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Monday, March 10th 2008

Nail Polish: Photo Swatches

MAC Cosmetics, Whirlwind, nail polish photo swatch from the 2007 Storm Signals Collection.

MAC Cosmetics, Girls will be Girls and Boom, nail polish photo swatches from the 2008 Fafi Collection.

 

 MAC Cosmetics, Steamy nail polish photo swatches from the 2007 Barbie loves MAC Collection. 

Dior Vernis, Bleu Poison, nail polish photo swatch.  A 2008 Limited Edition color exclusively at Sephora.

OPI, MoonSoon or Later, nail polish photo swatch from the Spring/Summer 2008 India Collection.

OPI, Lunch at the Delhi, nail polish photo swatch from the Spring/Summer 2008 India Collection.

OPI, Yoga-ta Get this Blue, nail polish photo swatch from the Spring/Summer 2008 India Collection.

OPI, Charmed by a Snake, nail polish photo swatch from the Spring/Summer 2008 India Collection.

OPI, Curry Up Don't Be Late, nail polish photo swatch from the Spring/Summer 2008 India Collection.

 

 China Glaze, Unplugged, nail polish photo swatch from the Spring 2008 ecollection.

 China Glaze, Hybrid, nail polish photo swatch from the spring 2008 ecollection.

 China Glaze, Shower Together, nail polish photo swatch from the spring 2008 ecollection.

China Glaze, Recycle, nail polish photo swatch from the spring 2008 ecollection.

China Glaze, Solar Power, nail polish photo swatch from the spring 2008 ecollection.

 China Glaze, Tree Hugger, nail polish photo swatch from the spring 2008 ecollection.

 

Sally Hansen, Color Quick Fast Dry Nail Color Pen photo swatch in, Hot Pink. 

Stay tuned for more photo swatches.

FEATURED - Wednesday, March 19th 2008

Sally Hansen Color Pen: Review and Swatch

Sally Hansen introduces a new nail polish technology.  Color quick fast dry nail color pen.  New fast dry nail color formula packaged in an easy-to-use, take anywhere spill-proof pen.  Just click to dispense color, brush on and go!  Handy application makes it easy to use anytime, anywhere!  Retail Price is $7.99 USD.  No DBP, Toluene or Free Formaldehyde.  Check out the 8 color shades available below.

I really hate to give bad reviews on products, but, this certainly gets a big two thumbs down for me. I felt like I had no control of the amount of color applied to my nails.  It either came out in a big goopy mess, or not enough color for the application, and dried too fast for me to correct it.  However, the hot pink color is very pretty.  This is certainly something I will not be purchasing again, espically for $7.99.  Great idea Sally, just get the technique perfected, then this would be an great product.

Thursday, March 27th 2008

Sally Hansen Sterling: Limited Edition Color

At my local drugstore, I was lucky enough to stumble upon this limited edition nail polish color from Sally Hansen, Sterling.  It's very rare that a nail polish color in a drugstore catches my eye.  But, this color definitely caught my eye quickly.  And, I was very fortunate because they were just putting out the display, which only held about 8 bottles.  So, I guess it was my lucky day!

Sally Hansen, Sterling, described as a metallic silver nail polish color that isn't too heavy nor sheer.  I really like Sally Hansen's Salon formula's, and was excited to get a hold of this limited edition color.

Think metallic colors are out?  Think again!  They are on a ongoing rising trend for Spring and Summer.  MAC Cosmetics just released a new metallic silver nail polish color from the Heatherette Collection, $$$$$ Yes.  Check out the photo comparisons between Sally Hansen's and MAC"s color. 

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Can you see the difference?  If not, well that's because their about 98% identical.  There is only one true difference, MAC's $$$$$ Yes, is more sheer compared to Sally Hansen's, Sterling.  I actually prefer Sally Hansen's formula because it's a tad bit thicker, and has a true metallic silver color payoff.

If you can find this limited color, it's defintely worth picking up.  Sterling is a better and cheaper version of MAC's, $$$$$ Yes nail polish.

