Flying dragon

I had a handy 10 off 20 coupon at Sally's and I was in Ohio visiting family ( yes there are no Sally's in manhattan) anyhow I found flying dragon on the display at Sally's regular core china glaze line. It's a neon but for some reason I have a weakness for purple polish. I picked this baby up along with some out the door fast dry and a few other items which I will review later. I guess I never really noticed how Matte a neon drys. This also dried a lot darker than I expected. I still found the flecks of color to be interesting. After a day or so with this I decided to spruce it up with a striping tool and some stones. I quite liked the result :). Below is 2 coats of china glaze flying dragon super fast easy application as most china glazes are. The wear time kinda sucked after about 2 days this baby was chipping :(

Visibly even

I decided to do reviews on my previously used products and note why they worked/ and or why they don't work anymore. Neutrogena visibly even used to be a staple of mine. I actually fell in love with this moisturizer when they had an original formula which contained vitamin c they have since reformulated this and removed it and added SPF 30 ( original was SPF 15) I noticed the change after but used up the new bottle anyway. I know now that vitamin c actually brightens my complexion. I still use the new bottle on occasion hoping that it will even out my skintone even if it won't brighten . But I'm on the quest now for more i doubt I will repurchase this now that I'm in my 30's, but even with all said its not a bad moisturizer for the price!:)

Test tube

Every since I gave birth to my beautiful daughter my skin and hair have not been the same I blame her and me turning 30.. Anyway instead of spending a but load of money buying products I "think" will help I decided to join a few product sampling programs. Test tube consistently gets rave reviews and it's also known to be very skin oriented . I still want to sign up for another but I'm on waiting lists.. :(. Anyway this works because instead of being bombarded I can give reviews/ thoughts on each item after I have used them for a while., so stay tuned for that! I personally really enjoy the magazine that comes with the subscription "new beauty " is very helpful to me already. I am going to try my best to start posting daily especially since I have hair products, face, make up , etc that I can review. Below is a snap of my first test tube. It ended up costing about 40.00 after shipping but it is honestly well worth it.

Bubble bath

My mom decided to help out with my addiction when she can and she picked up a few older opi polishes from a garage sale for me,This is one of them . Bubble bath probably could have used some thinner because it was a bit clumpy. But I wanted this to be opaque and this is a very thin French type polish. I wanted it as a palate cleanser and it accomplished that. Below is 3 coats and there is still a vnl. I painted these then went rummaging though my parents garage and immediately smudged the piss out of 3 nails. It bothered me , I also wasn't in the mood to attempt to fix with this 3 coater clumpy polish so I ended up only wearing this color on a bike ride then coming home showering and removing the polish.

Sephora pop

Every since I saw the color club summer 12 orange swatch sparkle and soar. I've wanted a glowing shimmery bright orange mani ! I may still purchase this at a later date but in order to get my fix I used one of those small bottles of sephora called pop and topped it with a wet-n-wild orange which is shimmery glitter. I'm away from home visiting my family in Ohio. So I brought a bunch of mini bottles even tho I did kinda go on a mini spree anyway. Anyhoo I loved this mani!! Bright and shimmery I am feeling orange right now like its my fab color lol. I'm loving my visit and I've been able to do multiple mani changes!! Not to mention cheap polish hauls! This is 2 coats sephora pop topped with 1 coat wet-n-wild orange

Purple yourself together

This is one of the few polishes I paid full price for. I saw swatches of this and knew i needed it in my collection. I honestly didn't capture the true copper shimmer this polish has in the photos. I haven't had time for art lately so I have just been trying to make my polishes special on their own. Below is 2 coats Nicole by opi purple yourself together. It applied nicely a few fingers i needed 3 coats for because i was a little light with my application. this is a Target exclusive kardashian from spring 2012. this is the only one from this collection I had to have

Zoya Bevin

This is my first Time trying zoya polish! I really love them! The application was a dream and the color is really unique to my stash. I had to take this while rushing out the door so the picture is on an escalator! Lol I actually smudged it in two places but it was hardly noticeable. This is two coats with a fast dry top coat. I definitely want more zoya polishes now! But the least I can do is try and wear them ones i already have! I've wanted to change color too often to have time to work on my nail art :( maybe soon tho!

Zoya haul

Thanks to doityourselflady blogspot I found out about the 1/2 off earth day sale! I'm soo excited about this haul I've never owned zoya before but even before trying any of the colors out I know I will purchase from them again. I got the scrub ,remover ,summer color chart and catalog free. everything in this pic was less then 40$ . And the colors look awesome in the bottle.

Soul mate

Today I have one of the 9 sinful colors polishes I got at the .99 cent sale at Walgreens! (tech 2) not sure I want to "freak" these. This is only 1 coat! It was easy to apply a tad thick but it's to be expected from a one coater like this. I added pinky glitter to my accent nail it's gloppy but as a glitter it doesn't bother me too much well worth the .99. I am pleasantly surprised by the formula for soul mate! Most of the sinfuls I have tried are thinner then this. I am excited to try more from my haul out in due time!