My biology Exam

Sitting in the exam room, everyone sits writing. Its almost as if they all had lessons without me there. What on earth could they possibly be filling in besides pictures? I have no idea. I have no idea what they couldve possibly filled in. 

The only good thing in this exam room is my nails. They are painted a perfect dark purple. Not took dark were it looks black, but a simple dark shade of that colour purple we know and love. Similar to my brain, my fingers nails are not gonna help me pass this biology exam. Its time to be realistic and weigh the options. 

 A) that fake seizure I've always thought about but were too scared to actually try...
I mean, I've always thought about it. But I guess I was too scared to do it. But let's be realistic itd be kinda fun! Rolling around on the floor shaking? That's a lot more fun then this exam. 

 B) the burst into tears- convincing lie of scarring event that convientley took place right before this exam 

C) the asthma atack
So? I've never had any signs or asthma prior to this exam. But u know what they say! Its never too late! Yes that line doesn't usually refer to self brought asthma to get out of there eleventh grade bio exam, but ya gotta take the chance! Try somthing new...but desperate times call for desperate measures. And let's just say right now. I'm pretty fucking desperate. 

 D) actually try and fill stuff in on this exam... So easy to say so impossible to really do. Now I'm jsut convincing myself I can do the impossible. Need me even say this idea is completely unrealistic 

 Let me give you an actual question from my actual impossible actual exam... Actually no. I'm not gonna put u thru this emotinal distress and myslef by even reading it. 

FML. Moral of the story? Come save me!

Welcome to my life...

I do not own this picture.

Preview: Justin Bieber Nail Polish

I don’t care what anybody else thinks, or what you interpret from this article but et me just say, I DON'T HATE HIM! Now I'm not saying I listen to his music every day, and have "bieber fever" but what I am saying is everybody is entitled to like there music... although the one thing that does bother me about this, is that this is a complete sell out. I mean come on! He's a sixteen, seventeen year old boy, he doesn't wear nail polish! Nicole by OPI is just selling this because they know for a fact they can make money off him. I mean, come on! 

Preview: Serena Williams and the Grand Slam Collection

OPI brings us a sneak peek at the Serena Williams Grand Slam Collection. The colour is a metallic green, almost a tennis ball green. Also it will be paired with OPI's first crackle nail polish, Black Shatter. I love how they changed the top for this! The first of four will be released in January to coincide with the Australian Open. Each colour will represent different tennis tournaments, such as Australian Open, French Open, U.S Open, and Wimbledon!!

Preview: Essie Winter Collection

Social Networking

Social networking is really popular right now and incredibly revolutionary... It changes the entire way we socialize, at the click of a button! Seriously! Haha, It's really cool to think websites like facebook, twitter, myspace, all came in my lifetime! But I came upon a site thats different then twitter, different from facebook and everything else. Instead of an overall social networking website, it's social networking with a very specific topic. Social networking that revolves around one thing. And this one thing just happens to be something I enjoy very much...

This website is called Steepster. And it's specifically and only for tea lovers! Here, you write are connected to an online tea journal. You can share a log of teas you drink, include ratings, tasting notes and preparations of details like steep times and temperatures. It's also easy to find teas to try by showing you what your friends are drinking. And by friends, we mean people you follow on and who follow you on Steepster. You have discussions, which talk about ideas, tea-tips, preparation ideas, promotions, and interesting ideas. It's a fun place to talk about tea! Simple and easy to use, I recommend you trying out Steepster!

Zoya Wonderful Collection!

Zoya Shawn

There’s a Kelly in this collection and I think its good that they didn’t name this green Kelly. I mean that’s just so typical! Anyways on to the colour, this is two coats of a dark camo green! I didn’t really think I liked greens until Jade is the New Black came out and I saw the Chanel Khaki collection. If your looking for a trendy green but can’t afford Chanel’s pricey nail polish this is a must. It’s just such a cool, flattering green. I wouldn’t normally gravitate towards this unique shade but this colour is really something else!