FEATURED - Monday, March 31st 2008

Sally Hansen: Tracy Reese Collection Available

The long awaited Sally Hansen limited edition Tracy Reese collection has finally hit stores this week.  I went to two different local drug stores and happened to see this collection just being put on display.  The only bad thing, two colors of each per display is available.  Which is going to make it that much harder to get a hold of these lovely shades.  Arabian Night is going to be a very hard color to track down.  I had to go to two stores to find it, but, it's defintely worth while. 

I have to say every single color in this collection is suitable for everyone.  My favorites out of the Tracy Resse collection: Arabian Night, Sultry Fuchsia and Tunisian Sand.  But, overall I liked every color, not to add the long lasting formula.  This collection has a color to please every appetite.  See the colors below.

Keep your eyes open when you visit your local drug store.  You definitely don't want to miss out on Arabian Night and Tunisian Sand, two beautiful unique colors, and only two colors per display!  Why do they do this to us!

FEATURED - Monday, June 9th 2008

CVS Drugstore Haul: Sally Hansen, Cover Girl

Boy, is it hot here in the Southeastern region.  At 8 am it's already 90 degrees!  A simple visit to my local CVS pharmacy to pick up some shaving creme turned into a full-force makeup haul.  Those damn drugstores always get ya!  The display for Sally Hansens Lacquer Shine was rather empty.  These lovely summer shades were flying off the shelves by the minute.  The four colors I picked up: Flair, Flash, Spark and Glow.  Some other color shades that were sold out: coral, pink, and red.  Check out the photo swatches below.

Glow is described as an granny smith apple green shade with yellow-green shimmer.  Flair is an violet purple shade with navy blue shimmer.  Flair was my favorite color out of the four I picked up.  Flash is described as a turquoise blue color with turquoise blue shimmer.  Flash is very comparable to MAC's Plasma Blu.  The only difference I noticed is MAC's has more of a frosty texture.  Last but not least, Spark.  A navy blue with purple and pink shimmer.  This is the first color that even comes close to OPI Russian Navy.  Spark is almost an 100% duplicate.  The only true difference is OPI Russian Navy has more shimmer to it.  But, other than that, it's a great alternative.

This is the first time I've tried Sally Hansen's Lacquer Shine formula.  Although, I can't review the staying power until I actually wear the polish a few times.  The application was very smooth and easy to apply with vibrant color pay-off and dimmensional shine.  I used two coats on my photo swatches. I don't think there would be a need for three coats because the color pay-off is divine. 

I wanted to get some swatches up real fast for ya'll to see.  Later this week I will be posting swatches individually along with photo comparisions.

I've been debating these two eyeshadow colors for awhile now.  And, I finally picked them up today.   Check out the photo swatches below.

Covergirl Kaboom Kelly - described as a kelly green shade with fairly good color pay-off.  Covergirl Gold Sizzle - is a gold shimmer with not-so-good pigmentation.  I had to literally scrub with my finger to get good pigmentation.  And, last but not least, Milani Color Brillance eyeliner pencils.  Hands down, Milani has the BEST pencils out there with outstanding color pay-off.

FEATURED - Friday, June 20th 2008

Nail Polish of the Day: Nicole Virtuous Violet

Happy Friday, ya'll!  The weekends about here and I wanted to spice it up with something fun for tonight.  Nicole by OPI in Virtuous Violet has been sitting on my shelf screaming to be used for quite sometime now.  And, what on earth was I waiting for?!  I usually buy polishes on a whim and just forget about them, until one day.   Virtuous violet turned out to be so much prettier than I ever excepted.  You can never judge a nail polish color by it's bottle - that's what I love.  The shades are always unpredictable.

The texture and shimmer reminds me of OPI's Russian Navy and Ink.  Vitruous violet can easily be the cousin of those two colors.  Think ink and russian navy but with an periwinkle purple base color.  Looking at the bottle you don't see the periwinkle color because it applies rather sheer.  But, the blue and pink shimmer makes it a deeper purple.  I used three coats in my photo swatches.

