Glitz & Berry is very reminiscent of ChG's Ruby Pumps, yet without the glossiness. When first applied I got really excited, because I thought it was a dupe for Ruby Pumps, but it wasn't :-( Anyhow's it applied pretty good with two coats (below, both pics) and I used Orly Glosser as a Top Coat.
w/ flash
w/ out flash
Availability: Ulta
Prices: $3.99
xoxo,
~Tenns
Decided to do a little fishnet Konad over it to jazz it up . The fishnet color is Timely Turquoise, which I swatched a while back here.
Pics taken w/ out flash
This is your quintessenial deep purple. I didn't care for the application of this particular polish, not sure if the was the brush or what. You can't tell from the pics, but it went on streaky. This is why I "jazzed" it up with the fishnet pattern over it. On its own, it didn't do anything for me. I know if I plan on wearing this polish in the future that I will definitely have to put some type of design or embellishment over it. Also, I found it a tad boring on its own anyway. This will probably go into the "toe nail stash" - my aforementioned polishes that only get worn on the toes.
Availability: Drugstores nationwide
Size: .5 fl oz
Price: $3-$4
xoxo,
~Tenns
This is a really fun color, no complaints here about it! I reminds me of Easter and springtime, so that made me really happy, especially with the weather being so crappy. I decided I'd try out a Konad pattern on it, and I used China Glaze Millennium in a fishnet pattern. To be honest, I like this color completely by itself, but the silver did look good over it.
All pics taken w/out flash.
Availability:
This shade is Limited Edition, so you should probably drop by your local Walgreen's if your interested in it. I didn't see it at CVS or Wal-Mart and I haven't checked Rite Aid to see if they have it.
Price: I purchased mines for about $2 w/ tax....they were 40% @ Walgreens on Sunday(2/28).
Size: .5 fl oz.
Thx for visiting!
xoxo,
~Tenns
Many of you have seen this color swatched out the ying-yang, so I'm not even gonna overly elaborate. I love this color, its a creamy hunter green, that applies wonderfully with two coats. This is one of three shades I got from the collection, and the first of my OPI collection. Oddly enough I don't really have a lot of OPI, so I will definitely be picking up some more at some point. I'm excited to see what their summer collections will include.
All pics were taken with no flash. The first pic is in sunlight, all others were taken with inside lighting.
Availability: Some drug stores, salon, and beauty supply stores. Also @ 8ty8 Beauty and HeadToToe Beauty
Price: $8-$9
Size: 15 mL/0.5 fl oz.
Thx for visiting!
xoxo,
~Tenns
Soul Mate is a straight up creme, very good quality for Sinful Colors....you'd literally think it was a ChG shade if you didn't know. Its a really pretty color and and the formula is great. This is two coats and I just decided to jazz it up with a lace Konad stamp (Timely Turquoise). I can definitely see me wearing this color throughout the Spring and Summer, and I it'll probably be the next color I'll wear on my toes. If you don't have it, definitely pick it up! This particular color and Mint Apple seem to be really popular and are going fast, and at $1.99 you can't be surprised.
Available at Walgreen's
Size: 15 mL/0.5 fl. oz.
Price: $1.99
That's all folks!
xoxo,
~Tenns
So yeah, as you all can see I went a tad wild with polish hauling, but I had good reason, I promise! LOL, I would seriously justify this very unjustified haul, with any reason that would make it make sense (Still following me there? I think I confused myself for a sec). Anyhow, after several weeks my Sally's finally got Up, Up, & Away and apparently I'm the only person in my time that knew about it, lol. They had one display with pretty much one color of each shade in the collection and I grabbed the only one of each of the colors I'd been eyeing. Thanks to GildedAngel of Naive Nails, who mentioned via Twitter that her Sally's had gotten them in. I kept that in mind all week and kept a mental note to drop my local Sally's today.
