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

Massive Binge Haul (lotsa pics)

Happy New Year!!!! (Now i have to decide am i going to say two thousand and ten or twenty ten? twenty ten sounds much chicer i think.)

So for my birthday and xmas gift to myself i went on a massive retail therapy binge. I have to say after this i'm done for this month, and February, maybe for the next 6 months! seriously i went waay overboard. My one consolation is i bought some prizes for my giveaway. YES i will join in the giveaway fun and host my own small, small giveaway :) I actually wanted to do it in December as a xmas giveaway but Reyenal was having her giveaway so i decided to wait. I am thinking of making this a Valentines giveaway and having a little competition, i havent decided yet but i will soon.

So i bought a bunch of stuff from different places but i figured i would just do 2 posts, instead of a bunch of little ones. It's winter time and when i'm cold i am more lazy then usual lol.

So here goes:

1. Ecotools Body loofah, 2. Cutex nail polish remover, 3. Luxor Rubber Rods, 4. Revlon polish -No Shrinking Violet, 5. Toe dividers, 6. Wet N Wild Idol Eyes Cream Shadow Pencil - Envy & Distress, 7. NYX Shadows - Golden, Golden Dune, 8. NYX Jumbo Pencils - Gold & Dark Brown

Swatches:

with flash                            without flash

NYX Jumbo Pencils - L to R: Dark Brown, Gold

 

with Flash    without Flash

Wet N Wild Idol Eyes Cream Shadow Pencil L to R: Distress (blue), Envy (green)

 

with Flash  without flash

NYX eyeshadows L to R: Golden, Golden Dune

 

Revlon: No Shrinking Violet

 

Oops forgot to remove price tags..how tacky 0.O oh wells lol.

1. Milani Nail Polish - Juicy Glo

2. (yes thats a 2 lol) Milani Nail Polish - Lemongello

3. NYC Lipstick - Mocha

4. NYC Lip Pencil  #953 (i don't see a actual name)

5 & 6. RImmel Soft Kohl Kajal Eyeliner Pencils - Jungle green & Pure White (love these!! i have the black one and had to go back for more).

Swatch: I was getting lazy so only a quick swatch of Rimmel eyeliner Jungle Green

 

 

Illamasqua Liquid Metal - Enrapture

NARS Blush - Sin

NARS eyeshadow - Fez

NARS e/s - Mekong

 

side by side NARS e/s swatches:

Originally i wanted to get Galapagos but i thought it would be better to get lighter shade to go with Mekong. And i am happy i got Fez, it is just beautiful.

 

Ok i think i will stop here and say thats it for post #1 since i'm actually waiting on my MAC haul to get here so if it comes by Monday i will add the pics in post #2. If not i'll just post it seperately.

Hope you enjoyed :)

 

 

 

 

Leopard Print Nails

Hi Everyone!

So i tried something new with my nails. Normally i just do solid colors but i decided to step out the box alittle. I followed a tutorial by youtuber Julieg713 (subscribe to her she is so sweet and very creative!)

Here's the tutorial by Julieg713:

 

And here are my results!

I think i did a good job if i say so myself =P (the other hand was a disaster! i'm not going to show it)

 

Close up of the nails:

 

And the products i used:

L to R: So Easy - Stripe Rite in Black, OPI - Will you Mari-a-chi Me?, Milani - Timeless.

So you may not be able to tell but the Milani is a creamy grey shade, and the OPI is a shimmery pale pink. I was thinking snow leopard whe i picked these colors lol.

Hope you ladies like the look, and you should definitely try it yourself, super easy and doable.

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!

 

 

 

CVS Mini Haul: Revlon Creme SHadow palette & Milani Palette

So i did alittle shopping at CVS on Friday. Got a few shadows i've had my eye on. Take a looksie:

 

Revlon creme eyeshadow palette - Precious Metal. Good allover eye colors and crease resistant.

Some swatches, i know you know i hate my low budget camera :( im so sorry the quality sucks.

 

I also bought a Milani Runway palette that had colors that were both shimmery and matte

Nice colors right?

I dont know why but i only swatched the colors that i liked 0.o idont know why i didnt swtach all the colors...

 

But there you go, just a lil mini haul if you can even call it that. And i lied at the beginning; i didnt have my eye on these i just randomly picked them up. I am soo bad!!!