Sally Hansen's Let's Get Digital...

Sally Hansen's Gel polish in Let's Get Digital.

Four coats, clearly it's a sheer polish, which I didn't realize upon buying it how sheer it'd be.   So I should have done some kind of base color under it.   But in person the pink shimmer is very powerful (if you will), so I don't hate how sheer it was, but if I'd known how sheer it was I would have put down a light blue or white polish first.

Next time I will try it that way.

This one is a little blurry but it shows the pink shimmer more <3

It is super pretty.

Sally Hansen Babe Blue...

Sally Hansen Babe Blue polish.

Sadly none of the shimmer in the bottle shows up on the nails.  That makes me sad, that is why I bought it.

Rings are from ebay.

Also got a new set of nails put on, first time I had a pair removed, which was awful, they did not do it the proper way.   It was quite painful, and actually caused a wound under my real nail.   They will not be removing them again like that, at all.  I'll do it myself if I have to, the way it should be done.

Sally Hansen Royal Hue..

This is Sally Hansen Xteme Wear in Royal Hue.  I want to say it's more of a dusky blue in person, hard to get a true accurate photo of it.

I have my NYC In A New York Minute quick dry top coat on it too.

I'm not sure if this is limited edition or not, it was on a special display at Walgreens.

Probelle - Into The Blue...

Probelle polish in Into The Blue.

I got this in my Ipsy bag this month, and at first I wasn't very excited to see it.  It's a brand I've never tried before so that was nice, then I saw a swatch of it and I kind of fell in love with it.

It reminds me a touch of Sally Hansen's Pacific Blue, it's not a dupe by any means, but it just reminded me of it.  It's also photographing a bit too bright here, it's more muted.   I do really like it.

I Was In Versailles For His Death...

BROWS:
Essence Brow Pencil.

EYES:
Concrete Minerals eyeshadow primer.
Darling Girl base in Fluff.
Baroque Cosmetics shadows in Madame Deficit, Death Of Marat, and Versailles.
Elf liner (top).
Milani liner in Aqua (lower).
Loreal Voluminous Miss Manga mascara.

LIPS:
Avon lipstick in Radiant Raisin.

Also rocking my Sony headphones I got recently on ebay, I've always had good luck with Sony's (and most Skullcandy's).  I found them new on ebay for just under 15 bucks, picked white as oppose to say black because there was something just very crisp and clean about the white.

The lipstick is one I grabbed a sample of (was trying to hit a certain amount on a combined order for 15% off and free shipping) when I ordered last.  I really like the color, better then I thought it'd be.  If it goes on sale I might pick it up sometime.

This is my second look using Baroque Cosmetics, still really enjoying them.  I'd already said I liked Madame Deficit in my last post.  I loved both the new shades I used today, Death Of Marat is a amazing taupeish shade, I can see myself reaching for it a lot.  And I always love a good gold, so Versailles is a A+ in my book.  No duds from this company yet whatsoever, all love.

And this shot you can see my nails in.  I don't have all the names in front of me, but from memory the greenish color is Dive In with Hypnautical on top.  The purple is Drama Sheen.  All from Sally Hansen's Triple Shine line <3

If Blueberry And Grape Had A Race...

- Just a shot of my nails.
The blue is the Hello Kitty polish that I just got in my Sephora order, it's called Blueberry, and the purple is a gift from Sonia, its Sally Hansen's Insta-Dri in Grape Race.

I tried numerous times to get a good shot of this with my new camera phone but it kept making the blue look gray so this shot was taken with my best friend Joe's camera phone, did far better than mine.  Though she said to ignore the old couch I have my hand resting on haha

Dark Ombre...

I tried doing a ombre technique I saw on Facebook but it didn't work out like theirs did sadly.  I don't hate it.  But it's not what I thought it was going to be, maybe if I'd used a lighter blue or different colors, etc.  And this was prior to any cleanup.  

The colors I used were Sally Hansen Black Out and Orly's Royal Navy. 

Tooth Brush Nail Art...

 - This was a tooth brush nail art techinque I tried.  I don't know how I feel about it yet.

BASE COLOR:
Sally Hansen's Blue By!

OTHER COLORS:
Wet N Wild's I Need A Refreshmint.
Wet N Wild's On A Trip
Sation's Of Corset I'll Call You (I think that's right).

Outbreak Of The Epic Undead Zombie Princess...