Zoya Cola

Cola is named perfectly. It’s brown. A dark brown, like a milk chocolate covered brown. This is actually a pretty colour! Haha, okay I sound a little surprised but I wouldn’t normally paint my nails brown. It just never really crossed my mind. When I think painting my nails I think reds, blues, pinks, purples, crazy colours but this brown is seriously making me reconsider all of this! I love this so much I wore this as a manicure for three days. And for me, that’s a pretty big deal! 

Zoya Stacy 

Stacy is a raspberry very dark cream. One thing I like about this is in the dark it doesn’t look black! Although it is very dark. I’ve definitely seen this colour before but hey, its nice! 

Zoya Kelly

Kelly is a dark charcoal gray. It is a LOT darker then it looks in the bottle but it’s a really nice colour! I don’t own a lot of dark grays! but gray is really a nice colour for nail polish! It’s different. I likeeey! Another bonus? A one coater 

Zoya Kristi

Kristi is a bright red. And I mean, bright, bright red! After one coat there was V.N.L (visible nail lines) so I applied another one, so the red would maybe resemble something other besides a clowns nose, and the colour was a little darker. If your looking for a funky bright red, this is it! 

Zoya Burke

Wow… this is a really ugly swatch… haha, I apologize! Well, Burke is a really typical colour I’ve seen a lot this season with OPI and now Zoya. It’s an interesting red with a touch of pink. It’s flattering. And needed 2 oats to avoid no visible nail lines. 

OPI Swiss Collection, part 2! The creams!

Here we have it! The second half of the O.P.I Swiss Collection! I felt with the OPI Hong Kong Collection there was a lot of oranges. A lot of colours in the orange family. This, there are a lot of red creams. As much as it bothers me that there are 4 red creams, they are all really different and I do love myself a nice red! I just with there were more different colours. But lets see them on first and I’ll give you my thoughts. Then I wanna hear yours :)  

OH! And if you didn't get a chance to catch the first half of the collection, click here!

From A to Z-urich

This was 2 coats so I could apply it evenly and without any patchy-ness. If that makes sense, hehe! It’s actually a raspberry dark cream that was absolutely gorgeous! I think it would look great on your toes as well as your hands! 

Cool so Hot it Berns

This was a tomato red that was a ONE COATER! Such a cool colour if your looking for one of those super blood bright reds, this is for you! It’s really pigmented and not streaky, and great formula… typical for an OPI red or really any OPI colour! 

I'm Suzi & I'm a Chocoholic

THIS IS SUCH A COOL COLOUR. I’m freakin out! This is a brown with a hint of red. Almost like a brick colour. It’s stunning. Although it was a little thick- it was 2 coats and an extra because I’m a perfectionist like that… hehehe honestly, this colour is SO cool and I love it. I have nothing like this colour! It’s super unique... If only they named it I'm Allie & I'm a Chocoholic... that seems to be more appropriate! 

Just a little Rosti at this This was two coats, and still a raspberry shade similar to From A to Zurich but a lot darker, a pinkey-purple. It’s really flattering on my skin tone and a great color to wear during fall and winter if you like dark colours. Like me 

William, tell me about OPI! 

This is a dark vampy purple, which is STUNNING. If you like Linkin Park after Dark you will go crazy over this. I’m currently wearing this on my toes. It’s such a nice colour! I love this. This was 2 coats although if I wasn’t such a perfectionist I could’ve gotten away with one. This colour is a colour I’ve definitely seen before… but its so nice I wouldn’t mind having another. 

Ski Teal We Drop

Picture a dark navy, with a little bit of green in it. This is NOT teal… even though the name says it is. This was 2 coats and it was a little thick but this is a really nice cool colour! I really like it! It was super flattering and those who want to do a dark colour that isn’t vampy and very interesting will love this! 

SOOOOOO- Which ones are you liking? Which ones are a MUST and which ones are a BUST -_-

Let me know & comment below!!!

lots of love

have a great weekend

a

Kell on Earth

Those who have watched "the City" on MTV, know who Kelly Cutrone is. She is a fashion publicist and the founder of the public relationships, branding and marketing firm called People's Revolution. She's also written two books that have both become best sellers, If you have to Cry, Go outside: And Other Things Your Mother Never Told You. It debuted on the New York Times best seller list and received great reviews from critics.


