Wednesday, September 19, 2012
Mascara Galore!
Mascara is always evolving with its revolutionary formula and bristles. It seems like a new mascara is being debuted every week from all brands of low-end to high-end cosmetics. The branding of these beauty tubes always seems to amaze me. Some claim to enhance your natural lashes to look like false ones and others claim to help your lashes grow 5 times its natural length. Whatever your needs are for your prime mascara, it's definitely a popular item that consumers stock up on all the time.
Wednesday, September 12, 2012
NOTD: Zoya Kelly
My nail polish collection is a solid variety of colors with one thing in common: black handles. This observation was noticed a while back when I started researching the "toxic trio" in nail polish. Heads up: if you don't know what I'm talking about, type "toxic trio" in your search engine. After researching different, harmful ingredients found in beauty products, I re-evaluated my makeup collection and wanted to make sure that every item I own wasn't doing any harm to my health. I started on my nail polishes and since have changed my habits on reading the small, tiny printed labels. This may or may not be for you, but everyone is entitled to their own opinion about the effects of beauty products to your health. If I continue on this path, I may never reach my goal of the purpose to this post.
Moving forward- once clearing out any polish that contained the "toxic trio", what remained in my nail polish collection were colors that were either OPI or Butter London. I adore both nail polish brands and have wanted to try a new brand that was "toxic trio" free. I did intense research on healthy polishes and Zoya was part of the list. This brand immediately struck my interest not only because it was "toxic trio" free, but it had a black handle! It sounds lame, but I did a recent Zoya haul at my local Ulta and am so happy I did so.
This color is perfect for fall. The gunmetal tone has a undertone of blue and purple. There's no shimmer or shine, but looks bad-ass when the light reflects of off your nails. Since this was my first Zoya polish, I was kinda upset that the application was kinda streaky. It's not as consistent as OPI or Butter London with just one coat. So you definitely need 2 (or maybe 3) solid coats. Other than that, I'm glad that this shade is part of my nail collection.
Do you have this? Let me know and happy painting!
Moving forward- once clearing out any polish that contained the "toxic trio", what remained in my nail polish collection were colors that were either OPI or Butter London. I adore both nail polish brands and have wanted to try a new brand that was "toxic trio" free. I did intense research on healthy polishes and Zoya was part of the list. This brand immediately struck my interest not only because it was "toxic trio" free, but it had a black handle! It sounds lame, but I did a recent Zoya haul at my local Ulta and am so happy I did so.
This color is perfect for fall. The gunmetal tone has a undertone of blue and purple. There's no shimmer or shine, but looks bad-ass when the light reflects of off your nails. Since this was my first Zoya polish, I was kinda upset that the application was kinda streaky. It's not as consistent as OPI or Butter London with just one coat. So you definitely need 2 (or maybe 3) solid coats. Other than that, I'm glad that this shade is part of my nail collection.
Do you have this? Let me know and happy painting!
Saturday, September 8, 2012
Meal of the Day: BBQ Chicken-Touille
Remember the Pixar movie "Ratatouille"? Just replace "rata-" with "bbq chicken" and this dish is as easy as that!
Tuesday, September 4, 2012
NOTD: OPI Schnapps Out of It!
It's September and already the transformation from summer to fall in fashion and beauty has arrived in a blink of an eye. Everyone can say that the summer flew by so quickly that people are still in summer mode post Labor Day. Well I'm not one of them- I LOVE FALL! I already started picking up a few items that are perfect for the fall including a new nail polish by OPI from their latest collection.
The OPI Germany Collection includes 12 new shades that were inspired by what fashion editors are calling "Europe's hottest new fashion metropolis". It embraces elegance as well as the avant-garde essence of modern Berlin. Personally having travelled to Berlin over 7 years ago, I love the boldness of each color and the names are quite catchy. These shades are great transitional colors into fall and are perfect for any activity, day or night.
Being a loyal OPI consumer, I couldn't resist purchasing at least one of the new polishes. Among all the new colors, Schnapps Out of It! is a color that caught my attention. It's a beautiful mauve/brown color with red and grey undertones. There's a super fine hint of silver glitter and shine that's nearly noticeable after applying 2 coats of polish. I don't know why but this color reminds me of rose petals. When I first swatched it at the store, all I could this of was rose petals and potpourri (weird, I know). Anyway, this color is great for those who are still holding onto their summer tan (guilty to that!). The color on your nails is warm and very fall appropriate as the weather starts to get cooler.
Have you tried any of the shades from OPI German Collection? Let me know. Happy painting!
The OPI Germany Collection includes 12 new shades that were inspired by what fashion editors are calling "Europe's hottest new fashion metropolis". It embraces elegance as well as the avant-garde essence of modern Berlin. Personally having travelled to Berlin over 7 years ago, I love the boldness of each color and the names are quite catchy. These shades are great transitional colors into fall and are perfect for any activity, day or night.
Being a loyal OPI consumer, I couldn't resist purchasing at least one of the new polishes. Among all the new colors, Schnapps Out of It! is a color that caught my attention. It's a beautiful mauve/brown color with red and grey undertones. There's a super fine hint of silver glitter and shine that's nearly noticeable after applying 2 coats of polish. I don't know why but this color reminds me of rose petals. When I first swatched it at the store, all I could this of was rose petals and potpourri (weird, I know). Anyway, this color is great for those who are still holding onto their summer tan (guilty to that!). The color on your nails is warm and very fall appropriate as the weather starts to get cooler.
Have you tried any of the shades from OPI German Collection? Let me know. Happy painting!
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