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Saturday, November 25, 2017

This Week's Beauty Spotlight Team

Several skin care products from Pixi Beauty have become cult favorites. Do they live up to the hype? See what Tamara thinks on Makeup Obsessed Mom. 

  Prime Beauty is a lucky girl! She won this gorgeous DOSE of Colors THE GIRLS Eye Shadow Quad and it's perfect for the holidays! 

 There's been a lot of hype about Physician's Formula Butter Highlighters. See if Beauty Judy thinks it lives up to those raves. 

  Pammy Blogs Beauty carves out some peace and quiet this Holiday Season with #WhiteTeaMoments and Elizabeth Arden's White Tea fragrance. 

 If you are looking for foundation with a beautiful natural finish in light, medium or full coverage, Polarbelle says Charlotte Tilbury has one for you. 

 Don’t miss out on your chance to win a full size Sonage Skincare Vitality Nourishing Facial Oil from Lola's Secret Beauty Blog and Sonage! It’s the perfect time to get glowing holiday skin! The giveaway ends Wednesday, December 6, 2017. 

 Allison from Never Say Die Beauty is getting in the holiday spirit with Urban Decay Heavy Metal Glitter Liner in the silver shade, Glamrock. It looks even more amazing over pencil liner! 

  Beauty Info Zone has a beautiful giveaway that's perfect for holiday gift giving. Peace & Love jewelry and a romance novel are prizes that will make the 2 winners very happy. This is open through December 3, 2017. 

 For Shipra of Taneja's Bride there's nothing quite like ColourPop liquid lipsticks. See the newest Ultra Matte lips and learn how they are different than older ones. 

 Are you looking for the ultimate beauty gifts for yourself or a loved one? Realizing Beauty has just what you'll want in these Charlotte Tilbury Gift Sets. You won't be able to look away. 

 Why stay at home when you can travel? The Jedi Wife takes us on a trip to Costa Rica with the latest polish collection from I.A.M…Custom Color Cosmetics Travelogue Series. Just because you have to stay at home doesn’t mean your nails can’t go on an adventure!
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Friday, November 24, 2017

Unicorn Nail Art with Born Pretty Store

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Happy Black Friday, dear readers! I hope this post finds you well and those that celebrated had a wonderful Thanksgiving yesterday! My inlaws have been visiting, so they spent the day at our house. I'm also not an early morning person in general, but especially when it comes to shopping on Black Friday; I was still in bed inspecting my eyelids at 6am. I do have to run a few errands later today, but I'm hoping the craziness has died down by the time I venture out. Now on to today's blog post!

I had received the Born Pretty Store stamping plate in BP-L089, and it is filled with animals drawn in a geometric style. It is such a cool plate! As soon as I saw it, I knew exactly what to pair this with!

I had stumbled across this Mermaid Candy Striping Tape set at Born Pretty Store. Talk about a perfect match! My nail art design just fell into place perfectly!


This is my completed design. I actually had planned to go a slightly different route, but my base polish, I,A.M...Custom Color Cosmetics in Plantain Muffins, ended up on my swatch desk and was too perfect to not in this design.


The unicorn image on the stamping plate was deeply etched, and I had no issues picking up the image with my stamper and Girly Bits Cosmetics stamping polish in Silver Bells. All the lines from the etching were picked up and were very crisp.


The striping tape, on the other hand, sadly was not as easy to work with as I had hoped. The tape itself isn't particularly sticky, so I couldn't get it to actually lay down on my nails with the original animal design I attempted to lay out. While I don't consider my nails to be particularly curvy, the issue was more noticeable when I placed the striping tape on more curved parts of my nails. In the end, I ended up changing up my design and just used the multiple colours of the striping tape to emulate a unicorn horn on my nails. I used the striping tape in the 1mm thickness, and I wonder if the wider tape would have laid better on my nail curves.


Here is a closer look at the striping tape on my nails. Even with the longer strips of tape covering a larger portion of my nails, the ends of the tape still wanted to come up. I had to use my top coat and hold the tape down on the ends with tweezers so it would dry flush with my nails. The colours are lovely though!


Here is another look at my geometric unicorn design from the stamping plate. While I'm not a diehard unicorn fan, this image is pretty awesome!


If you are interested in picking up either of these items, the stamping plate can be found on the Born Pretty Store website here, and the mermaid striping tape can be found in a range of colours and sizes here.


While you are shopping, you can save 10% off full-priced items with discount code QWL-91. Because it is Black Friday weekend, Born Pretty Store is having a big sale, so be sure to stock up for all your upcoming nail art needs!

What geometric animal design is your favorite? How would you were this striping tape? I'd love to hear from you!

Until next time, dear readers, have a wonderful day!
XO!


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Tuesday, November 21, 2017

Ellagee Doorbuster 2017

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Greetings, dear readers! I hope this post finds you well and that your week has been off to a fabulous start! I ended up getting really sick last week, and while I still have room for lots of improvement, I'm finally feeling well enough where I can focus and write. To make matters worse, I had a swatch package go missing, and I was starting to think I wouldn't have it in time for the deadline. Thankfully it showed today, and I was able to get this baby swatched today for a quick post! Presenting: Ellagee Polish Doorbuster 2017!


Ellagee Polish definitely has something exquisite available for consumers this upcoming weekend! Doorbuster 2017 is described as a blacked plum polish with violet shimmer and strong linear holographic shimmer. I go crazy for these darker shades over fall and winter months, and this one is a beautiful addition to add to your holiday lineup!


The formula is really smooth and not too thick or thin for my preference. I used two coats plus top coat for these photos.


Doorbuster 2017 is richly pigmented, and while I did end up using two coats, it was *thisclose* to being a single coater for me. Those that paint with a heavier hand can easily get away with just one layer to opacity.


Doorbuster 2017 will only be available for purchase at ellagee.com from Black Friday, November 24th through Cyber Monday, November 27th. Each bottle holds 15mL, and they will retail for $13 each. If you are starting to get your weekend purchases planned, I strongly encourage adding this beauty to your list. Whether you want one for yourself or for your favorite nail polish fan, you're not going to want to miss out on this!

Until next time, dear readers, have a wonderful night!
XO!

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