Pure Ice Over You

 Over you from Pure Ice is a dense glitter with 2 sizes of lilac glitter, 2 sizes of teal hex glitter and teal bar glitter.....Today's mani is 2 coats of Over You layered over Lacey Lilac and a coat of TC. I kinda wish there was less lilac glitter in this; it hides the beautiful teal glitter ( less glitter? wtf is wrong with me )

Pure Ice Over You applied perfectly, it's a very dense glitter that dried fast. I am excited to pick up a few of the other glitters from their collection that recently showed up in Canadian walmarts!

I spilled white nail polish all over my hands and parts of my desk, so those aren't dry cuticle you are looking at. Yesterdays mani left major stains on my fingers and cuticles as well - so tonight I am going to take extra care, slather on some serious moisturizer with cuticle oil and possibly some barrier creme for My poor hands.

this is from Pure Ice Saddle me up

 although - it could be from the no-name walmart nail polish remover I am using right now - they did not have the Sally Hansen nail polish remover for artificial nails that I usually buy when I went to the big city..... so I had to buy the walmart brand of remover.......

Here is a few more photos of this beauty -

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Pure Ice Saddle Me Up

 I took a gazillion photos of this and could not get any pics that really captured the pretty colour of this polish. On the nail it looks exactly as it does in the bottle shot below ( after 4 coats ) I found this polish needed 4 coats, it dried super duper fast and is super duper pretty.

indoors

look @ all the snow we still have...................

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NYC Lexingtom Lilac, 5 dollar stamp plates and PURE ICE IN CANADA!!!!!!!!!

N.Y.C. has a whole bunch of new polish's out - this might be old news to everyone but I live in a small farm village, so getting to an actual store with a display that has these polish's and actually buying some is a big deal.  I was super-duper Happy to pick up these 2 pretty polish's, N.Y.C. Lexington Lilac and Wine Bar. Hopefully next time I make it to the big city I'll find the rest of the new shades that I don't already have.

This is 3 coats wit no TC in the photos.... This colour is a lovely dusty lilac shade..... maybe a little to pink to be called lilac. I love NYC nail polish's, the Long Wearing polish's  (S.T.D. # 1 blue 4-eva ) and In a New York Minute, they are so good and sooooooooooo inexpensive. At Walmart I believe these N.Y.C. Long Wearing polish's are $1.27 CAD and the N.Y.C. In A New York Minute have been 2 for $3.00 for more than 6 months.....

one in the sun................

Lexington Lilac and Wine Bar

I'm not really into stamping - even though I see other peoples work and love it....I am more of a fan of free-hand nail art. Anyhoo - I have had these for almost a month and this is the first time I have actually stamped! I found these at the As Seen on TV store in PoloPark Mall in WPG. for 5 bucks! - what ? 

I am not sure of the band or what-not - but they start with a 'B' and have numbers if that helps anyone....

some stamping i did..... I added a swipe of glitter before TC

 all the images i tried worked fine with WnW black, and some older chrome polish's.....

 
 I was delighted to visit the cosmetic section at Walmart and see this..... way back on April 1st I spotted a lovely lady loading up this Pure Ice display. I am sooooooo happy we have these in Canada now - there is some amazing colours and beautiful glitters in this display = = YIPPEE!!!!!!!

I had hoped to quickly grab my go-to nail polish remover and avoid temptation but - I did pick up three shades...... upon chatting with this nice sales associate she took me around the corner and showed me the new Hard Candy display - wow, is there some beautiful shades..... I stayed strong and stuck to my goal of $3 bucks or less per bottle as the Hard Candy polishes were 6 bucks each.... and these were $1.97 each!

 On the Pure Ice Facebook they are saying that Pure Ice is not available in Canada but here they are and there is more than enough shades and finishes in this collection to satisfy anybody.

The colours I picked up are Over You, Home Run, and Saddle me Up. Many of the names in this collection are comically risque.....

and just for fun an update on how i take indoor fluorescent photos in my photo studio lol

I taped 2 pieces of white paper to the wall and my desk and use my grocery store lamp.....

looks good, right? I usually only have to take 2 or 3 photos each and most of them turn out perfect.....

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Jessica Glitterati & a promise I am making to myself

Jessica Glitterati  is a dense iridescent glitter, it is mainly copper/gold/red, with a strong green/yellow colour shift ( yes, i copied most of that from here). What i liked most about this polish is that at two coats, the glitter disbursement was perfect, meaning I didn't have to fill in any areas that didn't have enough glitter. I will definitely need 2 to 3 coats of Top Coat with this..... It was a bumpy finish after 1 thick coat of TC. I layered this over 1 perfect coat of Wet n Wild Black Creme.

