New from Zoya for Spring 2014: "Awaken" Collection & Special Edition "Monet" Topper

New from Zoya for Spring 2014: "Awaken" Collection & Special Edition "Monet" Topper

This just in from Zoya - the new collection looks so great I just had to share the press release with you!

New Nail Polish Collection for Spring 2014: Zoya Awaken

Just as Spring emerges from a natural Winter slumber, Zoya Awakens to a fresh season of BIG5FREE* color...

Open your mind to the beauty of color discovery; the new, the unexplored, the excitement! Awaken by Zoya - Six new, full-coverage, dew-drenched creams and gold-kissed metallic nail polish colors for Spring 2014. Full of pure pigment, intense color and modern complexity that will take you far beyond the hazy, barely there hues of seasons past into a new world of chromatic joy.

ZOYA AWAKEN - 2014 SPRING

• • ZP723 - Dillon: Green Mint Shimmer Metallic Full Coverage Formula.
• • ZP724 - Rebel: Blue Sky Shimmer Metallic, Full Coverage Formula.
• • ZP722 - Hudson: Purple Orchid Shimmer Metallic, Full Coverage Formula (Yes, it's a Radiant Orchid!)
• • ZP720 - Dot: Pink Petal Cream, Full Coverage Formula
• (originally created for fashion designer Zang Toi’s SS14 collection).
• • ZP721 - Cole: Peach Whisper Cream, Full Coverage Formula
• (originally created for fashion designer Peter Som’s SS14 collection).
• • ZP725 - Brooklyn: White-Gold Shimmer Metallic, Full Coverage Formula.

$9.00 ea. (US)

PLUS, A SPECIAL EDITION TOPPER
Create a nail color masterpiece. The multi-colored, holographic flakes of Zoya Monet lend an impressionistic color change option to existing color palettes. Never boring, this artistic topper can be applied as an accent or used as an overall color changer.

• ZP726 - Monet: Multi-Color, Cellophane Holographic Topper.

$10.00 ea. (US)

*BIG5FREE: Zoya Nail Polish and Treatment Formulas are free of formaldehyde, formaldehyde resin, dibutyl phthalate, toluene and camphor.

Find over 300 long-wearing, beautiful Zoya colors on www.zoya.com. Each and every color has a name as unique as the women who inspired it.

ZOYA IS THE COLOR OF FASHION!
Available on Zoya.com

Happy New Year

Oh, yeah.  I remember them.  New Year has always been one of my favorite holidays.  No religious affiliations.  Everybody used to drink like fish and we got dressed up and ready for a long night.  That was many years ago.  So, I am reminiscing about what our New Year’s used to be like.  My brother in law, most eligible bachelor in town, always had the party that was the place to be.  He would go all out.  No joke.  He would hire a bartender.  Caterers.  My ex’s family was from Mexico so there was always mariachi’s and the best local band.  It was great by 12 everyone was really happy but at 2 minutes to 12 my sister and I always disappeared.  We would always go for the bathroom.  We were the two sisters with the long hair and the hosts special guests.  So, everyone was really nice to us, sometimes too nice.  At 12:00 there would always be some drunk older man trying to kiss us and wish us a happy new year only happened once.  We got wise the next years and would hide in the bathroom.  We would sit there and give each other a hug and wish each other a happy new year.  It was a ritual.  Once my brother in law’s parties ran their course and we started to go out we kept the tradition of hiding in the bathroom.  Every year we talk about those parties.  So, what do we do now.  Get together, eat chili, and watch movies.  Those were good times and something we will always remember and make new year’s special for us no matter where we are.   So, today I did a manicure that I would have worn to one of those parties.  All dressed up with black polish and the beautiful XX from Cirque the glitters sparkle like crystal.  This polish is so beautiful.  I totally love it.  It does remind me a little of Lynderella’s Shape Shifter which I also have but this one has more color to it and just makes it more fun and isn’t as expensive it cost about $12.00 a bottle and you can get Cirque polishes at their website.

Have a Happy New Year and I will be here next year.

