Long Drugs Haul and LA Colors Review

Today I have a combo post, with both a small haul and a review.

First up, I would love to share the haul I picked up today at Longs Drugs. They had Wet n Wild Cosmetics on sale today, for 40% off. Most of the colors they had for nail polish, at least the ones I like, I had, but I found one I loved and didn't own yet, plus I decided to pick up another LA Colors, as lately that is my favorite nail polish brand.

I picked up Wet n Wild Wild Shine Caribbean Frost. This is a metallic green-teal. I just love colors like this! The second and last polish that I picked up was LA Colors Blue Velvet. This is a medium-dark blue. Lately I just love LA Colors and am picking up more and more when I used to shy away from this brand because of the price.

Now I have a review of another LA Colors polish, called Sky Blue Glitter.

This is a light aqua blue glitter polish, that has a tiny bit of green properties to it. I topped off this polish with LA Colors Color Craze Flurry. Might not have been the best choice to choose this color to put Flurry over, I still think it came out really pretty. It went on pretty perfect too, no smudges or gloppiness.

Well, that's all for today, I hope you enjoyed the haul and review! Talk to you guys later!

Ross and Don Quijote Haul

Today I went out with my mom to lunch at Taco Bell, and then we did a little shopping afterwards. First we went to Ross, and then we went to this local store called Don Quijote.

The first store we went to was Ross, and while we were there, I found a lot of nail polish sets and collections that I haven't seen before. I wanted to get a couple other sets, but restrained myself and just bought this one from LA Colors. Seems they combined seven of their polishes from their regular Color Craze line into this collection called Star Power. It is made up completely of glitter polishes as you can tell in the image.

The polishes that came in this set are as follows: Sassy Sparkle (white glitter), Star light (silver glitter), Tinsel (light/bright pink glitter), Broken Hearted (dark pink glitter), Confetti (Americana-themed glitter), Flurry (light blue glitter), Dizzy (gold glitter).

Then when we went to Don Quijote, I noticed that finally, a store in Hawaii has the new Wet n Wild Fast Dry Hot Rocks Collection! While I am not a super huge red, green, or purple fan, the blue was calling my name, and that is the polish to the right of the LA Colors set. It's called Caught On Sapphire. It's a polish with a medium blue shimmer base, and large hex bright blue glitter throughout.

Well, that's all I have to share for now, I hope you all enjoyed seeing my haul from Saturday. Talk to you guys later!

Walmart Haul

I don't 100% of the time blog about my hauls, I try to most of the time, but sometimes I just don't feel like it, or I don't wan to blog about one polish I bought, but I have enough this haul to talk about them.

 On Wednesday, I went to Walmart with my mom and saw a few polishes that were calling my name. None of these were on sale, but they were at a decent price so I decided to pick them up.

The first two polishes that I picked up were from Wet n Wild's Fast Dry collection, "Teal or No Teal", and "How I Met Your Magenta". Teal or No Teal is an aqua polish with duochrome qualities. In the light, it flashes some teal/turquoise bits. How I Met Your Magenta is a lovely hot neon pink and has microfine shimmer that is really tough to see unless you really look hard, but I still love it. These each cost less than $2 each.

The last one I picked up was from Maybelline Color Show's new polish collection, Polka Dots. It is called "Blue Marks the Spot". This is a very unique polish, with a blue-grey base mixed with large black and white hex glitter, medium black hex glitter, and small black and white glitters.

This is a bottle shot of two polishes. Turns out, I had Teal or No Teal already. The one I had already is on the left, and the one I purchased in this haul is on the right. As you can tell, they are totally different. The original formula is more teal and green. I wonder why they have the same name, but are two totally different colors?

Well, that's all for now, I hope you enjoyed my haul! Talk to you guys later!

L.A. Colors "Pink Sizzle"

Last night, starting at 10 or 11, I decided to paint my nails. I got this new L.A. Colors nail polish from Longs Drugs, called "Pink Sizzle". At least, I think that's the name, as they have to raise the prices here in Hawaii, so they need to remove the name and barcode.

As it was done late at night, and at night usually the light isn't as good, I waited until after I came home from being out with my dad to take photos.

I decided to take three with my phone and a couple with my digital camera to see how the colors came out for each.

These first two shots are taken with my digital camera. The first one shows it a bright magenta, and the second shows it with more purple tones, more of a fuchsia.

 

These three are taken with my smartphone.  The first two appear more lighter, as they were taken around 3pm, and the last one was taken around 7pm which is why it appears darker, which is closest to how it appears on my nails.

I suggest if you guys can find this color in any store, be it CVS, Walgreens, wherever they sell L.A Colors products, I suggest you buy this. It is such a unique duochrome that can appear purple in some lights, a bright, dark pink in others, and even sometimes it appears a dark, burnt red as well!

Well, that's all I have for you guys today! I hope you enjoyed it! Talk to you later.

Polish Comparison

Today I have for you a number of polish comparisons. I have noticed that I have a lot of colors that are very close to one another, so I decided to swatch them and see how close a match they are or if they don't even come close at all.

The first group that I have for you guys that I swatched for you guys are mint green polishes. Four of my polishes appeared similar in the bottle, so I wanted to see how close they were.

