Sally Hansen Pedal to the Metal

Happy Monday!

I made the BEST green tea cupcakes yesterday with my sister and my cousin, they were delicious!!! We've been planning my (other) cousin's bridal shower for the past few weeks, and the date is coming soon!! It's so exciting! I'll make sure to post a few pictures of the brunch.

The bride-to-be and I went polish shopping the other day, and we finally chose her color! It's a nice translucent pink from Rimmel. She loves it, which makes me soo happy [and relieved]!

Sally Hansen Pedal to the Metal is a metallic light gray. It's really pretty! There's a slight hint of a purple tone, which makes it that much nicer. This was 2 coats.

Also, I've edited the SH Angel Wings post. Don't know why the pictures didn't show the first time. Sorry!!! I will make sure it won't happen again!

Have a great week!

Sally Hansen Angel Wings

As promised, here's the polish I've found for my cousin!

We have yet to try it on her, so I'm still on the lookout for others. What she wanted: a translucent polish with a hint of color..... I'm thinking that if she doesn't like the shimmer of this one, I'm going to look into the french manicure colors. I saw a few that caught my attention... we'll see what she thinks!

This is Angel Wings from Sally Hansen, an opalescent polish: milky white base color, with shimmer that turns rosey in the sun. It's totally not my style, as I prefer cremes, but I think it's pretty cute and would be great for layering! This was 2 coats. Also, I'm still not used to Sally Hansen' new brush.....

Sally Hansen Gunmetal

It's hump day!!

Patrick Watson's show yesterday night was incredible, as always. I have so much reading to do for my summer class, plus I have to make cupcakes for my little brother's fundraiser at school. It'll be fun though because I love baking and I love reading! :)

Here's Sally Hansen Xtreme Wear Gunmetal, a metallic grey, with a hint of blue. It's pretty cool. It's very shiny/glossy on its on too, which adds to the 'metal' effect. Application was great, 2 coats needed, and the formula was great, smooth and pigmented. (Worn without top coat in the picture)

Have a great day!

Sally Hansen Gray by Gray

Hello!

Last week, I stopped by the drugstore near my school for a little pick-me-up after my Communications exam. I didn't plan on buying anything, just wanted to check what new stuff they had. As I passed my the Sally Hansen stand, I couldn't help but pick a few bottles up. They look soo nice! I only picked up a bottle though, because the brush looked weird to me and I wanted to try it out first before indulging myself :). 

I chose Gray by Gray, a creamy grayed blue. The formula was great and application super easy, so I only needed 2 coats for opacity.

 

Here's the brush. It's a flat wide brush, a bit rounded at the tip that I had to get used to it, but I actually really like it!

Definitely will be picking up a few more!

Sally Hansen Arabian Night

Good morning!!
I hope you all enjoyed the weekend!



Today I have for you SH Arabian Night, a beautiful purple polish filled with tiny tiny gold flecks, from Tracy Reese for Sally Hansen Spring 2008 collection. Beautiful and easy to remove. I like!

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Now....I have a little ranting to do... I watched the Grammy last night.. As much as I love Taylor Swift, she absolutely did not deserve the Album of the Year award!!!!! No no no no no no. NO. Her songs are catchy, she writes her own songs, which is remarkable, she had a great year, blahblahblah but girl cannot perform and I thought that it should've gone to Lady Gaga, whose year 2009 was out-of-this-world!!!!!!!!!!!! She was and is the bomb diggity and I'm not even a big fan!! Can't you get it right Recording Academy?!?!?!?!! Also, MGMT should've won Best New Artist even though they're not 'new'.

Oh and Lil Wayne, Eminem and Drake's performance? It would have been amazing if it 85% of the song hadn't been bleeped out! Hahaha Whoever was employed to censor that performance should be fired. Rant over.

On a side note, did anybody see Britney Spears?! Eeehhh...

