Treatment Tuesdays! Color Club Vitabase

Color Club's nail strengthener is called Vitabase. What it does is help your nails regain their strength. Maybe you hit a rough patch and now your poor peely thin nails are paying for it, Vitabase will help your beautiful nails get back on track!

Contact Color Club NZ to find your nearest stockist!

Treatment Tuesdays! Color Club Vivid Top Coat

Color Club has this amazing top coat called Vivid! What does it do? Well, as you can see, Vivid has a blue tint to it. What does that do? The blue tint when layered over your manicure, will make it appear more vibrant! So for those neons that aren't quite neon enough, or maybe even just for those colours you want to make pop a little bit.

Contact Color Club NZ to find your nearest stockist!

Treatment Tuesdays! Color Club Cuticle Soothe

Color Club's Cuticle Soothe is great for keeping your little cuticles in tip top condition! Even when you get those pesky hang nails that really hurt - pop a bit of this on and it'll help them rehydrate and rebuild quicker.

Contact Color Club NZ to find your nearest stockist!

Nail Art Competition!

Yayyy nail art competition time! Keep reading to see what you can win and how to win! 

Color Club NZ is giving you, the winner, the whole Halo Hues collection! This includes Beyond, Kismet, Eternal Beauty, Cosmic Fate, Over the Moon and Miss Bliss!

HOW TO ENTER:
1. Find a picture to inspire your galaxy manicure
2. Create some galaxy nails
3. Upload your inspiration pic and your mani pic (in one album) on the Nail Juice Facebook page (located here) along with what you used and any thoughts you want to add :)

If you need a little starting help, you can check out my Galaxy Nails here and see what I used, maybe this can give you some ideas on what colours you want to use!

THE FINE PRINT:
This contest is open to anyone and everyone! Contest is open from today! The deadline for all pictures to be uploaded is the 15th of May. The winner will be announced May 20th!

See you on the flip side~!

Color Club Halo Hues: Kismet

Kismet is one of the latest colours from Color Club's Halo Hues collection! Usually I am not a huge fan of holo greens, but Kismet was actually my favourite out of the three!

The formula is very nice, it has that nice thin but opaque quality to it. I am wearing two coats here.

At the moment you can buy the first lot of Halo Hues from USA Nails Online (new zealand) for $19.90 each. The second lot, which Kismet is a part of, will be released on April 1st.

Color Club Halo Hues: Eternal Beauty

 Eternal Beauty is one of the latest colours from Color Club's Halo Hues collection! Eternal Beauty reminds me of China Glaze's sought after LOL. This is two coats here. The amount of holographic-ness in these babies are just amazing!

At the moment you can buy the first lot of Halo Hues from USA Nails Online (new zealand) for $19.90 each. The second lot, which Eternal Beauty is a part of, will be released on April 1st.

Color Club Halo Hues: Beyond

Beyond is one of the latest colours from Color Club's Halo Hues collection! Beyond looks fabulous in the sunlight! Soooo holoooo...

I am wearing two coats here. However when I wore it for two days it was mighty chippy along the tips! I don't know if it was the basecoat combo or the heavy load of housework, maybe a mixture of the two? I will experiment and let you know :)

At the moment you can buy the first lot from USA Nails Online (new zealand) for $19.90 each. The second lot, which Beyond is a part of, will be released on April 1st.

Color Club Steel of The Night

Long time, no see! How are you doing? I have been swamped with uni work this year. Not sure if I am excited or scared for next year... 

Today I have Color Club's Steel of the Night to show you!

As you can see, Steel is a magnetic polish. I've been painting a lot of my friends' nails at the moment and they just go nuts over the magnetics! I think they're the most used polishes from my stash at the moment. I adore nail art and this is such an easy way to do it.

To get this effect I applied a reasonably thick coat (just one) and immediately held the magnet over my nail for around 15 seconds. The formula is nice too, not thin or goopy.

I was really surprised that you only needed one coat. As always, I was a little bit skeptical over how it would work but it's just so easy.

They will be available in Amazon surf stores and pharmacies. RRP $21.90. But if you are super lucky, you may win the whole set! 

Just send an email to nailjuice@live.com with the subject "Color Club Magnetic Force Entry" along with your name :) I will email the winner June 30th!

A big thank-you to Color Club New Zealand for sponsoring this :D!

Color Club Back To Boho Collection

This is the darker half of Color Club's Back to Boho collection, released for Fall/Autumn 2011. Boho chic is a cross between bohemian and hippy fashion, in a nutshell. Back To Boho offers you a whole Autumn/Fall nail wardrobe of vintage shades.

