*Loud groan here*

So, those who didn’t quite understand the title, pretend you can hear a very loud groan coming from the computer.
That’s me!
This whole internet thing, is sucha bummer! IT’S ALL WAY TOO CONFUSING FOR ME!!
I’ve switched over from Blogger to WordPress as a result from everyone around me telling me how much better WordPress was. Well, to be honest Blogger wasn’t all that bad! I actually really found it simple (for someone who is completely computer-illerate) and fun to play around with! But after a while I realized my picture quality was really not that great on Blogger. I felt it made my pictures look not as good as they originally were (Now this could just be because of my poor picture taking skills…) -__- but… for now I will blame Blogger!
It took me about three in a half hours to FIGURE OUT how to import my blog but after I figured it out (please give me a round of an applause) as I thought I was going to pass away before I would figure this out, hehe
Well, now that my blog is up and runnin’ on WordPress it is SO CONFUSING! I have no idea how to figure any of this out!
So for the next week, or few days I will be using this plain ugly theme. But with the help of my amazing loving boyfriend hehehe and my amazing father and of course the AMAZINGGGGG WordPress help offered online I promise you, I will figure this out!! And in a few days I will have a gorgeuse theme up and running,

Keep you posted and I apologize for this ugly theme currently

Essie Lilacism

Ahhh, the ultimate spring/summer colour. Ever since OPI released “Done out in Deco” in ’09, I’ve had a soft spot for washed out purples, almost lavender colours, and when Essie released this in there Spring collection I simply HAD to purchase this colour! I got my hands on the OPI Hong Kong Collection first, but now that I have my hands on this colour I’ve gone crazy!

Lilacism is a soft, gorgeous light lavender creme. It’s such a beautiful Spring/Summer hue. Super flattering on my hands and it’s a MUST, MUST, MUST colour for any nail polish lover on the globe. This colour was just SO nice!

Any colour that would look somewhat similar to this would be: OPI Rumples Wiggin’, and China Glaze Light as Air.

Tell me whatcha think!!

Zoya wants to SPOON with you!!…huh?

Have you ever purchased a nail color online or from a color chart only to find that it doesn’t match the picture?
Have you always wanted to be able to try on nail color the way you do clothing?
What if you could see exactly how any Zoya Nail Polish would look on you before you bought it?
What if you could make sure you always get that perfect pink, red, or purple every time?

Well now you can!

Zoya presents a new way to shop for nail color online – The Zoya Color Spoon!
This is how it works. Go to Zoya dot com, select the shades you want to try and order the matching Zoya Color Spoons. When they come in the mail, try them right on top of your nail. The Zoya Color Spoon is made with the exact same long-lasting, formaldehyde, toluene, dibutyl phthalate and camphor free color Zoya Nail Polish is known for. What you see is exactly what you will get! Every subtle detail of the color. How cool is that?

Even better… Zoya will ship you the color spoons for free and the amount you spend on each Zoya Color Spoon will be applied to your next purchase at Zoya.com. So it doesn’t cost any more to make sure that you get exactly what you want!
No more guessing. No more disappointment. Order as many as you would like. It’s so simple.
See it! Try it! Buy it! – Zoya Color Spoons

Here are some pictures, to clear up any confusion, this is Zoya Carmen:

So for 50 cents, you can get a Zoya spoon. What do you think? Will you be purchasing any of these Spoons from Zoya?

OPI Swiss Collection Fall/Winter 2010

This is the first half of the Swiss Collection and is made up of metallics, and shimmery colours,. I’m really excited about these colours! I have to admit, I’ve had the Swiss collection for a while now, since the beginning of August and I’ve been holding off because I’m just really not looking forward to the year to start, with school and all, it’s going to be so stressful, back to homework, studying, tests and projects, and I am definitely not looking forward to not being able to sleep in.

But that’s immature and stupid thinking on my part, and these colours are WAY too nice not to swatch, hehe

So these are what I thought of the first half of the collection and I have to be honest, the other half is filled with crèmes that are mostly in the red family. Although I do love a good red I wish they would’ve added more other colours but I’ll go more in to detail on that post, haha!

Yodel me on my Cell

It’s a different kind of turquoise that is darker then most of the turquoises you see regularly, it has a bit of dark pearly blue. It’s a super flattering and really cool, unique colour! I must admit, I loved this one on me, hehe! This was two coats, to even out the bald spots, and the second coat made it dramatically darker. So if you want to keep making it darker you can apply a third one but this colour looks just great with one or two coats!

Lucerne-tainly Look Marvelous

Is a silver and gray that’s loaded with shimmer and I LOVE IT. It’s a very edgy look to wear, and would look stunning if you were going to a party or something! The name kind of bugs me, it’s a little long and hard to spell, haha! This took 3 coats to make it as dark as this and the first first coat was kind of sheer. It was messy to take off though, it made my hand covered in glitter! Hate when that happens!

