Zoya Feel Collection Press Release

FEEL

Six full-coverge winter cream neutrals



FEEL Beautiful!

Every season the color experts at Zoya create dozens of new color collection options. This

year, one of those “secret collections” just had to be seen now rather than later. FEEL by Zoya

Nail Polish delivers six new, highly pigmented, full coverge neutrals for right now!

Zoya FEEL Collection
Kristen (ZP591): Full coverage, gull gray cream
Carey (ZP592): Full coverage, periwinkle gray cream
Megan (ZP593): Full coverage, taupe gray cream
Kendal (ZP594): Full coverage, rose quartz beige cream
Kennedy (ZP595): Full coverage, pale french beige cream
Avery (ZP596): Full coverage, blonde beige cream

Zoya is the new color of fashion...


Ultra long-wearing, glossy nail lacquers by Zoya are free of harmful industrial chemicals

like toluene, camphor, formaldehyde, resin, dibutyl phthalate (DBP) that are known

to cause cancer and birth defects.


Find Zoya FEEL as well as over 300 other ultra high-fashion Zoya shades at

www.zoya.com. As always, each and every Zoya color is made for women so we

name them after women.

FEEL by Zoya

Sug. Retail $8.00 per 0.5 fl.oz. bottle (US)

www.zoya.com

Available November 15, 2011.

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Zoya Gems and Jewels: New Holiday - Winter Nail Polish Collection

PRESS RELEASE:
'Tis the season to think about festive nail color and Zoya has it...

Holiday Nail Polish by Zoya
Gems and Jewels
jewelry for nails!

Zoya Nail Polish presents 3 new jewel toned metallic shimmer polishes and 3 glitzy, bar glitter glazes (featuring unique bar glitter) for an extra special holiday and winter 2011 season!

Zoya Gems and Jewels Collection

Rina (ZP576): Full coverage, rich green metallic shimmer.
Holly (ZP577): Gorgeous green glitzy, glitter glaze (with unique bar glitter).
Kissy (ZP578): Full coverage, party pink metallic shimmer.
Izzy (ZP579): Vivid pink glitzy, glitter glaze (with unique bar glitter).
Twila (ZP580): Full coverage, icy blue metallic shimmer.
Noel (ZP581): Bold blue glitzy, glitter glaze! (with unique bar glitter).

Mix it up... The Zoya Gems and Jewels color assortment allows
for multiple layered nail polish looks! Have fun...

• Wear the full coverage, jewel toned shades alone for a classic metallic shimmer look!
• Wear the glitzy, glitter glazes alone for a hint of glitz.
• Wear several layers of the glitzy, glitter glazes for a unique textured glitz nail look.
• Layer the glazes over the shimmers to a totally glam nail jewelry look.
• Layer the glitzy, glitter glazes over other colors to create a totally unique look that is
all your own (hint - hint: silver, gold, white and black totally rock under the glazes!).

Ultra long-wearing, glossy nail lacquers by Zoya are free of harmful industrial chemicals like toluene, camphor, formaldehyde, resin, dibutyl phthalate (DBP) that are known to cause cancer and birth defects.

Find Zoya Gems and Jewels as well as over 400 other ultra high-fashion

Zoya shades at www.zoya.com. As always, each and every Zoya color is made for
women so we name them after women.

Zoya is the new color of fashion...


NOW AVAILABLE

Sug. Retail $8.00 ea. (US)

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october haul

I promised I would be better this month... Let's see if that happened.

The best thing I got this month?
OPI - DS Glamour (via swap with Taylor from Nailed to the T)

I got some delayed birthday gifts:
China Glaze - He's Going In Circles (from Laurie!)
Catrice - Khaki Perry (From Traci of the Trace Face Philes!)

