Milani sale at CVS - One Coat Glitters

Just wanted to give everyone a heads up- Milani is buy one, get one 50% off at CVS. I don't know how long the sale runs, but I was just there and came home with this awesomeness:

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I can't remember the last time Milani was on sale anywhere. And these polishes are amazing. I'm wearing Blue Flash and it's stunning. I haven't gotten a chance to swatch, photograph or otherwise evaluate the rest of the colors yet, but they look incredible in the bottles. If Blue Flash is any indicator of quality, they're all super opaque and sparkly. The only ones that aren't opaque are the multi-color and the gold plate glitter, which seem to be more of a topcoat style glitter instead of an opaque wear-alone glitter.

Will post pics of these when I can!

Rescue Beauty Lounge Bottle Pics (And a couple swatches!)

The big Rescue Beauty Lounge 50% off sale is starting in just a little while. My camera battery died in the middle of swatching but I did get some bottle pictures of my collection. Well, most of it at least... I'm missing a few that I couldn't find (Coral, Opaque Nude and a few others)...

Bikini Bottom, Teal, Dead Calm, Under The Stars


Starfish Patrick, Bangin', Sheer Red, Chinoise, Killa Red


Locavore, Look Rich Be Cheap, Frugalista


Square Pants, Yellow Fever, No More War, Diddy Mow, Orbis Non Sufficit, Recycle


Concrete Jungle, Stormy, 360, Catherine H, Anne


Underwear, Medium White, Moxie, Sheer Natural, Ani


Clear Pink, Grunge, Lelia, Plie, Om


Noisette, Bruised, Drifter, Atame


Purple Haze, Mismas, Scrangie, Catherine

Moulin Rouge, Au Chocolate, Black Russian, Film Noir

I'm going to see if I can get a few more pictures. Also be sure to check the "Rescue Beauty Lounge" tag on the right for some swatches. I am aware that some of my pictures don't seem to be working right now, hopefully I can fix that too!

EDIT: Looks like these ones weren't too blurry!

Underwear, one coat, with topcoat. And there's dust in my topcoat, too! Yay! XD

Bikini Bottom, four coats. Super sheer.

Square Pants, four coats, also super sheer.



Index and ring finger: Stormy
Middle and pinkie: Concrete Jungle

Sheer Red (two coats) over Underwear. Sheer Red really is sheer!


Edit again!: Sorry guys, I think I've photographed some colors that are discontinued! I didn't realize. I know that the Tudor wives aren't on sale today, but I wasn't aware that some of these others were unavailable :(

Recent stash enhancement

Haven't felt much like swatching lately, but I took some bottle pics of some pretty stuff!


Some Ulta brand polishes that were buy two, get two free (isn't that really just buy one get one free?). I forgot the name of the purple one. Material Girl, Envy (yes, envy, not just one but two Ulta green shimmers with envy in the name!) and... Jaded? I must admit I liked the old bottles better because these square caps don't align properly after you open them.



These were on sale at Ulta too! I only had two or three Borghese polishes before this- Espresso Brown and Stellare Notte and one I got on clearance at TJ Maxx which I've never worn and can't find. These are Almondine (really cool nude with speckles!), Plumaggio Purple (which looks awesome with 2010/Hidden Treasure on top) and Menta (super sheer turquoise shimmer that looks too blue in this picture)


Some of the new Finger Paints. I think the multi-colored glitter in the middle of the top picture is limited edition but the rest are permanent! How cool is that?! I couldn't find the one that's supposed to be an Absolutely Alice clone, I'll have to hit another Sally sometime. I think it's awesome that they've added a whole bunch of greens and glitters to their permanent collection.

And of course, the crown jewel... The Ulta Glam Goth collection. This picture kinda turned out weird. But these are awesome. Sure, they're all really similar to other polishes, but they're just so awesome all together like this.

Now, if you'll excuse me, I'm going to go pass out in a miserable allergy-induced coma. *achoo*

Bottle pics of new stuff including China Glaze Vintage Vixen, OPI Summer Flutter and MAC Superglass

I'm actually really super excited about these new collections. Finally, something I can't wait to post!

