Ross and Dollar Tree Haul!

I am so loving the Dollar Tree. Check out what I saw yesterday.

So...many...nail polishes....
They had some new Sally Hanson duos, but none caught my eye. Saw mostly the star opals, which are in my book. The NYC duos looked more promising, but not by much. Saw loads of pretty colors, but they were ones I already have from NYC. But I did pick this one up.



Kisses. I love this color. Its a purply pinkie color with a pale blue shimmer. This swatch was taken with flash to show the shimmer. Its about 5 coats though. But well worth it in my book.


Broadway. This is kind of a burgundy brown with a slight shimmer to it. IDK how to describe the shimmer. Its pretty though.


OMFG! New color craze colors. There were so many to chose from, I didn't know what to get. Soooooo many glitters! And some new, cute neon shades. The glitter swatches all have a matching colored tip. IDK about you, but I don't particularly like seeing glitter swatches on a bare tip. It just doesn't look right.


Sparkling Diamonds. This was the first one to catch my eye. I love chunky glitters. One coat. China Glaze: Cheers to You on the tip.


Aqua Crystals. Just your basic blue glitter. Nothing fancy, but still pretty. IDK what made me think to add two coats of glitter to this and the next swatch, but i did it anyway. This is loaded with glitter! Klean Colors: Aqua Neon on the tip.


Treasure Island. This color totally caught my eye. Its a teal with a holo glitter effect.


Fiji Purple. Ugh, I just love this color!

My next stop was Ross. My Ross and Dollar Tree reeeally close together. I just need to cross a small, side street to get to the next shopping center. I was a bit disappointed when I got there though. Not a whole lot of "good" stuff to choose from. They had a Color Club set that I already had. Saw some interesting eyeshadow pallets, only to discover that most of the colors had been broken. But I did find one gold mine..... but before I talk about that one, I also picked this up.


It was only $1.99. They had this, a pale yellow and a mint green. And that was it. only those three polishes left in the display. Apparently everyone liked them.


One coat went on almost completely opaque. Added a second coat to help even it out. This is my first creative art polish. I'm quite happy with it.


Now, my creme de la creme. My top buy. These mood polishes from ... IDK who. Just says mood polishes. Anyway, I have been dying to get my hands on the mood polishes from Claire's. I really hope these are just as good. Only cost me $4.99, gotta love that.

No swatches! Sorry. I started to take swatches yesterday, but I stopped because I wanna do a full review of these babies. And maybe do some cool design with them. I'm thinking something Lisa Frank like.

My First Santee

W00T! I went to Traders Village with some friends this weekend. Traders Village is this huge Flea Market not too far away from where I live. You've got everything from tires and rims, to puppies and rabbits. They also sell the best fresh fruit around. lol, its also the spot to go if ya wanna buy fake MAC and CHI products. I wanted to get a picture of the fakes, but the sales people hover over ya and wouldn't let me snap any pics. This weekend I saw tons of nail polishes. Art Decos everywhere! Too bad they didn't have any polishes I didn't already own. I saw this huuuuuuuge bin of older polishes from CVS and Walgreens. All looked like crap though. I was not wanting any of them. Then I saw the Santees. Santee is a brand that I've heard good things about, but I can't seem to find it anywhere near me. They had a small display. A few good colors, but nothing caught my eye like this one did.


Peacock Green Glitter. I absolutely love it! It has small green glitters, medium sized gold and super, jumbo sized gold hexagon glitters. And to top it off, guess how much it cost me? $1, ya can't beat that!

I went a lil crazy with the hair accessories. I thought I'd go ahead show them off here. These were all $1 also.


Ugh, simply gorgeous. Love this one.


LOVE!!! The head band pinches a bit. But I don't care, I still love it.


lol, I had to get a red to match my hair. I think this one blends in with my hair a bit too much. You can barely see it.


The rest are just clips. I decided to get an orange one since I like to wear alot of orange in the summer. Cute, but I wish the clip was bigger.


You know I had to get something purple.LOVE THIS!!!


This one has to be my favorite. It is soooo huge! Its like half my head.

Geez, who died?

Well, if ya didn't know already... I love doing DIY projects. I'm also a huge fan of Threadbanger. Or at least I was when Rob, Corrine, and Meg were the hosts.... Anyway. I used their idea of making a bloody curtain and placed it outside. Had fun making it. The kid next door helped by providing the bloody hand prints. I cut stripes in it so that you actually get to the door. Just ran a razor through it. Didn't mean to make it all crocked, but hey that adds to the effect.



