GOSH: Blue Monday

Summeeerrr, wooooooo!

... Just had to get that out of my system :)

Now! Here's Blue Monday from a European brand called GOSH.

GOSH is sold in Shopper's Drug Mart across Canada. As far as I know, that's the only place to get it here.

Blue Monday is actually lighter than this - and in the bottle it had these really pretty purple fleckies. Unfortunately, when the polish dries the purple kinda disappears. So, that really sucked. Anyways, figured it would be good with some stamping, so I stamped using Nicole by OPI's Positive  and Bundle Monster plate -212.

Okay, that's all :) Till next time!

-Melanie

Teeez: Outta Control

Hey guys!

I recently won this nail polish in a give away from the lovely Witoxicity. It's the first online giveaway I've won, and this was definitely aweeeesomeeee! Anyways, swatch time!

This is Outta Control from Teeez.

Teeez is a European brand of nail polish that I can't for the life of me, find in Vancouver. And isn't this colour so pretty! A deep, dark violet/purple with LINEAR HOLO (scattered holos are pretty meh in my book). I honestly will keep this forever.

It would've been a one-coater, but I had a little bit of bald spots so it was two, plus top coat (which might've killed the holo, just a bit). My phone camera failed to pick up the true holo-i-ness of it, sadly.

On another note, McDonalds has some new Pokemon toys to go along with the Happy Meals... I have a couple friends who work there, I bought this off one of them :)

If you press his tail, his cheeks light up! Ahhhh, so cute :3

Anyways, thats all for now :)

-Melanie

China Glaze: Sexy Silhouette

Today I have a very awesome hot pink from China Glaze. This one is called Sexy Silhouette, and I bought it around the same time I bought Blue Iguana and Watermelon Rind (both of which are China Glazes).

Unfortunately, my Nikon Coolpix L110 camera could not correctly capture the sexy hot pink-ness that is Sexy Silhouette, but here is a 'close' attempt.

 Definitely over-exposed. Sadly, my the camera on my Nexus S phone has more accurate colours and proper exposure. It sports only 5 megapixels, yet my Nikon has 12 megapixels.

Um, what?

But I'm off-topic. If you look below, you will see a very accurate photo of Sexy Silhouette. It's so pretty! I love how bright it is - I've been looking for a really nice hot pink, and this is definitely my favorite. This says a lot, since I don't really like pink, anyways.

All in all, Sexy Silhouette is definitely that - sexy. It applies smoothly (add white underneath for extra umph!) and removes great (no staining! yay!), but it's definitely not for your mom! (Or at least, my mom. But then again, she only wears washed out pastel pink, ugh)

Till next time!

-Melanie

Prom Nails (I found em!) & Stamping.

So I was casually looking through my camera's memory and boom! There's my prom nails. Honestly, I thought I took the photos on my phone, which I've been doing a lot since it gives more accurate colors than my Nikon, sadly...

ANYWAYS, here's a double swatch type post. First off is a scotch tape mani from a tutorial over @ Chloe's Nails, that I used for my Jr. Prom - it features two coats of a white nail polish from Avon, and two coats of a pink Korean nail polish from a store called Cara.

 

Major bubbling happening here! Seriously, what went down? I noticed Seche Vite sometimes does that to me. I'm pretty sure I need to just stop shaking the bottle :P

Anyways, I totally didn't execute this well, and the pink was WAY more fake Barbie than I hoped. It looks fine in the photo, but the photo lies! D:<

OKAY, next up is one from another one from the Cara store, from a brand called Nail Colordium. Definitely was too plain for my taste (though I LOVE THIS COLOR, OHMYGOSH)

 

Stamped with my Bundle Monster plate to make up for it! I used another Nail Colordium polish with this.

 I'll probably edit this post later when I figure out which plate I used, and if anyone asks I'll put up the names (or numbers) of the polishes I used.

Till next time :)

-Melanie

Something Irrelevant: Mascara: NYX - Doll Eye Mascara in Volume

So I would've posted this a couple days earlier, but... Well, I'm lazy :]

Anyways, here's a review of Doll Eye Mascara (DE02) in Volume - Extreme Black from NYX.

 

Okay, I'll start of first by saying - I am a complete mascara n00b. I've only ever bought one other mascara (it was Maybelline's Great Lash), and that was when I was still in elementary school. Yikes.So, why did I buy this? Well 1) I loveee NYX products, and 2) I saw the MUA reviews.

 This wasn't a top rated mascara, but it did get an average rating of 3.8, plus 68% said they would buy it again.

Unfortunately, I was not part of that 68%.

Okay, maybe it's just me, but this mascara felt really... sticky on my lashes. Perhaps I'm just not used to mascara, but I really disliked wearing this. Volume-wise, I did feel it did a good job.

Maybe I got a defect product?

 Unfortunately, no pictures with it on - but those would've been disastrous since it looked kind of webby.

Maybe you'll have better luck, but I'm going to chuck this in the 'give-to-friend-in-need' bin.

-Melanie