I'd picked up three shades from Ulta last week, you can see them in my Ulta Haul post, but I knew I'd probably return them if my Sally's got them in. They were $6.50 @ Ulta and $3.50 at Sally's, and I knew I wanted more than just three colors, but wasn't willing to shell out $40 for all the colors I wanted. I had a Beauty Rewards coupon from Sally's, plus three $1 off coupons for ChG polishes, so I took full advantage of my deals. I am a self-proclaimed recessionista, and even if we weren't in a recession I still low ball shop...what can I say. Anyhow, before I ramble on and on I included pics below on my haul and since I just did a haul, I won't be doing one for this haul. This is why I'm going into a little more detail than I usually do in my haul blog posts. I also swatched all but 3 colors on my nails (ran out of fingers,lol!), but all the polishes I got are included in the pics below.
L-R: All China Glaze - Heli-yum, High Hopes, Grape Pop, Flyin High, Four Leaf Clover
L-R: Claire's Kelly Green, Claire's True Blue, OPI Jade Is The New Black, OPI Suzi Says Feng Shui, OPI Meet Me On The Star Ferry
Claire's Kelly Green and True Blue. I forgot about these to in the first pic I took w/ all of the polishes I got today, so I decided to include them here.
No worries, I will be doing full swatches and reviews on all the polishes and products (especially the Orly kit) very soon. I just wanted to throw up a a quick compilation of everything, and I was super excited to see what each color really looked like too!
Edit: I realized that Ulta didn't give me my free gift with my OPI purchase, had to go back there today(2/28) and get it. I will include a pic of it some time later, as well as swatches.
xoxo,
~Tenns
I picked Timely Turquoise up at Walgreen's along with the shade Grape Times (swatch coming soon!) mainly b/c I had two $1 off coupons and didn't want to waste them. Usually I don't purchases drug stores anil polishes, because it never fails that I'm sorely dissapointed in them. Anyhow, Timely Turquoise was no exception, and netiher was Grape Times, but they were worth swatching. Usually colors, or rather formulas that don't go over well on my fingers go to the "toe stash". The 'Toe Stash" is a group of colors that only are worn on my toes...mainly because they look better further away from my eyes (LOL!)<---cheesy. Anyways, seems as if the formula, as I mentioned before is the issue. Its that same streaky, 'can't get smooth for the life of me' type of formula, which you oftentimes find with shimmery polishes of like consistiency of Timely Turquoise. Don't get me wrong Timely Turquoise is a beautiful color, but i could pretty much tell from the bottle that I wasn't going to like it on my fingers. We probably won't be breaking it back out until my toes come out, which will be whenever the temp decides to reach above 80.
Available @ drugstores nationwide
Price: $4
Size: .5 fl oz./14.7 mL
That's all folks!
xoxo,
~Tenns
In keeping with my promise to swatch and review the Essence products from my Ulta haul, I present the nail color: Fabuless <---cute name, right?! The pictures with the flash are much more accurate, but I went ahead and posted a non-flash (below). Fabuless is a dark charcoal (how redundant…but that’s honestly the best way to describe it) that has a little bit of shimmer/pearlescent to it. Its not your typically flat, black nail polish, although its not one of those super rich shiny polishes.
The consistency is quite nice for a .99 cent polish. I had no problems with application, however 2 coats minimum is needed. I didn’t find it particularly thick or thin, just a regular smooth consistency. The bottle claims that it dries in one second, however I can’t say that completely true for me. I’ll say it was completely dry to the touch after about 7-10 secs. Even without a top coat this polish looks pretty good, but I did apply the China Glaze Fast Forward Top Coat on top for a more finished look. I also decided to jazz up the polish w/ a single white stamped flower. I thought it added good balance and an elegant look to the near-black polish. Overall, I really like this polish and I plan to purchase more from the line.
Available @ Ulta.com and Ulta stores.
Price: $.99/ea
Size: 0.1 fl. oz.
xoxo,
~Tenns
So I was visiting my Mom this weekend and today we dropped by Ulta to browse for some goodies. We ended up getting some good stuff. I’ve posted a YT video about all of it as well, so I don’t want to be redundant w/ this post. However, I did want to go into a little more detail about some of the products more than I did in the video. Mainly, this new product line that Ulta has started to carry called Essence. Funny thing is that I was catching up on reading blogs that I’m subscribed to and TravelsWithEuridice did a post of the line. I’d never heard of it and it was super ironic that I came across a post giving some insight on it. Apparently, the line is German and was supposed to debut in Ulta stores in April, but Ulta already has it out. The products are very affordable, like seriously affordable and with the recession still being a factor for many, this line is a good alternative to other more expensive lines that carry like products. They even have a Konad knock off, which of course I had to get. Even funnier was that I’d be browsing around before I purchased my Konad to see if I could find it anywhere other than online and I came up with no luck, until of course I already have mines and wasn’t looking for it anymore and say the Essence one. Anyhow, I’m pretty excited about this line and look forward to getting some more things from it.