I loved it so much, I came up with the idea of doing the same on my nails. And viola! Me new nails. Hubby thinks it looks stupid, but meh.. screw him. What does he know, right?



This was super easy to do. Paint the nails white... add red and bam, you are done!

Here is the tutorial. Enjoy!

Grr... Imma bite you!!!

This is my second attempt at making this mani. First round was a total fail. I used black to shape the fangs and tried to use a purple and blue gradient for the background of the bat. Fail, fail, FAIL!!! It looked horrid!

I got the idea for this from seeing The Daily Nail's True Blood nail art I wasn't willing to file my index and pinky to make the fangs, though. Which is why I drew mine on instead. You definitely need to use a neutral background for those nails. The dark red for the blood, really clashed with the black I used the first time around.



I think my bat looks a bit funky though.



Here is the tutorial for it. Enjoy!

Simple Halloween Design

I wore this mani around the first of the month. I wanted a Halloween look that was more subtle. So I went with a simple black and orange design.

While wearing this design, my nails had a bit of a tough time. I helped my bestie move. Ugh, that was exhausting! Two couches, TV, dresser, bed....the whole nine. With an hour drive in between it took about 3 days. Luckily, I took precaution. Before leaving, I applied a protective top coat. It was this random Sally Hanson one I picked up at the Dollar Tree. I was in a hurry and the top coat was taking F-O-R-E-V-E-R to dry!!! So I added a layer of Seche Vite to speed it up. I am soooo glad I did. By the end of the moving process, the polish on my right thumb nail had been scrapped off. Yes, that's right, scrapped, not chipped! I think it happened while helping with the wall. (The new place has this awesome accent wall. Hubby and I helped them with it.) I'm just glad it was the polish and not the actual nail. I got tons of polish. Polish I can replace, a nail I gotta grow.







I only used 3 polishes for this design. L.A. Colors, Black Velvet. NYC, Times Square Tangerine Creme. And Art Deco in Bright Orange.

Here is the video for it. Enjoy!

Breast Cancer Awareness Manicure

My poor blog... Oh how I've neglected you. I promise I will try to update you more often.

This did this manicure for a friend of mine from gaiaonline.com, GillaGrrl. She had her avatar dressed in pink and had her post style pink to match. All for the support of breast cancer awareness. Seeing her gave me the idea to do this mani.



I also got a tear on the side of my index nail. Which really, really sucks. I had just finished growing out a tear I had on my middle finger on the right hand. It was getting bad fast. As soon as I was done filming the tutorial for this I had to try to fix it.



I first tried to patch it with a tea bag. Didn't work. The nail just cracked even worse. So instead I covered it in acrylic. That did the trick. ^_^

As far as the actual mani, I used 3 sinful colors polishes. Glass pink for a base color. Creme Pink for the tips. And Pinky Glitter over the tips. lol, I do love my glitter polishes. For the ribbon, I used Sally Hanson's I Pink I can. I thought about outlining the ribbon with white, but I don't think it needed it.

Here the tutorial. Enjoy! >_<

Review: Relon Lashes

Ugh, lately I've had a serious case of the lazies. I've had these lashes about a month and am just now get to this review. I was contacted by a Revlon representative to review these lashes. All opinions are mine... all mine.

I happen to not wear lashes, so to help me with the review, I turned to my best friend Stephanie.



First up is the Fantasy Lengths Self Adhesive Lashes

Stephanie tried these out.
Some positives about these are that they come with detailed instructions and has applicator. The applicator helped alot. And that is where the positives stop. The adhesive sucked. It stuck to the makeup, rather than your eye lid. We tried to put the extra adhesive strip to see if that would help and the damn thing was impossible to put on. Just look how nasty it turned out.



We ended up using a different glue for the other eye and it held up better. Over all, don't buy these. They are just a waste of money.

Next up is the Fantasy Lengths Intensifying:


We both tried these out. I tried the left eye, Stephanie the right.
We both agree that they were easy to apply and easy to blend in with your natural lashes. Theses are definitely good for day to day looks. These were my personal favorites.



Lastly is the Beyond Natural and the Precision Lash Adhesive


We both tried these out. I tried the right eye, Steph, the left.
Right away, you get that Dramatic look. These have that OMG factor. The lashes were lite and had an easy application. Great over all. The glue was really good too, no complaints there. These ended up being Steph's fav.



With the exception of the self adhesive lashes, these were great. But I have got to say... Revlon, WTF is with the names? The "natural" lashes were very dramatic and the "fantasy" lashes were natural. That makes no sense.