Left to right: Speedy Top Coat, Blue-topia, Voodoo You Do, Boho Mojo, Artsy Crafty, Nouveau Vintage and Rebel Spirit.

Boho Mojo

This reminds me of those beautifully designed art nouveau silver mirrors. I am not sure if it is what I was using as a base or not, but Boho Mojo was really watery. This is three thin coats shown here.

Nouveau Vintage

This is one of the most bizarre polishes I have come across! It's brown but green but gold but bronze...all in a sheer maroon base! This really is the image of vintage though, isn't it? It reminds me of old wooden furniture with brass hinges and handles.

Voodoo You Do

A deep gunmetal grey shimmer/frost. To me this gunmetal grey leans a little on the teal or green side of things. I feel like it was pulling my red, yet very subtle lobster tones out.

Artsy Crafty

Artsy Crafty is a great bottle green creme. Such a classy looking nail polish! Mum snagged this one as soon as she sore it! She decided to get rid of OPI Jade is the New Black because she loved this one so much more. Really smooth formula.

Rebel Spirit

When I had first tried this on at night, I thought my dreams had come true! A dark charcoal jelly! But when I tried it again in the day time, it was more of a really dark charcoal chocolate and not so jelly. It is very shiny though! I still like it. Nice smooth formula here too.

Blue-topia

Blue-topia is a very vivid navy. It does dry a lot darker than when first applied. Mum tried it on after me and we couldn't believe we were wearing the same colour! Just a nice rich deep blue navy jelly.

Speedy Top Coat

I cannot express in words how blown away I am by this top coat! But I will try. We've all tried heaps and heaps of top coats and as the days go by you get weary of having to try something new. After trying Essie's assorted embarrassments called top coats, I didn't have high hopes for Speedy. 


But as my manicure dried and the day went on, the mind blowing just got better and better! It dries really quickly, doesn't let any denting happen, no sheet marks the morning you wake up... I'm really pleased with it. I have even chosen it over Seche Vite many times.

New Zealanders can purchase the set here, from USA Nails Online for $34.50!

Comparison: Wild and Willing vs. Pros and Bronze

When Pros and Bronze was first released, it never occurred to me that there would be something already out there like it. We hardly ever get rose gold duochromey foils! But Pros has a very close relative... Color Club's Wild and Willing.

Wearing: Pros and Bronze on pinky and middle, Wild and Willing on ring and pointer.


When looking at the bottles, you can find definite differences but once on the nail... it gets a little bit more tricky. This is both two coats of each shown here. Wild and Willing is a bit finer and has a green sheen. Pros and Bronze's pieces are a bit bigger and more sparse.

Wearing: Pros and Bronze on pinky and middle, Wild and Willing on ring and pointer.


They both share a lot of the same characteristics. They both turn gold when not in direct light. You also get more of a copper or pink shine when inside with different light sources. Wild shines green as well.


Pros and Bronze is a Serena Williams polish and is limited edition. Pretty easy to find at the moment, as is Wild and Willing. Wild was released a little while ago but it seems to be easy to find in chemists or online.

Really it all depends on what kind of foil you like and how many colours you like to see :)

Color Club Red Velvet

Today I want to show you my favourite polish at the moment, Color Club's Red Velvet. Red Velvet is from the Untamed Luxury collection released last year. There were a couple of stunners in that collection, Covered in Diamonds being one of them.

Spring and Summer are one of my favourite times of year to wear vampies, really dark shades. Quite often they have a beautiful subtle shimmer that really stands out with brighter light. Red Velvet is so pretty out in the sunlight. It is a bit more hidden in doors but it's probably one of those polishes that only you know that it's there. Like wearing special undies.

Look at that glow! Red Velvet went straight up to my all time favourites list the first time I wore it. There are a couple of duplicate shades out there, the only one I know off the top of my head is China Glaze Lubu Heels.

A long time ago I remember reading people being disappointed with how much red glitter was actually showing up in Lubu Heels and a few people were recommending to add one layer of China Glaze Ruby Pumps over the top. 

I tried this out over Red Velvet and while it was pretty, I still loved that black base with subtle red shimmer poking through. So you may like one variety of wearing this shade more than the other.

 

If you are a New Zealander and are interested in buying this polish, I have seen a few around in pharmacies and chemists for around $15. You can buy the one half of the Untamed Luxury collection that Red Velvet is in, online for $39.00, which works out to be around $5.60 a polish. Click here for the link.