Those who have had the opportunity to see her on MTV's The City or The Hills can say that she is brutal. And if you couldn't tell by the name of her book,  she is that straight-talking, won't take your bullshit, frightening boss. I could never work for someone like that! I would cry every time she yelled at me!

And she's come up with her own show! It's called "Kell on Earth" andI must say, those who originally judged her into thinking she was a huge biatch (don't worry I did too!) MUST watch this show! You get to see both sides of Kelly Cutrone, you see the tough boss, but the loving mother, and I must say she is a remarkable woman who really is amazing at what she does.  I have a lot of respect for her... although she still is frightening!!

So tell me, have you seen this show? What do you think of Kelly Cutrone? Love her? Hate her? Do you plan on watching her show?

Heres the link to her show if you are interested in watching: 

This is the link I watched the show on: http://cosmotv.ca/On-TV/All-Shows/Kell-On-Earth.aspx  

This is the actual network and information on the show: http://www.bravotv.com/kell-on-earth

Let me know!

welcome!

Welcome to my blog- I originally created a blog that was going to be strictly nail polish, but I want to broaden the content on my blog. So, this blog will contain a variety of different things that to me, make life beautiful. Nice little things, like stories, music, recipes clothes, technology, movie trailers, tea, of course, nail polish and really anything that brings a smile on to my face, and hopefully it'll bring a smile to your face too!
lots of love

OPI Swiss Collection Fall/Winter 2010

This is the first half of the Swiss Collection and is made up of metallics, and shimmery colours,. I’m really excited about these colours! I have to admit, I’ve had the Swiss collection for a while now, since the beginning of August and I’ve been holding off because I’m just really not looking forward to the year to start, with school and all, it’s going to be so stressful, back to homework, studying, tests and projects, and I am definitely not looking forward to not being able to sleep in. :(

But that’s immature and stupid thinking on my part, and these colours are WAY too nice not to swatch, hehe :)

So these are what I thought of the first half of the collection and I have to be honest, the other half is filled with crèmes that are mostly in the red family. Although I do love a good red I wish they would’ve added more other colours but I’ll go more in to detail on that post, haha!

Yodel me on my Cell

It’s a different kind of turquoise that is darker then most of the turquoises you see regularly, it has a bit of dark pearly blue. It’s a super flattering and really cool, unique colour! I must admit, I loved this one on me, hehe! This was two coats, to even out the bald spots, and the second coat made it dramatically darker. So if you want to keep making it darker you can apply a third one but this colour looks just great with one or two coats!

Lucerne-tainly Look Marvelous

Is a silver and gray that’s loaded with shimmer and I LOVE IT. It’s a very edgy look to wear, and would look stunning if you were going to a party or something! The name kind of bugs me, it’s a little long and hard to spell, haha! This took 3 coats to make it as dark as this and the first first coat was kind of sheer. It was messy to take off though, it made my hand covered in glitter! Hate when that happens!

The Color to Watch

Is a watery pearyl lavender colour with little hints of blue and red in it, and when it dries it looks sort of gray. I must say when I first saw this on my nails I thought it was really, really ugly. But after a while it grew on me! It is very flattering on my skin tone and it’s a very different colour. This colour was super sheer, and since I don’t roll that way- this is it on my nails with 4 coats.

Cuckoo for this Color

This colour is an emerald green that’s really, gorgeuse! This was 2 coats, and it’s just such a nice, nice, colour! If your looking for a dark colour but want to stay away from purples and reds, this is an amazing alternative! I love this!

Gliterland

This colour is a pearly champagne gold, literally. I was really surpised by how nice this was! If you are some one who is into golds this is going to be your dream colour! There is not a lot of yellow behind this gold, it’s really a champagne shimmer metallic gold that is super flattering on any skin tone!

