China Glaze I Herd That, $7. From the new Safari Collection for fall 2012, available now at beauty stores and salons.
China Glaze I Herd That
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China Glaze I Herd That, $7. From the new Safari Collection for fall 2012, available now at beauty stores and salons.
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China Glaze I’m Not Lion, $7. From the new Safari Collection for fall 2012, available now at beauty stores and salons.
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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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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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I’ve been keeping a secret from you.
No, I’m not a billionaire or a costumed vigilante…although I bet Tabs would look so cute in his little sidekick outfit!
Here it is: I’m a rock star.
Or rather, I would like to be.
Cat’s out of the bag! Yep, one of my resolutions this year was to channel my inner rock star, and no, I don’t mean by fronting a band. 🙂 I mean someone who’s confident and bold enough to tear it up in front of thousands of people on stage. Someone with wicked style, too, like my own lead singer in a one-woman band. The Gwen Stefani of Novato, California.
But wait — it gets cheesier! To remind myself to “embrace my inner rock star,” I leave a lot of Post-Its around the house…


