Simple mani and an awesome find

This is 2 coats of Essie's Sand Tropez which I picked up for half price during my last trip to the US.  Not my usual type of colour but I don't mind it.  I like Essie's formula but I don't know how they justify the $9 price tag. 

I stamped it with Sally Hansen Salon Manicure in Bittersweet and konad plate m31.  Finished off with an orange gem on the ring finger.  Simple and classy, just the way I like it.

So a couple weeks ago when I was polish hunting in a nearby city I went to 3 different Winners and came up empty handed!  Ugh I hate how Winners is like that.  But I stopped at my local Winners last week and found these awesome Kleancolor sets:

Top set is a metallic set containing: Metallic Pink, Metallic Yellow, Metallic Purple, Metallic Jungle, Metallic Navy, Metallic Brown. 

I swatched them as soon as I got home over my existing mani:

This was one coat of each over an almost black polish so you can see how amazing these are for stamping.

The second kit contained glitters: Black Out, VIP, Kiss Goodbye, Grand Finale, Karat and Peaceful Heart.

I didn't swatch Peaceful Heart since I already have the full size bottle but the thumb is Black Out and the rest (L-R) are: VIP, Kiss Goodbye, Carat and Grand Finale.  I don't like the strip glitter at all but I love that Carat has large diamond glitter in it.

These sets were $5 at Winners and I think I'm going back to grab another metallic set.  Also I need to find somewhere that sells Kleancolor here in Canada because I really need a full size bottle of Black Out!

Later
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A haul, a mani and some thoughts

I try to check out Winners at least twice a month because even though they never have much stock on beauty items you can usually find a couple of gems.  Like this one I found last week:

This was $15 and although I'm not really into the light pastel colours I thought this was too cute too pass up and figured some would be good for stamping.  Here are the colours that came in it:

I do actually like all the colours except for the orange and pink so I'll get some use out of them.  The blue and orange ones stamped really nicely too.

Anyways, my nails are peeling and chipping pretty badly so I had to trim them again.  This mani only confirmed that I really should stick to the dark colours.

2 coats of OPI's Russian Navy Matte.  Love love love it!  I'm all for mixing things up sometimes, but every time I slap a deep dark colour on my nails I feel good.

So I stamped it with Konad plate m31 using my 3 China Glaze Tronicas: Hologram, High-Def and Laser Lime.  The stamping looked murky over the matte polish so I threw a topcoat on and still wasn't happy with it.  But I'm definitely sticking with the dark colours for awhile.

I wanted to add something else here that I've been thinking about for a bit lately...

This blog was originally intended for my sister and I to share nail art and ideas not only with each other but also for anyone who was interested.  I appreciate the few followers I have and love to read your comments.  Honestly, I don't ever want this blog to become a monster with hundreds of followers for several reasons I won't get into.  I also love many of your blogs and find that a lot of you are genuinely nice girls with great ideas to share.

However lately I've noticed that I really dislike some of the things I've seen on other blogs and message boards...mostly relating to snotty comments or people ganging up on others when it's not really called for.  I'm not calling anyone out here, I promise.  Truth be told, I stopped reading the actual posts of those offenders long ago but I still subscribe and look at their photos because hey, I love nail polish!  But I guess I'm just struggling with whether or not to unsubscribe because of their vile attitudes.  Have you guys come across this at all?  And what did you do?

And what is it with this shit anyways?  I thought all this media attention on cyber-bullying was helping to make things better...ugh, rant over.

Later
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