Showing posts with label drugstore. Show all posts
Showing posts with label drugstore. Show all posts

Sunday, March 31, 2013

NOTD: Easter Nails!♥

Hello Everyone!

I hope everyone is having a great Easter so far.
I've been dying to post this all day but once again i've been kind of busy, I was busy with Easter celebration, and also doing some yard work :p. Someone had to get rid of the 200 thousand pounds of leaves that completely cover the back yard making it look ugly. My puppy seemed to be amazed by the piles of leaves though. I thought I'd add a picture so I could introduce you guys to Rhea, my 14 mo pitbull.





I promise she was posing for this picture, haha she loves the camera as much as mommy loves taking pictures of her. haha she thought I was cleaning the yard just so she could have fun running and hoping around the leaves.

Okay enough rambling about my baby and getting on to the nails!!! I saw multiple cute nail art designs and I just couldn't wait to bring my idea to life.

Shade.

I was shopping for some Easter stuff and bought these cute purple marshmallow bunnies & chicks, they inspired me to do this look!! It was quite easy even though i'm sure these aren't that great.
Bear with me I am a beginner and this is my first year doing Easter nails!





Flash On.

All I used for this look was A nail art brush, A double ended dotting tool & a few polishes.
On my pointing finger I used Cinderella by Sinful Colors & added some white clouds with White on White by China Glaze.

For my middle finger I used Cotton Candy by Sinful Colors as well. For the eggs I used Polish Addict's Jellyfish 1 & Hard Candy's Gummy Green. The Scattered glitter on the background is Polish Addict's Dr. Franken.

On my ring finger I used Essie's First Date as a base & White on white by China Glaze. For the bunnies ears & nose I used Essie's Muchi Muchi.

Last but not least my pinky finger. I used Mellow Yellow by Sally Hansen & White on white for the rest. Orange acrylic paint was used to create the beak.

I really liked this look and thought it was pretty easy for noobz like me! hehe.

Hope you guys liked it & would love to see some feedback!

Keep coming back for more designs and IMPORTANT:
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Thanks for reading once again. Love Always, Polish Junkie♥


Tuesday, March 26, 2013

Rainbow Nails!

Hi guys!!


Today i'll be showing you guys a rainbow mani I did today :)







All I used was a dotting tool & a make up sponge.
The colors I used were Essie-Really Red, Maybelline-Orange Fix, Yellow acrylic paint, Maybelline-Tenacious Teal, Essie-Play Date, Sinful Colors-Cotton Candy.
I added China Glaze's Fairy Dust.

The Ombre was pretty easy to do and so were the dots you just have to be a little careful..

Hope you guys liked this & try it out.


Can't wait for some nail mail i'm waiting on for you guys to check out!
Later today I'll be posting swatches of two colors from China Glaze's Avant Garden Collection.

Wednesday, March 20, 2013

Mini Hard Candy Haul.~

Hello Guys!

Last night me and the bf went to Walmart to pick up some bubble wrap, and I was browsing through the make up isle, and saw that they had a display for the Candy Sprinkles Collection and I decided two pick two of these up to review for you guys!

Left to Right: Sweet tooth & Gummy green.

  First we will review Sweet Tooth.♥
Sweet tooth is a soft pastel blue crelly base with pastel microglitters.


This is the first Hard Candy polishes I've got and i'm so not disappointed of these. I'm glad I purchased them and that they're part of my collection now. 
For being only $4.00 these polishes are quite great! I've seen some girls' reviews about the Revlon polishes that are quite similar to this but just by looking at the bottle i'm not sure they're going to be good quality, and now that i'm running out of space everywhere to put my polishes in, I can't afford to buy stuff thats just going to be sitting there even though who am I kidding... i'm an addict! lol I tell myself I put all my polishes to use all the time.. (just my excuse to buy more) haha. So yeah got side tracked.
The formula is great for such cheap price! I though I'd have to layer many coats of top coat to get this to look decent but I was actually happy with the results by itself!


 
As for the glitter I am completely in love, the colors are so soft and perfect for spring!
We got pastel pink blue and white hexagonal micro glitters. I didn't have to fish for these at all, not dabbing application needed, just applied like regular non glitter polish.

Alrighty next up we have Gummy Green..

