Smile! for [Colorful Trends] Winter Warmth

It's been getting pretty cold where I live, which means that winter's coming around the corner. I hope that none of you smileys have been getting the sniffles. Here are some tips to stay warm this season!

1. Layering
If buying new clothes is too expensive for you, there's always an alternative to staying warm with your summer or fall wardrobe pieces.

For Top: Try putting on two tank tops + cardigan + jacket. The cardigan trailing underneath the jacket behind you creates a very effortlessly chic look.

For Bottom: I would suggest wearing tights and then putting on skinny jeans or long pants. It might feel weird at first, but the tights underneath really does make a world of a difference. If you're still cold, you can add legwarmers too! (:

2. Borrowing
I've come to realize that guys usually own a lot of jackets, and guy jackets are usually the ones that can actually make you warm. There's a reason why girlfriends always like wearing their boyfriends jackets! If you have a friend or sibling who have plenty of jackets, ask if you can borrow it for the winter. It never hurts to ask and if you do get the green light to borrow it, remember to wash it before you return it to them. A kind deed for another. (:

3. Polarmax
Last Christmas, my friend gave me a set of Polarmax. Polarmax is technical based layer appeal. So..that's what it says on the website, but in just plain English? It's a thermal layer that people who take part of snow sports wear. Polarmax products are available at stores that sell outdoor sports products. I often wear my Polarmax pants as tights. Again, it might feel weird at first, but having them on really keeps you warm, even more so than tights. It's a good investment. (:

4. Scarves
Scarves really help out with the weather getting colder. If you don't own a scarf, there are fairly cheap ones at Styles for Less and Target. With the Black Friday sales coming up, it'd be a good idea to also invest in a scarf too, take advantage of the cheap prices! ^^

5. Shoes
I try my best to avoid wearing sneakers on rainy days, simply because I don't like the feeling of wearing wet socks, plus it takes forever to get sneakers to dry. I wear boots instead because then it's harder for the rain to get in. (: Hah! Take that rain!

P.S. I love rain, I just don't like wet socks. Heh.....^^''

7. Moisturizer
You may ask what does this have anything to do with being warm? Winter is the season where it dries out many people's faces and when it gets cold it gets horribly uncomfortable. I really suggest to keep your face hydrated with some sort of hydrating mask, moisturizer or simply just drinking lots of water. Water is your friend!

8. Soup
Drink soup! Soup is your friend too!

Those are all my tips for staying warm this upcoming winter. I hope you don't get sick and I hope you have a wonderful Thanksgiving and a safe Black Friday. (:

Smile today!

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!



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