Ciao bella,

Patty

The Most Overexposed Polish

If you haven’t seen this polish you have been asleep or under a rock.  It seems like this polish is all over the place.  Just check out Pinterest.  So, you must wonder why am I posting it?  Because it is just the beginning of a five polish love affair with Crows Toes.  This is called Indian Summer.  I kind of remember a song in the seventies talking about indian summer and I think the Doors also had a song called Indian Summer.   So, yes. I bought five more.  Where have I been that I have not noticed this brand?  I wore it and everyone I came in contact with was in awe. It is a beautiful shade of magenta, purple and blue.  I did end up stamping it but forgot to take pictures because some other polish has come in.  I am kicking myself in the tush.  Boy this was the month to buy polish.   Talking about that I bought a VHF Essie and I can’t find it.  Thank God the vendor had two more bottles.  I’ve looked everywhere even in Goldie’s poop not there. Oh, well the other bottle should be here this week and I will put it somewhere only I know and write it in my secret document where I keep all my passwords.  I am constantly forgetting my passwords but I found out that my sleep medication causes short term memory loss.  So, I’ll be switching to another one.  Back to this polish.  I know I said I wasn’t going to be that review blogger and post things that you can see else where but I have five more so I want to show them all and how to combine with stamping.  I am in a very creative state right now.  I have been really working on my novella and every night I have been looking at other blogs and wondering why after almost two years I have only 260 followers.  I debated should I quit and I thought. Nah, I have too much polish and time on my hands and like I have said before I do limit polish I would take from vendors.  So, I might be slow but I am going to be here.  Maybe three times a week.  Maybe seven.  I don’t know but as long as I have nails to paint,  I’ll keep blogging and I am very thankful for my 260 followers because it’s not about the numbers for me it’s about the polish.  And being able to write posts that are silly or serious and if one person reads it and laughs I am ok.  A big reason for this blog is that I don’t get to see my granddaughter much.  One never knows when your time will come and I want her to have this so she can know me.    It will always be a piece of me she will have that no one can take away. 
Enjoy these pics.  It was so easy to get the duochrome when photographing it is not even funny.  I saw someone who had matted it and it looked beautiful.  So, could this be the best polish of the year?  I don’t know but it is close.
















In this ring picture the color is so different but this shows you the duality of this polish.  LOVE!!!!
Ciao for now,
Patty

Morgan Taylor Polishes

Thank goodness for blogs and Nail It! magazine.  Through there I found Morgan Taylor nail polishes and found I could buy them on eBay.  When I saw this one I just fell in love pictures do it no justice because of the micro glitters on it which just don’t show up on pictures.  If you are getting a little burnt out on some mainstream polishes and are looking for something new, you have to try these polishes.  This one is so perfect especially if you love to stamp because it just gives you this great background.  This polish reminds me of an OPI or China Glaze.  I haven’t done a lot of investigating into this polish as to where to buy it other than eBay and what company is responsible for making it but I just love these polishes.  This particular polish is called Scene Queen.  It is a very light grey almost white with micro glitters like I said before.  I paid about $7.00 for this polish. 

This polish is like a dream.  The formula was perfect.  I had no problems with it and it lasts like a dream.  I have been buying a couple here and there.  If you want to try something new you can check out their website at Morgan Taylor Polishes.  You can buy them  there but they are cheaper on eBay.

So are you looking for a new mainstream polish?  This may be it.

Ciao bellas,

Patty

Special Editorial. What will we see in 2014?

Today, I do have two new posts but want to take a minute to talk about the new year because 2013 just totally sucked on every level.  We've seen some major changes in the direction that nail polish is going in.  One big thing is the indie revolution but how are they going to survive when mainstream lines are creating polish to rival them and I really hate to say this at a much lower price.  How will indies survive?  I think they might be surviving only in the blogger world.  I went to Sally's the other day and was talking to a girl who worked there.  She was admiring my polish.  I started telling her about the indie market.  She said she knew about Etsy, Llarowe and ninja polish.  She said first the polish was expensive and anything she saw there she could make herself.  It really got me to thinking I had done a post on how to create a dupe for Deborah Lippmann's Cleopatra in New York and recently gave away an expensive polish knowing all I had to do was mix this with this and create the same polish.  But at the same time there are many that are not easily reproduced.  Like I would not know how to reproduce a duo chrome but some mainstream companies do.  So, it will be interesting to see what happens there.
On a personal note I know my posts have dropped by at least 50%.  The reason, some has been medical and some has been I am not doing the posts I want to do.  I don't want to do a bunch of reviews and have not gotten in over my head accepting polish from vendors.  Doing that will surely be my demise.  I like nail art and that's just what you are going to see much more of in 2014.  There are plenty of bloggers who do reviews.  We don't need another one.  I will do it occasionally but it really isn't my thing.  So, I hope this helps give me and you a picture of what this blog will look like in 2014.  I will be doing best of posts this week.
Ciao for now,
Patty

Giveaways

There are so many giveaways right now and I am taking advantage of as many as I can.  So sometimes they want you to write a blog post.  I figure I will just put them all here.

1. http://happyinholospolish.blogspot.com/2013/11/super-mega-holiday-giveaway-50-prizes.html
This giveaway is a multitude of polishes.