Major Hauling

Hello everyone!

This weekend has been full of shopping, and here are some pictures of what I snagged =]

On Friday I went to KMart and a Family Dollar store in the area.

Family Dollar:

Everything is L.A. Colors
First row: Nail art deco in white and silver glitter, Perfect Lash Mascara and Auto Eyeliner, both in black
Bottom row: Base/Topcoat and Perfect Pair polishes in "Paradise."

Everything was a dollar except the mascara (which was $2) =] and if I had known what I would find in KMart I would have skipped the topcoat...

KMart:

Sally Hansen Xtreme Wear in Marine Scene and Lime Lights, both with a free clear polish (for less than the price of the polish by itself), CoverGirl Boundless Color in City Lights (holo topcoat), Rimmel 60 Seconds in Zeitgeist, and NYC polish in Big Money Frost.

So now I have 4 Xtreme Wear polishes, two are green and two are blue, and a boatload of clear polish. I had to dig to the bottom of a sale basket to find the Rimmel polish, and apparently it's discontinued. It's a very pretty duochrome of fuschia to green/gold =]

The madness continued the next day when I went to the mall and to Sally's. . .

I got my first Icing polishes and some eyeshadows:

Matte polish in Chase Me, Copper with holo glitter called Paparazzi, Safari Eyeshadow Kit and a 10 shadow palette

Here are the shadows opened:


Both of these were 10 dollars and the colors in them are gorgeous =] (Plus, the store gets bonus points because the girl at the checkout complimented my rainbow water marble nails!)

The rest of my trip:


e.l.f. liquid eyeliner in black, Claire's Mood polish in Calm/Wild and Peaceful/Confident, and an old Revlon Dark Pleasures polish, 780 Talk Dirty.

And finally, I stopped at Sally's:

Top (all China Glaze): Golden Enchantment, Kiwi Cool-ada, and Yellow Polka Dot Bikini
Bottom: Gelous Nail Gel Coat, Seche Vite topcoat (my first!), and Orly Royal Navy.
I also picked up a crystal nail file by A.S.P.

The CGs were on sale for $1.99. ONE DOLLAR AND 99 CENTS PEOPLE!!! Go get them while you can! I could totally live with being a season behind if that means getting polishes more than half off. Kiwi Cool-ada was my favorite from the Poolside Collection, and now it's mine =]

So that's it! Sorry for the obnoxiously long post, but I got a bunch of goodies =]

Thanks for reading,

Janna

Fauxnad and Family Nails

I have a feeling this is going to be a long post, so here we go.

First off, does anyone remember the Design-a-Nail by Dee? I got it for Christmas from my parents years ago, and I don't even think they make them anymore. It basically was Konad stamping, only you used a machine with it. You pushed down, pulled the piece closer to scrape the excess polish, pushed the stamper down, picked it up, and pushed it directly onto your nail, which sat snugly on top of the curves of the machine. Sounds complicated, I know. I haven't used it in years, but since I've been reading all these blogs, I wanted to try it again, but I just used the plates it came with, the special polishes, scraper and stamper. Turned out my scraper was absolutely useless, and nothing else seemed to work, so I ordered both a scraper and stamper set and the 21 Bundle Monster plates from amazon.com. The plates were $17 and no charge for shipping! I placed the orders on the 21st of July, the stamper arrived on the 24th and the plates, on the 26th.





As soon as I got my new scraper and stamper, but before my new plates came in, I did my mom's nails in 2 coats of Wet and Wild's Wet Shine "Sunny Side Up" with one layer of Savvy in "French White White" as a base. Then I . . . fauxnaded. . . them using a plate from the Design-a-Nail system, 52M, and a Design-a-Nail special polish in "Rage." I love how it looks, and she was excited to be a hand model.







I love it and I think this was my first full manicure I've ever done using any kind of stamping system, and it was so fun! Her nails are soo long, and she actually just trimmed them. I owe my good nail genes to her!

My sister, on the other hand, can't really grow her nails long, so I guess she got my dad's nail genes, lol. Earlier this week I asked her to let me paint her nails in periwinkle, her favorite color. I also got to use my new-ish dotting tool =]

Super blurry for some reason...






And I used. . .

L.A. Colors Color Craze in Static Electricity, An old unnamed Petites polish that's a periwinkle with a purple flash, a Stripe Right in Gold (that's the name, but it's actually one of those amazing colors right between metallic gold and metallic silver), and a dotting tool/nail brush from Sally's.

Of course, this manicure bit the dust the next day when she went to the beach. She polished them again herself and I begged her to let me put some fauxnad on them, but she won't let me yet. Oh well =p

I'm going to end this here to avoid a super long post. Thanks for reading!

Janna