Black Satin

Hello Glam Geeks!

For the past two weeks, I've been keeping my eye on some clearance nail polish at Target. I needed a black creme and there was a Rimmel black in the clearance bin, but it was only 30% off. That wasn't enough for me to buy it. Finally it went 50% off. I snatched it up! I've had it for a few days but finally got around to trying it today.

Black Satin is a gorgeous creme polish that applies beautifully. If you do it correctly, you could get perfect opaque shine in one coat. I did two. I even cleaned up my nails before photos this time.

This shine is brought to you without top coat. Oooh. Aahh. Or something. ;)

 

Decided to thrown some Matte Magic on this mani. Ooh la la.

By the way, I'm getting low on Seche Vite and I'm thinking of trying a new top coat. My obvious question for you, my glamorous geeks, is: What's your favorite, must have, to die for top coat?

Stay chic!

Kayla

Eyeliner and Nail Polish

Hi!!!

I've got quite a bit to fit in here today. So I'm just gonna get right into it! Remember back when I got my Hautelook Haul? I was extremely excited to use the Urban Decay liquid eyeliner in Gash, and I finally got around to it! A-ma-zing! Application was great and it looked fabulous!! My grandma even asked if it was available in brown! haha Love her! Take a look at the eyeliner:

It's a lovely metallic red liner. I didn't add any eyeshadow over it because it took away from its glory. (looked matte with shadow, I wanted it to pop!)

Alright! On to polish! I got these four polishes from Walgreen's and I was so excited because:

1. Sinful Colors was on sale for $1.59 and

2. Wet N Wild had new colors out! (only $1.99)

I knelt at the Sinful display forever trying to pick the colors I wanted. And then I walked away to think and look at the other displays and the sales lady told me to go back over there for more 'exotic' colors. She was really sweet and asked to see what I was picking out. I finally found 3 Sinful polishes and one Wet n Wild to buy. My total was only $6.94. I did a happy dance out to my car, well not really but I had to fight the urge. 

 

L-R: Nocturnal, What's Your Name, Let's Talk, Boom Boom

Here's a picture that's more true to color for Let's talk and Boom Boom:

I lied. Boom Boom is not that peachy looking. Its very bright. But that is exactly how Let's Talk looks. Gorgeous.

First up: Boom Boom.

 I love the name, except I want to add a Pow! at the end of it (Damn Black Eyed Peas!). It's a gorgeous pink creme that is vibrant and a great spring color. Actually, the sales lady picked it up and said, "Well that says Spring to me!" I laughed. She was great. Anyways, application was good, a little thin but easy to work with. Only two coats for full opaque.  This is without cleanup or a top coat. 

 

Indoors, flash, true to color

Let's Talk: When I saw this on the shelf I immediately thought of the H&M Fashionista swatches Michelle from Lacquerized posted not too long ago. I don't know if it's a dupe for it or not (It doesn't look like it has as much blue in it.) but until I can find out, Let's Talk is my Fashionista (Now that I look back at Michelle's post, Let's Talk is too purple, not enough blurple). A great purple shimmer that was easy to work with. I'm loving the Sinful formula! I'm in love with this polish. Two coats to perfection. Excuse the zoomed out picture, it was the only way to get an in focus, true to color photo.

Beautiful. Except for the smudge on my index. haha

Nocturnal: Another great name. I have been searching for the perfect dark blue polish with no shimmer. I have found it. It's a wonderful dark dark blue creme. Two coats to opaque. Easy to work with, not as thin as Boom Boom, definitely happy with the formula. This is part of the Wet N Wild Craze collection, the sign said it was the "trendy" colors. All the colors were beautiful but the choir started singing when I saw Nocturnal.

Almost black in the pictures. In real life you can tell that its blue. This was the best pic. Blah.

What's Your Name: The name cracks me up because when I saw it my thought was: Oooh what are you called? haha It's a stunning black jelly with teal micro glitter. In love with it in the bottle. On my nails, eh, well you can't really see the glitter. Two coats and it was opaque, but maybe if I had done more the glitter would have shown up more? Oh well. Happy with it though! Don't get me wrong, because in the right light that glitter comes out and GORGEOUS. haha I just wish it was that way all the time.

 

Caught a little bit of teal glitter on the middle nail. 

 

Can you see the hint of green? That's what the glitter does to it. 

That was my first Sinful Colors experience. I was impressed at the quality for such a great price! I will definitely purchase more! I'll also go back to the Wet n Wild display and grab more of the Craze polishes. Check them out guys!

