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Tuesday, January 14, 2014

Nails, nails, nails!

For today's post I thought I'd post a few nail polish swatches I've taken! I'm still getting used to how to hold my hand and some of these photo's are the first ever ones I've taken!

I thought it'd be nice to use this as a platform to show off them off!!! Hope you enjoy!


Essie - Leading Lady

OPI - Liquid Sand Mariah Carey Collection - Can't Let Go

Essie - Boom Boom Room

Color Club - Blue Heaven

First coat is Sally Hansen - White On
This is a mix between 2 different Essie's - In The Cabana and Boom Boom Room
Sally Hansen -  Violet Voltage 

Same colors as above - Right hand

Zoya - Lola

Sally Hansen - Mint Sorbet
Essie - Set in Stones

Zoya - Jem 
flash on

Zoya- Jem 
natural sunlight (took 2 photo's to show how the color changes)

4 layers- Sally Hansen Lacey Lilac 
Essie - To Buy or Not to Buy 
Revlon - Girly
Pure Ice - Spitfire

Luxe- Red Hot
Essie- Leading Lady
Essie - Set in Stones
Accent nail:
Zoya - Dahlia
Essie - Set in Stones


All nails - excluding the liquid sand - have Seche Vite top coat.


I hope you enjoyed aim my swatches! Also make sure you check out my Instagram and my Twitter and follow me to keep up to date with new posts and pictures/sneak peaks! 
And thank you for all the support and like's I've been receiving especially on Instagram! It means a lot!

That's all for today but stay tuned I have more posts to come! 

Saturday, January 11, 2014

For the love of beauty!

I've always loved everything related to beauty.
I remember one birthday when I was a little girl I received a pink Little Tikes vanity. Talk about one excited birthday girl!
So many days I would sit and "do" my makeup. Typically I came out looking like a clown, with bright red circles on my cheeks, bright blue's, pinks, purples or greens smeared on my eyelids and whatever flavor in my never ending Lip Smackers collection I felt like rubbing all over my face, because you know the bigger the Lip Smackers the cooler you were. Obviously that meant I had the biggest ones you could buy that would never actually precisely apply to your actual lips.


 My makeup collection grew and grew. My little vanity was overflowing with my ever growing collection. Therefore I had to upgrade to a CaBoodles makeup carrier. The first one I owned was a big awful, lots of shelves pulled out and it was purple and sparkly! I felt so cool. I had so many Lip Smackers, lipsticks nail polishes, eyeshadows and blushes. Most of that was passed down from cousins or my mom.
I had little makeup brushes too. Usually the sponge applicators or teeny tiny blush brushes and powder puffs or sponges that come with the products that most adults don't use. I sure used them though!

Obviously I was the little girl who dressed up in her mother's heels, pretty dresses, and jewelry.
I even had my Mom-Mom wrapped around my fingers with this. I always would take her ever so-cool clip on earrings and pearl necklaces and walk around all day in them. I loved looking at her shoe rack, she had so many high heels. It was a girls dream.

Something that started fascinating me the older I got was hair. Cuts, colors, styles. And I have been through my fair share of all the above. I get so much joy learning new techniques and cutting and styling, coloring hair. I will get my degree one day because I can't imagine not having one.
Even if it never gets me anywhere in life to experience learning everything I want to know will be amazing. It's an art to me.

Now that I'm older, I still love makeup just as much. I love having my nails painted. I am OBSESSED with hair.  I still love jewelry and fashion, though high heels are not my forte. I'd take a pair of boots or flats any day!

I hope through writing this blog I can share some of my favorite products, honest reviews, some DIY's of my own, photo's and swatches of my favorite nail polishes or makeup!

I hope you join me on my journey! This will be a learning process for me and I'm hoping I learn well! I hope that others, if nothing else,  just enjoy reading what I have to say and seeing the passion I have for anything and everything beauty related!

Thanks for reading and stay tuned for more!


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