Review: Zoya Valerie

Hey all~ I have received a few requests in my giveaway form to post more review-like posts, so here's my first attempt. Let me know what you think of it, anything to add/take away?

Today I have for you another polish from Zoya's Flame collection. Valerie is an extremely pretty purple with copper- gold flecks suspended in it which unfortunately does not show up on the nail. While I am an avid purple lover, I can't seem to love Valerie too much :(. It's such a shame since it receives so much love from bloggers (and hence me purchasing it) but idk, the lack of copper-gold flecks on the nail just makes me so, so sad.

Photo was taken indoors with flash which is the only way you can see the copper-gold flecks.

I wore this polish last week while I was away on a conference camp and could not believe the amount of chipping I was getting! I didn't expect it to stay perfect, but my nails looked absolutely atrocious by Friday and I didn't even do much with my hands except for showering...no activities, no extra stress on the nails, nada! Perhaps this may have something to do with the Zoya formula and it's ability to work well with other top/base coats? :S

Application: 8/10
Chipping: 4/10
Price: 7/10

My giveaway will be closing tonight at 23.59 GMT+10 so if you haven't entered already, click the link! :)

Thanks for dropping by~
Sharon

New Year Giveaway reminder

Hi~^^ Just a reminder that my New Year Giveaway will be ending in a little over 24 hours. Simply click the link which will lead you to the post! I have been tabulating the results as I receive them so hopefully it won't take me long to announce the winner :). Thanks for reading my blog and good luck to you all!

~Sharon

Miami Beet

Hello~ :) I hope you all enjoyed the little peek into my polishing world in the past few posts. Today I have for you one of the rarer colour shades in my collection - a red(ish) polish! This is two coats of OPI's Miami Beet. I was quite pleasantly surprised by it seeing as I wasn't expecting much, but yay, another red family polish which I like has been added to my collection! :)

I'm going to be busy this upcoming week too so posts may not be as frequent. I'm actually sporting naked nails at the moment, it's been a looooong time since I haven't had polish on my nails :P. I wonder how long it'll last?

Check out my giveaway here you haven't already!

Thanks for dropping by~
Sharon

Update!

Ello guys!
Its finally the end of another week I had a little accident with my phone last Saturday so its been a whole week without it & I'm coping better than thought I would but it makes work extra boring when its not busy! I've decided that I wanna get a blackberry & I've spent the whole week tryna get it from o2 but they're giving me so much trouble that I'm gonna have to buy it elsewhere & I'm thinking to get the sim contract instead of contract because its only 12months but I would have to get the phone on pay as you go which I can't afford right now, I guess it'll be another week til I actually get it :( I can't decide whether I should get the Blackberry Bold 9780 in white or black either, I'm not usually a fan of white phones but theres something about the white bold that I like but then I want the black one too.. decisions decisions!  

I'm still slacking with my uni work as always, I've got sooooooo much to catch up on & a hell of a lot to do for Monday. I still haven't found my motivation anywhere, I know I have to get it done but my body just doesn't wanna bother doing it!

I ordered quite a few things online in the past week, loads of nail stuff, some acrylic paint for nail art, some things from yesstyle, false lashes from ebay (wasn't planning to get them but I somehow accidentally clicked "buy it now" and confirmed it so I thought I might aswell just pay for it) & some elf brushes!
Anyway I bought a new sleek palette earlier in the week aswell so after work today I decided to try it out with my new lashes and the Revlon PhotoReady foundation because I haven't tried any of them yet. I like to experiment when I'm bored! So yeah, heres the look :p

 

 

 

I used Bobbi Brown's cream shadow in Galaxy for the base & 3 eyeshadows from Sleek's Storm palette. The sleek eyeshadows are amazing as always! The lashes are nice but they're so long and much more dramatic than the ones I usually wear, I still like them but probably won't wear them a lot. The foundation sure does make my skin look good in these photos, I like the coverage and consistency but it feels so weird because I haven't worn foundation for so long so for daily use I'm still sticking to my tinted moisteriser!

Later on my bro come up and gave me a package, it was from elf! I was so shocked because I only ordered it yesterday morning just before I left for college, they did send me an email a couple hours later to say it was dispatched but I didn't expect it to come today, the shipping was free too so yeah I was impressed.

It was the first time I ordered from them, I'm not really attracted to their makeup but I heard good things about the studio powder brush and I've been meaning to buy it for some time now. I ordered 4 because usually when I buy new products my aunt and sis in law want them too lol. I haven't used it yet but it feels soft and its dense too so hopefully its amazing like everyone says it is!

Anyway I think thats it for now, sorry for the long post I tend to babble on a lot but yeah I'd like to hear which Blackberry you think looks better & if there are any other elf products you would recommend, leave a comment below, Muah! xx

Polish spreadsheet

Although I can hardly say I'm an organised person, when it comes to nail polish, I'm super organised :P. I have a spreadsheet typed up on my laptop of all the nail polish in my collection. I thought I'd share the spreadsheet since people have been commenting on my giveaway form for some stash posts :). Photos of my stash can be seen here. There is also a tab I've added at the top of my page so that it will be easy to find this spreadsheet.



