May the Fourth, and the Fifth of May

Still so behind on my posts, so I'm doubling up a few to help catch up! Did a couple quick ones for the holidays...

I used Salon Perfect Sugar Cube and Blue Striper, and Zoya Trixie for R2, 2 coats of Trixie topped with My Ten Friends Astronauts See Snow on my pointer and pinky, 2 coats of Salon Perfect Oil Slick topped with Shimmer Kisses Night Sky on my ring finger, all topped with 2 coats of Seche Vite Dry Fast Top Coat.

I used 2 coats of Chirality Katydid, and topped my tips with Salon Perfect Champagne Toast, and then China Glaze Luxe and Lush, and topped with Seche Vite Dry Fast Top Coat.

Check Out: Salon Perfect on Facebook  or Salon Perfect's Website
Zoya Nail Polish and Treatments on Facebook or Zoya's Website
My Ten Friends on Facebook or My Ten Friends Website
ShimmerKisses NP on Facebook or ShimmerKisses NP on Etsy
Chirality Polish on Facebook or Chirality Polish's Website
China Glaze on Facebook or China Glaze's Website
Seche Nails on Facebook or Seche's Website

Polished by KPT Color Me Purple

In my opinion Polished by KPT makes the BEST Thermal Polishes. PERIOD. Other brands I've tried have used the "best" swatches for their website, so when I got them, they were not true to color, Polished by KPT's always are,  or they were the kind that only work if you dip them in water, or stick them in the freezer, I do not like those, a lot of thermals have a light base in their warm state, and I hate seeing my nail line through my polish, in sensitive thermals my tips darken up, and cover up my nail line during normal wear. I think that polish makers should state if they are those kind on their website, I feel like the ones I have gotten like that have been a waste of my money, and I have actually bought a thermal polish that didn't work at all! If you are looking to try out a thermal, you should give Polished by KPT a try!

I used 2 coats of Polished by KPT Color Me Purple, and topped it off with Digital Nails Ain't Nobody Got Time For That Top Coat.

Check Out: Polished by KPT on Facebook or Polished by KPT's Website
Digital Nails on Facebook or Digital Nails' Website

Good Day Sir!

It has taken me forever to try out the Indigo Bananas Willy Wonka Collection that I got at Christmas, I WAY overspent on sales, and pretty much have been on a "no buy" since, and am still catching up on my untrieds. These are the first Indigo Bananas polishes I've gotten, and I love them! The mini's are a great size, and the formula on the polishes is great, and a lot of this collection are holos with glitter in them! WONDERFUL!

I used 1 coat of Indigo Bananas You Get Nothing! (Good Day Sir!) over 2 coats of Color Club Revvvolution, and topped with 2 coats of Seche Vite Dry Fast Top Coat.

Check Out: Indigo Bananas on Facebook or Indigo Bananas' Website
Color Club Nail Lacquer on Facebook or  Color Club's Website
Seche Nails on Facebook or Seche's Website

Mary Kay VoxBox from Influenster

I received a Mary Kay VoxBox complimentary from Influenster to share my thoughts, even though I got these products for free, these still are my honest opinions about them. I haven't used Mary Kay since high school when one of my friends was selling it for extra money, so I was excited to give it another try. So lets get started, I received.....

Mary Kay Lash Love Mascara in I ♥ Black, retail $15, I really liked this mascara, it really lengthened my lashes, you can use the brush to curl your lashes easily, but there was major fall-out, as long as you wait for it to dry, the fall-out wipes away easily with a Q-Tip.

Mary Kay Cream Eye Color in Apricot Twist, retail $14, I hate cream eyeshadow, so I was pretty sure I wouldn't like this, and I was right, the color was pretty, but I have super sensitive eyes, and this burned.

Mary Kay Mineral Cheek Color Shy Blush, retail $12, I really loved this blush, it's a great color, and applied well, and I loved the brush that came to use with it.

Mary Kay Translucent Loose Powder, retail $ 16, I don't agree that this can be used on any skin tone, it didn't work for me, it made me too pale and washed out, but I will use it for Vampire or Zombie makeup.

Mary Kay Gel Eyeliner with Expandable Brush, retail $18, this is good eyeliner, it is crazy soft, almost too soft, but applied well, and is buildable, which I like, but the eyeliner brush doesn't work well, it's too big, I used it to apply eyeshadow on my bottom lid, and it worked well for that. I used my own brush to apply the eyeliner.

Mary Kay Bronzing Powder, retail $18, I used this as suggested to highlight my cheekbone, and it worked very well.

Mary Kay NouriShine Plus Lip Gloss in Mango Tango, retail $14, I love this lipgloss! smelled, and felt great, long-lasting, and good color pay-off for a lipgloss, it didn't leave that gloopy line around my lip line that most lipglosses do, but too expensive for a small tube of lipgloss.

Mary Kay Cream Eye Color/ Concealer Brush, retail $10, I don't really need this brush, because of my dislike of cream eyeshadow, and I don't have any jar concealers at this time.

My eyelashes look really good, but I didn't get all of the mascara cleaned up, I didn't see some until I looked at close-ups of these pics *:/ I used NYX I Have a Headache on my browbone, Madison Street Beauty Copper in my Crease, Sugarpill Asylum in the corner, and under eye, and Mary Kay Cream Eye Color in Apricot Twist on my lid Mary Kay Jet Black Gel Liner, and Lash Love Mascara in I ♥ Black.

Lipgloss

 

  you can really see how shiny my face still is ....

