O.P.I. Unripened

OPI Unripened is part of the Go goth set that come in minis for Halloween. I absolutely fell in love with it!! I tried finding it in the regular size bottle and when I did it cost an arm and a leg. I tried settling for dupes by Sinful colors (What's your name) and China glaze (Blk-Bila-Bong) but they just weren't the same. Take a look for your self here are all 3.

#1- OPI Unripened

#2-Sinful Colors What's your name

#3 China Glaze Blk-Bila-Bong

 Some of you might not see the difference but OPI Unripened definitely has more glitter and its a richer teal color. China Glaze Blk-Bila-Bong has a little bit of different tint. So I just couldn't live without having the regular size bottle of Unripened. I searched high and low and finally I found it for a decent price.

My Baby

LOL....

Couldn't help it!!!



Haul

I couldn't wait till Sunday to do my haul post. I got a whole bunch of stuff that I had on my wish list and stuff that I couldn't help but get. This week I got a pretty big order from 8ty8beauty.com for really cheap since its and etailler you always get good deals.

I got the following:

China Glaze Party Hearty,Rejoice set

and I couldn't pass up on getting Frosty.

Theses sets are great they either come with 3 polishes or 2 and a gift. The sets at and Etailler run only about $5 and some change comes out cheaper then buying the polishes separate. The Party Hearty is a must have because of the Party Hearty glitter polish it is a must have for Christmas it also includes Phat Santa and Jolly Holly which make this set perfect. The Rejoice set come with 2 glitter polishes and a holiday candle. The reason I got this one was for Mistletoe kisses its a light green glitter that I had to have and thought why not get the set to get a special gift and Mrs. Claus (light red glitter). I seen Frosty on Scrangie's blog and just had to have it.

Next Up.....

China Glaze Ruby Pumps, Blk-Bila-Bong,

Flying Dragon, He's Going In Circles and Mummy May I

Ok so most of theses are old shades and all of you have seen before but they were all missing in my collection and I just thought I had to have them. Mummy May I is the only new one that's from 2010 Halloween Awakening collection. I'm passing o the whole collection because I don't see myself using any of the other colors. The one I was super excited about was He's going in circles from China Glaze's Kaleidoscope collection I was actually surprised to have been able to find any of the colors from the collection still available.

Elf Polishes White, Clear, Nude, Chocolate and Red Velvet

So I ordered theses polishes from the Elf website as you might know Elf has $1 nail polishes and this past week they were offering 50%  off on their entire site so I decided to pick up a few things. I already have most of the the elf polishes so I looked at my collection and realized I didn't have a nude or brown polish. I found a nude polish in a French manicure set and it came with the white, clear, nude and some guided that were no longer sticky. I also got the Red Velvet polish just because I love me some Red Velvet cake.

Last but not least.....

Debra Lynn double sided nail art brushes, Seche French Guides,

 Set of 15 nail art brushes and a corrector pen.

Ok this kinda ticks me off a bit can you guess what?? I desperately needed new brushes cuz after a while brushes get worn down and you start to get stray hairs which have messed up a couple of designs. I was making my order on 8ty8beauty.com and checked out the brushes and found this set for a decent price so of course I ordered them. I then was eBay shopping and found a set of 15 nail art brushes for a $1 and $3 shipping. I was so upset that I had just paid $5 on a set of  3 double sided brushes when here is a set of 15 for $4. I decided to buy the 15 because my impulsive buying habit had kicked in.

That's all for now ill probably pick up some more things this weekend so till next haul :-)

Ruffian Manicure

I wanted to share with you guys my 1st attempt in the Ruffian Manicure. I really love the look and I decided to try it this week. So I seen a lot of people use french guides to make it easier to achieve this look but my package with my french guides hadn't arrived. I started off by painting my nails with China Glaze 2030 then I wanted a little bit of sparkle to I added a little bit of China Glaze Medallion. Then came the hard part I wanted to paint the rest of my nails in a black matte and the only one I had was O.P.I. Obscurity in the mini bottle. This mini bottle was good and bad, bad because the brush is tiny and doesn't hold too much polish and good because the bottle is small enough I could just dip a nail art brush to be more precises. 

Haul

It is now the end of the week so I would like to show you what I have acquired this week. Something are non brand polishes that were given to me so I don't know much about them.

