Brooke traveled from Hong Kong to Japan for her latest manicure! Check out her Konad design with OPI Red My Fortune Cookie and KOH Black Stars.
Warning – if you click here, you will create a new lemming with this amazing mermaid shimmer shown by Perfect10 Beauty. She also brings news on a bargain matte topcoat.
Moncoinamoua gets her hands on the ones everyone’s been waiting for. Click here to see her amazing swatches of OPI’s new Shrek collection, and be prepared to fall accidentally in love with them.
You’re the one that I want! Helen shows off her Pink Lady credentials with a fab fuschia from Models Own.
Meet Me On The Star Ferry from the OPI Hong Kong Collection is a very mauvey-modest color. Its a great shade to wear for an understated look. If you have somewhere that is quite conservative to go to, this would be a very approriate color. I applied two coats, but three would probably give the shade more depth. I would say that the formula is good, especially for a shimmer. For some reason I really thought I'd like this shade, but on me its very neutral and doesn't really do a lot for me. Nonetheless, its definitely a fingernail color, not a toenail color for me.
This is a really awesome color. Its a really cool shimmer finish metallic blue, not to bright, not too dark. It applied wonferfully, in the sense that it wasn't streaky or thin. Most of the time I'm not inclined to to even try out metallics, but I couldn't pass up this color! Also, it was only $2, so that was even more reason for it to become a part of my nail polish collection.
The pictures are pretty accurate as far color, especially the first one. I absolutely loved this shade and formula, for one bcause its super wearable and an all-around pretty color. If you haven't tried out any of the Ulta Salon Formula polishes, this would be a really good time, because they're on sale for super cheap ($2). I think Ulta will be running the sale for another week also.
Size: 0.4 fl oz./ 11.8 mL
Used Orly Glosser as top coat.
Oooh and in other words, just saw that Ulta has a new Matte top coat and its $2 too. I know matte is more of a Fall/Winter look, but I think I'm gonna try it out. I love the Matte look, so I'll be rocking it year, lol! I think Alter ego would look really awesome matted out. Hmm...note to self: Next time nails are painted w/ Alter Ego use Ulta Matte Top Coat. I'll deifnitely put up a swatch of it too.
Heli-Yum was one of the first colors that appealed to me when I first saw the Up & Away collection, so I was really excited to try it out. It applied smoothly, as I've found with all of the formulas from this collection. I can say that this particular color didn't wear very long on me. I believe I experienced chips with a day to two of wearing it. Actually if you look really close on my pointer finger you can see a small chip. Now, to be fair I didn't take pics of my nails till about a day later so for me that means there had been a little wear and tear.
Heli-Yum is a pinky-red creme shade, which for me is a little boring since I typically go for more extreme/fun colors on my nails. I would wear this color somewhere pretty conservative, b/c I don't consider it offensively bright. I'm anxious to try it out on my toes, which I do think it will really make them pop.
So, to start off with I'll go ahead and say that I love this product. I saw an ad for it in my April 2010 Cosmo or maybe it was Glamour and instantly knew I wanted to try it out. I haven't used many Garnier products, actually I hadn't used any of their skin care/face cleansing products before I purchased The Brusher. The only other Garnier products that I've own are the Eye Roller (which I use religiously) and the Fortifying Deep Conditioner (which I don't think work for my hair type, so I haven't repurchased since I used it up). I, however, think that Garnier is an excellent brand with a wide variety of products to suit everyone's needs, whether it be anti-aging, ance pron skin, healthy hair, etc...
I purchased The Brusher from Wal-Mart about a week ago and have had to contain myself from using it every single day. Since its technically an exfoliator I really try to not use it more than twice a week. You can definitely feel a difference in your skin before and after using it. Your skin feels a little tight (but not the bad uncomfortable dry tight that some cleansers give you), but your skin feels so smooth after using it and looks very healthy. The brush part itself is mainly what does all ther work. Imagine 40 little tiny finger massaging your face. It gets in places where your fingers can't quite offer enough attention to. Your supposed to wet the brush a head of time, twist it counter clockwise, and squeeze the bottle so that the cleanser releases. it releases right into the Bluser, so best to tilt it to about 45 degrees, this way it doesn't completely fall out of the Brusher as its being released. You apply the Brusher to your face and massages away. You do want to stay away from your eyes for obviously reasons, like you don't want to poke yourself in the eye or get too much of the cleanser in it. I recommend closing your eyes as a precaution to both incidents.
The Brusher contains Vitamin B5, Vitamin E, and Green Leaf Extract. It claims to deep clean and smooth skin after 1 use, and I agree 100% with this claim. It even smells good, which makes it that much more appealing to use for me. A lot of skin cleanser have really pugent smells to them and that can affect willingness to use. The cleanser itself is a clear-ish light colored gel that suds when massaged in and rinses away very clean.
