FashionBinge Beauty Dupe: MAC's Manish Arora Eyeshadow Versus Pop Beauty's Lid Neon

Every piece of MAC's new truly, truly, truly outrageously, brilliantly bright new Manish Arora collection sold out in a hot siggity second. A shame, sure, but most everything looked pretty much like Fafi and Heatherette ('specially the lipsticks and glosses) anyway, which just means they'll parlay these colors into a future collection faster than you can say "Layin' Low."

($38, MAC)

BUT, if you're tippin' toxic for the sold-out eyeshadow six-some, which is quite pretty, take a looksie daisy at Pop Beauty's Lid Neon palette:

($22, Pop Beauty, Sephora)

You don't get the bejeweled packaging or the muted yellow that MAC packs, but you do save $16. Which doesn't go far these days but doesn't mean you shouldn't still save! Even if it's just for Pop Beauty's amazing nail polish, whenever the hell it finally launches in the States!

FABULOUS FashionBinge News! 25% Off Pop Beauty Nail Glam Polishes

Yes, that's the news, but if you've used Pop Beauty Nail Glam polishes, you know that's BIG news. HUGE!

Get 25% off Pop Beauty's super-summery Nail Glam polishes at PopBeauty.co.uk through July 1, 2009 with promo code "Beautyticket."

It's a British site, but U.S. and Canada shoppers, you only pay domestic shipping rates, so put a DONK ON THAT.

+ More of FashionBinge's love affair with Pop Beauty.

Pop Beauty Nail Polish Coming to the States!

($13, Asos.com)

Yes, $13 is, to me at least, an absurd amount of money to pay for one bottle of nail polish, and that's what I thought too when I paid almost exactly that while at the Oxford Circus Top Shop over the holidays. But $20 is a lot to pay for nail polish too, and laydeez be plunkin' that down for Chanel nail polish like it's their Goddamn vocation!

So after spending 13 bones on UK line Pop Beauty's nail polish in turquoise, shown above, and trying it out, I did a little happy dance of superficiality and beauty products around my hotel room, because this is, (hands and nails) down, the best nail polish I've ever used. It's strong, thick (in the good way), absolutely opaque and barely chips even after days. It ends up looking more like paint than polish -- zero streaks, lumps, bubbles or squeaks.

And while you can buy Pop Beauty cosmetics at Sephora here in the States, they don't have their nail polish here - BOOO - however, I recently read that they're about to bring the polishes here too -- YAY! Step on it, Pop! I've got more superficial nail polish dances to do!


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($42, Pop Beauty, Sephora)

A treasure trove of 24 eye shadows in a cute silver palette!

OMG HUGE NEWS: Pop Beauty Nail Glam Nail Polish Now Available In The States At Beauty 360!

Okay, so remember how almost a year ago to the DAMN DAY, I went to London and, while at the Oxford Circus Topshop, I paid WAY too much for some Pop Beauty Nail Glam nail polish, but it was worth every penny because it's my favorite nail polish ever, and then I got all drama face when I got home and discovered that Pop Beauty wasn't selling their polishes in the States, and it was like, either make it last or bribe someone abroad to buy me some from Topshop or Asos.com (they won't ship it to the States! Boo!) and ship it?

WELL... Pop Beauty Nail Glam nail polish is NOW AVAILABLE IN THE STATES! Not widely available... yet..., but they are available at CVS Beauty 360 stores -- sort of like CVS' answer to Sephora, and I ain't mad at that, and it's still closer than London (well, at least the DC location is.)

Apparently the same colors as in the UK are available in the US:

Berry- Soft berry
Black- Intense ink
Black Grass- Fluro green
Icing- Pale pearlised pink
O'Boy- Perfectly nude
Ocean- Irridescent sea blue
Orange- Fluro Orange
Pinky- Hot,Hot pink
Platinum- Iridescent
Silver Sparkly- Metallic sheen pink
Strawberry- Classic orange red
Tomato- Classic blue red
Turquoise- Fluro Blue
Violetta- Fluro purple
Wine- Velvet burgundy
Xmas- Ruby red with red glitter

There are only two Beauty 360 stores so far -- one in Washington DC at 1350 Connecticut Avenue NW in Dupont Circle, and the other at 25272 Marguerite Parkway in Mission Viejo, CA. I'm not totally sure if you can buy online, but I'll supersleuth it.

BTW, below is a list of the other brands available at the Beauty 360 stores -- I'm most stoked for the Dr. Brandt, Laura Geller, Borba, Fusion Beauty and the Juicy Couture fragrances. Also, it looks like more 360 stores are in the works this year. (CVS people, if you're reading this, Court Street in Brooklyn could so use one!) Yay for affordable beauty, no? And YAAAAAAY for more Pop Beauty Nail Glam!

Dr. Brandt Skincare
Laura Geller
Paula Dorf
Freeze 24.7
Borba
ModelCo
Canyon Ranch
Fusion Beauty
Blinc
Bloom
Clarins Fragrance
Caron Paris
Clean
Coty Fragrance
Elizabeth Arden Fragrance
It Cosmetics
Juicy Couture Fragrance
Japonesque
Lavera
Me Bath
Tini Beauty
Mineral Essence
Payot
Perlier
P&G fragrance
Sampar
Stendhal
StriVectin
Supersmile
Talika
Zirh
Pop Beauty
Ahava