Nail Polish Swatchathon: Pales and Pinks Edition - Pt 1

Left to Right: All by Essie: Curtain Call, Cool Lots, Miss Matched, Neo Whimsical, Anniversary Gala

Curtain Call

 

Cool Lots

 

Miss Matched

 

Neo Whimsical

 

Anniversary Gala

 

left to right: Essie - Mini How High, Guchi Muchi Puchi, Princess Pink, Van D'Go, Revlon - Preview Pink

 

Essie Mini How High

 

Guchi, Muchi, Puchi

 

Princess Pink

 

Van D'go

 

Revlon : Preview Pink

 

Left to Right: Essie - Movers and Shakers, Revlon - Pink Freeze, Essie - Knockout Pout, Revlon - Posh Pink, Milani - Pink Lady

 

Essie Movers and Shakers

 

Revlon - Pink Freeze

 

Essie - Knockout Pout

 

Revlon Posh Pink

 

Milani - Pink Lady

 

Checkout part 2 of my Pales and Pinks Edition here

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Hello Again!

Just a quickie post, i forgot to include these pics with my LOTD, so here's a NOTD featuring Essie's Mesmerize:

Natural Light:

Artifical light:

Thats all folks!

 

Essie Nail Polish + E.L.F. Brushes Haul

Hey guys! long time no post ^_^

So obviously i have my new camera (yay!!) and i love it! I bought the canon SD1200 IS and i love that it has an auto focus feature which saves me lots of time and headache. And it is soo small! its literally the size of a deck of cards as promised. My new love :)

Anyway, enough of the camera rave and on to my Essie Haul. I purchased a few polishes from the 2009 fall & winter collections, and a few i have had my eye on for awhile. I must say Essie is my all time favortie nail polish brand. They truly have some of the best colors, and 1 coat is usually enough to get the job done and display the colors in their true glory.

I wanted to show you how they package the polishes, this is the actual box they ship it in:

See, isnt that a great way to display the product? and no unwrapping or unboxing for me to do (yes i'm that lazy lol) and you can also keep it as a storage box for the polishes.

Here's the unboxed polishes:

L to R: Angora Cardi (fall 09), mesmerize, Mint Candy Apple (winter 09), Midnight Cami (fall 09), Status Symbol, Mink Muffs (Fall 09)

And swatches:

 

Also just a close up on midnight cami cause it almost appears black in above swatch but it is really a deep blue color:

See? very pretty color indeed.

Now on to the E.L.F brushes. I bought the E.L.F studio brush set and you get 11 brushes for $30. They come in a very nice & sleek black brush case:

In the set you get: eyeshadow C brush, complexion brush, small smudge brush, small precision brush, fan brush, concealer brush, powder brush, Angled foundation brush, Small angled brush, Blush brush, contour brush.

Ladies these brushes are phenomenal! They feel soo soft and there isn't any shedding so far ( i used the foundation brush, powder brush and the 'buki -see below- so far). And you get such a variety for $30 it's crazy. If your like me and cant' see yourself spending $10-$20 on a brush that your not sure how much you'd use or not sure if you really need (personally speaking i'm talking about the fan brush) then this set is a great way to get all the various brushes you may have wanted to try but weren't willing to spend the money on.

And of course i had to get the kabuki brush cause i love and collect buki's (its not part of the set, it costs $5):

So very soft, i couldnt stop touching it. There was alittle shedding but far less then the dreaded essence of beauty brush -_-

So thats it for this lil haul, i have my avon haul coming up and i also have a review on maybelline 24hr stay foundation, a clothing haul and a drugstore haul.

have a great weekend!

*edited to correct the fact that the E.L.F. Brushes are fromt he Studio line not the professional line*

Also i guess with the FTC guidelines i am supposed to say "i did not receive these items as a gift, i purchased them all on my own". I guess i did that right :/

 

 

My Nail Polish Collection

Ok i am sorry for the sloppy job on this post but i am starving and i am on my way out the door. I rounded up all my polishes and did a little photo shoot of my entire collection. I will do some swatches later this week of the various shades.

This is how i store my polishes, in these cute lil caboodle cases i bought from Target. They are like $9 i think.

 

This one contains my China Glaze polishes, I already did a post on them, check out my haul post here

 

My Revlon polishes. I think Revlon makes some of the best Reds, pinks and Corals which is why i have so many of those colors. I actually had more polishes by Revlon but they either spilled (see the dirty guy on the left? a casualty) broke or dried up. These are my survivors.

 

My Essie polishes. I think someone has been "borrowing" my polishes because i had alot more pinks than this. Essie makes gorgeous Pinks. And the Aruba Blue is my fave shade of all time. by anyone period.

Next up, My small but growing OPI collection, and Milani collection.

BTW, DO NOT buy the metallic greeen Milani polish (Key Lime Shine). It streaks like all hell. I have to do a post and show you, it was bad. The Grey one on the other hand is a dream, i love that shade, it comes second to Aruba Blue in my list of faves.

My Clear Polishes/tops coats:

Yup i use all Sally Hansen. It's easy to get and works for me. I change up my mani colors regularly so i can't tell you about durability on figner nails, but are far as my toes go i painted my toes 2 weeks ago and i have one tiny chip on my big toe that happend this week. So i would say its durable pedi wise. The red bottle is their quick dry topcoat polish. It really works however on certain polishes i have woken up the next morning to major chippage. So the solution to that is to use a top coat over it once the polishes have dried.

I just realized i missed 2 polishes:

Coral Revlon Shade

Sinful Colors Neon Purple:

First time i tried this brand and it's definitely on my radar (*cue Britney voice singing "on my radar"* in my brain arrghh!! hate that song!) The color was very pretty, i think it is actually a great dupe to Essie's Neon Purple. And its only $2.99 compared to Essie's $8.

And last but not least, my nails all broke/chippd due to my neglect in moisturizing them.

They look so pitiful :( My nails grow fast and strong so i honestly don't really care for them very well because i know they grow right back. If you look at my thumb nail, thats the length they all were last week (i couldn't bring myself to cut it since it was the only health one).

 

I will post swatches of all my colors over the next week, i know i did not list names here but i will do that with my swatches. And for anyone reading this, i would love to see your polish collections so i guess i should make this a tag huh? I tag anyone reading to post their collection, leave a link/comment below so i can find you ok?

Hope you all had a great weekend!

 

 

 

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Just some swatches of my fave colors for the summer

 

From Pinky to thumb: (all by Essie) Bacholerette Bash, Bermuda Shorts, MOvers and shakers, Anniversary Gala and Curtain Call.

 

Here's a solo pic of thumb since you cant see it well above:

 

eek! excuse my cuticles, i need a manicure badly. I used Sally Hansen Quik Dry top coat. It works very well (literally dries your nails in like 30 seconds!) but it's supposed to be chip resistant and it fails completely in that department. I've had chips show up the next day when i use it. I'm going to start using a top coat on top of it and see how that works.

 

Here go the colors in the bottles:

 

 

Nail Polish Haul

From Left to right:

Movers and shakers (Essie), Bermuda shorts (Essie), Creme Brulee (Revlon), Chocolate Truffle (Revlon), Punchy Pink (Essie), Funky Limelight (Essie), Flirty Fuschia (Essie), Perky Purple (Essie).