Claire's & Pure Ice nail polish swatches

These are some of my favorite colors. I love them all. You can get Pure Ice at Wal-Mart for $2.00. Claire's nail polish is $4.00-$4.50 depending on the color, and they are usually BOGO 1/2 off.

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Vineyard - 3 coats



Splash - 3 coats


Scandal - 2 coats


WnW Black Cream + Pure Ice Cheatin - 2 coats each



Scandal + 1 coat Busted



Yei - 3 coats



Periwinkle - 3 coats



Meg Peg - 3 coats (even brighter in person)



Magic - 3 coats

Review: NYX Round Lip Gloss (with swatches)

NYX girls new lip gloss. 36 pretty new shades to highlight that sexy pucker of yours. Feels silky smooth, long lasting, and the color in the bottle is the color on.

Quality: 5 out of 5
Packaging: 5 out of 5
Price: $3.00 - $2.00
Size: 0.085 oz
Where To Buy: nyxcosmetics.com / cherryculture.com / shopcraze.com
Would I Buy Again: Absolutely!

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I'll keep it short and sweet. These are the best lip glosses I've even tried. Not only are they a great price, but they have a great texture & pigmentation, are long lasting, and have a good smell/taste.

Note: these were reformulated a few months ago to fix the packaging and change the smell from lemon to sherbet.

PROS:
-most are very pigmented, the sheerer ones are layer-able
-very affordable
-wonderful texture, not too thin or thick
-long lasting
-good range of colors and finishes
-cute packaging
-smells good, like sherbet ice cream
-not sticky
-some have lots of shimmer, some have none, there is something for everyone

CONS:
-if you don't like the smell of sherbet ice cream you may not like the these


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Cafe Latte, Pinky Natural, Pink, Soap Opera Queen






INGREDIENTS:
Microcrystalline Wax, Polyisobutene, Vitamin E, Silane, Minteral Oil, 2-ethylhexyl Palmitate, Gelled Hydrocarbons, Propylparaben, Methylparaben, Fragrance. MAY CONTAIN: Mica, Titanium Dioxide/Ci77891, D$c Red No.6 Ba Lake/Ci15850:2, D&cRed No.27Al Lake/Ci45410:2, Iron Oxide Red/Ci77491, Iron Oxide Black/Ci77499, D&c Red 7 Ca. Lake/Ci15850:1, Iron Oxide Yellow/Ci77492, Fd&c Blue No.1 Al Lake/Ci42090:2

NYX Haul!

Today I got my haul from CherryCulture.com's 50% off NYX sale (still going on until the 15th of May). I love everything! I will post better pictures and swatches of most of this this weekend.


L-R: Golden Pink, Strawberry, Apricot, Sparkle; NYX glitter Disco Ball

e/s trio: Aloha/Mink Brown/Bronze (lovelovelovelovelovelove!)

NYX Girls: Candy Glitter, Hot Pink Glitter, Aqua Glitter, Disco Ball, Show Girl & Juilet

the glitter swatches

Small Fyrinnae haul: new primer and eyeliners

Fyrinnae has a new gel primer and they finally have their liquid eyeliners, which I have been wanting to try for ages but didn't want to spend $10 on and chance not liking, in a sample size. Primer sample is $1, eyeliner samples are $3. I will do a in-depth review of each item next week. For now here are pictures and swatches.

The sample liners are a bit smaller then my pinkie finger, 2ml. The full size are 10 ml.
The brush, while very small works great, in fact I'd say the short bristles help you have more control of placement.



You Want Me: purple with blue flashTurquoise Tease: shiny tealFlattery: neutral reflective brown, great great color!

Claire's nail polish haul

Aren't they preeeeeeeetty? It was so hard to choose just these four. I'm not going to have swatches until the middle of next week. I just cut down my nails because one broke down to the skin, so I'm a little ashamed of them. When they grow out in a couple days I'll take pics.

Marine Blue (this is a lot more neon then the photo shows)
Meg Peg (little bit more purple then fucshia)
Magic (10x more magical in person)
Periwinkle (prettier then it looks here)
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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.

NYX Chrome Pigment Swatches

Here are the 9 colors I have: Queen, Yellow, Apricot, Sunny Day, Red, Violet, Fuschia, Bayou, Lagoon.

China Glaze & NYX np haul

For the entire month Sally's Beauty Supply store is having Buy 2 Get 1 Free on ALL nail polish brands, so I had to rush there this morning and pick out some pretties. I may go back at another time to get some other colors. Swatches to come soon.



I picked these up last weekend. South Sea & Mango Cafe. SS is GORGEOUS! Its a pearly pool blue with purple tones. MC is not as fab as I'd expected, but its still pretty.

China Glaze ~ Summer Days & Bahama Blues

Bahama Blues: I only got these 3 colors because I'm not into dark blues, and Bahamian Escape, Caribbean Blue, and Blue Island Iced Tea are the prettiest.

Bahamian Escape and Caribbean Blue are bit difficult to apply. They go on too thick and you have to wait for each layer to dry a good bit before applying a second coat, or else the first coat will smear. I don't know if this can be fixed by adding a few drops of thinner, but as soon as my Sally's has their thinner back in stock I'll pick some up and try it. Blue Island Iced Tea is very thin and you need 3 to 4 coats but its easy to apply.






Summer Days: I love these colors! Its a great summer collection. Watermelon Rind is a bit sheer and needs 3 coats but its gorgeous and has a little bit of a metallic shimmer in the sun light. Strawberry Fields is a pink with gold shimmer, its a great color but I wish the pink was a bit more vivid. Raspberry Festival is a hot red with pink and red shimmer, you also have to let each layer dry before applying each coat.






You can get these at:

transdesign.com - $2.60
head2toebeauty.com $3.00
8ty8beauty.com $2.68