Massive Haul Post, part three - The Final Chapter (for a week or so)

The fact that I had to split this up into three parts is sad and somewhat frightening  :p  I went buckwild this one week.  This is the result.

Alright, here we go.  First of all, I have all the stuff I got at the beauty supply store.

Starting off, I picked up the CND "The Look" set.  I think I got a pretty good deal, too, since I've seen this sold online for $18.  I tried to get a pic of the Vivienne Westwood-designed box - it's so cute and really does make me think of candy.  It came with a little booklet with pics of CND polishes in action on the spring runways.  You've probably already seen the polishes by now - Sweet and Sugar Sparkle.  Sweet is an opaque, warm-toned pink that to me looks very similar to OPI Elephantastic Pink, and Sugar Sparkle is white, irreguar shaped flake glitter in a pearly base - it almost looks like a white flakie polish.  I can't wait to try these.

Next is something that I have no idea why I bought.  CND's new Shellac polish in Tutti Fruitti.  The SA talked me into buying it, and I was so excited, only to get home and realize that - duh - I don't own the UV light that is an integral part of the polish application.  Brilliant, Lex.  So I have no idea what I'm going to do with this.  Bringing it to a salon with me so they can put it on seems like such a waste of money, and going in and asking to use their UV lamp would make me feel like an idiot.  Honestly, I don't really know why they sold it to me.  Maybe they assume I own a salon cuz I buy so much polish  XD  Also, now that I look at the brochure and see all the shades again, I wish I'd gotten Fedora instead.  D'oh.

Some boring essentials - a fresh bottle of SV and more CND Ridge Out.  Until I can get Barielle Hydrating Ridge Filler, this will do - it's works and it's so much easier for me to get.  And six bucks ain't a bad price.  I'm halfway through my first bottle.  Even though I don't have ridges, sometimes the surface of my nails gets scratched and peels, and this provides a nice, even, milky white base - especially handy for pastel cremes.

Some OPIs - Got The Blues For Red, Mrs. O'Leary's BBQ, and La Paz-itively Hot - Matte.  All NB recommendations  :)

Color Club Volt Of Light, Tangerine Scream, and What A Shock!  This completes my Electro Candy collection, except for the purple one. 

More discontinued China Glazes! :)  L-R: Orchid Shadow (dusty lilac with gold shimmer), Rapture (hot fuschia pink with holo glitter), China Rain (peachy pink with gold shimmer and glitter) and Go Crazy Red (awesome shimmery red with a gold flash).  These are so pretty.  I wonder why some of these randomly have the silver caps like the OMGs....

More Dare 2 Wears :)  Love these.  L-R: Mint 2 Blue Opal, Tropical Kiwi 2 Metallic Green, another Green 2 Gold Opal (I already have one of these so this'll go as a swap extra), Ashy Gold 2 24K Gold, and one that has no label on the bottom (grrr!) but is a inky blackened greyish green with dark blue and aqua glitter.  It looks so unique.  It might be completely fugly.  I have no idea.  I don't have anymore nail wheels for swatching  :(  Must get more.

Last from the beauty supply place, I got some Princessas for a MUA member who wanted me to CP her some.  Most of these are very shiny, colour saturated, sparkly foils.

Sour Apple, Everglade Sparkle and Champagne Dust.  SA is a glittery sheer with pink duochrome, and the other two have the sparkly foil finish.  CD looks, to me, an awful lot like China Glaze Swing Baby from the upcoming fall 2010 Vintage Vixen collection (which I cannot wait for, btw - yes, I am aware I just got Poolside, lol).

Tan Gerine (huh? it's blue, you weirdos), Tahitian Afternoon and California Sunshine.  TG is a frosty baby blue with pink, blue, green and purple microglitter and purple-pink shimmer, and the other two are foils.

