Sunday is Funday

Sunday is always the same thing.  As an old married couple my husband and I get into our routines.  We always wake up, go to Ihop and go do weekly shopping for the house.  We abide by Sabbath customs on Saturday by not working at all.  We usually just watch television, take a nap, play with Goldie, it is like our family time.  But Sunday, is a funday because we go shopping and he is really good about that we usually do my thing first because if we don't for some reason after the first store he gets really tired.  So, we go return something to Macy's because I refuse to try clothes on a dressing room and for some reason our Macy's is so hot.  I can't stand it.  I usually order online and if I need to return we go in and out.  Then Ulta is right across the street from the mall so we go there.  he looks at cologne and I look at everything.  If we wake up early we go down to the Montrose area where the American Apparel is and a lot of little second hand stores.  I can't get him in the Galleria so that is something that is reserved for friends and my sister.  Last week on Friday I did this manicure and all day long I was out of it.  I just kept staring at it because of the color changes in the polish.  I loved it.  My husband was holding my hand and pulls it up to his face and starts looking at it and says I know I am color blind but this polish is freaking me out it keeps changing.  I explained to him what a duo chrome was.  He said I like that.  He just said kids today have so many neat things we did not have.  I said, "Honey, we are still kids".  He just shook his head and said, "Yeah, you're right."

 

 

 

For this manicure I used Ludurana Violet Blue, then I stamped using Cheeky plate 16 (both images are on the plate) with Konad Black Pearl Stamping plate.

 

What do you think about duochromes?  Do you like them or do you just hate them?

 

Ciao, Bellas,

Patty

KB Shimmer Elle Revisited

I know that I have reviewed this one but when I did I put no panties on it and I am totally convinced that a lot of polishes need panties.  I used American Apparel Echo Park .   I went to American Apparrel today to buy some polish.  I really like their polish because of the fact that they have a thick consistancy and need only one coat when you are using as panties.  Plus they have some great colors and if you go to the store right now and sign up to be on their mailing list you get a free polish.  Can’t beat that.  Free and yes I did go get my Free panties from Victoria's Secret but did take advantage of the $10.00 of a bra.  Might as well.  When I had my gall bladder removed, God bless my mother but she did all my laundry and I REALLY HATE anyone to do my laundry because they don’t take care of my clothes the way I do.  I have jeans that are still in style, they still fit and look brand new because of the way I do my laundry.  I am a bit of a cheap skate like I said yesterday but I want to take care of my things so I don’t need to replace them and spend money on the same thing over and over.  Like I never put my bra’s in the dryer because of the underwire but my mom does not care.  She hangs things inside down and I am looking for some of my winter clothes and I can’t find them.  I actually had a shirt that was lost in my own apartment because someone did my laundry.   I found it but lost another one.  I hate it.  My husband does not know this but the polish room is going to have all my stuff in it.  My clothes, makeup, shoes and handbags.  I’ve been working on slowly moving everything and have definitely been doing my manicures in there but I have a question?  What is your blogging routine.  I like to spend the day in there and come up with ideas right them down and do two or three manicures in one day but I have been getting headaches every day.  Could it be the acetone?

This is Elle without panties.  I think it looks much better with the grey underneath.  JUst showing that when you have polishes like this a pair of panties does make a difference.  I can see the difference and I am going to make sure I put a color underneath that comes close to my indies just to bring out the beautiful color in these polishes.

 

Ciao, bellas,

Patty

Daytime Chic

This manicure I created especially for those times that you want to just look understated but still have a little something on your nails.   I used BM 314 with China Glaze Fast track and stamped with Maybelline True Colors in Bold Gold.  That is the best gold stamping polish I have ever used.  Once again, I did a monochromatic which I just love.  This manicure goes to work or even a night on the town.  If I was going to wear it out though I would put a coat of China Glaze Fairy Dust.  I really love that polish it is a great holo glitter. 

 

 

 

 

 

So, like I said if you like it leave a comment.
Ciao for now,
Patty

Polish of the Day 14 Models Own Pinky Brown

Pinky Brown is part of the first Beetlejuice collection is one of the most popular of the collection and is really pretty when you can see the duo cchrome in it. It goes from brown to purple to pink.  This is a polish that looks so much better in person than on camera.  The formula smooth and dries fast .  Two coats of Seche Vite is recommended to really pull the shine out.  I only have one coat but one more would have really looked great.




