(Flash Shot)

 Gummy Green is a mint green crelly base with micro glitter.
This one really caught my attention the color reminded me of Mint Condition by The Hungry Asian.
I thought it looked really fun and pretty and also very suitable for the Spring!

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The application of this was super easy as well, I just brushed this on like regular polish.
I'm really happy I found this display at my local Walmart, I think I'll be going back tomorrow for some more of these. 
I liked the little smaller bottles as well, since I have such small space to keep all my polishes these save lots of space!



For the glitter we have micro hexagonal black and white glitter. I love it, I don't own another black & white glitter aside from Whirled Away by China Glaze (which I've never used).
I really like the fact that these glitters don't stick up at all. I don't usually use a top coat when i'm swatching multiple colors, or just swatching and removing my polish because its just a big waste :p

Alrighty guys that's it for today, I like the fact that i'm actually making myself write :)
Still hoping to get some feedback!

Have a wonderful night my polish addicts.
xo.
 
 

 

The search of the perfect Red Polish.♥

Hey guys!
It's been a while since i've been looking for the perfect red nail polish, and I certainly know I am not the only one that's been though this. Since I was little the only color of nail polish I really liked wearing was red, I was always into red polish.
Now that i am HUGELY obsessed with nail polish, I decided to put myself in the little quest of finding the Perfect shade of red nail polish.

Last week, I stopped by another walgreens to look for the new sinful colors collection that I still haven't come across to and I guess will have to end up buying online.
What I did find was a HUGE display of essie Polish, I usually get my drug store brand nail polish at CVS, but since I was already at this walgreens, might as well take a look, right?.

So I found this color that I thought would complete my search, It goes by the name of "Really Red" and it is made by Essie.

(Sun Shot)

One of the things that has tricked my eye when buying nail polishes is that sometimes I think a certain color looks like a really bright red in the bottle but when you wear it, it turns out to be a hideous bright orange mess.I personally don't wear orange polishes at all.

 Flash Shot
 
Okay, let's all just take a minute to appreciate this stunning gem. This Polish is the closest I can get to the red I picture in my head when I picture the perfect red.
Red nail polish will usually stain your nails and its a hassle to take off around your cuticles, but this polish was surprisingly not the same. It was really easy for me to remove this and it didn't even stain my nails, not even after not applying base coat prior to color.
Love the way it looks with the flash on. This color makes me feel classy and classic at the same time.
 
(Artificial Light Shot)

The formula of this polish is great, its definitely a red cream and its fully opaque in 3 coats ( what I applied on my nails) Two coats looks good as well but I could see a tiny bit through it so I decided to add the third one,it really does make a difference with this nail polish.


Hope you guys enjoyed this review.
Don't forget to follow. Goodnight lovelies!
XO.

Sunday, March 10, 2013

Sinful Colors - Savage

Hello polish junkies!

i'm super happy to say that i'm writing this post from my new laptop :D
All my previous posts were being written from a computer, and I felt like I didn't post as much as i would like to just becauseI get anxious from sitting down in the same spot for a while.
I wanted to ask my parents for a laptop so I could make my blogging experience a little better, but they refused since i've lost many many computers due to viruses, but my mom finally gave in and gifted me her brand new laptop :D okay enough with happy ranting and on to my post.

I went to walgreens in the search of the new "sugar rush" collection, but for the fourth time they were all out.
The staff at walgreens in the place I live are extremely disappointing me. They either have everything misplaced, no tags, refuse to help, or are just plain out of everything all the time.

So I couldn't get my paws on them quite yet, but I picked up a lovely color that I instantly fell in love with.
It goes by the name of Savage and its a really pretty blue-ish teal.


This gorgeous teal looks a little more tealish in real life than the picture, I looked up swatches of this color online and realized i'm not the only one having trouble capturing this beauty's true color.



I feel like this could very much be a summer color, but suits perfectly for the spring, or at least that's my opinion on it.
As you can see this beautiful color dries matte, but however it looks stunning with a shiny top coat as well.


The formula of this polish was amazing, reached full coverage with one coat, however for the swatches I tend to put two coats, so the picture was with two coats on.

I really like Sinful Color polishes for the fact that they are really good quality for how cheap they are!

Now that I have a laptop i'll definitely will be trying to write a little more often and keep showing you guys awesome polishes i come across.

once again thanks for reading me.

Love-polish junkie. <3