Mini Haul & Favorite Swatches

Sally Beauty Supply Mini Haul

A couple of new little additions to my collection includes:

A.S.P. Nail Art 4 Pack Brush Set. There are 3 brushes made for striping and 1 small flat brush.

China Glaze Lorelei's Tiara. It's a cute little concoction. The base is a gilted silver with blue glitter in it.

Art Club Nail Art Gold Hologram Stars. This is a little jar of open gold stars and small whole gold stars. You paint your nails with either your favorite color of just a clear coat, before it dries you apply the stars with tweezers then finish with a top coat.

Last is Ikonna Select-a-Style. The one I bought is a set of 12 flowers. You apply this just like you do with the stars.

Swatches

These are 4 of my favorite colors and on my thumb is a swatch of my new color.

My new color is China Glaze Lorelei's Tiara. Sorry for the typo on the picture. It is a dense silver glitter with blue glitter flecks.

Next is China Glaze For Audrey. Its a cute light robin's egg/teal color.

OPI Meet Me on the Star Ferry is an interesting color. I wanna call it a port wine kinda color but more purple. It also has a nice shimmer to it.

OPI Significant Other Color. In the bottle it is a light purple with a gold/green shimmer. On the nail it comes out sheer.

OPI My Private Jet. This is my favorite color. It is a dark grey color with a gold/red shimmer and small flecks of holographic glitter. It's super simple and cute.

Bumble Bee buzzzzz :)

 What I used:

China Glaze Secret Peri-Wink-Le (blue)

China Glaze White on White (white)

Illamasqua Wayward (Yellow)

Nicole by OPI Razzle Dazzler

Palette

Dotting Tool

This is a super cute project I did on my friend's nails. It's simple and fun :)

1. Always use a base coat.
2. Paint 2 coats of blue. I used China Glaze Secret Peri-Wink-Le
3. With a large dotting tool draw a horizontal oval on the middle finger for the body. Then draw 2 smaller vertical ovals on the top for the wings and a small line for the stinger. Last use a small dotter to draw a trail of dots. I used Nicole by OPI Razzle Dazzler.
4. With a medium dotting tool draw 2 yellow stripes on the body with yellow. I used Illamasqua Wayward.
5. With a small dotter make the eyes with white. I used China Glaze White on White.
6. Finish with a top coat! Yay!

The Candy Chef

I wanna take time out to talk about the Candy Chef. If you live in the Los Angeles area and you love candy (who doesn't?) then you've gotta come visit this place. You've all been to places like the Sweet Factory where they weigh candy and you end up leaving paying $20 for a tiny little bag? Well no more! This cute little shop is definitely a hidden gem. If you've been to the Boiling Crab on Main St. in Alhambra then you've passed by the shop. Facing the Boiling Crab go right a couple of shops and go down the alleyway, it's halfway in. Now I know "alleyway" WTF? I don't wanna go down an alley! No worries this place is legit! Its small but they have pretty much all of the same candy. The have gummy, chocolate, dried fruit, packaged candy, and collectable lunch boxes. They even make candy arrangements! Now you see that big tub of candy up there? ^^^ That tub was only $10!!! Well enough said! Seriously! GO VISIT THEM! You'll be happy!

The Candy Chef
27 West Main Street
Alhambra, CA 91801
(626) 789-5678
www.thecandychef.com

Leopard Print

 What I Used:

OPI Significant Other Color (the bottle is the gold shimmer purple but it comes out super light/translucent)

OPI French Quater for Your Thoughts (light grey)

OPI Do You Lilac It? (purple)

OPI Feelin' Hot-Hot-Hot (pink)

China Glaze For Audrey (robin's egg)

Orly Liquid Vinyl (black)

Dotting Tool

This is a super cute flirty project :) It's one of my favorites so far.

