You know how every beauty mag gives tips on how lipgloss or lipstick can be used as blush, or baby lotion can be used as a quick fix moisturizer for your hair? Well i'm curious about any other products that can be used in multiple ways. So ladies, if you have any products that you use for multiple purposes do tell!
I can tell you baby lotion is my multipurpose product. I use it as a face moisturizer and it emergency situation i have even used it on my hair.
Ok i am sorry for the sloppy job on this post but i am starving and i am on my way out the door. I rounded up all my polishes and did a little photo shoot of my entire collection. I will do some swatches later this week of the various shades.
This is how i store my polishes, in these cute lil caboodle cases i bought from Target. They are like $9 i think.
This one contains my China Glaze polishes, I already did a post on them, check out my haul post here
My Revlon polishes. I think Revlon makes some of the best Reds, pinks and Corals which is why i have so many of those colors. I actually had more polishes by Revlon but they either spilled (see the dirty guy on the left? a casualty) broke or dried up. These are my survivors.
My Essie polishes. I think someone has been "borrowing" my polishes because i had alot more pinks than this. Essie makes gorgeous Pinks. And the Aruba Blue is my fave shade of all time. by anyone period.
Next up, My small but growing OPI collection, and Milani collection.
BTW, DO NOT buy the metallic greeen Milani polish (Key Lime Shine). It streaks like all hell. I have to do a post and show you, it was bad. The Grey one on the other hand is a dream, i love that shade, it comes second to Aruba Blue in my list of faves.
My Clear Polishes/tops coats:
Yup i use all Sally Hansen. It's easy to get and works for me. I change up my mani colors regularly so i can't tell you about durability on figner nails, but are far as my toes go i painted my toes 2 weeks ago and i have one tiny chip on my big toe that happend this week. So i would say its durable pedi wise. The red bottle is their quick dry topcoat polish. It really works however on certain polishes i have woken up the next morning to major chippage. So the solution to that is to use a top coat over it once the polishes have dried.
I just realized i missed 2 polishes:
Coral Revlon Shade
Sinful Colors Neon Purple:
First time i tried this brand and it's definitely on my radar (*cue Britney voice singing "on my radar"* in my brain arrghh!! hate that song!) The color was very pretty, i think it is actually a great dupe to Essie's Neon Purple. And its only $2.99 compared to Essie's $8.
And last but not least, my nails all broke/chippd due to my neglect in moisturizing them.
They look so pitiful :( My nails grow fast and strong so i honestly don't really care for them very well because i know they grow right back. If you look at my thumb nail, thats the length they all were last week (i couldn't bring myself to cut it since it was the only health one).
I will post swatches of all my colors over the next week, i know i did not list names here but i will do that with my swatches. And for anyone reading this, i would love to see your polish collections so i guess i should make this a tag huh? I tag anyone reading to post their collection, leave a link/comment below so i can find you ok?
Hope you all had a great weekend!
I accidentally deleted my theme. I'm PIISSED.LIVID.ENRAGED.
The.End.
If only...Lindsay would get off drugs.
She is younger then me but looks 10 years older. Such a tragedy. Oh she should also eat something, scary skinny does not look good on her.
BIG BIG BIG Thank you to Sophia aka Retail_therapy ( The make-up blogette ) for choosing me as a winner. I got my package so lets take a quick look shall we?
isn't she soo sweet??? omg, so generous. Thanks so much! i love everything. especially the blush it is soo pretty
Very pigmented, this was one quick swirl of my finger and look how it shows up.
Sorry i had no natural light so you can't really see it well on my skin.
Ok this is how bad my cam is. The colors look brownish in this picture but there are actually pretty shades of purple in the palette. Great color selection.
Once again Thanks so much! i love everything. :)
No more poison killing my emotion, i will not be frozen, Dancing is my remedy, REMEDY!
Move while your watching me dance with the enemy, i've got a remedy, oh ah oh ah oh.