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Thanks for dropping by~
Sharon

My nail polish stash :)

One of the requests in my giveaway form is to post about my nail polish stash :). I've been on a no buy since the beginning of this year (and it's working! I haven't bought any polishes even though I've been tempted on several occasions :P) so I thought now would be a good time to share my stash.

I keep my polishes in a clear rectangle container which I can shove under my bed and out of the way :P. Currently it holds about 125 bottles of polish; my untrieds are stored in another smaller container next to my bookshelf. All photos are taken indoors under natural light. They are most certainly not all colour accurate - some polishes came out fine in the photos and others were just...woah o__o. So please don't use these as references :).

My Ulta3 polishes. They are by far the cheapest polish brand I've come across in Australia, hence why I have so many of them haha.

Sportsgirl nail polish.

Savvy by DB and Eclipse nail polish. Eclipse is a Korean nail polish brand found in Morning Glory. Ooh, their shops now also stock Tony Moly! I've definitely had to force myself away from the nail polish section since the colours aren't terribly unique. But they're still really pretty!

Other Australian brand polishes -Chi Chi, TBN, Jay Jays, BYS :).

And now my China Glaze collection :). The polishes are definitely not colour accurate here, especially the second and third ones from the left on the bottom row.

OPI

Color Club

Zoya

And other miscellaneous U.S polish brands - Orly, Misa, Nubar, Claires, Essie.

Maybelline NY Coloramas

Miscellaneous brands - Rimmel, Revlon, Maybelline

L.A. Color, Sally Hansen and an old red polish from my mum. I'm not quite sure of the brand :P. And whoops, I doubled up on a picture of Claires mood polish.

Sinful Colors. Arezia, Alessandro and the Golden Rose were purchased in Hong Kong.

And finally, my untrieds box and where I keep some of my nail art supplies.

Whew, that was quite a number of photos to get through, I hope you enjoyed this stash post :P. Take a look at my giveaway if you haven't done so already!

Thanks for dropping by~
Sharon

My work station

I'm away on camp this week so this is a scheduled post amongst others :). I thought it'd be a good idea to take the opportunity to share some 'behind-the-scenes'. To kick things off I have for you today a photo of my work station. It's by no means professional; I'm a student and have to make use of what I have unlike some bloggers who can dedicate an entire room to nail polish *jealous* :P.

This table is right next to my study table - it's actually a little distracting since I'm always tempted to do my nails when I'm meant to be studying :P. I like to keep some nail art tools at hand in case the urge pops up to do some nail art haha. I also use a placemat to protect the table top while I paint my nails. Like I said, it's not much but I do like it and enjoy doing my nails even more now that I have a work station hehe. Before this I used to do my nails on my study table which was just plain annoying since I'd have my laptop nearby and I'd be paranoid I'd spill things onto it.

I'll have a couple of stash related posts up later on this week! Please check out my giveaway here if you haven't already.

Thanks for dropping by~
Sharon

NOTD: Western Cowboy Nail Art and Christmas Gifts

Hi Everyone,

Well a few days ago i did a major cleaning on my nail art stuffs. it was growing so fast and i love it so much maybe i can show it to you nextime. while cleaning i saw my image plates and realized something, "OMG I haven't used my konad S5 and M48 plate yet" i bought it a few months ago but i didn't manage to use it because i got so busy. so after cleaning, i decided to try the Konad S5 i.p wohoo western cowboy yeah. oh btw, im not good in stamping i'm just playing a bit but i do hope someday i can be very good in stamping techiniques like ng IDOLS, Johanne of thriszha.blogspot.com and Mae of artofnail.blogspot.com they're really awesome and super kind.

told yah im not good in stamping lol. im a bit of a Trying Hard Gal at this point but soon i know i'll be good at this technique Lol. and also i mentioned on my last post that i'll be sharing to you the Christmas gifts that i received so here they are(better late than never right?):

from: Mae of artofnail.blogspot.com

don't yah love that cute snow man and charm?

from: Den of Onestop Kikayshop

From my Mommy Grace

A Gift for myself weeee

free bb cream yay!

a couple of china polishes for stamping

So that's it for today thank you for stoping by.

Kisses ^^

Water marbling with holos

Hello~^^ I tried water marbling the other day with some holos; lets just say that they dry extremely fast o__o! I started off with one coat of Color Club's Wild at Heart as the base colour and then marbled with Revvvolution and Wild at Heart. Photos holding the polish bottle are taken indoors under natural light, the other two taken under sunlight.

Left hand:

My favourite nails are the middle and ring fingers~

Right hand:

Favourite nail is the middle finger :).

I'll be going away for the next few days so some scheduled posts should be on the way. Oh, and check out my giveaway here if you haven't already!