 I have quite a bit to mention in this post, or more than usual anyway.

You may also notice I'm being photobombed by one of my cats Leo in the first shot.

First, I dyed my hair, I got Revlon's Luxurious Colorsilk Buttercream dye in Burgundy from Klout to try.  I really liked it.  I was intending to go back to something close to my real color (which is really dark brown, almost black) at some point soon, but now I'm kind of torn because I also really love this shade.  Well time will tell.  Any thoughts?  Maybe you can suggest a color you'd think look good on me.

 Now as for the makeup.

EYES:
Wet N Wild's eyeshadow primer I'm pretty sure if the one I used here.
Tick Tock's Outbreak Of Epic Proportions, Undead Princess, and Zombie Guts. 
Eye Liner is Elf. 
Mascara is Avon Super Extend in Black Amethyst. 

LIPS:
Lipstick is Milani Sangria.

 NAILS:
The red is Sally Hansen's Cherry Red - like the perfect red.
The gray is Sally Hansen's Wet Cement.
I tried doing little hearts on the gray with the red for Valentine's Day, it wasn't perfect but I thought they were super cute. 

Up close shot of the eye makeup, and a wayward hair.

And below is maybe a better picture of the nails I took while I was reading on my Nook - I did get a new case for it off ebay, yay for purple. 

Also this is my 400th post on my blog which is kind of epic, I want to do a special post for it but I haven't gotten to yet, so hopefully sometime in the very near future I will knock that out.

Small Haul.

Click to make me bigger!

- Little haul from a bit ago.  Just finally getting around to sharing.  I have some other 'hauls' to post soon but they're birthday presents - my birthday is on Monday!

The green yellow polish you see is coming up in a future post too, wearing it right now.

A Long Awaited Haul Post.

 - The stuff in this post has been accumulating for months.  I just haven't done a haul post.

The stuff in this top photo is stuff I got with a gift card, and I had a coupon for the Maybelline, it was for eye make up but it went through for the Baby Lips, so it was clearanced for 2.98 and I got a 1.50 off.

 - The Physicians Formula was gifts, or well I was given money to get the liner, and when I went to CVS, a coupon printed off for 15 dollars off Physicians Formula and then so did my 5 dollar CVS beauty bucks.  So I got the eyeshadow and the liner for 2 dollars, a buck each how awesome is that.  Pretty much everything in this and the next shot I had coupons for.

All the WnW stuff was 2 for 3 dollars at CVS and then I had a dollar off coupon for each item, in the end each items was 49 cents including the 8 pan palettes - I got those as back ups.

- The Dove items, Target had them on sale and if you bought four you got a five dollar gift card, so I figured I'd just stock up on some Dove, since I'm obviously going to need deodorant anyway.

My Maybelline lipstick I got ended up being damaged which sucks it was the last in that color, I'm going to try and exchange it at another Walmart.

 - WnW lipstick flower.   49 cents a shot.  I <3 WnW.

- Just a few other things, awhile back NYX was 40% off at Ulta and then I had a 20% off coupon, so that made them 60% off, so I picked up some items I've never tried before.  Not pictured was a couple loose shadows.

The Stila gloss (My first Stila gloss!) was a gift from a fellow blogger.  I still need to take some photos in it for her, I feel bad I haven't, I meant to, and then it just disappeared from my head until today, but I will. 

The WnW here I got on the 69 cents deal.   And the Rimmel lipstick (The Kate) I had a coupon for.

Can you tell I'd gotten on to a lipstick kick?

Idk why, I use to be like "Lipstick?  No, never."  But now I'm all "Yes, please!"

I'm so thankful for the gifts I've gotten and the gift cards and coupons I've had.   And keep in mind that the stuff in this post has been accumulating for awhile now.   I didn't go run out and buy it all at once.  

Abstract Pokadots...

 - I got bored and decided to spice up this manicure with my dotting tool (I sadly have misplaced the tool in the pack I love most and had to use the secondary favorite, I might have to get another set sometime if I don't find it.)

I don't have a list off hand of the polishes I used to dot, I honestly used 9 (or was it 13?) different polishes, but you can't really tell because three were like exactly the same color and some didn't show up well at all on the purple base.

 - Then I decided I didn't want regular dots I wanted to do something a bit more abstract.   I also only 3 polishes to "dot" on with this hand.

The base polish is Sally Hansen Plum Burst I believe and the accent is WnW Jewels For Your Highness, one coat over the plum.

