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Instead of having to buy more underwear, I'd rather spend money on--you guessed it--nail polish. Don't get me wrong, I'm one of those girls that goes to every VS Semi-Annual Sale, but I don't like it when I no longer have a choice as to what I want to spend my extra cash on.


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Remember when I showed you guys my latest Zoya findings at Beauty Plus Salon? Well the full press release is officially available!
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As some of you may know, Tuesday was my first day of college in three years so it was only right to rock the FLOTUS, Mrs. Michelle Obama, on my finger tips.


I bought these Cha Cha Covers Michelle Obama water decals back in January and had been waiting for the most appropriate occasion to use them, and my return to college seemed more than befitting.


Cha Cha Covers picked the perfect photo of the First Lady to make this decal. Does it look familiar? It should. It's from the 2012 Democratic National Convention and everybody was speculating what shade graced her fingernails that night.



OPI sent out a press release; and if I remember accurately, Zoya even ran a promo for the shade shade they thought it was. But in the end, it wasn't even nail polish, it was Artistic Nail Design Soak Off Colour Gloss in "Vogue."

The decals were pretty easy to use and fully opaque on top of a clear base coat. If you've used a few different types of water deals, you definitely understand how awesome that really is.


After four days of wear the edges were looking rather ragged so I added a border of LCN Pink Pepper--also the same color on my thumb because these decals were too short to cover it.

So far I'm really happy about going back to school and I've been telling anyone that will listen. Ready for a kinda funny story? Well you don't really have a choice because I'm gonna tell you anyway.

The following is a conversation between me and my sales coach at work:

On Tuesday I used some of my paid vacation time so I could attend class while not getting penalized for coming to work late and my manager says, "I thought you weren't here today." To which I reply, "Today was my first day of school in three years!" "Oh they let you in? That's great!," she says. Then I retort with, "It's community college, they let everyone in." Obviously, this was followed by a hearty chuckle from the both of us.


Nothing To Disclose Pretty sure this is the best back to school mani ever. What do you think?
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Friday night I was at the mall and spotted a new Zoya Collection in Beauty Plus Salon. No, not Entice & Ignite, but something even newer. The Ultra PixieDust Dust Collection!


What makes these so ultra? At this point I have no idea, but I'll be sure to post the official press release when it becomes available.


If you're in NY, NJ, or CT, you can find available for purchase now at Beauty Plus Salon.


Have you seen these in person? Have you bought them? Let's speculate what makes them so ultra in the comments.
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It's Monday, and if you're in the US, you might have today off from work to sit around and fire up the grill one last time before summer ends. While I'm not currently planning on leaving the house today b/c I have school early tomorrow morning. (Yes school, my first college class since January 2011 is tomorrow morning at 8am. Ahhhhhhhhhhhhhh!) I do have a green mani for this month's prompt for the Proud Beauty Bloggers of Color.


After laying down a white base color, I started my gradient by sponging China Glaze Be More Pacific and China Glaze Shore Enuff.


I bought  Shore Enuff & Be More Pacific back when the Off Shore Collection came out; the colors are gorgeous but the formula is pretty thin. I lost count of  how many times I had to pass the sponge over my nail beds to get the opacity seen in this mani.


My original game plan for this mani with to splatter white nail polish on top of the gradient. As you can see my plans quickly changed once I saw Salon Perfect Zapped sitting around.

Be sure to check out what the other Proud Beauty Bloggers of Color did for this prompt below.



What are you plans for Labor Day? Me? I'm just excited that I'm starting college again tomorrow!
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