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

Sunday Sales!

Hello all! The weekend is almost over, but at least there are some good things to watch on tv tonight - who is excited about the Grammy's!? I can't wait to watch the pre-show, just to see what everyone is wearing, especially since they sent out that list of what you cannot wear tonight! It should be very interesting! (Although I may have to cut away from the actual awards show to watch Downton Abbey!)

Today I am bringing back Sunday Sales! Every Sunday I scour the ads of the big pharmacies and beauty stores to find some good deals for you! 

Source: Google images

All of the sale prices below run from today through Saturday, February 16 (except for Sally Beauty, which runs the entire month).

CVS
Wet N Wild Spoiled: 2 for $3 
All NYC cosmetics are Buy One, Get One 50% Off
Sally Hansen Complete Salon Manicure polishes are $5.99 each
All Milani cosmetics are Buy One, Get One 50% Off
All L'oreal cosmetics: Spend $12, and earn $4 Extrabucks rewards

Rite Aid
All Revlon cosmetics are 40% off
Wet N Wild cosmetics are 40% off
Sinful Colors polish: Buy 3 and earn $3 UP rewards
Jesse's Girl cosmetics are Buy One, Get One 50% Off

Walgreens
Wet N Wild Fergie collection: 2 for $5
Revlon - select color polishes are $3.99 each
Sally Hansen Crackle and Gem Crush polishes: 2 for $10

Ulta
Butter London Sweetie Shop Spring 2013 Collection: $15 each
Revlon Nail Art Duos are $5.99 each
Nicole by OPI polishes are $6.99
Sally Hansen Magnetic polishes and Salon Effects Nail Strips are $8.99 each
OPI Mariah Carey collection: $9 each
China Glaze Cirque du Solei collection: $7.50 each
Ulta Romantic Notions 4pc. mini polish set: $8
*Don't forget to print your coupon! $3.50 off a $10 purchase!

Sally Beauty
Orly polish: 2 for $11
China Glaze: save $1 on each polish (entire stock)
Finger Paints: free color polish with purchase of top coat
Nail Tek treatments: save $5 on 3
Cina Nail Art pens: Buy 2, Get 1 Free
Seche Vite: Free base coat with purchase of top coat
Buy a 2.5oz Beauty Secrets nail treatment, get a .625oz for free
**I also received an e-mail from Sally's this morning stating that through February 18, you get a free Orly polish with any $3 purchase! (Limit 1 per customer)


And there are your sales! Anything in particular you will be running out for? I know I will be stopping by a few of these places today! My favorite quick-drying top coat is NYC Grand Central Station, so I will definitely be stocking up on those at CVS, and I'm on the hunt for a few Revlon's and a particular Jesse's Girl polish, so Walgreens and Rite Aid are in my future as well! (If you'd like to see what other polishes I'm after, you can check out my wishlist on Pinterest!)

Hope you all had a great weekend, I will be back tomorrow with a few of my picks from OPI's new Euro Central Collection!

XOX
Jess

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!? 

My First "Dotticure!"

Hi there! I finally got the chance to mess around with my new dotting tools, and I'm so happy I bought them! They were so much easier to use than I was anticipating. I'm really happy with the results, so I give you my first dotticure!!

These are the tools I used. I bought them at a local beauty supply for less than $4, I believe the brand is Debra Lynn. I've also seen them for sale online for about the same price.

And finally, here are the colors I used. Far left is my base, the rest for dots.

(left to right)

Revlon Charming, Sinful Colors Purple Diamond, China Glaze Coconut Kiss, 

Zoya Suri, Sinful Colors Let's Talk

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**

Sunday Sales Day!

Good morning! Happy Grandparents Day, haha! Today's post will be short since I have to go visit my lovely grandparents. You can see a funny picture of them at the end of the post :)

Here are your sales for this week, they run from Sunday 9/9 thru Saturday 9/15. 

Walgreens:
Revlon Buy One Get One 50% off
Maybelline Buy One Get One 50% off
Wet N Wild Megalast OR Fast Dry $1.49

CVS:
NYC Buy One Get One 50% off

Rite Aid:
Maybelline Buy One Get One 50% off

And don't forget, Ulta's sales that I had up last week are still running - tomorrow, Monday 9/10, is the one day only Butter London Buy One Get One Free sale!

Sally Beauty's sale is for the entire month of September - you can check out the sales flyer at their website sallybeauty.com.


Today's manicure is Zoya Fei Fei. I really like this color, it has the greatest multicolor shimmer in the right light! Not quite gray, not quite blue, its the perfect mix. I used three coats here - two seemed just a bit too sheer for me. I decided I also needed an accent nail, so I used Hollywood Walk of Fame from Wet N Wild's Fergie collection. This is a very difficult polish to use, the first few brush strokes I didn't get a single star on my nail! The stars definitely need to be placed (carefully!) and they do not lay completely flat. But, they are fun and cute, so it was worth the time. Good thing I only did an accent nail instead of all 10!

And here are my wonderful grandparents! They had absolutely no idea I was taking pictures of them - I flipped around the camera in my iPhone, and just kept taking pics as they checked out my phone. They're the best!

Have a good rest of the weekend! If you're fortunate enough to live near your grandparents, go give them a big hug today!

SALES!

Bonus Post!

As promised, I'll be giving you periodic updates on sales for national stores! This week I have deals from CVS, Walgreens, Rite Aid, Sally Beauty, and Ulta!

CVS:

All Sally Hansen nail polishes are Buy One Get One 50% off!

Walgreens:

Maybelline and Revlon polishes are Buy One Get One 50% off!

Sinful Colors polishes are only $0.99! (regular price $1.99)

Rite Aid:

Maybelline polishes are Buy One Get One 50% off!

The above sales run from Sunday 9/2 thru Saturday 9/8. You can view the full sale flyers on the stores' websites, cvs.com, walgreens.com, and riteaid.com.

Sally Beauty - sale prices valid for the entire month of September! Visit sallybeauty.com for the full sale flyer!

Stripe Rite 2 for $7

Save $1 when you buy 2 Nina Ultra Pro polishes

$2.49 for any Beauty Secrets Nail Treatments

Free Seche Basecoat with purchase of Seche Vite Topcoat!

$1.79 for 8oz. bottle of Beauty Secrets Nourishing Acetone or Pure Acetone

Entire stock of Orly (excluding Flash Glam FX collection) are 2 for $12 !

Save $1 on all Orly nail treatments

And now for the mothership, Ulta! In September they are running the "21 Days of Beauty" sales and in-store events. Each day from 9/2 - 9/22 a different product will be featured for sale, and depending on your location, a different event! For full details check out ulta.com. 

On Monday 9/10, Butter London polishes will be Buy One Get One Free!!!! (I cannot begin to tell you how excited I am by this!)

Other sales for the month:

L'oreal and Sally Hansen are Buy One Get One 50% off

Nicole by OPI texture polishes are 2 for $10

Ulta Nail Color are $2! (regular price $5-$6)

HAPPY SHOPPING!