 - Pokadots.

- Abstract swirly bits.

Secret Leprechaun...

- In a Facebook group I'm in we did a Secret Leprechaun swap, and this was what I got:
Extra Gum

Sinful Green Ocean

Sally Hansen Mint Sorbet

Sally Hansen Punk Rock

NYC High Line Green

Sinful Olympia

A scrunchie with clovers.

Sally Hansen nail file

And a Turtle candy. 

Thank you so much Amanda (everyone should check out her blog btw.), love it all!

Project Pan/Shop Your Stash/Try Not To Buy Anything.

Okay so me and my friend Alexandra are going to do a type of Project Pan.
We're going to start on Friday I think.

Here is a list of the items I have picked:

1. Absolute! Eyeshadow Palette - 12 Colors
2. Sally Hansen Hard As Nails (Using As A Nail Polish Base Coat)
3. Vaseline Lotion
4. Wet N Wild Coloricon Pencil Eyeliner In Black Black
5. John Frieda Full Repair Shampoo
6. John Frieda Full Repair Conditioner
7. EOS Lip Balm In Sweet Mint
8. Philosophy Body Wash in Happy Birthday!
9. Elf Eyeshadow Primer
10. Loreal Voluminous False Lashes Mascara
11. Clean And Clear Eye Makeup Remover

I ended up with 11 items instead of say 10.

Here's kind of what I'm thinking we'll do this for a month and then regroup and see where we want to go from there and see how our progress is. 

I expect to for sure use at least half of these items, if not more.   I also have an idea for what to do when I've used some of them up, like say the shampoo/conditioner I have a bunch of mini bottles I've gotten as freebie/samples and I think I'll work my way through using them after these to try and get rid of some of them since I don't travel much and don't need a bunch of them taking up space other things could be in.  I also have other body washes and lotions I can work on making my way through next.  Same with base coats and eye primers, and EOS.

And okay, other rules I'm thinking of.

• I can buy limited edition things, and depending on the item maybe I won't use it and save it as a reward.
• And while I am using an eye palette as one of my items, I am not required to use just that, I can use other eyeshadows with my look as long as I use something from this palette.
• Also I've never really used this palette it's brand new.  I'm going to add a loophole in, if it's the worst piece of crap ever that won't work for anything I can swap it out for a different palette.   But I will do my best with this one.
• And whatever shopping I do for my swaps I'm already in will not count against me and whatever I get for my swap won't count against me either.

This is my first Project Pan of any kind.  I have tried a no buy before which didn't work very well.   I know I probably won't do perfectly on this (is it wrong I'm already thinking that?  I think I'm being more of a realist than anything I know me.) but I will try.  And I don't expect to use every item entirely in a month, but I'd like to make a good dent in what I don't finish.

And here's a photo of my products:

I'm Below Deck On The Pacific Blue...

- A lovely girl (Thanks Hailee!) I met in one of my nail polish groups I'm in, and she offered to pick me up a Barielle polish when she placed an order she knew I wanted, which was so sweet of her.  But she also sent me two other polishes, we surprised each other with a few extras, she got me Sally Hansen Pacific Blue (which she must have been stalking me in the group to know I wanted that and I'm very thankful for her stalking abilities.) and China Glaze Below Deck.  I paired those latter two here.

I am so in love with the Pacific Blue, the whole time I wore it all I could do was stare at it and think "Best blue ever".  So amazing.  And I really love Below Deck too.

Also side note, it is very rare my right hand makes an appearance on my blog, but here it is lol

Quick Haul...

Ulta:

I got a Essence eyeliner brush because I don't know where mine went and I'd been wanted to try the Essence one.

China Glaze Blue Iguana.  Clearanced for 3.99.

Dollar Store:
Almay mascara (no packaging because I tried it in the car.)

CVS:
Milani lip gloss in First Class.  (Clearanced 75% off).

Milani nail polish in Raspberry Fusion.   (Clearanced 75% off).

Wet N Wild Lipstick in 541B (wish they had names.)

Sally Hansen Xtreme Wear polish in The Real Teal.   (Clearanced 75% off (I don't think there was suppose to be clearanced but it had a sticker so they gave me the clearanced price.)).

Spoiled polish in 2 Weeks Sober.

Fuchsia Chrome...

