I haven’t tried this but it looks super simple and healthy.
Check out the full (and easy) instructions here:
http://www.petitelefant.com/how-to-pore-strips
I think I’m going to try this tonight if I remember. 🙂
Everyday Minerals Pressed Powder Base
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Yay! I’ll do a review soon of the pressed base I’m using… I was beginning to worry they weren’t going to bring it back. I actually went and asked because it’s been a couple of months.
Perfect point shoe pink/peach nail polish?
Zoya Lulu has come the closest I’ve seen so far.
Pictured is three coats. I needed to do a small touchup on my thumb so I ended up with a fourth coat on it. The thumb nail with 4 coats is not looking so pretty now and I may need to redo it.
What would be the perfect point show pink / peach in my opinion:
- A hair less sheer
- a hair lighter (like between the dark and the highlight of the shoe)
- and a hair shinier (like Shiloh, no chunky glitter)
This is more a, my nails but better look on me. I like it but I still want that perfect color that looks like these point shoes. Any suggestions on other colors to try?
Also to note: Not all point shoes are the color I’m thinking of. I’m going more for the Gaynor Minden on the right, not the Bloch on the left.
PS – I used to dance, I don’t just randomly buy used point shoes. These still fit. 🙂
Shopping today – Dillard’s Jan 29 2011
I thought I would share some photos I took during my short trip to Dillard’s today. I thought I was going to look at coats (which I did) but nothing caught my eye so I moved on.
Loved this Ralph Lauren plaid (isn’t it plaid?) short sleeve turtleneck.
Problems: Turtlenecks look a little odd on me sometimes (not the right neckline) unless they are worn under a sweater. Clearly worn under the sweater jacket wasn’t cutting it. That and even on sale it was about $50. Amazing fabric though so if the neckline had been right I would have bought it.
Moving on.
Antonio Melani – never heard of them but some amazing pieces. I should have taken a picture of their purses. Loved those and would have looked closer at them if the hardware were silver instead of gold. Why is it all the nice purses seem to have gold hardware?
Love this dress! The colors, the detail around the neck! Too bad I don’t wear dresses much if at all. I didn’t even bother looking at the price tag. Next!
Excuse the bad photo, love the cut and it would be perfect on me. Then I looked at the price tag. Gulp. Ok when was the last time I really went shopping? Or maybe it was the fact that I had been looking at coats that were this price. ~$80 Oh yes here we go on the website – better than my photo:
Next!
Yup more sticker shock. $119. I would invest in some pieces like this though. I have a short sleeve green blouse that has a similar fit to the brown shirt that I wear to a lot of first client meetings. Red or brown would be versatile in my wardrobe.
Next!
Loved the mix of fabrics. Did not catch it’s name or number but I knew it would not work with ruffles near my bust. Not sure why I photographed it.
Next!
Liked the fit. Liked the price but I wasn’t elated about the color on me. Maybe it was the dressing room lights but I put this one in my maybe pile. Brand was I.N. and it was about $14 on sale. Yes, I went to the juniors department, so shoot me.
Bingo! Perfecto. A bit dressy, good colors, a good shape. Paper Doll was the brand. Yes, it’s from the juniors department, yes it was cheap polyester (I promise I don’t wear much cheap poly) and it was only $12.
Winner. Bought.
Time for dinner. Though that mirror was a little cruel to me and told me that I had some back flab when I twisted just so. Yes, dinner time anyway. Meany mirrors!
DIY drapey wrap vest : semi-fail
Recently I bought a wrap sweater from Victoria’s Secret. I love the options and ways it can be worn but the fabric has been horrendous. I got the Cotton & Cashmere Shadow Stripe Wrap which they no longer carry. Basically a little of:
I have gotten a few good wears out of the sweater but it pills, heavily. But it’s black so it’s less noticeable. I would have returned it if I had spent the original $60 price. However it was discounted and then I had a $10 off coupon so I only spent about $16 for the sweater and a scarf including shipping. Not worth the wasted time (and an awesome deal really.)
What I’ve learned however is that that sweater is basically a giant rectangle plus sleeves. Which got me thinking, why not make my own quick drape-y sweater vest? I had some men’s undershirts that I thought would be perfect fabric (there’s not much knit fabric to choose from locally for some reason) and it was at least a good test run.
Why I think it failed:
- color block? Eee. I think it would look better as a single color
- it’s a vest so you’re going to see the color of your sleeves too (another reason to do this single color)
- a little too short in the “wings” – maybe another 1/2 yard to a yard
- a little too long top to bottom, the VS version was shorter which looks better
I should have simply measured the VS wrap to start with (which is by the way about 31″x87″.)
I will be trying this again soon. The men’s undershirts were I think about $10-$12 for a 4pack (Hanes Men’s Sleeveless 4 Pack Rib Knit or Fruit of the Loom Men’s 4-Pack A-Shirts. 2XL gets you a fair amount of fabric to play with.) If I can find some knit fabric locally it would be faster and no-sew so I’ll be checking that out.
Or I might buy some from fabric.com. I haven’t bought fabric off the internet yet and missing that step of touching it before buying will be odd. Maybe one of these though.
Zoya – they’re here!
Just got my freebies from the facebook promo code in today.
I also purchase the Zoya Renew for a couple of other polishes I currently have that were getting old. Quick review on it is that it did make one sheer less streaky and easier to apply but I didn’t take a photo to share. I’ll probably do a more in depth review at another time.
The first photo is taken in my car in daylight and it’s the truest to actual color of the quick photos I took. Lulu, Shiloh and Loredana.
Please excuse the quick application and dark photo.
Shiloh is a great easy red. It’s very glossy looking. Slightly sheer for a red but not by much. It reminds me of a lollipop or some other red hard candy. Not orangy and not purple-y. I think it’s going to work well on most skin tones. There are little tiny tiny tiny sparkles. Super easy to apply and fast to dry. I’m going to redo my nails in this color tonight for a longer test-run.
Next up is Loredana which is a matte gray. It’s a little surprising going on because at first it looks like a glittery dark gray and then once it dries it looks like this:
I don’t remember ever owning a matte nail polish before. One downside I hear is that they don’t last as long. I will let you know what I find out. I wish the shade were just a hair lighter gray but I do really like this for a fall, winter sort of color.
I did not take a photo of Lulu. It’s a very sheer color and my inside photos were bad enough as it is. You really wouldn’t be able to get a good sense of the color. I will review it at a later date. It did go on well, just more sheer than I expected. I like it but I think it would take a lot of coats to get to the color of the spoon sample I had.