What is Nicole by OPI?  Don't let the Nicole name fool you because the quality is just as good as professional OPI.  This brand is marketed for the average consumer verses the salon quality. ;You'll notice that Nicole is sold in most your local walmart, target, and many others.  I didn't put on a top coat until this morning and it was in perfect shape.  It may have been sheer but the quality was just as good.  Check out some comparisons below.

Check out some photo comparisons below.

Sally Hansens's Spark and is almost 100% identical to OPI's Russian Navy.  I have yet to see a comparison this close!

Have a great weekend peeps. Be safe.

FEATURED - Tuesday, July 1st 2008

Drugstore Haul: Sally Hansen, Loreal

This week, Walgreens has buy one get one free on Loreal lip products which, is a perfect time to stock up on colorjuice.  My weekly visit to the drug store turned out to be fall makeup mania.  The fall 2008 makeup displays are in full force.  And, as much as I wanted to start stocking up vampy colors, summer's still here and I'm hooked on bright girly colors.  Here are some of the things I came out with:

Sally Hansen ($5.49) - Lacquer Shine in Lily - a ruby red shimmer and Lotus - a choclate brown shimmer.  I couldn't leave walgreens without getting a couple rich, dark colors.  Dark vampy red and plums are going to be huge colors for fall and Sally Hansen's Lily is right up my alley.

Loreal Colorjuice ($7.49) - This is a classic drug store cult item for me.  I haven't formally did an review on this, but, this is probably one of my most frequent reoccuring beauty purchases. 

Loreal Hip ($8.99) - High gloss jelly balm in Succulent.  This is a new product from the hip line that features at least 6 different shades of: coral, pink, plums, red.  I'll be doing an review comparing Loreal's and MAC's tendertone shortly.

FEATURED - Sunday, July 6th 2008

Get your metallic on with Sally Hansen

Metallic's are on fire this summer and Sally Hansen introduces three superstars to the collection.  Gilty Pleasure - a gold with gold glitter, Bronze Ambition - a bronze with silver glitter and Shooting Star - a silver with silver glitter.  These metallics are drenched in silver flecks making the texture a tad bit chunck but none the less gorgeous.

Why pay more?  These three additions retailing at $4.99 each are great alternative colors to some of the pricer metallic polishes out there.  All three colors should be available now at your local stores or Sally retailers.  Check out the photo swatches below.

 

Although the texture is on the chunky side, it's not as bad as China Glaze's ink collection.  I really disliked the ink collection due to the gritty and chuky feeling on my nails - I prefer a smooth clean application.  All my swatches were used with two coats and had no application issues.  When you apply additional coats, say 3 or 4, that's when the chukniess may come in.  But, nothing a top coat won't fix!

I wanted to get some swatches up real quick and I'll be posting individual swatches later this week.

Hope everyone has a wonderful 4th of July!  Mine was kinda blah - it rained and rained but that didn't stop the fireworks.

FEATURED - Tuesday, August 19th 2008

Sally Hansen Salon: Nail Polish Swatches

Hope everyone had a wonderful weekend!  I've been dealing with internet issues for the last couple weeks and that's one of my main reasons for my lack of posts.  But, it looks like everything is back to normal, thank goodness.  Life without internet - can you even imagine?

Let's start off with some Sally Hansen today.  Here's four shades that I picked up in the last couple of weeks.  I'll be posting the others later.  Haute Chocolate is a chocolate brown shade with red and gold shimmer that's a great brown color for fall.

Check out some more pics below.

 Shimmers are my favorite nail polish texture because they can be so unique.

Grenadine Glaze is a grenadine hot pink-red that was much prettier than expected.  It's hard to pick up on the hot pink in my swatches but the color is definitley there along with subtle hot pink and gold shimmer.

A great color to end the summer and begin fall.

Plum It - a gorgeous deep plum purple with pink and blue-purple and gold shimmer.  This would be a pedi color.

