So I'm not a fan of manicures. I'm a klutz and can have it chipped and raggedy looking in one day. That means I'm also not a fan of painting at home. I decided to try this OPI start to finish..it's a base and top coat, along with a red OPI shade. It's several days later and although I've had some fading at the top..the nails are still looking pretty good!! I guess the next step is to try the start to finish with a non OPI polish and see if the awesomeness continues!!
Tuesday, August 21, 2012
Monday, August 13, 2012
Hot Lip Stuff!!
I'm a big fan of CVS. I don't know why because most of the stuff is overly expensive but it's always fun to shop and I swear I never spend less than $30 in there.
I strolled into my local CVS the other day and was practically face to face with a gigantic cutout of Emma Stone wearing this hot pink lip stuff. She's the girl of Revlon right now and her pretty pink lips beckoned me to pick up the new lip balm and try it!. The evil ones of Revlon of course didn't give us that nifty little tray full of swipey pads with the lip balm so I had to cross my fingers I'd like it. The advertisement claims they're a Just Bitten Kissable lip stain. At the time, it was on sale for $8.99 and you got one 50% off with your CVS card when you bought one.
I trooped home with the colors lovesick (Emma made it look awesome!) and romantic. They're like gigantic crayons so it's kind of hard to mess up your lips. They have a light mint scent and they go on smoothly AND they last a heck of a lot longer than any other lipstick or stain I've tried. They wear off like lipstick in the way that leaves the lining of your lips colored like you penciled them. Plus they don't have some funky weird burning sensation like some other stains I've tried (cough covergirl cough)
I went back and got the honey color but unfortunately it was now just $6.99 with my CVS card..oh wait! Tricksters! That's almost what the price of the other ones were on sale! Anywho..I'm digging them and even though the lovesick is a tad bright for work..it's a hot color for a date!
Not that my hand is such a great judge of lipsticks but hey it's as good a place as any so you're not having to send myspace face pics to everybody you've told about these!
Over and out ;)
I strolled into my local CVS the other day and was practically face to face with a gigantic cutout of Emma Stone wearing this hot pink lip stuff. She's the girl of Revlon right now and her pretty pink lips beckoned me to pick up the new lip balm and try it!. The evil ones of Revlon of course didn't give us that nifty little tray full of swipey pads with the lip balm so I had to cross my fingers I'd like it. The advertisement claims they're a Just Bitten Kissable lip stain. At the time, it was on sale for $8.99 and you got one 50% off with your CVS card when you bought one.
I trooped home with the colors lovesick (Emma made it look awesome!) and romantic. They're like gigantic crayons so it's kind of hard to mess up your lips. They have a light mint scent and they go on smoothly AND they last a heck of a lot longer than any other lipstick or stain I've tried. They wear off like lipstick in the way that leaves the lining of your lips colored like you penciled them. Plus they don't have some funky weird burning sensation like some other stains I've tried (cough covergirl cough)
I went back and got the honey color but unfortunately it was now just $6.99 with my CVS card..oh wait! Tricksters! That's almost what the price of the other ones were on sale! Anywho..I'm digging them and even though the lovesick is a tad bright for work..it's a hot color for a date!
Not that my hand is such a great judge of lipsticks but hey it's as good a place as any so you're not having to send myspace face pics to everybody you've told about these!
Sunday, August 12, 2012
Crack!
Hey it's my first post and I have no idea how to make this pretty so I'm just going to start by telling you about something I've recently discovered! Well, a couple things possibly. The first is a product I've so far deemed pretty awesome!
I stumbled upon it actually at Ulta. Standing in line waiting to check out after a fantastic sale (free carry on luggage when you bought perfume!) and I saw this nifty little blue tube that just said...Crack. Who wouldn't ogle a product named that right?
So I checked it out on Amazon.. as you can see here ~~~> Crack for hair! and it had a good enough price (~ $10) so I one click ordered that sucker! A little background, I have naturally curly hair that doesn't always do what I want it to do. It used to be thick but I went through a boxed hair dye frenzy (shudder I know) in my early 20s and it has never seemed to recover! So I'm always on the hunt for new products to try. This lightweight cream goes on easy and doesn't make my hair feel greasy and it doesn't drag it down. It says it works well as a heat protectant so this morning I combined my first foray into Paul Mitchell's Super skinny shampoo and conditioner with a 2 pea sized amount of Crack and I blow dryed my hair. It's smooth and soft and I didn't have to spend much time at all having to go back through and straighten out random pieces that dried weird. Plus it didn't take near as long as it normally does to dry it! My hair combed out much easier with the Paul Mitchell..then again I've been using solid shampoos from Lush lately so changing up shampoos could've been the trick..more about those later.
I've used the same product on wet hair and just left the house and while my hair was still soft, it didn't give any sort of control so parts of my hair had nice soft curls and others were a little bushy/frizzy. But I can see this softening curls with coarser hair than mine. It'll replace my old like/love of Frederick Fekkai's glossing cream..that stuff just makes my hair a little too oily and limp even when I use a teeny amount.
I think that about wraps up my first run-on train of thought about a new product!
Check back with me again and I'll ramble on with more thoughts on one of the millions of items hanging out in my bathroom.
I stumbled upon it actually at Ulta. Standing in line waiting to check out after a fantastic sale (free carry on luggage when you bought perfume!) and I saw this nifty little blue tube that just said...Crack. Who wouldn't ogle a product named that right?
So I checked it out on Amazon.. as you can see here ~~~> Crack for hair! and it had a good enough price (~ $10) so I one click ordered that sucker! A little background, I have naturally curly hair that doesn't always do what I want it to do. It used to be thick but I went through a boxed hair dye frenzy (shudder I know) in my early 20s and it has never seemed to recover! So I'm always on the hunt for new products to try. This lightweight cream goes on easy and doesn't make my hair feel greasy and it doesn't drag it down. It says it works well as a heat protectant so this morning I combined my first foray into Paul Mitchell's Super skinny shampoo and conditioner with a 2 pea sized amount of Crack and I blow dryed my hair. It's smooth and soft and I didn't have to spend much time at all having to go back through and straighten out random pieces that dried weird. Plus it didn't take near as long as it normally does to dry it! My hair combed out much easier with the Paul Mitchell..then again I've been using solid shampoos from Lush lately so changing up shampoos could've been the trick..more about those later.
I've used the same product on wet hair and just left the house and while my hair was still soft, it didn't give any sort of control so parts of my hair had nice soft curls and others were a little bushy/frizzy. But I can see this softening curls with coarser hair than mine. It'll replace my old like/love of Frederick Fekkai's glossing cream..that stuff just makes my hair a little too oily and limp even when I use a teeny amount.
I think that about wraps up my first run-on train of thought about a new product!
Check back with me again and I'll ramble on with more thoughts on one of the millions of items hanging out in my bathroom.
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