tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-61494902095146056632024-03-18T21:40:57.095-07:00Lately I'm Obsessed With...I know. You don't have to say it.AChttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00636412730868248541noreply@blogger.comBlogger106125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6149490209514605663.post-12924953238013882582012-04-30T09:47:00.001-07:002012-04-30T09:47:25.885-07:00Cold, Wordless, Descriptionless SpamOr as wordless as a blabbering lout such as I can manage. No, I'm not dead. No, this blog isn't dead. Somehow I'm managing the pathetic bit of non-effort it takes to upload this stuff from my phone. Thank you for not breaking your touchpads in a mad haste to unsubscribe 😓(or your mouse, I guess? Does anyone use those anymore?<br /><br />So here you are... <br /><br /><br /><br /><center><a href='https://picasaweb.google.com/lexsphotofiles/LatelyIMObsessedWith02?authkey=Gv1sRgCIqExKuft8fk6QE#5737236148738819074'><img src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjs4rE5KRNt78PGh_Yg-PQiUxBEuBgz-5-spzSTXUB3XKxPeoWswJ3fkIqYeaYLkNOxDDQcYiGKIXIvCkjCNgRXSSTSNQv60DQxHbzf8aYzkbZ1dhnPNacPc-Ta3QQXh_PqdovCd-EzhyX5/s288/10.jpg' border='0' width='800' height='800' style='margin:5px'></a></center><br />This was a gradient of three Color Club Beyond The Mistletoe glitters - Beyond The Mistletoe, Holiday Splendor and Sugarplum Fairy, I believe - with a konad stamp over it.<br /><br /><br /><center><a href='https://picasaweb.google.com/lexsphotofiles/LatelyIMObsessedWith02?authkey=Gv1sRgCIqExKuft8fk6QE#5737236290008666594'><img src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjlAZBp_z02uaUyJjMo-7UpCN8MX91olg3uE2Al9EDp92_4wYzi5BqvVzJzlE_XUAJuPa9iIC23bNK0ykhZVhYd_uyfAMRRknfbXB5cTtLrHfejzvZ7e5txfrWZ2UpbWRYA9A9hOYyCNpmo/s288/11.jpg' border='0' width='400' height='270' style='margin:5px'></a></center><br />This here is Nfu-Oh 65 with a Bundlemonster stamp. I really do need to get around to getting that new set of BM plates. Also, i recently gave my sister a stamper and scraper, and she promptly borrowed about half my plates 😒<br /><br /><br /><center><a href='https://picasaweb.google.com/lexsphotofiles/LatelyIMObsessedWith02?authkey=Gv1sRgCIqExKuft8fk6QE#5737236404190221874'><img src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiFgea6N0i1-tvvpVLWrQhB5FKmcL7saa1SVULHl-Ro_0FpjFQTj9URnFrgla0QJxXLlgFxesSNxB6KuI9Cwk5wMlVcDvJ2hCViqwCheZxymLLlokJ18pLXYQaZ-W2ywDzaqGNzGC3WxiFA/s288/12.jpg' border='0' width='400' height='225' style='margin:5px'></a></center><br />This mani has the honor of being <del>Jaqen H'ghar</del> Essie Pink Parka with one of my newer konad stamps. (A thousand dragons and some milk of the poppy to whoever can guess what I'm currently reading 📖)<br /><br />And that's all I have saved to my Camera Roll right now 😜. I will be back with more after I've saved more pics from my FB album to it. Yes I have a stupid way of doing things, I know. <br /><br />In the meantime, you're welcome to go look at my Nails album, if you want some quick pix: http://www.facebook.com/media/set/?set=a.10150586140286682.377323.512991681&type=3<br /><br />And follow me on Instagram!: acthx<br /><br /><br />Posted using BlogPress from my iPhone<br />AChttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00636412730868248541noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6149490209514605663.post-62291141466857864892012-03-02T07:13:00.001-08:002012-03-02T07:13:47.701-08:00OPI Pink FridayPink Wednesday? Meh. Nicki Minaj believes in Pink Fridays, apparently. I'm sure it has something to do with her music or one of her songs or something, but since I am so perennially uncool/behind the times I am not familiar with either. But this colour is pretty.<br />
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In my picture it's showing a little more blue-toned than in real life. While I would say it's a cooler-toned pink, it has much less blue in it than some other spring-release pinks like China Glaze Dance Baby. I probably have two or three or twenty polishes like it, but I was just drawn to its pretty pinkness and had to get it. And we already know we have problems with the whole Not-Polish-Buying aspect of our personality :p. It's actually kind of similar to Pedal Faster Suzi! from the OPI Holland collection but without the shimmer and a touch brighter.<br />
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So, yep. I like. Pretty, fresh, spring-y, and I've been loving the way baby pink polish looks against a soft grey top or sweater. Or with this spring's most popular colour for clothing - mint green! :). First it was all the rage with nails; two years later, it's made its way to our clothing. But its fine with me - i love mint green, and its more vibrant, bluer cousin turquoise :) Turquoise/aqua has always been one of my very favorite colours, after ultramarine blue :) Try wearing a mint or aqua coloured top with a pop of this colour on your nails for contrast! Later on in the summertime, I love the way coral looks with mint green, or neon yellow :D (yes I need a smiley there. Colours make me happy :D) but for that soft, pretty spring vibe that's more transitional, try the pink/mint green nails-top combo :)<br />
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Okay, I've blathered on enough. Happy Friday! Also, are you taking place in the March Photo A Day thingie? I am. It's good to blow the cobwebs outta the creative corner of my brain sometimes :p. even though I forgot to post yesterday's photo anywhere :p<div class="separator"style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhh2WnEvvAQnlCDGCs3_3_qtlfNhm-bBCLlDjUmB6z9bNVehIGYXWW88qQQad524T6GsorYKFwKyYtydbFr0ymxL56pthTahO3AHq2laLCiNVGhc353lw7FMEthoutXQoEapRmdybIFgfQT/s640/blogger-image--318472296.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhh2WnEvvAQnlCDGCs3_3_qtlfNhm-bBCLlDjUmB6z9bNVehIGYXWW88qQQad524T6GsorYKFwKyYtydbFr0ymxL56pthTahO3AHq2laLCiNVGhc353lw7FMEthoutXQoEapRmdybIFgfQT/s640/blogger-image--318472296.jpg" /></a></div>AChttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00636412730868248541noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6149490209514605663.post-70714130525174809752012-02-28T01:12:00.001-08:002012-03-02T07:28:36.999-08:00OPI Did It On &apos;EmDid what? On who?<br />
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Also, I don't know why the Blogger app is sharting all these stupid HTML characters all over the title of this post, just because I want to use an apostrophe :( Hate this app. Hate.<br />
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Anywayyyyy, Did It On 'Em. At first I thought this was too similar to 2010's Who The Shrek Are You? so I initially passed on it until about a month ago... I'm glad I picked it up now! I have them both pictured at the end of this post - DIOE is on the left. They are very very, VERY similar polishes, but DIOE is a touch lighter, has a tiny bit more yellow and is actually a less saturated pea green than WTSAY... I'm not sure which I prefer, to be perfectly honest. <br />
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But I do like the colour. I'm all about brights for spring as well as pastels, and this is such a sunny, cheerful, vibrant chartreuse that it just lifts my spirit to have it on my nails. It's funky. It's different. I like it. And I like to think I'm fashionable enough to be able to pull it off and not look tacky (just humor me on this, will ya?). Seriously though, I think it looks amazing with a denim shirt - the green just pops. I really want to try this on my toes - and I'm dying to see what Super Bass Shatter looks like overtop! <br />
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Did you guys watch the Oscars? I need to see this Artist movie, apparently... What else is new with y'all? I've been having a really strong urge lately to just say f-k it and make the most obnoxiously annoying of all YouTube videos - the shopping haul :p. seriously. I really want to make a haul video. Do I know anything about making videos or fashion or vlogging? Hell no. Do I have a good camera, a good setup and decent lighting? No, no and no. Will it be terrible? Undoubtedly. Will I get crucified by trolls? Probably. Do I want to do it anyway? Yes! What the hell is wrong with me? More than you will ever know :p. okay, I promise you won't have to hear about that anymore.<br />
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I actually ended up really loving this whole Nikki Minaj collection! I like it better than the new Holland one, from which by the way, I have my selections to review. I'll have that up soon :). But yeah, definitely go check out this collection if you haven't already (but of course you have, because you're a polish-minded person like myself. You most likely wouldn't even be reading this blog if you hadn't ;p)<br />
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My blog is too wordy :p. bubye!<div class="separator"style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjfMkQy22nMlLjbZAj7hOwE8scwlYuhG59qj8oS7kVXob-MJq82SWxEyq8ItqJ-zvIl1HAcFcPDrf_v1lYnrgtm4Pwnb8RGjLJOwk5fj3PFrvPugBoeCoFV44nRBZ9AN96jbZEtg8DlFoID/s640/blogger-image--1520996493.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjfMkQy22nMlLjbZAj7hOwE8scwlYuhG59qj8oS7kVXob-MJq82SWxEyq8ItqJ-zvIl1HAcFcPDrf_v1lYnrgtm4Pwnb8RGjLJOwk5fj3PFrvPugBoeCoFV44nRBZ9AN96jbZEtg8DlFoID/s640/blogger-image--1520996493.jpg" /></a></div><div class="separator"style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjfP-F4snbjEJ-VXw6YV9xWwsJntNA8nyIZbOomNy97WsWxCNES2QhE5NDhzEXfPPM4CLJMJWJhKr55Pl3fpkmeztIlUt-zQQA0BC4zNWfykVSTiFu1KT85kO36bUFC9bcX59A3qibNmm1r/s640/blogger-image-840121448.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjfP-F4snbjEJ-VXw6YV9xWwsJntNA8nyIZbOomNy97WsWxCNES2QhE5NDhzEXfPPM4CLJMJWJhKr55Pl3fpkmeztIlUt-zQQA0BC4zNWfykVSTiFu1KT85kO36bUFC9bcX59A3qibNmm1r/s640/blogger-image-840121448.jpg" /></a></div><div class="separator"style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhs25nfawxs8HvCSeLeCmlP2tC4v3hLA2S7eXV0uxYJCO8LPFblgjRyZ_k4wTGTuLjuEVhgXg8bNZ-KTYp3E76IJqyBgNy7Xq3gVjsSkHvd90mxtowJchbge8Bvd0jfvNW9HiZw8a0soQX4/s640/blogger-image-525788919.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhs25nfawxs8HvCSeLeCmlP2tC4v3hLA2S7eXV0uxYJCO8LPFblgjRyZ_k4wTGTuLjuEVhgXg8bNZ-KTYp3E76IJqyBgNy7Xq3gVjsSkHvd90mxtowJchbge8Bvd0jfvNW9HiZw8a0soQX4/s640/blogger-image-525788919.jpg" /></a></div><div class="separator"style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgqf4DDMVNs36glHm_PkkULhyphenhyphentIgyOCp_0z7-Sw_B3A1zr0CG6fluPOvo4h3wWNqodC-IjiyiJ2OzGJ3HJeULuBTfeS4eUaukt_W-ExAcxllkTTQmhlCKw1RTuO9pVdEcWyTIoHzjfLwwRA/s640/blogger-image-1188659473.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgqf4DDMVNs36glHm_PkkULhyphenhyphentIgyOCp_0z7-Sw_B3A1zr0CG6fluPOvo4h3wWNqodC-IjiyiJ2OzGJ3HJeULuBTfeS4eUaukt_W-ExAcxllkTTQmhlCKw1RTuO9pVdEcWyTIoHzjfLwwRA/s640/blogger-image-1188659473.jpg" /></a></div>AChttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00636412730868248541noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6149490209514605663.post-50635118092049654802012-02-22T09:57:00.001-08:002012-02-22T09:57:10.032-08:00NOTD: China Glaze Cling OnReal quick NOTD for you all. Have I been titling all my posts with "NOTD" lately..? I don't think I have. Blah. Deduct points for inconsistency.<br />
