St. Patrick's Nails & Sunday Sales!

Happy St. Patrick's Day to all my fellow Irish folk! 

I'm finally recovered from having the flu, so back to regular posting! I have a lot of great things coming up that I'm really excited about, but unfortunately I've had to abandon the 31 day challenge from being sick for so long. I'll try to pick that up again sometime in the future!

Today I'm going to show you my green mani I wore this weekend, and a few sales at the end of the post!

Base color: Zoya Neely (2 coats)

Accent nail: China Glaze Grafitti Glitter 

Stamping polish: Sally Hansen Insta-Dri Jumpin' Jade

Stamping plate: Konad m22

Rhinestones from Cheeky

And onto the few sales for this week! They run from today through Saturday, March 23.

Walgreens

Select Wet N Wild cosmetics, 99 cents

Cover Girl cosmetics Buy One, Get One 50% off

CVS

L'oreal cosmetics: spend $12, get $4 ExtraBucks

Sally Hansen products: spend $10, get $5 ExtraBucks

Rite Aid

Revlon cosmetics Buy One, Get One 50% off

Ulta

OPI Disney's Oz The Great and Powerful collection: $9 each

Ulta nail polish, 2 for $4

Hope everyone has a good rest of the weekend! Enjoy some pics from my family's St. Patty's party yesterday! :)

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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

First Water Marbling Attempt!

What's up party people! 

Today I have a nail-of-the-day look that includes my first attempt at water marbling! Let me tell you, it may seem like a pretty simple technique, but it's really hard to get the swirls just right, and to do it fast enough so the polish doesn't dry on the water! I absolutely need to practice this more, because I really love the look it creates.

I only did the water marbling on my accent nails because I started to get frustrated! First pic is my left hand, second is the right:

The polishes I used were: China Glaze Turned Up Turquoise, China Glaze Deviantly Daring, and Wet N Wild Megalast Break the Ice. 

After doing these two, I realized I would never get through a full ten fingers, so I pulled out one of my favorite Orly's, Go Deeper, which matched really well!

Index and pinkie fingers: 

1 coat Sally Hansen Xtreme Wear White On

1 coat Wet N Wild Megalast Break the Ice

2 coats Orly Go Deeper

Middle finger:

1 coat China Glaze Deviantly Daring

(original I had used Turned Up Turquoise as a base with Deviantly Daring as a stamp, it didn't come out the way I was hoping, so I just went over the whole nail with Deviantly Daring instead!)

After everything was dry I sealed it with a coat of Gelous, which gives a nice thick protective layer to your mani. (You can find it at Sally Beauty for around $5)

Hope you like my lame attempt at this technique! 

Before I go I just want to give you a little sneak peek at the nail mail I got yesterday! That's right... indies! Look for these babies soon here on the blog!

 See y'all tomorrow!
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

Color Club Halo Hues - Finally!!!

Sorry for the lack of posts recently, but this one today is well worth the wait! I finally got my pretty little hands on my first real holographic polishes... ladies, I give you my picks from the Color Club Halo Hues collection! And can I just say, for the record, I am obsessed!

(left to right)

Blue Heaven, Halo-Graphic, Harp On It

Blue Heaven

First up we have Blue Heaven. This is a really light blue, I was actually expecting it to be a bit darker. I wore this today for World Diabetes Day.

I used two coats of Blue Heaven for my pics. For my accent nail, I used Sally Hansen Insta-Dri Blazing Blue, and Cheeky stamping plate CH26. I only used topcoat on the nails with stamping, because I didn't even want to chance having the holo diminished in any way!

Halo-Graphic 

Halo-Graphic might be my favorite of the three I bought. It's so beautiful!!!! A nice shade of rose pink with uhhhhhmazing holo going on!!! I used three very thin coats for these pics, no topcoat.

 Harp On It

Harp On It is a classic silver holo. So incredibly pretty.

For the stamping in the last pic, I used Cheeky plate CH26, and Wet N Wild Black Creme. I really like the look of this polish with the stars :)

So what do you think? Do you already own some of these?

I bought my bottles on transdesign.com for $6.95 each(currently they are out of stock, but keep checking back!). I also noticed them for sale at a store in my mall called XSRE, for $9.95 each. These are more pricey than your average Color Club, but totally worth it in my opinion. 

Color Club has flown to the top of my favorite brands list with this collection! After seeing swatches of all 6 polishes around the interwebs, I think I may also have to pick up Angel Kiss, which is the turquoise-looking color in the collection. Or maybe I will just go ahead and get all 3 that I don't already have....

Sunday Sales!

Good morning everyone! Hope you remembered to turn your clocks back! Weird, I do not have a single clock in my bedroom that needed to be changed - all I have is my phone and laptop, and they change on their own! AH, technology!

Today I have some sales for this week. With the exception of Sally's, all the following sales run from today, Nov. 4, thru Saturday, Nov. 10. 

Rite Aid:
All Sally Hansen products are Buy One, Get One 50% Off.

Walgreens:
Select Wet N Wild cosmetics are $0.69!!!

CVS:
L'oreal cosmetics are Buy One, Get One 50% Off
Sally Hansen Xtreme Wear polish are 2 for $4
Milani cosmetics are Buy One, Get One 50% Off
Cover Girl cosmetics are Buy One, Get One 50% Off
Wet N Wild Spoiled "Nail Pail" $6.99 (plus get $3 ExtraBucks with purchase) - in the ad this shows as a tin pail with some different polishes inside. Possible holiday gift?

