Zoya Tru (and even more layering)

Zoya has their new Spring 2012 collection out, called True. There were two colors that really called out to me in the collection: Lotus and Tru. Today I have Tru to show you. Tru is a "red-toned grape purple with speckled shimmer that reflects gold, orange and red." (Taken from Zoya's site here). It was hard to capture the shimmer in this baby, but you can definitely see it in the bottle. This polish is so pretty in real life, my pictures do not do it justice. Enough talking though, on with the pictures!

There's a good shimmer shot in the bottle.

This collection was released in conjunction with their Flecked collection consisting of 3 flakies. I haven't gotten any of them, simply because I don't have the money to, but that doesn't mean I can't play with the flakies that I already have! So I layered my newly acquired Twisted (from the Finger Paints Special Effects collection) that my mom stalked 12 Sally's Beauty stores for (no joke!) over it. Take a look!

Ew, dry hands! Hardcore dry hands, sorry about that! But isn't that so pretty? Twisted is like a rainbow in a bottle, there's blue, green, purple, orange, yellow, red. So pretty and complex! 

By the way, this is the longest that my nails have ever been. But, sadly, I couldn't operate with them (more specifically, I couldn't take my contacts out without tearing them...it's happened twice with these bad boys). So now I have nubbins again. Ok, they're not that short, but compared to these, they're so short! Oh well. 

Have you hopped on to the flakie band wagon?

CM

Sally Hansen - Save the Date

Sally Hansen has some new diamond strength polishes out, even in a new bottle! And, I must say, there wee quite a few that I liked enough to pick up...6 to be exact! And some of those are flakies and duochromes! But today I have a shimmer for you.

Save the Date is a beautiful deep red/burgundy with mostly red shimmer and some blue shimmer thrown in there as well. Which was extremely hard to photograph, but you can see it faintly in a few photos.

Click to enlarge this photo so you can see the red and blue shimmer...it's faint, but there!

Save the Date in the shade.

Formula was great! It dried quickly and was beautiful. I love dark, vampy reds like this. I got all of these at Walgreens during a buy one get one 50% off sale, but I don't think that's going on anymore. I think these were $5-6 without the sale.

CM

RBL - Piu Mosso

So, a few weeks ago I did a post on Rescue Beauty Lounge Pizzicato...remember? (If not, you can see that here). And it was based off of the Firebird Suite, which I still get all giddy about every time I think about it. Well, this is actually the first color I got from RBL. Piu Mosso is pretty much the storm. It has a unique subtle shimmer that makes this polish what it is. It's a dark blue with a fiery orange/copper shimmer that comes out to play in the sunlight.

That copper shimmer was harder to capture than it seems. A lot of the time the sun reflected so much on it that it made the shimmer look yellow. Obviously, from that last bottle shot especially, it's not yellow at all. You can't see the shimmer at all when you're in the shade, so it looks like a dark blue creme. But once this baby hits the sunlight it just explodes into life. A subtle beauty. Love it.

CM

RBL - Pizzicato

Today I have Rescue Beauty Lounge's polish in Pizzicato. This is from their Firebird collection, which I had to have (I now own 3 of the 4). From swatches I had seen online I thought that Pizzicato was a dainty white polish with apparent shimmer in it. When it arrived I was shocked that it was a light pink/lavender shade with shimmer. I thought I wouldn't like it, but I ended up loving it! Well, the color anyways. We'll get to the formula after the pictures. Take a look!

All of those photos are under artificial light and are 2 coats. And the shimmer was impossible to capture! The bottle shot gives you an idea of what's in it. I was hoping to get some natural sunlight pictures, but the manicure lasted a total of 10 minutes because I got so frustrated. 

I only have 3 polishes from RBL and this is the only polish that gave me trouble. The formula took forever to dry. I think I waited 5 minutes between coats and it was still tacky. But, me being totally impatient, I went on anyways. The polish never set. I was going to add some leaves from a bundle monster stamp, and just as I put the stamp on my nail it went sliding...and took the polish with it in a big, gloppy mess. At that point I was so fed up that I angrily took the whole thing off. Besides, it was 11 PM and I was totally over it. 

Maybe, one day, I'll return to Pizzicato. It really is a beautiful color! And this has happened to me 2 other times with different polishes that were amazing colors that I hope to revisit one day. In the mean time, let's just enjoy the beauty from the pictures! 

I hope everyone had a happy new year! 

CM