The Brusher is 5 fl oz/150 mL in size and you can purchase it from drugstores nationwide that sell Garnier products. I purchased mines from Wal-Mart for $6 and it was well worth it. I keep mines right in the shower with me and generally use it at night, as well as followed up but my usual moisturizer. I find that this product really balances out my oily skin, and even when I've used it in the morning I found that my make application resulted in a much more smoother look and that overall my skin was more even.
Give it a go if your in the market for a new facial cleanser. This one does all the work for you and is very affordable for all that it does.
I absolutely adore this color like no other! its so wearable, but at the same time so dressy and classy. I usually shy away from metallics, because they either look wonky on me or they go on streaky or the formulas are just bad. I have absolutely no complaints about Luxe. It went on smoothly with two coats, formulas was great for a metallics, not too thick or thin, and it wore for 3 days with pretty much no chipping. I used the Orly Glosser as my top coat and was very impressive with its performance too. I've used Orly Glosser in the past with other brands, but it never really made my polish pop like Seche Vite or ChG FstFwd did.
I'm so glad I picked Luxe up on a whim. I'll definitely be wearing it once the holidays come back around, but honestly it can be worn anytime. Its trendy yet subtle, a perfect balance.
Okay so this polish is beyond awesome and I'm so surprised because its from Claire's! The best thing about it: It changes color in sunlight. This was a total surprise to me, because it doesn't say it anywhere on the bottle...lol I'm hoping it actually supposed to do that and that I didn't end up w/ a wonky bottle (doubt it). Inside its a super dark green, see last pic in post, and in daylight its this bright grass green you see below.
I picked these polishes up a few weeks am just now breaking this one out. I have a lot of greens, but figured I'd try something understated for St. Paddy's day, little did I know it changed colors which was awesome! It applied smoothly w/ great coverage with just two colors. The top coast is Sally Hansen 10 speed top coat (which I think is discontinued).
So thanx to Tiff (@PolishPrude) for annoucing via Twitter that Ross had some Color Club collections in stock. This is the first Color Club polishes, let a lone sets that I've actually purchased and owned. I was super duper excited to score both of these sets for $7.99, especioaly since Rebel Debuntante came out recently. Man, I gotta start hitting up Ross more often so I can score some more deals. I actually got the last and second to last of the sets, so if you have a Ross nearby and you like Color Club or interested in trying them, swing by soon b/c they are going fast!
Crease: Antiqued blended w/ Intripid(HIP) in outer corner
Highlight: French Cuff
Inner corner: Antiqued
Cheeks: Crushed Bougainvillea
Lips: Wonbderstucks Lipglass
3/8/09- Base: UDPP Sin Lid: Stila Matte Quad Crease Color Highlight: Stila Beige Cheeks: MAC Breezy Contour: X Rocks Lips: Star Nova Lustreglass
3/11/09-
Base: UDPP
Lid: Stila sparkly black
Crease: Stila light pink and beige
Highlight: Mauvement pigment
Cheeks: Breezy
Lips: HIP Lip Duo Snazzy
Contour: X Rocks
Mascara: Zoomlash
Liner: Penultimate winged out
Eyebrows: Dark brown NYX pencil
3/13/09-
Base: UDPP
Lead: Metal X Gold Spice
Highlight/Outer corner: Woodwinkeed
Cheeks: Breezy
Contour: X Rocks
Lips: L'oreal HIP duo in Spunky
3/14/09- Base: Painterly Lid: Metal X Platinum Pink Crease: Revved Up MAC Pigment Inner Corner: NYX Ultra Pearl Mania Penny Liner: HIP Creamliner Lip: Fafi Collection
3/26/09- Base: UDPP Sin Lid: Steamy Crease: n/a Outer corner: Go Cheeks: Breazy Contour: X Rocks Liner: Turquoise Automatic Liner by Ulta Lips: Amuse Chocolate Lip Gloss
4/1/09- Base: UDPP Sin Lid: Platinum Pink Crease: Star By Night Inner Corner: HIP Gilded Duo light side Outer Corner: HIP Gilded Duo dark side (outer V) Cheeks: True Romantic Lips: Prestige Lipstick in Raisin Liner: Purple and black winged out Lower lash liner: Turquoise Ulta Automatic liner
6/12/09- Base: UDPP Sin Lid: Star Violet Crease: Dark Blue from NYX Lake Moss Trio Highlight: NYX Pearl e/s in Gold/Champagne Inner corner: Darker golden NYX pearl shadow
