Sunday Sales!

Good morning! I have a few sales for you today, but before I get started I just want to let all of you know - I do not have the sales for Ulta this week :( . I can't find their ad anywhere, and I'm wondering if it has to do with President's Day... but if I end up finding it, I will definitely edit this post to include them!

Sadly, there isn't much going on in the world of nail polish sales this week. The sales below run from today through Saturday, February 23. 

Walgreens
Sinful Colors are $1 off (which means you pay 99 cents!)
Revlon Nail and Eye cosmetics are Buy One, Get One 50% Off

CVS
Revlon Eye, Lip, and Nail cosmetics are Buy One, Get One 50% Off
Nicole by OPI- buy 2, get $5 in Extrabucks rewards
Essie nail strips starting at $8

And I have a few reminders as well...
Maria of Cult Nails is still having a sale for having reached 10,000 Facebook followers! You can check out my post from yesterday to see some of her polishes. The sale is $8 per bottle, which is 30% off!

Also, this Saturday, February 23, Sally Beauty is having a Double Rewards Day! If you're a Beauty Club member and haven't used your 15% off coupon for February, you can bring it in on the 23rd and get 30% off your entire purchase! 

I apologize for the short post and having no nails to show you today, instead, please enjoy the following memes and ecards that I found on Google. :)

XOX 

Jess

Happy Valentine's Day!

Happy Valentine's Day everyone!

I am on the fence about the mani I'm showing you guys today :/ I tried a gradient for the first time, and I'm a bit eh about it.

Check out below the pics to see which polishes and stamping plates I used to get this look!

For the gradient:

Essie Bachelorette Bash and Color Club Pucci-Licious

Ring finger:

China Glaze Dance Baby and BM 323 plate using Zoya Izzy

All nails had a base coat of Sally Hansen Xtreme Wear White On, and I needed some sparkle, so I added a top coat of INM Northern Lights!

Thanks for checking out my Valentines look! If anyone has or knows of a really good gradient tutorial, please send it my way - I obviously need more practice!! 

XOX

Jess

Birthday Nails & Sunday Sales!

Hello hello! Hope everyone had a wonderful weekend! I spent it celebrating my 26th birthday! A very good friend took me out to see my favorite cover band last night, and we had an unbelievable time! Right now I'm in recovery mode, so I'll just show you my nails from last night and highlight a few of this week's sales!

Last weekend I went to TJ Maxx, because I read somewhere that you can sometimes find Sation polish there. Well, I found no Sation... but I lucked out and found this little beauty instead! I've been lemming this probably since I started collecting, and I am beyond thrilled that I finally found it! And to make the find even better, it only cost $7.99 for a two-pack of OPI colors!

Swimsuit... Nailed it! is one of the most beautiful blues I've ever seen! Glass flecks, foil-like finish... just perfect! I used two coats for my pics. The first one went on only a tiny bit streaky, and evened out on the second. I needed a little bling for my birthday, so I put one quick coat of Essie Set in Stones on my ring fingers. 

And now for Sunday Sales... 

Sally Beauty and Ulta's ads are still current from my last post here, I believe Ulta runs through the end of this week. As always, Sally Beauty's ads are monthly.

After searching through all the ads for this week, there really isn't anything noteworthy, just one sale at Walgreens. Wet n Wild nail color is only 99 cents! The photo in the ad shows a Wild Shine polish, so I'm not sure if this sale includes the Fast Dry and Mega Last lines also. However, no 'exclusions' are stated, so hopefully it does include the other two lines! I only have one Mega Last polish in my stash, and I'd really like to get all the others... :)

Even though we seem to have a lack of sales this week, we are getting something special: Zoya Ornate Collection! You can check out the colors on Zoya's website here. They are available for pre-order now, ship date is actually tomorrow, October 15. I'm not 100% sure if that means they will also be released to stores this week, but if I find that out I'll let you know. I am really looking forward to this collection... I may have to buy all of them!! Has anyone placed their pre-orders? Which colors do you need to have?

More Breast Cancer Awareness Nails!

Hello!! Sorry for the lack of posts this past week, I was running all over the place so much, I barely had time to sit at my computer! Anyway, I'll give you a couple posts today to make up for it. Sound fair? Do you still love me? :) :)

Last week I wore pink nails every day to show support for Breast Cancer Awareness. You saw one already, so here we go with the rest!

This was a very simple mani, and a great excuse to use one of my favorite polishes. I've posted this combo previously (you can check that out here) but I decided to do an accent nail of Orly Be Brave instead of all of them, to show off the beautiful base color, Orly Miss Conduct! The holo glitter in this is just... wow! My iPhone camera absolutely does not do this polish justice. This is 2 layers of Miss Conduct, which is part of the 2012 holiday collection. You can find Be Brave in stores now as part of the BCA display.