Fiou.... I should learn not to get so emotionally involved in these award ceremonies, eh? :P

Anybody has any ranting to do, do it here!!! I'm a good listener/reader!

Have a great week!
-X

Still alive..

Hey Guys!!!

I can't believe I haven't updated since last week!! Even worse, I didn't even change my mani!!! Fortunately, it didn't chip much...

My last week was the week of hell!!! I had a marketing presentation, an report for accounting, a 20 pages managerial economics report to write, a stats assignment, a 3h accounting tutorial...... All done now, so I have time for my nails :)... at least until exams begin...

So here's my last week's mani:
Sally Hansen Project Runway with Essie Matte about You.

Sorry for the blurry picture..You can't really see the color properly here, so here's another picture of PR with glossy top coat that I took some time ago.

This one is from the Mode Collection, I had wrote a full review of the collection here

Alright, now back to studying..
Have a great week!!

Sally Hansen HD Cyber

Another purple!! Yay!

The color here is not very accurate, since it's so hard to capture purple correctly, but it's the most true-to-life I could get.

Released this summer, I believe, from their HD line, this is Cyber, a nice purple shimmer.

It's definitely summery! It's very vivid and I consider it a "happy purple".

Application was nice, the only complaint I have here is the brush... It's not the brush itself but the length of the plastic stem (I know I don't have to right word here but I can't find the right one to use). The distance from the handle to the brush was way too long for me. I'm not used to such a long brush....

Sally Hansen Honeydew

This one is from last week. I picked one up from my untrieds bin and surprise, surprise, it was Honeydew, from the Tracy Reese Spring 2009 collection!!!

I was going to put a top coat until I spotted my Essie Matte about You.

This is Honeydew without top coat (with bad bathroom light):


and here it is with Matte about You:

Beautiful turquoise shimmer. It's absolutely gorgeous. I think I'll be grabbing this one a lot, despite the craptastic formula. It was pretty bad..... but at least the color kinda makes up for it :)

I know this one was kinda hard to find-I still have never seen it sold in Montreal. I was lucky enough to get this in a swap :) Gotta love swaps!

Enjoy your weekend!

Pinks Round Up

October is over, same goes for midterms :) Hoorah!!
So I've been doing pinks this month and realized that I don't have many of them. Haha makes sense, since I don't like pink on my nails all that much.

Here they are:

OPI La Paz-Itively Hot matte

Zoya Ali


Essie Status Symbol

Sally Hansen HD Hi-Res

China Glaze Mom's Chiffon

OPI Kreme de la Kremlin

Zoya Katy

MAC Lola Devine

I have a 3 more pinks in my stash but they're all neon and with the weather right now in Mtl, it's pretty hard to get the color right. I tried, but they all look the same in the pictures... I'll wait till we have a bit of sun, and I'll swatch them again :)

Chrome Nail Makeup

Ouf.
I've been so busy!! Midterm is finally over!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Anyways.. a few weeks ago, I went to Sears and found some gems!! They had this little nail polish counter and there they were: Sally Hansen Chrome Nail Makeup. As the name says, they are nail polishes that dry to a chrome finish. These are super cool, but unfortunately, they are discontinued. I bought 2, for $5.99 each.

This first one I got as an 'extra' in a swap with a lovely lady. I didn't know what it was at first, but after a few searches, I found out that they were not selling these anymore.
This is Peach Crystal, 3 coats with top coat:
Peach Crystal wasn't great. I had a hard time with application (which you can probably see in the picture). Otherwise, I like the color, although I don't see any "peach" in there. It's basically white gold-ish.

Next, is Turquoise. Application for this one was good, smoother than the previous one. Like for Peach Crystal, I don't think that the color really reflects the name. This is NOT turquoise. IT'S BLUE! Anyhow, I love this one. Blue+chrome finish=gorgeous!


