KBShimmer Blogger/Winter 2013 Collection

* I received the following products in exchange for my honest review by KBShimmer.

I have for you today 8 out of the 22 polishes in KBShimmer's winter collection. This collection is spectacular. I love holiday polishes and I love KBShimmer. This is a winning combination! I have separated the swatches below into two sections, "Blogger Collection" and "Winter Collection". This won't be last you see of this collection either, I have 6 more on the way that I ordered! 

Blogger Collection

Sand In My Stocking over Sinful Colors Be Happy

Sand In My Stocking is a mix of gold, white, tan, brown, and gray small glitters, gold and blue circle glitters, orange hex glitters, and gold holographic stars. Inspired by Jen The Polishaholic. (2 coats over base)

I'd Rather Be With Blue

 I'd Rather Be With Blue w/ top coat

I'd Rather Be With Blue is a bright sky blue with iridescent shimmer. Inspired by Lisa from Cosmetic Sanctuary.

Snow Much Fun

Snow Much Fun is a light blue jelly base with light blue holo glitter, white glitters, and white snowflake glitter. Inspired by Victoria from The Manicurator. (3 coats)

Winter Collection

All Elf'd Up

All Elf'd Up is a white crelly base with red, white, and green hex glitters and micro slices. (3 coats)

Kringle All The Way over Cult Nails Tempest

Kringle All The Way is a clear base with red, silver, and green circle glitters and small red and green hex glitters. $4 from each bottle sold of Kringle All The Way between 11/1-11/30 will be used to purchased toys for Toys for Tots. (2 coats over base)

Myth You Lots over Cult Nails Nevermore

Myth You Lots is a indigo based linear holo multi-chrome. The color shifts you see are indigo, purple, red, and orange. (2 coats over base)

Urban Camo over Cult Nails Nevermore

Urban Camo is a bright green based multi-chrome. The color shifts you see are green, silver, pink, and purple. *Note: The color shifting power of this one caused my camera to freak out! I tried to capture it the best my camera would allow. (2 coats over base)

Maybe Navy over Cult Nails Time Traveler

Maybe Navy is a rich navy shimmer with a slight duochrome effect, in certain lighting you can see hints of purple and pink. (2 coats over base)

Colors: Excellent color line up with this collection. This isn't even half of the collection! There is a great mix of traditional holiday colors and then there are unique color mixes with a holiday twist! There is something here for everyone. There are glitter toppers, jelly glitters, crelly glitters, multi-chromes, shimmers, and a matte. Everything is covered here!

Formula: The formula on all of these was great. The glitter polishes are jam packed. You will not have any trouble with coverage with any of these. The snowflakes in Snow Much Fun require a bit of effort to get out, but nothing overly troublesome. 

Price: These are $8.75 each on KBShimmer's website. Fear not, you will not see any of these out of stock! That is one of the things I love about KBShimmer! 

Overall: This is a great holiday collection. There is something for everyone. The colors are innovative, fun, and thoughtfully made. I wouldn't expect any less from KBShimmer. KBShimmer continues to impress me. If you had me choose favorites from this set, I'd go with Sand In My Stocking, Snow Much Fun, I'd Rather Be Blue, and Kringle All The Way. Stay tuned though, I'll have more from this collection through out the next few weeks! Be on the look out!

My Rating: 5 out of 5 Paint Splatters

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*The above products were sent to me for review. 

Happy Thursday! 

Maybelline Color Show LE Brocades Collection

There is always a drugstore LE holiday collection every year that turns me into the drugstore stalker. I stalk the drugstores for weeks looking for this one particular collection. This year, the collection was the Maybelline Color Show Brocade collection. This collection has 8 multi-faceted glitters, but wait there's more. There is also a second display with two more polishes in this collection. I suggest checking out Nouveau Cheap's post to learn more about both of these collections.

 Amethyst Couture

Amethyst Couture is a deep eggplant glass fleck with purple hex glitters.

Beaming Blue

Beaming Blue is glass fleck icy blue with blue hex glitters.

Black in Mirrors over Cult Nails Nevermore

Black in Mirrors a is micro charcoal glitter with gold hex glitters.

Crushed Crimson

Crushed Crimson is a deep red glass fleck with small gold hex glitters and medium red hex glitters.

Embellished Blues

Embellished Blues is a denim glass fleck with small gold hex glitters and medium blue hex glitters.

