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CAUTION!!!!!!

FACT: Reading Nail Blogs and having a Nail Blog... will make you want to buy more nail polish....




Wow, I was totally gonna buy China Glaze ' Ruby Pumps ' the next time I went to the big city to the nearest Sally Beauty Supply....... but I found this and many other very pretty and fast drying Maybelline polishes.... For 2 bucks!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! Plus a fudge-load of other great nail goodies ( to post soon ). If you Google the CG Ruby Pumps, there are many other polishes just as beautiful, from Essie (disc. ?) and color club. I did not think I would fall for this red glitter, but it is very pretty. The whole time I wore it I was constantly gazing at it.

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I'm not sure if it against the law, but I took pictures in the store of all the available colors, in case I get a hankering to pick up some more.... I am always delighted to walk into a bargain-type store and find goodies like this... makes my week! Yeah, I did say I was not gonna buy any more nail goodies.... and I totally took it back, then I said I was gonna not buy so many... and on and on.....as you can see from my little list of polishes to wear/swatch, and those I have not worn yet on the right-hand side of my blog, clearly = I can do without buying polish for a while....... But I bought these last week, and I am giving this store 2 more weeks, and if there is still colors available that I want... they are fair game. I was hoping that I would find that beautiful matte olive in this store.. but nope.


You bet your bunz that I bought all those Party Toez... { well I did leave 2 for someone else to buy } I bought two of the red ones that were only .50 cents! And the Pink Cherry one was $2.00... I have been doing alot of giving and ROAK lately, as I always do, but being more mindful of goodies returning to me.... However everything I do is because I WANT TO, not just because there is a need for it = so when I walked in this store I was super-duper happy!



So all those packages with the yellow sticker on them, were half price, those Fing'rs 108 un-painted acrylics, were .50 cents each! Fifty frig-digitty cents!

The two polishes "Red Comet' and 'New Years Blues', the hard case of Fing'rs nails, the Pink Cherry Party Toez, and the White nail stickers, all those goodies were $2.00... It was a nice 'mini' reward form me to find this haul, It is my return of sending out kindness for donating all clothes that I will never fit into, and will never wear again because they are too 'revealing' to the thrift stores in town.... { That was really hard for me }.

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I was just writing about those Party Toez a few weeks ago..... I did write my letter to Fing'rs and Nailene, and they did respond { about the LETHAL cracking for their pre-painted nails..... maybe I will post that too } I also bought five 108 packs of Fing'rs unpainted acrylic nails..... I scored bid time that day. Also those Revlon's in the photo were really good too, I have used them before and I had no problems. It took all my will power to not buy one of everything in this photo...... but .......

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Any hoo on to some polish.....

Below is a fuzzy pic I has to include, I absolutely love how a fuzzy pic of glitter polish looks... well... fuzzy glitter anything. On all my digits, with the exception of my RING finger, I have used a deep black polish = 1 coat, and then two coats of Maybelline 'Red Comet'.... My RING finger is just 2 coats of ' Red Comet'. Maybelline still makes this same polish, just in the new bottle with the red cap. The one I found may be older, but it did dry to the touch in 1 minute.... which is rad, so far I have only picked up 3 of these, which I am to post eventually, and they are all awesome. All my photos are in the beautiful sunshine and the shade..... It really does make a big difference when taking photographs to get some sun in them.

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{ * eyes glaze over.... drool.....* }

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~♥~ Billie Alloy ~♥~

Ahhhhh, I love these foil-metallic's. When I squint my eyes, and un-focus a little, and I can see all the tiny bits of metallic catching the light.... it's sooooo pretty. This is another Billie Polish, "Alloy". I could knock this out in one thicker coat, and usually do, but I used two here for my modeling. I am happy with these polishes as I can usually avoid brush strokes I whipped up a couple of frankens with these metallic's, and I am glad I was forward thinking and picked up doubles of some of these metallic's.

 

 

This skinnier style brush handle, really works for me, This week I picked up a few new polishes with wider shorter handles and I had a hard time managing them..... I think that's why I stick to SH and then these polishes with the slimmer brush handle.... But practice makes perfect, Right/

p.s. please ignore the dings on my ring finger..I'm pretty miffed about it, as it's a mystery how that happened, I literally sat sill for 15 min to be sure that i would not have any problems w/this one.....