I also bought some things from Traci:
Zoya - Bekka (That's close to my name!)
Color Club - Edie
Color Club - Jackie OH!
Color Club - Revvvolution

And won a polish from Traci!
Barry M - Limited Edition Pink

I got some things from Llarowe:
Glitter Gal - Orange Sparkle
Glitter Gal - Light As A Feather
Glitter Gal - Black
Glitter Gal - Silver
Glitter Gal - Marine Blue
a england - Tristam
a england - Excalibur

I got some things from Nail Polish Canada:
Soulstice Spa - Montreal
Soulstice Spa - Monterey
Soulstice Spa - Manchester

And here is the rest of the stuff I bought:
OPI - Rainbow Connection
OPI - Excuse Moi!
OPI - Gone Gonzo!
OPI - Gettin' Miss Piggy With It!
OPI - Fresh Frog of Bel Air
OPI - Divine Swine
China Glaze - Snow Globe
China Glaze - Twinkle Lights
OPI - Sanderella
Pumpkin Polish - Pink (glow in the dark)
Pumpkin Polish - Pink (black light)
Color Club - Pride Collection
Color Club - Back To Boho Collection "B"
China Glaze - It's Alive
China Glaze - Ghoulish Glow
China Glaze - Dorothy Who?
China Glaze - Ruby Pumps (micro mini) ($1.39!)
Revlon - Girly (sale! $1.37)
Revlon - Royal Cloak
OPI - Visions of Sugarplum
OPI - Lincoln Park At Midnight (sale! $5)
Kleancolor Techno High Mini Set (6 for $5!)
Kleancolor Candy Case Mini Set (6 for $5!)


As you can see, no, I didn't do good. Christmas collections and Color Club collections kill me.
36 polishes, 13 minis, and 2 Color Club sets.
It's really not too bad because I didn't pay for a lot of it and what I did pay for was mostly with professional prices. And it is way less than last month and the month before.

Oh well. I'll be better in November because the Christmas and Halloween collections are done and over with.

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Halloween mani;

hi~

here's my current mani...


a random mix of Halloween stuff :P the cute Dracula was inspired by Rina's adorable Dracula mani~

i hope everyone had an enjoyable Halloween :)

have a good one!,
<3KATRINA

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Weekly Giveaway Roundup

I love giveaways. Each week I'll post giveaways that I think are awesome! I'm trying to catch any giveaway that has nail polish & I always post them on the Monday before they close. I figure some publicity towards the end of the entry period is a good idea, so don't worry that I've forgotten yours if I don't post it immediately! On the other hand, I know that I will occasionally miss a giveaway or two. If I miss yours, please know that it was accidental and nothing personal!

I've decided to note which giveaways aren't open internationally. The default will be open worldwide, meaning I'll only note if they have restrictions.

NAIL POLISH & MORE

• Nightly Nails is giving away BB Couture Scorching Strawberry!! Ends ?
• Body & Soul is giving away Bath & Body Works Halloween lotions and 4 Fantasy Maker polishes!! Ends 11/1.
• Copy That, Copy Cat is giving away China Glaze OMG & OPI DS Magic!! Ends 11/2.
• Reflections, Sassy Nails, & Silly Diversions is giving away 7 delightful polishes & more!! Ends 11/2.
• The TraceFace Philes is giving away 9 cool polish prizes!! Ends 11/4.
• Lacquered Me is giving away 4 polishes from Essie's Fall Collection! 4 winners!! Ends 11/4.
• Life Sparkles is giving away your choice of Barry M polish!! Ends 11/4.
• LimitedAddictionNails is giving away 6 beautiful polishes & much more!! Ends 11/4.
• Nails by Kayla Shevonne is giving away your choice of 3 piCture pOlishes!! Ends 11/4.
• Confessions of a Sarcastic Mom is giving away the Wet N Wild Flirting with Fate set!! Ends 11/4. *US only
• Fierce Makeup & Nails is giving away 6 amazing polishes & lots more!! Ends 11/5.
• Body & Soul is giving away Dr. Hauschka's Neem Nail Oil Pen!! Ends 11/5.
• Pretty Digits is giving away Beyu 209 Brilliant Shiraz!! Ends 11/5.
• The Exotic Lacquer is giving away your choice of Jamberry Nail Shields!! Ends 11/5. *US only
• Amandalandish is giving away 4 fun polishes! Ends 11/6. 
• Polish this! is giving away wonderful polish & nail art prizes! 2 winners!! Ends 11/6.
• Lovely Little Things is giving away 2 great polish prizes!! Ends 11/7.
• Zestful Nails is giving away your choice of piCture pOlishes!! Ends 11/7.
• Deuce Beauties is giving away OPI Muppet polishes! 3 winners!! Ends 11/8.

