contests and such.

temptalia is giving away MAC One-Off Eyeshadow!

Contest ends August 24th, 2009 at 11:59 PM PST. This contest is open to all readers as pursuant to your local state/country’s laws. Click the pic above for more details and to WIN!!

Good Luck!

I can't believe that I haven't done one of these in forever! I finally have some time to actually to paint my nails and post them.

I saw this color yesterday at an Icing in one of the malls that my friend works at, and I just had to have it! I was so excited that I took off my nail polish that I did the day before and went home and got to work.

What I really didn't like about this polish- well, maybe it was the brush- it dragged soo much! This is four coats just because I had to get the whole nail covered and if I didn't put a gob of nail polish on the brush there was no way I would have covered the nail.

So here we are four coats in overcast:

Hey, Ladies. Sorry I haven't been around lately giving you the up-to-date contest news, NOTDs, and commenting on your blogs. I just haven't been myself lately. It's this whole buying a house thing...I'm sooo sick of it!!! My bf and I have been looking for a little over a month and we haven't found anything! I'm soo done with it.

spoiled pretty is giving away so many things in this giveaway, it would take me FOREVER to post all of the pics!! So go HERE and check out all the 'green' stuff she is giving away!

Contest ends midnight (EST) on Monday, April 27th. Contest is open to U.S. and Canadian residents only.

Good Luck!

Hoppy Easter, everyone! (I swear that's the only time I will say that!) Here is my Spring-y/Easter nails.
I went to my Walgreens to pick up a water on Friday, and I found these two beauties! I have been looking for these since April 1st, since I HEARD that that was their release date and it wasn't. So here I give you SH Salon in Night Hydrangea and Honeydew. I use Honeydew as a base (2 coats) and Night Hydrangea as the Koni.
I decided to do my ring finger a different Koni since I have seen so many ladies do their ring finger a different color.
Anyways...here's the photos!

Last night I did my best friend's nails with the Konad sp and they came out fantastic!! She knew that I recently started hauling np like crazy and she asked me to bring out all my stuff so she could choose something to wear. I asked her if she knew what she was getting herself into and she replied 'Bring it ON!' (lol) She was soo shocked when I brought it all out, but proceeded to go through almost all of it. She chose one color for the base of her fingernails and we skittled her toenails with ten different colors.

She had never heard of Konad before (and neither had I before I started with the beauty blogging world) and she was soo impressed that we skittled her fingernails with images! I didn't take any pics (sorry) but just rest assured that there will be MANY more Koni attempts in the future.

Anyways, after we did her nails we used Shine Happy on my hair for 10 minutes and John Frieda Luminous Glaze on her hair for 20 minutes.

Shine Happy comes with gloves and it's a clear dye that makes your hair supershiny and lighten it a bit. She did my hair and then I did hers. The glaze you can use is either a daily thing or once a week on dry hair for 20 minutes. The glaze did not come with gloves. My nails got all messed up! Which I didn't think would happen, but it gave me an excuse to do them again!

pics taken in indirect sunlight

**EDIT: BTW let me know how this layout works for you. I changed it from yesterday b/c it was too hard to see. I wanted to be able to see what I have behind my tables, so I made it a little transparent. Let me know in the comments. TIA***

Here we are, Ladies. This is two coats of Wet 'N Wild Carribean Frost, which went on smoothly. Then another two coats of Sinful Colors Green Ocean, then a topcoat.

I'm not too crazy on the close-up appearance of it, but from far away it is stunning.
All of the following pics are taken in sunlight.

I got a little bored of my Sephora Blue Sapphire topped with Nfu-Oh #52?! You might be saying 'how could you with all of that flakie, sparkely goodness?' Well I did. So I added some holo koni. # 65 that is! With Konad IP # (will fill this in when I have a look)

(l-r): Revlon Lily Chrome, Wet 'n Wild: Eggplant Frost, Wild Orchid, Caribbean Frost, Sparkled, Heavenly

I found this at my local drugstore called Riley drug. I had totally forgotten about it until I saw a post on MUA, I believe, saying to check out the local ds for great deals!

Idk if you would call this a 'deal' exactly. They were almost all $.99, which the Wet 'n Wilds are everywhere, the Revlon was about $5.

I used to have these chromes, but I remember trying to keep them on w/o chipping was a b*tch! I heard that these chromes are good for Koni's, so I will be trying that one next!

The Eggplant Frost and Wild Orchid are very similiar. But the Wild Orchid has a lot of glitter all throughout.

Not a big fan of greens, but I got Caribbean Frost to put under ChG He's Is Going In Circle from the Kaleidoscope collection.

And the last 2 I can use together and do a French mani with them.

What do you think, Ladies? Are you researching where your local DS are??

Thanks for looking!

Just when I had stopped looking at the tracking...my order arrived!!! Let's just get onto the pics, b/c they are beautiful!!!

Since Scrangie and Flavia at Similiar Attraction both reviewed Sephora's Blue Sapphire, I felt I should as well! I did agree that the bottle is teeny-tiny:

as well as the brush. The polish is a dark blue jelly silver sparkles. The formula wasn't the best, it had some dragging to it. I didn't really experience the tip-wear that the other girls did, that's probably because I layered it with Nfu-Oh #52 (scroll down to see the pics!) The color was very pigmented and it only took 2 coats. I'll stop taking, here are the pics! This is preclean-up all taken in Lamp Light.

Then since my Nfu-Oh order came in, I decided to add #52 to it.

I really like #52! It has a sheer base of a dark blue with green flakies! I love Nfu-Oh's more than I ever thought I would!

What do you think, Ladies?