Milani Hi-Tech

 

Happy Hump Day! It's warm and sunny here again in LA.. it's supposed to get up into the low 70's today which means it's holo weather! This is Milani Hi-Tech from last year's Spring collection that they ended up putting into the core line. I bought this right when it came out but for some reason I haven't worn it until now. I can't figure out why the heck not cause this polish is gorgeous! My pictures aren't completely accurate, in real life this is an almost neon lemon-lime green but in my photos the color shows up way more dulled. Don't be fooled, this polish is super bright! Perfect for Spring and the sunny weather.. kinda reminds me of grass :0) The holo in this is big and scattered, more along this lines of the China Glaze Kalediscope line. Application was good, I let it dry a bit in between coats for about a minute or two to avoid dragging of the holo particles and it came out just fine. This was three coats for perfection.

Have a happy day!!

~Dori

I've Been Tagged!

So yesterday I was at school and I was surprised to check my email and find a message from Kari over at Once Bitten saying that she'd tagged me for a stylish blogger award! Now, I've never heard of this before but it sounds cool right?! So apparently this means that not only are people actually reading my blog, they actually like it! SCORE! As a new blogger I struggle a bit trying to get new readers and followers so this was a nice little surprise to let me know that my work is appreciated :0). Now, since I was at school when I received this message from Kari, I couldn't exactly drop everything I was doing and complete the steps for accepting the award. Long story short, I got home from school at 11pm and crashed. This morning I woke up to another email that I was again tagged for the same award from Cat over at Pink Cat's Polish. How cool is that to be tagged twice!? I'm pretty excited about it. I've never done this before so hopefully it means I only have to tag one set of bloggers instead of two... hmm. (correct me please if I'm wrong). And a huge thanks to both girls, Kari and Cat, for tagging me. I'm glad you read and like my blog!! Anyways.. on the the award!

This award come with rules & they are as follows:

1. Thank and link the person who gave you the award
2. Share 7 things about yourself
3. Award 15 recently discovered bloggers
4. Contact these bloggers to tell them about the award

And away we go.. my 7 things:
1. I like to be active. From the time that I was 3 up until high school I was involved in dance including tap, jazz, ballet, lyrical, hip hop, and theater. I was involved in group as well as solo competition. While in middle school I was involved in ice skating and competed in that as well. When I went into high school, I quit dance and ice skating and in place of that I became involved in my high school's field hockey, swim team, and water polo sports teams. Now that I'm college, I try to go to my school's gym every day I'm on campus and during the summer months I enjoy hiking and swimming.

2. I have attachment issues. I like being close to being that I'm close with and have separation anxiety when I'm not around them for long periods of time. I also have this weird mentality that people are somehow invisibly attached to me by a string so when i am walking next to someone I need to walk on the same side of the trashcan/pole/tree/bush as them, or else I feel like my string has become tangled and I start to feel discombobbled. I've had this feeling ever since I was little and always thought it odd until three years ago I read a bio called learning To Fly by Victoria Beckham and she described how when she was younger she had the same invisible string attachment to her mom. So I'm not the only weird one after all :0).

3. I used to be a picky eater and eat nothing. When I was a junior/senior in high school I was a vegetarian for a year. I did't eat veggies though because I hadn't grown a liking for them yet so I lived off junk food, sweets, and mostly cookies. Yeah, my dad still teases me about the time he took me to the doctor because he thought my vegetarian diet was lacking nutrition, vitamins, and minerals, and when the doctor asked me what I had eaten the day before I had responded "cookies". I still remember that the day before I had only had six Milano cookies to eat the entire day (no clue why) so my response wasn't really in my defense. Since then I have learned to love almost all fruits and a ton of veggies. Now I prefer to eat healthy and actually crave delicious veggies all the time. I guess it helps that I like to and now know how to cook, but thank goodness I'm no longer as picky as I used to be.

4. I'm obsessed with the Christmas season. You already knew that though didn't you? Well what you don't know is that I start listening to Christmas music on my iTunes starting in September, that I volunteer to single-handedly set up and take down all Christmas decorations (because otherwise we'd never get out tree up), same goes with Christmas Eve/Christmas dinner (cause the one year we went to Home Town Buffet for Thanksgiving I threw a fit and declared I would cook every holiday from then on so we'd never have to go out to a restaurant on a holiday again), and that currently I still have snowmen sheets on my bed and I am rocking my Rudolph PJ pants.

5. I started getting really into polish two years ago as a way to help my kick my nail biting habit to the curb. I figured if my nails looked pretty, I wouldn't put them near my mouth. As soon as a nail chipped I forced myself to repaint because I figured if I had chipped polish, my nails already looked like shiz so if I bit my nails they would only look even more like shiz, but the level of looking like shiz really didn't matter which is why I like them looking perfect and unchipped. Even still when they get chipped, I have the urge to bite.. but only if it's a stressful day.

6. I hope to be an old cat lady. I'm actually pretty convinced I will be. I'll be the old lady at the end of the street with all the cats that all the neighborhood children are convinced is loopy. What can I say?? I love cats!!

7. I like shoes. Lots of shoes. I have so many pairs of shoes and heels that I've only worn some of them once or twice yet when I see a new pair that I love, I just have to have them. I know I should stop buying them because I already have so many, and no where to where them, but I just can't help it. I always reason with myself that one day i will have somewhere to wear them and that if I don't buy them now, I'll regret it later. It's a good thing my feet are done growing so at least I'll never grow out of any of them!