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I picked up all the China Glaze Magnetix polishes from my awesome local beauty supply last week (they had the Prismatix glitters in too! But no Hunger Games yet...) except for the brownish-beige one. May have to go back and get it :p. Anyway I found these polishes to be a bit trickier to apply than my Layla Magneffects. The magnet (which the SA gave me for free - I didn't know you had to purchase them. I thought they came with the polish, and apparently so did the SA!) isn't as strong as the Layla magnet, and I had trouble with the pattern on a couple of my fingies. I still love the effect, though.<br />
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Overall, I highly recommend these. Pick one up if you see them. I mean, come on. Magnetic polish. So cool. It's like this year's crack polish :)<div class="separator"style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhQFW2uCv-cSPD43pNq0u_9FWoU-sa2JhxvLfBqv6U3BfHmj7Cbkjh9qCKQTid8JKMVQPszHPC1cIn-Nm1i5ZMzLad3WL6PgpBoBb-6LCC80VJdrvYQmMeexXI6hhls6vXDt3EBmAwLfeot/s640/blogger-image--534270920.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhQFW2uCv-cSPD43pNq0u_9FWoU-sa2JhxvLfBqv6U3BfHmj7Cbkjh9qCKQTid8JKMVQPszHPC1cIn-Nm1i5ZMzLad3WL6PgpBoBb-6LCC80VJdrvYQmMeexXI6hhls6vXDt3EBmAwLfeot/s640/blogger-image--534270920.jpg" /></a></div><div class="separator"style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhAc-2GeJ5Gc1RB-uE7wgbyiBoqbWeQI23Rg1foJWAH2uxDY9hrogO4rExEPbUjF6PGi8snL1myu7Hq8VfbFPez8X4aGSNp48orrFPclw4Z9SzVGJk9BmDS6ITBkFa-cUdXWf-AgcA_TpHc/s640/blogger-image--388342463.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhAc-2GeJ5Gc1RB-uE7wgbyiBoqbWeQI23Rg1foJWAH2uxDY9hrogO4rExEPbUjF6PGi8snL1myu7Hq8VfbFPez8X4aGSNp48orrFPclw4Z9SzVGJk9BmDS6ITBkFa-cUdXWf-AgcA_TpHc/s640/blogger-image--388342463.jpg" /></a></div>AChttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00636412730868248541noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6149490209514605663.post-20837703058710864782012-02-15T15:17:00.001-08:002012-02-15T15:17:16.450-08:00China Glaze Some Like It HauteThis was from the Marilyn Monroe-themed Eye Candy collection that came out in Winter 2011. Scrangie listed this on her Favorites of 2011 post, which might as well be an extra sticker on the bottle saying OMGLEXBUYMENAO!!!<br />
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It's pure gorgeousness. Fine silver glitter in a charcoal base with larger holographic hex glitter. Kind of similar to Orly Rock Solid but the charcoal base is deeper. <br />
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This polish actually sort of has a story. I got this before Christmas, knocked it off my tv tray that I sometimes use to do my nails, and it broke. Sad face. And mind you I've knocked a billion bottles of polish, both China Glaze and otherwise, off my tv tray before (and much higher things for that matter, like my kitchen counter) and NEVER had one break on me before D: So I searched and searched, and just before I was about to buy on on EBay, I saw it in the local Chatters Salon at my mall. The last bottle left. So this is it :). Cool story bro.<br />
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So yeah, Some Like It Haute. Huh... Is "haute" really pronounced like "hot"? I usually pronounce it like "hote", as in rhymes with "oat". Whatever. This is why I blog and not vlog :p just get the polish. If you like dark polishes, greys or sparkly things, you'll like this.<div class="separator"style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgxEo7EgTow1gd4DvJnatYVA8imnJV0a9TxfObIeK-PLumyNoEtqvQITLq1RXRs9T5GjoqTFm9wV2VQpX_NNFVbXQ5jOxS_7Ky1_54ltyUCBGGyiG8g87hPQzigRZMjGXiKtu56S2GmUsDn/s640/blogger-image-349100268.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgxEo7EgTow1gd4DvJnatYVA8imnJV0a9TxfObIeK-PLumyNoEtqvQITLq1RXRs9T5GjoqTFm9wV2VQpX_NNFVbXQ5jOxS_7Ky1_54ltyUCBGGyiG8g87hPQzigRZMjGXiKtu56S2GmUsDn/s640/blogger-image-349100268.jpg" /></a></div>AChttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00636412730868248541noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6149490209514605663.post-22823677408937200952012-02-12T14:54:00.001-08:002012-02-12T14:54:40.934-08:00OPI Gettin Miss Piggy With It, and Other Subpar PicturesOk, I just found this post saved to my phone and I thought it had long ago been deleted ... This is the last post I made before I just got so frustrated I decided to stop blogging for a while :-/ I guess I might as well post it. I'll be trying to get back into the swing of things and posting again... Although I may just have to rename this blog Nails On The Go: The Crappy Cell Phone Swatches Blog! since I have yet to resolve my ongoing laptop/Picasa issues :(<br /><br />If anyone has any idea what free software I can use to edit photos, or if you can tell me why Picasa will not longer work on my desktop, please let me know. For now, here's this ancient post from November sometime, iirc...<br /><br />BlogPress on my phone just deleted this entire post :(<br /><br />Okay, I really don't have the heart to type out everything I did before :( but I'll quickly restate that I don't know why I even have any followers left, and I appreciate wholeheartedly those of you that are bearing with me and my crap blog and pics right now.<br /><br />So this is OPI Getting Miss Piggy With It.<br /><br /><center><a href='https://picasaweb.google.com/lexsphotofiles/LatelyIMObsessedWith02?authkey=Gv1sRgCIqExKuft8fk6QE#5704136340623407442'><img src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhSm6Exs4cs308AXHExQpJIa7AYUc7LK73C2tMvM8S43rWNGcml72lgp_JwGHdf8FxTDKVsYPksux4qN6PRJ5xZS60FaRqLT5CDX1ERFkl9FBRAV9SPf8Qv8Qe3N8XeoDQ31yp_n8VXbfGn/s288/iphone_photo.jpg' border='0' width='210' height='281' style='margin:5px'></a></center><br />I slathered on about four or five coats and it still wasn't dense enough for me.<br /><br /><center><a href='https://picasaweb.google.com/lexsphotofiles/LatelyIMObsessedWith02?authkey=Gv1sRgCIqExKuft8fk6QE#5704136396113980210'><img src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgltzEnTjuVChmPxLiJhavHoI12DFAV8QMg_r_pK8z1Wcs_yta-2rm8w4W5d-pQTnjJMYEgeiGk1CjaRuceLXhW8vH9COoCh3soyxRNi8AmYHo9MDANs14RIITvWAh0UrZzWNJlhG17d7ec/s288/iphone_photo.jpg' border='0' width='210' height='281' style='margin:5px'></a></center><br />Yeah. I thought this'd be my fave Muppet polish, but I think I'm gonna give it away and get the similar-looking China Glaze glitter from the Eye Candy collection instead.<br /><br />More? You want more crappy pics? (says no one). Okay, okay, I must oblige...<br /><br /><br /><center><a href='https://picasaweb.google.com/lexsphotofiles/LatelyIMObsessedWith02?authkey=Gv1sRgCIqExKuft8fk6QE#5704136445472793810'><img src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiB9gnYttKPn1J_ylI66ihut5NClFKrMuA2RGQYpm936o5Lev1Ma2K0ULoUItX7G_w75o5g2hYproetGS1AfA2ZsRMDZ4Z5jRIYbtH99ch6NPNB-tXm2wHMSuu3b-gM30ycDF7uQj2JQ7xG/s288/iphone_photo.jpg' border='0' width='281' height='210' style='margin:5px'></a></center><br />I had to be understated this day, so I did Essie Cool-lots, but then tried to get away with some gold holo glitter on the tips - I used Color Club Jingle Jangle.<br /><br /><center><a href='https://picasaweb.google.com/lexsphotofiles/LatelyIMObsessedWith02?authkey=Gv1sRgCIqExKuft8fk6QE#5704136496721805954'><img src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhrwCXt1nD_FPrtSMPPWMzOYAkxnPZDPA6fHCTueLdv5PMyyXg30i7BNg-PAypUu9PQwV1yFHmr_8ALPqQz3RH17MqgHAUlfv7sqZXQw7DTmag9CW0EG2HL4sGuATN09etn6BhZCIdZExAX/s288/iphone_photo.jpg' border='0' width='281' height='210' style='margin:5px'></a></center><br />Blah. And they made me take it off anyway :(<br /><br /><br /><center><a href='https://picasaweb.google.com/lexsphotofiles/LatelyIMObsessedWith02?authkey=Gv1sRgCIqExKuft8fk6QE#5704136548628911906'><img src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhCkzcD7BceUOC8gm8RSCSF80qtxtxrlhOWgcqmxyK4OCTKlgrk2WzeIJsVBLrfCs_myWVIaDzHVoEzObZ5fIqzmooZegmWkMGS6LL2HlGWlezp_xjPCRzqoZ6jH31DG-3tXaUF6SL416vd/s288/iphone_photo.jpg' border='0' width='210' height='281' style='margin:5px'></a></center><br />This was the Kleancolor Metallic Mango that I couldn't wait to try...<br /><br /><center><a href='https://picasaweb.google.com/lexsphotofiles/LatelyIMObsessedWith02?authkey=Gv1sRgCIqExKuft8fk6QE#5704136603143601394'><img src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgcTHzzwK1fZ-abDydH1zo6kqkfGg450yjMfimMfiVTKFY0ywYPcf1yi7uN737msszk3DrDMQDdY8yEfw-DpvufCmJfzylBb5rfGwXhrE-jrD4o98VlbtqxLS742YUGxSsN_ut11YgLo-sj/s288/iphone_photo.jpg' border='0' width='210' height='281' style='margin:5px'></a></center><br />...Metallic Fuchsia was more impressive :-/. Still very glowy as well, though. It's probably the brightest coppery bronze-y colour I own. The finish is like Orly Glitz and Glamour or OPI Rising Star, but much deeper and more orange-toned. <br /><br /><br /><center><a href='https://picasaweb.google.com/lexsphotofiles/LatelyIMObsessedWith02?authkey=Gv1sRgCIqExKuft8fk6QE#5704136657882667938'><img src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiU2YbALvV-l_otsdFkIE2V4A48Urp1xIBsoP6qOOOCSGYDvJobZFwEcKtKjhiIplgLmvxQMIAZk1FmmRIK-YlNX_R6xbxf2pSS2yymL-scHCbVa9GgD2lmq0OTw8hbUsNHt8bQ1RBfD5hr/s288/iphone_photo.jpg' border='0' width='210' height='281' style='margin:5px'></a></center><br /><br /><br /><center><a href='https://picasaweb.google.com/lexsphotofiles/LatelyIMObsessedWith02?authkey=Gv1sRgCIqExKuft8fk6QE#5704136707279004930'><img src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhqbYTTqnN2VRNN9sJZjBhutK_8BaWDnxoMXxSbC9jrGSeugfL4BfCA0WwoWNMoQSOrVSrrBkM3573JW-YZapTLOPRzJPgioezP0XcLgObVzhpVLYaAp8gfFmsiAW3b9uhEOuSdYWUFX5Ih/s288/iphone_photo.jpg' border='0' width='210' height='281' style='margin:5px'></a></center><br />Gawd, these <i>pictures</i>.... :( (Okay, okay, I'm over it... deep breath...) This one I actually did like. It's OPI Gone Gonzo overtop of Zoya Ibiza. Man, I get angry at Zoya Ibiza for not flashing the sparse little tiny holo glitters at me on my nail like, ever... so it gets topped with one coat of Gone Gonzo :). The aqua colour of the glitter pops against the navy blue background. It's a good combo. Try it! Any deep navy blue will work... Go grab a $.99 Wet N Wild Blue Moon if you don't have a good navy yet.<br /><br />Okay, that's all for now. If anyone could ever tell me a good free software program that lets me crop and lighten my pics (like Picasa, but one that will actually run on my computer) <i>pleeeeeeeeeeease</i> let me know? And then I could maybe post some half-decent pictures of my NoTDs once more?<br /><br />- Sent with BlogPress from my iPhone <br /><br /><br />AChttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00636412730868248541noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6149490209514605663.post-73603409198299301352012-02-07T12:56:00.001-08:002012-02-07T12:56:44.248-08:00Ozotic 507 - The Closest To Peridot We&apos;ll Probably Ever Come...I apologize for the severely declined quality in both my posts and photos... I'm just kind of chucking whatever up here just to have some content. And all on my phone. Yeah. I know... Who blogs from their phone right??? Do they have a Shittiest Nail Blogs On The Web award? Someone send me the button o__O<br />