The Color to Watch

Is a watery pearyl lavender colour with little hints of blue and red in it, and when it dries it looks sort of gray. I must say when I first saw this on my nails I thought it was really, really ugly. But after a while it grew on me! It is very flattering on my skin tone and it’s a very different colour. This colour was super sheer, and since I don’t roll that way- this is it on my nails with 4 coats.

Cuckoo for this Color

This colour is an emerald green that’s really, gorgeuse! This was 2 coats, and it’s just such a nice, nice, colour! If your looking for a dark colour but want to stay away from purples and reds, this is an amazing alternative! I love this!

Gliterland

This colour is a pearly champagne gold, literally. I was really surpised by how nice this was! If you are some one who is into golds this is going to be your dream colour! There is not a lot of yellow behind this gold, it’s really a champagne shimmer metallic gold that is super flattering on any skin tone!

Diva of Geneva

This is the only colour that I’ve reviewed so far that I didn’t think was that unique! Reason being is everything is so different and cool and ugh I just love them all soo much!! In the bottle it looks like a metallic red, but when I started painted my nails its actually like a raspberry colour to it! I do have a soft spot for reds, and this colour is different from the other reds although it is strictly red.

So which colours from the Swiss collection are screaming “BUY ME!” to you?

Sally Hansen Kwik Off

Today, unlike anything I’ve really done on this blog, I’m going to review something besides polish.

Nail polish remover!

Everyone has there own opinions about nail polish removers, acetone, acetone free, protein enriched, nail polish with vitamin E, with chamomile, pro-vitamins, soy based, the list goes on and on.

But this nail polish remover is unlike any nail polish remover us nail polish lovers usually use. It’s a whole new idea about removing nail polish.

Lets start with the way us people normally remove nail polish, we take a quilted cotton pad or cotton ball (depending on your preference, I usually prefer quilted cotton pads) and pull out our nail polish remover, pour some on our cotton pad, and wipe off the current adorable colour we’re sporting on our nails.

Well, Sally Hansen has found a way to sort of, combine the combination of cotton pads and nail polish remover all in one! In one little container!

This container is about three quarters full with a damp, sponge that has an X right in the middle of it. This sponge is covered in nail polish remover, and has remover resting at the bottom of the container (which I learned the hard way; after tipping it to the side and seeing what the container said, spilling remover all over my bed!)

This nail polish is apricot extract nail polish remover with vitamin E and natural moisturizers so it helps prevent nail drying (unlike acetone removers). You simply dip your finger in, and pull it out and that it’s gone!

Well, that’s what it’s supposed to do, and to be honest it didn’t really do the trick for me. It took 17 different times dumping my nail in the little X and out. I actually found it easier to swish my finger around and rub it against the sponge. I think this would actually work differently depending on the type of polish you were wearing. I was wearing a duchochrome blue packed with green and gold colour by OPI from their summer flutter collection, called Catch me in your Net. 

None the less, I must say, this product is kind of cool!  It’s a really cool idea of modernizing the way we are all used to taking off polish.

The Sally Hansen Kwik Off can be purchased at Wal Mart for only $3.04.

 

So here I have some questions for you readers to answer,

How do you take off your nail polish remover?

Do you see yourself trying this nail polish remover in the future?

Let me know!

xxox

O.P.I Ate Berries in the Canaries

This colour was so generously given to me for my birthday by my best friend, she gave me like a little basket of everything I LOVE! I was SO happy and this was definitely one of my favourite birthday gifts out of all time This colour is from the South Beach collection for Summer 2009… and this colour is TOTALLYY stunning!

It took only one coat until my entire nail was fully covered, it’s very pigmented. It dried super, super fast, and I accidentally bumped into my camera cord and there was no annoying smudges! It is a dark fuschia pink with a little bit of subtle purple mixed into it. This colour is really flattering on my skin tone! I can see it being flattering on a lot of peoples skin tones!

60 Seconds Rimmel London; 2 new colours!

This nail polish brand that’s a little older, available in drug stores claims that after 60 seconds it’s completely dry! I want to be able to review nail polish that’s in all different price points and after 60 seconds I touched the polish to see if it had dried as the commercial promises, and it smudged! Dammit. I like the idea of nail polish being able to dry fast, and this did. But not after 60 seconds. How disappointing!

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819 Green with Envy

This colour is a metallic teal colour that reminds me of snakes almost! This shows 2 coats as the first one was really sheer, but for some reason this colour really doesn’t do much for me! Its flattering for my skin tone but nothing special although it is a really unique colour!

270 Shocker

This is a metallic hot fuschia pink. After only one coat this covered my nails perfectly! This photo doesn’t do it justice it’s such a beautiful color! This dried really fast compared What do you think about this for a really unique pink? 

OPI Absolutely Alice & Mad as a Hatter

OPI Alice in Wonderland came out much earlier this year, and I was in LOVE with the collection… okay only half the collection! The glitter-packed colours. At the time, I hadn’t bought these colours but now my friend was nice enough to lend them to review and swatch. These colours are glitter-packed and fun! They are the nicest colours EVER! I am in love with these two colours! Tell me if they are half as amazing as I THINK THEY ARE!