Navy Baby - a navy blue shade with aqua shimmer.  Navy blue is probably my all time favorite nail polish shade that I'll always have love for.  It's such a classy color and a great alternative to your standard goth black polish.  Navy baby may not be the most unique color but my nails are loving the metallic sheen texture. 

FEATURED - Friday, August 22nd 2008

Product Review: Chocolate Cherry Lip Glaze

 

Product: Lip Glaze in Chocolate Cherry

Price: $4.99

Steph's Rating:

Buy it: Drugstores, Grocery

Recommend: Depends

Sally Hansen's comfort shine lip glaze is an vita fruit complex that sores and beautifies distressed lips.  Filled with vitamins, moisturizers and soothing extracts creates a cushion of moisture delivered right to your lips.  A sophisiticated package with no mess applicator.

Ever since MAC released the Cult of Cherry collection, I've been craving chocolate cherries.  So, when I stumbled across Sally Hansen's comfort shine in Chocolate Cherry - I was all over it!  A chocolate cherry flavored lip gloss filled with vitamins, moisturizers and no-mess applicatior - y u m m y!

The Good: Extremely pigmented and excellent color pay-off.  The deep chocolate burgandy shade is filled with gold shimmer and suitable for most.  Trendy color for fall and a great topper for MAC's Cult of Cherry lipsticks/mattenes.  My lips felt completely moisturized and loved.

Check out some pictures below.

The Bad: Now, you know there had to be bad news.  I can't tell you how incredibly disappionting this was because it's such a great product as far as the gloss goes.  My issue is the applicator. It's plastic, small and flimsy - just not practical for me or my lips.  I had trouble accomplishing an even application - very blotchy like.  The chocolate cherry flavor didn't bother me but, I could possibly see a difference of opinion.

One main reason Sally Hansens lip glaze intrigued me was the no-mess applicator.  So, you can see the great disappiontment by my low rating.  That's the main reason MAC's Tendertones and Loreal Jelly Balm didn't go over - who wants to put gloss on with their finger?!  hello, bacteria!

Overall, this is beyond a great gloss as far as texture, color pay-off, vitamins and moisture.  The staying power is your typical gloss but with total hydration your lips will crave.  I've read a couple reviews on this product - some good and some bad.  It might vary between personal preference.

Sally - perfect the applicator and you have a true bread winner here!  Heck, just put it in a regular tube!  As far as my supply, I still plan on using it and applying with an q-tip like applicator or a lip brush because the color's fab.  For my swatch above my good ole pinky finger came in handy.

FEATURED - Saturday, September 6th 2008

New Fall Shades: Sally Hansen Xtreme Wear

Here's some new fall shades from Sally Hansen's Xtreme Wear line that I've had for a couple of weeks now.  More and more, I've been turning to Sally Hansen's bold, beautiful, fall-alistic colors.  

It's a horse of a different color (if you don't know this saying, shame on you)!  Emerald City - Don't this so remind you of Wizard of Oz?!  Infact, the name "emerald city" might have a little too much in common with the 1939 classic film.  A true emerald green shimmer perfect for green lovers.  

Gunmetal - a gorgeous blue/gray gunmetal shimmer.  It's more on the blue side - very pretty.

Mellow Yellow - a yellow - lime with green shimmer.  This color is "different".  A color that I wouldn't usually go for.  But, after wearing for a few days, it grew on me.

All these shades should be available now at most stores retailing an average $2.69 - great shades and cheap too!

FEATURED - Tuesday, September 9th 2008

Limited Edition Tools from Loreal HIP

This is one reason (out of many) why I hate limited edition products - their impossible to find.  A couple days ago, while on the prowl for Sally Hansen's Tracy Resse collection (another frustrating collection to find), I stumbled across a display of limited edition items from Loreal HiP.  But, there was one thing missing - all of the stock, of course!  It looked like it was completely rampaged by a pack of bulls!

Luckily, I found one eye shadow brush hiding in another area retailing for $9.99.  Ever since my new venture (which I haven't blogged about yet) I've been obsessed with finding the best makeup brushes.  So, it's kinda like an addiction just to pick-up a makeup brush here and there.  Just like nail polish, I can't ever leave a store without em'.