Why am I so excited about this stuff? One word.

Glitter.

Hopefully I'll get good enough lighting to swatch these soon, but for now, how about some bottle pics??


OPI's Summer Flutter 2010 collection. Wing It! (weird duochromey murky shimmery pink), Catch Me In Your Net (glittery blue-green duochrome shimmer, looks just like Zoya Charla), Flower to Flower (bright candy pink with gold shimmer), Flit a Bit (orange creme).



China Glaze Vintage Vixen! These seem right up my alley. Dark and full of microglitter. China Glaze keeps calling them frosts, but they don't look all that frosty to me- a few of them look like foils! I haven't tried them on to be sure, but I don't think they're frosty ick like we've been dreading.

Classic Camel, Ingrid, Swing Baby, Goin' My Way?, Foxy, Riveter Rouge.

Hey Doll, Bogie, First Class Ticket (which is dark purple, not blue), Midnight Mission, Emerald Fitzgerald, Jitterbug.

Oh yeah, don't forget that you can click the pictures to enlarge them. They're huge. You can see more detail that way.

These are Nicole's summer ones... But I don't know anything about them. I don't know the name of the collection or if they're exclusives or anything... All I know is... glass fleck!! Foily blue! Glittery sheer pink! A New Kind Of Blue, Rent A Magenta, Nail Ya Azalea (lol), Yum-Egranate (running out of name ideas, OPI??), Traffic Cone, Oy Oy Oyster (OPI goes punk?)


And my Superglasses that arrived yesterday. I love them. I want them all now. This is Fab Frenzy, Tunnel of Love and Superflash. I've only worn Fab Frenzy so far and that one looks great on me. Ahhhhhh so cool! Look at the little blue flashes of glitter in there!!

Overall Beauty Sale Haul!

Eeek they're here! I'm been dreaming about these nonstop since I first saw them and now they're finally here! *squeal* (Click these suckers to enlarge, they're ginormous!)


Kelly's Green, Redwood Forest, Vampy Varnish, Mendocino Midnight, Union Square, Napa Valley Red. OMG SO HOT

These are Kelly of Vampy Varnish's personal creations! Check out her swatches!

These came along for the ride as well:


Studio 54, Saturday Night Fever, Hard-On Nail Strengthener, Top Rock Topcoat.

Studio 54 almost seems a little frosty, Saturday Night Fever looks like it could be twinny to Emerald Sparkle. I'll admit, I only bought Hard-On for the name and Top Rock because it's scented. Heh.

Looks like they made the bottles smaller, as you can see in the second picture. They're .5oz now instead of .6oz.

I can't wait to try all of these on. OMG I'm so excited. SO MANY GREENS!!! SO MUCH GLITTER!!!! The colors, Duke!

Upcoming Posts?

Okay, so I won't be around long enough to do an actual post today, so how about some nice bottle pictures?

All of these are things I'm trying to swatch for upcoming posts. Some are new, some are old, some are harder to find. Personally, I love looking at bottle pictures... maybe I should do some more often!




Have a great weekend everyone!

Preview: Barielle Shades Fall/Winter 2009

I wanted to get these swatched today but I didn't get a chance! Here are the bottles until I can get some decent pictures taken:

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Falling Star, Slate Of Affairs, U-Concrete-Me, Out-Grey-geous, Putt-e On Me, Get Mauve-ing

Pin Up, Glammed Out Garnet, Lava Rock, Make It A Latte, Blackened Bleu, Polished Princess

This Barielle collection is a collaboration between All Lacquered Up and celebrity manicurist Elle! Full review coming soon!

Zoya Fall 2009 Truth and Dare Bottle Pictures

Since there's no natural light today, I can't really take adequate swatch pictures of these, but here are some bottle pics for a little preview of the shades :) As always, click the images to enlarge. They're GINORMOUS.

TRUTH

Anaka

Drew

Isla

Kalmia

Penny

Salma




DARE


Ciara

Demi

Envy

Ibiza


Pinta (This is purple, not blue- it won't photograph correctly)

Vanessa (a bit more muted and less pink than this)

I'll do a complete review as soon as I can get some swatches done :)