NOTD: Sally Hansen Flirt and Hidden Treasure

2 coats of Sally Hansen Lacquer Shine in Flirt that I picked up on sale today. I don't even know how to describe it. It's a crazy awesome hot purple /fuchsia iridescent fine shimmer/holo? On top 2 coats of Sally Hasen Hidden Treasure flakies everyone is lovin. My nails on fire today :P

With flash captures the purple-ness of Flirt.

Without flash better captures how it looks in real life and the wonderful flakies on top.

Drugstore Haul

CVS sale and Walgreens with coupons :D

3 Wet N Wild polishes (for .50 each!)
Sally Hansen Lacquer Shine in Flirt ($1 from the clearance bin.. I think it's being discontinued? Which is too bad cause it's amazing!)
L'Oreal HIP lipgloss duo in Ritzy (I'd NEVR pay the retail price of like $11 but it was 75% plus I had a coupon. For under $2 it's not bad at all.)
L'Oreal HIP pigment in Progressive ( Ditto)
Wet N' Wild Color Icon Palette in Vanity (Lovin!)
Wet N' Wild Color Icon Blush in Heather Slik (Lovin!)
NYC Brow Set in Brunette (Normally use ELF Studio brow set but I have it in dark and it's a bit too dark I think...)
Studio Brow Razors (mostly tweeze but I have a tiny bit of fuzzy on the top of my brows that are too fine to pluck)

NOTD: Sally Hansen Blue Me Away with China Glaze Atlantis

Pretty simple here. Used 1 coat of Sally Hansen Blue  Me Away and topped with 2 coats of China Glaze Atlantis. Atlantis has a green jelly coat so layering it on top of the the blue gave a cool teal-y color. 

Without flash (truer to real color IMO)

With flash.

NOTD: Pink with Staming

Been playing with my fauxnad plates and decided to do some stamping today. I use a no name/brand pale pink I got as part of a makeup set as a gift for Xmas a few years ago. It's awful and thin, it took 5 coats! But I love the color. I stamped with an old Sally Hansen Chrom polish and my Chinese Konad knockoffs. Then to finish it off I embellish with a little China Glaze Nova. Enjoy :D

NOTD: Sally Hansen Blue Me Away and Pure Ice Cheatin

I cheated again :D Added some Pure Ice on top of my old mani again. 

NOTD: Sally Hansen Blue Me Away

I'm rough on my hands/nails at work so I decided to test out Sally Hansen's Xtreme Wear. It goes on smooth (almost a tad on the gloopy side) and is super opaque. You could almost get away with one coat if you needed to but I opted to do 2 just to smooth out a couple areas. Unfortunately without a top coat it didn't even last 1 shift so it's not THAT Xtreme, but still a great bright blue with easy application.

Sally Hasen Smile Brightening Lip Treatment Review

Found this baby in the Dollar Store and couldn't resist for only a buck! A quick Google Product search places it's price range online from anywhere between $1.49 to $7.99 on Amazon! It claims to make your teeth whiter by contrasting it with yellow pigments while hydrating an conditioning lips. It come in a couple shades at the Dollar Store and I had a tough time before settling on Gleaming, a bright pink with a a purplish iridescent shine in the tube.

My thoughts: 
First off the packaging it pretty clunky. It's sturdy, cute and modern with the square shape and the raised circles on 2 sides, but it's a little big and square products never slip easily into pockets or anything. Applicator is the typical doe foot.

 Color payoff it pretty good. It can be applied thinly for sheer shine, or layered a bit for more color without getting thick and gloppy. There's a nice shine and faint sparkle/shimmer to this particular color and it's a nice bright pink (which actually doesn't work so well for me, but still it nice). The texture is good, not thick, not sticky, but just right. 

 What I love the most it the smell/flavor. It's a vanilla mint and it's like an after coffee breath mint. Nice a refreshing without being over powering. I also feel a very, very faint minty tingle like you get with some lip plumpers. I like that feeling but know some don't. I don't notice any plumping but it is moisturizing. The staying power like many glosses isn't too great and it seems to disappear within an hour or two even without eating/drinking, but there's a lot of product in the tube so just reapply. 

 Overall, not bad for a Dollar Store find. Do my teeth look whiter? Not really. Is it really a 'treatment'? Not so much. Would I pay $7 for it? Nah... But was it worth getting for a buck? Sure. So go check your Dollar Trees ladies.

Packaging: 3 of 5 (Pretty but not bulky)

Smell: 5 of 5 (Fresh!)

Color: 3 of 5
Consistency: 4 of 5
Staying Power: 2.5 of 5
Buy again?: For a dollar yea, for 7 no.

Mini Wal-Mart 'Haul'

I hate to even call this a haul as only I only got 6 items but I really needed something to finally get me started on this blog. I've had the name set aside for a bit but been too busy (ok, lazy) to actually get started on everything I want to do with it. So anyways, it was a boring Saturday and I was online fantasy shopping and racking up some very $expensive$ fantasy shopping cart bills so I needed to get out of the house to distract myself so fantasy online shopping didn't actually turn into real online shopping cause for me that DANGEROUS! There's not much where I live so I hit up my much visited Wal-Mart makeup zone. I've perused it hundreds of times, but I can still always find something I've looked over before. Here's what I ended up with today.



~Paris Presents -'Highlighter' brush (which I plan to use for liquid foundation)
~N.Y.C. - Light Beam (Runway Lights)
~N.Y.C. - Ulta Moist Lipwear (319B Violet Shine)
~N.Y.C. - Ulta Moist Lipwear (301B Cafe)
~Sally Hansen - Xtreme Wear (Blue Me Away!)
~Pure Ice - Nail Emanuel (Cheatin')

I'll review them piece by piece so stop back to check them out!