NOTD- Rimmel Night Before

love this polish. here's some pictures:

this one is blurry to show the holo top coat. I used Northern Lights Silver Holo Topcoat by Out The Door on top of Rimmel Night Before.

It's looks almost blue when you first open the bottle. The first coat goes on blue, but the second goes more blurple, depending on thickness. It has a micro fine shimmer to it that looks red, but I'm going to say it's more of a reddish purple. It really is a gorgeous, unique color. Plus, it's only like 3$ at Walmart, CVS, Walgreens, etc. It's a 60 second formula, but after the second coat it gets pretty thick and 60 seconds just isn't a correct number for drying time. The topcoat is also a fast drying topcoat, I'd say it was still dentable after an hour.


This makes the holo topcoat look like chunky glitter, but it's really not. It's smooth as can be.

Do you have this color? Do you need it? What about the topcoat? I will be posting more NOTD swatches with the topcoat, it's my new favorite love.

 

The Beauty Spark Giveaway

Laura at The Beauty Spark is giving away an Urban Decay palette and a brush set for her 50 followers giveaway!
It's open internationally and until the 10th of February:)

What are you waiting for? Go enter :)

Collective Haul!

swatches and pictures

so much holographic glitter! in love.

get yourself down to CVS for their sale. So worth it.

NOTD- Charlotte Russe Grey and Wet N Wild Craze Glitz

Hello loves! I hope you all had a wonderful Christmas or holiday break. Here is a NOTD post and a baby review. Pictures first!

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close up of the glitter:

This is my first grey polish and my first Charlotte Russe polish. The formula wasn't so bad, this was four coats of grey and one of the WnW topped with Seche Vite. The wear wasn't so great, however, it chipped within 36 hours and I took it off shortly afterwards.
I liked the CR polish, but it's not something I would buy any more of. It was less than 4$, but I would gladly take my China Glaze or Rimmel, even my Wet n Wild over this.

What is currently on your nails?

Pixi Softly Smoky Palette Review/Comparsion

So remember how we talked about the pop beauty pin up pop palette?

And I told you I was disappointed. You would know that if you clicked that nifty linkage right up there.

The Pixi Softly Smoky Palette is what I wanted the pop palette to be and more.

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annnnd here it is compared next to the pop palette:

The Pixi palette was also 9.99US$ They also had a neutral one composed of nothing but browns/golds/pretty colors and such that I bought for my best friend. The pigmentation on this one ROCKS! It blows the pop one out of the water. The colors are more in the same family than the pop one which seems to be all over the place. Unlike the pop palette however, it has no matte shadows. That doesn't bother me because I'm not really a big matte shadow user.

The colors blend really well when using a primer, base, or both. They are vibrant and stay vibrant. Not going to lie, the main reason I bought this was the second color- that gorgeous purple with gold sparkles that looks almost blue in the picture. I love it.

The first look I did was one I wore to the symphony, I used the shimmery peach color from the pop palette then the purple from the Pixi palette. The purple stayed vibrant and in place all night. I took these pictures after I got home and the peach color has faded out and looks a tad gross in my opinion. 

The second look I did was using the light purple along with the dark purple with the white as my highlight color. Bonus? The white has a pink duochrome. A strong one. Ah-mazing. This is after TEN hours of wear. Hello, I live in Florida and this was on a really hot day.

One thing that drove me nuts about this was the way it came packaged. The pop palette came closed, so you couldn't see the inside. These are sold flat and you can see the colors/mirror, so to get the magnets that hold it close to actually close it, I had to leave it shut under a heavy book overnight. It was kind of a pain, and the packaging it came in was really cheap. My best friend's had to be re-glued shut when I got home because it was splitting open. This palette is also less than six inches long and has a mirror much like the pop beauty palette. The outside design is light green and very simple, no pin up girls or sparrows, but I like it.

All in all, I really like this palette. I would totally buy it again and I obviously bought one for someone else after using mine.

Tell me if you have either palette and if you like it or not. Would you rather get the pop or the Pixi and why?

Holiday-ish Face Of The Day!

My holiday face of the day.I tried recording a tutorial on this but it apparently didn't save, so a blog post is just as good.

What I used:

Face:

Hard Candy Tinted Moisturizer

NYC Transparent Loose Powder

Rimmel blush in Pink Rose

Lips:

Covergirl Wetslicks Amazemint gloss in red riot

Eyes:

VS Pro Eye Primer

H.i.P. paint in secretive

Coppery-gold color from my Jasmine Labelle palette on the lid

Dark green from my Physician's Formula Green Eyes Shimmer Strip in the crease, blended out

Matte dark green from my pop beauty mini palette on top of the shimmery green, focused on the outer corner

Skintone highlight color- a matte one

H.i.P. cream liner in black- top lashline only

NYX white eyeliner on lower waterline

Eyelash curler

Maybelline Colossal Lash in glam black

Maybelline Lash Stiletto in very black

I know a lot of people do variations on this look, but here's mine. What do you say? Would you recreate it and wear it?

Collective nails of the day post!

I don't have anything to post right now since I am at a friend's for the weekend, and I have had these pictures from my nails for the past few months just sitting on my computer.  Be warned that most, if not all, are taken by my camera phone. 
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O.P.I. Ink-taken underwater to show the blurple-ness of it.

French mani done with Nailene flesh toned polish with sparkles and my Migi nailart pen

Icing Cosmo Cutie with Orly Dazzle for the tips

Some horrible pink Sally Hansen polish with a stripe of CG For Audrey. Excuse the mess.

China Glaze For Audrey tips with silver Migi pen

China Glaze VIII with Migi nail art pen in silver and white

Orly Matte Vinyl

Orly Matte vinyl with Orly Dazzle

Personally, I love Orly most of all. China Glaze wears the second best on myself, while O.P.I usually peels off within 24 hours. I use Seche Vite for most of these, except the matte which I kept looking good with a coat of China Glaze's Matte magic. I used Out The Door as my fast dry topcoat before Seche and I will be switching back after I am done with this bottle of Seche. It's less expensive and dries rock hard and stays put, unlike Seche that makes my polish peel, not chip. O.P.I. is also the most expensive and the hardest to find in my area. I have to go to Ulta which is 45 minutes away, just to find it. Orly and China Glaze are both found within a mile of my house at Sally's Beauty Supply. Orly is the least expensive, with China Glaze not far behind.

Do you find it is the same way for you? Or do you prefer a different kind of polish?