Category: Beauty & Skin
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FinalFour UK Nails – Team Spirit nail polish
Quick post – did my nails in team colors for the University of KY today. Thanks to the ideas on pinterest to use a pin in a pencil eraser to do dots on your nails. Though now I kinda want itty bitter letter stamps for my nails.
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“Foiled Again” – gold foiling or gold leaf on clothes & nails
“Foiled again” get it? Ok, that would make more sense if I had previously written about gold foiling or even any kind of gold on clothes, right? Apparently I’ve been getting into golds lately. As exhibited by both some recent clothing purchases as well as nail polish choice. Outfit Top to bottom (click images…
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Glittery Pinks – Essie “Luxe Affects” Multidimensional Top Coat in “A Cut Above” vs Wet N Wild Shine in “Sparked” or 435G
Right to Left (reverse of what you’re probably used to): 1 coat of Essie “A Cut Above” then 3 generous coats, 1 coat of Wet N Wild “Sparked” then 3 generous coats, and the last one on the left is one coat of “A Cut Above” over 2 coats of Essie “A Crewed Interest.” The…
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NEON NAIL Mix N Match – “Bikini” pink & “Did I dye it too blonde?” yellow
First I started with a coat of Sinful Color base, then Sinful Colors in “Bikini” which is a BRIGHT pink shade. And to think, at the beginning of February I thought that Zoya’s “Lo” was bright. I have now reapplied this color when it started to chip. AND it’s stayed on without chipping for…
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March 2012 Birchbox – Teen Vogue :: essie Luxeffects in “a cut above”, twistband Hair tie, tarte Lipsurgence lip tint in “amused”, Shiseido Pureness Oil-Control Blotting Papers, Annick Goutal Petite Chérie perfume,
In the box: Shiseido – Pureness Oil-Control Blotting Papers. I didn’t notice the perfume in the ingredients list for the Shiseido blotting paper which changes my mind on it. A blotting paper should be simple. May also contain parabens (the ingredient list on the package doesn’t match the ingredient list on Birchbox’s site.) Annick Goutal –…
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China Glaze Capitol Colors line for the Hunger Games
China Glaze has recently come out with a line of nail polish themed for The Hunger Games but their website doesn’t quite do the colors justice. All Lacquered Up’s blog post has done a really good job of describing, swatching & photographing them. China Glaze Agro & China Glaze Fast Track are my top picks though there are others that I like…