Thursday, September 29, 2011

Smile! for [Nail Polish] Target Haul and Review

That's quite a wordy title..isn't it? I apologize! I'll try to make them more interesting!

Recently, I went to Target and acquired nail polish! (: Here they are! -insert jazz hands-

[Haul and Review]
The total for all three of these was a little under $10.50, which I don't mind since normally the nail polish prices that I see are around $6 or $8 each. All right! So, the line up is....

NYC's Mulberry Street is a light beige that has a little bit of a shimmer to it (left)

Revlon's Sunshine Sparkle is a very creamy transparent pastel yellow. (middle)

Revlon's Gold Coin is a very sparkly gold. I bought it thinking that it'd be a very nice detail color to give the nail art that I want to try out a nice sparkle of color. (left)

At every Target store in the make up section, there's a random shelf somewhere that has nail polish that is less than a dollar! I'm assuming every Target store because all the Targets (total of 7) that I've been to, have it. The quality of the polish isn't any worse compared to the ones I've come across with. (mine and friends' nail polish) So no worries! NYC Mulberry Street (left) was actually 94 cents, which is the polish that I like best from this haul because the brush makes application very user friendly, especially since I'm a nooby at this. ^^''

[Colorful Tip] Revlon polishes are very translucent, so they'd need average about three coats. It's come to my attention of some complaints for Revlon polishes that they chip very easily, but so far I haven't really had any problems with it, but just in case, have a clear coat on top of it to seal it all in. (:

[Plans]
The Revlon Sunshine Sparkle (middle) is for the Despicable Me Minion nail design that I mentioned in the previous post.

Despicable Me Minion Nails by 05saramd

The NYC Mulberry Street (left) and Revlon Gold Coin (right) is for a leopard nail design. Lately, I've been interested in leopard print designs. I wondering if it's a phase, but for now, I have a few pieces in my wardrobe that's leopard print and they make me happy. (:

leopard nails by cutepolish

leopard nails by IHaveACupcake at 1:25

There's a number of leopard nail designs on YouTube, but these are the two that I liked the best. If you're interested in looking at their other stuff, I'll link it in the Colorful Links section on the bottom of this post, as well as 05saramd's info.

I haven't decided yet, but I might post an entry of my entire nail polish stash in the future. Yes? No? Maybe? Well, that's it for this post!

Smile today!



[Colorful Links]

cutepolish
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Elizabeth Celis from IHaveACupcake
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Etsy store

05saramd
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Thursday, September 22, 2011

Smile! for [Nail Polish] 8ty8beauty

My most recent interest has been nail art. Two reasons:

1. You can make such fantastical designs with them!
EXHIBIT A!

Clickity to Know How to Make Pikachu Nails!











2. There's just so many different colors!


According to a YouTube beauty vlogger Jen (will include her information at the end), her blog says that she bought nail polish from a website called:

8ty8beauty.com

I've looked around because I'm comparing prices to buy colors for a Despicable Me minion nail design. Already checked two CVS stores, and planning to check Target, Walmart and possibly Walgreens.

Review of 8ty8beauty.com

So far in my endeavor, it's the cheapest price that I've seen for nail polishes online and they make it pretty easy to search through. Really considering getting some from this website. (:

Normally a bottle ranges from $6 to $12 retail price. I'm a nooby college student, so I apologize that I can't afford these bottles and comment on them, even though I think the colors have great potential to say the least. So considering that the bottles from the website are only $3 a bottle, I am definitely going to be searching more on this website to see if there's anything I can get for future nail designs.

Fun Fact: Even if you're just browsing around on 8ty8beauty.com, you can get a smile out of it when you actually read some of their nail polish names. The one that made me actually LOL was an Orly polish from the Divorcee collection called Take Him To the Cleaners....Pft...Hehe. :3


That's it for this entry! I apologize for the lack of things to say. It's my first review and I just wanted to try it out. Please stay tuned for future blog entries! (: I will update when I get my haul for the nail polishes as well as any other haul that I come across.

Smile today!


[Colorful Links]
Jen (frmheadtotoe)
YouTube Channel
Blog
Twitter
Facebook

Despicable Me Minion Nails!

Welcome! (:

Hello! Welcome to the world of Smiley Colors!

I'm Julia and this blog is for things that I'll be interested in, my opinions about it, some shopping hauls on a budget (since I am a college student with a wallet that's constantly glaring at me)!

Stay tuned and smile today! (: