Essie-Absolutely Shore Swatch

Essie-Absolutely Shore

This polish came out in the Summer 2011 collection, I believe.

I'm only posting and swatching because I found this at TJ Maxx for $3.99 and wanted to let y'all know and show you a swatch incase you wanted to know what it looked like.

Dupe for Julep's January

With Valentine's Day right around the corner, I decided I should go for a nice tomato red manicure. I dug around my polish collection and found Essie's Silken Cord and painted away. I kept thinking it looked familiar and then it hit me! This looks exactly like Julep's January. 

So, I immediately had to compare. 

This is what I found...

NOTD-Essie-Glamour Purse-Swatch

Hey, Everyone.

Today's nail is brought to you by Essie's Fall 2011 Brand New Bag Collection in the shade Glamour Purse.

NOTD-Julep's Renee and Essie's Set in Stones

I love this combo. I am a sucker for Lilac and glitter.

Julep's Renee is described as a Spring lilac creme

and Essie's Set in Stones is a chunky silver glitter topcoat. It also has smaller pieces of silver glitter for extra dimension. 

Renee is a creme finish and Julep's creme polishes tend to be pretty opaque with just one coat. 

I really love that Set in Stones has varying sized glitter. It's in a clear base, so this could worn over any shade. 

Look! It matches my Hello Kitty band-aide! lol.

What are your favorite polish looks for Spring?

Nail Of the Day + My Black Friday Haul.

Hello everyone! And welcome to any new subscribers. *waves.* 

How was everyone's(in the US) Black Friday and Cyber Monday?

Any crazy stories? Do you go Black Friday shopping?

Tell me your crazy stories.

And do you have any special shopping days in your country?

I thought I'd do a NOTD since I haven't done one in a while, mostly because I change out my polish like it's going out of style....aka: I'm not the best manicurist. haha.

I used this combo and thought I had to share this, it's so pretty and great for fall.

This was what it looked like the second day. Isn't it gorgeous? I had intended only glittering the accent nail, but I thought it was too pretty and glittered the whole hand. haha.

It reminds me of fall and Thanksgiving with the brown and gold together. 

I thinking I just might take this off since it's chipped now, and re-do it. I love this combo so much.

Normally I have chips galore, even with Seche Vite top coat. 

I actually only used Sally Hansen's 4-in-1 complete care as a top coat and it lasted for days! yay.

I had some minor chipping, but nothing too noticeable to make me change it out completely. 

I used Essie's Golden Nuggets.

A fine gold glitter in a clear base, as a top accent coat.

And NARS' Bad Influence. 

It dries darker on the nail, my pictures are accurate color. It looks really nice alone, or spiced up with an accent top coat. 

And......my Black Friday Haul!

BBW-Not all of it is shown, the Gift Bags are not pictured, but their contents are mostly there.

Now, my Black Friday experience. 

My Black Friday came a little early, it was more like Black Thursday.

We wanted to goto Toys-R-Us and pick up a little trampoline for our daughter since she's in gymnastics and she loves the trampoline. They had a little one on sale for $50 and I thought we'd just go, get in, and check out. HA. HA.HA.

We went and made it a little early and I totally underestimated how big of a crowd there would be. I thought for sure, since it opened at 10pm on Thanksgiving Day that everyone would be at home getting ready for all the midnight sales or already at stores like Best Buy.

Mmmm no. People were wrapped around the whole store and back to the front doors. My husband and I decided we'd just come back after we hit good 'Ol Walmart.

That was crazy too. We normally go Black Friday shopping, but never in my life have I seen a place so packed in all my Black Friday years. LOL.

That being said, we've never spent more than one Black Friday in the same state.....we move ALOT. 

We've been here for three years now, and this year was pretty crazy....

We swung back by Toys-R-Us and I sent my husband to check it out.

Ay, ay, ay.

They estimated his wait time to check out as 2.5 hours, and that was before he actually got to the trampoline.

We threw in the towel. No trampoline. Hmmph. 

BUT, he did get a good story to tell.

A lady ran her cart into another lady because she wasn't paying attention and then proceeded to cuss the lady she hit like it was her fault. The lady called the other lady out and they got into a fight and the cops kicked the lady and her husband out or they were going to be arrested for threatening violence. Ha. Toys-R-Us....

After all that, we decided it would be a good idea to hit the mall up for some Bath & Body Works.

We waited, and waited, and waited. The crown was huge and it was past opening time. The crowd got restless and decided it'd be a good idea to open the doors themselves. 

I'm pretty sure every cop in our town was there.The stun gun was brought out and used....the K-9's were there....it was a fun time. 

My husband and I saw that they were letting people in at a near store so we snuck off and got in while everyone else was waiting for the main entrance. hehe.

BBW wasn't packed when we first got there so I did what I do best. I shopped and found some awesome deals.

By my picture, you probably think that I spent an arm and a leg. Nope. I actually spent about $80 and got about $500 worth for FREE.

On Black Friday, BBW will let you stack coupons. I am a coupon Queen. I stacked coupons on top of already awesome deals. 

Thank you, Thank you. :0)

I've been trying to share my awesome deals with you guys, so whenever I come across a deal, I will be sure to post about it.

And that was our Black Friday.

How was yours?

XO

Nail Of The Day

 I love this minty green/blue color by Essie in the shade Mint Candy Apple. 

I also added gold gitter by Essie in the shade Golden Nuggets. I added glitter tips and covered my accent nail all the way in glitter. I love it. What do you think? Cute? No?

-What I used to create this look-

Essie-Golden Nuggets

Essie-Mint Candy Apple

Sally Hansen's Complete Care 4-in-1 as a base coat

Seche Vite-As a top coat

Nails, Nails, Nails, Oh my.

So, my treasure hunt didn't go the way I had planned...we started our quest off at Target and the Salley Hansen nail strips were not on sale. Boo. I was really looking forward to trying them out. Oh well, I can wait. BUT, the nail polishes were on clearence! Woot woot. I got an OPI in Daffy Dill. It's like a spring green color. I'll do some swatches later. I also got a Salley Hansen HD in DVD. And nail polish remover, of course.

I don't recall getting anything at Ross. Hmmph. I did start getting chest pains really bad though. Ugh. I have Costochondritis, where my chest wall gets inflamed and boy does it huuuuurt.
So that was a super fail.

TJ Maxx was a little bit better. No Big Sexy Hair, no NARS, ho-hum. They did have a ton of Essie polishes though! Score. I got Mint Candy Apple, Shop Til I Drop, and a clear top coat. It was the day of polishes. haha. I got a couple of storage units also. Maybe I'll take some pictures so ya'll can see.

I saw this huge gift set of Juicy Couture, Peace, Love, Juicy Couture and a Viva La Juicy. I want them both so bad. My b-day is coming up soon.... ;0)