Perfectly Polished Tips 144 - Color Club Electro Candy

Neons are quite popular for summer time and I was surprised to see so many companies jump on the neon train. Color Club is another favorite brand of mine. I love their formula and their brushes. I have tiny nail beds so if a brush is thin enough for me to polish with and not get polish all over my fingers I'm going to love it. This collection is made up of 6 shimmery neon colors. What I loved most about this collection was that each polish has a blue sheen to it. I thought that was pretty cool and because usually the neons I have come in contact with have been cremes. These polishes are on the sheer side, I only used 3 coats on the yellow but all of them could have used 3 coats. A trick I learned is to use an opaque white underneath the neons if you don't like the sheer look. Milani Soft White is a good one.

Tangerine Scream - a bright orange w/ blue shimmer. It is truly orange not coral as my photo shows.

Ultra Violet -a bright shimmery purple, this photo shows the blue shimmer

Volt of Light - a super bright yellow, it is extremely sheer

What a Shock - bright kiwi green

Pure Energy - bright blue

Electro Candy - bright pink

Electro Candy is available now.

Perfectly Polished Tips 143 - China Glaze Kicks

In addition to their Summer Days collection China Glaze also released the Kicks collection. It is made up of 12 polishes, some are creme, some shimmer. I wasn't really impressed with this collection, six of the polishes are pink or are close to being pink. I feel like China Glaze could have done so much better or at least added a little more variety. I will give them credit for having two greens and a teal though.

Oh How Street it Is - a burnt orange creme, this is 3 coats
Style Wars - neon-ish orange creme
Breakin' - a light pumpkin-y orange w/ gold shimmer

Sky High Top - sky blue with aqua shimmer
Custom Kicks - teal with gorgeous gold shimmer & my favorite from the collection
Paper Chasing - grassy green with shimmer
Entourage - pastel lime green with shimmer

Fly - magenta with pink and purple shimmer, reminds me of Essie Jewel
It's Poppin' - hot pink with pink shimmer
B-Girlz - slightly lighter hot pink with shimmer
Laced Up - a pepto/bubble gum pink creme

Sneaker Head - neon cherry red

Over all this isn't my favorite collection from China Glaze but I really like their formula and brushes, I can't wait for their fall collection it looks like it has a pretty neat purple.

Kicks is currently available.

Perfectly Polished Tips 142 - Zoya La-Di-Da

La-Di-Da is the second half of Zoya's summer release. It is made up of 6 creme polishes, three which are neons. They all applied wonderfully and like usual the neons do dry slightly on the matte side. My photos are taken without top coat, although most times I snap the photo while the polish is still wet. As of late I've really been drawn to Zoya's polishes. I have a ton of them in my stash but for the longest time I never really reached for them. My past 3 or 4 manicures and past 2 pedicures have been Zoya polishes. They released some really fun colors for spring and the fall shades are amazing. Maybe I'm drawn to them because they are free of all the super harsh chemicals? I'm not sure but I'm glad I rediscovered the ones in my stash and am finally seeing how great they are.

Paz - ultra bright neon orange. This polish is like construction cone orange. The picture is blurry because I had to edit it a bit to get even close to the true color.

Renee - bright cherry red. i found it to be a bit on the pink side, my camera did too obviously.

Pippa - ultra bright neon yellow. It's not as pastel as it looks in my photo. This is my first yellow polish but I'm not sure I have the guts to wear it.

America - bright orange/red. Reds like these are staples in my stash, they make the perfect pedicure color.

Dita - cherry red. This one of the berry shades I mentioned in my previous Zoya post. Zoya does do berry well and this is currently on my toes but I'm kinda tired of seeing the shade. It reminds me of Moxie but I haven't compared the two side by side.

Ali - ultra bright neon pink. This photo is blurry like Paz due to editing. I just couldn't capture the neon as well as I would have liked. I love neon pinks, I usually sport them on my toes though.

La-Di-Da is currently available on Zoya.com. The polishes are $6 each or $36 for the whole set. I haven't jumped on the Twitter band wagon yet but Zoya posts some pretty amazing deals from time to time if you'd like to check it out.

Perfectly Polished Tips 141 - Zoya Ooh-La-La

Zoya released two great collections for the summer season. Ooh-La-La is a set of 6 metallic polishes. I really like that this collection is made up of 6 different colors. I've noticed that Zoya usually does a berry pink and a red shade that are so similar to one another and puts them in the same collection. I was relieved to see 6 unique colors, and to be honest no berry pinks! I don't know if it is because I haven't been polishing my nails as often or if Zoya changed something in their formula but all of these applied like a dream. Most times metallic polishes end up full of very visible brush stroke marks and I expected Goldie and Emme to be tricky, they went on smoothly though. Each were two coaters, except Ginessa, she could have been but I went with three.

Ginessa - a metallic frosty white, reminds me of snow flakes.

Goldie - metallic yellow gold, as I've probably mentioned before I love golds but they don't love me. I think it's because this one is so yellow and I haven't branched out to wearing yellow yet.

Emme - soft pink. I usually don't go for baby pinks or metallics but my stash houses quite a few of these now.

Katy - metallic pinky purple, althought the photo doesn't show it the shimmer is there!

Tallulah - metallic medium blue and my favorite from this collection. It's such a happy and fun color.

Midori - metallic apple green. To me this was the most unique shade in this collection. I don't love green but I think it's a really pretty polish, the gold shimmer really brightens it up.

Ooh-La-La is currently available at Zoya.com, each polish retails for $6 or you can purchase the whole collection for $36,