Before I go, I want to thank Romika for featuring me on her blog!! Thanks so much, you're a sweetheart! If you haven't seen her blog, go check it out! She's great!

Kayla

P.S. 9 followers! Shut the front door! haha Amazing! Thanks guys!

Cute-icles!

Hey!!

So I normally have terrible cuticles. I moisturize daily but they still seem to be so dry and terrible to look at. I was reading a site the other week about getting nail polish off your cuticles and the skin around your nails. It said to paint your nails the night before and then in the shower (or after), take some Extra Virgin Olive Oil and an old toothbrush and scrub at the skin. Voila! The skin should be nail polish free!

Well, I tested this out today and let me say this: Free of nail polish? Ha! Nope! Very healthy looking/feeling cuticles? Hell Yeah!!! My cuticles have never looked so good! Ladies, if your cuticles are in need of some TLC, try this quick fix! I honestly scrubbed for 30 seconds on each hand and then washed with soap and water. I finished off by moisturizing as well. Just for added measure. But even before that they were fabulous!

Hope this helps someone! Oh, and the nail polish post will be up tomorrow!!!

Kayla

4 is my lucky number....

Hello!!!

Just a quick post to say OMG I've doubled my followers!!! haha I now have four! Exciting! Thanks for following, ladies! Also, I have a post coming up with four new polishes!!! Yes, I splurged. But I didn't spend more than $7 dollars in total! Gotta love Walgreens! I'll have that up later this week. Or if I find time tonight, later tonight! I've got a busy night: I'm dyeing my hair and I have a meeting to go to. I will try and squeeze some swatches in for my four faithful followers! Alliteration! yay! haha

Kayla

Green with Envy No More!

   Ever since I first saw a swatch for a mint green polish I was in love. I needed that color. However, every time I went to any website to search for one they were always out of stock. I have yet to purchase one.  I still ooh and ahh at every beautiful mint green swatch, but I have satisfied my lemming.

   Remember back if you can, or manually look back, to my post about frankens. I had made a nice soft green polish and quickly swatched it with the other frankens. It was then stashed away and forgotten for a few weeks. Last night I decided to use it, and I'm so glad I did. While it is not a true mint green, it's close enough for me to be extremely happy with it. I would call it a light jade green.

 

 No flash, poor lighting

  

No Flash, better lighting

 

Flash, better lighting

Natural Light

My poor nails had to be cut down really far because of how weak they were. It's weird being able to see the tops of my fingers above my nails. It was for the best and hopefully they will grow healthier and I'll be happier!

I'm a winner!!

Yay!!! I won a contest! Brooke over at Babbling Brooke drew my name for the second place prize! I'm so excited!! Thanks so much, Brooke!!! I never have good luck with contests. For instance, senior year of high school at the after grad party they did drawings for prizes, and some of it was really cool, but what did I win?

Socks and a scented candle.

And not even a great smelling scented candle. It gave me an instant migraine, so I gave it to a friend. I still have the socks though. Mostly because they have sheep on them. Tres chic! They're really warm too! I do love them, it just took me awhile to warm up to the idea of winning socks, especially since other people were winning money and other really cool stuff that I can't remember because now I have really cool socks! :)

You wanna see my socks? Do ya? OK!

 

  

Oh yeah, those are some sexy socks.  haha wow.

Earlier this week I did a really neat Spring manicure, and took some pictures of it...but they were all blurry!!! Argh! Very frustrating! I didn't notice until I was gonna post them and didn't have the mani anymore. I'm gonna post a pic anyways, its slightly blurry but I think you can see the concept.

Thumb: Sun    Index: Cloud     Middle: Flock of birds    Ring: Kite     Pinky: Rainbow

My other hand had grass, a leaf, a chicken, a bear, and a flower. It wasn't as good. If you want to know any of the polishes let me know. I don't remember them all right now.

Kayla

Help!

This is just a quick post to get out my frustration and to ask a few questions.

I've had some problems with my nail polish being easily peeled off of my nails. I've tried changing base coat and top coat but nothing seems to be helping. It wouldn't be so frustrating if it wasn't damaging my nails in the process. They're very weak as is (from acrylics I had last fall) and I don't want to damage them more.

Right now I'm using Orly ridgefiller as a base coat and Seche Vite as a top coat.

Does anyone know if either of these cause peeling (and when I say peeling I mean I can pail off the nail polish in one complete piece)?
Does the thickness of the coats applied make a difference? I know that I apply my top coat generously, but the base coat is thinner layers.

Please, if you have any insight, leave a comment! I'm desperate! Or leave me recommendations for better base/top coats! Thanks!