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Sometimes I think nail polish companies enjoy confusing the consumer! Color Club released it’s winter 2013 Winter Affair collection with 2 polishes exclusive to Sally Beauty Supply. Ok, that’s fine. Except the Sally exclusive polishes have the same names as polishes in the original collection. Oh, and to make things even MORE confusing. The Sally exclusive polishes are scented. What?

This version of Gift of Sparkle is the Sally Beauty Supply version. It is a lovely deep blue shimmery metallic. It’s like a more subdued version of OPI Swimsuit….Nailed It!. I love it!

The formula is fantastic. I used just 2 coats in my swatches.

As far as the scent goes…I can’t quite put my finger on it. It smells just kind of sweet. It didn’t bother me but I’m not quite sure there’s a point to this polish being scented.

Anyway. After wearing this a day or two I (again) was dying to use Revlon Celestial FX. I topped Gift of Sparkle with 1 coat of Celestial FX and manually placed the diamond glitter on each nail. The boy dubbed the result as my “diamonds are a girl’s best friend” manicure. He’s just so clever (insert eye roll here).

There is a picture of my diamonds manicure along with additional swatches of Gift of Sparkle below the jump!

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Oh goodness.

I keep convincing myself that eventually I will find a polish from Color Club’s Rebel Debutante collection that I’ll actually like. High Society was my latest attempt and while I do quite like the color, the formula was a nightmare!

High Society is a muddy light gray taupe creme that can pull just slightly purple in some lights. Lovely color that’s a perfect not boring neutral. Unfortunately, the formula is a nightmare! I used three coats in my swatches and application was streaky and uneven. Then on top of all of that the polish didn’t level itself out. Basically, I had the same problems as I had with Who Are You Wearing? from this same collection.

I was at a crossroads with this manicure. I could take it off and start over or do something to make it wearable. I decided on the latter. My first thought was to top it with some glitter but it had been awhile since I did a DIY Caviar Manicure. The only beads I thought would look good against High Society were clear beads. I proceeded to apply the beads and to my surprise the beads picked up the color in the polish and changed entirely! The end result was awesome. There are (many) pictures of that below the jump.

It’s so satisfying to take a rather fail manicure and turn it into an awesome one!

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Sigh. Every time I try a different polish from Color Club’s Spring 2010 Rebel Dubutante collection I become just a little bit more disappointed in the collection as a whole.

Unfortunately I found myself, yet again, having to fight a traffic ticket. I have a speeding problem. Anyway, if I learned anything in law school it was looking nice (in lawyer land this means conservative…) and being nice can get you a long way. I needed a conservative manicure and wanted to go nude. This is a part of my collection that is seriously lacking. So I decided to go with Who Are You Wearing? against my better judgment.

Who Are You Wearing? is a pale creme with definite grey/dusty undertones. Color wise I’m a fan of this polish. It’s very flattering on someone as pale as me. Sadly the formula is just awful. I used three coats in my swatches and as you can probably tell it’s still very streaky. Not only was the formula lacking pigmentation it was also very runny and difficult to work with.

Oh well. In the future this will definitely be reserved only for nail art or I may just toss it in my polishes to pawn off on friends bin. I’d love a color in my collection similar to this one with a decent formula. If you have any suggestions please let me know!

There are more swatches below the jump

Oh, and in case you were wondering, I managed to get my ticket reduced to 5 over. Perhaps I should keep this nail polish for my (inevitable) next traffic court date….

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Unless you’ve been living under the proverbial fashion rock then you are well aware that the Pantone color of the year is Tangerine Tango. Tangerine is literally EVERYWHERE. It was my number 1 must have polish color for Summer 2012 and it’s still going strong!

Tangerine Scream is from Color Club’s Summer 2009 Electro Candy collection, but the collection is currently popping up at Rite Aids although on a Poptastic display (I know….confusing…moral of the story, this polish is currently available in stores!).

Anyway, onto the polish itself. Tangerine Scream a gorgeous polish that is rather complex. The base is a neon orange that has quite a bit of pink in it. But what makes this polish really interesting is the shimmer. The shimmer is a light green that is so unexpected! I was worried the shimmer wouldn’t translate to the nail but I’m happy to say I was wrong!

This polish is a neon, so it is a bit on the thin side. I used three coats in my swatches. And of course, being a neon, a shiny top coat is required!

Make sure to check out the swatches below the jump. You can really see the shimmer in the MACRO image!

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I’m going to say it one more time in case you missed me blabbing out it on Twitter and Facebook and over on The Daily Varnish Extra…..Rite Aid now has Color Club! I don’t know when that happened but Color Club displays seem to be popping up in Rite Aid’s all over the country. The particular Rite Aid I went to had a display for the Blossoming and Take Wing collections. The Blossoming collection just really isn’t up my alley, so I passed entirely on that display. But the Take Wing collection looked gorgeous! All the colors were bright and super shimmery.

I had a hard time picking just one polish to get from the Take Wing collection. I settled on Metamorphosis for a couple reason. The legitimate reason I picked Metamorphosis was it looked completely different from anything in my collection. The other reason I picked this polish is a bit ridiculous. The Metamorphosis is one of my favorite works of literature of all time. It was required reading in my first World Lit class in college and I was very taken with not just the story, but the way it was written. I’ve read it over and over again since that class, so it only seemed fitting I have a polish named Metamorphosis!

Fortunately, this isn’t going to be one of those polishes I bought for the name and end up disappointed. Metamorphosis is a gorgeous almost foil green leaning teal. It also has a subtle duochrome effect so it can sometimes appear a bit more blue.

Due to the finish of this polish, the formula is a bit on the thin side. I used three to four coats and was happy with the opaqueness of the polish.

Prior to Metamorphosis the only Color Club polishes I had tried came in the sets that you can often find at Ross. Those bottles lack labels with the color names which drives me crazy! Those bottles also don’t have the cute flower on top of the cap. Check below the jump for bottle pictures

I really do love this polish. It is so gorgeous. This worked out much better than the last polish I bought named after one of my favorite books, Essie Room With a View.

Macro shot and other pictures below the jump! Including more pictures of the DIY caviar manicure that was featured in yesterday’s Fish Egg Friday post.

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