Thanks for dropping by~
Sharon

I'm a sucker for..

cute packaging! I only discovered Jill Stuart yesterday and O.M.G her cosmetics are beautiful! They're like jewels! They're so expensive but I must get my hands on some! These are going on my Birthday wishlist lol :D

Anna Sui's cosmetics are so beautifully packaged aswell, I love the black rose design! All the fragrance bottles are beautiful as well, these are going on my wishlist too :p

Anyway I ordered one of Shiseido's Majolica Majorca mascara's so I can't wait to try that out! And a load of nail stuff for work because I wanna learn 3d nail art & introduce that to the shop as well although not much people would have it done, everyone just usually has french, colour or "something suitable for work" and there's only the odd few that have designs, owell atleast I get to have it! :D

Some 3D nail art

Earlier today, I saw Katrina's recent mani and had the urge to pull out my rhinestones and do something with them too :P. I used two coats of China Glaze's Light as air and Ulta3's spring shower in the mani. My topcoat totally bubbled on my left hand which is why I'm showing my right hand. It's not as apparent irl, but my camera picks up the tiniest detail - not handy this time. Photo was taken indoors with flash.

I like that it spices up the manicure but is so simple at the same time :). I need to use my rhinestones and pearls more often!

If you haven't already, check out my giveaway here!

Thanks for dropping by~
Sharon

Shopping!

I woke up this morning at 1:45pm which is so not me! usually I'm up before noon on my days off but since 2011 started its shifted to 12:30pm but for some reason I got up extra late today, I've become so lazy! I didn't sleep til 5:30am last night though so I guess I have an excuse. Anyway I gave in to my urge to shop and because I haven't been to my local shopping centre in ages I thought why not, if I stay at home I'm just gonna nap.

Here are some of the stuff I bought..

1. Revlon PhotoReady Foundation in 005 Natural Beige (£12.99) - I don't actually know why I even bought this, I hardly use foundation nowadays because I love my Laura Mercier Tinted Moisteriser and I still have like 6 bottles of foundation, I guess I just wanted to try it? I don't usually like to buy drugstore foundations because I think when it comes to foundation its worth it to pay a bit extra and get something better and its quite hard to find the right colour because you can't try it all over your face like where theres a counter. Anyway I heard some good things about this so hopefully its not too bad. It has shimmer in it & its got SPF 20 which I don't really prefer but we'll see!

2. Bourjois Clubbing Eye Liner in Ultra Black (£5.99) - I've been cheating on my BB gel liner for the past couple days because I was bored of using the brown and my black one is nearly empty so I've been using liquid liner instead, I've got a felt tip one already so I bought this one because I wanted to have a fine tip one as well, I've bought this before & its alright so yeah.. I'll be back to using my BB gel liner once I've bought a new one though! Oh yeah I HATE it when they stick the super sticky security stickers on the packaging, WHY DO THEY DO THAT?! its like impossible to remove without leaving that sticky stuff and I like my things clean! :@

3. Rimmel Eyebrow Pencil in Hazel (£2.99) - I needed a temporary eyebrow pencil to replace my fav Lancome one because I found out this morning that its finished so I got this one, not really a fan of Rimmel but this is decent :)

I wanted to get some shoes but every time I picked up a pair that I liked it was at least a size 4, there were no size 3's anywhere!! Then I went into Dorothy Perkins and found these in a Size 3, they're so cute & I love the colour! They were on sale for £12, bargain! I love how buying new shoes just instantly makes me happy :D

I got these two from Dorothy Perkins as well, the necklace was on sale for only £2, its so cute! The ring was £6.50, it looks kinda similar to one I have already but yeah, love it!

I bought a long sleeved top from River Island too because I hardly have any long sleeves and there were a lot of other things I saw online but I couldn't find and a lot of shoes I wanted but they didn't have  my size but there were two items I nearly bought but didn't, I really want them though, maybe next time!

I realised why I haven't been shopping there in ages, there's really not much at all & the whole place has downgraded! They need better shops!
After I finished my shopping my friend came because he needed me to help him buy a diary hahaha! I won't expose him but yeah, still surprising and hilarious!
Anyway sorry for the long post, I think I'll stop my gibberish now! x

Sally Hansen Nail Prisms - Diamond

Woooo, another gorgeous holo polish! :) Following the release of China Glaze's Tronica Collection, I thought I'd jump onto the holo bandwagon and show you an old but beautiful polish by Sally Hansen.

Diamond is a silver holo polish with scattered holo effects. It's also quite thin and I could have probably used a third coat in my mani. The drying time however, was longer than usual (compared to my previous experiences with holo polishes) and since I needed to sleep, I applied a top coat over the polish even though I hadn't intended to do so initially. I took a gazillion photos when the sun finally peeped out from behind the clouds for five minutes, but narrowed down to only sharing four photos :P.

Definitely click the photos to see Diamond in its fullest glory!

The photo below shows Diamond blurred so you can see the rainbow of colours. Isn't this polish just amazing? *___*

Don't forget to check out my giveaway here!


Thanks for dropping by~
Sharon