NOTD: Color Club Magnetic Force

OK, so I'm not exactly forcing myself to blog, so much as I'm firmly encouraging myself to do a post before I go to bed.  & this will likely happen frequently, so I may not have much to say all the time - but then again, a truly lovely polish speaks for itself - like Color Club Magnetic Force does:

Chocolate brown magnetic, what's not  to love?  Aside from the really bad break I had in these pics that was much more glaringly obvious in some of the rejected pics LOL.

Thanks for reading.

~Colette

New Year, New Look ...

... Same old procrastinating me =)  At first I thought I'd get the redesign done by New Year's.  Then I thought I'd get it done by my 4th blogiversary (back on the 19th).  I finally got it done yesterday.

Now, I only made one resolution this year, which was to sleep more - and which I am not quite failing at but not really succeeding at either.  I should have also resolved not to procrastinate & to ACTUALLY get caught up with stuff online.  I guess I could maybe squeeze it in as a resolution since it's not the end of January - but on the other hand, I shouldn't need a resolution to make it happen.  I DON'T need a resolution to make it happen.  *nods*  I've said it before - hell, I'll probably say it again.  I am going to get back on top of my blog posting.

Let me know what you think of the new look - I always appreciate hearing from you guys =)  I (obviously) don't let it dictate my style, but sometimes there are things glaringly wrong that I'm just overlooking, or issues in other browsers etc.  & stay tuned for lots of good things - so many I think I've probably forgotten a few LOL.  Editing pics & writing posts actually helps me to remember what I've done on my nails, so the last few months is kind of a blur & I think it will be fun to revisit as I dig into it.

Thanks for (still) reading =)

~Colette

Hauls Catchup Post

So, I did this before when I realized how far behind I was with "real" haul posts, i.e. haul posts with close up bottle pictures.  & I am obviously very far behind again so here's another load of haul vids, but I AM going to do a real post for my Christmas haul, because I want to include the names of all the polishes I just referred to by number in the vid.  So here are my haul vids since around September.

Some Ulta & Target hauls:



My rather large BOGO from Ulta Butter London haul:



L'Oreal Project Runway haul:



Color Club Halo Hues and some other stuff hauls from Head2Toe Beauty:



The Zoya Ornate collection as well as the Gilty Pleasures Trio:



A Walgreens haul:



And OPI's The Man with the Golden Gun as well as the other colors I picked from the Skyfall collection:



So, as I said I'll work on a "real" haul post for the Christmas haul which is mostly Layla & China Glaze with a few other polishes.

Thanks for reading.

~Colette

Update!

So, the holidays turned out pretty dang good after all =)  This isn't the best pic of my new 2010 300 but I think you get the idea:

So I am pretty happy with that, had a great Christmas & now an actual 4-day weekend coming up for New Years.  I hope you're all having a great holiday too!

~Colette

Not Exactly Happy Holidays

Sometimes I forget that not all my blog followers are fans on Facebook, which is where I tend to post quick updates.  I know I've been semi-AWOL again - this is why:

There's a bit more in the post about this on my other blog, which if you want you can check out in the right sidebar.  As you can see, I'm OK, but it's piling a lot of paperwork & extra crap onto my already busy schedule.  I'm attempting to be more organized LOL, but it still feels veeeerrry hectic.  But I will not let it deter me from holiday nails!  Or continuing to catch up here =)  I think I am almost done dealing with insurance, although I've still got to do car shopping in between Christmas shopping.

Thanks for reading.

~Colette