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Anyway, I hauled a small haul from Harlow & Co. recently (if you wanna see it, lemme know...), and it included three Ozotics, one of which was this. And while this is beautiful and gorgeous and stunning and all that... It just looks so damn similar to Chanel Peridot. With a less-strong duo chrome effect (which I mean, who wants that?? More, MOAR duochrome! Never less!!). And since I not only own Peridot but had to jump through hoops to get it, I don't want to wear anything that's like a watered-down version of it...<br />
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I'm making this polish out to sound not-that-great. Don't get me wrong. It's definitely great, especially if you don't own Chanel Peridot. If you missed Peridot, like the title says, this is The Closest You Will Ever Come. It's a gorgeous green-gold shimmer that flashes teal at angles, and it looks unbelievable in the bottle. I'm just kind of upset that i paid almost $20 (yeah, these Ozotics aren't cheap. It's the crushed fairies and unicorn DNA in the ingredients... jacks the price up, dontcha know...) for something I have a dupe of >___<. And what's worse, I have yet ANOTHER polish that looks similar to these two that I got from Harlow & Co as well (Model's Own Golden Green). I'll have to try that as well. I actually have the whole Beetle Juice collection to go through, so expect to see some of those, as well as my other goodies from H&C.<br />
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Alright, that's it for now. The other really annoying thing about these Ozotics is: although 3 different websites sell them now, their shipping is GAH! and none of the sites ever have all the polishes you want in stock at the same time xp<div class="separator"style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiTvZHGXFtz-i_ja6Up8ePVcXczose2gxiyvJr2tXQ9o-TrySL53B4bapfkoq9QLOaunLLNnBx66Sq1HTkgSQQdaQuRvpC3Th6lVFg_xj8KIAjNWRBDqXluwJRojl4I4HH1ahlkWjm6nkwx/s640/blogger-image-516587429.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiTvZHGXFtz-i_ja6Up8ePVcXczose2gxiyvJr2tXQ9o-TrySL53B4bapfkoq9QLOaunLLNnBx66Sq1HTkgSQQdaQuRvpC3Th6lVFg_xj8KIAjNWRBDqXluwJRojl4I4HH1ahlkWjm6nkwx/s640/blogger-image-516587429.jpg" /></a></div><div class="separator"style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgycChwUVA_AGDPXi_wNskjpYwiWN-CgyYbwynuh_7shDTlT61HlCMeH7_sMGr4VdlhnxEbWIl73bHVX5_1E8ogiPKPHEDAcohTAzj6c72ZUn3aaxlxwFUew5RAfmnkdbPAMGQCzRa0G98H/s640/blogger-image-500533453.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgycChwUVA_AGDPXi_wNskjpYwiWN-CgyYbwynuh_7shDTlT61HlCMeH7_sMGr4VdlhnxEbWIl73bHVX5_1E8ogiPKPHEDAcohTAzj6c72ZUn3aaxlxwFUew5RAfmnkdbPAMGQCzRa0G98H/s640/blogger-image-500533453.jpg" /></a></div><div class="separator"style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhnkMtx7YdRBJDNd2HhKc3mQ236ThTbWyM2EuglxUv8E9pvs6fk_GcIbQfjC-SV4QGXuHnjTDRysuwwwOeZ5U72-6ViUs5rT-M2QjvFFs5p9znuCtf2VrQy48ysd2_G1-FfOql6AUCleYVv/s640/blogger-image-631299469.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhnkMtx7YdRBJDNd2HhKc3mQ236ThTbWyM2EuglxUv8E9pvs6fk_GcIbQfjC-SV4QGXuHnjTDRysuwwwOeZ5U72-6ViUs5rT-M2QjvFFs5p9znuCtf2VrQy48ysd2_G1-FfOql6AUCleYVv/s640/blogger-image-631299469.jpg" /></a></div>AChttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00636412730868248541noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6149490209514605663.post-88810647955640045072012-02-06T17:00:00.001-08:002012-02-06T17:13:57.665-08:00My Superbowl-Themed NailsI don't like the Giants and I don't like the Patriots. But both teams have the same colours - red, blue and white - so I couldn't miss either way :). I don't even really like football, tbh - I like it more than baseball, which isn't saying much - but the game turned out to be way more exciting than I anticipated. I actually watched it. Now that's saying something :p<br />
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Sorry I haven't posted in forever. I'm aware of how lame this is. My computer still is having problems though and, well, YOU try blogging from your phone. It doesn't work very well. I'm using the Blogger app right now, because the BlogPress app - that I paid for :( - isn't letting me publish anything. It says "it seems like your network is not ready for posting.". Wtf. Why the hell not? <br />
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I hate this Blogger app. It sucks. I can't even post a picture in the middle of my post - it appears at the end. How shite is that?!? Truthfully I don't even know if this will publish. But you c here for nails, not bitching and moaning, so here it is. <br />
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The red nail is Zoya Sooki topped with OPI Crown Me Already. The blue is Essie Mesmerize topped with the same OPI, and the white nails are Sally Hansen Insta-Dri Whirlwind White topped with LA Girls Glitter Addict Animate and Jostle.<br />
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Hope you had a happy Superbowl weekend!<div class="separator"style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiVik7BTfH9OBUiFFGohTsDBIETI_eXglmx9G9M36ifS0yfH8qPjQQT9sTeICiLl2uBw9cfYoLAhtoy5lmj2crJZCkP-A_fxpVRpsKUkIbwQ4sn2ZJ5i2Wa2uFbpHI1pjKkI1D0EAhRRGym/s640/blogger-image--1380316228.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiVik7BTfH9OBUiFFGohTsDBIETI_eXglmx9G9M36ifS0yfH8qPjQQT9sTeICiLl2uBw9cfYoLAhtoy5lmj2crJZCkP-A_fxpVRpsKUkIbwQ4sn2ZJ5i2Wa2uFbpHI1pjKkI1D0EAhRRGym/s640/blogger-image--1380316228.jpg" /></a></div>AChttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00636412730868248541noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6149490209514605663.post-82598753768291576822011-11-20T13:08:00.001-08:002011-11-20T13:08:10.427-08:00Kleancolor City Never Sleeps... And A Small HaulOkay, real quick, because I'm in the middle of playing Final Fantasy VIII and I have a town to explore (go ahead, judge...) - this is Kleancolor City Never Sleeps, one of the Kleancolors I bought the other day...<br /><br /><center><a href='https://picasaweb.google.com/lexsphotofiles/LatelyIMObsessedWith02?authkey=Gv1sRgCIqExKuft8fk6QE#5677187777976147090'><img src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhiUW4s4vgRJqWXESudKbu2J3Gj6GCPpMfZNzy7I5nFtkIDtXnMTQ8EySzeVoJbEpM4a4dd8hM5uzpUBefajoA5z-TQDHI_8eza7v_PdKQ2YQUraXHl5bLyGxwcxQ4-PamJKWrthQsJ4i0r/s288/0.jpg' border='0' width='320' height='320' style='margin:5px'></a></center><br />Ain't she purty?<br /><br /><br /><center><a href='https://picasaweb.google.com/lexsphotofiles/LatelyIMObsessedWith02?authkey=Gv1sRgCIqExKuft8fk6QE#5677187782031013154'><img src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgNK5AHUrkAShoiuelD73UBh0RbQi1VG123QqAglPbgLNJmMOA0qlPvHu1byuEJsuDfzIQBcN8b8BbbBzP9_1BiFDziBSpeoP5QIt-XdpDx7l-hUQ0qB3cxMdkSCy6jYUymgb2QxLOQgMnB/s288/1.jpg' border='0' width='320' height='320' style='margin:5px'></a></center><br />I like. I knew I would when I bought it. I've always loved multicolored glitters. You guys know that. I admit I was too scared to wear it on its own, though, so I snuck two coats of LA Colors Morning Glory underneath, which is a deep purple jelly with blue shimmer.<br /><br /><br /><center><a href='https://picasaweb.google.com/lexsphotofiles/LatelyIMObsessedWith02?authkey=Gv1sRgCIqExKuft8fk6QE#5677187788256085874'><img src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiXekflhblE85EXU0YUVmfbmeFxF6btCZRmrucrwdBEDg-5E8cisMSO5Ah236u6vTsNxPpneghdmRu6qy5zVryvtZv6a6Kbzl8XVn5l_phQPA1p81bGyvG2Qpw587RXlFIHIaf_ziT9pOQm/s288/2.jpg' border='0' width='320' height='320' style='margin:5px'></a></center><br />City Never Sleeps is small blue and medium sized copper, gold and fuschia hex glitter in a sheer purple jelly base. I only did two coats of it overtop of Morning Glory, and while I'm pretty confident you could get away with layering this to density, I was afraid to :p having never used it before...<br /><br />My sister was next to me as I was applying it, and she said, quote:"what smells like burning plastic??" Yay, Kleancolor. But i so don't care. This one is gorgeous and I love it, the last one I wore I loved, and I can't wait to wear the rest of them. And they were so inexpensive!<br /><br />This has already taken a lot longer than I intended. I mean like, a lot. I was literally just going to put the name of the polish and one photo, and that was it :p. (Yeah right...). But I really want show you some stuff I got the other day... These are gonna be the worst, most horrible crappy photos in the world, you guys...<br /><br /><center><a href='https://picasaweb.google.com/lexsphotofiles/LatelyIMObsessedWith02?authkey=Gv1sRgCIqExKuft8fk6QE#5677187785802344066'><img src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgdP8sgPJ24s1Q8Wb__foPOLZ2kd8wN0pOHvKOvWnOjW1roJttjxFPj65tF8luR7zvUY13u5zQ_ePIolaF5GMLF_lROloXTaUWW8ZTR12Io2YvWdK1CuvRJrO1T0FVrx3F-t0JA9OoJPMMd/s288/3.jpg' border='0' width='320' height='320' style='margin:5px'></a></center><br />Color Club Beyond The Mistletoe set! I got these at Winners, not the beauty supply, so they have the cheap caps and no labels. I can't even begin to tell you how much that bugs me... According to the box, this is (l-r): Beyond The Mistletoe, Holiday Splendor, Sugarplum Fairy, Gingerbread, Candy Cane, Jingle Jangle.. and a boring clear topcoat that I left out of the photo.