The 1st thing is theses really cute polishes for kids. This was a gift for my kids at work that are trying to get their nail art class together. The polishes are suppose to be able to come off with soup and water but I tried and there's was no way it was coming off that easy.

Love that they are shaped Ice cream cones

Next up is a set of glitters I found in Marshalls. I thought they were cute so I bought them they looked like they could just be something I use to add some glitter to a nail art design. I get a lot of small mini bottles like this just to use them for nail art where I just dip my nail brushes in. I swatched them on my nail wheel and I really liked the colors and how they applied. I ended up wearing the Dark Pink color for a couple days and it held up ok for a no brand polish that the set of 7 cost $2.99.

Blush (7 glitter set) 

Today I decided to stop by the Dollar store on my way to Sally's Beauty Supplies and to my surprise I found polishes that I wouldn't expect to be there. I found a whole section of Sally Hansen Nail Prisms in duos. These polishes are kinda old so can image my shock when I seen a whole bunch of them in pairs for just a DOLLAR!! I had to get atleast one I got Diamond and Pink Pearl I also picked up L.A. Colors Color Craze Atomic.

Sally Hansen Nail Prisms Diamond and Pink Pearl

L.A. Colors Color Craze Atomic

Finally I made it to Sally's Beauty supplies to buy some Pure Acetone because I was all out! I ended up getting a 946 ML/32 FL. OZ. bottle of Pure acetone for $4.99. I didn't need that much but that was a great deal I wont have to buy more for a while!! Anyways while I was there I picked up China Glaze Foxy out of the clearance bin for $1.99 then picked up a bright pink Sally Girl polish and Little Gold holographic stars.

Sally Girl Bright Pink

China Glaze Foxy

Holographic gold stars

Thats all for this week, swatches for some of this polishes coming soon hopefully. I got a big order from 8ty8beauty.com this week that I cant wait for!

Nail wheels

 At first I didn't think I needed to purchase nail wheels, I always thought that was just something that salons should have but as I started to acquire more and more polishes thats when I realized maybe I should. I started off by buying like 3 from Trans Design an Etailler that sell things for cheaper they cost 75 cents each. I thought that was a good price at the time. When I ran out of room on my nail wheels I decided to look else where to buy my nail wheels. I went on eBay and found great prices for package deals like 10 nails wheels for $4 plus free gift. That sounded great to me so I bought it and of course with all great deal on eBay it had to be from Hong Kong. The estimated shipping is 9-14 days, I always buy stuff from Hong Kong and they usually take about a week. I week goes by nothing, 2 weeks nothing and coming up on 3 weeks and I still didn't receive anything. I got impatient and went out and bought nail wheels from Sally's Beauty supplies and this is what I bought:

I got these's at Sally's it came in a package of 10 for about $5. They are very thin and easily broken, they are so thin I bet you cant tell that in the picture there's actually 5 nail wheels stacked. As you can see the nail wheel only has 18 nails to paint and are very small!

I still wanted the nail wheels I ordered form Hong Kong so I contacted the seller and she reasured me that i will receive the nail wheels and that it just takes time. The very next day I checked the mail and their they where.

Now these are much thicker, nails are wider and are attached directly to the wheel unlike the others. This nail wheel is exactly like the ones I purchased on Trans Design which they sell 1=$0.75+ shipping  and these were 10= $4.00.

Here is the comparison of both wheels. I definitely think it is worth buying these on eBay and just waiting for them because they are so much of a better deal .

Halloween Mani,

Finally got to do my nails today it has been a busy week!! Since we are in October and there's only about 15 day till Halloween. I decided to do a Halloween Mani. What I ended up doing was a bright orange color with black polish dripping down the nails.

So for this manicure what I did was I painted my nails with China Glaze Sunworshiper from the Poolside collection (I love vibrant colors). Then took a black polish and a nail art brush to give it that dripping effect. I was about to add a top coat but I was not satisfied so I looked through my Image plates and found a little spider I then stamped the spider on my ring finger with China Glaze Millennium.


                                                                     Here it is...

Image Plate (fauxnad) 

 Final Product



Autumn contest

I entered into Konad Addict's Autumn contest. It is now open for voting!! There are many wonderful entries. You can go to Konad addict's blog to vote.

Here is my entry. It is Number #12

VOTE FOR ME!!! #12