The promise I am making to myself is to not pay more than $3.99 CAD per bottle of polish for an as-yet-un-defined amount of time.  I have kept myself in check over the years by purchasing the bulk of my polishes from the dollar stores and sticking to N.Y.C., Wet n Wild, Sally Hansen X-treme wears etc, these are brands that are easily accessible to me, and can usually be found for under 5 bucks each. These are kick-ass brands with a gazillion beautiful polishes, I have many of these polishes and have dozens more on my to purchase list.

 There is over 200 bottles of polish waiting for me in stores that are under the price point of $3.99 CAD. My list of polishes to purchase grows almost every week, There seems to be an endless supply of beautiful in-expensive polish, with new colours and beautiful finishes showing up at discount department stores and drug stores every week.

Why am I sharing this with you? Because I want a record of me stating that I CAN and WILL keep myself in check and try to only purchase polishes that are $3.99 CAD or less & only share things on my blog that reflect that  price point.

In the future I hope to ONLY share polishes/mani's with products that are $3.99 CAD or less,  and try to share products that have a price point of $5.00 CAD or less. I am a huge fan of off-beat dollar-store nail polishes and products. I plan to only purchase and model nail polishes and nail related products that can be found in Canada for $3.99 or less.

This doesn't include multi-bottle nail polish sets, top coat, stamping plates.... etc, stuff like that. It doesn't mean I will never order stuff on-line; just that I will try not to - even though I really, really, REALLY want to. I want to try and be happy and satisfied with things that I can purchase in a real brick and mortar store. So far I have stuck to this (  for almost 2 years!!!!! ) and I know I can maintain this and achieve my goals.


Whew! I probably need a better worded personal nail polish purchasing mission statement that is , but whatever. I wrote it down and I wish to stick to it.

I found this lovely Jessica polish, along with is equally glitter packed blue brother, Platinum Wishes at Winners in Wpg for $6.99. Winners is a Canadian store like T.J. Maxx that has a mish-mash of 'designer' products for less. They had quite a selection of polish's at the time I found this, some Nubar, and lots of KleanColor multi sets of polish.. I left the blue iridescent glitter and only picked up this one ( proud!!!! ) I think I will get alot of use from this polish for fall 2013.

This is the best part of this polish..... in dark or weird lighting the iridescent glitter pieces do their best work!

I couldnt get my camera to pick up the green flashes from this polish 

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2 Essence polish's & My Kleancolor Chunky Black holo is actually Red....

It's not true! Nail Polish is for life = not 12 months!

Here are two lovely polish's from Essence Color & Go. Both of these applied perfectly. I love these cute little bottles and how the caps match the polish.


This is 3 coats of Walk on the Wild side and 2 coats of KleanColor Chunky Holo Clover..... I totally expected the KleanColor to dry satin-ey or matte but it dried to a shiny finish.

..... and a few more photos of Essence Walk on the Wild side.

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Essence Chic Reloaded is a very pretty multi chrome.....  I took a gazillion photos and could not capture all the beautiful colours this polish flashes.  This is two easy coats. I love how this polish applied and hope the rest of the shades in this collection have the same formula.

For comparison, below is 2 coats each of  Essence Where's the Part, Chic Reloaded and Wet n Wild Greys Anatomy. Wet n Wild Greys Anatomy is an extremely sheer polish and looks better layered over something.

I picked up this KleanColor holo mini's at Winners ( T.J.Maxx ) around X-mas time. For 4.99, these are a good deal. They are pretty much the same polish save for the Chunky black holo, and the pink shade which has the most notable hot pink jelly base, the rest of the polish's have a similar glitter and are only different in that they have slightly tinted jelly bases.


I planned on layering Chunky Holo Black over Essence Chic Reloaded but it turned the base colour purple.... instead of a darker polish shade like I had hoped.... oh well.

 below; a waaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaay better photo from Beauty Joint's website ( they have excellent product photos )

My 'Chunky Holo Black' has a red base...... its not black ~ I'm still happy with it !

 on my pinky nail

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Fanny Z Gold Zebra

I am calling this Fanny Z # 83 polish 'Whoa' because it is a beautiful shimmery blue that made me say 'whoa'! This is 2 coats, and some gold zebra stripes with a franken stripe polish I made ( it's really just Claire's 24 Karat in a stripe bottle ) I chose not to use the obvious silver colour of stripe polish and instead went for a metallic gold. I think this turned out lovely. I am still working on the thickness of my stripes.......

I don't own anything to compare this polish color and finish to: has anyone else spotted these Fanny Z dollar store nail polish's?

  1 coat & 2 coats

P.C. chipotle dipping sauce changed my life...........!!!!.

 sun

 shade

...... more glamour shots

rawr

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