 This next mani was my least favorite for the week, and since I was in such a rush to leave for work, I couldn't fix it! For my base color I used China Glaze Naked, which is in their regular line, and also currently selling at Sally's as a combo pack with Seche Vite for BCA.  My stamping polish is China Glaze Awakening. Since I had heard that most of the Romantique collection was great for stamping, I picked up this one, and it DID work great - just not with the base color I chose. I used BM plate 324. Stamping fail :(

And last but certainly not least, my most favorite of the week! I ended up wearing this for two days because it was so pretty. My base color is Essie We're In It Together (from, you guessed it, their BCA collection). I used two very smooth coats for this pink perfection. The glitter on my accent nail is Milani Pink Flare, which is an amazing glitter you can find for less than $5 at any CVS. It has tiny bits of silver glitter and round holo glitter in a pink tinted base - definitely one of my favorite glitters.  This was a big hit at work - lots of compliments!

Do you have pink nails this month to support Breast Cancer Awareness? I'd love to see them! 

Sales!

As promised, here are the current sales! Not too much going on at your pharmacies, but both Ulta and Sally's ads are loaded with goodies!

Walgreens:
L'oreal cosmetics Buy One Get One 50% off

Rite Aid:
Wet N Wild Buy One Get One 50% off (earn $3 Up rewards when you spend $8)
Revlon Buy One Get One 50% off (earn $4 Up rewards when you spend $10)

Both Walgreens and Rite Aid sales run from 9/30 - 10/6/12.

Ulta (sales run from 9/30 -10/20/12):
OPI - Buy any 2 polishes, get a free top coat or base coat
Piggy Polish, Orly, and China Glaze are all Buy 2 get 1 free
Butter London polishes Buy 2 Get 1 Free 
Ulta nail color is 3 for $9
Revlon Buy One Get One 50% off
Nail Candy appliques Buy One Get One 50% off
Essie's Breast Cancer Awareness collection is out this month, $8 each

Donate in-store to the Breast Cancer Research Foundation:
$1 donation - enters you for a chance to win a beauty bag filled with $598 of goodies
$5 donation - pick either a water tumbler or a "kiss" tote bag
$10 donation - "kiss" umbrella

Sally Beauty (sales for the entire month of October)
Nina Ultra Pro polish $3.99
Finger Paints Pink Imagination or Model Colour polishes $3.99 each
Orly - any pink polish, $5.99
China Glaze - any pink polish, $4.99
Combo package of Seche Vite Top Coat, an unnamed pink China Glaze polish, with an angel key chain - $7.99
China Glaze 'Wicked' Hallween 2012 4 pack - $9.99 (check out this post for details)
Orly Flash Glam FX Halloween collection - $8.99 each 
Free Stripe Rite polish with the purchase of a Seche Vite Top Coat OR Base Coat
Trendy nail wraps - save $1
Nail Bliss Halloween appliques $6.99

Is that enough for you to empty your pockets this month!? 

Happy October!

My favorite month is here! Not only is October my birthday month, but it is also Breast Cancer Awareness Month - which means everything is PINK! So you can justify buying all the special pink products, because it's for a good cause!

I'm going to give you guys a quick look at today's mani, and then tonight I'll be back with my sales post. Usually I'll post those on Sunday, but I was waiting for Sally's October ad to be released today. Let me tell you how glad I am that I waited, there are some great deals in their ad this month! So you can check back later tonight for the sales. 

To show my support for breast cancer awareness, I'll be doing a full week of pink nails! 

First up this week is my awareness ribbon mani. Secretly, I think I bought the 2012 Bundle Monster stamping plates just to get this one stamp! I used two coats of China Glaze Dance Baby as my base (probably the most perfect pink ever). For the stamp, I used Essie Tour de Finance and the BM 321 plate. 

Hope you like! And don't forget to come back later to check out the awesome sales!

Just a Quickie!

Hi, happy weekend! I just wanted to give this quick post before I leave my house for the day. I'm off to the flea market!

I went for a low-key, neutral/nudie look. For my base coat I used China Glaze Dress Me Up (from the Hunger Games collection). The glitter layer is Essie A Cut Above. One coat of each!

Hope you enjoy!

Chrome-tastic!

Hi all! Short post today since I'm not feeling that great. I wanted to try out two polishes I picked up over the weekend, and the combination was chrome-tastic! 

Two coats of Sally Hansen Insta-Dri Gone Grey, and the accent nail is Essie Set in Stones from the Luxeffects collection. I've been looking for this Essie polish for about a month now, and I finally found it at Walmart!