Colorodo Rapid, Silver Hurricane and New Eve At Vegas (again, huh?).  NEAV is a black jelly with irregular silver and holo glitter - so pretty!  Once again, the other two are foils.  Princessa's got some hilarious names - first Stary Stary Night (seriously!) and now these two.  *snort.  These will be going to a lovely MUAer is return for SH HT (yeah, I know, I know, shut up) and hopefully an Illamasqua! :)

Next is stuff from my mall haul:

These are more smelly Revlons: Grape Ice, Bubblegum, Cotton Candy and Orange Pop.  I have them all now except for Peach Smoothie, which I saw on lextard's blog and could tell immediately it would look hideous on me.  I may end up getting it anyway, but hopefully I'll be able to stop myself  :p  I can't wait to try these, though - I really like the idea of nail polish that actually smells half decent :)

Sephora by OPI It's Bouquet With Me.  Wanted this ever since it first came out, passed on it once, and it was sold out ever since.  Until last week  :)  I'm such a sucker for glitter, and I love $OPI's other glitters, so this was a no-brainer.  These polishes are just so hideously expensive though, for what they are.

More Icing polishes.  I think this set is older - it may have been a spring one.  These are all pastel cremes, with no visible shimmer to them.  These sets are really such an awesome deal - you get five good shades for a really low price, and the wear for the money is exceptionally good.  I love Icing's polishes  :)

These are new, I think.  This is True Blue, Casino Green and Sunset.  They're cremes.  This pic is not really capturing the colour - only True Blue is true to life.  TB looks similar to CC Take Me To Your Chateau, except a bit more muted and greyed-out.  Casino Green is much brighter than in this pic, more like muted CC Rebel Debutante, and Sunset is much brighter and closer to a muted OPI Hot & Spicy.  Icing has a bunch of "dupe" sets out right now - they have an OPI Alice In Wonderland dupe set (just like Finger Paints) with an AA and MAaH wannabe glitter and a couple reds.  It looked interesting, and I may pick it up next time just so I can review it :)

Hey!  Look what London Drugs sells now!  (for the ripoff price of six bucks, boooo!)  Still, I'm friggin ecstatic to see Sinfuls in Canada, finally!  now if they would just get a better selection  :p  I will be checking every London Drugs I'm remotely near from now on though to check their selection of Sinfuls  :)  This is Pinky Glitter and Cloud 9 - pink glitter and tangerine with gold shimmer.

Sweet!  The Essie Resort collection I've been lemming so badly!  L-R: Lapis of Luxury, Turquoise & Caicos (which I showed you the other day), Playa Del Platinum and Splash Of Grenadine.  T&C is an instant favorite of mine, and I have a feeling I'll be wearing these this summer more than once.  I'm thinking of putting LOL on my toes, or even PDP - someone on the NB said they had this as their pedi and loved it.  I just love the Mediterranean feel of these colours  :)

And then of course I can't stay away from the Essie discount bin at Trade Secret  :)  This time, I found Decadent Diva and Cool-Lots.  I've had better finds.  What colour is DD exactly?  Is it a shimmery... brown?  Burgundy?  Plum?  I can't tell.  And Cool-Lots, what was I thinking?  It's SHEER!  Sure it has pretty gold shimmer, but it's so SHEER!  Maybe one day I'll find use for it, though, in case I ever actually have to look professional, god forbid  :p

Next, some boring, non-np related stuff.  Wet N Wild eyeshadow palette in Lust, and Maybelline Eyestudio palettes in Sapphire Siren and Irresistibly Ivy. I'm not going to go into detail, since this is a nail polish blog, but I've just recently started buying and wearing makeup again, particularly eyeshadow and lipgloss.  I know drugstore eyeshadows are usually a no-go, but I was sucked in by the pretty ad for these.  And the WnW palette got really good reviews on MUA, which I trust entirely too much these days  :p  I don't know - I still feel overdone and a little silly whenever I wear eyeshadow, though.

ANYWAY, back to the good stuff.

Wet N Wild Craze polishes in Morbid, Glitz, Rustic and Blackmail.  Morbid looks similar to Misa Toxic Seduction - black with teal green shimmer, and Blackmail looks like it was trying to copy ChG Fortune Teller, as it's a black with orange/copper glitter, but sadly it doesn't show up on the nail too well.

More drugstore finds: Wet N Wild Rain Check and Sparked, I finally caved and bought Rimmel Camouflage, and Cover Girl Ruby Twinkle.

And lastly, some random dollar store finds.

Two more Billies in Feeling Blue and Jovile.  Is that even a word?

Two more LA Girl Disco Brites - Phenomenon is a super-dark blackened purple jelly, and Freak is a blue-toned fushcia creme.

