NOTD: Ulta Tainted Love + Sally Hansen Hidden Treasure

Yes, it's past my bedtime.  I've been up too late all week.  I know that I said I was doing a blue marble ... and yes, I still have every intention - but no, I haven't gotten around to it yet.  I ended up marbling with some other colors for Polish Hoarder Disorder's challenge this week, but I also did 2 "quickie" manis before that, due to being up late & needing to go to bed, so I'm going to show you the first of those.

I've read that this color is pretty close to the Canadian exclusive Sally Hansen Project Runway, although I haven't seen any side-by-side comparions.  Whether it is or isn't, I liked it quite a lot.  I wore Ulta Tainted Love 1 day plain:

And then amped it up for day 2 with Sally Hansen Hidden Treasure.  The green base plays up the copper tones in HT.  Of course HT forces me to picspam =):

Need even more sparkliness?  Have a look at it in motion:

First time I have added some music to one of my vids - what do you guys think?  I just wanted something soothing so it wasn't a full minute of dead air.  Thanks for reading =)

~Colette

NOTD: Color Club Gossip Column Matte-ified

This is the longest I've worn a mani in quite some time ... I wore this plain last Wednesday, added Konad for Thursday (original post HERE), and then Matte Magic for Friday.  I took these pics just before posting, so the matte finish has turned more satin, but I'm rather impressed with myself that I'm on my 5th day & have no chips & only minimal tip wear on both hands.  Since I realized I hadn't shown it to you guys matte, I thought I might as well post it up before I take it off:

Going to do a marble in blue, so stay tuned =)  Thanks for reading.

~Colette

TOTD: China Glaze Let's Groove

Just one pic of this ... I don't know what happened that I forgot to take more, other than my normal spazz-ness LOL.  I've still got this on, been wearing it for almost 2 weeks, but it's really no longer in good enough shape for macro close-ups =)  This is a perfect pedi color for me - China Glaze Let's Groove:

Thanks for reading.

~Colette

Hauls

Well, I bought this stuff like a week ago, so I suppose I should post it before I totally forget where I even bought it LOL.

I had an Ulta coupon, I don't even remember for how much now, but I used it on the Glam Goth collection:

Left to right:  Black Lace, Tainted Love, For Bitten, After Hours, Underground.

Then I went to Sally's and I remember I had a 20% off coupon so I got a few of the glitters that I didn't get the last time through, along with some Savvy & 1 China Glaze on clearance:

Left to right:  Finger Paints Easel-y Entertained & Be A Pal-Ette, Savvy Femme Couture Fairy Twinkle & Glass Slipper (they had 2 whole displays of this Femme Couture stuff, one of sheers & one of bright shimmers), and China Glaze 5 Golden Rings.  Sally's also had Seche's gel topcoat & a little-bitty UV lamp to go with it, which I'm 99% sure I'd have noticed if they had before.  Has anyone tried it?

Then lastly Walgreens ... which really was an innocent trip, to pick up my prescriptions.  I'd resisted the new Ultra HD Sally Hansens earlier at Ulta but could not resist a 2nd time, although I did refrain from buying all of them:

Left to right:  Byte, Hue, Resolution & DVD.

After adding all of these to my spreadsheet, I now have 993 polishes in my stash!  I plan on showing you guys some pics once I break 1000 =)  Thanks for reading.

~Colette

NOTD: Color Club Gossip Column + m63

I started out with Color Club Gossip Column plain for one day:

Then I did some stamping with Konad image plate m63 & China Glaze OMG. Since I have to double-stamp anyway, I used this design a little differently than normal, usually I go the long way & match up the ends but this time I stamped sideways & matched up the sides, if you know what I mean. I think it gives the swirls a much different look:

(If you want to see what direction I normally use this design, you can check out pics from last time I used it HERE)

Thanks for reading =)

~Colette