My product/polish haul for the week-ish

First off, many apologies for the lack of posts recently! It seems that every time I turn around there's something new that has to be done and things like updating my blog end up taking a backseat. So to catch up a bit I'm doing this quick post while trying to get my daughter back to sleep >.>

This is basically a "Huzzah for tax returns!" post. My husband got some fancy electronics to use for theater gigs, I splurged on beauty products and clothes. I have to wear solid black and/or white during the week at school so most of the clothes I got are black. How ironic that I've spent the last five years trying to get rid of some black and get more color in my wardrobe :P

On to the polish! These are all the polishes I've bought over the last just-over-a-week. Top row: Sally Hansen Fairy Teal; Essie Mod Square, It's Genius, Power Clutch, Raise Awareness, Tea & Crumpets; Revlon Matte Suede Powder Puff; OPI mini NLP1311056 (no idea on color name, mayhaps Skull & Glossbones? ). Bottom row: Nutra Nail smudge repair, OPI A Roll in the Hague, Sinful Colors Cinderella, L'Oreal L'orange, Savvy FC Totally Teal, Rimmel London Burgundy Flirt. And the cloth is my new scarf.

A couple of the Essies have been on my wishlist since early last year (It's Genius and Tea & Crumpets) and I am so happy to finally have them in my hot little hands along with A Roll in the Hague! I also got some nail mail today in the form of Rustic Remains and Man-maid Dreams from Amy at I'm Feeling Nail-Venturous! 

 And of course I had to get more than just polish, my hair and skin need some pampering too. Top row: Rockaholic texturizing spray, Kenzia argan oil, Soraya makeup removing cleansing milk. Bottom row: orange blossom hand soap, StraightSexy flat iron spray (freebie from Cosmoprof), WnW lipsticks in Mocha-licious and Vamp it Up, concealer stick, Rusk strong hold hairspray.

  And yes, I chose the hand soap mostly on the merits of the label.

So much for a quick post! LOL! My daughter is long since back in bed asleep and I should be too! I look forward to showing you more photos of the polishes in future posts!

Stash update and my first adventures in stamping!

Wow, the holidays sure were busy! Honestly I'm kinda glad that's over with for another year. Love it when it's happening but I wouldn't want every day to be like that. One thing about Christmas though, it certainly added to my polish stash! First there were the Zoyas I ordered, then the Julep penny box, the Finger Paints Special Effects collection, the polishes I got in my stocking and my January Maven box from Julep.

And the best of all: my hubby got me the MASH stamping plate set! The worst of it was . . . HE DIDN'T GET THE STAMPER/SCRAPER SET! ACK! So there I was with my first stamping plates and no way to use them! My mother was kind enough to order the stamper/scraper though and it came in this thursday. Of course the first thing I had to do was try it out!

Since my January Julep Maven box had come in the day before I had Julep Blake on my nails, which, I must say, I'm really impressed with. A pastel yellow opaque in just two coats! I was going to stamp with black but my daughter saw me with the polish out and picked Zoya Kate instead so I went with it. I really like the color combination :)

Julep Blake

Stamped with Zoya Kate

What do you think? I definitely need to practice a lot more but I got lots of compliments on it at school <3

My Birthday Haul and Mani (plus other goodies)

That's right, yesterday was my birthday! I had such a great day, lots of well wishes from friends and family and quite a few polish discoveries, some of which I took advantage of ;)

Before we get to all that though I want to start with my mani! A couple weeks ago I ordered Zoya Valerie in celebration of passing my final pre-salon test at school and I was quite happy at how fast it arrived. I ordered it thursday and got it saturday! And since I just happened to check the mail after I'd taken off my previous polish I wasted no time in putting her on!

 two coats with flash

natural light

Isn't she gorgeous? I wore this on it's own through wednesday and then decided to spice it up a bit for thursday. I did a gradient with Sally Hansen Nail Prisms Amber Ruby and Sinful Colors All About You.

Then thursday night I decided it needed a bit more spice so I added Revlon Scented Orange Fizz on the tips and on each ring finger I did an autumn leaf design. The polishes used for the leaves were Nina Ultra Pro Evening Sun, Sinful Colors Sugar Sugar, and Revlon Scented Beach.

Now onto the other goodies! I decided to stop at a Walgreens on my way to school friday morning since I had a bit of cash to spend thanks to getting tips from some wonderful clients when I was on the salon floor monday and tuesday. Boy did I ever hit the jackpot! I finally found four of the Wet 'n' Wild Halloween polishes with the gravestone caps! I picked out two and a purple liquid eyeliner with holographic glitter. I also found the new L'Oreal colors! Of COURSE I grabbed Owl's Night for myself ;) And then I found something else . . .

There was also a black polish but that was a plain creme finish. THESE little lovelies all had holographic glitter! They were only $1.99 but I decided to wait on getting them.

