A 'Weenie a Day: The Green Apple Of Venus

BPAL's description: "Sweet green apple, apple blossom, sweet strawberry, pink pomegranate, violet leaf, tea rose, and red sandalwood."

My reaction: This started off as a really sweet blended fruit scent, like canned fruit cocktail, then the violet leaf and tea rose came out and it wound up smelling like gardenia at the end.

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Of course I indulged--I got Holly, Rina, Twila and Noel from the Gems and Jewels collection, and grabbed a bottle of Colbie because I adore Zoya's blackened reds. Did you order anything?

Inque coupon

For anyone who wants to order nail decals, you can use the following coupon:

Use this coupon code: KXG6DLBO at www.InqueNails.com to save 20% when you order. This coupon code is good for 7 days. Inque offers free shipping for orders over $30, buy two get one free, or buy six sets for $35.00!

A 'Weenie a Day: The Black Apple Of Saturn

BPAL's description: Dried Arkansas black apple, opoponax, cypress, myrrh, tobacco absolute, quince, black musk, and galbanum.

My reaction: Initially, this is an apple-pear scent, but then the black musk takes over, and I get a dry, bitter, powdery scent. Interesting, but not me.

Inque Nail Decals: Romance

There are a lot of things I like about Inque decals. They seem to protect my nails more than polish, there are a ton of pretty patterns to choose from, they're easy to remove and they ship very quickly. The price isn't bad, especially since right now they're buy two get one free, which works out to $10 for 16 decals, which is the same as the Sally Hansen Salon Effects strips. You pay shipping on the Inque, you pay taxes on the SH--potayto, potahto. The only thing I don't like about the Inque nails is the heat involved in the application process. I always feel as if I've burned my fingers long before they've softened enough to fit properly!

Here are some shots of Inque decals in Romance, which is a pretty pattern of red, heart-shaped rhinestones on a white satin background. The only thing I didn't like was that the shadows on the ripples in the fabric just showed up as grey smudges on my nails.

A 'Weenie a Day: The Ta-Ta

BPAL's description: "Boiled leather, carnation blossom, coffee absolute, and tobacco."

My reaction: This is just gorgeous--I get mostly carnation, with varying pops of coffee, leather and tobacco leaves. Definitely unusual as well as beautiful, and absolutely bottle-worthy.

New Zoya Collection: Winter 2011-2012

press release

2011/12 NAIL POLISH MUST HAVE

FEEL

Six full-coverage winter cream neutrals


FEEL Beautiful!

Every season the color experts at Zoya create dozens of new color collection options. This year, one of those “secret collections” just had to be seen now rather than later. FEEL by Zoya Nail Polish delivers six new, highly pigmented, full coverge neutrals for right now!

Zoya FEEL Collection

•Kristen (ZP591): Full coverage, gull gray cream
•Carey (ZP592): Full coverage, periwinkle gray cream
•Megan (ZP593): Full coverage, taupe gray cream
•Kendal (ZP594): Full coverage, rose quartz beige cream
•Kennedy (ZP595): Full coverage, pale french beige cream
•Avery (ZP596): Full coverage, blonde beige cream

Zoya is the new color of fashion...

Ultra long-wearing, glossy nail lacquers by Zoya are free of harmful industrial chemicals like toluene, camphor, formaldehyde, resin, dibutyl phthalate (DBP) that are known to cause cancer and birth defects.

Find Zoya FEEL as well as over 300 other ultra high-fashion Zoya shades at www.zoya.com. As always, each and every Zoya color is made for women so we name them after women.

FEEL by Zoya

Sug. Retail $8.00 per 0.5 fl.oz. bottle (US)

www.zoya.com

Available November 15, 2011.