Haulage Part III - A Harmless Trip to Ulta

Yes, ANOTHER haul post. I'm a lunatic. I hope you guys don't mind them because there are probably at least two more to come.

Anyway, I had a coupon and my level one award to cash in, so I went to Ulta. Here's what I snagged:

My level one reward: Ulta Celebutante. Rich, purple cream. My sister actually bought this polish first because it's really close to OPI Funkey Dunkey, and I got my own bottle because it was free and nothing else was calling my name. Current pedicure and only two coats were needed for opacity, FYI. Love it!

And here are some other things that magically made it into my basket somehow.....

Top row: Ulta Toe-tally Matte set, with (LtoR) High Shine Top Coat, Sunbathing Beauty, Beach Bum, Surfer Girl, and Bananarama, Ulta What a Maroon, which is a red jelly that was on clearance, and my first butterLONDON, All Hail the Queen, a taupe subtly-holo polish.
And underneath is the OPI Pirates of the Caribbean mini set, with Skull and Glossbones, Planks a Lot, Sparrow Me the Drama, and Stranger Tides. I had a 20% off coupon that I used on this. And I got the last one in the display!

I hope you are enjoying my installment of haul posts! I'll post my current mani, ChG Señorita Bonita, and after I remove this I'm going to try my hand at another water marble. Check out my past water marbles HERE to get inspired!

That's it for now. Thanks for reading!

Janna

Sally Hansen Extreme Wear Sun Kissed

Hellooo!

Here's a quick picture of Sally Hansen Extreme Wear Sun Kissed. This was a birthday gift from my boyfriend that I talked about in one of my last haul posts. It's a really pretty orange cream. Not neon at all, but pretty bright. I really liked this one on me =] Sorry for the crappy picture, but this one's definitely awesome in real life. It bubbled a tiny bit but only because I applied three coats in a hurry along with Seche Vite and OPI topcoat, with a fan on. Pretty much a recipe for disaster.

Keeping it short for tonight, but more goodness to come tomorrow! Also, PLEASE don't forget to enter my Long Overdue Giveaway that ends the 23rd!


Janna

Haulage Part II - While I Was at School

Hellooo!

Here's another haul for you....do you like reading about hauls? I definitely do!

First up is the 6 polishes I got from the Zoya Polish Exchange! Two of them aren't pictured; I'll explain below!



Left to right: Savita, Rica, Breezi, and Perrie. How amazing are the frosted bottles?!

The two that aren't pictured are Isla, shown HERE, and Zoya Erin, which I gifted to a friend with the same name =] Rica looks a little orange-y in this photo, sorry about that, but I assure you it's a gorgeous coral. And it's much brighter than I thought it'd be so I'm happy! Savita, I've wanted forever because I love purples, Breezi just seemed like a good polish to have even though I wasn't specifically drawn to it (am I the only one who shops like that? Please say no! =P), and Perrie seems like my perfect warm-toned lilac.


Up next is China Glaze 2NITE. I bought this on a whim kind of, from Medusa's Threads, which is a shop run by April of Concrete and Nail Polish. I'll never have any other OMGs, so I figured I might as well grab one while I can. It's still on the site, though admittedly the price has been raised a bit. Still probably cheaper than you would pay if you bought it from a seller on eBay.




Waiting for the PERFECT time to wear this one. A jewel in my collection for sure.


Finally, a Sally's haul. Well, this is actually 2 (maybe more) hauls in one.

Top Row: China Glaze Lightning Bolt, Cracked Concrete, Broken Hearted, Fault Link, and Black Mesh. (Not pictured is Crushed Candy. I wore it and misplaced it!)
Bottom Row: Orly Royal Velvet, China Glaze Señorita Bonita, ChG Electric Pineapple, ChG Frostbite, and a Sally's Girl polish in Periwinkle. Not pictured is Flip Flop Fantasy...I obviously have a problem locating polishes. My apologies!

My Sally's got the crackles back in stock after the initial sellout little by little. Black Mesh was the first purchase, along with Flip Flop Fantasy and Frostbite, since they were running the buy 2 get 1. Then they had the white, gray, pink, and teal, and the buy 2 get one was still on, so at that time I also picked up (or my mom did) Señorita Bonita and Electric Pineapple. (I was on the phone with my mom to pick out the polishes, and Sally's had justtt gotten in the Island Escapes. Like, the saleswoman opened the box for my mom, and was extremely impressed that I rattled off the polishes that I wanted on the phone before my mom could describe them. =P) Sally's held the purple crackle for us when it came in, so I have the complete crackle collection! =]

Oh, and I bought Orly Royal Velvet way before the crackles. So pretty.

Sorry for the long-winded post! I like to write a little background on the polishes, why I picked them, and the deals going on when I purchased them. What good are just pictures? You may disagree lol.

Thank you so much for reading, and PLEASE don't forget to enter my Long Overdue Giveaway!

Janna

Haulage Part I - Happy Birthday to Me!

Hello again!

My 20th birthday was April 23rd and I just wanted to show you what I bought or received on that day. Onto the pictures!!



These lovelies were a thoughtful gift from my boyfriend.



From left to right these polishes are Orly Rose-Colored Glasses, Orly It's Up To Blue, Orly Rose Radiance, Sally Hansen Extreme Wear in Sunkissed (wearing now), SH Extreme Wear in Blue It, and Ulta Under the Sea Mini Set, which I'd been DYING to get, and I didn't even tell him. The polishes in the set are Tip the Scales, A Tail of Two Cities, Mermaid in Heaven, and Don't Be Shellfish.

Next I hit up Sephora and I got my free Beauty Insider birthday gift and bought a discounted polish. After that, I was headed to Ulta, where the polishes were buy 2, get one free.