 - I had to take off that Celtic Sun, so I did this quickly before I had to leave earlier.  This is Sally Hansen Color Quick Pen in Fuchsia Chrome.  It's only one coat and I probably could have done with two.

I'd say it's more pink than fuchsia.  I do really love it though.

If you like the Sally Hansen Quick Pen's, they have almost all of the chrome colors at the Dollar Tree atm.   I now have all of them I think.  If I'm missing any it's the gold one.  

I also hear (but cannot attest to since I fail at stamping) that these are marvelous to stamp with.

- Any good finds at your dollar stores lately?

Still Sorry.

So, I got my charger in the mail.  It worked, yay!  Then literally the next day I had a virus that wiped out my computer.  And Andrew can't fix it, so a call was placed to someone who may be able to (I hope I hope I hope), but it won't be til idk when.  I hope soon.  So I'm still scarce.  And I apologize for that.

It's been a really bad two weeks.  I also had to rush one of my cats/children into the vet right about that same time (as the above happened) because he was bleeding everywhere from his nose, it was just pouring out and I got so scared, we (vet and I) think it was probably a sinus infection gone horribly wrong (not that it can go good.).  Because while he was bleeding he was sneezing blood.  It was awful.  I'm giving him an antibiotic now.

And a whole bunch of other drama and stuff is going on, but I won't get into it, I just wanted to try and explain what's going on, why I'm not posting atm, why I'm not commenting atm.

Here are a few other photos of stuff I got on the CVS sale/clearance, it's still going on.   Anybody go and get anything?  If so what did you get?

  

The only thing over two dollars in the photo is the eye shadows, pretty much everything else was one something, with the exception of the Confetti polish which was 49 cents and the Sally Hansen Xtreme Wear which was 75 cents.  If you haven't gone to CVS yet, I still advise you to go before there's nothing left.

I'm Sorry - And Check Your CVS!

I'm sorry I haven't been posting.  My laptop charger died entirely and I've ordered another one but it isn't here yet, maybe in the next few days it will be.

I'm having to use Andrew's computer until and so I'm a bit scarce in all of my normal online hangouts.

If any of you have a CVS you should check their Sally Hansen polishes, they aren't marked but seem to be on sale/clearanced.  You just have to scan them at the machine to find out.  I got the above pictured polishes for 8.88 total.  The Xtreme Wear are 75 cents each!  And the Diamond Strength are 1.25.   I might head back over because after checking my stash list I notice there are two I don't have that they have although I'm not sure if they were on sale or not, one way to find out.  

Plus if you're doing that "Every 50 dollars you spend on beauty in 2011 you get 5 Extra Bucks Back" this is good way to help chip away at the 50 dollars.   I don't think I'm going to make it with that, there isn't enough 2011 left.

Hauls.

- I had a bunch of coupons to use at Target so off I went (as well as the dollar store.). I saved like 6 dollars. I know Oooo Ahhh right. Anyway. I got Maybelline eyeshadow in Blue Blazes. Sally Hansen "Pink Sapphire" I don't think I'd ever seen a Hard As Nails in that packaging before. Sally Hansen Diamond Strength in Lilac Chantilly (these are clearancing at Walgreens for 2.79 atm). Revlon Violet. Sonia Kashuk (My first) in Blank Slate. Sally Hansen Xtreme Wear in Blizzard Blue. Fantasy Makers in Black Pearl (which I'm now thinking of POTC). Color Club Santa's Cinnamon. Sally Hansen Hard As Wraps, found this at the dollar store, I was thinking of using it as a base coat for awhile maybe it'll help my nails out and I can always use more base coat.

Buy three Finger Paints get a free wallet at Sally's atm. She had the Finger Paints on sale for 2.99 too, so everything in this picture was less than ten dollars. I'm using the wallet now. The polishes are Winter Sky, Be A Pal-ette, and Get Real-ism!

WnW Believe Me, It's Real (I finally decided to get some of these since Walgreens has the dollar off coupons in the holiday coupon book.), some of the Beauty Concept polishes I've been showing.

- Revlon Pedicure set (it was at the dollar store, yay good find.), Sally's baked shadow, and loose glitter. Eyeshadow palette from CVS too, I really like the colors in it, I hope they live up to their beauty.

- EOS set because I love love love EOS. WnW Back Alley Deals, Cost Is No Issue, and It's All In The Cut. And two more Beauty Concepts, since I loved the way the pink went on and the bottles I got the last two I didn't have at the Dollar Store.