Ulta:
All Ulta cosmetics are Buy 3, Get 3 Free : mix and match!
OPI Skyfall collection, $8.50 each. Mini 4 packs are $12.50
OPI "Let's Paint the Town" gift set: You Don't Know Jacques and Lincoln Park After Dark with toe separators, $14.95

Sally Beauty (sales are for month of November):
Free wristlet when you buy 3 Finger Paints polishes at $3.99 each
China Glaze "Puttin' On the Glitz" from the 2012 Holiday Joy Collection, 3 pack: includes Cranberry Splash, With Love, and Pizzazz - $8.99


Those are your sales for the week! I'm so excited it is finally November, this is truly the best time of the year. Keep an eye out in all stores for special holiday gift sets!

Enjoy your day!
XOX,
Jess

Zoya: STORM!

How appropriate!

Here is one of the polishes from the brand new Zoya Ornate Collection for winter/holiday 2012. I wore this out to my cousin Alison's sweet 16 party. Her color theme was black/white/neons, so I thought this worked well!

I love how this ended up! I used three very thin coats of Storm, then Seche Vite topcoat. For the cute little bows, I used Cheeky stamping plate CH24 and Sally Hansen Xtreme Wear White On. For some extra sparkle, two coats of INM Northern Lights (which is probably the most awesome topcoat ever!) and voila! 

Grandma Colors!

Some polishes just remind you of grandma!

I will say I really liked this manicure. And then at work, one of our female patients, who is about 90 years old, comments that my polish is so similar to hers.... and it was!!!!

The comfort came when a co-worker pointed out my color was much more frosty/metallic than grandma's, and my accent nail definitely made a difference. You can decide!

My base is Sinful Colors Dancing Nails. I used two coats here. It went on super easy and smooth. For my accent nail, I layered Sally Hansen Xtreme Wear Strobe Light. Yes, another holographic glitter! This one has a clear base with sparse light pink microglitter, and it is absolutely fabulous. I'm betting it would look great over almost any pink or red.

Can I just say for the record, I really really like Sinful Colors polishes. For the most part they have great formulas and the colors are pretty. And they are cheap as dirt!! Most of mine were bought during 99 cents sales at Walgreens. If you're looking for some standard, basic colors to build up your stash, try Sinful Colors! Regular price is $1.99, and they can be found at Walgreens and Rite Aid. 

New York Yankees Playoff Mani!

For those of you who know me personally, you know I am a HUGE Yankees fan! Since they made the playoffs (again!) I wanted to celebrate with a mani! I am really loving the way this turned out!

I used 5 different polishes for this look. 

For my index and ring fingers, I started off with 2 coats of Sally Hansen Xtreme Wear White On. Then I used China Glaze First Mate and Cheeky stamping plate CH6 for the pinstripes. I used the smallest dotting tool I have to draw on the NY, also using First Mate, then topped them both with a coat of Sinful Colors Queen of Beauty (silver glitter).

My middle finger is 3 coats of OPI Crown Me Already! which I am oh so totally in love with! I found it at TJ Maxx in a two-pack! 

For my pinkie and thumb, I used two coats of First Mate, and layered on top one coat of Ulta Indigo-Go Girl. 

Here is a shot of my right hand. I reversed the thumb/pinkie and middle fingers. And since I haven't yet mastered freehanding with my left hand, no NY on this hand!

In other awesome Yankees news, about six weeks ago I got an email from MLB.com saying I had won a free Yankee jersey from a Facebook contest I had entered! I sent back all my info, and never heard back. I thought it was a scam. And then when I got home from work today, there was a package from MLB waiting for me... and look what was inside!!

GO YANKEES!!!

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)

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**

Purple Polish Panic!

Hello again! Today's post is going to be a short one, but I need help because I have a very serious dilemma!

After going through my stash this weekend, I realized I'm suffering a very serious purple problem! The lack of them I own compared to other colors is shocking, and just embarrassing!

I really need some recommendations, and I am officially on the search for the perfect lavender. Please let me know what your favorites are!

An  awful past manicure, the only purple I can find a picture of right now.

I can't remember the name of the sparkles I layered over this Sally Hansen, but I think it was from the Wet N Wild Spoiled collection at CVS ($1.99). The Sally Hansen was bought at Five Below, 3 for $5! I got this along with the pink and blue HD polishes.

My sad little pile of purples, compared to....

All my pinks and reds!

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!

Welcome to Polish Problem!

Hi everyone!! Welcome to my brand new blog, Polish Problem! In honor of purchasing my 200th bottle of polish, I decided to enter the blogging world to chronicle my new journey and new love: NAIL POLISH!

I'm going to apologize in advance for my not-the-greatest-quality pictures, I've been saving a bunch on my phone to share with you all - but no worries, I'm working on getting an awesome new camera, so hold tight for super amazing macro shots!

You can expect daily updates from me, lots of pictures, and details on where I bought my stash! I love to challenge myself on where to find the cheapest prices, and I'll absolutely be sharing my steals with you! I'll also give a weekly review of sales from stores like Ulta, Sally Beauty, CVS, Walgreens, etc, so you always know where to find the best deal!

Stay tuned for what I hope to be a wild and exciting ride!

XOX,
Jess

Base is Sally Hansen Xtreme Wear "Pacific Blue", 

layered with Wet n Wild Spoiled "My Saturn Broke Down", and a Seche Vite top coat!