Last one is called White Gold. It is very similar to Peach Crystal, but you can still see a bit of gold color in there. Application for this one was also good and the finish is quite nice.
Can you say good buy?! I really love these and I especially love the fact that they're discontinued. Mouhahaha. They had a red one but it didn't appeal to me so I passed.
I guess I'll have to shop at Sears more often now :)

Sally Hansen Salon Mode Collection 2009

Hey there! So amidst the ugly weather here in Montreal, we had a bit of sunshine during the weekend. I took advantage of it and swatched all day Saturday (instead of studying..)

Today, I present you Sally Hansen Salon Mode collection for fall 2009. The formula of all these were pretty thin and runny. It was not that bad, but it's not the consistency that I'm used to from Sally Hansen Salon. As I've said before, none of these are creams. They're all shimmers and I was surprised at some colors!

Pictures first, then info.
American Beauty. Berry shimmer. It's a nice color, but not unique. I'm not head over heels. Love the shimmer, though. 3 coats.

Project Runway. BEAUTIFUL turquoise-ish green with gold microglitter. I love this. I was expecting amazingness when I saw the bottle, and it definitely delivered. 3 coats

Purple Heart. Purple with blue and red microglitter. This was nice. It reminded me of China Glaze Let's Groove, but compared side by side, they do not look alike. I believe this one is darker than ChG but they both have blue and red microglitter. 2 coats.

Fashion Forward. It looks blurple (bluish purple) in the bottle, but on the nails, it's dark dark blue. Like the others, it's also a shimmer. I wanted this one to be like the color in the bottle sooo bad!!! but I still like it. I don't really think "fashion forward" is a proper name for this one though.. 3 coats, but could have easily been 2.

Burnt Sienna. I wasn't expecting to like this color when I bought it, but wow. I don't have any other color like this, since olive-ish gold shimmer doesn't normally suit me. But wowwee. I love this one! I like the name too! 3 coats.

Valentino. Brown shimmer. Love this one too! I was pleasantly surprised with this one as well! It's a brown bas color, with tiny tiny microscopic gold and green glitter. In sunlight, you definitely see the olive gold (see in the picture?!). I love this shade, and I don't normally like brown. I think this was 2 coats.

Overall, I like this collection. I'm not going gaga over this, but was pleasantly surprised with half of the shades. I love unexpected beauties! The one that stands out though, is Project Runway. It's a must for every green lover.

By the way, I have pictures of 2 out of 3 Lippmann Celebration polishes. the 3rd'll come.. I just have to give my hand a rest from the glitter scrubbing :)

Nothing Better

So I needed a little pick-me-up, so I decided go to buy all 6 nail polishes from Sally Hansen's Salon Mode Collection (Canadian exclusive apparently). Yup. The cashier must've thought that I was Cah-Razy.

From left to right: Fashion Forward, Purple Heart, American Beauty, Valentino, Burnt Sienna and Project Runway

Pretty pretties! None of these are cremes, so we'll see how I feel about them on my nails.... The colors are really nice. I'm really looking forward to trying on Project Runway. There's some glitter in there that you can't really see from the picture but it looks cool. Fashion Forward, also, has some blue and red microglitter in there. Very interesting.


I also did a new mani for Thursday, Lippmann's Ruby Red Slippers. SOOO PRETTY! But I took it off because there were some shrinkage. Probably because of the top coat. I didn't like it, because it looked like tip wear. But I'm sure it'll be back on the nails soon! Pics will come!!

Sally Hansen HD Hi-Res

As I've told you before, October is Breast cancer awareness month. So for a few days, I've decided to wear pinks on my nails.

First up was Sally Hansen HD Hi-Res. My pictures don't show the color acurately. It is more rosy in real life. My sister described this polish as "superhero".... whatever that means...

Look how shiny!!!! This was 2 coats plus Nubar Diamont top Coat.

I like this color but I don't think I like it on me.... I'm not too big on pinkish color, plus I like creme finishes. Call me boring if you want! :P