China Glaze 2NITE

Woah baby! This is one unique colour!

Only two coats shown here, with no top coat. It applied much smoother than it has in the past so I'm putting it down to my new base coat Citra 3.

So as you can see some pics are when the sun is out and some are when it has snuck behind a cloud :)

Truly beautiful polish, I think every nail polish fanatic needs to at least try this one once n_n

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NJ's First RAOK! Update...

Are your eyes playing tricks on you? Do you see the grey holographic?! 

Thats right, I am adding it to NJ's First RAOK with the silver :D

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OPI Love Will Blossom

I am in love with these glitters... I am thinking of getting the last two...hmm.

Anywho, this is Love Will Blossom. A nice subtle shade of pink with glorious glitter that shines every shade known to (wo)man! Sadly the sun was not out the day I took these so you don't get to see the sparklies. But Love Will Blossom is still very beautiful even when the sun isn't out n_n

Love Will Blossom also has a golden shimmer as well as jam packed with glitter! I used three fairly average coats here. It was quite easy to apply... the removal is the hard part.

For removal I suggest felt and alota remover! Usually I use one cotton pad for a whole hand... with this I used a cotton pad for each nail x_x I think having used felt instead would have helped me greatly.

I wore this for two days and not a single chip! I am impressed n_n

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NJ"s First RAOK!

Alright my fellow Juicers, how's March treating you? :D

This morning I have for you, Nail Juice's first RAOK (random act of kindness). I am setting this up for the lovely people who follow NJ, I want to give back to you n_n

So conditions are:

1. You send me an email (nailjuice@live.com) with your name and address. The subject line must be "NJ Raok" if possible :D

2. You must be an NJ follower!

3. It is open to all countries!

So the ROAK for March is the Silver Japanese Holographic :D

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Misa Radiant

Sorry for the late post :(

And here is Misa's Radiant when the weather is overcast :D

This was three coats if I remember correctly. A very pretty baby blue with heaps and heaps of golden shimmer!

It applies quite nicely. Not a problem with this little polish Right! Time for bed... See you in the morning! n_n

Happy March the 1st!!! Woohoo! Autumn!!!

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Essie Shifting Power

This is Essie's Shifting Power from their Winter collection last year. 

This is three problematic coats. I don't know if you can see, but on my pointer finger it shows horizontal ridges I never knew I had! It was like that on all of my nails... So I'm thinking this beast needs a ridge filling base coat to even that nonsense out!

Ok but why was it problematic? Well for one... my bottle seems to have bubbles all through it twenty-four seven. I have left it sitting in the box for days hoping they would go, sadly no. So because of this Shifting Power applies with gazillions of tiny bubbles. Some disappear some don't. 

Another problem we come across... It was very runny and kept pulling it's self off where I had gone over it again for the next coat. 

This is why I have less then 5 Essie polishes, the quality just isn't consistant.

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OPI In Sync With Pink

In Sync With Pink was another Ulta exclusive, I am so excited to try the last one out! :D also... woohoo! Last day of Feb!

A bright hot pink, reminds me alot of Morgan but slightly blue toned and much less jelly-ish. Comparing it to India Mood For Love, it has a lot more red in it's colourings.

Three coats to achieve this look here.

It applied quite nicely, it was nice and smooth. Hardly any clean-up was needed :) Always a bonus!

I have one of the glitter OPI's lined up for you later today!

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Zoya Nail Polish Exchange

As many of our readers know, we have been doing a nail polish exchange over the past 2 months. In this program consumers can exchange old bottles of nail polish for brand new Zoya Nail Polish bottles and only pay shipping.

Due to an incredible response from consumers, we have decided to extend the Zoya Nail Polish Exchange through April 2009. So don't miss out and take advantage today. Over 70,000 bottles exchanged so far and counting.

Visit http://www.zoya.com/exchange to learn more.

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Comment Moderation *sigh*

After my warning in the comments of my last post, the more-or-less-anonymous poster known as "Kendy" saw fit to leave yet another advertising comment in an older post on my blog. There's a reason I don't advertise here, or use Adwords, or anything like that...it's because you come here to see pretty nail polish, and my amateur attempts at nail art, and some cool (and not so cool) nail related things. If a product is going to be advertised here (in a post), then it's going to be something I have tried, and am willing to give my "stamp of approval" to. There's gotta be standards...

So since Kendy can't seem to contain his/herself, I've turned on comment moderation, which means unfortunately, you'll have to wait until I approve your comment before it's posted. I've resisted this, because hey, it's fun to see what you post show up right away. But I'm at a computer most of the time, so it shouldn't be long before comments are posted, and I turned off the word verification thingy since I'll be approving the posts personally. I hope this doesn't discourage people from posting - I do want to hear your comments or thoughts (even negative ones)...I just really don't want advertising all over the place.

Thanks for your understanding and patience...I'll try to get comments approved as quickly as possible.

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Japanese Holographics

Here are the craaaaazy bottle shapes!

Why they came up with this design boggles my mind...

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Misa Little Tease

Here is yesterdays mani...

Well at least I wore Gotta Get Pink! for half a day :D I was really desperate to try out this lovely little Misa, Little Tease. Little Tease is a great example of a pearl finish polish.

This is four coats here and you can see the tiniest bit of my tips, so I think I will layer it over white next time I go to wear it :) 

It applied beautifully and hassle-free. Little Tease is such a dreamy-milky pink... I really want to try the new heart polish; Be Mine, You're Fine! over it. I think that would make a very cute combo :D

This is an oldie although I'm not sure if it's discontinued...

