China Glaze swatches

Here are the swatches from my last China Glaze haul.

Pure Elegance: 3 coats. This color lasted 5 days with zero chips and almost no shrinking. Basically it looked at 5 days exactly how it looked when I first put it on.

For Audrey: 2 coats. Gorgeous cream color! I didn't think I'd like it so much but I love it. Unfortunately it started chipping the next day, I think because its so thick. Next time I'll add some thinner.

Blue Sparrow: 3 coats. Dark blue jelly with wanna be glitter. It dries matte so you need to wear a top coat with it. In this photo I did not because I was putting somethng else over it after taking pics. That said I LOVE this color. Normally I'm not into dark blues but this is great. Also I think its one of those colors that will leave your nails blue, and I know the glitter is going to be a wretch to take off.


I wanted to snaz For Audrey & Blue Sparrow up so I added some Pure Ice shimmer top coats over them. The first one is Oh Baby, not heartbreaker. I labled it wrong. The second photo is correctly labled though.

St. Patricks NOTD

Its a bit sheer even after 4 coats but its so BLINGY! Btw NYX has renamed it to Simple Sparkle or some crap like that. Idk what their deal is.

Sally Hansen n/p haul & swatches: Lime Lights, Violet Sparks, Mellow Yellow

Walgreens has SH nail stuff 40% off this week so I got these colors that I had been wanting. They are about $3 originally.

Lime Lights, 4 coats but it looks the same as 3. In most lighting its totally lime like you see on the middle of my nails.



Violet Sparks, 4 coats. The bubbles are my fault, not the np's.



Mellow Yellow, 3 coats. In the bottle it looks green but when you put it on its almost a banana yellow. Very pretty and smooth (when left over glitter in my SV doesn't mess it up *grumbles*)

Nail's Of The Day: Sinful Colors - Daddy's Girl (purple w/ gold flecks)

I loooove this color. Its a dark vibrant purple with gold/fucshia glitter flecks and a nice glassy finish. You can get this at Walgreens or Cherryculture.com for just $2.

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What, MORE nail polish? Yeah, 'cause I had coupons!

I have been on a huge nail polish binge the last few weeks. I think I've bought 23 new polishes since January. I'm totally slowing down though, because I don't need that many new colors. Right? Right! I mean, I'm just going to get a few more, because Sally's has the Chine Glaze $1 off coupons, and I think Clair's is having a BOGO 1/2 off sale or something, and I need a few of their glitters and stuff. But thats totally it for this month. I hope. Um, yeah...

So! I got all these for a whopping $6.59. I had a $5 coupon, and the $1 off China Glaze coupon, plus for the Sally Girl nail polishes Sally's has a B5G1F coupon. Plus I have the Sally's discount card which rocks. In total I saved $7.89!



This color is so gorgeous! I loooove it.
This is a really pretty purple but it took about 7 coats, lol.

Cherryculture Haul: NYX & Sinful Colors + NOTD

I got a really great package from CherryCulture yesterday!

I got some NYX round lip glosses. You know how they use to smell like lemon air freshener? Now they smell like SHERBERT ICE CREAM!!!! (not too strongly though) And they fixed the stopper so it doesn't come out.

All these colors are so gorgeous!


I got some more Sinful Colors nail polish. I am becoming obsessed with these. I am a little sad because on the CherryCulture website it said Hypnotizing Trend was called Katrina, and I wanted it because thats my name. The number on the sticker & CC is the same so I'm pretty sure its not a mistake which the actual color.


I couldn't wait to try out this color.

& here I put on a few of the NYX hearts

Nail's Of The Day: China Glaze Flying Dragon

I really thought this color was going to be amazing because in the bottle its a gorgeous purple with blue & fucshia glitter, but when I put it on I was not impressed. The glitter isn't really glitter in the sense that it doesn't reflect light or change color at all. Its just flat and you can't really see it unless you are upclose. Also without a top coat its not shiny at all. I think with some other sparkly color layered over it it could be great, but I think with a brand like China Glaze you shouldn't have to resort to that.

In this photo you can see the glitter but its not this impressive in person.



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Nail Polish Haul: China Glaze, Sinful Colors, Pure Ice, Sally GIrl

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New cute dress & NOTD

I found this cute dress at Rainbow for $17. It inspired me to do the nail combo below.




Milani Cool Vibe with Sinful Colors UFO over

Nail polish haul & Nail Of The Day

My newest addiction right now is nail polish. I don't know how long its going to last so I'm trying not to go crazy and buy 38267922 bottles that I will probably go months without using. I don't want to be one of those people who has 200+ colors (says the girl with over 100 eye shadows). Today I got 3 colors and 3 of those super thin brush polishes that you use for artsy designs.

I also got a new top coat a few days ago. My old Sally Hansen one was getting a little thick and I think it was giving me bubbles (those annoying bumps that ruin your mani's). So I did some research and the Seche Vite Dry Fast Top Coat had a good rep. This is $8 at Sally's. I wish I'd gotten the Sally membership cause then it would have been only $5. Oh well, next time.




UFO

Daddy's Girl

Whats Your Name (black with blue sparkles)


Seche Vite


And my current mani, ELF Berry Pink (my fave pink)