China Glaze Spring 2010 Nail Collection

I love these colors, they remind me of ice cream, spring flowers and summer beach balls. Yummy! There are 12 creme shades in the collection:

Grape Pop-bright plum

Sugar High-petal pink

Something Sweet-cotton candy

Light as Air-periwinkle

Heli Yum-raspberry

Flyin' High-teal

Four Leaf Clover-kelly green

Re-Fresh Mint-spearmint

Peachy Keen-nectar


High Hopes-guava


Happy Go Lucky-sunshine yellow

Lemon Fizz-banana

Fellow blogger Temptalia has swatches and reviews of the entire collection here.

Navy Nail Trend with China Glaze Indian Ocean

I will be the first to admit I know next to nothing about nail polish. And I will also admit that I am rather boring when it comes to nail color. Until recently I only did french manicures---I know I know, I'm sure all you nail polish aficionados are appalled by my backward lackluster nail habits and ready to throw me out of the beauty blogasphere. But wait....I can change...I wore red last week and just look how I have embraced the latest trend! And what a gorgeous trend it is. I never would have thought navy nail polish could look so classy and trendy at the same time. China Glaze has created a very complex shade--Indian Ocean is a deep indigo blue with a black base, and yet one coat showed deep purple on my nails and with two coats I got this lovely rich deep blue with a lovely slight pearl sheen to it. It's both dark and bright if that's possible. This is really out of my comfort zone, but I feel hip wearing it and after 3 days I have developed an affection for this color. I was worried blue nails would make me look like a corpse or very very cold but me thinks it looks very classy. If this is what the Indian Ocean looks like, I'm booking  my next vacation there! Would you or do you wear blue nail polish? Let me know in the comments.

After some research, I found out Indian Ocean is an older polish but still available at salons victoria nail supply.

Zoya's Fall 2009 Nail Collections - Truth & Dare

Zoya Nail Polish is the brainchild of Zoya Reyzis who, as a pregnant aesthetician and salon owner in 1984, realized the need for a healthier and more durable solution. Today, Zoya Nail Polish is available at the finest salons and spa’s worldwide and frequently receives top ratings in fashion, health, and pregnancy magazines world wide. Zoya Nail Polishes (Lacquers) are free of toxic Toluene, Formaldehyde and DBP and are among the longest wearing natural nail polishes available.

Zoya has two new collections for Fall 2009, Truth and Dare. The Truth Collection consists of the following shades:

Penny - copper gold metallic

Kalmia - rose copper metallic

Salma - scarlet red metallic

Isla - venetian red metallic

Anaka - fuchsia metallic glimmer

Drew - mauve rose metallic

I love them all!

The Dare Collection is richer and darker and much more in step with this year's fall fashions, especially Demi and Pinta. It's also kind of vampy don't you think? My favorites are Vanessa, you can beat a great red nail polish with a stick and this year I'm going out of my comfort zone and am going to try Iziba, the deep blue.


Vanessa - blue red cream

Ciara - burgundy plum cream

Demi - purple mauve cream

Pinta - inky violet cream

Envy - gleaming Jade green

Ibiza - gleaming Sapphire blue


Don't you love how the polishes are named after famous actresses? So cute!