Some awesome awesomeness in a weird bottle with no identifiable brand or shade names.  A blue jelly with holo and hex glitter, a sparkly, glittery pink and a super shimmery orange-red with gold flash.  These smell more awful than anything you could ever imagine, as well.  They don't even smell like nail polish.  More like rotting corpse.  I don't even want to know what's in them.  Still, they are awesome, and I kind of like the ink well-style bottle.

And lastly, some more random awesomeness.  Aili Sha unnamed holo bar glitter (squee!), a pale lilac shimmer Paris Couture, some brand called Profound shimmery gold peach, and a silver with a kickass name.

Can you guess why I bought this polish?  :)

And check out the holo bar glitter!  Nice find!

So that wraps up my hauls, finally!  I haven't bought any nail polish (or anything else non-essential for that matter) since.  Okay fine, I did pick up NYX Graffiti when I was at the grocery store today, just cuz it's a long-time lemming, but other than that, I'm good for now!  I'm just going to sit here and patiently wait for my konad and BM plates to arrive, do my Zoya swap, swap the Princessas and try to wear all the polishes I've bought just recently!  I might break my no-buy for new collections if I see them, and I've already put aside $ for my Nouvelle Vague and Illusion D'Or, but other than that, I'm done! 

Oh, and I have to replace my Ruby Pumps - I gave it to my mom today for Mother's Day.  She loved her new purse full of NP that I gave her  :)  It included RP, OPI Yoga-ta Get This Blue and Blue My Mind, and Orly Plum Noir.  When she was here she was admiring my OPI What's With The Cattitude, but only for the name and cuz it matches Sid's eyes :)  She said she'd probably never wear a light blue, but it was pretty anyway.  Which means if I just gave it to her she probably would.  My mom is much more adventurous now that she's retired  :)

So I hope you all had a good Mother's Day as well, and I will be back soon with some recent NOTD's and my latest polish cataloguing project (attempt).  Love, peace and chicken grease.

NOTD: GO CANUCKS GO!

Yeah... our season might be over after tonight.... but I can maybe help matters by unveiling my secret weapon - THIS!!!

Hahaha!!  Yes, I know this won't help our stupid-penalty-taking or sub-par penalty kill, but maybe, just maybe it'll bring good luck.... Plus, I had some time on my hands this morining  :p

I used a couple different polishes for this, playing around and trying to find the right colour match.  The blue base is two coats of China Glaze Bermuda Breakaway followed by one thin coat of China Glaze Frostbite.  The green stripe is two coats of Claire's Kelly Green and two coats of China Glaze Paper Chasin'.  For the white stripe I used Art Club nail art pen in White.

Sorry for the blurry photo.  It's not perfect - it's a little messy, but I think the colours match :)

*UPDATE* We're a little into the second period, and it's 2-0 Canucks!  My Magical Mani Power is working!  I believe, baby, I believe!  :)

Okay, the haul post is coming up.... stay tuned.

NOTD: Essie Turquoise & Caicos

Ahhh!  I have to throw this up here really quick (that sounds bulemic, lol) because I just realized it's Mother's Day tomorrow and I need to get my mum something!  Must fly to the mall before it closes!  I don't think she wants more nail polish... :)  But I might put together a little basket for her - she likes interesting reds, and cobalt blue, and plum.  I'm thinking Yoga-ta Get This Blue, Ruby Pumps and maybe Orly Plum Noir...? 

Anyway, real quick, here's what I'm wearing right now:

Essie Turquoise & Caicos.  I got this the other day - which I'm gonna talk about in part 3 of my haul post, coming up soon.  This is a medium bright turquoise (duh).  It looks slightly For Audrey-esque, but not quite as blue.  I absolutely love it.  It's such a bright, summery, fresh, "right-now" kind of colour!  So awesome for this time of year.

Sorry about my cuticles.  They've been brutal lately.  I must pick up some Lush Lemony Flutter - I've been meaning to try it, but I hate going into that store because it smells like medicinal soap.  I'm probably the only person in the world that thinks that, but I do.  Plus, Lush is so overpriced.  Kind of like this Essie  :p  I'll forgive Essie though, because they usually apply and wear so well on me.  This is definitely automatically going into my top ten Essie colours list.  Well, top ten that I own, anyway :p

Kay, I gotta go to the mall now.  And I know I just said Essies wear well, but this is day three and I got a chip a few hours ago while I was playing Frisbee golf, and I'm not going to the mall with chipped nails, so I gotta throw on something quick and then go.  I'm wearing a white, denim blue and peach flowered tank top, so I'm thinking something mint...?  Maybe green?

