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Monday, December 24, 2012

Happy Christmas! Plaid and Holly

It's Christmas Eve and I have a quick Christmas mani to show you: Plaid and Holly



Christmas Plaid and Holly Manicure


Christmas Plaid and Holly Manicure

Christmas Plaid and Holly Manicure


For this I used Nails Inc. Lower Sloane Street for the base, Color Club Hey Gorgeous for the red, Color Club Ho Ho Holly for the green and Pure Ice Super Star for the white. It's kinda messy so obviously it's free-handed with a striping brush and dotting tool.

See you guys later today! ♥



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Tuesday, December 11, 2012

The Nail Junkie Holiday Polish Line 2012

Tonight I have the new Holiday Polish Line from The Nail Junkie to show you...AND stay tuned to the end of the post for a link to WIN THESE polishes!

The Holiday Line consists of:

Poinsettia - A bright red crelly base loaded with micro gold, green and red glitters.

Holly - A pine green shimmery base filled with micro gold, red, and green glitters.

Gold Bell - A bright golden creme base loaded with micro gold shimmer.

Snowflake - A shimmery pearl white base loaded with micro sized translucent holographic glitters.




All four of these polishes went on smoothly and evenly and were opaque in two coats. No issues to report on any of them! You will need a coat of Gelous or a couple of coats of top coat for Holly as it is more top coat hungry than the other three. No issues with formula or application on any of them. All photos are with two coats of color and one coat of Poshe top coat.

Poinsettia


The Nail Junkie Poinsettia

The Nail Junkie Poinsettia

The Nail Junkie Poinsettia

The Nail Junkie Poinsettia

The Nail Junkie Poinsettia
The Nail Junkie Poinsettia (showing without top coat on middle finger)

The Nail Junkie Poinsettia

Holly


The Nail Junkie Holly

The Nail Junkie Holly

The Nail Junkie Holly

The Nail Junkie Holly

The Nail Junkie Holly


Gold Bell


The Nail Junkie Gold Bell

The Nail Junkie Gold Bell

The Nail Junkie Gold Bell

The Nail Junkie Gold Bell

The Nail Junkie Gold Bell



Snowflake


The Nail Junkie Snowflake

The Nail Junkie Snowflake

The Nail Junkie Snowflake

The Nail Junkie Snowflake
 
The Nail Junkie Snowflake

What do you think? I love the apparent simplicity and holiday theme of these and the actual complexity of each one of them! My favorite? I'd have to say Poinsettia is my favorite of this collection. What is your favorite?

For a chance to win these, go enter her giveaway here!

These 4 new polishes, as well as past lines, are available NOW at her Etsy store. She is no longer taking sales through her personal website.

Her polishes are all full size and are $10 each. All orders are shipped within 24 hours of payment, so purchase now and have them in plenty of time for the holidays. 

She also offers every shopper: 


FREE DOMESTIC SHIPPING

$5 FLAT RATE INTERNATIONAL SHIPPING


$1 Donation for every bottle sold (see her website for past charity donation information and current charities she supports.)


Free gifts with every order!!!








*PR Samples provided for my honest review

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Wednesday, October 31, 2012

Jindie Nails Santa Claws Collection

I'm really excited to show you the new Santa Claws Collection from Jindie Nails! It's making its debut Thursday, November 1st, 2012.


Jindie Nails Santa Claws Collection 2012




There are a LOT of photos, so fair warning. Because of that, I'm going to just dive in head first and get right to it. (Apologies in advance for the acetone cuticles.)

First up, Santa Claws - white, red, green matte square glitters in a clear base with a few black squares. It's Santa's outfit and the black glitters are his belt buckle! Perfect suspension of glitters, everything laid perfectly flat and I had no issues at all. I layered 2 coats over Sinful Colors Exotic Green and followed up with one coat of Poshe.


NOTE: Any bubbles you see in the close-up photos are due to the top coat 
and not the polish. They were only visible in the close-ups 
and once completely dry, I didn't see them at all.



Jindie Nails Santa Claws

Jindie Nails Santa Claws

Jindie Nails Santa Claws

Jindie Nails Santa Claws

Jindie Nails Santa Claws

Jindie Nails Santa Claws

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Next is Mrs. Claws. This one is a medium to dark pink linear holo - more of a light berry color. This one applied perfectly as well. Two easy coats and no top coat. LOVE.


Jindie Nails Mrs. Claws

Jindie Nails Mrs. Claws

Jindie Nails Mrs. Claws

Jindie Nails Mrs. Claws

Jindie Nails Mrs. Claws

Jindie Nails Mrs. Claws

Jindie Nails Mrs. Claws


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Noel is next - It's a clear base with red, white and neon green ultrafine hex glitters and metallic green sparkle. This one has the same base, so glitters were suspended and dispersed perfectly. No issues at all with application. I layered this one over Sinful Colors Exotic Green and used one coat of Poshe as a top coat.