SKINCARE & MAKEUP

• Neverland Nail Blog is giving away 3 packs of Violent Lips!! Ends 11/4.
• Laughing Lindsay is giving away Dove Hair Care products!! Ends 11/7. *US only

CLOTHING & ACCESSORIES

• Chic Luxuries is giving away your choice of SkinnyJeans!! Ends 11/2. *US only
• the rikrak studio is giving away 3 pieces of Phul Effect jewelry!! Ends 11/4.

MISCELLANEOUS

• Just Jingle is giving away 2 GCs to your choice of a wide range of independent shops! Ends 11/7.

Please feel free to post your giveaways in the comments of the Weekly Giveaway Roundup posts! Let's keep them all on these posts and not on regular posts.

Thanks for reading!
April  

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Lynnderella Very Pretty Vampire + Butter London Wallis

October 31, 2011

I wanted to start off by saying sorry about all the confusion with my current giveaway. The current giveaway is for United States residence only. Sorry for your trouble if you have already registered and are not a U.S. resident. 

This is my first experience with Butter London, and I am so glad it was Butter London Wallis! It is SO beautiful. I recieved this as a "thank you" gift from Lauren from A Polish Change. She is a doll, so stop by her blog and say hello. 

This is two coats of the lovely Butter London Wallis with no top coat. 

Then I thought I would use another Lynnderella polish! This time it was Lynnderella Very Pretty Vampire. I thought it would be neat to see Butter London Wallis peeking through the jelly finish of Lynnderella Very Pretty Vampire.

This is Lynnderella Very Pretty Vampire with NO top coat. As you can see, it is VERY bumpy and has a lot of texture. This polish defiantly needs a top coat (unless you like this finish). At first I added ONE coat of top coat, and it was still bumpy and had a lot of texture. I was so disappointed in the polish UNTIL the girls in my Facebook polish group said ADD MORE TOP COAT (duh Amy!!!!). So I did. THREE coats of top coat did the trick. The polish was then absolutely gorgeous. See the last photo. 

This is two coats of Lynnderella Very Pretty Vampire over two coats of Butter London Wallis. This is THREE coats of top coat! Isn't it beautiful?!!!!!!?!?!?!?!?

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Crushed Candy Crown

I wanted to layer a crackle over the intense glitter of OPI Crown My Already! I used China Glaze Crackle Crushed Candy.

I just love the light teal of For Audrey/Crushed Candy. China Glaze did it right!

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GIVEAWAY: OPI Touring America Collection

It's time for me to stop tricking people, and to finally give out a treat. My blog was due for a giveaway! Here is your chance to own the whole OPI Touring America Collection. Please read and follow all rules, if they aren't followed your entry will be disqualified. Thank you!

Prize: One lucky winner will get all 12 OPI Touring America Collection (You may look at my swatches & review here)

RULES:

- You must be a follower of my blog or my twitter to enter this giveaway
- To enter simply fill out the form below and tell me which OPI nail polish is your favorite of all times.
- Additional Entries:
One extra entry if you tweet the following: @mzgladys (Nail Fanatic) OPI Touring America Collection giveaway!! -- http://tinyurl.com/3fzqsgl (Please include link on form if you tweeted)
One extra entry if you LIKE Nail Fanatic on my Facebook fan page (Please include your Facebook name on form)
Two extra entries if you blog about the giveaway (Please include link to your blog on form)
(This means you can have a total of 5 entries for this giveaway)
- Please fill out the form only once, if duplicate entries are found, only the first entry will be counted, so make sure you got everything down before submitting.
- The deadline to enter is November 14, 2011
- You must have a valid e-mail address/twitter account to enter.
- Winner will be notified by e-mail within 48 hours after the giveaway is over
- The winner will have 48 hours to respond or else another winner will be chosen
- This giveaway is opened to all my readers including international readers

Good Luck to all!

