Ipsy February 2014 bag

This months Ipsy subscription came in a pink bag with a pink animal print on the inside of the bag. I love makeup bags and my heart is still heavy that almost all my ipsy bags were stolen. But we will rebuild.

Here is all the stuff that came in my Ipsy bag this month. I will review all the different products in the bag this month. Look forward to those posts. They will be upcoming.  

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Color Club Winter Affair Giveaway ends on August 29th, 2013 comes with 4 nail polishes

So I am trying to get back in the habit of a weekly giveaway since I used to hold a weekly giveaway and then I stopped since I had low entries. So I am going to start working harder on promoting myself again and getting myself out there. Since I want to be able to show you guys great things and share with you all great things.

This giveaway prize was purchased with my own money. All the opinions on the polish are my own.

So I picked up this polish the other day and decided to grab a second package for you guys since I loved the colors. Sadly my nails have been breaking like crazy so sorry for the short nail pictures. I will work on that.

This package is called Winter Affair and comes with 4 Color Club nail polishes. It comes with a purple with blue undertones and glitter, a green with blue undertones and glitter and a red with glitter and a clear with sparkly white glitter chunks.

I love how easy this polish goes on and how nice it looks. I only used one coat for each of the applications you see.

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New Series Konad Discs.. Starting with M1

So for 5 months out of the year I work selling Konad products. It's a lot of fun. I have people daily ask me the same thing.. What does this design look like on a nail.. so I figured I should do a series.. which will be forever long .. showing off each Konad disc. So I thought I would start with the beginning disc. I stamped on my plain nail, no polish in Black Konad Stamping polish. I plan to do a series called stamping with non konad polishes very soon.. So be on the look out for that.

These pictures are taken with my camera phone, because I do it at work during slow times. On most days I don't really get slow days.. so it's a struggle. I am going to try to do as many discs as possible at work, since I only own about a 1/3 of the discs.

So this disc is really cute it has a spider, a duck, a ram, 2 butterflies, a little girl and a baby chick.

I love this disc. It's a cute disc for simple animal designs when you need a quick baby duck or spider fix..

Tune in next time for Discs 2 and 3.. :)

Nicole by OPI GumDrops

So this weekend I got to play with the new Nicole By OPI GumDrops. I am totally digging on the textured polishes and was super excited to try it out. I really love OPI's LiquidSand so I figured, from the same brand I would adore these. They aren't as textured as I thought they would be. I used My Cherry Amour (Red) and A-nise Treat (Black) as accent nails. They are textured matte glitter.

They didn't dry super fast so I messed them up three times before I got them to dry without me screwing them up. I love the colors, but felt there wasn't enough texture to them.

I know kinda funny when I felt the Sally Hansen had too much texture, and OPI Liquidsand is my favorite at the moment. I haven't had the chance to try them all but I promise to keep you updated.

I did not purchase these or receive them, I was just given the chance to play with them.

There are 6 colors in the set, I only had the chance to play with 2 of them. So if you get the chance, they are beautifil polishes and worth the money if you like the micro glitter look.

Lynnderella Very Pretty Vampire review and swatches

I had heard a ton of things about Lynnderella and I hadn't had the chance to grab one. Then the other day I got a Very Pretty Vampire. It was a beautiful glitter polish with small purple circles and medium sized red squares. I liked the color so I had to get it.

I love the color but I couldn't get it to go on smoothly. It was super glitter heavy. Maybe it was just my bottle, since it was depotted for me into a smaller bottle. I might try thinning it out a bit, but I couldn't get it to work for me.

I like the colors, so hopefully I will find a use for it.

Nerd Lacquer Quasar review and swatches

I have heard about these polishes from every indie nail lover. I have wanted to get myself one. I got the chance to pick up Quasar. It is a beautiful polish and it goes on so clean. I really like the brand. I really am falling in love with the indie polish companies.

The color is a green jelly with glitter in it. It's the first glitter polish that I really like so far, so that was a first for me. I really dig the color too, in and out of the bottle. It is so gorgeous. I am so glad I grabbed a bottle of this for my collection, now to catch them all.

The Place Beyond the Pines a review and Nail Art

Now when this hit the theatres I really wanted to see it. I love all of the main characters. I adore Bradley Cooper (I fell even more in love with him recently in Silver Linings Playbook, such an incredible film). I think Ryan Gosling is a cutie. The trailer made the movie look interesting a carnie guy finds out he has a kid and the story is intertwined with a cop who is trying to stay clean when all the cops around him are dirty.

So the movie was really different then I imagined it to be. The trailer is not exactly good at telling you what is going on, thats no good.. I really really wanted to love it. It got so many high reviews and with the cast I was really excited. I didn't enjoy it. I hate saying anything bad about anything because it is someone's work and dream. So I am going to try to focus on the things I did like about the film. Bradley Cooper. LOL. He really is a great dramatic actor. I felt his character was the best written for the movie. He really brought it.

The story was a little to stereotypical for me and way too clique. I just couldn't get into it.

I used Anise Rock Your World for the base color. Then I used Anise Wasabi for the trees and money sign. I know I am not the best artist but at some point I will get better.

Northern Lights Gold Holographic Top Coat Review

I love the whole new holographic phase that the nail world is going through. I Had never used a holo top coat before and I had this one gifted to me. So I thought I would give it a whirl on some darker colors. I really like it. I can't wait to use it more often. It gives a nice uniform coat. I love the way it sparkles. The colors really sparkle in the sun. It is a great top coat for any day that you want your nails to really shine.

So here is the top coat over Jungle Trail. See how it just really pops.

Now here it is over Black On Black. I really like the way it shows up on the black.

Now the polish does have a strong smell to it, but if that doesn't bother you then this is the perfect holo top coat for you.