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I thought I lost these pics!

I thought I should post a colour accurate pic of Ink first because these 2nd and 3rd shots are pretty shoddy.

This manicure is so oooold, I did this ages ago... So I can't really remember how many coats or how it applied sorry guys...

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OPI Sweet as Annie-thing!

Hehe Mum has already offered to take this off my hands, she loves it!

Sweet As Annie-thing is really a very stunning polish, sadly the sun has distorted it a little. You can't really see much of the golden shimmer... but I assure you, it is very noticeable on.

This was two coats if I remember correctly. These 90210 polishes are very pigmented, almost opaque on coat number one. 

I think I will have to try Annie again on my new regime... See if I really do like it :)


And here is the other 90210 beauty! Sweet As Annie-Thing!

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OPI I Pink I Love You

Bah! I could't get a decent pic of the hand in normal light as the sun was setting :( But at least in the second pic you can see how much glitter is jammed into these things! And the last pic is very colour accurate, that is what I had all day to stare at, beautiful.

These glitters need three coats as they tend to be quite sheer or have a jelly-ish finish to them. But man these polishes are MADE of glitter!! My first experience with glitter polishes and I am in love with them.

Not is this polish only a extremly gorgeous pink and jam packed with glitter... it has a beautiful pink shimmer too :D As you can see on the thumb pic n_n

I can't wait to try the others!

Holy cow I've already made more posts than half of 2008... D:

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Cherry - Spring is comming !

Red one didn't live a long life, yesterday came up with an idea and couldn't wait to see what it is going to look like. Honestly i love it. Very easy to make, First i put a base color, then i took a brush ( can use also a pen or a pencil or anything) and made a dots of red polish using it upside douwn , then drow green and wite with acrilick paint, with the same brush, but using the right side now.
Yeah.. i know that i should get a real tools and stop using evrything i can find in my desk drower... just waiting for the right moment to get some real tool.
Hope you like it. If you will try this design yourself, take a pictures and let me know, really want to see it. May be we even can organize a cherry week or something like this - little flash mob, when all the readers will have a cherry nails in the same time :)

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OPI Gotta Get Pink!

I am so so so happy with this colour! This is what I wanted Mod About You to look like on me, sadly it just looked like white with a tiny bit of pink and chalk thrown in.

However... this shade, Gotta Get Pink! just blows me away. It is an Ulta exclusive from USA. I am so greatful to the person who was willing to help me get these!

This is three coats. It was a little problematic, only in the way of the brush. The bristles at the end were a little 'bushed' so it made applying it a little difficult, otherwise it is perfect-o :D

I cannot wait to wear the other two pinks, In Sync With Pink and Don't Think, Just Pink!

I have started a new regime in regard to trying new polishes. I can no longer just try it on four nails and take a few photos and then claim it tried. I have to wear it as a full manicure :) It is working really well and also keeps me super excited about those that I have yet to try!

Well I'm off to have some lunch and then konad this pink beast! :D

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Japanese Holographics - Grey

While I was away yesterday, visiting the boyfriends new apartment for uni, we went into one of my favourite dollar stores to pick up an eraser for my sister. So we found it, ventured round to the Nail Polish isle and HOLY COW! They had a whole line of holographic polishes!!! I limited myself to two, a grey and a silver.

The application of these polishes was brilliant! I was expecting cheap 'n nasty for something that only cost a few dollars... but these are seriously like OPI quality. They dry really quick too!

What makes these polishes special? I have never seen anything like them. Let's start with the grey, I only know of China Glaze's Let's Do It In 3D that is a grey holo. But this is very chunky compared to this fine holographic. It also has gold shimmer! Truly beautiful. You can't really see it in the pictures here because the sun was well and truly out the holographic pieces tend to be more dominant. But you can see the gold shimmer in the bottle :D

I love how the Japanese go all out for their polishes! I am really looking forward to my trip to Japan ♥

If there are any NZ'ers who would like me to CP these shades to you I would be more than happy :) There was also a baby blue, a gold, a pink, a mauve and a coral-y colour :D Just send me an email at nailjuice@live.com

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Gotta Go! Grape

Hope your day is going well :D

Dreamy purple isn't it? This is another Japan exclusive. Gotta Go! Grape. I am pretty sure that Nicole reincarnated this shade, same with Tangerine Scene. I have both versions of Tangerine Scene, not a difference at all.

This is three coats shown here. I really like this purple because there is nothing quite like it. Gotta Go! Grape has an amazing shimmer consisting of orange and warm purple. 

If you are thinking that this looks like OPI's You Ottaware Purple, I have compared the two and GGG is much warmer.

Have a lovely evening/morning/noon/whatever it happens to be on your side of the world :D

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OPI Tangerine Scene

I bet this wasn't the Tangerine Scene you were expecting ;) Good ol' OPI recycling the names. The other Tangerine Scene I speak of is more recent but also discontinued, it is from the psychedelic collection. 

This Tangerine Scene is a japanese one and I looooove it!

First orange that I have fallen in love with. The first orange that I thought I could wear! I think this is because it looks like it has a hint of peach :D So the orange doesn't clash with my olive skin.

Three coats featured here. It applies really nicely too, like 90% of the yoko's.

Such a lucious orange...

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