<br /><br /><center><a href='https://picasaweb.google.com/lexsphotofiles/LatelyIMObsessedWith02?authkey=Gv1sRgCIqExKuft8fk6QE#5677187791155837154'><img src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjsYp_TnN3nx8RFPyj6U9wcKftM3tNwV7F7aJmoMn-QpM0I_T1Uug1xWsGiv7Yc0NOldnohMJk7LjuiBx5iFgyaPZonlzs8EgvoPDFIzDEpHFIRR9P0_gJC29JC0wOjXsRw6HRIFRPUD9Dk/s288/4.jpg' border='0' width='320' height='320' style='margin:5px'></a></center><br />Color Club Backstage Pass set. L-R: Take The Stage (not to be confused with the more orangey-gold OPI Take The Stage), Wish Upon A Rock Star, Backstage Pass, Platinum Record, It's A Hit!, and Fame And Fortune. This was in a clearance section and two of them are normal and have labels, but I still don't really know why I bought this. Look how much bigger the normal lids look - can you tell which two have labels? I will probably never wear any of them except for Wish Upon A Rock Star..<br /><br /><center><a href='https://picasaweb.google.com/lexsphotofiles/LatelyIMObsessedWith02?authkey=Gv1sRgCIqExKuft8fk6QE#5677187793094869074'><img src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjy_pziimJrHCJgOkwn78Dn2Q-jTumzn7xAmme9bt8eWTAyOv7SDgwQMBjsHjRN6lwXGTNVpB_r6CMC76tYg0v1gjGvvTQwAHvaMpCOVOTurTWCb4UjKQDH-YnQkN5mtotQLbJFIVjwa32W/s288/5.jpg' border='0' width='320' height='320' style='margin:5px'></a></center><br />China Glaze Lorelei's Tiara, Some Like It Haute, and Marry A Millionaire, from the Marilyn Monroe-inspired Eye Candy collection. Love these. Want the red one.<br /><br /><center><a href='https://picasaweb.google.com/lexsphotofiles/LatelyIMObsessedWith02?authkey=Gv1sRgCIqExKuft8fk6QE#5677187795374287186'><img src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgOJOPUwSaQDHU_Oiy8HjPkoWJWX09-0RMbtG5N7FqE7dD7cNIo8BPRMFNPlief540C-ym20q754WFOJqgYXBXkpiWe1BPyyfom4cyMJ8rkNv832e_BchrZDhITuYK4EOrdsObszECuq8Bk/s288/6.jpg' border='0' width='320' height='320' style='margin:5px'></a></center><br />Orly Androgynie and Fowl Play. Although I already own two Merry Midnights, I currently cannot find either of them :(. Again, found these at Winner's for the inflated price of 7 bucks each :-/<br /><br /><center><a href='https://picasaweb.google.com/lexsphotofiles/LatelyIMObsessedWith02?authkey=Gv1sRgCIqExKuft8fk6QE#5677187800975209042'><img src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiH_hfgLY9q9unLins-deC7quqcE-O-WA-Dwzjkq0s9aw0MntJ8i7aYlmq-07TW2TN9dK50o2DLN_ZxoRmpMFCCtTggLQiHzLOXVhlUxT249crPnZnqmWmMeR_W0I3V0poXVMuKEkabM3xv/s288/7.jpg' border='0' width='320' height='320' style='margin:5px'></a></center><br />Essie Absolutely Shore and Butter <del>Seattle</del>London No More Waity, Katie. I feel the same way about NMWK as I do about Kate Middleton - I like it, but I feel I haven't really given it much of a chance yet. And AS I've just wanted and never been able to find elsewhere. I also put in an order for BL Wallis and Black Knight while I was there - "there" being Shifeon, in case anyone cares. If you live in Vancouver and you're a Robson St. regular, you've been here, and, well, you know how convincing their staff can be :p<br /><br />Okay, that's it. Monsters and junction abilities are calling me. Again, make that face at me all you want, I don't care - I love Final Fantasy :p. I'd be all over a themed polish collection o' THAT :D<br /><p class='blogpress_location'>Location:<a href='http://maps.google.com/maps?q=A%20City%20That%20Does%20Sleep&z=10'>A City That Does Sleep</a></p>AChttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00636412730868248541noreply@blogger.com3tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6149490209514605663.post-75988829736407703152011-11-17T01:02:00.001-08:002011-11-17T01:02:14.829-08:00Kleancolor Metallic FuschiaSo, I know that last post is an eyesore. There really ain't much I can do about it until I get my laptop fixed. Which I can't do until I get money, which means dragging my miserable arse downtown to my agency and collecting my cheques. (No, I don't mean welfare... cheeky... :p). Which I can't do until Friday. So we're just gonna have to live with these grating, posting-from-my-iPhone spewings until then, okay? Fml.<br /><br />Anyway, I wore one of the badly-photographed Kleancolors from the previous post today, Metallic Fuschia. Fuchsia. Fucshia. What-freakin-ever. Not even one of the more exciting ones, but I ended up quite pleasantly surprised!<br /><br /><br /><center><a href='https://picasaweb.google.com/lexsphotofiles/LatelyIMObsessedWith02?authkey=Gv1sRgCIqExKuft8fk6QE#5675887463058951394'><img src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgSbQ5ETMjt6wKUQyzWeAtFM8tl-zxjootet1ADBIX2_lL_os9ZwZCaPKZIJjuCtNHjJN4K7BANP3dhgm5X66reZZal02WfaeTGhI6kt4GCR32P-y4xjcE1T4-upHNhJw-K-N3VYgX5rfOO/s288/0.jpg' border='0' width='210' height='281' style='margin:5px'></a></center><br />And it looks nothing even remotely like fuschia here. It's very pretty and glowy and a lot more red-toned than it looks here. Very metallic-looking. It looks like purple cellophane Christmas wrapping. It's freakin gorgeous and I absolutely love it.<br /><br />Also, Seche Vite completely changed the look of this polish, and for the better.<br /><br /><center><a href='https://picasaweb.google.com/lexsphotofiles/LatelyIMObsessedWith02?authkey=Gv1sRgCIqExKuft8fk6QE#5675887467849528514'><img src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhhweRcdIPa5WgVSceQEUwt4yifOIKJiK-k7sjMPzPOrHMjnD92u2aVx8Vlh6ioZ3Wn8biYgWjHq48a-02yLnSV9tE_b6plBZbPl8Rf7UDqQO95BZrkcrHnrsFXzDj7FX0S48aRii0f4l-P/s288/1.jpg' border='0' width='281' height='210' style='margin:5px'></a></center><br />Before Seche Vite.<br /><br /><center><a href='https://picasaweb.google.com/lexsphotofiles/LatelyIMObsessedWith02?authkey=Gv1sRgCIqExKuft8fk6QE#5675887470273552498'><img src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh5Jj3Dh8K66FgHWdoGrSlnWr32s8rYPjm-pyRkvpOVDvJUP-GhW3BQdxs35oY8IGurpja-8sYh7mXcyfDRrRow2r0UH2X1O9cBAGxQ-0KaGxYEJ9t4BqVQkEIrpGbxqVqVjwfES-jj9tMe/s288/2.jpg' border='0' width='210' height='281' style='margin:5px'></a></center><br />After Seche Vite. See how much more liquid and glowy it looks? I dunno why this stupid BlogPress app is turning my pic sideways, but I can't figure out how to correct it :(. Again, picture it much pinker and less blue than it is here. I know that's not helpful. But just trust me, this polish is gorgeous. It's another "purple-version-of-Frostbite" title contender, although TBH I think I even like it better than China Glaze Coconut Kiss, and maybe even Sinful Let's Talk, although this is a lot pinker. I still think it's too purple to be called fuschia though. But you need it. Get it. Especially if you're in the U.S, where Kleancolors can be had for around a dollar in many states. Even if you're in Canada, pretend I didn't just tell you that and shell out the four(!) dollars they're gouging us for these at Urban Planet and Stitches stores (and I think maybe some Garage stores as well...?). At least get this one. I can't wait to try Metallic Mango now. Did KC have a whole collection of these "metallic" ones like the Chunky Holos and the Neons? *off to google<br /><br />P.S Where do I insert tags on this stupid app...? Anyone else use the BlogPress app?<br /><br /><br />- Posted using BlogPress from my iPhone<br />AChttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00636412730868248541noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6149490209514605663.post-49125126997642980562011-11-15T14:07:00.001-08:002011-11-15T14:29:49.879-08:00KleancolorsI bought some polishes yesterday, for the first time in ages...<br />
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P.S - I'm trying out Blogger for iPhone. So far I think it SUCKS - can't post photos in between paragraphs!! So I guess the pics of my Kleancolors are all gonna be at the bottom of this post. Do not want. Don't download the free Blogger app, kids - I'm gonna see if I can avoid paying the three bucks for BlogPress and try to find a free alternative. Because while I will pay fifteen dollars for the right bottle of nail polish, I am exceedingly cheap in many other aspects of my life. Except for food and clothes :p. I invest in those.<br />
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Anyway, I got an assortment of them, as they were five for $10, and I don't have too many other than the Chubky Holos and a couple random neons...<br />
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Okay, yeah. This app sucks. I'll be back with a better one. Since I can't put this below the photo, the polishes are (L-R): Shooting Star, City Never Sleeps, My Valentine, Afternoon Picnic, Salsa Much, Metallic Mango, Metallic Fuchsia (how IS it that you spell fuchsia? I thought it was -cshia, but my iPhone insists its -chsia... Maybe it's. -schia? This is bothering me...), Military Green and Neon Fuschia. Spelled that way :p<br />
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I'll be back once I've downloaded a better blogging app :p<div class="separator"style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjLN-TT7w9LwiYJh0iqw63BI5omrLsQCY5S91CTdOBRgufynEKA8ydLQO_8CawwkKoN4vg72glHMUWgkUHlG6eVubh90tuS4aNdQXn08_5G9_ImDzpduciBg8ZxkpC39KpIaIXZlrO23rk0/s640/blogger-image-770512442.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjLN-TT7w9LwiYJh0iqw63BI5omrLsQCY5S91CTdOBRgufynEKA8ydLQO_8CawwkKoN4vg72glHMUWgkUHlG6eVubh90tuS4aNdQXn08_5G9_ImDzpduciBg8ZxkpC39KpIaIXZlrO23rk0/s640/blogger-image-770512442.jpg" /></a></div><div class="separator"style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhQr5OUX3DFsx1U2zX2Alf24BmMf_iByW0YKqq4LCKypHoG7S5fRT5C0AFdNMLEpbBT3NZVJIQPWc3ckT_llqb5qKha_Nq3E_uaAIxWylkW3_0GhVVXKAvW5r9407Gr3h8hcOrQuqSzqijA/s640/blogger-image--1837979182.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhQr5OUX3DFsx1U2zX2Alf24BmMf_iByW0YKqq4LCKypHoG7S5fRT5C0AFdNMLEpbBT3NZVJIQPWc3ckT_llqb5qKha_Nq3E_uaAIxWylkW3_0GhVVXKAvW5r9407Gr3h8hcOrQuqSzqijA/s640/blogger-image--1837979182.jpg" /></a></div><div class="separator"style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhsNjx2FEu1rwpnLhiFwwqj3_P0Uvrh6T80IqBhoBiItCy5PQDHmNgZDYH5TZzUbeTTnvJAH7-idmfDkLF8ZoQvYysGjyAdSxGnYFfNn110fqtKHhPP5Pk7wWUauwb0c9y5yaDV3mfhbYy2/s640/blogger-image--1620126753.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhsNjx2FEu1rwpnLhiFwwqj3_P0Uvrh6T80IqBhoBiItCy5PQDHmNgZDYH5TZzUbeTTnvJAH7-idmfDkLF8ZoQvYysGjyAdSxGnYFfNn110fqtKHhPP5Pk7wWUauwb0c9y5yaDV3mfhbYy2/s640/blogger-image--1620126753.jpg" /></a></div>AChttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00636412730868248541noreply@blogger.com3tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6149490209514605663.post-49868639185701538672011-11-14T14:32:00.001-08:002011-11-14T14:32:33.193-08:00Oh and PS...Two things.<br /><br />One, OMG I AM SO EXCITED FOR A FREAKING CHINA GLAZE HUNGER GAMES COLLECTION I COULD SH*T!!!!!! Yes I meant to yell that :p My favorite brand doing a collection based on a book I thoroughly enjoyed! Does it get any better?