Collective NOTW's

After I got my dad handed me down his iPhone 4, I've been taking a lot more pictures of random things. In fact, I've been pretty good at taking photos of my nails everytime I do them! Here's just a quick post on that since I haven't made a new post in a while :)

Added some top coat to the nails before that one to make it more interesting

Closer details of the finish, yet the photo still uploads blurry.

Just something to look at, not really any explanations because I'm a bit lazy to go grab my nail polishes and see, but if you're interested in knowing, ask and I shall reveal ;)

As you can see though, I've been obsessed with glitters. They're easier than nail art, and they add some personality to my nails! ^__~

`til next time.

NOTW: Hopelessly in Love {ft. Hello Kitty}

Hey gals! I was gonna post my haul but I haven't had time to make some swatches so that's gonna wait. Plus I wanted to do haul/review of the quality also ^_~

Here's a quick post. I'm sitting in the AT&T store waiting for my boyfriend to do his phone thing and I got bored. I've been admiring my nails since I've painted them last night LOL! It's the first pink nail polish I've purchased in a while. It's OPI Hopelessly In Love paired with an HK decal from sephora.

Illamasqua base coat + 2 coats of OPI Hopelessly In Love + Seche Vite results in this...
It's a beautiful soft pink that almost matches my purse! I'm really in love with it and it wasn't super opaque on the second coat so I feel like it gets that jelly look ;) or it might just be my imagination lol.

I used the camera+ app to add the blurred effect in case some of you were looking for a somewhat photo editing program for the iPhone.

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On a side note, I went and got cupcakes today! I've only ate one so far (red velvet) and it was delicious! Can't wait to get home and try the rest ;)
They look so scrumptious! And all five were only $12.50! A heck of a lot cheaper than sprinkles for sure. ;)

--- edit;; I purchased the cupcakes from a store called Cupcake Bliss off Cheek Sparger in Bedford if you guys live in the Dallas-Fort Worth area and want to check them out! :D

Talk to you soon!

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- Posted using BlogPress from my iPhone

P.S. MAC's mac me over collection is releasing tomorrow! I'm very excited to pick up some more 226 brushes! ^_^
Anyone picking anything up from this collection? ;)

NOTW: Silver Sparkles

hello all!

I finally had a chance to paint my nails the other day because I had a day off from work. Because I have to constantly wash my hands at work my nail polish chips off so easily that I feel like it's a waste of time sometimes so then I get super lazy but I know it's not a waste because I love to paint my nails so I'm trying to get back in the habit! :)

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Short intermission from the Cheesecake Factory. If you're a facebook friend I'm sure you've seen my food pictures lol. We finally got to dress up together in a while so I really like this picture :) Plus it was daylight and surprisingly good for a iPhone picture! I did brighten it up a little bit on photoshop.

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I purchase a little set from Ulta which was an inspired by Serena Williams theme. (I think it was Serena. Just one of the Williams sister okay!) It was about $14 but I saw it on sale the other day for about $10 -____- SIGHH!

Servin' Up Sparkle | Your Royal Shine-ness


I applied the shiny silver color on first with only one coat since it was pretty opaque and I was going to layer it. I then used two coats of the glitter polish.


It was that pretty holographic sparkle to it :) ooh I love the glitter topcoat! I think the possiblities will be endless in the future xD



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Lastly, I leave you with my son! If you've been following my blog for over a year now you'll see how small he was. He's already got four teeth in and learned how to walk and say the dogs name... awwhhh :) ...and if you've been following for a long time you'll know it's my nephew ^_^

BUT I do look like his mother right?! Same skin tone, his hair goes to the same side, same nose, same mole on our arm in the same spot, and the same stupid thin top lip :P

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Sally Hansen Salon Effects Nail Strips Review

Happy February!! If you eat Subway, for the whole month of February all footlongs (excluding the Philly) are $5! ^_^ Just wanted to let you all know.. lol. Onto what this post is really about. I've recently purchased some nail enamel strips from my local Walmart! These babies cost me $8.50, from Walmart so I'd expect it to be more expensive elsewhere.

Actually, I was drunk at a New Years Eve party and this girl and I were taking shots of Jack Daniels. After the shot, I noticed her nails! I was like OMG, where did you get those done?! (She was wearing the lace ones I purchased.) She's like, I did them myself so of course I was like HUHH... Then she told me about the nail enamel strips and she got them at Walmart. Of course she was super intoxicated so it wasn't super easy to follow as I put it but since I've seen something similar to these on blogs I kinda figured out what she meant, lol.

Then when I was working the next week, this Walmart chick came in and she had a houndstooth design on her nails! I complimented her and she actually explained where she got it and what aisle they were in. I didn't know they were Sally Hansen brand and I didn't realize how small the packaging was (literally, it's a tiny little rectangular box) so when I went to go look I was like "oh no, they don't have them here!" Then Jon looks too, and he's like "ARE THESE IT?"... Then of course I got super excited because he found them for me LOL..

I forgot to take a picture of the stuff inside the box that I missed, but here they are just laid out.

You get:

• 2 packs of nail enamel stickers which includes 8 pieces in each one. (one pack for each hand)
• wood stick
• nail buffer
• instruction pamphlet

When you open the packages of the stickers, you get this overwhelming smell of nail polish. It disappears pretty quickly after opening though. The largest size was too big and the smallest size was too small but overall they all fit pretty well onto my nail bed. The curvatures and stuff where my nails start growing don't exactly line up 100% but they don't look bad either.