Massive Haul Post, part deux

Yep.  I lied.  again.  I didn't post the next day.  I suck at this.  This being life.  I'm sorry.

Also, I want to let everyone know that I have an order from ocnailart coming with some konad plates and white, yellow and blue polish, and an order from Amazon with - yup, you guessed it - BundleMonster plates coming in!!!  And I'm very excited  :)  Hehe  :)  Just wanted to share that.  And yes, I am aware no one cares but me. 

Also, can I say one thing?  Sally Hansen Hidden F*cking Treasure.  It's making me want to blow up every drugstore in the city and boycott the nail board forever.  Okay, not really, not at all actually, but what is with the freaking obsession?  It looks like Nfu-Oh 38 pretty much exactly, as well as the Maybelline Shimmer Girl that I also own.  It's just a basic flakie in a clear base.  People posting photos of it every two seconds with it layered over every polish ever made is fueling this massive frenzied nationwide search.  I do not get it.  I am so waiting until it finally comes to Canada, when nobody cares about it anymore, and just buying it then.  If I absolutely can't stand it, I'll try to swap for it, but I have a feeling I'll be able to stand it.  Jeez!

Okay, now that that's off my chest, on with it!  I'll try to keep my descriptions brief, cuz I'm fairly sure at this point that there's going to have to be a part three to this, as well  :p  This is pretty much everything I've bought in the past couple months.

So I'll start off by continuing my swap goodies.  This is Zoya Erika, Lindsay and South Beach Ice.  Thanks stellalooovesyou!  Erika is a pale pink with gold shimmer, Lindsay is a glass-fleck pink shimmer, and SBI is a mint glitter.

Pure Ices!  Yay!  I love this brand, and we can't get them in Canada, obviously.  And I don't ever waste time going into Walmarts when I'm in the US, because we have Walmarts at home that I can hate.  So I'm so glad I was able to swap for all the ones I want!  Thank you so much thekarend - she also included CC Wild At Heart, and the Essence Pool Party I instantly liked :)  L-R: French Kiss, Heartbreaker, Strapless, Busted and Once Again.  My notes: Strapless I got because it looks exactly like a dense blue Claire's glitter polish I had in 1996... I tried Heartbreaker over SH Grape Going, and it's not a RBL Scrangie dupe like I heard... French Kiss may be similar to Essie Mesmerize, although I hope not - must compare...

Milani holos - I can't remember the names.  One is Hi-Res and one is Hi-Def, and I can't recall which is which...

Now some stuff I got at the beauty supply:

More China Glaze holos now that I'm getting more konad plates :)  L-R: TTYL, FYI, LOL. 

D/C'ed China Glazes.  My BS has a discounted/discontinued China Glaze section, and it is like CRACK - I can't get enough, I must compulsively comb through it for at least twenty minutes everytime I'm there.  And I get the urge to drop in all the time just to see what they have, as it changes all the time.  This particular time I found (l-r) Channelesque, Rainstorm, No Tan Lines and Vampy.  Notes: Vampy and Stroll look very, very similar to me... I heard Rainstorm is painfully, excruciatingly sheer.... like 9-coats-until-it-looks-decent-sheer.

Some OPIs - Midnight In Moscow, Royal Rajah Ruby and Breathe Life.  I wanted a deep shimmery vamp, and couldn't decide between MIM and RRR - so I got both :p  It's bad, I'm getting seriously addicted to OPIs as well - it's almost like I'm just starting to collect them now either because the colour's interesting or it's popular on blogs or MUA, regardless of whether I will ever realistically actually wear it  :p  Yeah.  Must get life.  I will wear these, though - and Breathe Life is very pretty, too, and goes to help fund lung cancer research, which might help all my smoker friends and boyfriend one day, so good for me.