Honestly, I don't think your missing anything as far as the make-up brushes.  But, don't take my word just yet.  I'll be offiically reviewing the brush very soon. 

On to the, Clear eye color cream.  At one time, this was pretty easy to find.  But, once Loreal got wind of this highly reviewed stuff - they yank it off the shelves and make it "limited edition".  And, you know how the story ends from there, ladies.  I was a little bummed because there wasn't one in sight.

Loreal Hip LE products should be floating around somewhere.  So, keep your eyes peeled!

FEATURED - Friday, October 10th 2008

Sally Hansen Fall 08: Tracy Reese Collection

Year after Year Sally Hansen collaborates with fashion designer, Tracy Reese to bring us the latest and greatest nail trends right from the Runway.  For Fall 2008, Sally Hansen and Tracy Resse introduces 10 limited edition shades directly from Tracy's Fall 2008 Fashion Runway show.

The fall collection includes 10 new shades sure to please any appetite.  The shades range from your basic nude colors to vampy and edgy - perfect for fall trends.  Sally's best selling formula provides full coverage with two easy applications.  Some colors used three applications just to even everything out.  But, overall, two coats was the average for me.

Check out all the photo swatches below.

I'll be the first to admit - nude colors aren't my thang but, Divinity - a true nude with gold shimmer and slight pink undertones ended up being one of my favorite shades from the Fall collection.

 

Quartz Chameleon - a soft pink with gold shimmer.

Moonstone was my least favorite shade from the Tracy Reese collection.  Despite the grey bottle color, it's more of an white frost with silver shimmer. 

If it wasn't for Sally Hansen's previous release in Gunmetal, I would be all over this color.  Stormy Blue was slightly disappionting just because Gunmetal is pretty much an exact dupe.

 For the swatch above, three coats were applied on each nail.

Raven's Wing - a black loaded down with black, gold, and silver shimmer that's very blingy.  I absolutely love black nail polish colors for Fall - it's the new blue baby.  What makes Raven's Wing different from any other black is the beautiful gold base shimmer.

The Good Earth - a dark brown coffee shade with gold and red shimmer.  Good Earth is a darker brown than Chanel's new one, Haute Chocolat.  Check out the brown nail polish comparisons.

Alchemy, another favorite from the collection, a magenta purple with red and pink shimmer.

Cruel Heart - a ruby red with matching shimmer.  Just your standard red, nothing special.

Night Lily - a deep berry purple pink creme.  Unfortanetly, my swatch isn't an accurate color respresentation for some reason.  It's a much deeper purple berry shade that's very pretty. Check out an example below.

Night Lily has the same base color as Massini's Purple Medallion.  Just to give you an idea how off my swatch is above.

The Tracy Reese collection should be available now at most stores reatailing ($4.99 and up).

FEATURED - Thursday, October 23rd 2008

Nail Polish of the Day: Creative Rock Royalty

Rock Royalty ($2.99), a deep purple with pink and blue shimmer, is one of my favorite purple shades.  One main reason Rock Royalty tops my favorites, this vampy "purple" color is actually visible indoors and outdoors compared to, for example, Sally Hansen's Plum it.  Sally's, Plum it, is an fantastic color but tends to look on the blackish side with indoor lighting.

Creative Nail Design introduced this vampy goodness last fall in the Imperial Anarchary release.  Since this "old" but "not forgotten" collection still available online, I'll be reposting the photo swatches in the next week or so.  It's a nice selection of six colors ranging in reds, pinks, charcoal, purples retailing at $2.99/ea.

Check out some comparisons.

Here are some purple nail polish comparisons.  Another fabulous shade is Sally Hansen's Plum it.  If you haven't had a chance to pick this one up, I would highly recommend it.  Purple also looks hot on toes.

Hope your having a fabulous day!

