Layered Swatches: Essie "Beach Bum Blu", China Glaze "Techno", OPI "Save Me"

I feel like this is a kinda pointless post because i don't have an ultra high  resolution camera. This is more of a layered swatch post than a mani/nail look. I don't know, i promise you some actual posts of quality in the near-ish future. I feel like i just don't have the time for it right now. Please bear with me, as these are trying times.

For this mani...

Essie "Beach Bum Blu"

China Glaze "Techno"

OPI "Save Me"

Honestly, this mani is made up of polish that i just wanted to wear on a lazy day that i didn't feel up to nail art on. I began with Essie "Beach Bum Blu" from the Go Overboard collection. I will never stop loving the Go Overboard collection. There is just to much amazing in it. As always, i had no issues with this polish because Essie is amazing. However, i didn't like it as much as i thought i would, i feel like it's just weird on my skin tone.

 After my two coats of the flawless "Beach Bum Blu" i did one coat of OPI "Save Me" (Nicki Minaj 2012) and one of China Glaze "Techno" (Electropop 2012.) The idea of "Save Me" is awesome, the application is weird, in my opinion. I think it's just the bar glitter. I used to have tons of bar glitter polishes when i was younger, but they seem so unconventional and odd to me now. You can hardly see "Techno" amidst all the chaos of "Save Me." I was way way more excited about "Techno" when i saw it online, in person i feel confused and indifferent about it. Over all i'm just so far over silver glitter of any kind. Come on solid colored glitters!

Zoya "Charla" and Essie "Set in Stones"

Recently, i took advantage of the Zoya new year's sale in which they were giving out two bottles of polish to any one who was willing to pay shipping. If you bought $25 worth of product from the site, you also got free shipping. In the end i got five bottles of Zoya for a total of $25. It was great. Especially since these are my very first Zoya polishes, i was excited.

This mani features Zoya "Charla" and Essie "Set in Stones"

Behold, Zoya Charla. This beautiful glass flecked blue it what i imagine the sky would look like if it was scattered with a million tiny diamonds. The picture on the left is more true to the actual color. Like any stunning polish i found myself endlessly frustrated not being able to capture the true hues and shimmer in the polish. This is three coats in sunlight. I did find a little bit of a transparent quality in this polish, but it seems necessary to get the bottom of the Caribbean sea look. Semi-sheer/semi-opaque i love Zoya Charla.

To the left, you will see the sparkly amazingness that is Essie Set in Stones in direct sunlight. To the right the same stunner in the shade. Essie Set In Stones from the 2011 Luxe Effects collection was released along with such favorites as "Shine of the Times" and "As Gold as it Gets." Set in Stones is a pure silver glitter made up up large circular and even more tiny silver micro glitters. Shown in the photos above is once coat. This polish offers instant glam with an exceptional drying time.

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Dingy (Silver/Gold)

This has been the weekend of ever failing plans. Also the weekend of try to use Katt for her car. I just got my car back Friday and that night some one called me "can you take me to my homecoming dance?! I don't have a ride!! :(" You know something, i know i'm going to sound like a bitch, but if you wanted to go to your dance, you probably should have figured out how you were going to get there in the first place. One of my favorite sayings used by my teachers in high school, "A lack of planning on your part, does not create an emergency on mine." So no, i did not take her to the dance. I was also supposed to do SOMETHING with another one of my friends that night, but by the time i got done picking up my car and delivering a kitten, he was ready to stay in for the night. Later that night i was supposed to meet with some one else, who ended up wanting me to drag my ass 20 into one of the neighboring cities at ten at night. The next day i said "fuck it" to the plans that we're supposed to maybe be, because no one knew what the hell they we're doing. Instead i let my boyfriend pick me up and spent a lazy day with him. Later that night i got hit up to go to a party, only because they assumed i was going to be sober and drive every one home. I took no one no where, including myself. When the night was fially coming to an end, right now the street from my house, we got pulled over for speeding. I feel bad because he was just taking me home, and ended up with a ticket. :/

But life goes on right?

Silver and Shine (Black/Silver)

Hellloooo lovelies! Guess what, i just got back from shopping :D Got and bunch of new clothes "suitable for work." My mom gave me $100 to get started and i spent some monies on some HAVE TO HAVE items, and now i have a ton of cute new stuff. :DD I alllsooooo peaked in over at Sally's Beauty and snagged a few nail polishes to spoil my self even more. It's been an amazing day. ^.^

Like my nails?

I started out with a silver base for sticky

With a silvery black i started in my crease making my shape

On the brow bone i took BFTE's Moonlight and eased the black

On the inner half of the lid i used ARC's La Fontaine

 Then with Unknown#8 i covered the outter half of the lid

To bring together the two lid colors i used Unique Pigment's Glass Slipper

On the lower lash line i used Glass Slipper again

 I finished off this look with lots of mascara

Product List:

NYX Jumbo Eye Pencil in “Pots and Pans”-Lid

Antoinette’sRevolution “La Fontaine”-Inner half of lid

Beauty From the Earth’s Moonlight-Brow bone

Unknown Pigment #8-Outter half of lid

UniquePigment’s “Glass Slipper”-Middle of lid

L’Oreal’s HiP Studio Secrets Metallic Shadow in Platinum (Black Side)-Crease

Maybelline Volume Express “Falsies” Mascara

 Moonlight, La Fontaine

Glass Slipper,Unknown #8

Jaguar Graduation (Blue/Silver)

My graduation was on the 25th! So i took some extra special time to do something nifty with my makeup. I've seen other girls do animal prints and the like before, but i haven't had the opportunity to try it. Mostly because i'm almost always in a rush to do my makeup. But this time i had a vision! And yea, it came out pretey freeking rad if i do say so myself.

Sweetpea (Pink/Purple/Silver)

Goodness me it's late. No witty comments right now because i just want to get this look up. But i will tel you that i picked up a few Wet N' Wild products today. :3 I'll tell you about them tomorrow. Oh yea, today it mostly BFTE products. And i'm letting you know now, i'm going to have beautious spelling in this post

Striking (Black/Silver)

Omg, i can't wait to get home and update my blog today. I really like this look, i hope the girls online like it too...Okay, upload pictures to computer, crop, upload to photobuck-.....what?...whattt?! PHOTOBUCKET! What's wrong?! What's wrong photobucket, wh wh why arn't you working! HOw am i supposed to update if photobucket isn't working...omg...omg...what can i do...what should i do...I can't just NOT POST! That would be to crazy. Uuuuhhh....ahhhhh....Ummm okay, Google. Google has the answer to life...."Photobuckt" AHHHHH it's still brokennn! okay, okay, i can fix this..."Free Image Hosting", click, Tiny Pic...TINY PIC IS DOWNNNN!!!!! Alright...ummmm ImageShack...Thank goodness this works..omg, omg, omg AHHHHH!!!!!! OMG Bloggegr isn't recognizing ImageShack URLS!!!! WTF?!?!?! Okay...I Got this...Just going to take a little while longer.

Snarky (Pink/Silver)

That's right, Snarky. I was semi-inspired to do this look because of a Wet n' Wild mini trio i saw at Target the other day. the "Spoiled Brat" one. I did not get it, but i did get an amazing new silver that came in a L'Oreal HiP duo. that will be posted a reviewed soon as part of Target Haul #2! Yes, #2....after i finish up the e.l.f. haul.