More OPIs.  I didn't get these at the BS, but on sale at the salon where I found the Shreks.  L-R: RRR and MIM again, I don't know why I included them in this pic, but I did, so just deal with it, Brisbane Bronze, Malaga Wine (yes, I got the leopard print change purse, or whatever it was, with these - I gave it to my sister), Dutch Tulips (finally! lemming this for way too long), and The "It" Color.  This pic does not capture the colour of DT at all - it's a deep pinkish-red... or is it reddish-pink...?  I don't know.  Does anyone know?

What else did I get....

Dollar store haul!  LA Girl Disco Brites in Deejay, Disco Ball, Disco Inferno, Dance Studio and Turntable, another cheapo Billie in Electric Yellow and another cheapo Paris Couture with mint stars!  The Disco Brites are supposed to be black-light reflective.  Oooooh... the Marilyn Manson-listening, poetry-writing 13-year-old goth me is intrigued, but I unfortunately probably sold my blacklight at a garage sale sometime in my teens, so I have no way of testing that claim....

These are the new Joe Fresh polishes I got a Superstore.  Most of these (well, probably all) are going to thekarend - she is conducting my Zoya swapping business for me :) and these are to cover the $3.50/bottle charge.  L-R: Grape, Mint, Peacock, Powder Blue, Faded Violet, Fig and Prune.  They're all cremes except for Grape and Peacock, which are shimmers.  I also have another Mint, Peacock and Powder Blue that I'm keeping for myself.  I haven't tried these yet, but Peacock looks very similar to ChG Rodeo Fanatic to me...

And then, look what we finally got in Canada:

Yay.  More than two months after the States got them.  Such a buncha stupid bllsht, mutter mutter mutter...  Anyway, Pink Sophistication and Bubble Gum.  Yes.  My Maybelline Sweet collection now looks like this:

So pwetty!  I have all the ones I wanted - all except Sweet Clementine and Candy Coated.  L-R: Sweetie Pie, Minty, Pink Sophitication, Bubble Gum, Goody Plum Drop and Pie In The Sky.  Looking at this honestly makes me want candy, just like the Orly Sweets.  Then again I probably just want candy all the time.

Some Wet N Wilds - Blazed, Eggplant Frost and Sunny Side Up.  I'm looking everywhere for this new WnW Summer collection everyone on the NB is talking about, but like everything else, it'll probably arrive in Canada ten billion years after the fact...

And last for right now, the dreaded Insta-Dris - Uptempo Plum and Jumpin Jade.  I told you I was gonna buy these.  I can't resist the colours!  I'm still gonna buy Brisk Blue and Blue Blaze, as well, one of these days...  I can't wait to try these!  UP is a dark plummy purple with purple and gold glitter, and JJ is a deep shimmery forest green.  These will look awesome on my shorties  :) 

Here's a short story (pardon the pun, ugh) - my nails are super-ultra-mega-hyper-uber short right now, as well as my cuticles trashed... why, you ask?  Cuz I went on a long, hairy camping trip this past weekend  :p  Why am I going camping at this time of year, when it's still cold and rainy in Vancouver and so NOT camping weather yet?  Well, originally it was my friend's idea for his birthday celebration, but then he had to go away for work, but my friends are all hardy Canadian idiot boys so they still wanted to go, so we did.  We were gone for four days, and although I did make an attempt at a mani that would stay on for the duration (Orly Luxe topped with three or four coats of ChG Medallion), it peeled off within a few hours of me arriving there  :(  I then proceeded to repeatedly wash my hands and then get them dirty again, manage to break, tear or rip off every one of my nails (even though they weren't even that long), and completely suck all the moisture out of my cuticles and hands doing routine camping things.  Camping is so fun, and I love it, and if you looked at the Facebook pictures you could tell we had a blast, but I must admit a tiny part of me was mourning my nails all weekend and cringing at the sight of them nekkid and broken and looking forward to getting home just so I could start repairing the damage and give them some TLC.  I'm such a lame ass :p

Man, I'm so glad that no one that knows me in real life reads my blog.  My friends would all think I was certifiably nuts  :p 

Anyway, I still have more haul to show you!  (Insert eye roll here)

It's coming up soon, as soon as I have the patience to wait ten thousand years for Blogger to upload the photos  :p  Soon!  I promise!

Stuff I've Gotten Lately, Part One:

More stuff I've gotten lately.  Part of the never-ending haul that my life has become  :p

Pretty things...  I'm weak, what can I say?

