Island Girl Haul!

I have a very like the best dad.  He spent the last week in Vegas and the last month before that I had been going on and on and on about Island Girl and how it can only be found at abc stores in Vegas.  Well when I saw him he brought me back a bagillion Island Girl stuff!  (sorry for the awkward lighting but I got the colors the most accurate)

Aloha Magic 5 pack

2-way Nail Art Pen and Striper

Mood Nail Color in Lei's

(top to bottom: watermelon, bubble gum, strawberry and raspberry)

And a 4 pack of roll on lipgloss with real flowers (I checked on the site)

(close up)

Now this is the purple from the 5 pack and it was, unique.  And by this I mean that the formula was so weird.  It was sheer but ya' know how sometimes going over a layer of paint and it pulls it off?  All of this would just come off when the brush barely touched it.  Like, the whole part of the nail was naked.  Also it dried darker than the bottle see picture below

BTW this is not my swatch of this color.  On thursday we have a half day and no school on friday and I promise you three 

readers that I will go SWATCH CRAZY!

Island Girl & Bloggers Not Telling Important Stuff

HEEEY FRIENDS! Sorry I haven't made a quality nail swatching post since SaGreen the Teenage Witch and I'm not totally sure if it's that high quality, cause I want good pictures, good job painting nails and stuff.  Well this isn't a nail polish post (and I am so so so so sorry), but it has to do with nail polish.  

So there's a brand of nail polish called Island Girl.  Well actually they also sell cosmetics.  And as every blog that has ever mentioned has said that they are only sold in ABC stores in Hawaii and Vegas.  And most people think of ABC store as in liquor.  Turns out they mean ABC store as in ABC Stores.  It's like a cross between a convenience store and a drug store.  WHY WASN'T I TOLD!  So yeah just thought you people should know because I was so confused.  

So all in all if you know someone going to Hawaii or Vegas... BEG THEM.  Because there are really pretty and yeah.

OPI & Nicki Minaj Collection!

So today I was going to go on the OPI site really quick to check the other name in the Miss Universe collection (I always forget 'Congeniality is My Middle Name'!) and I saw this:

I STARTED FREAKING OUT!  Not because it's an OPI - Nicki Minaj collection but also cause NO ONE HAS SAID ANYTHING!  Normally I find out about collections months in advance because I follow a million nail polish blogs and a lot of times they have press releases.  So this isn't a press release but I organized this in a nifty little post for you people!

Well the cremes don't seem too original but I don't have anything like these so I'm still gonna ask for 'em for my birthday (btw these come out in January 2012 and my birthday in February (hint hint wink wink)).  The one's that I want are 'Save Me' and 'Metallic 4 Life' and I wouldn't mind Getting 'Super Bass Shatter' because even though I don't really like shatter if the trend comes back I'm gonna want to have this.  Plus, I like the name and the pretty shimmer.  But one thing that's really cool is that this collection has a shatter, cremes and GLITTER!  Anyways, is anyone as psyched as I am for this collection???

Show you swatches of ALL those colors on February 11th (day after my B-Day!)

I'M BAAAAACK!!!!

Ok well I got a complaint email from my friend and follower Olivia about how I haven't posted anything in FOREVER!   Well it's actually only been like four days but in the blogging world thats like a year.  BUT!  I have a good excuse- my dad.  At 10:05 I was in the bathroom downstairs and I was told to be in the bed at 10 and I wasn't.  So me and my sister each lost the use of the computer for two days but after school on Friday I had to clean up stuff and then go to a sleep over and am just now getting the ability to blog.


Now, about the 31 Day Challenge.  WHAT THE CRAP WAS I THINKING?!?  Well for one I was thinking Mimi was going to help and she hasn't. AT ALL.  But we don't even share a blog so what ever.  But I've never done nail art.  And I'm not able to wait for my dad to come home to use his phone (which doesn't even give that good of pictures anyways) and then I would have to blog and post and I just don't even have enough time.  So, I'M NOT QUITTING! I'm just postponing it until this summer.


So from now I'm just swatching and I'll start practicing nail art (no promise it'll be good!).

Day 10: Gradient Nails

I've never done a gradient mani.  I'm not really too sure this counts as one but look and see for yourself  it is pretty though.  And this is the last one in the first chunk of the challenge!  here's a reminder:

So for this I used this polishes one coat of everything except 'Nail Junkie'  (I LOVE that name!)

(l-r: Sally Hansen Inst-Dri 'Brisk Blue', Sinful Colors 'Love Nails', Jesse's Girl 'Glee', Sinful Colors 'Nail Junkie')

I started out with one coat of 'Brisk Blue' then a coat of 'Love Nails'.  I sponged on 'Glee' on 2/3 of each nail.  Covered the top third in a coat of 'Nail Junkie' and re-sponged on top of that again.

Here's a close up.  There's a lot of gold shimmer and glitter in 'Nail Junkie' and 'Glee'.

This picture shows the truest color but it looks so bad.  See what I mean most gradients look like this.

Day 9: Rainbow Nails

Well Mimi was supposed to put up to extrmely simple post this weekend but she didn't.  So I'm angry.   GRR!  Well to day was rainbow nails and I saw Rainbow Nail Art and Holo Rainbow, but i don't have anything fancy like that.  I don't even have Red, Orange, and Yellow glitter polishes.  Blogging really shows the gaps in my collection :(.  So I did rainbow skittles on each hand.

UP CLOSE:

Blue: Ulta 'Blue Streak'

Green: Sinful Colors 'Innocent'

Yellow: AVON 'Sunshine'

Orange: Orly 'Sol Cabana'

Red: ALDO NAIL LACQUER 'Pampered Patent'

And I did the rainbow reverse on the other hand so that when you go like that they make a DOUBLE RAINBOW!!!

This is such a basic mani but I like it.  Tomorrow Gradient Nails and I'll post the Day 7 & 8 posts.  That's what's make this lack of post even more of a fail because I had all the pics for one of the post set up for one of them and it's not like I was asking for a essay or anything!!

BTW all of these were 3 coats and cremes

Day 6: Violet Nails

Why don't they just say purple?  I never understood the purpose of the word 'violet'.  Any ways I have a ba-jillion untried purple nail polishes.  But I decided to be a butt and not use them.  I started out with *4* horrible coats of L.A. Colors 'Nuclear Energy'.  I have 20 LA Colors and that's because Mimi had a spa birthday and everyone got a mani and a bottle of polish.  I got all of the left over polish.   Unfourtunatly, there colors are so sheer (the shimmers are the worst).  There cremes are all jellys, and it takes at least two coats of glitter to get 'sparse glitter'.  Here's my swatch:

Sorry for the messy-ness, butt any more than two coats and I stop caring.   This is a weird color.  It went anywhere from a grey plum to a deep purple to the color you see here.  Well I honestly should've stopped there but I didn't.  I added Sinful Colors 'Dream On'.  That color dries matte but in some lights it's an AMAZING deep purle, or a darker magenta.  It's weird.  I did a Half n' half tape man and it was... well... awkward... 

Head on you can't really see the difference in the colors

 Here's an angle.  I did 'Dream On' on the other side on the middle finger.

I don't like this manicure.  It makes me sad.  Oh well!  Probably going polish shopping this weekend!  Oh yeah BTW I'm going out of town so my ability to keep the challenge up is with Mimi. 

No pressure though!