So now I I guess I'm supposed to list 15 of my favorite bloggers. Some are new, some are old, but I'm just gonna list the first 15 that come mind. Please not, I read more than 15 nails blogs and love all of them so just because a blog didn't make this list, doesn't mean I don't read and/or like it.

1. Also Known As...
2. Body & Soul
3. My Simple Little Pleasures
4. The Daily Nail
5. Getcha Nails Did
6. Blushing For Beauty
7.  Lacquered Mom
8. Imperfectly Painted
9. The Lacquer Files
10. Nail Swatches
11. Alizarine Claws
12. Emerald Sparkled
13. Nihrida
14. Persistently Polished
15. Nail Art

A Surprise Bloom

 

Good morning! today I'm sharing with you some of the new pretty purple Bare Escentual eye shadows I got for Christmas.  For the inner eye I used BE Surprise, the outter eye BE Bloom, and the highlighter is BE Believe. Surprise is an almost periwinkle purple, it's got a cornflower blue shimmer to it, yet it's still purple. Very, very unique and pretty. Bloom is a medium-light purple, perfect for Spring and very shimmery. Both these eye colors are very buildable which I like. Believe is a while shimmer eye shadow the has a ton of light blue shimmer. Mostly, the white doesn't show, it just looks like an iridescent nude with the gorgeous blue shimmer. Surprise was from a kit at the BE outlet store so I'm not sure how easily found it is, Bloom is in the core line at all BE boutiques, and Believe was released originally to raise money for Autism about a year and a half ago but is now a part of the core line.

~Dori

Pink Flower Konad

 

It's Monday morning and it's going to be a good, sunny, and warm week here in So Cal :0)! I'm so excited because it seems like Spring is on it's way. Don't get me wrong, I looove Winter, but as soon as the holiday season is over, the exciting and fun part of Winter is over in my opinion. I'm ready for Spring soon after ringing in the new year and when the warm weather sets in. Luckily for me, LA is getting sunny and warm weather this week and we're hopefully going to get into the 70's by the weekend. What better for warm weather than Spring time/Valentine's Day manis?! Nothing I say!

This is my friend Rochelle's nails, I did them for her two nights ago.I used Maybelline ASSweetie Pie with Sally Hansen Strawberry icing over it and for the Konad I used China Glaze Millennium. Pretty huh?! She loved it :0)

Hope your week is warm and sunny as well, wherever you are.

~Dori

Sprinkles Cupcakes

On this sunny and warm Sunday morning my friend Rochelle and I made our way over to Sprinkles Cupcakes in Beverly Hills to get ourselves a sugar fix. Sprinkles Cupcakes are to. die. for. Don't believe me? Have a lookie-loo for yourself.

Red Velvet and The King.

Rochelle got the Red Velvet cupcake with cream cheese frosting.

 

And I got The King, which is a banana cake cupcake with creamy peanut butter frosting. It's named after Elvis and his favorite peanut butter and banana sandwich. Now, I looove me a peanut butter and banana sandwich but this cupcake was amazingly delicious. The frosting was sooo good that even after I finished my cupcake I couldn't pass up devouring a Frosting Shot. Everyone know that the frosting is the best part of the cupcake so I took the girl at the counter's suggestion and got me a Cinnamon Cream Cheese Frosting Shot.

MMmmMMmMmMMMmMmmMmMMmm!!!

Annnnd, to make my adventure over to Sprinkles Cupcakes that much more fun, I had to go in theme with, what else, CUPCAKE NAILS!!!

Now what flavors are these you ask? Classic Yellow Cake with Raspberry Cream Cheese Frosting, Chocolate Fudge Brownie with Sweet Strawberry Frosting, Mint Chocolate Chip with Bittersweet Chocolate Ganache, and Pure Strawberry with Sweet Buttercream Frosting.

NOM NOM NOM!!!

Happy Sun Day!

~Dori

Smoking Hot Goody Plum Drop

Okay, so I like this purple so much that I just couldn't take it off. I decided I had to make this already awesome polish better and what better way to make a polish better then to add glitter on top!!! This is Maybelline Goody Plum Drop topped with one coat of Sinful Smoking Hot. Smoking Hot is exactly what it says... smoking hot. I love this glitter, it's tiny golden and iridescent glitter packed inside a clear base. So sparkly yet delicate and the perfect glitter for Goody Plum Drop :0)

It's a new week; Happy Sunday!
~Dori

Maybelline Goody Plum Drop

 

Purples never usually capture well on camera but this one came out pretty accurate. Maybelline Goody Plum Drop was a part of last year's Sweet Thing Spring collection. I. love. this. color. I am by no means, a purple polish fan. Purple and green are actually my very least favorite polish colors (I almost dislike them) so it takes quite a bit for a purple or green polish to catch me eye. And for me to love a purple polish?! Almost unheard of.. I think there's about *thinks* three purple polishes that I love, that I can think of off the top of my head. Anyway, this one is perfect for Spring and I think it's fits quite well for Valentine's Day too. Purple for Valentines Day? Sure, why not. I'm pretty sure all the colors in this collection were cremes, and at first glace this one looks like a creme too. Don't be fooled, there's shimmer in there! Click the picture to view full size. Can you see it? It's barely noticeable unless you're looking for it but there's a slight silver shimmer in Goody Plum Drop. Very pretty. This one applied pretty well except it was a teensey-tiny bit stringy though I can't complain because Minty (from the same collection) is much more strong in application. This was two coats.

Hope you have a fantastic Saturday :0)

~Dori