Here are the polishes for this comparison:

 

 NYC "Tudor City Teal", Wet n Wild: Wild Shine Color Wave Collection's Teal, Sinful Colors "Mint Apple" and Liquidus Nail Gloss "Smithsonite"

The colors go in that order on each of my nails, minus the thumb which I didn't polish, so pointer has NYC, middle has Wet n Wild, ring has Sinful Colors, and pinky has Liquidus:

 

 Sorry, the pictures didn't come out the greatest, my cameras suck. But it turns out that none of them are dupes in the least. Only NYC and Sinful Colors turned out the closest. NYC is a darker teal, Sinful Colors is a teal with shimmer in it. The Wet n Wild polish has more blue tones, and the Liquidus polish, while similar to the rest in the bottle, is more of a silvery teal with metallic tones.

The next comparison is between these duochrome-ish turquoise/blue polishes:

 

NYX "Be Jeweled", Wet n Wild Fast Dry "Teal of Fortune", Jessie's Girl "Glee", and Wet n Wild: Wild Shine Color Wave Collection's duochrome blue

The pointer has NYX, middle has Wet n Wild Fast Dry, ring has Jessie's Girl, and pinky has Wet n Wild Wild Shine:

 

One is a bit blurrier than the other, but I posted two similar shots to show the little bit of color difference between the polishes.

While the two Wet n Wild polishes and the Jessie's Girl polish appear all the same, the Wet n Wild: Wild Shine polish was the darkest, Jessie's Girl had more green tones, and Wet n Wild Fast Dry was in between the two. While the NYX polish appears really close to the other three in the bottle, it goes on super sheer in the photos. None are exact dupes, but I'd say you can just get any of Wet n Wild or Jessie's girl polishes and that would be good enough for this color.

The next comparison is between lilac/lavender polishes:

 NYC "Lexington Lilac", Rimmel Lasting Finish PRO "Wild Orchid", Covergirl Outlast Stay Brilliant Glosstinis "Purple Freeze", and Sally Hansen Hard as Nails "No Hard Feelings"

Again, none of these are dupes, although the last three polishes appear as such in the bottle. The NYC polish is the darkest, and has brown tendencies. Rimmel is in the middle of the four polishes, dark but still pretty. The Covergirl and Sally Hansen polishes are close to being dupes, but the Covergirl polish is a bit lighter. Since they are all different, I'd suggest all of these polishes!

One last comparison, of a very light lilac purple:

 

Rimmel 60 Seconds "I Lilac You" and SpaRitual "Lucid"

 

Rimmel on pointer and ring, SpaRitual on middle and pinky. I know these two really aren't similar in the bottle, but they were the lightest of the lilac/lavender polishes I wanted to compare, and I thought they would make a neat comparison with each other. Rimmel comes out more lighter, and on the purple side like it should. SpaRitual is light as well, but when photographed, comes out more like a light cloud blue.

So none of the polishes I compared for you today are dupes at all, but I hope my comparison helps you guys to decide what polishes you like and don't like and maybe what to buy and what not to buy. Also, sorry for my nails not being cleaned up, I figured as these were fast swatches, I didn't want to spend much time on cleanup. I hope that's alright.

Well, that's all I have for you today, talk to you guys later.

Sparitual "Lucid"

Today I decided to chop off all of my nails and start fresh, so that I could finally paint them and do swatches more often again.

After I chopped them off, I decided to paint my nails with SpaRitual "Lucid".

 

 On top of the whole thing, I decided to add Sally Hansen, Complete Salon Manicure "Hidden Treasure". The metallic duochrome version, not the glitter flakie. I like how it gives it a shimmery, metallic-y finish to this basic polish. 

This is a simple mani, but I think it's so pretty. The color is more lilac in person, but most shots I have seen of this, it shows up at a light blue, which also looks pretty in pictures.

Well, that's all for today, I'll be around more often with mani posts as my nails can now grow out healthy! Talk to you guys later!

How I Store My Polish

Tonight I FINALLY am going to talk about how I store my polish, after saying I would on my Facebook page for the past several days. Sorry for making you guys wait, but now wait no longer.

Usually, I know polish collectors and hoarders love to store there polish one of three ways: shoe box/similar size box, Helmers from Ikea or similar cabinet storage from Ikea, or nail polish table top or wall racks. I use NONE of these. What I use to hold all of my polish, is quite unique.

At first, I wanted to use nail polish racks, and I was all ready and planned to make one myself out of foam board, as I had seen videos on Youtube showing how to make your own. This didn't work out though. My mom at first didn't want me to make one, and also, when we went to look at the foam board in stores like Walmart and local stores, they were too expensive. Also, my room has popcorn walls, and things have a hard time sticking to the wall, so I gave up that idea.

My mom goes to Ross a lot, and she saw something else I could try to use to store my polish. The thing she found, is really not made for polish at all. It's a hanging, over the door jewelry organizer, with pockets that can hold around 2 big size polishes each or 3-4 small polishes.

To store my nail polish in these jewelry oragnizers, I use this over my door:

Ignore the poster of Betty Boop under the over the door hanger. I have a door hanger with three parts, which can hold three jewelry organizers.

Here is one of my jewelry "nail polish" holders on the racks, so you are able to see exactly what they look like:

 

Sorry for the big size, it's so that you guys can really see what it looks like. Each organizer has five pockets in each row except for the last row that has three huge pockets. The organizer has two sides, with seven rows on each side.

Here is how I store my polish in these jewelry orgnaizers, this one is full on both sides, although you can only see the front of it:

 

Lastly, here is a picture of both of my organizers full of polish. As you can see, I only around half filled the front side of my second organizer:

 

Well, this is how I have chosen to store my polish. It's not any of the traditional methods, but this is what works for me and I like that it's unique.

So, what I want to know is, what are all of you all's polish storage methods, what do you think of mine, and if anyone else out there stores polish the same way that I do. Leave me some comments to let me know all about your polish storage!

Well, that's it for now. Talk to you guys later!