Here is an image of what they looked like at the end of day 1:

Left Hand (No Flash)

Left Hand (With Flash)

I didn't take pictures of both hands for the initial picture because I thought that would be redundant since obviously they're not going to be chipping just yet.

I did apply the nail enamel stickers to a 'just cleaned with nail polish remover' finger. I felt that the stickers would just lift up off my nails so I sealed it off with Seche Vite top coat and it definitely helped make it feel more secure.

I do use my nails/hands/fingers aggressively when I work. I spent two days washing sinkloads of dishes, and at my other job my nails are almost constantly wet and being bent. My jobs definitely help make my nails chip madd crazy and sometimes I end up biting on a nail or something.

Here's how they looked after a week and a half with vigorous work and school:

Right Hand (No Flash)

Right Hand (With Flash)

Left Hand (No Flash)

Left Hand (With Flash)

I don't think there was too much chipping besides the right middle finger but that's because I was biting it, lol. I did notice that I ended up applying it on my nail bed crooked on my left thumb once my nail started to grow out.

I'd definitely repurchase the Sally Hansen Salon Effects Nail Strips again because they're an instant perk me up for your nails without waiting for the dry time and blah, blah, blah! ^_^ Plus these last longer on my nails versus regular nail polish.

Hope you enjoyed my little review, I'll see you gals in the next post!

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NAILS, HAUL: GRADIENT ATTEMPT #1 + FABULOUS FELINES

HOLY CRAP! Its been almost two weeks! I was going to post last week but I got really busy and life got in the way... yeah :) but here I am now! I actually have another couple of posts planned so hopefully I'll have time to type it up! ^_^

I tried doing a gradient nail design the other day! :D I actually took this picture like 2-3 days later as you can see my nail is already growing out! :(

What do you think? I used all sephora by opi nail polishes. No clue on the names but if you really wanna know just ask and I'll look! lol

Here's all my MAC goodies I hauled from fabulous felines! I was really looking forward to this collection but it was sorta meh... I spent a lot only because I got the quad, pigments, and blushes! The eyeliners were AMAZING... but where in the hell would I wear colored eyeliner?!?! Well I mean I would, but how often would it occur? lol but anywho, I'll maybe go back for the black, purple, blue, silver, and gold.. we'll see :)

So here's the quad I got! It's the palace pedigreed quad I was loving the swatches on temptalia but I guess on my skintone and undertone they just don't work :( This is going back to mac and I'll probably exchange it for something in a newer collection ^_^ Smart ehh?

Above is utterly game mineralized blush. It's soooo pretty! Below is pet me mineralized blush. It's also gorgeous :P

I guess I just fell in love with blushes since I finally figured out how to apply them :P

The pigments I got were Lithe, Antique Green, and Bloodline. All were LE so I just went ahead and grabbed these first since the permanent ones will be there for a while.

Lithe is LOVE.... I love that color! Bloodline turned out looking better than I had anticipated. I'll post up my look I did with it later but for now just trust me :)

And these were from the Jin Soon Choi F/W '10 nail polish launch. I purchased Earthly Harmony and Jade Dragon. (that's what they're called right??) Both are gorgeous because one is muted which is how I like my nail polishes and the other one is like a tealish glitter inside :D BEAUTIFUL!!!

Well, that concludes my hauls for now.. I'm gonna post up my secret angel/devil by Friday because LINDA is so anxious to read it! I was so excited because no one told me I had mail so the next morning I was like WTF I GOTTA GO TO WORK! So I go eff this, I'm taking this to work with me LOL... man those guys at work were like... why the hell you taking pictures of makeup for?!?! xD

OKAY, goodnight everyone! I got some friends over now ^_^

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NAILS: MAC & ESSIE

Hii! :) Here's my post for today, just a quickie! I never got around to posting this up but here it is ^_^

Well, the one I never got to was a swatch of Essie - Mink Muffs. It was THE LAST one at Ulta and it was hidden somewhere so I seriously DIGGED and finally found it! haha ^_^ Sucks for whoever was trying to hide it though.. they should've done a better job lol.

(image taken after 1-2days of wear so it's a little scuffed lol)

It's a pretty muted color since before this I have been sporting some crazy colors! You probably can't get this anymore but if you do I highly recommend it! It's not like an ugly brown when you wear it because it's not too dark.. But the only thing that sucks about this nail color is when it starts to chip because it's super noticeable!

The next one is MAC - Studded. It's actually a matte color but the way I applied it didn't look too good since it dried too fast for me so I applied a top coat. I actually prefer the top coat! :D

(it's about 1.5-2 coats. I say 1.5 because it applied really shitty since it's a matte)

I'm actually wearing this polish as I'm typing this, I'll probably take it off in a few days because it looks so aluminum foil-esque for me. But we'll see how lazy I get because then it'll probably end up being on Monday night lol :) This is actually the only thing I bought from MAC's Riveting collection!

Okay! I actually gotta take real pictures tonight so I can post some things I've been wanting too.. laziness has gotten the best of me!

One more thing, I got an 84 on my Chemistry test today :( I'm really sad... because that's AFTER my extra points added on! I was pretty sure I only missed likeee.... 3-4 questions out of 20 but I guess I missed more? :/ oh well, I guess it's at least it's passing. (Passing in Chemistry is a 65)

Goodnight gals!

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