OPI Crim-Sun

Happy Tuesday! Did you all enjoy your extra long weekend?! I sure did! This quarter I don't have Friday classes so my three day weekend was turned into a four day weekend since we got off Monday for MLK Day. I definitely enjoyed and needed a long weekend since I'm about to get swamped with school. On Sunday I headed over to a part of town I'd never been to and found a beauty supply store that ended up being a dusty leading to my first real dusty score!! On a neglected rack shoved in a small isle and behind a shelf I found some OPI bottles covered in dust and begging to come home with me. I found OPI Crim-Sun, Coral Reef, What's Dune?, and A Day At The Peach, all from the Summer For Shore Summer 2003 collection. I talked the lady into selling these to me for the low price of $1.99 each. Can you say, SCORE!!? I'm pretty stoaked on these since they're all holo and HTF (hard to find) polishes. Usually I don't go out dusty hunting but it's nice to find a surprise and score. Crim-Sun was the first polish of the four that I decided to try. Crim-Sun is a pinky coral small particle linear holo. This polish, although not over-the-top obviously holo, is a holo polish as opposed to being a polish with holo glitter in it. It's got small tiny linear holo particles in it and is more subtle than more linear holos like the one ins the China Glaze OMG collection. Although it's not outrageously holo, I still like it a lot. I like the color a lot too.. it reminds me of Hawaii and it seems like it would be the perfect pedi color to wear all summer long. Love, love love, and love even more because of the price! Oh, and make sure you click to enlarge the pics to full size to enjoy the holo in all it's glory :0)

Have you had any great dusty scores recently?
~Dori

China Glaze Pink Voltage

 

 Let me just start out by saying that these pictures are not color accurate. I don;t know what it is about neon, but it just does not want to cooperate and be photographed. Camera always wary neons and make seem so much morning than they really are. In real life, Pink Voltage is a neon, retina searing, hot pink. This neon is crazy!! It's so bright and so pink and it's got this gorgeous fuschia shimmer in it. One of my favorite neon polishes ever and since it's about 82 degrees outside, it's the prefect time to wear it. Seriously though, these pics do no do this polish justice. You just have to see this in real life!

It's Friday :0)

~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

Pink Glitter Gradient

Too early to start the Valentine's Day manis? Not for me!! I used Color Club Lazer Pink as the tip color and then did 4 different layers of Sinful Pinky Glitter in a gradient from the tips to the base of my nails. I wish my nails weren't so stained and that the glitter was a bit more opaque. I didn't turn out exactly how I wanted so I might have to try this again. Yay for Valentine's Day manis!!

It's a warm day in So Cal :0)
~Dori

Color Club Magic Attraction

Color Club Magic Attraction is form the Glitter Vixin collection and is a super gorgeous light pink silver holo. The holo in this polish is of the chunkier sort, along the lines of the China Glaze Kaldiscope Collection. There's also random dark rose pink glitter in this polish that helps give off the pink look to this polish. I love this color and how sparkly and eye-catching it is but application was a PITA. This was 3 coats and I had to wait 2-3 minutes between each coat to prevent dragging and gloopyness at the tips since the polish was so thick. Overall though, I love this polish and am so glad I finnaly got my hands on this. I've had a lemming for this polish for almsot a year and I found the whole Glitter Vixin set last week at Ross for $7.99 so I could not resist! Score!!

P.S. Anyone notice at what time I am posting this? ...I have issues.
~Dori

My Top 20

So you may or may not be familiar with MUA, the Nail Board, or the Nail Board Top 20 but each Fall we do a Top 20 polish list in which everyone on the board submits their favorite 20 polishes to a NB member and they tally up the votes. Today was the day that the votes and the 2010 NB Top 20 were shared on the board. It becomes a bit of a spam fest on acid where everyone shares what polishes made their top 20 list and so I figured it was reason as good as any to share with you all what made my top 20 list this year. Some of these I have posted on here before (mostly because I was trying to have swatches done to share on the board when I revealed my top 20 list) so hopefully that's not a big deal. Behold, my Top 20:

In no particular order,
China Glaze Fortune Teller

OPI Absolutely Alice

Deborah Lippman Happy Birthday

Color Club Electro Candy

Sally Hansen Hidden Treasure

China Glaze Nova

Essie Mint Candy Apple

OPI Dazzled By Gold

Deborah Lippmann Ruby Red Slippers

Nfu Oh 52

OPI Smitten With Mittens

China Glaze Emerald Sparkle

OPI Brand New Skates

OPI The Show Must Go On!

China Glaze Flip Flop Fantasy

Nfu Oh 51

China Glaze Party Hearty

Del Sol Trick-Or-Treat

OPI Holiday Glow

And last but certainly not least,
Zoya Charla

There you have it. How many of these make up your favorites too?
~Dori

Sally Hansen Pink Rose Diamond

So remember yesterday when I said I don't much like holo polishes? Well this one only 50cents at the Dollar Tree so I just couldn't pass it up. Its a deep rose pink holo polish. The holo in this polish is pretty small, along the lines of the China Glaze OMG collection rather than say the Milani holo polishes. Vert Sparkly and very pretty. :o)

Happy Friday!
~Dori

OPI Senorita Rosalita

Hellooo all, today I am a bit loopy and I've had a crazy past 24 hours. Last night I was taking an online final and 15 question in (75 questions total) I accidentally X'ed out of the browser my final was up in.. only to go back and realize that my teacher specifically wrote "once you open the final, finish it, you will not be able to open it again". WTF, RIGHT?! So I email my teacher about my issue pleading for my case to be an acception. Luckily I hear back from her at 10:00pm. I finished the final by 11:30 and was so tired and out of it that I slept through my 5:00am alarm this morning and got to my final over a half an hour late. Have I bored you to death yet? Is you heart still beating?... *cricket* *cricket*.. OKAY, COOL!! Glad you still have a pulse, here's OPI Senorita Rosalita. Looks a lot like ChG Strawberry Field but it's more of a darker rose color and looks a bit more adult like to me. Rosey pink, gold shimmer.. pretty but a bit boring. I'm biast though cause I'm not much into pink. Oh and the best part about this polish?? One coat!! Yes, one. How amazing is that?! Anyways.. I feel a bit nauseous (TMI?) but I'm done jibjaberring now.

Hope you have a lovely day!
~Dori