Salon Perfect Midnight Stroll and Rainbow Honey Appleberry

I got a new Salon Perfect polish, I have to say I am really in love with some of my Salon Perfect polishes, and this is one of them! I love, love love both of these polishes, and I love this combo.......

I used 1 coat of Rainbow Honey Appleberry over 2 coats of Salon Perfect Midnight Stroll, and 2 coats of Seche Vite Dry Fast Top Coat.

Check Out: Rainbow Honey Cosmetics on Facebook or Rainbow Honey's Website
Salon Perfect on Facebook or Salon Perfect's Website
Seche Nails on Facebook or Seche's Website

HauteLook Lip Beauty Bag

For Spring HauteLook has a 10 piece Lip Beauty Bag for $24 + the $6 shipping, but that still made everything, $3 a piece, and I know everything in the bag retails for more than that. I have to say, that I am very pleased with both of the HauteLook Beauty Bags I've gotten, this one is almost all red lipsticks/glosses, but I love red, so I'm fine with that, and they are a little different from each other. Lets get started.....

This is the bag....

It contains 5 Lipsticks/Stains/Glosses, a Lipliner, a lip brush, a Swoon Reusable Lip Gloss Wand, that is longer than a normal to get all the product out of your lipgloss tube, a lipstick case, which I will use in my small "going out" purse, a cute "lipstick" lipstick bag, a travel make-up remover pad, and a coupon for Laura Geller, and Swoon.

First there's the Laura Geller Italian Marble Lipstick in Sugared Maple with NYX Lipliner Soft Brown. Laura Geller Italian Marble Lipstick retails for $18, it looks better in person, all the pics I took looked a little orange, it was more of a caramel color, very pretty, the marble gives the color depth, it felt nice, but I don't know that I would spend $18 on it.

Next there's the NYX Waterproof Retractable Lipliner in Nectar, with NYX Matte Lipstick in Strawberry Daiquiri. NYX Waterproof Retractable Lipliner retails for $4.50, Nectar matched with the Strawberry Daiquiri perfect, their website describes it as a deep pink, but it is more of a coral color to me, I am obsessed with NYX they make great quality products, for a great price, but this is the first Waterproof Retractable Liner I've gotten, and I love it, it was shimmery, and it goes on SO smoothly, you could almost use it all over your lip, really nice, I will be buying more of these.

Next up is Lorac Lip Lustre Gloss Ruby Lustre with NYX Lipliner in Hot Red, Lorac Lip Lustre Gloss Ruby Lustre retails for $15, I was the most excited about getting this, I love the regular Liquid Lustre, and this has shimmer, but not any more than say Hard Candy lipgloss with shimmer, and is half the price, and it feels about the same, I will be mostly wearing this over other stuff, the brush is neat it is a short lip brush, but I am definitely happy that I got such a good deal on this.


Here it is over Lord and Berry Crayon Lipstick with NYX Hot Red Lipliner....

I did like using on top of this, it gave it a little shimmery pop!

Here's the Lord and Berry Crayon Lipstick Scarlett alone, with NYX Hot Red Lipliner. Lord and Berry Crayon Lipstick Scarlett retails for around $10 or $15, it was hard for me to find it for sale, but I found it on Ebay, this was the first time I had heard of this brand. I liked how smoothly it went on, and the color payoff is great, it was a little sticky though, another one I was happy to get a good deal on.

This is Mirenesse Glossy Kiss Flirty Kiss/ Starlet, with NYX Hot Red Lipliner,  Mirenesse Glossy Kiss Flirty Kiss/ Starlet retails for $27 to $30, and it is a 3 in 1 color, Liner, balm, and Stain all in one, and on their website says it can be used as a cheek stain as well, I have never heard of Mirenesse either, and I was impressed, I don't know about spending $30 on lipstick, but I really love this, it applied smooth, and creamy, and very shiny, smelled good, and had a great stain after I wiped it off.

 and now Mirenesse Lip Bomb in Mirror Me Bomb 2 with NYX Hot Red Lipliner, Nyx Red Hot Lipliner. Mirenesse Lip Bomb retails for $15 to $35, the price range was all over the place depending on where I looked, and the color, and I did see at some point this was in an Ipsy bag, it is a Glossy Lacquer Stain, this was my favorite thing in the bag, I would pay $15 bucks for it, for sure, it smelled nice, wasn't too sticky, and applied great, the wand has a little bulb on the end, so the excess wipes off when you pull it out of the tube, so I didn't get that weird line around my lips which the worst thing about lipgloss to me, and I think it has a lip plumper as well.

This is both of the Mirenesse's together, just cause...

As I said at the beginning, I am really happy with this bag, and will purchase HauteLook Beauty Bag's in the future, I think it's a great way to try out products, for a great price!

The Lip Beauty Bag is available until Monday April 28th @ 8 am on HauteLook.

Mermaid

Lots of mermaid nails have been getting posted on Instagram lately, and I LOVE them, and I got a bottle of Sea Dust polish on my last trip to Urban Outfitters, so I was thinking about doing some, and then I saw the ones Brittany Couturexo on Instagram had, and I couldn't wait!!!

I used 1 coat of Urban Outfitters Sea Dust over @ coats of China Glaze For Audrey, I used white acrlic paint for the scales, and OPI Honey Ryder on my pinky, and everything but that has 2 coats of Seche Vite Dry Fast Top Coat.

Check Out: Urban Outfitters on Facebook or Urban Outfitters' Website
China Glaze Official Facebook or China Glaze's Website
OPI Products on Facebook or OPI's Website
Seche Nails on Facebook or Seche's Website