Time And Relative Dimension In Space

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I hope you're all ready for a great three day weekend! I'll be working some extra hours but that's already since my parents are visiting next weekend. I just get to stress about packing and cleaning until they get here.

Tonight's manicure is three coats of Time And Relative Dimension In Space (TARDIS) from LynBDesigns. TARDIS is a navy blue jelly with silver square glitter suspended throughout. If you don't already know, the TARDIS is the name of the spaceship from Doctor Who which is hands down my favorite TV series. This is a really pretty nail polish but my bottle needed a little thinner to make the formula more manageable. TARDIS was also a bit of a topcoat eater so this is pictured with two coats of TC.

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Barielle U-Concrete-Me under LynBDesigns Weeping Angels

Barielle U-Concrete-Me under LynBDesigns Weeping Angels

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L.A. Girl Teal Dimension

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I went running again tonight. Only 1.5 miles but I also did strength training afterwards which made me feel accomplished. I really don't like the running part of my workout and the weights afterwards are sort of like a reward for running. That sounds weird doesn't it? You have to have cardiovascular stamina AND muscle strength to be a well rounded person though. Ah well, at least I'm still running!

Tonight's manicure is two coats of L.A. Girl Teal Dimension. I found the display of these new L.A. Girl scattered holos at my local Rite Aid and was super excited. These look just like the Zoya holos from the Ornate collection but there are more colors! The formula was very nice on this polish, great opacity in two coats and full of large holographic particles scattered throughout a jelly base.

Layering with Zoya Designer, Fleck, and Gloss

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Tonight is graduation at the dojo so work is bound to be busy today. On the bright side, I was ready for graduation well in advance this time. Sometimes it's nice to have a calm day when you can go in to work early before the customer rush and get your tasks done without interruption. Tonight will be a small graduation for colored belts but it is the first time 23 of our new black belts will be able to sit at the front of the mat on the black belt panel. They'll be recognized as completing their black belt journey by the community of our dojo for the first time!

Today's post is a neat little layering manicure I did with Zoya Monica, Zoya Chloe, and Zoya Katherine. I didn't have a lot of time the night I needed to change my manicure so instead of removing my existing two coat manicure of Monica, I added one coat of Chloe with her orange and green flakies, then I topped it off with a coat of the pretty plum jelly Katherine.

Zoya Gloss Collection

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Stormy weather out here in NC, hopefully we'll get through the worst of it without any serious downed lines. Next week is weapons week at the dojo and simultaneously graduation week so I'll be super busy until Wednesday night. Ah well, it's all fun anyways!

This is the Gloss NYFW Collection from Zoya to supplement their Fall line. The set consists of three glossy jelly polishes that were inspired by Peter Som's request for a glaze which lead to the creation of Katherine and subsequently Paloma and Frida!

For each of these, I did an increasing number of coats on each finger starting with the index and ending with the pinky. First off, Katherine "A sheer, dark, red-toned aubergine with a buildable jelly gloss finish."

 Next up, Paloma! Now, Paloma is a name that means dove so I was a little surprised when this wasn't a great. Here's what Zoya says about Paloma, "A sheer deep fuchsia-berry with a buildable jelly gloss finish."

And finally, Frida. Now, the name Frida always evokes imagery of Frida Kahlo for me. She's a really interesting Mexican painter that did iconic portraits. They're not the prettiest portraits and I generally amuse myself picking on the massive unibrow the women sport.

Source: http://arthistory.about.com/od/from_exhibitions/ig/frida_kahlo/Frida-Kahlo---Me-and-My-Parrots--1941.htm

 I've got a fairly ugly little necklace holder that I call Frida because it's not the prettiest thing. When I saw that Frida was a gorgeous teal jelly, I couldn't help but be amused! Zoya calls Frida, "A sheer, dark, warm-toned teal blue with a buildable jelly gloss finish."

 

Gloss Collection provided for honest review by the Zoya PR team.

Zoya Fall 2012 Designer, Diva, and Gloss

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Today's post is a super exciting press release from Zoya on their upcoming fall collection. I should hopefully have some fun swatches up within the week and the polishes go on sale this weekend!

NYFW 2012

DESIGNER, DIVA & GLOSS

three new couture nail color collections ZOYA for Fall 2012

Inspired by backstage beauties, talented designers, runways and VIP fashion events, the NYFW 2012 Color Collections by Zoya for Fall 2012 are simply stunning. Choose from full-coverage creams and metallics or incredibly shiny jellies. If it’s in style this season - Zoya has it!

Each New Fall Collection (Designer, Diva and Gloss) features color that is beautiful, long-wearing and “haute” off the New York Fashion Week (NYFW) Fall 2012 runway!

Zoya NYFW 2012: Designer Collection

• Rekha (ZP626) - Blood red cream (Bibhu Mohapatra custom shade)

• Toni (ZP627) - Dark maroon red cream

• Monica (ZP628) - Dark mulberry purple cream

• Natty (ZP629) - Smoked navy blue cream

• Evvie (ZP630) - Evergreen green cream (Peter Som custom shade)

• Noot (ZP631) - Charcoal green gray cream

Zoya NYFW 2012: Diva Collection

• Elisa (ZP632) - Crimson red metallic

• Suri (ZP633) - Royal purple metallic

• Song (ZP634) - Egyptian blue metallic with a subtle sparkle

• Ray (ZP635) - Pine green metallic

• FeiFei (ZP636) - Magic blue foil sparkle metallic

• Daul (ZP637) - Magic violet foil sparkle metallic

Zoya NYFW 2012: Gloss Collection

• Katherine (ZP638) - Sheer eggplant jelly gloss, buildable formula (Peter Som custom shade)

• Paloma (ZP639) - Sheer berry red jelly gloss, buildable formula

• Frida (ZP640) - Sheer teal blue jelly gloss, buildable formula

ZOYA IS THE NEW COLOR OF FASHION!

