Barielle
Giveaway
Review
Barielle Ombre + Fall Giveaway
Monday, September 16, 2013nail a college drop outPress Sample
Barielle released two 5 packs to complete their Fall collection, and you can win them both plus more!
Due to the great success of our other Sweepstakes, we have decided to hold another one in September. The September Sweepstakes will start on September 12th and end on September 26th. There will be 10 prizes given out and one Grand Prize of a Cole Haan Silver Satchel, RSP of $175.00. The Barielle kit will consist of:
Two of the Fall Collections 5 Packs (Sophisticated Lady and Nude & Naughty) - $50One Nail Rebuilding Protein Base Coat - $17.50One No Chip Speed Dry Top Coat - $12.50One Nail Strengthener Cream - $17.00The value of the total Grand Prize is more than $200.00The Grand Prize will include the fashion accessory plus the Barielle Kit.The ten prizes are the Barielle products only.
Want a little taste of what you can win? Well the Nude & Naughty 5pack makes a perfect ombre!
L-R In Good Taste, I Got a Headache, No Not Now, Pillow Talk, Very Bare
In Good Taste, I Got a Headache, and No Not Now were all two coats and
had a favorable formula. While Pillow Talk and Very Bare were pretty
sheer yet build-able. Very Bare being well, very bare required a bit
more effort and a layer a top coat to even it out.
Pinky to thumb: In Good Taste, I Got a Headache, No Not Now, Pillow Talk, Very Bare
Is it just me or does the model on this package kind of resemble Nazanin Mandi?
Barielle Nude & Naughty 5 Pack retails for $25 on Barielle.com
Feeling lucky? Head over to Barielle's Facebook page to enter!
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butter LONDON
Dare To Wear
Etsy
Chevron, Checker, & Stripes Unite!
Thursday, September 12, 2013nail a college drop outPress Sample Okay, so this post wasn't technically posted on Wednesday but it's only 1am and I haven't been to bed yet. That has to count for something right? #LateNightBlogSesh!!
Anyway, all procrastinating aside, I recently got some interesting nail art stickers from Sticky Nails on Etsy and felt like nail artin' it up in this bitch. Here's the end result!
And if you have long nails like me these will fit with no problem!
Iona advises that you let your base color dry completely before you place the stickers on your nail bed. To speed up the process I used Dazzle Dry Top Coat over my white base.
Want some product porn? Of course you do!
butter LONDON Cotton Buds (white base color), Wet N Wild Wild Shine Black Creme (chevrons), Dare To Wear Violetta (stripes and checker print), Illamasqua Nomad (stripes and checker print).
Chevron stencils nail stickers are $9.50 on Sticky Nails Etsy Shop and there's free shipping anywhere in the US.
I think this is my first chevron mani. I like. Do you?
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butter LONDON
Glitter
Nail Art
bL Rock Your Colour Nail Art
Monday, September 09, 2013nail a college drop outPress SampleRecently butter LONDON came out with a pretty large cosmetic line complete with mascara, eye shadow, lipstick, lip gloss, and of course, nail polish!
The Rock Your Colour Collection consists of six lacquers, but these nails used only three.
L-R Pistol Pink, Indigo Punk, Inky Six
I've been super tired lately so I went the simple route and landed at a tape mani. The base is Pistol Pink. Next I laid down some masking tape for triangles and made a gradient using only the brushes from the bottles of Indigo Punk and Inky Six.
The lacquers in the butter LONDON Rock Your Colour collection retail for $15 each on butterLONDON.com.
I've got a few really awesome ideas for nail art this week so hang in there with me. Pretty please? With sugar on top?
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Claire's
Swatch
Things Every Polish Whore Should Have
Things Every Polish Whore Should Have: Swatch Sticks + Label Makers
Wednesday, September 04, 2013nail a college drop outNothing To Disclose Last week I swatched the new limited edition Sally Hansen X-treme Wear collection for Fall '13 on swatch sticks and then it happened. Rhonda from Nails Beautiqued asked me where I got my swatch sticks that say Sally Hansen on them. So why not answer her query? I'm sure plenty of you were wondering the same thing right? Right.
I bought my swatch sticks on eBay for less than $3 per 50 piece pack (with free shipping by the way) so if you have a pretty large collection like myself, you'll easily spend $50 or more if you want to swatch every single shade you own.
I recommend this as a weekend project. Sit around, have a snack, turn on any ridiculous Lifetime movie of your choice, and boom! There you go!
Most sellers have these available in two color options, "natural color" and clear. From what you can see here, I chose clear.
How did I get the names on each stick? A handy dandy label maker!
A few things I forgot to mention:
1. These aren't called swatch sticks on eBay. In fact, if you try to search "swatch sticks" you'll likely get quite a few hockey gear results.2. Search "nail display fan board."
3. The swatch sticks come with a long metal screw and a nut to put on the end. If you want something a little less hardware store you can pick up a pack of book rings at Office Max like I did.
4. Because you read through this entire post here are some quick swatches of the new Splatter Effect Collection by Claire's
This isn't the only thing I keep in my polish arsenal. Follow me on Instagram (@DropOut_Nails) and/or search the tag #ThingsEveryPolishWhoreShouldHave
Hows that for informative?
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