To the left is philosophy's Happy Birthday, Beautiful! shampoo, shower gel & bubble bath, which is vanilla birthday cake scented. This was my free birthday gift, and it's a 6 oz. bottle, which I thought was really nice for a free gift! The polish is Sephora by OPI Rumba Romance. The two OPIs I got at Ulta are San Tan-tonio and Señorita Rose-alita. The 3rd polish I got was Big Hair. . .Big Nails, but I gave this to one of my close friends who has big curly hair. Lol.

Finally, I bought myself a very special birthday present at Nordstrom. . .I've never even been inside a Nordstrom before I don't think. I'm sure you can guess what I bought!







The saleswoman said they just got this in! MINI Deborah Lippmanns. From left to right: Bad Romance, Happy Birthday, Across the Universe. In love! I paid $30 for this if anyone is interested.

All in all, my birthday was amazing and I want to thank everyone who was a part of it! And thank YOU so much for reading!

Janna

Some Shameless Self-Promotion and Zoya Isla

Hello!

Okay, first the shamelessness and then the mani. Over at More Nail Polish blog, a contest is going on where each of the participants entered a franken, and now it's up to the blog's followers to vote on a winner! Go check out the gallery of participants! There are some awesome frankens, and if you'd like to help me out, I'm lucky #7, Frankenberry. On the site you can read a description and the recipe I used. If anyone's interested in more pictures, let me know, but I submitted the only perfectly-color-accurate one to the contest =] To vote, you must be a follow of More Nail Polish and fill out the form. Vote #7! =D Here's the link.



Now onto Isla! This is a deep red shimmer from Zoya, and as soon as I saw Scrangie's swatch, I fell in love. This color is amazing in person and I tried my hardest to capture it in photos! Here it goes:








After a couple of days I fauxnaded it with a Mash plate using Design-a-Nail polish in Voodoo. I loved this and got so many compliments!









Thank you for reading!

Janna

Blogger ABC's

Hellooo!

I've been reading this tag from a lot of bloggers and decided I'd give it a go. I wasn't tagged or anything, just wanted to do it! Warning: I like giving long-ish answers!

A. Age: 20

B. Bed size: Queen at home (wish it were a full so I'd have more room), Twin XL at school.

C. Chore you hate: Making the bed is the worst, but all of them unless I'm suddenly in the mood to clean.

D. Day: Hm...Saturday?

E. Essential start to your day: Putting in my contacts. I'm half-asleep until I put them in.

F. Favourite colour: Light Green and Purple. They're tied =P

G. Gold or Silver: Silver, but I think I look better in gold.

H. Height: 5'7" or 170cm for my international ladies. Yes, I googled that conversion.

I. Instruments: I played the clarinet in elementary and middle school...and I sing, so, voice?

J. Job title: Undergraduate Teaching Assistant. In other words, I tutor people in Chemistry.

K. Kids: Definitely someday, but none right now.

L. Live: New Jersey.

M. Mum’s name: JoAnna. Take away the 'o' and you get....

N. Nicknames: Jan, Jannabanana (lol), and a friend at school started calling me "Meeps" because I say "Meep!" a lot, as a term of excitement, fear, frustration, or any other emotion =P

O. Overnight hospital stays: None, knock on wood.

P. Pet peeve: Hmmmmm, I hate people who are cocky or brag to other people. Oh, and incorrect grammar. Come on, people!

Q. Quote from a movie: off the top of my head..."And I was like, 'EMILIOOOOOOO'"! (Name that film!)

R. Right or left handed: Right.

S. Siblings: One "little" sister who is 18.

T. Time you wake up: It varies, but lately I've been sleeping past noon =\

U. Underwear: Sure?

V. Vegetables you dislike: Peas and celery, just to name a few.

W. What makes you run late: My hair/makeup =P or just plain oversleeping and/or turning off the alarm in my sleep.

X. X-Rays you’ve had: None, again, knock on wood.

Y. Yummy food you make: Well I don't really cook, but I can make this taco dip, and....mac and cheese out of a box? Toast?

Z. Zoo: Not the biggest fan, but I saw one blogger mention that she prefers aquariums, and I have to agree!

Please, do this tag if you haven't already! It was a lot of fun. Leave a link in the comments if you do! As always, feel free to leave any questions or comments in the box below =]

Thanks for reading,
Janna

It's Wednesday!

And for the first time ever, that means I'm wearing pink!

For those of you who don't know, a bunch of bloggers have decided that "on Wednesday, we wear pink!" which is a nod to the ridiculously-quotable movie Mean Girls. Check out http://onwednesdayswewearpink.com/ if you're interested in joining!

Now, I don't know if I can participate every week, but I'm gonna try! Pinks once a week might be too much for me =P

Here's a mani that's mostly pink. This is Sephora by OPI Who Let the Dorks Out? topped with two coats of Jesse's Girl Confetti to turn up the purple sparkle, and then finally topped with one coat of China Glaze Broken Hearted and top coat.










Here are some bonus pictures of WLTDO and Jesse's Girl. Look how awesome the purple is! WLTDO is shown alone HERE.







Thanks for reading!

Janna

150 Followers!

Well actually, 151 at the moment =D

I just wanted to say a quick thank you to all of you. More posts to come tomorrow and more often since I have literally NOTHING to do in my life until July. Sad, right?

PLEASEE don't forget to enter my Long Overdue Giveaway! It's open until June 23rd, so there's plenty of time. I only have 4 entrants right now though, and I'd love to have more! I've also decided that everyone who enters my giveaway that has a blog will be put on my blogroll, which doesn't exist yet, but will after the giveaway closes.

A HUUUUGE THANK YOU again to all of you!

Janna<3