China Glaze OMG NOTD

The epicness of this polish is best seen in sunlight because it will make people ooh and ahh over your fingers.

There's a better picture included...

This did take 3 coats to get it opaque but each coat dried ridiculously fast so it wasn't that big of a deal. This is 3 coats over Nubar Foundation and one coat of Seche Vite. I did a comparison (no pictures) of it without a top coat and I found that it made no difference in the holographicness.

I think this is tied with my most favorite finish, with rainbow sparkle sharing 1st. I love creme finishes, it being 2nd and sparkly polishes being my next favorite.

French manicure NOTD

Californians, don't forget to vote today in the primary!

One of my favorite places to frequent for cheap cosmetics has been the dollar stores/Big Lots due to the fact that one can find ridiculously awesome and discontinued cosmetics there.


An off topic picture to segue into the rest of my post, but I think we don't hear this enough. This was a stop sign in the entrance to my neighborhood, I don't normally endorse graffiti but it was nice to see this.

This is LA Colors Art Deco nail art lacquer in Red Glitter, White, and Green Glitter. The Red Glitter was a red base with red glitter, the White was simply white and the Green Glitter had green glitter in a clear base as opposed to a colored base. The nail art polish is 1/2 the size of normal polish but I got all 3 for 3 bucks so I can't complain.



Here's a picture of the brush compared to an Essie brush. I did a poor job of cleaning off the nail art brush but you get the idea.



Here's a french manicure I did with the white polish. I looooove the striper brush, I used to think it was a bit fiddly and hard to deal with because of the length but I've gotten used to it. I used one coat of Nubar Foundation base coat, one coat of the white polish and a coat of Savvy French Rose Petal over the white to downgrade the starkness of the white.

La Femme Sparkle Dust in Casino Silver

Sigh, no luck with finding Zorro yet, but I have posters up and have been answering every Craigslist ad that I can. I do apologize for being a bit away from posting.

As it is, I'm finding myself more into doing eyeshadow looks but forgetting to photograph them, I still need a bit of practice with regards to working with my eye shape.

I've spent some time exploring drugstores and beauty stores to destress and have really liked my La Femme Sparkle Dust. They are loose eyeshadows which interestingly enough, have been recycled by Napolean Perdis and sold by his company for ridiculous rates (along with his company copying La Femme's packaging)

One of my favorite makeup bloggers has an in depth review about it and you can look it up here :)

I currently have one but have swatched many of them in my local beauty supply store. It is #34 Casino Silver which is a slightly greyed silver with minute rainbow sparkle. It's quite a gorgeous pigmented color and it turns into a tinfoil-esque silver when applied wet.

They're cheap at $3.99 for 4.5 grams. MAC recently downsized their pigments to that size but still sell them for 19.50. You can get them online at adiscountbeauty.com and other sites.



Left is dry and right is applied wet.


It is really pigmented and I haven't noticed any sort of fading so I definitely recommend it!

My summer isn't as cracked up as it should be

I'm glad that it's summer but this isn't turning out as well as it should have been.

Zorro has been gone for nearly a month now and I hate that I'm so used to him not being home.

I'm ridiculously pissed about my grades because my math grade was posted as a "WU" meaning an unauthorized withdrawal equating that to an F and meaning I stopped showing up. I worked so damn hard in that class to get an A and I managed a B according to my test grades so that silly computer error is messing with me.

I also didn't manage to get into my summer school class based on a computer error that kicked my boyfriend out of the class (as he was holding my spot while I waited for my appointment time)

I've been trying to find a job and have been unsuccessful thus far.

One positive note is this, I was elected (by default really, I was the only one to put my name through) as the Vietnamese Culture Night Director in my Vietnamese Student Association.
The Vietnamese Culture Night is a production that my VSA puts up every year and while I've only been in VSA for a year, I was super inspired to volunteer to put up a production that my boyfriend (who doesn't speak a lick of Vietnamese yet) could understand.

As it is, we have "bonding time" during the summer and I'm not quite used to hanging out with the other VSA-ers on this sort of level.

For those of you on summer break, how is it?