This looked much better in person, and what you can't see in the pics is just how fantastic the accent nail looks! I got compliments all day at work. What do you guys think of the chrome-tasticness? (Yes, I make up words!)

Totally unrelated, check out this awesome No Doubt performance from this past weekend's iheartradio mega concert in Vegas!!! (No, I was not there, and this is a video I found on youtube)

Hard to Find OPI?

Hi all, happy hump day! :)

So the polish I have for you today I have been looking for since I started hoarding buying nail polish! Since I'm *new* to the game, I am not sure if this is hard to find everywhere, or just in my area. (Feedback would be helpful!) While walking around a mall I don't usually go to, I saw a huge OPI display at a hair/nail salon and, of course, had to check it out. This little gem was sitting on the very bottom shelf covered in dust! Therefore, it is my rescue polish! Ladies, I give you... The One That Got Away!

This is from the 2011 Katy Perry Collection. It went on flawlessly, two coats of shimmery raspberry perfection!  

For my accent nail, I used one coat of OPI In a Flirtationship.

So basically this is my new favorite polish! It is just incredibly beautiful and is actually a great fall color, so I will definitely be wearing this again soon! Also, for the record, I ADORE Katy Perry!!!!

Here is a little bonus picture, since I didn't have the chance to post yesterday. Essie Aruba Blue, two coats, with one layer of INM Northern Lights on the accent nail.

Sunday Sales!

Good afternoon! I'll be giving a rundown of this week's sales, but I must say I'm not very impressed by them. There is, however, a little something from Walgreens that I'll get into later.

CVS:
No sale prices this week, but you can earn Extra Bucks Rewards - 
Buy $10 of Milani cosmetics, earn $3 Extra Bucks
Buy $10 of Sally Hansen products, earn $3 Extra Bucks

Rite Aid:
L'oreal cosmetics are Buy One Get One 50% off
All NYC cosmetics are 40% off
Sally Hansen is Buy One Get One 50% off
Maybelline cosmetics are Buy One Get One 50% off (spend $15 or more, you'll earn $5 Up Rewards)
Revlon cosmetics are Buy One Get One 50% off (spend $10 or more, you'll earn $4 Up Rewards)

Target:
Essie nail polish is $7.79 (though I think this is the regular price for Target)
Also at Target and totally unrelated, apparently the FURBY is back!? Do you guys remember these little critters?

Sally Beauty and Ulta are still running their September sales. You can check those out at my original post here. Ulta's 21 Days of Beauty ends this week, so they will have a new ad out next week. I stopped by Ulta last week and they already had out some Halloween stuff, so you can expect to see that here soon!

And now for Walgreens... this week they are launching the Balance Rewards program. From what I understand it is very similar to the way CVS and Rite Aid's rewards programs work: the more you spend, the more points you earn, and you get coupons. 5,000 points will earn you a $5 reward; 10,000 points = $10; and so on, the most they list on the website right now is 40,000 points = $50 rewards. You can sign up in stores or at their website. They also have some sales:

Revlon cosmetics are Buy One Get One 50% off (spend $10 and earn 2,000 points; spend $15 and earn 3,000 points)

L'oreal cosmetics are Buy One Get One 50% off

Sally Hansen Salon Effects Nail Strips and "Select Nail Color" are Buy One Get One 50% off. (I'm a bit thrown by "select nail color," I guess we'll have to go to the store and see which are marked, but the ad shows the Magnetics polish)

That's all for sales, nothing too exciting this week! On a side note, I went to my local Sally's yesterday and asked if they had the new China Glaze Halloween collection yet, and she told me they are expecting to get it this week! I'm really excited for this, I saw some swatches over at ThePolishAholic and they look great!

L'Shana Tova to all my Jewish friends, have a very sweet and healthy new year!

**This is NOT my picture, I saw it on the Boston Herald website**

What Is It?!

Hello!!! I was so excited to do today's manicure! It's very simple, but means a lot! One of my favorite co-workers is pregnant, and today she went to the doctor to find out... is it a BOY or a GIRL?

I'm very annoyed I can't get this picture to flip!

For my pink polish I used Essie Pink-A-Boo (4 coats, it is VERY sheer), and the blue is Essie Bikini So Teeny (2 coats). Then I got playful and added little question marks on my blue nails!

Let me just say I love Pink-A-Boo, despite it being so sheer. I definitely recommend layering this over a white or light pink, so you don't have to use as many coats. This pink has a great shimmer that flashes pink and blue. Bikini So Teeny is great, two coats to perfection, and I got compliments on the color all day long.

That's all for today... and oh yeah, she is having a GIRL!!!