<br /><br />All Laquered Up has a great preview post on it. I'd link to it but I don't think I can on this Blogger IPhone app thingy. What app do you all use to blog on your phone? What's the best free one? But yeah, I want every single one. The one that's inspired by her dress (sorry, forgot the name... Flaming Gems or something like that?) looks like its gonna be a CC Covered In Diamonds-like flaky!! :D. I love flakies.<br /><br />And the second thing, which has nothing to do with anything, but if you feel like laughing at someone:<br /><br /><center><a href='https://picasaweb.google.com/lexsphotofiles/LatelyIMObsessedWith?authkey=Gv1sRgCJTZiO3DgerEwgE#5674983033305880306'><img src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgfIxZ4HNhYD8cU3R7TiDzXUCvMe1Nil3XfO2r4pygXWLKXY7h3R58msaXQ-QtgZBCSMoighHIzb1rUk6xiomkEmAa4OU83Dy0Bwbm0Bsux4HoHPEc4cLWZ-77NcPCGVAhCMy-ZFn8SuDdh/s288/iphone_photo.jpg' border='0' width='210' height='281' style='margin:5px'></a></center><br />You can't really see my makeup too well here, but I thought I made a kickass Black Swan :) Whatever. Yes, this is amateur hour - I am not, not do I claim to be proficient at applying eye makeup. But it was still fun to do :). However, I am now stuck with five different brands and formulas of silver eyeliner, shadow, and pigment that I'm pretty sure I'll never use :p. Anyone want a HC Eye Def glitter shadow in Robot? :p<br /><br /><br />Posted using BlogPress from my iPhone<br />AChttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00636412730868248541noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6149490209514605663.post-84878169887558450332011-11-14T14:17:00.001-08:002011-11-14T14:17:14.153-08:00This Blog Is Not DeadI just wanted to say really quickly - I know everyone must think I've died or lost my love for and interest in nail polish...<br /><br />THAT IS SO NOT SO.<br /><br />Honestly, you know what my problem has been? It's really pathetic - Picasa died on my PC. It just straight up will not work anymore. I can't open it, period. I've tried uninstalling and reinstalling - nothing. The program just WILL NOT run on my computer anymore :(. Which has entirely screwed my clueless noob ass, as it's the only free photo-editing software I'm aware of :(<br /><br />So of anyone can recommend a free program that's easy to use and lets me edit photos, I might be able to start my blog up again...<br /><br />But I don't want to - CAN'T - let it just die, so for anyone who's still around to read this - you're going to be subjected to iPhone NOTD's. Until I can think of something better. I have a HUGE backlog of photos, but they look like shit and I can't edit them :( So I'm just going to give a giant middle finger to quality photos and content, and just vomit up whatever polish pics I can. And I thoroughly apologize for it :(<br /><br /><br /><br /><center><a href='https://picasaweb.google.com/lexsphotofiles/LatelyIMObsessedWith?authkey=Gv1sRgCJTZiO3DgerEwgE#5674979079614622546'><img src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhG-gw8pv63NQnvQDE1HfMYoyF8OS6HrfSqnlvpE8hgZKtnAqip4HXg6xkziMrRyJ4OdT4v2BozeD2WHYnPJQoE4EeIVHVvPYonME4S3W-6NHTSXsZZIHX4wLZ-Dcgvw5w2fV-ccZRW6mpK/s288/iphone_photo.jpg' border='0' width='210' height='281' style='margin:5px'></a></center><br />OPI Rainbow Connection, overtop of Essie Power Clutch. I highly recommend RC over any dark grey - it allows all the different-coloured glitters to show up and really shine :)<br /><br /><br /><center><a href='https://picasaweb.google.com/lexsphotofiles/LatelyIMObsessedWith?authkey=Gv1sRgCJTZiO3DgerEwgE#5674979080654691554'><img src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjtuQBGGzW-QC6LKnLEqSW881IzQHjl_g3mHUeYFKF5AasF9zk8ZrxUApTrUtlgdl_DL3RwwgihL18nWwYNmrxtFpU7Vn0Ijl7wRvWtXX3629zNZ5T6evRX68U7EoknJQxTvmWnw8xFdHGj/s288/iphone_photo.jpg' border='0' width='210' height='281' style='margin:5px'></a></center><br />OPI Excuse Moi! I was gonna pass on this one, until Scrangie said it was her favorite :p. far be it for me to ignore the wisdom of Scrange The Wise.<br /><br />I have more. Wanna see moar? .........really?<br /><br /><br />- Posted using BlogPress from my iPhone<br />AChttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00636412730868248541noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6149490209514605663.post-82992527696174278012011-05-19T11:44:00.000-07:002011-05-19T11:48:14.448-07:00Late For Theme Week Part Two: My Misa Stash<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">This is the last obnoxiously late Theme Week post I'm doing, I promise! The lameness will subside. Also I have to make this quick.... was up all night and now I'm falling asleep :S It's really not that long, though.... cuz my Misa stash isn't all that big :| But it's still really nice! (TWSS?)<br />
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<div style="border-bottom: medium none; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none;">I will say this about Misa - they are awesome and I love them and there's about a billion more I want, but they have some of the longest, most annoying-to-type-out names out there :p</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgk86DMeU1Rby6mqeUQXaIXqkKiyH_yoNhPmENz7P00i-7N5CtOY3ereveEul4uhmHT7TX6EI-EFz1ConQAEonySbQ4Y7oYtBsyx40SuTy_KXiO1_hVbKmT5jWZUNQcKgQP4K-M3Ipl1S7d/s1600/IMG_2817.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="75px" j8="true" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgk86DMeU1Rby6mqeUQXaIXqkKiyH_yoNhPmENz7P00i-7N5CtOY3ereveEul4uhmHT7TX6EI-EFz1ConQAEonySbQ4Y7oYtBsyx40SuTy_KXiO1_hVbKmT5jWZUNQcKgQP4K-M3Ipl1S7d/s400/IMG_2817.JPG" width="400px" /></a></div><div style="border-bottom: medium none; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none;">I love Misa's bottles. They're so square and... sturdy-looking?</div><br />
Here's a closer, more personal look at my fledgling collection:<br />
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Aaaaaand that's pretty much it.<br />
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And how about some of the only Misa swatches I have? Yes, my Misa stash is largely untried *hangs head in shame*. I've never even tried Decadent Drifter - can you believe that?? I want to try that, TMSPP and perhaps BWaM on my toes...<br />
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Here were my two picks from the Spring 2011 Wishes collection. First up, Whimsical Wish:<br />
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And here's my other pick, Fountain Of Youth:<br />
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And finally, we have Pour Me Something Tall And Strong:<br />
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So before I dismiss you for the May Long Weekend (in Canada) (for some people... I know others just have Monday off), I have two questions for you (yes, again): <br />
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1. Am I missing any must-haves Misas?? I've been hesitant to purchase the much-revered Dirty Sexy Money, cuz I own $OPI Ocean Love Potion and it's a dead-on dupe.... but any others? (I already want a bunch of the d/c'ed duochrome ones - Decadent Drifter is the only one I have, but I will get more, muahaha...)<br />
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and 2.) Any of these you'd like to see pics of? It's embarrassing that I have so many untrieds from such a great brand. I need to work my way through my Misas. Anyone?<br />
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Okay, this post took a lot longer than I thought it would. I'll be back with some OPI stuff for OPI week, though, I promise!<br />
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Oh, yeah, one last little thing.... <br />
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<span style="font-size: x-large;">GO CANUCKS GO!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!</span></div>AChttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00636412730868248541noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6149490209514605663.post-84234790105887568932011-05-17T12:43:00.000-07:002011-05-17T12:43:23.513-07:00Late for Theme Week: My Nicole Stash!<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">Okay, so you all know the Nail Board is doing theme weeks now, yes? Well, they are. And yes, yes, as most of you know, <em>last</em> week was Nicole by OPI's week... but I had stuff to do, and I got sick :( As I really don't want to have taken all these pics for nothing, and I'm the boss of me, I'm posting it late. Sorry for being so lame.<br />
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Here's a breakdown of the Theme Weeks from nbthemeweek's notepad:<br />
A NEW THEME STARTS EACH MONDAY! <br />
WEEK 1 (OVER): Sally Hansen<br />
WEEK 2 (OVER): Nars, Zoya, Revlon, Etude, Model's Own, Ulta3, New York Summer<br />
WEEK 3 (OVER): Dupe Week!<br />
WEEK 4 (OVER): Dior, Misa, L'oreal, Face Shop, Barry M, BYS, Wet N Wild, Milani, Nicole By OPI<br />
WEEK 5 (May 16) : OPI<br />
WEEK 6 (May 23) : Frankens, Finger Paints, American Apparel, Sephora By OPI, Accessorize, TINS, Joe Fresh, Chi Chi, Mavala, Lancome<br />
WEEK 7 (May 30) : Urban Decay, Island Girl, Confetti, Ulta, Toma, Essence, Diamond Cosmetics, Glitter Gal, Canmake<br />
WEEK 8 (June 6) : China Glaze <br />
WEEK 9 (June 13) : Lippmann, Color Club, BBC, Nails Inc, Chelsea, Pa, Australis, Golden Rose, Anna Sui<br />
WEEK 10: Spa Ritual, Rimmel, IsaDora, Goldies, H&M's, MAC, Boot's No. 7, NYC, LA Colors, LA Girls<br />
WEEK 11 (June 27): Illamasqua, Collistar, Nfu Oh, Borghese, Maybelline, Ozotic<br />
WEEK 12 (July 4) : Chanel, Rescue Beauty Lounge, Nubar, Cover Girl, Gosh, Elantro, Koh, Icing, Claires, Hot Topic, Bloom<br />
WEEK 13 (July 11) : Random Week- Any brands you have not included in the other weeks!<br />
WEEK 14 (July 18) : Essie<br />
WEEK 15 (July 25) : Orly<br />
WEEK 16 (August 1) : Creative Nail Design (CND), Pro10, Hard Candy, Pure Ice, MNY, P2, Catrice, Skin Food<br />
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So as you can see, I missed out on Sally Ho and Zoya already :( Which, boo. But I also have a large collection of Nicoles, so I have to post this late! And I like my Misas, too, so I'm gonna do a seperate post about them. It'll be much smaller - I have way more Nicoles than Misas, unfortunately.<br />
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So enough ado... Oh, and some of these photos are watermarked wrong. They're my photos, I assure you (like I'd steal such crappy photos XD), so just ignore that, mmm'kay?<br />