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~♥~ Billie " Rose " ~♥~

 Again, no pics in the sunshine. Bright greens and blues are easy to capture on camera..... but the pinks and oranges that I have modeled recently, just are not cutting it for me..... Eventually I will wear this polish again too, when the weather forecast calls for some sunshine. This color is more of an orange-ey pink, so it is weird they would call it rose....hmmmmmm. It may be easier to see with the line-up I have posted an the swatches I have done. Nonetheless, it is a strikingly bright color, goes on smoothe and dries too, too fast.

 

  

  

  

 above, Billie 'Rose', 'Pink Pansy' & 'Fuchsia'

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~♥~ Billie " Fuschia " ~♥~

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Here is another one from the group of bright polishes form my awesome neighborhood .99 cent store. There was a span of like 4 days where there was absolutely no sunshine here. So I will definitely have to wear this again soon, and get some better pics in the sun. Basically this is a hot pink fluorescent polish similar to what other company's have for their summer line ups. This is a matte polish, that I got for .99 cents. (woo-hoo)

Every single pic here is in the shade sadly, The pink glow in my palm is reflecting the color in the bottle - Its not some weird camera problem. It had me a little worried about what they would put into a polish to make it sooooo bright!

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Mysterious Billie polish

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A little commentary......

So this mysterious BILLIE Brand of nail polish, is made specifically for "Bargain and discount shops", as soon as I tried one of the metallic's 2 years ago when I moved to this town, "I was like whoa, what is this stuff?". So I looked all over the internet and finally I just looked up this, Williams Direct Marketing , which is a company out of Scarborough Ontario, Canada. I have sent these products away for further testing an analysis by a pro { :o) }

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I had made sure to take pictures of the back of the labels for people to read the ingredients, and such, and the name of the Company too. If you look at the website, there is only color names, and no pictures... which is weird because there used to be pictures, they also have alot of cool nail accessories and such....stickers, false nails, I bought one of there pressed powders, and that was decent, I was surprised, and their lip gloss is pretty nice too. I will post a pic soon of that. I usually run over to that store twice a week, just to see what sorts of goodies they get in there, ( yeah right, more like 4 times a week !!!) and I get soo giddy when I see that they have some new beauty/nail goodies.

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There is another Canadian blogger who said that she just bought 4 of these, but did not mention the colors she found yet. I have added all my Billie polishes to my - to swatch list - on the side-bar of my blog, with a picture of all my collection of goodies soon to follow.I am a curious girl, and so I look EVERYTHING up. I have upcoming posts of "polish's round the world", "bargain polishes and other stuff that is actually pretty good", and my "round the house organization that works for me and may be helpful and inspiring to you", " awesome nail related thing I have found on the internet" and of course more frankens, hauls ( ? ) and swatches.

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I have been a busy girl lately, I have alot of cool posts to add, done some neat 'round the house projects when I find time, and use my mellow-relaxation time to read, everyone =EVERYONE's blogs. I am fixated on blogs......I read my favorite blogs when there is a new post before the news in the morning. I always despised magazines, print ads and company's with promises..... I like the real life opinion. The real facts and peoples experience.

So hopefully this will help people with an interest in this product. I cannot vouch for the ingredients in this product, as I have not looked the ingredients all up yet, but it i made in the U.S.A, and is distributed by a Canadian Company, and sold at a shop run by and independent business woman. At the end of the month, I plan on putting an add in my local classifieds , in hopes I can get my greedy paws on some colors I do not have yet, or even better some doubles of the ones I do have.

Billie 'Green Meadows'

Billie 'Green Meadows' - 2 coats - no T.C.

 

The polish I thought was the ugliest, and I had reserved for just my toes, in winter-time, is the one I like the most. That was surprising. The .99 cent store I shop at occasionally gets a shipment of the brand of polish, this is the 3rd time I have bought a group of them.

 

This is a very pretty, soft neon green with a little shimmer to it. I was very pleasantly surprised that I like it as much as I do. It is two coats, dries ridiculously fast, and while it is definitely neon, it is not too in-your-face bright. I am really surprised with the names of these four bright colors. This one is called "Green meadows" that is such a mellow name for a color like this. It should be called " Electric Grass", or High Voltage Vine " etc. Something a little less 'peaceful', and like they are named by hippies- but they are neon, soo....

Anyhoo, on to my photo's.

  

  

~♥~ Billie 'Lime' ~♥~

Here is another polish from my most recent super-duper-bargain-haul at my favorite .99 cent store in my town. This is called 'Lime' and it is a very appropriate name for it, because it looks like, well, a lime. I only have outdoor pictures, I did not have my camera on Macro mode while I shot some photos indoors.

As always, this polish went on easily, dried super fast and holds up really well. On my INDEX finger, there is two coats of white polish, followed by 3 coats of 'Lime',