FEATURED - Sunday, October 26th 2008

Alternatives to Chanel Haute Chocolat Polish

Chanel's Haute Chocolate nail polish is truely fab, I'm not going to lie.  But, nowadays with the ecomony in the early stages of recession and uprising costs on just about everything, twenty bucks may not be realistic for most of us.  So, here's some alternative brown nail polish comparisons that's on a friendlier budget.

Check out the swatches below.

Sally Hansen's, Haute Chocolate ($5.99), may resemble Chanels name but is much different in color.  Sally's version is much more red toned compared to Chanel's milky brown.  

 

Chanel's, Haute Chocolat ($20), is a true milk chocolate brown filled with gold pearl and very slight red shimmer.  It's the perfect brown shade espically if you've been searching.

  

Sally Hansen's, The Good Earth ($5.99), is an excellent alternative to Chanel's.  The colors may not be an exact dupe (which, quite honestly may be hard to find) but, it's close and a gorgeous color if that.  The Good Earth is slightly darker brown with a tad bit red toned and has less gold shimmer compared to Haute Chocolat but is a great brown regardless.

The Good Earth was released in the Tracy Reese fall 08 collection and should be available at stores now.

FEATURED - Tuesday, November 4th 2008

Nail Polish of the Day: Rock the Vote

Can you believe Election Day is finally here, whohoo!  Today I decided to go a little patriot considering this being a history making day with either a black president or a woman vice president.  If your wondering who I voted for?  Obama all the way baby, even though my heart will always be with Hil.

I'll be the first to admit, I'm not an "Nail Art" girl, but polka dots are one of the easiest designs you can do.  The colors that were used are OPI Blue my Mind (two coats), China Glaze High Roller (two coats) and Sally Hansen White Patent leather for the polka dots.

Sometimes I resort to an white acrylic paint for the polka dots because it's thicker and much easier to deal with.  In this case, I just used Sally Hansen's White Patent Leather along with a old MAC 203 lip brush to paint the dots.  When working with polka dots, a fine pointed tip brush seems to work best for me.   

Hope your having a great election day!  Get out there and vote, Change is coming!

FEATURED - Wednesday, November 5th 2008

Limited Edition: Wet n Wild Holiday Gift Sets

The label should read - calling all nail polish junkies!  A few days ago, I stumbled across Wet n' Wild's holiday gifts sets for five bucks at my local Meijers.   Of course, the only reason that attracted me to the gift set was the precious metal nail polishes that looked simply metalicious and right up my alley.

Five bucks is a great deal for seven different beauty items.  Heck, you can't even get a bottle of Sally Hansen's Salon polish for that price.  Cosmetic companies are marketing geniuses around the holiday season.  They always include one or two fabulous products in holiday sets that you just can't resist.  In this case, it's the metall nail lacquers.

Check out the nail colors below. 

The nail poilshes don't officially have names since their included in gift sets, just shade numbers.  352 is described as a red/pink metallic with silver shimmer. Application and formula was perfect. 

354, my obvious favorite, is described as a pink/purple metallic with silver shimmer. This shade is so cool you guys, it's like piinkish purple foil on my nails - totally retro.   

Don't need the extra items?  You can always give the extra goodies to your sister, mom, friend or even a reader on your blog or site!

The holiday sets should be popping up now at your local stores.

FEATURED - Tuesday, November 25th 2008

CK Barefoot: A Good Neutral Nail Color

Usually, you wouldn't catch me wearing any kind of natural shade on my nail, but Sally Hansen's Divinity, from the Tracy Reese fall collection, opened my mind to explore other interesting neutral colored shades.

So, I was anxious to try Barefoot because of the bursh discripency from my first CK experience.  And, I'm happy to report that - no application problems and the brush was perfect.

Barefoot's described as a jelly like, nude-pink with loads of shimmer.   It looks completely natural on nails with a perfect amount of sparkle and shine.

Sally Hansen's, Divinity is the closest dupe I have to Barefoot.  It's more opaque, nude and has alot less shimmer compared to CK's.

Barefoot is now available at Sephora and retails for $10.

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