OPI Glam Slam! USA Duo Pack: Love is a Racket, Pros & Bronze

These two sisters are amazing! If you love duochrome, shimmer, glass fleck, great coverage and insanely flattering colours, this set is for you!

LOVE IS A RACKET

First up is Love is a Racket. Love is a bright, bold, glowing red in any lighting situation.

I could just look at the bottles of these two all day.

My camera captured it as being quite bright, Love isn't a neon red but she sure is bright in the sunlight. It seems to take on more of an orange or pink side in my photos. Love is a warm toned red.

Love is a Racket is incredibly pigmented, you can easily get away with one coat. The formula is on the thicker side of things, but I think it helps with the coverage. 

Glowy in all situations, just like...

PROS & BRONZE

There is probably way too many photos in this post, but Pros & Bronze is such an awesome polish. It deserves them.

This was the first set that I thought "I NEED THOSE." 

Pros flips between rose gold, gold, copper and peach. I asked my boyfriend what he thought of this polish, he said to me "I think my eyes are playing tricks on me, it keeps changing". LOL, males. That might be because it is.

I am wearing three coats here. It is a little bit sparse in some places where I applied it a little bit thin. I was impatient painting it on last night, I was really excited to see the end result.

One of my new all time faves. It seems that some people have been seeing the Serena sets around NZ, I haven't been looking but haven't seen any yet. They're around the $45 mark. I bought my set from overseas, for around $15NZD. Cheap as chips, mate!

OPI Ginger Bells!

Today I have OPI's Ginger Bells to show you! It is from the 2009 Winter Wishes holiday collection. The same one as Merry Midnight, Sapphire in the Snow and Holiday Glow.

OPI Merry Midnight

This colour is so bang on trend at the moment. As soon as I walk into a clothing store, you've got the muted blues/navys, reds, yellows, red-y browns, khakis and chartrueses. I absolutely love all of those colours, I think I may actually have a polish in all of those too...

I am wearing two coats here. The coverage is nice from Ginger Bells. The formula is a little bit runny, but it's quite easy to control.

I never thought I would like this colour, but I've always had an interest in it. I finally bit the bullet and ordered it. It is discontinued, shouldn't be too hard to find though!

Newbies!

These are the newbies to the Nail Juice family. Don't they all look wonderful together? 


This is the first order my family has made this year. I forgot what it's like to be expecting something in the mail, opening it and admiring every polish under every light source. It's a great feeling, but you have to be careful, it can lead to another order and another and another...

Please enjoy these glamour pictures whilst I am typing up the full posts of each colour!

OPI Uh-oh Roll Down the Window

China Glaze Trendsetter

OPI Sit Under the Apple Tree

OPI French Quarter For Your Thoughts

China Glaze Pelican Gray

OPI Road House Blues

OPI Ginger Bells!

OPI Pros & Bornze

China Glaze Ahoy!

OPI Lunch At The Delhi

OPI Love is a Racket

These are two of the most beautiful polishes I have seen this year.

Sally Hansen Golden Cinnabar

I picked this little beauty up a awhile ago from a cosmetics expo, I guess you could say. There was a few tables FULL of nail polish, ranging from $2 to $6. Mum and I just went nuts.

I don't really have any background info on this polish, other than it's not really sold anywhere. I think it's old? It looks old. It's not too hard to get a hold of though.

Superb coverage! You could get away with one coat. I was expecting a sheer-watery mess. Golden Cinnabar is the total opposite.

I think it looks the most interesting when not in direct sunlight. As is with most duochromes. The sun likes to pick just one colour.

This is what you see when you are inside, not under any direct lights. A slightly olive gold. How beautiful!

OPI & The Rugby World Cup

How cool is this?! OPI is putting a special set out just for the rugby world cup.


They are current colours, but I think it's nice that they did this. Still waiting on that New Zealand themed collection though... The rest of the world probably hasn't even heard of NZ though, so it probably wouldn't do too well in sales.


The colours: Black Shatter, Silver Shatter, Black Onyx and Birthday Babe.


I've supplied some swatches below and i'll add a few more once the pics are taken :)

OPI Silver Shatter

OPI Silver Shatter

NFuOh 050 over OPI Black Onyx

OPI Do You Think I'm Tex-y? and NFuOh 59

I absolutely love Tex-y. A fuchsia jelly that looks brilliant with anything layered between it! And NfuOh 59 is just such a versatile polish. I love that one too.

For this manicure I did a layer of NFuOh 59, Texy, 59 and then Texy.

Thanks to my camera, you cannot see all the flakie goodness that this manicure provided. I am seriously thinking of parting ways with this camera. Although we've been a great team for four years, it just ain't performing 100%.

You can kinda see a glimmer of flakie in this shot.


Side note: I've been quite busy at Uni lately but I have a couple of manicures to show you,  I just have to sit down and actually work on the posts. Uni has got us having our own Interior Design blogs, so i've been kind of working on that blog more recently... The only hard part with this course I find is the conceptual thinking. I just don't understand how some of the links they make are actual links. Who knew a bookshelf could have such a deep connection to the universe?



Hoping a miracle of some sort will happen and I will be able to understand what they're on about.

Spring Wardrobe - Makeup Store Young

Spring Wardrobe is a new series on Nail Juice, suggesting easy to find, beautiful polishes for Spring! Don't forget to check out the Spring Wardobe series page!

My mum brought back Young with her from Australia, I am so glad she did! I have been smitten with it ever since. One of the best polishes I have ever used.


Young packs a little more punch than Essie's Borrowed and Blue or Color Club's Take Me To Your Chateau or Blue Light.


I kind of like Young's name as it reminds me of my hometown. There's quite a lot of horticulture and agriculture, my dad is right into all that sort of stuff, and he has always known several Chinese families named Young. My sister and I went to school with their kids and everything, a nice bit of nostalgia I suppose. 


It's always nice to go back and remember the good and less stressful times in life :)