A Bunch of Different Nails

I try to take a picture every time I do my nails, and I do them often.  Well, once a week maybe?  But I'm still terrible at keeping up with blogs, so I'll just post a few now.

First one is wintry colours.  It's still very much winter here, and it was even still snowing today while I was at work.  Some L'oreal dark oxblood red, Maybelline "Turquoise Seas", OPI "Jade is the New Black" (I love this!), and then glitter gradient using OPI's "The Living Daylights" and some gold glitter ELF polish.  I would not recommend the ELF glitter polish, because while it is decent quality, it smells like onions and burnt plastic, and the smell sticks around for a few days.  

 

Second was cool pastels.  With glitter.  I do glitter a lot I guess. 

The teal green is also ELF, and much better than their glitter polish in the sense that it doesn't smell terrible.  I did another glitter gradient on all of these because I kind of love that look.  The L'Oreal polish there is called "I Pink I'm in Love", and I really do like it, because the colour reminds me of an old Tinkerbell polish I had when I was like 4.  

And another look with more glitter.  I tried to do diagonal lines of two different glitters with this one.  The picture doesn't do it justice, because it really did come out well.

Ulta was doing some "Buy One Get One 50% Off" deal on their Sally Hansen polishes, and I was there for new spring makeup, and had wanted the Lustre Shine polish for a while.  So I got it, and the copper glitter one.  The copper glitter obviously doesn't show up well against the coppery-red polish.  The Julep is from that lucky pack I got a while back.  I was actually really happy with the colours I got in that, because there was also a metallic red, copper, and cream orange.  I haven't seen that Essie iridescent flaky topcoat in shops for a while sadly, and mine is starting to get a bit viscous.  I use it a lot, so I'll have to find a replacement somehow.

I'll have a look with a few polishes from OPI's new Euro Centrale collection soon!  I ended up getting a set of four minis, and had a lot of fun with those!  Later!

Cupcake Lovers' Collection!

Because cupcakes... are also for lovers!

Sorry I've been gone for like a month.  I really am not good with keeping up with blogs.  And I'm better at keeping up with work, of which there has been a marathon recently.  I've also been trying to get my GRE stuff in order, shopping for grad schools, and still shopping for flight schools because honestly that would be more fun.

I gave up candy for Lent (seriously when the beans is Easter anyway?  I'm like dying here.)  So I've been hitting the LipSmackers pretty hard.  And since LipSmackers turned 40 this year, there had to be cake.  In the form of cake flavoured lip glosses, of course!

The Cupcake Lovers' Collection is similar to the Strawberry Lovers' Collection; six glosses in a cute little case.  You get Red Velvet, Salted Caramel, Berry Buttercream, Strawberry Sprinkle, Birthday Cake, and Vanilla Coconut.  Perfect for when you don't feel like driving to the yuppie neighbourhoods to get a cupcake from one of the many bakeries around those parts (that seem to be nonexistent around all other parts.)

Red Velvet- actually smells like the inside of a bakery.  I like this one a lot.  It's a shame I've already lost it.

Salted Caramel- easily my favourite of this set.  It's not the same as Dulce De Leche (if you have that... it's super good too just FYI.)  You can really taste salt in this.  And caramel.   My mom's friend actually made salted caramels over the Christmas holiday, and I ate a whole bag of them, and this tastes like that.

Berry Buttercream- if you are a little lad who loves berries and cream, you will love this.  It's like yogurt with berries in it.  I think I've used half of mine already.

Birthday Cake- not terribly exciting.  It's vanilla-y and sweet.  There are probably about ten other Lipsmackers out now that are similar to this.

Strawberry Sprinkle- the token strawberry flavour that Lipsmackers has to put in every collection.  I like this one though.  It's kind of ice-creamy.

Vanilla Coconut- I'm not sure if I like this one or not.  I'm really not a fan of coconut, just in general.  But this is like... coconut and vanilla, and it seems like there's a hint of cocktail cherry in this one as well.  It's decent I suppose.

This was a good set to get.  For the most part I enjoyed it.
Later.