Ultra long-wearing, glossy nail lacquers by Zoya are BIG5FREE - all formulas are completely free of harmful industrial chemicals such as toluene, camphor, formaldehyde, formaldehyde resin and dibutyl phthalate (DBP) that are known to cause cancer and birth defects.

Find over 300 other Zoya shades at www.zoya.com. Each and every name has a color as unique as the women who inspired it.

Polishes and press release provided by Zoya PR team for my honest review. Please see my Disclosure policy for more information.

Blue White!

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Tomorrow is my hubby's birthday so my next post might be a little bit late. Hopefully you won't mind, it's sort of a big one for him, he'll be 25! He keeps harping on how old he'll be because it's a quarter of a century but I think he just wants an excuse to feel old. Also, my larger dog accidentally took a little bite of finger with a treat I was giving her so I've got to be careful with polish remover on my right hand. Hopefully this won't mess with my polishing!

Here are the nails I did for my Yellow-Black to Blue-White graduation! These are two coats of Revlon Royal over my existing silver polish decorated with a white striping polish. I should have done this in better lighting to prevent my bubbles but my right hand turned out ok. That's why these are non-dominant hand pictures! For your viewing pleasure:

OPI Jelly Sandwich!

Good evening Ninjas!

Sorry about the late post again, just got back from am awesome day! After work, I went and did some archery practice with a group of friends then we had a dojo movie night! We watched the 36th Chamber of Shaolin which is a great Martial Arts Classic movie. I think Fists of Fury is the next up on our Martial Arts Essentials lineup and it will be fun to see what else I've been missing out on. I feel so uneducated in the classics of kung fu movies... Then again, it is a Ninja dojo ;-)

Tonight I've got a sandwich you've probably seen a dozen times by now, OPI My Pointe Exactly and Pirouette My Whistle from the New York City Ballet collection. I was initially skeptical about this collection because I don't like such sheer pastels. It was seeing the really pretty jelly sandwiches that convinced me. I also picked up Care to Danse because I'm a sucker for light purples.

This is two coats of MPE, one coat of PMW, and two more coats of MPE. This was a looot of coats and I probably could have done without the last coat of jelly. Actually, this would have been really pretty with just the first three layers but I had a mission to accomplish!

Revlon Whimsical

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Tonight I've got a follow-up to my Kristen manicure. This is two-ish coats of Revlon Whimsical over Kristen. Kristen made a great base for Whimsical and really brought out the pretty blue in the jelly base. Whimsical is a dupe for Deborah Lippmann's Glitter in the Air with a much nicer price tag! I will let the photos speak for themselves but I am totally in love with his combination. I got lots of nice compliments on this too.

Wet n Wild Fantasy Makers: Vamp

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Today I've got a Fantasy Makers color that I haven't seen on other blogs yet. This is Vamp, a merlot jelly that looks great for the season. In the bottle, it looks almost identical to Essie Wicked for a point of reference. This is two easy coats and the color dried super shiney! Sorry about the tip wear, this was day three and the sun had been hiding for days due to storms.

China Glaze Zombie Zest

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I'm currently at a huge Ninja Festival in Ohio right now but I wanted to make sure I didn't miss a post this week. Today I've got pictures of my Zombie Zest manicure. This is a really neat color that I've been waiting to wear until October to celebrate Halloween. ZZ is from last year's China Glaze Halloween collection and it's a really glitter-filled murky green jelly. The glitter in a fine green glitter with a neat teal flash in the right lighting. This did take three coats for relative opacity but it's soooo worthwhile!

Tinted Tropicalia

Today I have a nifty layering mani for you. This is two coats of Wet n Wild's Tropicalia which is a pretty pink cream polish that leans a little peach. On top of that is two coats of Revlon's Just Tinted in Dawn. I like the shiny jelly look the tinted polish created over the cream finish. This was a really neat sort of honeyscuckle color when it was finished.

Purple Pizzazz and Dasher

This is suuuuuch a pretty manicure. I did four coats (yes, four) of Sally Hansen Xtreme wear in Purple Pizzazz. Purple Pizzazz is a lovely royal purple jelly loaded with light purple/pink and blue glitter flakes. It's basically impossible to capture the beauty that is Purple Pizzazz unless you wear it yourself. Since I thought it needed some sort of extra (was going to stamp it with something white) I looked around and spotted Wet n Wild's Dasher. Dasher is a gorgeous scattered/sometimes linear holo topcoat that went perfect with Purple Pizzazz!

This is one coat of Dasher over four coats of Purple Pizzazz:

Lots of Pictures to capture the lovely color of this manicure. However, this is nowhere near color correct. Purple Pizzazz is much more red than blue but I didn't want to open up photoshop to fix it, Sorry!