Diva of Geneva

This is the only colour that I’ve reviewed so far that I didn’t think was that unique! Reason being is everything is so different and cool and ugh I just love them all soo much!! In the bottle it looks like a metallic red, but when I started painted my nails its actually like a raspberry colour to it! I do have a soft spot for reds, and this colour is different from the other reds although it is strictly red.

So which colours from the Swiss collection are screaming “BUY ME!” to you?

Sally Hansen Kwik Off

Today, unlike anything I’ve really done on this blog, I’m going to review something besides polish.

Nail polish remover!

Everyone has there own opinions about nail polish removers, acetone, acetone free, protein enriched, nail polish with vitamin E, with chamomile, pro-vitamins, soy based, the list goes on and on.

But this nail polish remover is unlike any nail polish remover us nail polish lovers usually use. It’s a whole new idea about removing nail polish.

Lets start with the way us people normally remove nail polish, we take a quilted cotton pad or cotton ball (depending on your preference, I usually prefer quilted cotton pads) and pull out our nail polish remover, pour some on our cotton pad, and wipe off the current adorable colour we’re sporting on our nails.

Well, Sally Hansen has found a way to sort of, combine the combination of cotton pads and nail polish remover all in one! In one little container!

This container is about three quarters full with a damp, sponge that has an X right in the middle of it. This sponge is covered in nail polish remover, and has remover resting at the bottom of the container (which I learned the hard way; after tipping it to the side and seeing what the container said, spilling remover all over my bed!)

This nail polish is apricot extract nail polish remover with vitamin E and natural moisturizers so it helps prevent nail drying (unlike acetone removers). You simply dip your finger in, and pull it out and that it’s gone!

Well, that’s what it’s supposed to do, and to be honest it didn’t really do the trick for me. It took 17 different times dumping my nail in the little X and out. I actually found it easier to swish my finger around and rub it against the sponge. I think this would actually work differently depending on the type of polish you were wearing. I was wearing a duchochrome blue packed with green and gold colour by OPI from their summer flutter collection, called Catch me in your Net. 

None the less, I must say, this product is kind of cool!  It’s a really cool idea of modernizing the way we are all used to taking off polish.

The Sally Hansen Kwik Off can be purchased at Wal Mart for only $3.04.

 

So here I have some questions for you readers to answer,

How do you take off your nail polish remover?

Do you see yourself trying this nail polish remover in the future?

Let me know!

xxox

O.P.I Ate Berries in the Canaries

This colour was so generously given to me for my birthday by my best friend, she gave me like a little basket of everything I LOVE! I was SO happy and this was definitely one of my favourite birthday gifts out of all time :) This colour is from the South Beach collection for Summer 2009... and this colour is TOTALLYY stunning!

It took only one coat until my entire nail was fully covered, it's very pigmented. It dried super, super fast, and I accidentally bumped into my camera cord and there was no annoying smudges! It is a dark fuschia pink with a little bit of subtle purple mixed into it. This colour is really flattering on my skin tone! I can see it being flattering on a lot of peoples skin tones!

60 Seconds Rimmel London; 2 new colours!

This nail polish brand that’s a little older, available in drug stores claims that after 60 seconds it’s completely dry! I want to be able to review nail polish that’s in all different price points and after 60 seconds I touched the polish to see if it had dried as the commercial promises, and it smudged! Dammit. I like the idea of nail polish being able to dry fast, and this did. But not after 60 seconds. How disappointing!

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819 Green with Envy

This colour is a metallic teal colour that reminds me of snakes almost! This shows 2 coats as the first one was really sheer, but for some reason this colour really doesn’t do much for me! Its flattering for my skin tone but nothing special although it is a really unique colour!

270 Shocker

This is a metallic hot fuschia pink. After only one coat this covered my nails perfectly! This photo doesn’t do it justice it’s such a beautiful color! This dried really fast compared What do you think about this for a really unique pink? 

OPI Absolutely Alice & Mad as a Hatter

OPI Alice in Wonderland came out much earlier this year, and I was in LOVE with the collection… okay only half the collection! The glitter-packed colours. At the time, I hadn’t bought these colours but now my friend was nice enough to lend them to review and swatch. These colours are glitter-packed and fun! They are the nicest colours EVER! I am in love with these two colours! Tell me if they are half as amazing as I THINK THEY ARE!

