Showing posts with label piggy polish. Show all posts
Showing posts with label piggy polish. Show all posts

Friday, March 27, 2009

Piggy Polish Spring/Summer 2009 Collection

With the constant barrage of Spring and Summer collections being thrown at us, I think I've been swatching non-stop! Just a few more collections to go and I'll be able to rest for a little bit and get to all the requests and comparisons on my list.

Okay, here we go, one more Spring/Summer collection to drool over: Piggy Polish!



Azure Thing. A bright, frosty turquoise blue. This is a beautiful color but it's very sheer. I have on three coats and you can still see my nail through the polish. The sheerness makes it awesome for layering- the day I got these I layered them all over black and wow, startlingly awesome colors resulted.



Dog Daises Of Summer. A pearly metallic yellow. The name confuses me a little. I know it's supposed to be a play on "Dog Days Of Summer" but were they trying to go for Daisies? Typo? Am I just reading it wrong? Either way, this is a great summer color. The best part of this color? It's NOT STREAKY!!! It's basically a law of nail polish that yellows have to be streaky, but this one isn't. So, if you've been wanting to wear yellow but are too frustrated to deal with them, you might be pleased with this one.



Grin And Berry It. A bright, almost jelly-like coral-fuchsia creme. This is one eye-catching shade. It's not really what I think of when I hear the word 'berry'- it just doesn't look berry-like to me. To me, this is more of a very bright coral verging on fuchsia. Staple summer color, executed very well.


Lily's Pad. Pearly bright grass green. I know, I've posted this color before, but it's worth seeing again! It's fantastic.




Live With Purplish. A nearly-neon purple creme. I love these types of shades. It is an extremely bright purple/pink creme but it's not quite neon so it doesn't dry matte. There are never enough bright purples in the world.


The tagline states, "Goes on toes!" but there's no reason you can't wear these on your fingers. I do!

The formula is excellent. These polishes are quite sheer, I did three coats in these pictures, but the formula is so thin and smooth that doing three of more coats is easy. I'm pretty sure that these are big three free, but they don't feel like it. The formula is too smooth. These all dry quickly. No complaints.

I love all the colors. They're bright, flashy, adventurous, and best of all, not boring! I'm so sick of boring polish colors being released all the time and I don't think Piggy Polish even has a boring color in their line. I love them for that. They are willing to take a chance and release fun, cheerful shades instead of the depressing red cremes and sheer pinks that plague the polish racks.

Another thing I love about Piggy Polish is that they come with toe rings. I believe the flowers on the toe rings used to be porcelain roses, but now they are made of a much less fragile plastic polymer clay type substance. Each toe ring is coordinated to the color of the polish in the bottle. Genius!

Overall, Piggy Polish rocks and their polishes always excite me and rarely, if ever, disappoint me. Their line contains brights, blues, greens, purples, duochromes and the holo glitter that I can't live without- Sunshine On Snowflakes.

The only retail store I've ever seen selling Piggy Polish is Ulta, but I believe you can order directly from Piggy Polish as well.

Monday, March 9, 2009

Cute green alert! Piggy Polish Lily's Pad

Check out this awesome new green polish!

It's from Piggy Polish's spring 2009 collection and it's called Lily's Pad. You all know I'm always on the lookout for great green polishes, and this one really is pretty!



Piggy Polish Lily's Pad. A bright grass green shimmer that walks the line between frost/shimmer/metallic finish. It's a little bit sheer, but three coats takes care of the visible nail line. I think this would also look mesmerizing with a coat of Piggy Polish Sunshine On Snowflakes on top!

If you don't want to do three coats, you can use this polish over black. I tried one coat of Lily's Pad over my usual Wet N Wild Black and it was beautiful. It becomes a more rich, deep metallic green as opposed to the bright, crisp grass green when worn alone.

Isn't it lovely? And it comes with Piggy Polish's signature flower toe ring. I love toe rings, and Piggy Polish always makes sure to coordinate the color of the flower and beads with the color of the polish. Seriously, talk about adorable.

I have more Piggy Polish shades, both old and new, waiting to be reviewed. They're such a cute, fun and funky brand, I'm surprised I don't see more people raving about them. They always have greens and blues, duochromes and sometimes glitter, and the cute toe rings... I'd like to see them get more love :)

And despite the name, yes, you can use them on your fingers.

Monday, June 16, 2008

Silver Swatches, Part 1.

In response to a request from lovely reader (and blogger!) Tabe-chan, here are some silvers.

In case you can't tell, I ADORE silver.


China Glaze Chroma-Toes. Chrome finish.





China Glaze OMG


China Glaze Platinum Silver (streaky, goopy mess!)


China Glaze Sexagon




CND (Creative Nail Design) Disco Ball. Has lots of holographic glitter circles, extremely gorgeous but hard to capture in a picture.



CND Silver Anniversary


Color Club What A Drag


Essie Opera


Essie Sterling Silver



Lippmann Collection Stardust


Lippmann Collection Believe (sort of champagne-silver)


Manglaze Grey (more grey than silver)


Misa Dance Fever


Misa Got To Be Reel


Sally Hansen Sterling (chrome/mirror finish)


Sally Hansen Shooting Star


Piggy Polish Sunshine On Snowflakes (tiny holographic/silver microglitter)



Zoya Trixie


More to come... Stay tuned.

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