So, have you tried MOdel’s Own polish and if you have do you have a favorite color?
Ciao bellas,
Patty
Don’t forget to answer the poll question.

OPI Press Release Mariah Carey's Line and Swatches

 I found this on an OPI website.  It was shown in Canada so I am not real sure if their information will be the same as the US info.  The colors will be the same but release dates can be different and I hope that OPI is not raising their prices to $10.50 a bottle.

 

 

Hey, Nicki Minaj, guess what? Mariah’s collaborated with OPI now, too, for her own collection of nail polish — and it’s pretty cool. The eight-shade Mariah Carey by OPI lineup launches in January 2013, a year after the Nicki Minaj OPI set of polishes debuted. The breakdown includes a frosty shade, a creamy shade, a shimmer, a glitter-flakes polish, and four colours with a nifty “Liquid Sand” finish.

 

 

 

“It’s textured nail polish,” OPI executive VP and artistic director Suzi Weiss-Fischmann told a room full of Canadian beauty editors and bloggers this afternoon at the Trump Hotel in Toronto.

 

 

 

“You don’t have to do anything to it, you don’t have to add anything… this is actually how it comes out of the bottle. You don’t put a top coat on it because the matte look is what actually makes it unique [sic],” she said.

 

 

 

“It does take a little bit longer to dry, probably about eight minutes or so, and then you see how the texture comes to the surface.” The four OPI Liquid Sand shades are The Impossible (a sparkly matte fuchsia –sorry, looks more red here), Can’t Let Go (sparkly matte purple), Get Your Number (sparkly matte blue) and Stay the Night (matte black with red sparkles).

 

 

 

 

 

From the top, A Butterfly Moment (frosty tan nude), Sprung (shimmery copper), Pink Yet Lavender (pink glitter with lavender shimmer) and Anti-Bleak (deep, creamy purple — and my new obsession).

 

 

 

Look! The Impossible has star confetti in the glitter mix!

 

 

Can’t Let Go.

 

 

Get Your Number.

 

 

 

 

Stay the Night

 

 

 

A Butterfly Moment

 

 

Sprung

 

 

Pink-Yet Lavender

 

 

 

 

 Anti-Bleak

 

 
The Mariah Carey by OPI collection ($10.95 per polish) will be in salons and spas in January.
What do you think? Can you wait until January? What shade catches your attention most?


Ciao for now,
Patty
 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Who say’s $5.00 Can’t buy anything?

Today was the last day for the Ulta coupon It was $5.00 off a $10.00 purchase, this is what I got three essence nail polishes, a volumizing powder to use for your eye lashes.  I will do a review on that later.  l always get a essence special top coat.  It was $0.99.  Tot  $5.29.  Pretty Good.

 

 

Did you use your Ulta coupon?   if you don’t get them you can print them out from their website.  I had three this month.  The one they sent me and I placed two orders for butter London polishes and in the box they gave me another catalog with $5.00 off.  So, I got three this month and made use of all of them.  Unfortunately the coupon expired to day but there will be a new one on the website and you can print as many as you want and if you live in a big city you can use them at different stores or even the same one, they don’t care.  Anyway, you usually do not get the same people working everytime you go in.  So, take advantage of it.  I know what you are thinking.  What a Jew.  Yes, I can say that because I am.  I used to love to go to Mexico and jew vendors down.  Now, I can say that because I am a Jew but don’t say that to one unless you are one.  It is kind of like.  I can call my mother a bitch but you better not.  Oh, well.  Had a weird day in that I took a shower at 12:00 to get ready to go to Nordstrom because I have an extra bottle of a Lippman, so I was going to exchange it and did not leave till 4:00.  I’ll go tomorrow and swing by American Apparel because their polish is 3 for 15 at the store as apposed to $8.00 on the website.  Also I have my six empties for Mac, $10 off at Bath and Body Works and free Panties from Victoria’s Secret and no I have no problem going in and just getting my free panties.  Oh, by the way I do have a post coming up about panties.  So, look for that this week. 