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Absolutely Alice is a glitter packed nail polish that is majority blue glitter with hints of baby blues, navy blues, silver and black glitter.  If you like blue nail polish, and glitter nail polish this color is like a dream!! This picture shows 2 coats. It applied REALLY easily. It was like applying any regular color! The only thing I’m worried about now, is taking it off… taking off glitter nail polish is such a pain!

Mad as a Hatter is a also a glitter-based nail polish that is primarily silver, but filled with red, blue, green, purple, orange, pretty much every single colour in the rainbow-packed nail polish! It’s stunning! I LOVE THIS COLOUR! It was a lot thicker then Absolutely Alice and for this my first coat was evenly and thinly painted and second coat was painted on really thick but dried fast, and isn’t as bumpy as normal glitter nail polish! Love this colour! J

American Apparel Nail Laquer: Colours for Fall!

After a recent trip to American Apparel, I saw these 3 colors and had to purchase them. They have a promotion, 3 bottles for $18, or 1 bottle for $7.50. If u think about it, your saving 20%! Their colors are cool, unique and really different. Good job American Apparel :) 

Malibu Green
My first colour was, Malibu Green which is almost a light forest green but more teal. I can't even describe it! I have NOTHING to compare this too! it took only 1 coat and my entire nail was painted perfectly. No nude spots, no streaky mess, and no frustrating sheer formula! I'm really impressed with this color. If your looking for somthing different; this is a teal green you WON'T regret purchasing. 
P.S while I was taking this off I left almost a green stain on my nails :S
I did use a basecoat- OPI Top to Bottom

Factory Grey
Just like Malibu Green, only 1 COAT! This color is STUNNING. I was dying to buy "Waking up in Vegas" Debra Lippman nail polish for $18 after seeing Lady Gaga on the cover of Vanity Fair for the September issue, this is such a cheap alternative and they are almost IDENTICAL! This color wasn't streaky, and is a dark gray- but not too dark. Its STUNNING!

Rose Bowl
This color would be best described as a creamy red-pink colour. Its such an interesting color. Those who want somthing more unique then a red or pink should lean towards this! Its stunning. This was 2 coats! 

Rose Bowl

This color would be best described as a creamy red-pink colour. Its such an interesting color. Those who want somthing more unique then a red or pink should lean towards this! Its stunning. This was 2 coats! 

So which colours are screaming, FALL to you? And which ones do you think you'll pick up?

Will the three bottles of nail polish for $18.50 encourage you to buy three bottles? Or will you just stick with one bottle for $7.50?

Nail Polish, from Korea! Pt 1; Olive Deco

On my good, good friends (since grade 5 if you can believe it! Who is such a beautiful person and one of those people who are just as the beautiful on the outside as they are on the inside) travelled to South Korea, she was nice enough to bring back to me 8 stunning, beautiful, GORGEOUS nail polishes! My first four, are from a brand called Olive Deco, or Deco Olive, not really sure :P But, after doing my extensive research, (a.k.a typing it in to google, hehe) the brand is called Olive Deco!

The only thing that sucks, is I can’t read what the polish is called! It’s in Korean, haha! But for some reason the brand is written in English, so I will do my best to describe them.

For starters, it's a clear bottle, written with small white words all in lower case, deco, then below it, it is written with a little larger white words saying Olive. The cap is a cylinder white plastic cap, and at the top it looks almost like a big circle with a small circle in the centre! The bottle looks like those boxes people in my class used to make with origami. It's a puffed out rectangle, hehe :) 

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This color is a navy pearly blue. It’s not really navy, as it is dark blue. It took only ONE FRICKEN COAT and my whole nail was stunning! It really complimented my skin tone, and I must say I’m in love with this color! I’m really not looking forward to taking it off!