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As I said before, I have an embarrassing amount of Nicoles. Way too many. I don't know how I ended up with so many. Well, okay, I do, but it's like I blinked and they bred and multiplied on their stand or something...<br />
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I don't want to own so many - I hate that fugly effin bottle as much as any of you - but they've just put so many awesome colours out in the past year or two and I am WEAK when it comes to awesome colours :p Honestly though, out of the bajillion Nicoles I own, I don't think there's a single one I would get rid of... at least I think there isn't :S What do you guys think - could I stand to lose any of these here? Any of them have lots of dupes, or anyone just not like one for any particular reason? If anyone has any suggestions for purging, I'm more than open to them! :)<br />
Here's they all are - I'mma do my best to name them all for you:<br />
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And these are my favorites:<br />
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Let's just look at Season's Gray-tings one last time....<br />
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But before I end this late, mostly pointless post, I do have some pics of Nicoles I <em>have</em> actually worn...<br />
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Okay, that's it for my Nicole post! Like I said before, waaaaaaaayyyyy too many of the little saggy bewb bottles. But Nicole has been <em>killing</em> it lately in my opinion - every collection they've put out since last summer (the collection with Traffic Cone, Nail Ya Azalea and A New Kind Of Blue - yeah, that collection and every one since) has been absolute <em>love. </em>Which kind of sucks, because up here in Canada Nicoles are expensive - $11 regular price, and I'm not really wanting to acquire any more of them! But if they keep putting out collections as spectacular as these, I might have to >___<<br />
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Okay, as promised, I'll be back later with my Late Misa Post! Oh yeah, and being as this week is OPI week, and even though I've already done a post with my OPI collection, I guess I'll do something to do with that too :p 'Till later!</div>AChttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00636412730868248541noreply@blogger.com3tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6149490209514605663.post-48505194271843361142011-04-28T04:31:00.000-07:002011-04-28T04:46:54.891-07:00OWWWP: Color Club Ultra-Astral<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="http://wearpinkwednesday.files.wordpress.com/2011/03/pinkwednesdays24.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="200px" j8="true" src="http://wearpinkwednesday.files.wordpress.com/2011/03/pinkwednesdays24.jpg" width="194px" /></a></div>(Why is Lacey Chabert so orange in this pic, anyway?)<br />
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Super-quick Pink Wednesday post. Two posts in one day, after disappearing for a week or two. Yep, that's how I roll. <br />
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I present to you Color Club Ultra-Astral, from the Starry Temptress collection.<br />
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<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhOtFc6Srbf9T5u40_9D_cZ35wnlPrh4AB7ByVurC89CFh85ToC4Rx7AS8C54wMm5vxpjOqZSLHeDgYLBbQKk7AqLhAy0mGj3Ej1GndJi24l6JSzAMvFK8RCPBapSpz_u046dpRxdxaxgUS/s1600/IMG_2518.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="300px" j8="true" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhOtFc6Srbf9T5u40_9D_cZ35wnlPrh4AB7ByVurC89CFh85ToC4Rx7AS8C54wMm5vxpjOqZSLHeDgYLBbQKk7AqLhAy0mGj3Ej1GndJi24l6JSzAMvFK8RCPBapSpz_u046dpRxdxaxgUS/s400/IMG_2518.JPG" width="400px" /></a></div>Oh baby. That's what I'm talkin about :) This is after applying the Starry Temptress Topcoat that's included in the set. It eliminates the yucky matte effect, and adds even more sparkle to the somewhat dull glitter. You still need topcoat to get the maximum effect out of these, but I do think they look better with the topcoat than without. <br />
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Overall, I love this polish, I love hot pink, and I love how Color Club always finds a way to make their neon collections a little different :)<br />
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Til later :)<br />
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*EDIT: I just noticed this - two pinks with glitter in a row. Yeesh. I'll try to switch it up a bit next week :S<br />
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*EDIT#2: Go Canucks Go :) Nashville, you goin down.</div>AChttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00636412730868248541noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6149490209514605663.post-81719057891772887862011-04-28T04:01:00.000-07:002011-04-28T04:06:39.534-07:00OPI Pirates Of The Carribbean Collection - Well, The Ones I Picked Out, Anyway<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">Hello! So my Pink Wednesday post will just have to wait, because I happened to find these today:<br />
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I looked over the other colours for quite awhile and was largely unimpressed by the swatches, just as I was online. I ended up getting three of the colours - the only three that really interested me - and leaving the two pinks (because yawn) and the aqua Mermaid's Tears (because I'm convinced there's a dupe that I most likely already own). However, after coming home and swatching the ones I did buy, I'm almost wanting to go back and snag the other three. Although the application wasn't the best I've ever experienced, I love these on me a <em>lot</em> more than I thought I would :) No outdoor pics 'cuz it's kind of nighttime, sorry. All of these are without topcoat too, except for the Shatter.<br />
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And I saved the best for last:<br />
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So those are the ones I picked up. I'm in <em>love </em>with the Silver Shatter, and the other three are definitely each getting worn soon as well. I think the entire collection goes perfectly with the soft florals and woven fabrics we're seeing everyhere for spring and summer, and the polishes have a pretty, romantic feel to them in my opinion, despite the theme. Like I said, the desire to go back and get at least the light pink is growing strong in me.... The Silver Shatter is clearly the star here, though (the salon I went to had three left, of which I bought two, and as I was paying the other one was put aside for someone on the phone. By the time I left the mall an hour or two later, <em>every </em>display that I had passed by had been stripped of the Shatters!) I would love to see an entire collection of metallic shatters (what's that, you say? China Glaze has already announced an upcoming collection of these? well naturally! I'll get back to this later when I find out more...)<br />
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Now I just need that collection of OPI Shatters to be released, along with the Serena sets, and my OPI lemmings will be fed for awhile :)</div>AChttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00636412730868248541noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6149490209514605663.post-32142782968920009622011-04-25T22:44:00.000-07:002011-04-28T04:10:10.581-07:00Happy Belated Easter! :o)<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">It's Easter Monday, so it still counts, right?<br />
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Hello all. No, I have not disappeared off the face of the earth. Yes, as usual I'm behind on posting stuff and have a whole backload of NOTDs to show you, plus my TD haul. I promise I'll try and get it out there, in the interest of Not Sucking.<br />
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But for now, wanna see my cutesy-poo Easter mani? Suuuure you do :)<br />
Left hand:<br />
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<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi0KJ3fDrED5lX4YEjoia9G3tQkNUPmgi1xTUAXfMPhC-GZX8x3FtPjeX-2xZE9LOoKD9D8V-jzpHhqHCe_thlkkFktUDtcwXquwVRV1zxQkyc4oCkIFV0gI_JDGjnvwotjp53zbv0JXG84/s1600/IMG_2611.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="295px" i8="true" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi0KJ3fDrED5lX4YEjoia9G3tQkNUPmgi1xTUAXfMPhC-GZX8x3FtPjeX-2xZE9LOoKD9D8V-jzpHhqHCe_thlkkFktUDtcwXquwVRV1zxQkyc4oCkIFV0gI_JDGjnvwotjp53zbv0JXG84/s400/IMG_2611.JPG" width="400px" /></a></div>Yes, the pictures are watermarked wrong. It's my MUA label, but you can ignore that, right? I actually kind of like my right hand better than my left - the chickie looks better, and the bunny came out cuter (I swear his teeth don't look that smudgy in real life...). Except for the dots. Those just look stupid.<br />
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Polishes I used: Sparitual Reveal Yourself, Joe Fresh Coral, China Glaze Peachy Keen, Sally Hansen Insta-Dri Expres-so Yellow, OPI Gargantuan Green Grape, China Glaze For Audrey, Color Club Blue Light, China Glaze Secret Peri-Wink-Le, and Crush Hustle. I think that's it. Oh, and Art Club nail art pens in Satin White and Black. And a dotting tool.<br />
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And just for S&Gs, here's a random tape mani I did:<br />
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I used OPI DS Magic and Glow. I love both of these polishes. Ah, foils :) Glow looks pretty good on me, for a bronzy gold. Bronzy golds tend to look much better on me than champagne-y golds. I have such a weird skin tone :s I'm pale, yet all the colours that are supposed to look good on pale skin make me look washed out. Bah.<br />
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Anyway, enough grumbling. I'm gonna go work on the seemingly daunting task of posting the giant backlog of crap I have to show you :) <br />
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Oh yeah, I started a spreadsheet. Or rather, I started working on the spreadsheet I started over a year ago again :s It's not even close to finished. Not even remotely. What's on there is a small smidgen of what I own (except for Color Club and Sinfuls! Those are up to date - yay me! :p) but in case anyone cares <a href="https://spreadsheets.google.com/ccc?key=0AhrrfbwpZN6SdEdjMkpEYXVUZkp3MG5YMnlfUUZWdGc&hl=en#gid=0">here</a> it is :)<br />