Sunscreens containing physical blocks (these chemicals deflect UV rays) leave a whitish cast/tone to the skin. Avoid buying sunscreens that contain physical blockers, such as: Titanium dioxide, zinc oxide, Oxybenzone, dioxybenzone as these are all physical blockers and are commonly found in sunscreens. Check out products by Neutrogena, Hawaiian Tropic and Coppertone, they use the organic blockers (these chemicals absorb UV rays) in most of their products.
Also if you have darker skin you can use a lower level of SPF as darker skin has a natural SPF of 4 to 5. The higher the SPF the more likely it is to have the physical blockers included in the ingredients
source: Instyle magazine pg 139 issue: 6/09, and skincancer.org
Sooo, This post has been a couple of days in the making. I actually made these purchases on Monday but i have been soo lazy this week (hey i'm on vacation, what do you expect? lol).
Lets start with MAC because i didn't buy anything exciting, just some basics
I bought Style Demon (thanks to Retail_therapy i have been lusting for this for awhile), a MSF in natural, and studiofinish concealer, which btw i didn't notice had SPF35, which is excellent especially for my eye area which has been severely damaged by eczema (hence my perpetual dark circles).
Okay, on to the good stuff :)
Again most of the items are nothing overly special, from left to right: Kinerase sample, Too Faced e/s palette in Natural, Metro Chic regular & Matte (i was really looking for the pink OPI Matte shade but they didn't have it so i got Metro Chic since i had liked it as well. ANOTHER Sophia influenced purchase), and Too Faced Shadow insurance.
Okay so what's so exciting about this purchase? well its the Too Faced palette of course!
ooh very pretty colors. here are some swatches:
L to R: heaven, classic, fashion, velvet revolver
L to R: Push up, honey pot, Sexpresso, Erotica, Cocoa Puff.
It also comes with instructions on how to create 3 looks:
Awesome right? I tried the Classic card, i did this in like 10 seconds so excuse the sloppiness of it:
I didnt use any base or anything, this was on bare eyelid so excuse my dark circles.
I love this palette, all the shimmer colors are soo pretty. I am not loving the mattes but there are only 3 and i can still make use of them. I am glad i picked this up, it was ona whim of course but so glad.
Have a great weekend!
I had a thought. Who influences you the most right now when picking and choosing makeup?
I have to say right now the people who influence me the most are none other then you lovely ladies here on onsugar. I love the honesty and unbiased opinions. I sometimes worry when watching the youtube gurus that they are only giving positive reviews because these companies have paid them to do so. I mean when 5 guru's all of a sudden post videos of the items from the same company, and they all rave about it and have discount offers with their names as the code, i don't trust the review. matter of fact i have just stopped clicking on such reviews. Now im not saying all the guru's are doing it, there are honest guru's such as ricebunny and lollipop26 who either will not post products they don't love, or just straight up tell you the product is trash.
Anyway i digress. I wanted to know you influences you when it comes to purchasing beauty items? Leave a comment below.
I have been nominated by the lovely Fabulousfashion and Reyenal (thanks so much ladies!! and congrats on your noms too!) And part of the nomination is for me to share 6 random facts about myself. I have done a 20 Q's here so i will try not to repeast anything and give you some new stuff to say whhaa? about lol.
1. I am a mild hoarder. I buy things that i think i might need in the future and i stash them. I also find it very hard to get rid of anything.
2. As i got older i became a cryer; sad movies, happy moviess, any mildy sappy moment and i start tearing. but real life things don't make me cry as much.
3. I am bad at responding to calls and emails. I will check my pone and say "oh i'll get back to them later" and just never will. Very Bad habit
4. i am scared of cottage cheese. It just seems disgusting, and goopy and... *ughh* moving on...
5. I get very irritated easily. I am working on my patience but its hard. The littlest things can put me in a bad mood.
6. Once i focus on something i totally tune everything out. I have had people put things in my hand while im tuned out and not realize it.
I hope you found these lil tidbits interesting, alot of people i want to nominate are already nominated so here goes my meager list:
Thanks again for the nom!