Alright, it begins...

I got this stuff from TD:

Color Clubs in Wild And Willing, With Abandon, Love 'Em, Leave 'Em, and Wild At Heart.  WAH I got in a swap, but I wanted to include it here with its family.  These are the ones from the Wild At Heart collection that I was interested in - I passed on the two frosty jewel-tone shades. 

Misas in Confection Section, Ghetto Fabulous, Let's Go Green, A Sunny Smile Makes Me Go Wild, and Bikini With A Martini.  BWAM is a tad more fuchsia than red.  I have some more Misas coming in a swap, too - when they get here I'll photograph them all together  :)

Orly Sweet collection in Lollipop, Cotton Candy, Lemonade, Snowcone and Pixi Stix.  I have Gumdop coming in a swap as well :)  Only Pixi Stix came with its little lipgloss, even though they all should have since I ordered them seperately, but I'm guessing supply is running low since these have been out a while now.  Anyway, I don't care - I love the Pixi Stix one, and the only other one I would have worn is obviously Cotton Candy.  Which would have looked gross on me anyway.  I don't wear much lip stuff, including gloss, cuz I have giant lips and I think 99% of it looks worse on me than none at all.  It's sad.  Ahem.  Anyway, these are really pretty.  I haven't gotten around to wearing any yet, but my Orly lemming has quieted down for awhile - I've gone from owning four to around thirty!

A couple OPIs

OPI Merryberry Mauve and Maliblue.  Two dc'ed, kind of htf OPIs.  I didn't know TD had these - why are people charging $20 for Merryberry Mauve on ebay?  Huh.  Anyway, I now own the polish and the glitter topcoat! :)  I should try them together.

Amour Rain Glitter.  This was recommended to me on the NB and it's very rainbow-y and sparkly.  I need to try it.  Man, I have so many I need to try!  I wonder what colour I should use as the base...?

Then, I got a whole mess of China Glaze! <3

China Glaze Poolside!  L-R: Flip Flop Fantasty, Sun Worshiper, Yellow Polka Dot Bikini, Towel Boy Toy and Pool Party.  No Kiwi-Cool-Ada, since stupid TD was sold out of it at the time of my order (of course, they got it in the next day and have had it since).  I don't really mind, since it looks like a dupe for CC Limelight.  As a matter of fact, a lot of these seem dupey; if you ask me, SW = CC Explosive/Psychedelic Scene, YPDB = ChG Celtic Sun, Misa A Sunny Smile Makes Me Go Wild, TBT = CC Pure Energy, ChG Sky-High Top, and PP = one of the various CC pink neons.  I fully intend to do a comp post.

The only one of these I've worn - and absolutely LOVE - is Flip Flop Fantasy.  This is a gorgeous bright neon coral orangey pink.  It's screaming to be on my toes.  I will post pics!

China Glaze Bahama Blues collection.  L-R: Bahamian Escape, Carribean Blue, Blue Island Iced Tea, Bermuda Breakaway, Calypso Blue.  I love blue - it is by far my favorite polish colour, and this collection is all ranges of it.  Once again, there was a frosted shade that I passed on.  A lot of frosts just look dated to me lately.  Anyway, I owned a polish identical to Bahamian Escape when I was about twelve... I wish I could remember the brand.... it wasn't a well-known one.  Because of this, BE has been a long-time lemming of mine - I've wanted it ever since I first started looking at swatches of ChG back in December, when I didn't own any, and probably only owned about thirty nps in total.  Wow, I've come a long way.

Oh, and last, but not least - the free stuffed puppy that came with my TD order:

Cute?  I think I got one of the last ones - it's not on the page anymore.  I'm gonna end up owning ten thousand pairs of those Holiday Puppy Slippers, though  :p

Now, other stuff.  These are the long-awaited Reveries from Spaboutique.ca:

L-R: Adina, Lana, Happi, Reece, Laney, Gwin.  I'm obviously very late to the party on these, and everyone else and their monkey has reviewed them already.  So I'll spare you.

Some swap haul:

Orly Rage and Luxe.  Shiny things!  More pedi potential!

And some Zoyas: Casey, Emme and Astra.  I have Astra on my toes right now, and it's such super-sparkly goodness! 

I'll be back with part two tomorrow, most likely....  how's your weekend going?