(This giveaway is made possible thanks to OPI)

THIS GIVEAWAY ENDED. ENTRIES WILL BE VERIFIED, AND THE WINNER WILL BE EMAILED!

Congrats to Josefina N. for winning the OPI Touring America giveaway!!

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A Halloween Preview

Happy Halloween!!!

I'm still working through my backlog of nails, which means that you all haven't even seen any of my Halloween designs yet! But I figured since today is my favorite holiday that I would give you all a sneak preview of my Halloween costume, which OF COURSE has nails that go alone with it. But you'll just have to wait to see the nails!

I am a Taco Bell hot sauce! I love Taco Bell!!! Which if you've read my blog before, you know, because I constantly write about how much I love Taco Bell. If you just can't wait to see the nail design that went with this costume, you can see my previous Taco Bell nail designs here (my first T-Bell design, and one of my first original designs) and here (which is more recent, and what I was *thinking* of wearing with this costume).

What were you for Halloween? 

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Born Pretty Pink Shimmer Polish + Nail Art

Happy Halloween! Ironically, I don't have nails to celebrate. Oops. But I did include some pics of our costumes!

It's been a while since I have shown you anything from Born Pretty Store. It's no secret by now that I'm a fan, in fact I ordered a bunch of cute jewelry and hair accessories from there that I will show you when they arrive. Today though, I have one of their glitter/shimmer polishes for you. I have posted different colors of this line here and here. This one is sort of  a magenta shade packed with glitter/shimmer. Love it.

This cute flower image comes from Born Pretty plate m74. The little dots were done with dual ended nail art pens from Born Pretty and I will have a detailed review of those later!

Stamping plate M74 retails for $2.99 and you can find it here. 

The polish featured in this review retails for $4.74 and you can find it here.

Also, I have a coupon code that will get you 10% off! It's AMBERL73. :)

And now, here are our costumes! Dustin is Mr. Clean, I am a cleaning housewife (my apron says Born to Shop, Forced to Clean haha), and Taylee is a Magic Eraser. We won Cutest Costume prize at our church Halloween party!

Hope you all have a fun Halloween! I ate candy corn and a doughnut for breakfast. haha

*Products were sent for review in exchange for my honest opinions.

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Deco Polish Rack Discount!

Hey Y'all! I want to tell you about a great product that I was contacted about recently, the Deco Polish Rack. It is a super cute polish rack that can be easily wall mounted. The Deco Polish Rack can hold between 55-70 bottles depending on the their size and is a beautiful and stylish art piece for you home or salon. Deco Polish Racks are currently available in white, pink, purple and
pink polka dots.




The creator of this poduct is Velvet Nail Lounge owner Nick Brown. He has kindly offered to provide me with a discount to pass along to my followers for $5 off your purchase for the month of November! When checking out use the couopon code: LOLO. The site is @ decopolishracks.com.

Stay tuned for a complete review of this product!

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Halloween Nail Polish from Zoya!

Happy Halloween!

Witches, vampires, skeletons and ghosts. 
Sexy pirates, french maids and haunted house hosts. 
We have your color, 300 at that; 
this Halloween Zoya's where it at!

Colors featured in the Zoya Happy Halloween Nail Polish video are Zoya Raven (black nail polish) and Zoya Tanzy (orange nail polish).

Zoya is the new color of Fashion (and Halloween)... 
We've got the color to complete any look (costume)!
http://www.zoya.com

All Zoya Nail Polishes and Treatments are free of formaldehyde, toluene, dibutyl phthalate and camphor.

© 2011-2012 Art of Beauty Inc. All rights reserved.

