Small Haul

A quick stop at Ocean State Job Lots for Halloween decorations turned into a smaller polish haul. I say small but it was 5 polishes. They had a few new Revlon polishes and an older Sally Hansen Xtreme Wear.

Left to right Xtreme Wear Strawberry Icing, Revlon Gray Suede, Tangerine, Devilish, and Sunshine Sparkle.

Hauls!! September and beginning of October 2011

These are some recent polish hauls from the end of September thru the first few days of October. I have worn several of these recently.

First up is Ocean State Job Lots. They sometimes have great deals on name brand polishes. I have found some L’Oreal, SH Complete Salon Manicure, and Borghese. This time around I found a ton of Revlon polishes marked down to $1.49 then again to $1.04. These are normally $5 at my local Rite Aid or Walgreens. I got 12 total!

No Shrinking Violet and Sweet Tart 

Black with Envy and Oh My Magenta

All Fired Up and Pink Again

Red Hot Tamale and Endless Possibilities

Plum Night and Effervescent Opal

Make Mine Mango and Scene Stealer

A trip to the Rite Aid near my parents house yielded me Revlon’s Starry Pink and nail art pens in pink, white, and purple. I already have the two others from Revlon’s new glitter collection. 

The next day I went back to the same Rite Aid and picked up several of Sally Hansen Xtreme Wears from the main color line. I already own all the others and since there was a buy one get one 50% off sale I thought I would pick up the rest.
Top Row Purple Potion, Twisted Pink, Blizzard Blue, and Grey Area

Bottom Row Hot Magenta, Green with Envy, Invisible and Pink Boa

Then a few days later I stopped at the Walgreens near my grandmother’s house to pick up the Sinful Colors and Pure Ice crackles in black. (I have a black crackle comparison planned for another post.) It was there that I finally found the Fantasy Makers Halloween collection.

Pure Ice and Sinful Colors black crackle polishes

Fantasy Makers Black Magic, Creepy Pumpkin and Purple Potion

*** This is the Black Magic with the orange shimmer***

Later that day I stopped at the Walgreens near my work because I could tell the display at the other Walgreens was missing something. There I found Fantasy Makers Night Glow their version of the glow in the dark polish. 

Friday after work, I stopped at the Rite Aid near my grandmother’s looking for the Halloween make up display hoping to find more nail art pens. But instead found the recent Sally Hansen Xtreme Wear limited edition display. Now I already had almost all the colors except 3 of them. I was able to pick up Tealy Cool and Pink-y Ring. Now I am only missing Very Cherry.

On Saturday I went to the Rite Aid near my parents and found a ton of stuff on clearance. I ended up spending more then I intended but couldn’t pass up the deals that I found.

City Colors no name Blue and Purple

Sally Hansen Hard as Nails in Set In Stone, Hard Lemonade, Heart Of Stone, On the Rocks, and Hard-ly There 

And now I rarely buy these but Sally Hansen Complete Salon Manicure were 50% off, making each less then $4 a piece.

Strike A Pose, Model Behavior and First Kiss

Summer Plum and Delphinium

Barracuda and Paparazzi

And finally after seeing it swatched on Candy Coated Tips, I had to go buy L’Oreal Owl’s Night. It’s a super pretty dark bluish purple with tons of gold glitter. So excited to wear this one!! ***After using this one I now realize it is more of a blackened gray with gold glitter in it.

Revlon "Black With Envy"

This was my mani for all of one day. Nothing against the color, I just got something that I was so excited about I had to change it immediately. More about that in another post. J This is a beautiful dark gunmetal gray with a silver shimmer to it. It went on really well and took two coats for it to be opaque. Overall a very pretty color and it will be worn again sometime.

Revlon Blue Mosaic

I picked up this beauty at the same time I got Facets of Fuchsia. All the sparkly in the bottle caught my attention and I knew I needed to bring it home with me!

Just look at the pretty...

*sorry that the pics are a bit blurry, I'm new to taking pics of my polish*

This polish is a clear base with a sorta teal blue mircoglitter and hex glitter in light blue, silver and green. It went on smoothly for the most part but some of the hex glitters didn't want to sit right on the nail. This is 3 coats of polish. It probably could have used a forth cause I can still see some bald spots. Next time I think i will layer it over another color to give it more of an opaque look. It also was a top coat monster! I use Seche Vite and normally that does the trick in one coat. Well this is 2 coats and it probably should have been a third to get it completely smooth. As you can see from the pictures clean up around the cuticles was rough to do as well. I haven't taken this one off yet (I might matte-ify it tomorrow) but I know it is going to be a witch to get off. Probably with take my silk patches with it. :(

With all of that being said, I do love this polish. Its so sparkly and yummy. I kept staring at it at work when I was supposed to be typing.

Just as a side note, the majority of polishes that I will feature will be drugstore brands. Most of that is due to availability in my area (rural Maine) and my frugalness. I have a hard time spending more the $3 on a bottle of polish. Not to say that I won't break down and buy some of the great brands I have discovered lately like Zoya and Cult Nails.

Hope your Monday wasn't manic!