This color is a pearly purple color with subtle shimmers of red, pink, and blue. This color was stunning, and not streaky to the least bit. Although the first color was sheer, after a second coat it was covering my nail perfectly To be completely honest, this wouldn’t be a color I would have purchased or even looked at! But it turned out to be a really cool color! And I really love it! It’s super nice on my skin tone!

The next color, was really, really, really super dark. And I want to say its black… but its not black! It’s like a dark, dark, SUPER DARK purple that looks black, but it is NOT black! Suprisingly, this was a two-coater! Unlike every other polish I’ve tried so far, this did two coats to cover up the patchy coats! But it is stunning, I really like it! It’s very, very dark. And very, very nice

The next color I’m going to show you is a micro-glittered silver polish, which is packed into a clear coat! This color would look super cute as a top coat over a lavender nail polish (for example, Essie; Lilacism) or a dark gray (for example, Mouse by American Apparel) or just by itself! It’s different and cute!

I really wish I knew the names of these colours! I'll ask my friend when she comes over next time :) 

Which ones your favourite? Have any of you heard of this brand before? 

Urban Outfitters Nail Varnish

I’ve always been skeptical of buying no-name branded nail polish. But after waiting inline at Urban Outfitters for fifteen minutes (don’t you hate it when they don’t open up a new cash-register and the lines just getting bigger, and bigger?) I noticed a wooden basket filled with nail polish with a sign that says, “SALE! 99 CENTS NAIL POLISH!” And if you couldn’t tell by now, I’m addicted to nail polish. Just like a sale on shoes, I can’t resist a sale on nail polish! At first, I reached into the basket and took out handfuls of polish, I had at least 23 bottles (okay maybe I’m being a little overly dramatic- but you get what I mean!) in my hands. But after realizing my tight budget, and my over priced clothing, I really couldn’t afford all those bottles, and made a very, very hard decision… only buying 2. To be honest buying more then 2, wouldn’t have been a good decision. Especially since I’ve never even heard of this brand, or even knew that Urban Outfitters’ sold polish. The polish is regularly priced 5 dollars, which is still cheap for nail polish! So I bought two and these are what I thought of them:

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Purple 9

In the bottle: The bottle is a rectangle. It’s really different compared to other nail polish bottles. I just really hope it’s not hard to put on my nails since it is a rectangle, because that would suck. I don’t like the names, part of nail polish is the creativity behind it, and the name Purple 9 is not very original. All the other colors are the color and a number... Which I’m guessing is the color and shade. And let me tell you people, this color is NOT purple in any way. It’s a hot pink.

On my nails: HOLY FRICKEN COW. This color is SHEER. It took about 5 coats to paint my nails this pink… can you believe it? That’s ridiculous! Hopefully my other color will not be this sheer, because I hate sheer nail polish. You can still see the white tip of my nail right now. Okay, I’m being a little bit harsh, if you don’t mind the white tip being visible this color is very unique pink. It’s a corally-pink and I really like it. It’s really flattering for my skin tone. What do u think?

 

Purple 5

In the bottle: Now Purple 5 is actually a purple! It looks like a purple marker. The color is so nice and rich and I can’t wait to try it on!

On my nails: this was a lot less sheer then Purple 9 and was such a nice color! It looks like a grape purple. It’s stunning. Not sheer at all, and it dried in seconds. I love this color and for only 99 cents! Oh boy, thank you Urban Outfitters! 

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Looking down at the bottles, rectangular caps!

Brush, thin, reminds me of Essie

                                   

Overall,

The rectangle cap for this bottle is super hard to work with for the first time. Eventually, I got the hang of it, but it took a little bit. It’s still kind of hard to work with, I don’t really like it. And I’m not really used to it. People who find it hard to paint their nails as is, should stick to Essie, O.P.I, other nail polishes that are easier to apply, and would find it difficult to use on their left hand. The brush is fine, I would compare it to Essie. Also, this nail polish REEKS. Even on my nails I can still smell it… yuck. I hope this smell goes away. I didn’t really like the first color I reviewed (Purple 9) but I did like the second (Purple 5). I really think this formula though is really good! Minus the smell, I really liked this. And come on, 99 cents?