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DIAMONDIS

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Sally Hansen Salon Effects in Hot Wired

Happy Halloween! I hope everyone have a fun and spooky, but most importantly safe Halloween! I decided to use the Sally Hansen Salon Effects strips as my Halloween mani instead of doing more nail art (honestly I just ran out of ideas). This is my second time using these strips and was more successful at them then last time.

They came out with many Halloween designs, but I was mostly attracted to Hot Wired. Maybe it's the green, I don't know!


I think it looks pretty neat. The application took me only 20 minutes for both hands. Which I feel is pretty quick. Didn't really have any troubles either.

Only problem I have this time is finding the pieces to fit right. My nails are kind of skinny so it was a little tough. The pinky one was too small, but the next smallest size was too big so I just stayed with the smaller one.



It's not that visible so I think it's OK!


Here's slight bubbling at the bottom of my thumb. But I don't think it's the strip problem, I think there's slight bumps on my thumb from when I had glitters on and I peeled it off from boredom =X very bad habit of mine.

Overall, I'm happy with this. I've only had this on since last night so I'm not sure about how long it'll lasts. I wish there was a konad stamp of this, because this design is pretty awesome! Looking forward to looking at other people's Halloween manis!

Enjoy your Halloween, and eat lots of candies!

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Black and White

These nails were supposed to look kind of like wallpaper. I am a huge fan of bold wallpaper, I think it is a necessity in any home so I wanted to try to make something bold and high contrast on my nails. I didn't have very much time so I hurriedly painted these nails. I intended to make the background colors alternate between black and white a bit more, but instead this turned out to be a white heavy design with the details in the black.

This photo actually gives me the opportunity to talk about a fun fact: I hate painting my thumbs. I almost never paint my right thumb, I don't know why but that nail is almost always bare or just a solid color. I have started referring to it as a good luck charm to not paint my right thumb, but obviously that is just a thing I say. Here I didn't paint my left thumb, I think because I was in a rush. Do you have any weird nail habits?

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Green Retro Dots

I liked these shades of green and wanted something bold to go with my outfit.

 This is an easy look to recreate that doesn't require too much steadiness.

I started with Essie - Absolutely Shore and added white polka dots on top. (You can refer to my polka dot tutorial here if needed.)

Then I used a white nail art striper to draw lines connecting the polka dots like so:

Then I added smaller sized polka dots on top of the bigger dots. I just used the opposing ends of a dotting tool. The green I used is OPI Jade is the New Black.

Let it dry thoroughly before applying a topcoat. You don't want it to smear!

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Ozotic Mish Mash 531

I know quite a few of you have been waiting to see this one :) Ozotic Mish Mash 531. The truth is that I just wasn't feeling this one in the bottle and chose to wear the other blue ones first.  I didn't think I was really going to love this polish, I don't know why, but I just wasn't getting the vibe! 

I put this on and wore it to a wedding on Saturday and I don't know if its because it complimented my outfit so perfectly or what, but WOW was I soooo wrong.  I love this one so much.  It's my favourite out of the bunch of the Mish Mash polishes - hands down!

Ozotic 531 is the holographic version of Ozotic 502.  I'm certain it is 502 and not 520, because when you check the acute angle, it shifts to the bright yellow of 502, rather than the orange of 520 as can be seen in this comparison post.

The sun was also out on Saturday, so I was able to get some sun shots of this, as well as indoor ones.

The strong shimmer of the golden tones makes it a little hard to see the holographic rainbow at this angle.

OMG I love this next photo angle.  This shows what this polish looks like most of the time.  The spectraflair in the polish has toned down the maroon base and made it appear more brown or copper bronze.  The colour reminds me of our old 1c piece (a little like a US penny).

I love how the spectraflair can tone down the colours in a polish.  It seems to work like a blue/violet hair toner used on blonde hair that has a brassy look to it.   There have been so many times when I have been frankening and I think, 'this colour is a little to strong, it needs some white in it', so instead I add a little spectraflair and it's perfect.

Indoors, near the window, using the LED macro light on the camera.