1. Always use a base coat.
2. For the base you can use and color for the base color. I used OPI French Quarter for Your Thoughts for the first and OPI Significant Other Color for the second. With the color of your choice paint 2 coats.
3. For the spots you can use any color as well. I Used OPI Do You Lilac It? OPI Feelin' Hot-Hot-Hot and China Glaze For Audrey. With the biggest dotting tool randomly dot you nails with you chosen colors.
4. With a small-medium dotting tool with black (I used Orly Liquid Vinyl) draw wonky C's and brackets around the spots.
5. Finish with a top coat.

Rawr. You're looking fierce. :) yupp I'm just that tacky :)

Snowman Nails

 What I used:

China Glaze White on White (white)

China Glaze For Audrey (robin's egg)

China Glaze Fairy Dust (small holographic glitter)

Orly Liquid Vinyl (black)

OPI The Thrill of Brazil (red)

Color Club Orna-Minted (Chunky Glitter) **a plus it smells like peppermint

Dotting Tool/Make Shift Dotting Tool

**DISCLAIMER: I found this on youtube then added my own little spin. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CBhzpiTNvPM Thank you IHaveACupcake

1. Always start with a base coat.
2. Paint 2 coats of red. I used OPI The Thrill of Brazil. OPI Vodka & Caviar is good too.
3. Paint 1 coat of small glitter. I used China Glaze Fairy dust.
4. Paint 1 coat of chunky glitter. I used Color Club Orna-Minted on all but ring fingers.
**Now it's time to create the snowman!
5. Using the biggest dotting tool create the body with white (I used China Glaze White on White) with a bigger circle on the bottom a smaller circle on top, leave a small space in between the two. Drawing these two circles you will have to make them bigger than what the dotting tool makes. Let it dry.
6. Using the biggest dotting tool make the eyes with black (I used Orly Liquid Vinyl) in the middle of the top circle and with the smallest dotting tool make 2 buttons with black on the bottom circle. With a medium dotting tool free hand draw the hat.
7. With a medium dotting tool make the inside eye circle with white.
8. With a medium dotting tool make the scarf free hand. I used China Glaze For Audrey a robin's egg color but you can use any color of your choice. Let it dry completely so it won't smear.
9. Finish with a top coat.

Newsprint Nail

What I used:

China Glaze Recycle (medium grey)

OPI French Quater for Your Thoughts (light grey)

China Glaze For Audrey (robin's egg)

Newspaper

Skissors

Rubbing Alcohol

Small Spritzer or Cotton Balls

1. Cut newspaper into 10 pieces that fit over your nail.

2. Always use a base coat.

**With this project you can use your own colors. You can go realistic and choose a light grey color but if you're feeling funky you can go pink or purple or any of your favorite colors but remember the ink is black so stay away from dark colors:)

3. For the first picture I used China Glaze Recycle (medium grey color on the blue tint) my nail broke :( so I did a take two with OPI French Quarter for Your Thoughts (light grey with a yellow/pink tint). I was feeling a little funky so I painted my ring finger China Glaze For Audrey

4. Let the polish dry completely or else the next step will mess up.

5. Using a spritzer spray the nail with rubbing alcohol or soak a cotton ball with rubbing alcohol and dab the nail completely.

6. Lay the newspaper piece over the nail and spray or dab with alcohol again then firmly press down with a rocking motion with your finger for 10-15 seconds.

7. Finish with a top coat.

If you want you can use comic strips instead of articles too!

Crazy Windstorm Damge

A crazy out of norm windstorm came through last Wednesday 11/30 night through Thursday 12/1. Around 1:00 a.m. Thursday, the power went out and sometime after that two big pine trees came down in the middle of the street causing no damage except for pulling down a single line with it. However the wind, which was rumored to be as high as 101mph, picked up an unripened pinecone a flung it into a rear windshield cause the only damage on the block. My neighbor who has lived here for 50 years said that she had never seen anything like this before, she was up all night but her husband slept soundly through the whole event. Our power barely came back on yesterday Tuesday 12/6 around 5:00 p.m. but thank you whoever invented generators!