OPI Mariah Carey Collection - Pink Yet Lavender Swatch!

Hey lovelies! I have a goooorgeous swatch for you today! :) 

This is from the OPI Mariah Carey Collection, and it's a stunning glitter topper called "Pink Yet Lavender." 

The name is definitely fitting, because that's exactly how I would describe it's color! It sort of reminds me of the color of rose gold. 

Pink Yet Lavender is a gorgeous glitter topper, with a clear base with large "pink, yet lavender" colored hex glitters, and pink/lavender holographic micro glitter!

A bottle-shot to show it's prettiness close up! :) 

You definitely do not have to fish for the glitter at all, even the larger glitter pieces come right out on the brush, and I didn't find myself having to "place" the glitter too much at all either. 

The clear base is a little thick though, so you don't want to do too thick of a coat at once. Instead, I did two thin coats an built it up. Other than that though, I had no problems with this polish! :) 

I did a base color of Sephora by OPI - A True Romantic and then two coats of Pink Yet Lavender, and sealed it off with a coat of Seche Vite. 

I loooove the way this glitter looks! I got this from my sister as a birthday gift, and as soon as I pulled it out of the box and saw it, I was in love! 

I can't wait to try this with other base colors and see how it looks! :) 

Swatch-Time!: Darling Diva Polish - Denim Mitten!

Hello Lovelies! :) 

So remember a few weeks ago when I mentioned that I entered the Jen's Nail Files nail art contest? Well I was one of the twelve winners! 

So our prize was an exclusive Darling Diva Polish, made just for the Contest!  

So sadly, I don't think you'd be able to buy this beauty, but definitely check out Darling Diva Polish's other polishes! :) 

The cute little care package from Jen, she included two boxes of NERDS candy too! Yum! :) 

Bottle Shot of Denim Mitten! :) 

Look how gorgeous!!  

This is actually my first indie polish, and I love it! :) 

Denim Mitten is a light purple-ish blue shimmer base, totally PACKED with glitter! I spotted dark blue, pink, purple, and silver micro glitters, and large pink round glitters. 

I was really impressed by the formula, the only glitter I needed to "place" was the large pink glitters, but I didn't have to fish for them at all, and all the micro glitters went on with no problem at all. 

It did take four coats to become opaque, but that's to be expected with a glitter polish. The layers dried really quickly though, so it wasn't that much of a problem! 

Overall, I was super-duper surprised and impressed by this polish! :) 

I definitely love this prize!! So thank you Jen for choosing me as a winner, and thank you Darling Diva Polish for making this for us! :) 

Wet'N'Wild "Drinking A Glass of Shine" Eyeshadow Palette!

Hi lovies! Today I have something a little different for you, today's post isn't about nails! *gasp!* LOL
Today I thought I'd show you guys something else I love, make-up!

So what I'm going to be showing today is the Wet'N'Wild "Drinking A Glass Of Shine" eyeshadow palette. :)
This palette is soo pretty, the colors are definitely me!
I actually got this palette as a Christmas gift from my cousin Sarah, you may remember I showed it in
this post .

This palette had two different sides, a bright colored side, and a natural/smoky side. You could mix and match different colors, but for this post I did it the way the palette shows you.

Other than the palette, I also used ELF Eye Primer, CoverGirl Perfect-Blend eyeliner in black, CoverGirl LashBlast mascara in black, and some Eco-Tools shadow brushes.

So here's the pretty palette:

Look at those colors! Loooooook!:

Here I swatched the colors on my hand to see how they looked on my skin:

The really cool thing that I love about this is that the brush is double-sided! One side is a sponge, and the other side is an angled brush, which works amaaaazingly for doing your crease! :)
(p.s. there's make-up already on it because I had a herp-a-derp moment and forgot to take pictures of it before I started. Oops. Sorry about that. LOL :p)

The sponge tip:

The angled brush:

So I did the teal/blue/purple look first. I decided since the colors of this one were so bright, to only line my water-line/inner-lids with the eyeliner. started by using the sponge side to put the teal color on my lid, then I used the angled brush to put the blue color on my crease. Then I used one of my Eco-Tools shadow brushes to add some of the purple to my outer corner, and very lightly on my lower lid. Then I used another Eco-Tools brush to add the white highlight to my browbone and to highlight my inner-corner, then blended it all together. I also added just a teensy bit of the highlight color over-top of the purple on my lower lid to lighten it up and make it not so obvious.

