I Love Nail Polish!

Good morning beautiful people!

Today I have two indie polishes to show you. I Love Nail Polish has been on Etsy since last summer, and I am super impressed with what they have to offer! Run by the beautiful Barbra, these glitter mixes are out of this world! 

For my first order from I Love Nail Polish, I picked up two polishes. Info on how to purchase at the end of the post!

Babes in Toyland and Strawberry Creme

They come in the most adorable packaging too! 

Babes in Toyland

I wanted to show the versatility of this glitter, so I layered it over a few different colors here.

One coat over (left to right)

Wet N Wild Black Creme

Orly Au Champagne

OPI OPI... Eurso Euro

Nicole by OPI Alex By the Books

Nicole by OPI Stand By My Manny

Babes in Toyland bottle shot!

This awesome glitter has magenta circles, teal squares, purple, gold, and green hexes, and tiny little magenta, teal, and gold hexes.

And here's a super close-up shot:

Strawberry Creme

Strawberry Creme is to die for. All different shades of pink circle glitter with tiny pink glitter in a milky white base - this is so so so beautiful! A jelly sandwich in a bottle! I got so many compliments when I wore this to work! I LOVE THIS POLISH!

You can find I Love Nail Polish on Etsy here for $10 each. This was my first Etsy purchase and I am a fully satisfied customer! I already have a few other of Barbra's amazing creations in mind for my next purchase!

Have a great day!

XOX

Jess

Blue Jelly Sandwich!

Hello hello!

It is a dreary, rainy, ugly kind of Monday. So I spiced it up a bit with a jelly sandwich! I haven't really perfected this technique yet, but it came out pretty cool looking anyway!

The jelly I used is China Glaze Ride the Waves. My glitter is Nails Inc Royal Arcade.

My layering went like this: jelly-jelly-glitter-jelly-glitter-jelly-top coat-top coat.

I really like the look of a jelly sandwich, and mine came out okay, even though you can't really tell from my pictures. 

By the way... Royal Arcade is a total glitterbomb and I love it! It's the only Nails Inc polish I own, because I find Sephora to be way overpriced in general, I only got it because I had a leftover giftcard. :)

One thing I did notice - I used Seche Vite topcoat, and the shrinkage happened SO fast! I finished my manicure around 9am, and by the time I got to work at 9:30, I was already noticing it. As I'm typing this post at 6:30pm, it looks like I've been wearing this polish for a week with extreme tipwear. I'm not sure if this is because of the jelly, or the glitter, or the combination of the two, but I'll have to try a different topcoat for my next sandwich.

Hope you like, see you tomorrow!

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!