After school I was going to get a Fribble from Friendly's since I heard they were filing for bankruptcy and I wouldn't likely get another chance . . . unfortunately the local branch restaurant had already closed :( Since I couldn't get the milkshake I drove across the street to Rite Aid for a bit more polish therapy. So glad I did!

I found more of the L'Oreal polishes along with the new Sally Hansen Complete Salon Manicure colors, the Sally Hansen Salon Effects Halloween strips and some polishes from a brand I'd never heard of before, City Color.

Aren't those bottles adorable?

So I'm sure you're wondering what else I got huh? Ok, here's my final haul pic (minus giftcards and the eyeliner I mentioned earlier)

Top row: Artisan flowering jasmine green tea from Bar Harbor Tea Co. (I love their Wild Blueberry <3), Essie Sexy Divide, Sole Mate, In Stitches, Merino Cool.
Bottom row: Fantasy Makers by Wet 'n' Wild Creepy Pumpkin, Black Magic, L'Oreal Owl's Night, Sinful Colors Serena and Chloe, City Colors Reddish Purple

Overall I had a marvelous day (plus homemade chili and cake when I got home that night)!

Sinful Colors Haul

So last week Walgreens had all Sinful Colors polishes on sale for 99 cents each. What kind of polish addict would I be if I didn't take advantage of such an offer? Obviously I got some! By the end of the week I ended up with seven new colors as well as a Wet n Wild top coat and the Sinful Colors Quick Dry.

The colors shown below are: Easy Going, 24/7, Folly, Nirvana, All About You, What's Your Name, Daddy's Girl

Here are the last three a bit closer:

And up close and personal:

All About You

Daddy's Girl

What's Your Name

I absolutely love What's Your Name because it matches my car's paint! I have a 2006 Subaru Baja Turbo and it has the same blue and teal shimmer as this lovely polish :D I'm also really happy with the creme-finish polishes I got. I am starting to develop a soft spot for cremes.

Were any of you able to take advantage of last week's sale? If so what colors did you get?

Newest additions & another giveaway

Huzzah! My Zoya Earth Day Exchange order came in yesterday! Sadly the bottle of Charisma has a broken neck but Ron over at Zoya's CS was very helpful and I'll soon have an un-broken bottle. Luckily the break was contained by the cap so no smelly mess on the rest of the polishes.

Then today we went grocery shopping at Shaw's and I was perusing the Health & Beauty section and lo and behold, the top shelf of the Sally Hansen display had six of the HD collection colors! I snagged DVD and mourned that I couldn't get more. Is it just me or does Three-D look a lot like Zoya Rica?

Anyway, here's a pic of my newest polishes. I think I'm going to have to find another empty box to start putting stuff in!

Top: Zoya - Charisma, Paz, Casey

Bottom: Sally Hansen HD - DVD; Zoya - Malia, Kaufda, Trixie; Revlon - Calcium Gel Nail Hardener

Aaaaaaand, Sarah over at Samarium's Swatches is having a giveaway! You have until May 20th to enter!

My Polish Stash

I would like to thank the ladies over at the Polish-aholics Anonymous group on Facebook for reminding me that Zoya is not the only polish company out there. I had gotten myself into a bit of a rut and while Zoya DOES have a wonderful formula, dries quickly, and has a marvelous selection of colors there are other companies out there with equally lovely colors and I own some of them. So here's a little entry to show off my small stash, both Zoya and non.





Pure Ice: Peach Sorbet, Frosted Ice Iced Copper, Frosted Ice Mink, Frosted Ice Sea Pearl, Frosted Ice Chrome, Pure Ice Iced Orchid, Frosted Ice Heather.

Sinful Colors: Morph Spring, Morph Sheer, Tapping Nails.

Wet 'n' Wild: 477A Psycho, #414.

Sally Hansen: Star Opal - Pale Lilac Opal; Diamond Strength - Champagne Toast, Precious Peach, Royal Romance; Chrome - Pure, Aqua, Jade, Amethyst; Nail Prisms - Garnet Lapis, Amber Ruby.

Revlon: Silver Switch, Aqua Blast, Frankly Scarlet.

Rimmel London: 340 Torrid, 876 Fusion, 639 Hit the Street.

CG Nailslicks: Dark Denim

Liquid Euphoria: Euphoric, Bliss

Del Sol: Diva

Mary-Kate and Ashley: Hooray

Pro10 Nail Care: 905 Prism

Cheepy black polish

Petites: Sea

Orly: Veriwinkle

Street Wear: Hippy Dippy

Black Light top coat

Naturistics: Envy



Zoya: Penny, Hermina, Felicity, Drew; Dovima, Mitzi, Phoebe, Sooki, Kimmy, Rica, Faye; Reece, Shivon, Adina, Harmonie, Tangy, Sienna.