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'Til later.</div>AChttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00636412730868248541noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6149490209514605663.post-38209617958226307742011-04-13T23:14:00.000-07:002011-04-13T23:14:44.049-07:00On Wednesdays We Wear Pink: OPI Pink Me I'm Good<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="http://wearpinkwednesday.files.wordpress.com/2011/03/pinkwednesdays24.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="320" r6="true" src="http://wearpinkwednesday.files.wordpress.com/2011/03/pinkwednesdays24.jpg" width="311" /></a></div><br />
I'm sure most of you have heard of Pink Wednesdays by now... if not, and you've never seen the movie Mean Girls and you can't figure it out for yourself, go <a href="http://onwednesdayswewearpink.com/">here</a> for an explanation. I, personally, love pink, so of course I'm gonna go along with it ^_^ And everyone knows Mean Girls rules.<br />
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So my Pink Wednesdays mani for this week was OPI Pink Me I'm Good.<br />
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<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjEOkHACFER3lv54Dbb0xv4Xx9cZ4-ah-eqkmXlSaJTvJNh4aryMhDwyRzuZ-96whO4U9L9uCHOCfR9KNygo9_ZTw9Dl8ZvqVOpTa3fjZYoN1eYQXkfJ-jfXfQt9mzOZlKsvtgvVeWs_nIi/s1600/IMG_2223.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="300" r6="true" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjEOkHACFER3lv54Dbb0xv4Xx9cZ4-ah-eqkmXlSaJTvJNh4aryMhDwyRzuZ-96whO4U9L9uCHOCfR9KNygo9_ZTw9Dl8ZvqVOpTa3fjZYoN1eYQXkfJ-jfXfQt9mzOZlKsvtgvVeWs_nIi/s400/IMG_2223.JPG" width="400" /></a></div>These aren't the best pics, but it was rainy outside. I'm so glad I was able to get my hands on it - it was an Ulta exclusive, and we no haz Ulta in Canada. Yay for swaps! :)<br />
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That's all I have for right now. I'm too excited over the hockey game I just watched - yay, Canucks got their first win!! This is our year, people - that cup is ours!!<br />
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Till later :)</div>AChttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00636412730868248541noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6149490209514605663.post-82194364250527231932011-04-12T00:49:00.000-07:002011-04-12T01:00:37.345-07:00Spams, Spams, Everywhere the Spams<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">This isn't really a full-on spam, just a little bitsy mini spam. I just wanted to prove to you that even though I've been working a ton and not really allowed to wear anything interesting on my nails (and when I am, I'm not allowed to change it), I am still diligently photographing what I do have on, and obsessively changing it in my spare time every chance I get :p Yup. This is me.<br />
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I'll start with what I have on tonight - my Freehanded Cloud Mani That Didn't Turn Out As Nearly As Cute As I Pictured It In My Head:<br />
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<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjDC7tTn27JrftsKMnJxhldKcJYFg8xvhJ7Inwc9g-s7YIIRHkstxMfBSzTB2X-gI0ZqMIBevVcmw2YaZlEU3xQSB9OBhErV1-gdjk5YVaSUuEtN7SdcdjADVemW1mn0K-Mbm6l4dCYCR6W/s1600/IMG_2381.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="297px" i8="true" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjDC7tTn27JrftsKMnJxhldKcJYFg8xvhJ7Inwc9g-s7YIIRHkstxMfBSzTB2X-gI0ZqMIBevVcmw2YaZlEU3xQSB9OBhErV1-gdjk5YVaSUuEtN7SdcdjADVemW1mn0K-Mbm6l4dCYCR6W/s400/IMG_2381.JPG" width="400px" /></a></div>Another glitterbomb mani. Sometimes I'm just in the mood for glittah. And I know I'm not alone *looks around at all of you* This was H&M Lavender Sky, topped with one coat each of Paris Couture iridescent blue-green glitter (a dollar store glitter, similar to Inglot XL4), Fasino purple hex glitter (another dollar store polish that smells like absolute death) and WnW Party Of Five Glitters.<br />
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Alright, that's all for right now! :) Will be back later!<br />
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Oh, and PS: Would you guys be interested in seeing more stash pics? Maybe my China Glaze drawer, or my HE drawer? LMK!</div>AChttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00636412730868248541noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6149490209514605663.post-80417020884471556112011-04-10T23:16:00.000-07:002011-04-11T09:42:15.943-07:00Icing Mood Swing Mood Polishes<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on"> Hello lovelies. It's been a super-busy week for me - I haven't had a whole lot of time for swatching or posting, or even doing my nails at all. I wore a mani of Lippmann Ruby Red Slippers over China Glaze Lubu Heels for three days straight (well, it was for work, but still)! <br />
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I have two polishes for you that I recently discovered - Icing has mood polishes now!<br />
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This is how it looks warm:<br />
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And then it eventually turns pink as it cools:<br />
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The other polish, however, Happy/Hopeful, was far and above my favorite:<br />
<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhx8InDYzyzKh6bRSlKS1M1chPKs3CDoq-dSDmKCBPwfPN7UbdzAKj_95i0GZcf9HIWyCpcFid1_rDVEARcfj-ljHlSfnMWkS-s_PKtME1oKfSz2PBJEbLLTno0brZRpvc5cjgKPdoDtb3q/s1600/IMG_2434.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="300" r6="true" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhx8InDYzyzKh6bRSlKS1M1chPKs3CDoq-dSDmKCBPwfPN7UbdzAKj_95i0GZcf9HIWyCpcFid1_rDVEARcfj-ljHlSfnMWkS-s_PKtME1oKfSz2PBJEbLLTno0brZRpvc5cjgKPdoDtb3q/s400/IMG_2434.JPG" width="400" /></a></div>This is the only picture I got of it, sorry :( And the bottle walked away on me when I went to take this pic. The base is a creamy bubblegum pink colour, and it changes to a deep royal purple colour, similar to China Glaze Grape Pop/OPI Funkey Dunkey, etc. The contrast is even more striking than the pink and yellow one. This is by far my new favorite mood polish - I like it even better than Claire's Happy/Earthy (my second favorite mood polish now). I need backups.<br />
*EDIT- Okay, I lied - I found a couple more pics of Happy/Hopeful:<br />
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I was organizing my polishes into my new Melmer (yay for 50% off Michael's sales!) and I was deciding which three brands were going to get a drawer dedicated to them (My Helmers and Melmers are organized by brand, and most of my brands - except for OPI, China Glaze and Color Club - share drawers). I decided that Orly, Essie and Zoya - three more of my favorite brands - were the lucky winners of a drawer of their own :)<br />
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Here's my Essie drawer:<br />
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Back row, L-R: Blanc, Naughty or Nice, Jackie Oh My!, Ballet Slippers, Mademoiselle, Fiji, Cool-lots, the mini is Pop Art Pink.<br />
Row 2: Knockout Pout, Pink Parka, Watermelon, Jag-U-Are, Really Red, After Sex (heh..), mini is Red Nouveau.<br />
Row 3: Van D'Go, Haute As Hello, Tart Deco, The Cove Copper.<br />
Row 4: Funky Limelight (my favorite neon polish of all time), Pretty Edgy, Sew Psyched, Turquoise and Caicos, Mint Candy Apple.<br />
Row 5: Borrowed and Blue, Lapis of Luxury, Mesmerize, Aruba Blue, Midnight Cami.<br />
Row 6: Nice Is Nice, Lilacism, Demure Vixen, Splash Of Grenadine.<br />
Row 7: Wicked, Decadent Diva, Sole Mate, Sexy Divide, It's Genius!<br />
Row 8: Playa Del Platinum, Main Squeeze, Steel-ing The Scene.<br />
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I just kind of took a pic of the whole drawer. You might want to click on it to see better. This was before I figured out that you probably can't see it too well in a photo like this :-/ Fail.<br />
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Untrieds:<br />
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I love Essies. For a fairly pricey mid-range polish, I do have a lot of them, and this is mainly for one reason: wear. I've said this before and I'll say it again: Essies wear like <em>iron</em> on me (and a lot of other people). The formula is usually pretty good, if inconsistant - it can be thin or thick or streaky at times, but no matter what the formula and application is like, an Essie polish can always be trusted to last the longest on my nails without chips out of all my brands of polish. And I probably have about 50 brands in total :O On average, an Essie will last for three days with no chips and the smallest amount of tipwear of any brand. They can be trusted to look great no matter what I'm doing with my hands, and hence, they are one of my favorite brands :) I just wish they'd continue to make awesome colours like Funky Limelight (they have a lot of awesome neons, actually) and Turquoise and Caicos - most of Essie's collections consist of neutral pinks and sheers >:p<br />
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Okay, and now my new Orly Drawer-ly:<br />
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And that's my Orly collection :) Orlys are another favorite brand of mine, mainly due to the great collections they release. Sometimes they're not too unique, but I thought they really outdid themselves last year - the Cosmix FX collection was unbelievably awesome, jacked-up price and all. Rage and Luxe are two of the best metallic foils I own, and the Sweet collection was so much fun to wear - I loved every shade. Also, I really like Orly's bottle, for a round bottle. It feels heavy and sturdy, and I looove the rubber grip bottle top :)<br />
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Most of the time I organize by colour within brand, but sometimes I just can't bear to split collections up - hence the random organization. I just think sometimes collections look nicer all together, and some polishes I remember primarily by what collection they were part of. And the ones I don't, I organize by colour :) Get it? No?<br />
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Okay, that's it - I have to go watch our President's Trophy-winning hockey team now :D Be back later!</div>AChttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00636412730868248541noreply@blogger.com4tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6149490209514605663.post-58135462971294923312011-03-31T03:50:00.000-07:002011-04-02T21:27:39.592-07:00NOTD: Color Club Electro Candy collection with OPI Black Shatter<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">Just throwing this up here real quick before I go to bed, cuz it's super-late and I should be in bed. Hehe. Throwing this up. Ew. Anyway, I just wanted to show you all my NOTD that I'm going to have to take off in a second, since I'm working on set tomorrow, and I'm sad because I love it:<br />
