Finger Paints Queen for a Day

Hi everyone!  I haven't posted much this week since things have been crazy, but today I have just a quick post of Finger Paints Queen for a Day.  I haven't been in Sally Beauty for a while, and when I went in to look at some of the new China Glaze, I saw this lovely mixed in with the winter collection.

Queen for a Day is from Finger Paint's Fall 2014 collection.  In the bottle it appears duochrome, shifting from blue to purple and a little green, but the shift doesn't really translate well.  It also has what I'd like to call micro flakies (these kept trying to hide from my camera).

Application was nice.  It was thicker than I expected, but not in a bad way, making it a 1 coater.  Don't you just love an unexpected 1 coater, or am I just being weird lol?

This is 1 coat.

Taken closer to the light so you can see the micro flakies:

Zoya Ignite Collection Fall 2014 Swatches and Review

Press Sample

Hope everyone is having a great week so far and happy Veteran's Day to all the vets out there!

Today I have the second half of Zoya's Fall Collection.  (Check out Entice.)  Ignite consists of 6 polishes, all of which are shimmers with gold flecks and shimmer.  Let's get on to the swatches!

Remy is the blue of the collection with lots of gold shimmer.  Because of the deep blue base, the shimmer almost looks turquoise in the bottle.  Simply put, it's gorgeous (I'll be saying this a lot).  Application was great and it's a 1 coater!

Teigen is a "pink toned cranberry" with more of those gold shimmer flecks.  Application was nice.  No complaints.  This is 2 coats.

Sansa is a dark purple with lots of gold shimmer.  This is definitely one of my favorites.  No complaints about application. This is 2 coats.

Autumn is somewhere between a metalic and shimmer.  It's a reddish orange color (reminiscent of fallen autumn leaves) and has gold flecks throughout.  This isn't a polish I'd normally pick out, but I ended up really liking this one.  I love how it has flashes of gold twinkling through it.  Application was nice, but it does require a little more finesse so to avoid brush strokes.  This is 2 coats.

Yuna is the gray of this collection and an instant favorite.  This dark gray is made special by the greenish gold shimmer in it.  Application was good.  This is 2 coats.

And last, but for sure not least, is India.  This is such a classy color to me.  It's a deep red with lots of gold shimmer and in the bottle there seems to be hits of bits of blue shimmer (which isn't visible on the nail).  Nice application.  This is 2 coats.

Overall, this collection is a definite winner.  Zoya really does do these types of finishes very well.  I can honestly say that I enjoyed every single polish in this collection.  My favorites are Yuna, Sansa, India, and Remy.

The Ignite Collection is currently available on Zoya.com and retails for $9 USD.  Zoya is currently running a special on the Ignite, Entice, Naturel, and Naturel 2.  Polishes from these collections are buy one get one free with the code BFF.  This special ends 11/12/14 (11:59 ET).


Press Sample
**The product in this post was provided for my honest review by Zoya PR.  All opinions are my own.

Finger Paints Twisted

Hi everyone!  Hope your week is going well.

I little while ago I had someone send me an email complaining that I post too many discontinued items.  I normally post what I have on my nails at the moment.  That's really what I initially started this blog for and that's what I'll continue to post along with some collections.

So heads up everyone, this post contains pictures of a discontinued polish and that polish is Finger Paints Twisted.  This came out in the 2012 Special Effects collection that consisted of 5 flakie glitters in a clear base.  Twisted is a combo of different flakies.  It was definitely not like any of the other flakies I had, so I had to have it and hunted it down at Sallys.  Totally worth it.  Today I'm wearing it over black and matted it with Essie Matte About You.

This is 2 coats over black. Matte.

This is 2 coats over black.  Shiny.  (I have no idea what happened to it's "face."  This always happens to my Finger Paints and China Glaze bottles.  Does this happen to anyone else?)

Milani Enchanted Garnet

Hope everyone had a nice weekend!  Today I have Milani Enchanted Garnet from their Bedazzled Collection for Fall 2014.

Enchanted Garnet is one of those glowing ember type polishes with a blackened base and lots of red shimmer.  Very vampy.  No matter how many colors i have like this, I can't help buying more!  This one reminds me a bit of OPI Royal Rajah Ruby.

Application on this was good.  It goes on sheer in the first coat, but quickly builds up.

This is 2 coats.