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Absolutely Alice is a glitter packed nail polish that is majority blue glitter with hints of baby blues, navy blues, silver and black glitter.  If you like blue nail polish, and glitter nail polish this color is like a dream!! This picture shows 2 coats. It applied REALLY easily. It was like applying any regular color! The only thing I’m worried about now, is taking it off… taking off glitter nail polish is such a pain!

Mad as a Hatter is a also a glitter-based nail polish that is primarily silver, but filled with red, blue, green, purple, orange, pretty much every single colour in the rainbow-packed nail polish! It’s stunning! I LOVE THIS COLOUR! It was a lot thicker then Absolutely Alice and for this my first coat was evenly and thinly painted and second coat was painted on really thick but dried fast, and isn’t as bumpy as normal glitter nail polish! Love this colour! J

American Apparel Nail Laquer: Colours for Fall!

After a recent trip to American Apparel, I saw these 3 colors and had to purchase them. They have a promotion, 3 bottles for $18, or 1 bottle for $7.50. If u think about it, your saving 20%! Their colors are cool, unique and really different. Good job American Apparel   

Malibu Green
My first colour was, Malibu Green which is almost a light forest green but more teal. I can't even describe it! I have NOTHING to compare this too! it took only 1 coat and my entire nail was painted perfectly. No nude spots, no streaky mess, and no frustrating sheer formula! I'm really impressed with this color. If your looking for somthing different; this is a teal green you WON'T regret purchasing. 
P.S while I was taking this off I left almost a green stain on my nails :S
I did use a basecoat- OPI Top to Bottom

Factory Grey
Just like Malibu Green, only 1 COAT! This color is STUNNING. I was dying to buy "Waking up in Vegas" Debra Lippman nail polish for $18 after seeing Lady Gaga on the cover of Vanity Fair for the September issue, this is such a cheap alternative and they are almost IDENTICAL! This color wasn't streaky, and is a dark gray- but not too dark. Its STUNNING!

Rose Bowl
This color would be best described as a creamy red-pink colour. Its such an interesting color. Those who want somthing more unique then a red or pink should lean towards this! Its stunning. This was 2 coats! 

Rose Bowl

This color would be best described as a creamy red-pink colour. Its such an interesting color. Those who want somthing more unique then a red or pink should lean towards this! Its stunning. This was 2 coats! 

So which colours are screaming, FALL to you? And which ones do you think you’ll pick up?

Will the three bottles of nail polish for $18.50 encourage you to buy three bottles? Or will you just stick with one bottle for $7.50?

Nail Polish, from Korea! Pt 1; Olive Deco

On my good, good friends (since grade 5 if you can believe it! Who is such a beautiful person and one of those people who are just as the beautiful on the outside as they are on the inside) travelled to South Korea, she was nice enough to bring back to me 8 stunning, beautiful, GORGEOUS nail polishes! My first four, are from a brand called Olive Deco, or Deco Olive, not really sure But, after doing my extensive research, (a.k.a typing it in to google, hehe) the brand is called Olive Deco!

The only thing that sucks, is I can’t read what the polish is called! It’s in Korean, haha! But for some reason the brand is written in English, so I will do my best to describe them.

For starters, it’s a clear bottle, written with small white words all in lower case, deco, then below it, it is written with a little larger white words saying Olive. The cap is a cylinder white plastic cap, and at the top it looks almost like a big circle with a small circle in the centre! The bottle looks like those boxes people in my class used to make with origami. It’s a puffed out rectangle, hehe  

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This color is a navy pearly blue. It’s not really navy, as it is dark blue. It took only ONE FRICKEN COAT and my whole nail was stunning! It really complimented my skin tone, and I must say I’m in love with this color! I’m really not looking forward to taking it off!

This color is a pearly purple color with subtle shimmers of red, pink, and blue. This color was stunning, and not streaky to the least bit. Although the first color was sheer, after a second coat it was covering my nail perfectly To be completely honest, this wouldn’t be a color I would have purchased or even looked at! But it turned out to be a really cool color! And I really love it! It’s super nice on my skin tone!

The next color, was really, really, really super dark. And I want to say its black… but its not black! It’s like a dark, dark, SUPER DARK purple that looks black, but it is NOT black! Suprisingly, this was a two-coater! Unlike every other polish I’ve tried so far, this did two coats to cover up the patchy coats! But it is stunning, I really like it! It’s very, very dark. And very, very nice

The next color I’m going to show you is a micro-glittered silver polish, which is packed into a clear coat! This color would look super cute as a top coat over a lavender nail polish (for example, Essie; Lilacism) or a dark gray (for example, Mouse by American Apparel) or just by itself! It’s different and cute!

I really wish I knew the names of these colours! I’ll ask my friend when she comes over next time  

Which ones your favourite? Have any of you heard of this brand before?