China Glaze Crackle Glaze Nail Lacquer in Gleam Me Up, $9.
Gleam Me Up, Scotty
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China Glaze Ray-Diant
See the hint of green in China Glaze’s Ray-Diant ($8)? Love it.
China Glaze Optical Illusion
I never get tired of taking closeup pics of glitter. 🙂
That’s China Glaze Optical Illusion nail polish ($8), by the way, from the new Prismatic collection.
China Glaze Full Spectrum
It’s glitterific!
China Glaze Full Spectrum Nail Polish, $8. From the new Prismatic collection.
Two Ways to Win the China Glaze Capitol Colours Collection and the Electropop Brights Kit (a $126 Value)
- WINNER: The giveaway is closed now, and the winners are Ruchita and Sienna! Congratulations, gals! If you entered but didn’t win this time around, keep trying, and click here to enter any ongoing giveaways before you jet. 🙂
Girl on fire, it is time! — time to liberate your nails from oppressively boring, bland shades with a giveaway that strikes at the heart of the Capitol. The rebellion against boring nail colors starts now with a China Glaze giveaway featuring the entire Capitol Colours collection and the Electropop Brights Kit.
Raise your bow, steady your aim, and let your arrow fly! 🙂
Two (2) lucky ladies will win…
- One (1) full set of all 12 polishes from the China Glaze Capitol Colours collection (Dress Me Up, Foie Gras, Fast Track, Hook and Line, Stone Cold, Smoke and Ashes, Agro, Mahogany Magic, Luxe and Lush, Harvest Moon, Electrify and Riveting) and
- One (1) China Glaze Electropop Brights Kit with six shades from the Electropop collection (Techno, Aquadelic, Sunshine Pop, Gaga for Green, Make Some Noise and Wicked Style)
- There are two ways to enter, and you can do both of them for two chances to win. First, you can enter by leaving a comment at the bottom of this post, a comment about anything at all, like, the name your favorite sci-fi heroine, the title of the last great book you read, your favorite China Glaze color of all time, your favorite kind of bread — you get the idea.
- Second, you can enter by following me on
Twitter @karenmbb and retweeting (RT) the following message:
- Follow @karenmbb and RT to Win the China Glaze Capitol Colours Collection and the Electropop Brights Kit (a $126 Value) http://bit.ly/GASXBY
- The deadline to enter is Friday, March 23 at 11:59PM (PT).
- Entrants must enter using a valid email address and/or Twitter account to win.
- A maximum of two (2) entries per person — one within the comments at the bottom of this post, and a second entry via Twitter addressed to me @karenmbb.
- Contest is open to U.S. residents (sorry, international babes; I’ll have a giveaway that includes you very soon) who have reached the age of majority according to their local laws (18 in the United States with these exceptions: Alabama and Nebraska, 19; Mississippi, 21).
- Tabs and I (heretofore referred to as “T-Money and K-Dawg”) will select two (2) winners at random from the entries either left in the comments at the bottom of this blog post or addressed to @karenmbb on Twitter.
- The winner will be announced here within 48 hours of the deadline.
- Void where prohibited by law.
Your friendly neighborhood beauty addict,
Karen
- WINNER: The giveaway is closed now, and the winners are Ruchita and Sienna! Congratulations, gals! If you entered but didn’t win this time around, keep trying, and click here to enter any ongoing giveaways before you jet. 🙂
My St. Patrick’s Day Multi-Colored Manicure in Different Shades of Green
Tomorrow is St. Patrick’s Day, and that means two things: 1) that today is St. Patrick’s Day Eve, and 2) that I get to be Irish tomorrow, thanks to El Hub and the Irish Proximity Effect. He says that because he’s one quarter Irish, I get to be part Irish by proximity for 24 hours.
And I plan to put that time to good use. 🙂
For some folks, St. Patty’s Day means beer, and lots of it. Me? I use my Irish By Association card as a free pass to eat as much fried food as I can.
Like fish and chips.
Oh, I love fish and chips… The precious little basket they come in, dousing them with vinegar and salt, and that first crunchy bite of melt-in-your-mouth batter and flaky fish…
I’m sorry, where was I?
Oh, yeah! St. Patrick’s Day. Almost as much as the food, I also like to see folks getting green in the spirit of the day (please leave me a link to your look!), and I usually try to add a little something green to my beauty routine. This year, it’s with a multi-colored manicure in different shades of green.
I actually didn’t start out planning to do something with more than one shade, but when I sat down with a few polishes, thinking I’d pick one right then, I couldn’t decide.
So I used all three — Dolce & Gabbana’s Mint ($20), Sonia Kashuk’s Making Waves ($9.99) and China Glaze Ray-Diant ($8).
The China Glaze Prismatic Collection: Your Nails, Now in 3D
BAM! A single ray of white light streams through a prism and explodes into a rainbow of colors on your nails.
That’s the idea behind these new Prismatic polishes from China Glaze. The limited edition launch of six eye-catching glittery nail polishes ($8 each) really improved my spirits this afternoon. The gloomy, gray sky looming over the Bay Area felt like a big wet blanket on my mood.
It was bringing me down… But then I started swatching. 🙂
Ray-Diant
Filled with glitter and holographic particles, these glimmering multi-colored metallics almost look like they’re hopping off my nails! — like they’re 3D powered, which is kinda cool.
As usual, China Glaze formulated the entire line, which bursts into professional beauty supply stores and salons in April, without DBP, toluene and formaldehyde.
In all of these swatches, I’m wearing two layers…
Polarized
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A Tribute to The Hunger Games! The China Glaze Capitol Colours Collection
So maybe limited edition nail polish collections and sci-fi teen fiction trilogies make unlikely bedfellows, but just like Greasy Sae’s mice meat, pig entrails and tree bark stew, something about this one just works.
China Glaze pays tribute to the tributes of The Hunger Games with the new Capitol Colours Collection, which catches fire on shelves at Sally Beauty and Ulta stores, and beauty salons early next month.
Playing with these polishes was almost like reading the books. I couldn’t put ’em down! — and as I let the 12 polishes ($7 each) parade across my fingertips this afternoon, I wondered which ones Cinna would choose for Katniss… 🙂
From the left: Riveting, Electrify and Luxe and Lush
Hook and Line, Stone Cold and Smoke and Ashes
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