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<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjwqEW_pPynGQbUVED76t6ZlLW3WPLV3LxGerv4jUovxNfLrP6uEvJl1M9hDcQDeyoG3X49GvUI_DS0a_5bOEZuv1Jny24XFM3ZpBh-vmnMj_Zxzf9Sy77cOKQ6mhQ49r3hRWqBBAf2-Rs5/s1600/IMG_2393.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="300" r6="true" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjwqEW_pPynGQbUVED76t6ZlLW3WPLV3LxGerv4jUovxNfLrP6uEvJl1M9hDcQDeyoG3X49GvUI_DS0a_5bOEZuv1Jny24XFM3ZpBh-vmnMj_Zxzf9Sy77cOKQ6mhQ49r3hRWqBBAf2-Rs5/s400/IMG_2393.JPG" width="400" /></a></div>I striped three colours from the Color Club Electro Candy collection - Electro Candy (the pink), Volt Of Light (the yellow) and Pure Energy (the blue- which happens to be one of my very favorite blues!), and then put OPI Black Shatter over the whole deal.<br />
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Okay, I have to get to bed. Working on a movie tomorrow that's a retelling of a fairy tale, and they have me in a blue-ish grey gown. I won't get into the hat they put me in, but let's just say it's hilarious :-/ Anyway, I settled on Orly Pixie Dust topped with OPI DS Sapphire and ChG Fairy Dust as a mani. It's quite pretty. I'll try to get pictures of that up when I get home tomorrow - gonna be a long day, though. I'm told I'm going to be there for about 15 hours o___O Oh well - more money for haulin'! Speaking of which, I took the plunge with those Catherine Arley holos today, for those of you who know what those are. We shall see how that goes :S<br />
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Thank you and goodnight! be back later...</div>AChttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00636412730868248541noreply@blogger.com3tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6149490209514605663.post-68524039170089541002011-03-29T03:31:00.000-07:002011-03-29T03:31:06.744-07:00China Glaze Island Escape Skittle Swatches<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">Hello and good evening. Hoping Blogger is going to be nicer to me this time >:(<br />
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Anyway, I have some quick skittle swatches of one of my newest aquisitions from my favorite and most-owned brand - China Glaze's Island Escape collection. This is China Glaze's collection for Summer 2011, but it's out already. I initially was only interested in three or four of these shades, but in then end it was cheaper for me to buy the boxed set than the polishes I wanted seperately. So I ended up with all of them :s<br />
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<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhGjzrXAP9YD8JoPM2ddY7KDSGT9YdBl3MksypSh8l1wloXYjKwxq465jLqiNPtPLMu8e4J1wcG_0FTtz3y6tlmTBVZkjYYBnOUQVE3aOUg5coTR30S72eYyKsyndnwX4H8au_FxRECZjBG/s1600/IMG_2384.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="177" r6="true" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhGjzrXAP9YD8JoPM2ddY7KDSGT9YdBl3MksypSh8l1wloXYjKwxq465jLqiNPtPLMu8e4J1wcG_0FTtz3y6tlmTBVZkjYYBnOUQVE3aOUg5coTR30S72eYyKsyndnwX4H8au_FxRECZjBG/s400/IMG_2384.JPG" width="400" /></a></div>This collection consists of a rainbow of summery shades - four shimmers and two cremes. Left to right: 108 Degrees, Papaya Punch, Electric Pineapple, Cha Cha Cha, Blue Iguana and Senorita Bonita. The shimmers are, for the most part, that same glass fleck-type that the China Glaze Summer Days collection from a few years back consisted of - y'know, Strawberry Fields, Grape Crush, Watermelon Rind, etc.? Yeah, that one. <br />
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<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEio3Kli6C7SKgmqgaLSAz3Rkax8SMAmfSLKvw13nuA4dirzDxvRN3RlFVccHeaYelj3GIS8fihq113-iGav_ReH1eWSPuqpk1gSWhbgl2VgVZTXUlG9zioSYUwtvfivZw7AQSWeWZmWHmjz/s1600/IMG_2351.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="300" r6="true" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEio3Kli6C7SKgmqgaLSAz3Rkax8SMAmfSLKvw13nuA4dirzDxvRN3RlFVccHeaYelj3GIS8fihq113-iGav_ReH1eWSPuqpk1gSWhbgl2VgVZTXUlG9zioSYUwtvfivZw7AQSWeWZmWHmjz/s400/IMG_2351.JPG" width="400" /></a></div>Thumb to pinky: Electric Pineapple, 108 Degrees, Cha Cha Cha, Blue Iguana, Senorita Bonita. I chose to leave out Papaya Punch because it's my least favorite. I initially wanted the four glass-fleck shimmers from this collection. China Glaze does this finish well - also see the Martini Pedicure collection and the Tequila Toes collection, which is one of my favorite collections and I would <em>kill</em> for... Actually a couple of the polishes in this collection kind of reminded me of a couple of those, which is what made me finally decide to buy them. I wasn't at all wowed by swatches, but the polishes totally won me over once I saw them in person.<br />
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<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgPwcpwGiTaLJKC7KoUwwGKzgYVwydjGOkOsVJNToF1boPRR0A5s60A0Cpg77AaOd71Q_lmvEMTTJgbRwHqvEPrBCaZdWa2fd3M3SDpEu4AvQO5Fh-xPWrSZMT2ad8a0OHwpaCiB_u0RFbd/s1600/IMG_2355.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="285" r6="true" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgPwcpwGiTaLJKC7KoUwwGKzgYVwydjGOkOsVJNToF1boPRR0A5s60A0Cpg77AaOd71Q_lmvEMTTJgbRwHqvEPrBCaZdWa2fd3M3SDpEu4AvQO5Fh-xPWrSZMT2ad8a0OHwpaCiB_u0RFbd/s400/IMG_2355.JPG" width="400" /></a></div>108 Degrees. This is a bright glass-fleck fuschia pink shade. Extremely pretty and reminded me of the old China Glaze It's 5 O'Clock Somewhere, but more pigmented. Application was pretty good on this one, as with all the shimmers.<br />
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<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgPkAMApeAOhSEUENI5mqv-SRVgzFjOuBXdWpJgYPDzXg4g3arooX72KiA6M_KdrtBwiigb9anRRYduDHhYNI5KqxbIz8eWheDEQDkWET8z5cuDiIDEoXhsfiSzBIKr1xU0Iyw2XBHpbi7b/s1600/IMG_2356.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="353" r6="true" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgPkAMApeAOhSEUENI5mqv-SRVgzFjOuBXdWpJgYPDzXg4g3arooX72KiA6M_KdrtBwiigb9anRRYduDHhYNI5KqxbIz8eWheDEQDkWET8z5cuDiIDEoXhsfiSzBIKr1xU0Iyw2XBHpbi7b/s400/IMG_2356.JPG" width="400" /></a></div>Cha Cha Cha. This is rumoured to be a dupe to the infamous Moonpool, and I wish I had it to compare to tell you for sure :p But in the meantime, this is good enough for me. It's pretty, but I need to compare it to Icing Sour Apple, Sally Hansen Spark (I think that's the one) and a couple other supposed Moonpool dupes I own. Also, I don't really know if it's all that unique - seems there's a billion light greens with gold shimmer out there (Zoya Midori comes to mind).<br />
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</div><div class="separator" style="border-bottom: medium none; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none; clear: both; text-align: left;">Alright, that's all for today. Thanks for looking, and I'll be back in the next day or two with more swatches!</div></div>AChttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00636412730868248541noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6149490209514605663.post-15682277052173920942011-03-27T03:44:00.000-07:002011-04-13T22:26:18.335-07:00Some China Glazes, Essies, Nicoles and More ~or~ Ten Posts Crammed Into One Because I Don't Post Frequently Enough<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">*EDIT*: WHYYY the EFF is Blogger not posting my photos?!??? I just uploaded the photos three times - I promise they're there, if you click on them it will take you to the pic, but blogger is not showing them in the post for some reason. It's making me want to pull my hair out,. I've just spent fifteen minutes trying to fix this, but blogger just won't show them, and I have to go to bed now, so I'm hoping this will just fix itself :( :( stuff like this makes me want to quit blogging :(<br />
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*EDIT #2*: Okay, I think I got it to work.... I just have to paste the photos in HTML form... which I don't know crap about, so if it's all wonky, blame blogger :p<br />
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*EDIT #3*: Okay, that didn't work AT ALL. I so fail at HTML. <br />
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*EDIT #4*: Now blogger is going to delete this post altogether?? I had it published, now it's back in my drafts? WTH?<br />
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*EDIT #5*: Yeah.... it is now Sunday evening. Blogger seems to mysteriously be working again, although it decided to take random photos I was trying to publish earlier and make them tiny little pixels that you can click on to go to a full-size pic. Which is what it was doing before with all my pics. Sigh. I could delete all these edits, but they're entertaining. At least they will be for me to read later :p<br />
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Good Saturday Evening, all!<br />
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Yes, I know this should really be broken up into seperate posts about each colour to maintain everyone's constantly waning interest, but I would actually have to post on a semi-regular basis to do that :p Alright, no excuses today - let's just delve right into it, shall we? Let's!<br />
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Forgive my brutal cuticles in all of these, please, by the way. Winter no likey me hands :(<br />
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I just decided to go count my Nicoles, on a whim....I own FOURTY-SEVEN freakin Nicoles, people. 47!!! 47 of those heinous freaking things, in my house, in my possession...*shudder*... Yeah... Maybe I won't go buy those other ones when they go on sale :p ("But," the voice in my head protests, "you love every single one of those Nicole colours...")<br />
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<div style="text-align: left;">Blah. I'm still not even remotely caught up on posting pics. Also, I just got the China Glaze Island Escape collection the other day - swatches of those coming up soon! Plus, ten more random spam posts like this, probably :p</div><div style="text-align: left;"><br />
</div><div style="text-align: left;">See you soon! I should probably go to bed :p For some reason I am really craving a pepperoni stick. Wish I had some of those.</div><div style="text-align: left;"><br />
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