And here's how it came out:

(This one's a bit blurry, sorry, but you can really see the purple in it.):

So then I did the natural/smoky side. I lined both my water-line with and a thin line on my upper-lid for this one. I also cheated a little bit with this one, because the tan shade for the lid was a tad but too dark for my skin, so I blended just a tiny bit of the brown, and some of the highlight color to lighten it up. Then I followed the same steps as I did before: angled brush to add the dark brown to my crease, Eco-Tools brush to add the black to my inner-corner. I actually went just a little bit into the very beginning of my crease with the black, and blended it out to give it a more smoky look. Then I cheated again and used the white highlight color from the other side of the palette because the other one wasn't shimmery enough for me. LOL :)

This was actually more dark and smoky in person, but you can at least see the way everything blends together.

So that's the palette! I really love it, I can't wait to play around with it and mix and match the colors! :)

What do you guys think? Also, did you like having a make-up post from me instead just all nails all the time? Let me know, because if you guys like it maybe ill do it more often! :)
Not to worry though, the nails aren't going anywhere! ;)

Swatch Time!: Zoya - Blu

Hi lovelies! :)

If you follow my Facebook page you already know this; Yesterday I got an AWESOME surprise in the mail! My amazing cousin Sarah sent me her old camera! She just got a new one so she sent me her old one as a surprise! Soo sweet!! So no more blurry iPod pics! :D

It's a Sony Cyber-Shot, and it takes such pretty pictures! (Although, really anything is a step-up from blurry iPod pics! LOL)

She had been having a giveaway on her blog, (http://tunaynamahal.com) for two of the new polishes from the Zoya Lovely Spring Collection, Blu and Neely! I'll do a Nail Mail post soon to show you all of it, but first I'll be showing you Blu!

Blu is a soft lovely, pastel baby blue! It's perfect for Spring, and makes me want warm weather so bad!!
I don't know if you guys ever got these in your Easter baskets as a kid, but remember the little pastel Easter Egg shaped M&M's that come out at Easter time? This color reminds me of those! :)

The formula is a nice creme, it's thin so it does pool a little bit so you have to be careful around your cuticles, but surprisingly it's opaque by the second coat! I did three though, you know me and my OCD-ness LOL :)

The first photo is three coats without top-coat, the second two are with one coat of Seche Vite top-coat. :)

Stay tuned for a swatch of Neely coming soon!

Zoya - Opal Swatch!

Hello Lovelies! So today I'm sharing another Zoya beauty with you, this is Opal.

Opal is from the fleck effect top-coat collection, it's a clear jelly base with a green tint, and all different sized blue-green duo-chrome flecks throughout it!
My one and only complaint about this polish is that it's terrible to photograph, pictures don't do it justice! In person it's soo beautiful, the effect is definitely unique.

The first shot is Opal swatched all by itself, this swatch is three coats.

The second is two coats of Opal over Zoya - Happi.

The third is Zoya - Mitzi with one coat of Opal on the accent ring.

I can't wait to play with this and experiment with it over other polishes!! :)

Zoya - Happi Swatch!

Hello lovelies!
So when I did the Zoya "Try 3 Free" promo, this was the second one I got! :)

Happi is an absolutely gorgeous, almost duo-chrome, sheer polish. It's so pretty, and has a really good formula. It's opaque in 2 coats, (though I did 3, because I'm OCD about coverage LOL) normal drying time, no streaking at all, and has a really nice, shiny finish. :)

The color is a beautiful coral/pink, and what I didn't realize just from the bottle is that in certain lighting, it has a bit of green in the shimmer! Pink + Green is one of my favorite color combos so I looved discovering that!

Below the swatch of this beauty, I added Zoya - Opal on top of it. I reeeeaaaaallllly love this polish combo! Not only does it make them sparkly, but the blue-green color of opal really brings out the green shimmer of Happi! :)

Love this polish by itself, and paired with opal! Perfect for warm weather! (Which needs to hurry up and get here already! :p)