China Glaze Wicked Halloween 2012

I have a little bit of everything for you in this post!

I started off this weekend wanting to try something that I don't normally wear, so I went for grey. I decided to try out the new stuff I picked up from China Glaze's Halloween collection. 

I started off with two coats of Immortal. It's a really pretty grey, with some multicolored shimmer throughout. For whatever reason, I used another China Glaze, Tinsel Town, for my accent nail. Only I would use a Christmas glitter to accent a Halloween polish!

By the time I came home that afternoon, I decided to do some experimenting. First I layered Make a Spectacle over Immortal. The glitter reflects orange, green, and yellow, and to me it is very "Halloweenie." I tried to give you a few different shots so you can really see all the colors the glitter gives off.

Well... of course the experiments didn't end there. I wanted to try this bad boy over the other colors I had picked up from the Wicked collection too! 

Here is Make a Spectacle layered over (from index to ring finger)

Immortal, Roguish Red, Bizarre Blurple 

You can see how the glitter looks differently over each color! 

And because I couldn't leave this one out, here is Glitter Goblin layered over the same three colors.

I also have Ghoulish Glow, but couldn't get a good picture in the dark! The bottle was glowing like crazy, but my nails weren't :(

So, what do you guys think of China Glaze Wicked? Have you gotten any of them yet?

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!? 

Sunday Sales & Extra Goodies!

Hello all! Today I have for you a very long post with a whole bunch of wonderful, but let's start off with this weeks sales.

CVS:

SensatioNail Gel Polish Starter Kit, $44.99

SensatioNail Gel Polish, $9.99 each

Nicole by OPI, $7.99 (regular CVS price)

The sales flyer also says if you scan your ExtraCare card at the "Coupon Center" in the store, you will get an instant coupon for $4 off any $12 cosmetics purchase!

Walgreens:

Revlon cosmetics Buy One Get One 50% off

L'oreal cosmetics $5.99

*Remember, you have to have the new Balance Rewards card to get sale prices at Walgreens now! Sign up in stores or online!

Rite Aid:

Maybelline cosmetics Buy One Get One 50% off (get $5 UP rewards when you spend $15)

Buy any 3 Sinful Colors, Jesse's Girl, Julie G, or Wet N Wild polish, get $3 UP rewards 

And finally, Ulta has a new sales ad out!

Buy any 2 OPI polishes for $8.50 and get a FREE top or base coat

40% off all NYX and Revlon cosmetics

L'oreal Buy TWO Get One Free

Next up for today, I want to show you some of the goodies I picked up this past week! 

China Glaze Halloween 2012

(left to right)

Roguish Red, Glitter Goblin, Bizarre Blurple, Ghoulish Glow

I called every store I could think of to find these, and could only find this set, not the individual bottles. I still want to get Immortal and Make a Spectacle. Even though I already had the glow in the dark polish, and the reddish-orange one wasn't on my list, I HAD to buy this because it was only $8.99 at Sally's!!! I ended up giving my other Ghoulish Glow to a friend :)

OPI Pink of Hearts 2012 Breast Cancer Awareness Set

You Glitter Be Good to Me and I Think In Pink

From what I understand, I Think In Pink is part of the regular OPI line, but I didn't own it yet. SO when I saw this on one of my favorite beauty supply's Facebook page, I told them to save me a set! The glitter is really pretty, and goes really well with the pink. Even if it wasn't so pretty, I would've bought this anyway, since I always like to support breast cancer awareness. China Glaze and Essie also both have a pink collection out right now.

Wet N Wild Fantasy Makers RIP Collection

(left to right)

Glow in the Dark, Rest in Pieces, Nail in the Coffin, Once Upon a Time

I bought these for two reasons: 1) they were only $1.99 each and 2) uh hello! They are packaged as little tombstones!

Now here is what I have been most excited about... stamping! I was walking through a mall I don't usually go to when I spotted a kiosk that had nail stamping supplies. Thinking they'd be cheap ones, I went over anyway, since all I owned was the Salon Express Stamping Kit (which I had NO luck with whatsoever). To my surprise, it was a KONAD kiosk! Has anyone come across these before? I'd only ever seen Konad online, and even though they were a bit expensive, I went ahead and got myself a few. The plates cost $8 each (buy 3 get one free... so technically I paid $6 each!) and I also picked up the stamper/scraper since the cheapo one I had was just awful. I cannot believe how much easier it is to use the Konad stamper and I have been playing with it all weekend. Oh, and I also went a bit crazy and ordered two more sets of about 25 plates each online, one from Cheeky and one from Bundle Monster. I am officially hooked on stamping!

Here is my first mani with stamping, and it also happens to be my first attempt at a "jelly sandwich." 

Unfortunately the camera I have been using doesn't do this mani justice. It was very elegant and had a 'bridal' feel to it. As my base I used 3 coats of OPI Don't Touch My Tutu! then added one layer of OPI Pirouette My Whistle (I think I should have used two). I then topped it off with one more coat of DTMT. The stamp is from the Konad M40 plate, and I used Sally Hansen Xtreme Wear White On. 

For my first attempt at stamping, I thought this came out really pretty! There was definitely visible nail line, but I actually liked it because it looked like a French tip! And I definitely want to work on more jelly sandwich combinations, because the look is so much fun. Stay tuned for more stamping, my Cheeky plates should be arriving tomorrow or Tuesday! :) :)

Enjoy the rest of your weekend!

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**