Jindie Nails Noel

Jindie Nails Noel

Jindie Nails Noel

Jindie Nails Noel

Jindie Nails Noel

Jindie Nails Noel

Jindie Nails Noel


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Holly. This one is green and white matte hex glitters with larger matte red hexes and dark green shimmer in a clear base. It really does look like a holly bush! Again, no application problems at all. Everything applied smoothly and evenly. I used one coat of this over a light-to-medium grey creme, Essence Romeo (but you can see other layering combos on this one at the end.) One coat of Poshe.


Jindie Nails Holly

Jindie Nails Holly

Jindie Nails Holly

Jindie Nails Holly


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Silent Night. This one is a dark blue jelly with lavender shimmer and silver holographic stars, crescent moons and hexes. I had to fish a little for the stars and moons, but it wasn't difficult. It's a true jelly but I used two coats for opacity. The base is a teeny bit thicker than the others, but nowhere near thick enough to think about adding thinner. Just thicker than the clear-based glitters. One coat of Gelous on top.


Jindie Nails Silent Night

Jindie Nails Silent Night

Jindie Nails Silent Night

Jindie Nails Silent Night

Jindie Nails Silent Night

Jindie Nails Silent Night

Jindie Nails Silent Night - bottle photo


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Blue Blue Christmas (appears as Blue Blue Xmas on the bottle but I never shorten the word) is a bright blue linear holographic polish. Formula is the same as Mrs. Claws. No issues at all - great application. The linear holo isn't quite as strong as in Mrs. Claws but it's still definitely a linear. I used 2 coats for opacity and no top coat.


Jindie Nails Blue Blue Christmas

Jindie Nails Blue Blue Christmas

Jindie Nails Blue Blue Christmas

Jindie Nails Blue Blue Christmas

Jindie Nails Blue Blue Christmas

Jindie Nails Blue Blue Christmas



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Kiss Me Under the Mistletoe. This one is WOW in a bottle. Truly. It's a gorgeous red jelly with light green, dark green and gold holographic hex glitters. I used two coats on all but the accent finger where I've only used one coat! One coat of Poshe top coat on all.



Jindie Nails Kiss Me Under the Mistletoe

Jindie Nails Kiss Me Under the Mistletoe

Jindie Nails Kiss Me Under the Mistletoe

Jindie Nails Kiss Me Under the Mistletoe

Jindie Nails Kiss Me Under the Mistletoe

Jindie Nails Kiss Me Under the Mistletoe

Jindie Nails Kiss Me Under the Mistletoe

Jindie Nails Kiss Me Under the Mistletoe



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Just Elfing Around. This one is pastel green, white and red hex and silver and lime green holo hex in a clear base. This one is my favorite of the glitters in this collection. I had to fish for the red glitters a bit but nothing troublesome. I randomly got one or two per hand, but I'm a bit retentive, so... Perfect suspension and application. I layered 2 coats of this one over a medium grey creme, Kiko 327 Granite Grey and followed with one coat of Poshe.


Jindie Nails Just Elfing Around

Jindie Nails Just Elfing Around

Jindie Nails Just Elfing Around

Jindie Nails Just Elfing Around

Jindie Nails Just Elfing Around

Jindie Nails Just Elfing Around


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And the last one. I hate for this to end! Candy Cane. This one is a white crelly base with red matte and red metallic hex glitters and a some metallic green hexes with green sparkle. You could certainly wear this one on its own with 2 to 3 coats, but I layered 2 light coats of it over a white creme base and followed up with one coat of Poshe.


Jindie Nails Candy Cane

Jindie Nails Candy Cane

Jindie Nails Candy Cane

Jindie Nails Candy Cane

Jindie Nails Candy Cane


Well, those are all of the polishes I have to show you BUT...We aren't done yet! I did a few layering combos so you could see other options. Honestly, the layering combos are limitless. But this is what I did playing around with them to decide what bases to use for some of the glitters.

This is Holly over (I) Essence Romeo (M) Chanel Dragon (R) Sinful Colors Exotic Green and (P) plain white creme...


Jindie Nails Holly

Jindie Nails Holly


Here are a few layered over a plain black creme...





And finally, a few of the glitters over Essence Romeo, a medium grey creme.






So what do you think? Which are your favorites? Honestly, there wasn't ONE I didn't like, which is rare. I guess if I had to pick my least favorite, it would be Silent Night just because I'm not a huge fan of star glitter. My favorites? *sigh* That's hard. Probably Kiss Me Under the Mistletoe, Mrs. Claws and Just Elfing Around. But then I see Holly over the red and I'm all mixed up again.

The GOOD NEWS is that you can pre-order the sets now. Seven of the nine (excluding the two holos) are available in a set for $50 or all nine for $70 at her Etsy shop here.

Starting Thursday, November 1st, 2012, everything will be available. Seven of the nine (excluding the two holos, Mrs. Claws and Blue Blue Christmas) will retail for $7.75 for full sized bottles and $4.25 for minis. Mrs. Claws and Blue Blue Christmas will retail for $11.00 for full-sized bottles and $5.50 for minis.

Visit Jindie Nails to stay up-to-date at the following links:
Etsy store,
Jindie Nails on Facebook
Instagram mobile: @jindienails
Instagram for PC here.





*PR Samples provided for my honest review

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