it reminds me of new fallen snow with the sunlight reflecting off of it. I like the range of colors in this set, as there's much more variety than in the original 4 that they carry (2 pinks, a peachy pink and my favorite, Too Violet). These are all packed with micro fine holographic glitter, giving them a flash of different colors, depending on the base shade. At different angles, they take on an almost foil finish, because the glitter is so dense. What do you think? Any favorites among these for you?

Posted in Blue , Color Club , Glitter , Green , Peach , Pink , White/Off-White , Yellow

Zoya Fire & Ice Collection

Good morning, Dear Reader!

Zoya sent me samples of their Fire & Ice Collection for Holiday 2010 for review, and I have swatches of them for you. There are six shades in the collection, all of which were just fine to apply, all good in two coats. I took the pictures in the sun, and they're just in alphabetical order.

Crystal is a foily blue with gold bits, a really cool winter blue.

Zoya Crystal Nail Polish, Two Coats

Gloria is a very warm rose pink foil with gold.

Zoya Gloria Nail Polish, Two Coats

Lisa is a very bright, slightly pinkish red that has the sort of sparkly finish we've seen a good bit of lately.

Zoya Lisa Nail Polish, Two Coats

Sarah is also red, a bit deeper and cooler than Lisa. Note: Thre press release calls this Sarah, the label says Sara.

Zoya Sarah Nail Polish, Two Coats

Tiffany is a peachy foil, and although I normally shy away from peach, I really like it with this finish.

Zoya Tiffany Nail Polish, Two Coats

The last one, Valerie, is a great sparkly wine shade. I haven't been able to compare them yet, but I think it's similar to Nubar Vino.

Zoya Valerie Nail Polish, Two Coats

That's Zoya's Fire & Ice Collection, which is available today. I'm quite a fan of them - I really like the colors, the finishes, and how they work together, and the polishes are easy to work with. There's nothing I would call a dud in this collection.

That's what I have for you today, Dear Reader. Until next time, love and nail polish to you!

Posted in Blue , nail polish , Peach , purple , red , Zoya

L'Oreal Color of Hope & Hopeful Plum

Above & Below: Hopeful Plum is shown above in partial sun (first picture) and full sun (second picture). Below is Color of Hope in partial sun (first picture) and full sun (second picture).

L'Oreal recently introduced their LE collection called Color of Hope, which includes 2 polishes. September is National Ovarian Cancer Awareness month and L'Oreal is donating $1.00 from the sale of each item (the collection also includes 2 eye shadow quads, 2 lip glosses and 1 lip stick) to the Ovarian Cancer Research Fund. Like many of you I'm sure, I have lost too many people I love to this disease and hope that someday there will be a cure. My purchase of these shades was two-fold...do even the smallest deed to contribute to a cause that effects each and every one of us, and get 2 new polishes in the process.

Hopeful Plum is a red based shade of purple with tiny gold shimmer. The shimmer appears as a thin gold veil in the bottle, not quite like veining, but more as an overlay to the base color. Once applied, the flecks of gold are quite evident, although still on the subtle side. This is a beautiful Fall shade and the way the shimmer pieces present themselves on the nail is somewhat unique and very pretty. Color of Hope is also a shimmer, but the shimmer in this one is more evenly distributed throughout the polish, giving it an allover shimmer, rather than distinct or different colors of shimmer than the base color. This shade could be described as a muted salmon or a peachy taupe color. Both polishes seemed to be on the thicker side, so I added 4 drops of thinner to them. I used 3 thin coats to achieve the look and although the formula on these is not the best, the cause behind them is one I believe in. Combine that thought with the fact that I like the shades, especially Hopeful Plum, and it was money well spent. These are available at Walgreen's and other drug store chains, as well as Ulta for about $4.99 each.

Posted in L'Oreal , Peach , Purple , Shimmer

Color Club Japanese Glitter: Strawberry Sherbet

Above & Below: Color Club's Strawberry Sherbet, outdoors with no flash in various degrees of natural light. I was losing the sun, so none of these are in full sunlight. This was very difficult to photograph, and the glitter looks blended together in the pictures, but not in real life.

Here is the second Color Club from the 4 piece (so far) Japanese Exclusive collection that has now landed on the shores of the U.S. In case you missed it, I posted the purple one (Too Violet) down below earlier today. Strawberry Sherbet is a subtle salmon pink, and again, loaded with tiny multi-colored glitter. This one has much more of a clear base than Too Violet, and if visible nail lines bother you, you might want to reconsider this one. I used 3 coats in the pictures and personally, seeing a bit of the line doesn't bother me. This shade looks a bit more foily than Too Violet, probably because the base color is so light that the glitter becomes more predominant. It's sheer enough that I think it would probably look fantastic as a top coat over a darker base color. I don't know if I'm going to get to the rest of these today because it's raining now, but I'll give it a try. Here's a website I found that has what may be all of the glitters (you'll note that some of them say 'Japan only') that were formulated for this release. They're only $20.00 each in U.S. dollars! It's a good reference page though, and the colors are all lovely. The label name on mine reads 'Strawberry Sharbe", so I was looking around online trying to find out if that was really the name, and happened upon this page. The number on my bottle matches the number they show, so I'll assume I'm giving you the correct name.

Posted in Color Club , Glitter , Peach , Pink

FCC $1.00 Polishes

Here's a quick look at some more of the polishes my sister picked up for me at her local flea market near Clemson, South Carolina earlier this summer. Keep in mind, they were only $1.00 each, but they're honestly not too bad at all--other than the strong smell!

Above & Below: FCC # 39 is a very holiday-like red metallic shade with silver glitter. I only used one coat and am pretty impressed with this one.

Below: Now there's a useful addition to the bottle design! Maybe I'll use it for a key chain.

Below: FCC #35, a mauve metallic glitter, also covered nicely using just one coat. This one is more foil-like in the sun and could possibly make a good Konad stamping polish.

Below: FCC #19 is a lime green shimmer that although a pretty shade, is a borderline frost which leaves a few brush strokes behind. This one is shown using 2 coats.

Below: The ornate bottle is much nicer than the shade, but for $1.00, I can't expect to love them all! FCC #3 is a pinky/peach pearl frost that I used 2 coats on.

It's interesting how many different lines/designs FCC seems to have, and I'm sure there's quite a few more in their product line. These are fun polishes--I don't know about the quality because I haven't worn them long enough yet, but the bottles are interesting and they have some nice colors and finishes. FCC is a Korean brand and I know some of you have mentioned seeing these at various flea markets also. I'd pick up some more if I ever run across them just for the novelty of the bottles.

Posted in Chrome/Foil , FCC , Frost-type Finish , Glitter , Green , Mauve , Metallic , Peach , Pearl , Pink , Red , Shimmer

Free beauty tips