Like all the other swatches, this was two coats over a black base.  So which is your favourite?  Are you going to buy any of these? Which one/s?

I did the comparison swatches yesterday (comparing my franken of spectraflair mixed 505 vs Ozotic 532 vs 505 + holo top coat.  The outcome is very interesting.  I also did a quick swatch of each of the Mish Mash polishes without the black base.  So pop on by tomorrow for those.

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Bloody Fingerprint Nails

 

This is the easiest nail art ever! If you want to do something fun for your nails tomorrow, this takes less than 5 minutes. It's foolproof too. I think it would look great over any lighter color for contrast or even unpolished nails. I just brushed some red polish on my thumb and started printing. Both hands are easy to do which is not usually the case with nail art. Seriously, if you have 5 minutes, you can do this for Halloween tomorrow!

Here's a few other examples from some fellow nail bloggers. If you've done a version of fingerprint nails, I'd love to see them! Leave a link in the comments.

• Je T'aime Lacquer
• Nail Art Creations
• OMG! Polish 'em!
• Limited Addiction Nails

Thanks for reading!
April

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1000 Follower Appreciation! Make sure to enter!

OCTOBER 30, 2011

1000 FOLLOWER APPRECIATION!!!!

Here is what one lucky winner will receive:
My Nail Graffiti's Winter Franken Collection
(Click here to view My Nail Graffiti's blog)

Begins NOW and ends November 13!!!! Winner will be announced by November 16.
Sorry for all the confusion, this U.S. only. 

Here is what you win!


The following swatch photos and verbiage was taken from My Nail Graffiti's blog about her Winter Franken Collection. 

This is Evergold. Multi size gold, green, and blue glitters in a green jelly base. This is 3 coats.

Next, is Five Golden Rings. This has 10 different types of gold glitters and micro flakies in it! This is 3 coats. Fun gold for the holidays!

Here is Golden Rainbow. This has mixture of different colored holo glitters and micro flakes. 

 Gleaming Red has multiple sizes of red and gold glitters with micro flakes in a red jelly base.

This is Snow Day. Multi sized iridescent glitters in a milky white base. 

This is Black Ice. Iridescent glitters, multi sized black and holo glitters in a clear base.

Next is Jack Frost. Iridescent glitters with color shifting chameleon pigment. 

Permafrost. Same as above only with different colors in the color shifting pigment.

And finally, we have Glacier Frost. Same description as above, just different colors!

All prizes were purchased by me, and they are NEW!!!!

Feel free to use the first two photos you see in this post.
You must by 18 years or older to enter/win.

***The winner will be chosen using a random number generator. Your "number" will be assigned to you according to the order of entries/how many entries you qualify for. For example, if you were the first person to enter and you qualify for 4 entries, you are assigned numbers 1-4. If the next person that enters only qualifies for two entries, they are assigned numbers 5-6. And so on...


I will contact the winner through email, and it will be announced on my blog. The winner has 48 hours to respond to the email or another winner is chosen. 


The only way to enter is to click on the link that says "Click here to enter" and fill out the form. Entries left in the comments section will NOT be counted. Duplicate entries will be deleted. I will keep the entry that is received first unless you email me to tell me other wise (if you accidentally submit before you are ready to). 


If you have any problems or questions, contact me at imfeelingnailventurous@yahoo.com

The only mandatory rule is that you have to be a follower of my blog either through Networked Blogs or Google Friend Connect. This will earn you one entry.

You can gain extra entries by doing the following:

1. Blogging about this giveaway either on your giveaway page, a new post, or side bar 

2. Clicking “like” on my Facebook page (http://www.facebook.com/imfeelingnailventurous) 

3. Posting my Giveaway on your Facebook or Twitter

4. Adding me to your blogroll

Note: Again, any entries left in the comments section will not count. To enter, you must fill out the contest form by click the yellow highlighted link that says "Click here to enter". If you have any questions, please feel free to e-mail me.

Good luck!!!!

Thanks for reading my blog!

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