Saturday, January 5, 2013
Zoya Lovelys Part II The Shimmers
The next one is Julie it is a lavender lilac. This one is just two coats. For some reason it went on easier than the other two and only required two coats.
The last one is Piaf. This is my favorite of the shimmers. I don’t have anything like this one it is a yellow shimmer. Three coats. It is just very pretty.
Well, that is the whole collection. To me it is a good collection. All the colors are solid and can go with almost anything. I think this was a good buy.
Ciao bellas
Patty
Friday, January 4, 2013
Polish Name From Cleopatra post
Day 2 Crumpet’s Challenge
I think I like Shape Shifter I just hate that piece of bar glitter hanging off my middle finger.
Ciao,
Patty
Zoya Lovelys
The next one is Neely a mint green which just reminded me of pistachio yogurt. I hope my yogurt store puts that flavor out this summer. although they have this wonderful flavor called Carmel salted pretzel. It is so good. It would taste great with pistachio.
Those are the cremes. I will have the shimmers tomorrow.
So, out of the three do you have a favorite? Remember Zoya's promotion that starts Monday.
Ciao,
Patty
Did You Like Deborah Lippman’s Cleopatra in New York? Now you can have it for the grand price …..
Can you tell the difference. I can’t. In order to achieve the look though layed down one layer of black then a thin layer of the glitter polish then a black layer and then another coat of glitter. I swear I can’t tell the difference.
These are two black polishes I found in my box of polish I have not shelved yet.
$18.00
I don’t have the name of the gold glitter from Ulta and can’t get to it right now but I will post it tomorrow. Really almost any gold glitter will do. This one is perfect though because it has the hex glitter.
So, if you liked that polish and did not want to spend the money now you can have it. If you try this send me pictures and we will put them on one post and send them to Ms. Lippman and tell her to please get more creative. There are so many dupes for her polishes.
Ciao,
Patty
Thursday, January 3, 2013
Day 3 Gold Crumpet’s Challenge
Gold. I knew exactly which one I was going to use, of course Goldfinger from OPI’s Skyfall collection. It is a beautiful polish but oh my gosh mess one up and it is a mess and that is what happened to me. I just wanted some black tips on it with some black rhinestones. It started to take so long, I just said. It is what it is. I got an ok manicure that I would wear but I am not real proud of posting. Just because now that I have used it I think it needs undies. I’ll know for next time. You’ve got to make some mistakes to make things better. So, here are the best of 30 pictures.
That is enough agony. I can’t take it. I think it is cute but I definitely needed another gold polish. Make sure you check out the other “Golden Girls” for today. Tomorrow is pink. So watch out for the Pink Ladies tomorrow.
Ciao for now,
Patty
Tuesday, January 1, 2013
Happy New Year
The second part of this year has been amazingly calm year even though we all all had some type of hospitalization. Goldie with kidney stones, me with my gallbladder and Michael with his pneumonia.
I received a lot of polish but my only new year's resolution is to save money for no particular reason just because. My sinister plan is to buy a Paypal card and when the money is gone that is it. I know in order to achieve this I need to slowly reach the target. I think that is why a lot of people fail on their resolutions. It takes thirty days to make a change.
Ciao,
Patty
The Crumpets challenge Day One Black and White Nails
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The thumb is white with crackle polish. The index is black with white polka dots. The middle has a yin yang sign (so easy to do). My ring finger I did a brush stroke nail that Kimber from Kimber's Lacquer Corner did in one of her Challenges. (http://www.kimberslacquerkorner.com/2012/11/31-day-challenge-v2-day-30-inspired-by.html). Finally on the pinky I did a quilted nail. It just took a little patience, but I loved doing it.
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Saturday, December 22, 2012
Taking a break and some changes
Best wishes,
Ciao,
Patty
NOTD
So, everybody enjoy your weekend and get ready for X-Mas and thank you Christina for letting me share this with your readers.