Don’t forget to watch my video and be on the lookout for swatches of the polishes!
xoxo,
~Tenns
Lacquerize is doing a giveaway to celebrate reaching 250 followers on her blog. She one of the best swatchers out there and one of my fave as well.
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Reposted from http://lacquerized.blogspot.com/2010/02/yeah-baby-giveaway-time_20.html
Ok, the rules!
1 - You have to be a follower of my blog
2 - Please enter your e-mail address along with your preference for set 1 (the 4 shades) or set 2 (the 3 semi holos).
3 - It doesn't matter where you live, entering is open for everyone!
4 - You can earn extra entries by:
- Reposting this giveaway on your blog (feel free to use the pictures in this post!),
- Following me on Twitter
- Tweeting about it
If you do this, please let me know in your comment by showing me the URL's.
Note: You can only use these for extra entries if you follow my blog.
5 - You can enter till the 10th of March, 11:59pm - CET.
6 - Since I love you all so much, I'll let www.random.org decide who the lucky winners will be ;-).
I really hope you'll enjoy the items I gathered and if you choose to enter, good luck!!
So, I’m still experimenting w/ all of my Konad image plates as well as what polishes, other than the one white special polish that I have works well with them. I find that thicker polishes like cremes and mattes work best with the Konad image plates, as well as darker colored polishes. Shimmery polishes stamp well too, but they need to have a relatively thick consistency to them to get the best result. I was playing around with some different polishes and image plate designs when it dawned on me that even though the ‘matte trend’ is slightly out of season, a matte/suede type polish would stamp well considering the consistency of them. I put on two coats of Zoya Anaka w/v Seche Vite as a top coat. I then stamped the m63 plate the swirly design and applied another layer of Seche Vite. I find that the stamping come out better on top of a top coat, or maybe its just a safety net for, lol. In actuality, I get a much smoother application w/ applying a top coat before I stamp.
I was beyond happy that the design came out so well and that the color scheme coordinated well together. I’m also going to visit my Mom tomorrow and I think she’ll really get a kick out of my nails. Maybe I should bring my Konad stuff just in case she asks me to give her a manicure. Overall, I think this is a really versatile look and I’m so glad that I got the hang of the whole stamping thing. My images are coming out so smooth and crisp, so I will definitely be posting a sleuth of “konadicures”. Anyhow, I hope you all like it and be sure to let me know what you think!
xoxo,
~Tenns
"SEPHORA by OPI's latest assortment of Nail Colours is inspired by simple, dramatic blossoms like the elegant Calla Lily, exotic orchid, and vibrant iris. These iconic flowers, in their most colorful forms, have been artistically re-imagined into this bouquet of spring shades that will have your fingertips flourishing with sophisticated color."
Shades:
Leaf Him At The Altar - Metallic Vine Green
It's Bouquet with Me - Sheer violet with silver and holographic glitter
Iris I was Thinner - Medium iris purple
Handpicked for Me - Light pink lilac with silver shimmer
Go with the Flow-er $9 - Bright tulip pink with hot pink shimmer
Cover me in petals -Vivid tigerlily red orange
Price: $9/ea
Available at Sephora stores and Sephora.com
I must say that this is the one color that looks better on camera than it does in real life. Mainly, because the flash picks up the gorgeous blue in the polish. In real life, or rather natural light, it just looks black. This was a little disappointing b/c I really thought it would come out the really pretty blue color that it looks to be in the bottle. Overall, I really like the white plaid strips layered on top of it, b/c it gives it some pizzazz. I thought Ibiza would have been fun in a bottle, but it was a little messy in application(aren’t most dark polishes?). You can almost get a way with one coat, but two gives you a nice even, smooth look.
Base coat, two coats of Ibiza, Seche Vite top coat
Available @ Artofbeauty.com
xoxo,
~Tenns
