ANOTHER GIVE AWAY UPDATE!!

Hey y'all Safira from Love Makeup is having a SECOND GIVE AWAY?!


This pallet is amazing so go quick!

TRAVEL AND CUTENESS

I'M LEAVING tonight for NY to visit my family. I'm so excited! I haven't seen most of my family in over five years. I have pictures of all my must have beautifiers for when you travel but they didn't turn out well... so I'll post them when I get to my granma's.

IN THE MEAN TIME check out my cute travel mani I did last night at work :D

 I used Sally Hansen's Insta-Dry in Blue Me Away which is my new favourite color. And the heart I did in Essie's Aruba Blue using a bent artist's brush. I topped this with Seche Vite which I haven't had the best of luck with, but Donna did point out that I globbed that shit on so... We'll see how long this lasts! It's already lasted me through a few hours of work, packing and shopping.

What other sorts of nail art are you guys interested in?

UPDATE

SO I HAVEN'T posted in a while because I got hit by a drunk driver on my way home from work. I'm okay, just angry and my car is broken. The last 3 weeks have been devoted to getting my life back in order and getting a new car (since mine was totaled).

SOOOO new posts should be here in a bit, I'm going on vacation to see my family in upstate NY, so expect a travel post! I promise I'll have a real post coming up here soon.

HEY YOU GUYS!

I'M A SUPER SHITTY BLOGGER, but in my defense, I haven't had my camera for a week and then I went to Portland after that. 

BUT I HAVE SOME AWESOME NEWS! Safira of  lovemakeup-safira.blogspot.com is having a giveaway here http://lovemakeup-safira.blogspot.com/2011/05/my-fisrt-giveaway-enter-now.html?showComment=1307081147135#c4251280593104969525 

CHECK IT OUT - it's got some REALLY great stuff in there! 

GO LOOK

SUPER PROUD

I HAVE A couple different projects in the works right now - including a makeup bag and matching brush bag, an apron, and several posts. But my mother in law has my camera right now so I haven't been able to do my pictures.

MY BFF DONNA from meangirlmakeup.blogspot.com who has AMAZING taste in all things fashion took a picture of my latest nail art for me with her phone. They might not be the best quality, but the pictures get the cute across! THANKS DONNA!

I used Rimmel's Grey Matter for the background (MY FAVOURITE COLOR!), Art Deco in black for the branches, Esse's Blanc for the petals and Wet n' Wild's Club Havana for the centers

I absolutely love how cute they are. I showed Donna because I was so happy with the way they turned out and she insisted on taking pictures. 

MORE TO COME : my ELF loves, 5 nail polishes you should get, and more cute designs!

ELF - Y U DISAPPOINT?

MY BFF D and I decided to go in together for an ELF haul. I bought nine things and I hate six of them.

This is my original order - so happy. Approximately $15 of stuff (on sale + shipping)

This is what I actually like. Approximately $7 of stuff.

ELF's Seductive Lipstick

The lipstick is SUPER THIN and not very pigmented. It reminded me of the shitty little lipsticks my mom would buy me when I was too young for makeup. I know that ELF isn't top of the line, but I was really hoping for better than this. And the color is NOTHING like the swatch - it's MUCH pinker and not a good color in anyway.

Single pressed shadow - Butter Cream. Mine just happened to be smashed to shit. 

The color is REALLY hard to see. It reminds me more of shitty powder concealer than a shadow. The bottom swatch (which starts near my index knuckle) has primer.

Top swatches were done with primer.
Swatch A is the Professional Studio Pigment Eyeshadow in Passionate Purple; it doesn't look so bad with the primer but it also was SUPER THICK. Swatch B is the Professional Studio single eyeshadow in Amethyst. It looks more brown than purple even with the primer. and definitely NOT like the product shown on the website.

I STOLE THIS FROM ELF.COM

Nail polish :( The top swatch is their Mint Cream - which looks really nice in this picture but on my nails got all streaky and the color broke up, even with multiple coats it looked AWFUL. Same story with the bottom swatch of  "Party Purple".

I don't think I'm going to be ordering anything from ELF anymore - the savings would be worth it if the quality were better, but these are worse than the similarly priced drugstore polishes and shadows. I think I'm going to stick to trolling for deals online and at local stores.

Night and Day

MY FIANCÉE and I were fighting over spending time together - he wanted to game, I wanted to do some artwork with him and watch a movie. This ended in Boy declaring he was going to design and paint my nails. He called for paper saying that "true art needed to be planned out", and then changed his mind. He picked out Essie's Aruba Blue and Sinful Colors' Patrika and got to work on my left hand.

He was super serious. And didn't really know how to ply polish - 

but did his best. SUPER THICK COATS.

Using my *new* dotting tool to make his little suns.

SINCE BOY did a day theme on my right hand, I did a night them on the left. I used Wet n Wild's Morbid for the base coat, Rimmel's Grey Matter and Essie's Blanca for the moon with Wet n Wild's Kaledoscope for the mini stars in the sky. My fingers weren't as nicely done, but I used the paint brush end of my dotting tool with Wet n Wild's Silvivor.

THESE ARE THE FINAL RESULTS.

BOY'S SUNS. Very textured.

UBER TEXTURED.

Boy made me promise to leave my left hand as it was. Which will be super interesting. I'm really anal when it comes to my nail polish. If it's chipped, smudges, too bumpy, ruined in any way, I HAVE TO REMOVE IT ALL. We'll see how long I can keep this style until I lose my damn mind.

 My thumbnail - Moon with starry sky. Apologies for my shitty camera. Also, my nail polish technique could be bested by most 5 year olds. ALL OVER MY FINGERS. But I'm too damn lazy to clean it up with polish remover and Q-Tips, so I usually just let it be and when I shower usually it cleans up.

My other fingers - not very good - I think if I do something like this again, I'll just do a coat of the Kaledoscope instead of shitty stars/comets.

It was a really fun thing to do together and I hope we do it again, and maybe next time Boy will use less polish.