Emerald Elegance

Emerald Elegance is a deep emerald glass fleck with small gold hex glitters and medium green hex glitters.

Gilded Rose

Gilded Rose is a sheer role gold glass fleck with small gold hex glitters and rose medium hex glitters.

Lavishly Lilac

Lavishly Lilac is a lilac glass fleck with small pink, blue, and gold hex glitters and lilac medium hex glitters.

Ruby Refined

Ruby Refined is a red glass fleck with red hex glitters.

Silver Swank

Silver Swank is a silver glass fleck with gold micro glitters and medium silver hex glitters.

Colors: This collection is un-freaking believable. These are like Zoya's Sparkle collection from summer 2010, with added glitter. This is one of those times the nail polish company surprised me. I never could of even thought up a finish like this in my head. These have so much dimension. Fan-freaking-tastic. This collection is like have a treasure chest full of jewels. The only dupe here is Gilded Rose to a-england She Walks in Beauty, but the rest are completely and entirely unique.

Formula: The formula on 9 out of 10 of these was good. The only dud in this collection is Black in Mirrors. The other polishes in this collection had a base, Black in Mirrors was all glitter. I needed base polish for this one, and it was on the chunky side. The rest I used 2-3 coats of each.

Price: These were $4.19 each at CVS. I've also heard these can be found at Bed, Bath & Beyond (with cosmetic sections) and Rite Aid. These maybe priced differently in your area.

Overall: Run, don't walk to get these beauties. This collection is limited edition. The displays I've seen only have room for 2 polishes per color. The colors are beautiful. The finish of these polishes is something I have not seen before, and for them to be a drugstore polish is amazing. This is probably my favorite collection of the entire year, not just drugstore, in general. I can't pick favorites. The only one I say you could pass on is Black in Mirrors. Maybelline hit it out of the park with this one!

My Rating: 5 out of 5 Paint Splatters

Happy Tuesday!

Zoya Stevie

Do you ever buy a polish that you don't really like, but because so many other people love it, you figure you must be missing something? It's nail polish peer pressure, I tell you! Every time I've done this I've ended up disappointed. My initial instinct was right, and I then feel stupid for the purchase. This is how I felt about Zoya Stevie.

Stevie

 Stevie w/ top coat

Stevie is a pastel lavender textured glitter.

Color: I don't like this color. I love lavenders, but this shade is a little too light and pink-toned for me. I prefer cooler blue-toned lavenders. I also wish this color had a bit more punch to it. This is purely my opinion though. Like I mentioned above, most everyone I know loves this one.

Formula: This one was sheer. I used 3 coats above. Perhaps this why I don't care for it either? I tried this one after I had tried the Zoya PixieDust fall collection. If you're familiar with those colors they're one-coaters and very saturated. This one was light handed and weak in comparison.

Price: This is $9.00 on the Zoya website.

Overall: This isn't a bad polish. The color isn't bad either, I just don't care for it. Objectively, I do find in comparison with other Zoya PixieDusts this one is weaker as far as pigmentation and formula. This is just OK. Personally, I find it less than OK.

My Rating: 3 out of 5 Paint Splatters

Happy Monday! 

Happy Halloween!

Yay, it's Halloween. I have to be honest, this is the first year I've decorated for Halloween...ever. I'm not anti-Halloween at all, but where I used no one decorated and no one trick or treated. It was pretty depressing. The new place I live people decorate, there are kids to trick or treat, so I figured why not.

I'm ready for Halloween this year! I wanted to share my nails for Halloween with you today.

Polishes Used:

Milani Purple Gleam & KBShimmer Jack.

Happy Halloween!

Way-Cool Mani Wednesday: Sparkling & Soft

One of my favorite nail looks to do are ones that have softer elements, but have something sparkly thrown in the mix. I don't think you'll ever find me with a straight up neutral or nude creme polish without some embellishment. I think the combination keeps the look clean, but far from boring. 

Here is a mani I did recently featuring soft and sparkle!

Polishes Used:

Zoya Kennedy and Deborah Lippmann Champagne Supernova (from the Starlight collection)

Manicure Description: I painted all nails with Zoya Kennedy, and followed up doing a glitter gradient on top with Deborah Lippmann Champagne Supernova. 

I don't know, but I think this is probably one of my all-time favorite manis I've done. I can't even really explain why really...I just love it!

Happy Wednesday!