Ciao,
Patty
New News to Me
I am getting pretty frustrated with all the lines the nail polish companies are putting out and as a blogger I feel that we have some type of a responsibility to review and let readers know of bargains. But on the blogger end that can be expensive. With so many indies coming out it is impossible to keep up and one thing that I have noticed is that there are maybe 8 bloggers that get all the new stuff and nobody else does. So, how do we little blogs keep up. I have 180 followers which I am very happy to have but feel they were only gained because of giveaways and that makes me really sad. I thought blogging would be different. I see other blogs that started after me and don’t do as many posts and go the extra yard to get what is new and have surpassed me in followers. Some even get more comments than I get post views. I try to ignore that and keep on keeping on. So, today I had a message from a friend on my personal Facebook, when I went to check it there was some nail polish news. When I started my blog I gave my personal Facebook address and then realized I needed one for my blog. Still things are sent to Facebook. Here is one thing I found. Yes another line from OPI. I think it is called OZ. More polish to buy? I don’t think so. Not for this blogger. I just bought the whole Holland collection, more than half of the German, all of the Skyfall and don’t get me wrong I wanted them maybe not the three reds but still, the Mariah Carey line is due out if not out already. That is just OPI, not to mention all the other brands and indies. So, here is a picture of Oz, I have no idea if I will buy any of them.
Then there was a disturbing post on the Cult nail blog. Effective Jan 1, 2013 all nail polish will be $12.00 instead of ten with some polishes being as high as $15.00. So, what do you think about those prices bloggers who pay for their polish??? Maybe I am just going to stop buying polish altogether. See, I did a poll on my blog and people voted that they wanted to see more swatches. So, that is what I have been trying to give you but I feel very sad when I get no comments and no new followers. With prices going up, I might just do nail art with some occasional swatching. Some might not like the ads I do for Latina Bloggers but they pay me a little to do them and I love doing them. So, with the end of the year coming I have to set some goals and even though I have had my new year that is a spiritual one. My calendar new year I set achievement goals because if I don’t then I just go round in circles and life is way too short for that.
So that is all for now
Ciao, bellas,
Patty
My OPI Picks for OPI’s Mariah Carey Collection
This is the Butterfly Effect. I felt I had to have it just because it is a neutral and I love neutrals. It is a peachy neutral with a shimmer. I liked it but I might give it to my daughter.
This is the one I really like. It is called Sprung. It is a light bronze and just looks really something that is going to look great on the beach. I can’t wait to wear it. Actually I got embossing powder from the Born Pretty Store and I am dying to wear it because I haven’t really done a manicure I wanted to wear it a while. I’ve been swatching so much from lost time. Right now I am doing a manicure I want to wear plus it hasn’t been cold and now I am thinking of doing the embossing powder because it is cold in Houston finally and this might be our last cold spell. Crap I am going to change my nails. I can wear red anytime. Oh, boy off track again but does that happen to you. You end up wearing something that you just wanted to post and then you just wear it till the next day.
Ok, this is the Impossible. Weird name but I feel like this is OPI’s attempt to compete with the indie market. You can feel and see the sand granules in this polish. It is fun to wear that is about it.
Here is a close-up.
Here is with top coat. Hate it! Looks like I chilled jello on my nails and I love jello but not that much.
This is Give me your number. Now this one is really sandy and gritty and glittery. Love it. I wore it overnight and all day today the only thing is don’t forget you are wearing it and lick your fingers because it does taste salty.
T
Ok, there are four other polishes left in the collection one is a a plum color and I don’t know how many plum nail polishes I have. Then there is a glittery pink. Indies cover that area so I didn’t go there. The purple sand was a toss up and I got it because I flipped a coin and picked heads for blue. But you know something if you get to flip a coin always call heads. For some reason for me it is always heads. In college I took statistics and it was kind of proven that for some reason heads shows up more than tails we all had to pull out a coin and flip it. It did not matter what type of coin it was 85% of our class flipped a coin 100 times and it was 60/40. We were pretty amazed. So always pick heads. Then there is this brown sand one and I like brown polishes but not this one. I had already read a couple of reviews stating it was really gritty so I stayed away from this one.
So, if you are going to buy something from this line make sure you like it I believe they will be more expensive and talking about that leads me to my next post which might be a bit of a tirade.
Ciao for now,
Patty