Friday Night Girls-Night-In Mani & Pedi

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So last night my best friend, Emily, and I had a Friday night Girls-Night-In and had a mani/pedi-a-thon with the new Zoyas I got. While we were doing this we had Heathers playing in the background.


Has anyone seen this movie? We rented it because it is a 'cult classic' comedy and we thought it would be good for a laugh. I don't think this should have been in the comedy section at all. It was rather dark.

Anyway, onto the polish!

First up is Pru. A warm pink with gold shimmer. Very beautiful. Below is 2 coats. These pics were taken on the fourth day!


natural light

thumb macro shot
see all that shimmeriness?

artifical light
this one is the best to how it looks IRL

I read somewhere recently that 2 basecoats is better than one, so I am going to start doing that from now on. I used Zoya's a coat each of: ridge filler, anchor, the polish (2 coats), armor, and hurry up drops. This mani lasted to 5 days without looking horrible!

Em liked Pru so much on my nails, she wanted them on hers! So here's her pics. Mind you, they were taken at like midnight last night so the lighting isn't spectacular. (these are all precleanup pics)

blurred to show the shimmeriness!

WARNING TOES!!!
I feel that I have to do that now, just in case some are squimish about toes.

Here's Em toes with 2 coats of Salma. A lovely color!


Here's my mani. Lovely, bright Sienna. This is 3 coats and you can still see the VNL. I think next time I wear this I will do a first coat of a cream orange and top it with this. I think this is a great Halloween color!

midnight lighting

the next morning, natural light

thumb macro shot


Do you like Pru or Sienna? I know Salma has been on a lot of blogs lately b/c it is one of Zoya's newest colors.
How was your Friday night?

Illamasqua Phallic (Finally)

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I actually received this the end of last week (or the week before- can't remember). Anyway here are my swatches of the beautiful Phallic! (2 coats)
It was very hard to capture the sparkley glitterness. And I didn't realize how dark the color is in normal lighting. A lot of people asked if I was wearing black.
direct light

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It's so shiny that it's hard to capture the true glitteriness of it. I think that attributes to the SH Mega Shine topcoat I used. Below is the line up of what I used.
This is a first for me to use these two together. I had heard that SH Nail Quencher Basecoat was awesome and SH Mega Shine said that it would make my nail polish lasy up to 10 days and that it dried quickly so I gave it a shot too.
On the second day I applied an additional coat of Phallic because there was a lot of shrinkage. Unfortunately this was the 3rd day.

a chip?

tipwear/shrinkage?!!

I couldn't believe it! Has anyone tried this combo (SH NQ + SH MS)?

NOTD Love My Nails Mauve Shimmer

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So after my failed attempt at a nice orangey/coral VS nail lacquer, I decided to do another one close to the same color.

This is Love My Nails Mauve Shimmer.
Check out the shimma!

natural light

indoor lighting

This was a bit hard to capture. It is more of a dark coral with gold shimmer. I really like this color. I think I might try to do a gradient with this and maybe OPI Bright Lights Big Color, a color very similar to the failed VS that I used the other day.
Thanks for looking!

NOTD Victoria's Secret Cocktail

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I wanted to show you this before I removed it. This is the first time I have used Victoria's Secret Nail Lacquer and I won't ever use it again. First let's check out the crap-tacular bottle.

Very small bottle, but amazing color.

The cap pops off for an even worse applicator.

(indoor light)

As you can see the color is amazing, but the polish started peeling off on my pointer finger. And I han't even taken a shower yet! (2 coats and you can still see the VNL)

natural light

natural light

Here's what it did to my middle finger. It all came off in one sheet!

Have you tried VS nail lacquer? My advice don't bother.

Pretty color, though. Pitty. Maybe I can layer it?

Another True Shimmer Giveaway @ Beauty Couch

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Just in case you don't win Musings of a Muse's true shimmer giveaway, here's another true shimmer giveaway from Beauty Couch! There you can win one of 2 new flavors: Blended Fruit Sherbet or Peppermint Rush.

Contest ends Friday, June 10 at noon EST and is open to residents of the U.S. and Canada. Click the pic above for more details and to WIN!!

Good Luck!

Win Three ChapStick True Shimmer Lip Balms @ musings of a muse

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Musings of a Muse is giving away win three ChapStick True Shimmer lip balms!

Contest is open to US, Canada, Europe, Asia, and residents of the Plant Mars! Click the pic above for more details and to WIN!!

Good Luck!

ChapStick True Shimmers

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Happy Saturday, Ladies! Sorry I haven't been around all week, I have been in OSHA training with no access to the internet.
But I have some lovely ChapSticks here to review. The True Shimmer Collection:





Tropical- a white shimmer that has the scent of coconuts and takes you straight to the beach! This has a light scent of coconut, not very strong (which is good for me).

Peppermint Rush- a blue shimmer with the classic mint taste of candy canes!
This is my favorite out of the bunch, because I am not too crazy about other flavors of lip gloss/stick/chapstick other than mint.

Blended Fruit Sherbet- a purple shimmer with the scent of Jolly Ranchers!
This one has the most pungent scent of them all.


Botanical Berry- a pink shimmer with the scent of Kool-aid!
Second pungent of them all.

This is the best pic I could capture of the shimmer.

Left-right: Peppermint Rush, Botanical Berry, Tropical, Blended Fruit Sherbert


Swatches of the four shimmers. Just one stroke.

Left-right: Botanical Berry, Blended Fruit Sherbert, Peppermint Rush, and Tropical.


Since you couldn't really see the colors in the pic above, I rubbed them in a bit more here.



This is after I rubbed them off. As you can see, there is still significant shimmer left over.
Overall, I like these shimmers, but I rub my lips together a lot and they are not very thick. When I do it make the shimmer go everywhere, and not stay just on my lips. I makes me looks like I was eating something with sparkles on it, like how kids have rings of Kool-aid around their mouths, same for me but with shimmer.
Have you ladies tried any of these? Do you like them? Do experience the same as me with the shimmer 'ring'?


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