Ciao for now,

Patty

Polish of Day 13 Orly's Halley's Comet

Orly's Halley's Comet came out one or two years ago as part of a series of polishes that included the now wildly famous Space Cadet, which is a beautiful color.  I had this polish in my cart on Ebay and Amazon.  It was $11.00 on Ebay and $14.00 on Amazon.  I checked every day to see if the price would go down but no chance.  Then this weekend I went to Ulta and found this polish and it was only $10.00.  The icing was if you buy two you get one free and I had a $5.00 off coupon.  I grabbed and got two other polishes that I had in my ebay cart and went to pay.  I got a good deal on it now I just need one to complete the set but there is another Ulta I can go check out to see if they have it then I would have the set although I am not sure how much it is on ebay but I have to use the $5.00 off coupon by the 20th of October.  So, Halley's comet is a teal that when it grabs the light it turns yellow it is something like Sweet Peacock but with a duo chrome.

The colors in the polish do look different but it is the same polish it is just that this is a duo chrome and different camera angles gave me different colors.  Do you like duo chromes or do you just like your polish to stay one color?

Ciao bellas,
Patty

Glimmer by Erica

I have two polishes to show you today.  Both are just beautiful and I might even venture to say that one of them has totally satisfy my wanting Lynnderella’s Cauldron Drippings.  This is Muy Caliente.  It is loaded with gold, black and orange glitters in an orange base.  I used one thing coat of OPI’s On the Same Paige.  Then two coats of Muy Caliente.  I mushed the glitter down when it was pretty dry and put a coat of Essence special top coat.  I absolutely love it.  It is great.  I can wear it during the day or if I want to dress it up I can put some Seche Vite over it.  It was so easy to work with I just love it.  I am no longer checking eBay for Cauldron Drippings.  An added benefit is that if you are like me and not really into Halloween but have to go to some Halloween thing with your familiy you can wear this and still look like you are in the Halloween spirit.  It is going to look great with a suede shirt I just bought.  I really like this one.   Hope it stays around for a while.


















The next one I have is Treasure Chest.  This one was a little harder to work with only because the dry time was longer than Muy Caliente.  This one is blingy and I wish I had an underwater camera to take a picture of it because it would look great.  I am kind of getting sick of the same hand poses.  That is why I started adding some rings to my pictures or putting my hands in a bush.  I am coming up with with some other things and my husband built me a light box this weekend and I like it only because I can be in the polish room creating longer.  Usually by the time the sun goes down.  Patty has to go down and wait till the next day to take pictures.  So now with the light box I cant get different backgrounds and use my tripod for taking pictures.   I really would have loved to take this picture underwater because it does look like a treasure chest that you see in the movies.  It has gold, blue, red, and a lighter blue.













Isn’t this one cool too.  Used one coat of OPI Glitzerland and two of Treasure chest.   The clean up was somewhat harder so sorry for some of the loose glue.  I did put Essence special effects top coat on this one too because I was photographing during the day but imagine how it would look with Seche Vite in a dim restaurant.  Girls never under estimate the power of your hands.  I watch this show called Gigolos on Showtime.  It does have sex scenes but it has a storyline.  It is about five guys working in VEGAS (I LOVE VEGAS).    it is about guys who work together the thing is that their business is having sex with women and not the typical woman we think hire a gigolo.  They talk about what turns them on about a woman and they all agreed sexy hands or a woman who knows how to use her hands.  One of the gigolos says what a lot of guys don’t realize that he does is that he has ten little penis’s.  His hands, so hands are important.  Studies have been done and men who see a well manicured had are drawn to that woman more than one who has nothing on her hands.  Before I got married to my present husband he asked me to promise I would always have my nails painted.  I always did but sometimes after you get married you let yourself go.  I said of course.   So, now he has only himself to blame for  this addiction.  Some manicures are just not his style but if I am wearing one he especially likes he makes sure everyone we see, sees my manicure.  He is so funny and that is why I love him.    So, what every you wear, wear something.
Ciao for now bellas,
Patty