Purple Pretties and Entries J & K

In my last blog, I mentioned that I'd picked up Sephoras 'What Film Noir You In?' and Chanels 'Taboo'

WFNYI is a gorgeous, bright shimmery purple that's opaque in 2 coats.  I don't think the pictures do it justice. This one rang up at $2.00, and the SA figured they might be getting ready to discontinue it.  I honestly don't know why they would...everyone who's seen this polish absolutely loves it.  Let's just hope the price I paid was some sort of error and that this polish will continue to be available for some time to come!

Taboo is a dark purple with lighter purple and blue within its depths.  One thing Chanel is known for is the hidden shimmers in their polishes...rather like looking at a top quality gem.  Pretty at first glance, but when you really look, you see so much more.  And, as with their other polishes, Taboo is pretty opaque after one coat.  However, because they're so thick you're better off carefully applying a thin coat and doing a second after a good amount of drying time.  If you don't watch it, these polishes will bubble like crazy.  I suppose I could thin them, but I'm afraid I'd ruin it. 

Back to WFNYI, I just had to use this one in some form of nail art.  As I've had 'Cartoon' nails on my to do list for a while now, I decided to take the plunge and am so glad I did!  I think this mani came out pretty damn good, especially considering it was my first stab at it.

 This was a very easy manicure and there's a couple ways you can do it.  The way I chose was to do a black base color and then add the purple inside of it.  I won't lie, I made good use of my smaller dotting tools to clean up the black around it and make it as even as possible.  I also used a dotting tool for the white exclamation marks.  The other way to do this would've been to do the purple as a base color and add a black border around it with either a dotting tool or small paint brush.  If you feel confident enough to do that, you should because it takes a lot less time that way.  But I wouldn't be me if I wasn't taking the long way around.

Since I still had the WFNYI/Taboo combo on my other hand, I decided to make it my 'J' entry by adding 365 Days of Colors 'Jellybean There, Done That' over WFNYI.  Jellybean There, Done That is one of 2 limited editions that Sunny created for her Easter Mystery Bags. It's a pink, white, purple and light blue glitter mix in a clear base.

For my 'K' entry, I decided to revisit the Cartoon nails manicure, this time using Picture Polishs 'Kryptonite'.  I don't think this one came out as good as the other one did but in my defense I did it on my right hand, which means I had to use my left to paint with.

Well, I think that's about it for now!  I'll be back next time with entries 'L' and 'M'!  Have a great week!

Laziness, thy name is Pyr...Family reunion and entries G & H

Yep, I'm a lazy ass.  Kept meaning to post a new entry before leaving for Chicago and totally blew it off.  But I've recently started quilting, and have been busting ass on a quilt for my granddaughter.  Was hoping to get it finished in time, but there was no way.  Once I'm over this jet lag, I'll be back at it again.

Had a great time while I was back, seeing family and friends.  The highlight of the week was my finally getting to meet my granddaughter Hana!  Here's a couple of the portraits we did.  The first is of my daughter Jordan,  Hana and my son in law Daniel...

This is of my son Zachary, myself and Jordan....

I honestly thought I was smiling more than that!  And, for some reason, the makeup we had on didn't really come through in the pictures.  For instance, Jordan was wearing eyeshadow but in the portraits it only looks like she had on a touch of mascara and eyeliner.  Which for her is fine..she looks great w/out makeup.  Myself?  Not so lucky.

We went to the Shedd Aquarium and Brookfield Zoo.  Had great weather for the zoo, which is a bonus.  Even still, it was pretty hot so seeing the splash area next to the Penguin house w/the fountains/sprinklers was a welcome sight.  We all took off our shoes and socks and acted like little kids.  We woke Hana from her nap in the stroller and she had an absolute BLAST running around in them.  So much so that she kicked up a fuss when we decided to leave and pouted for several minutes..lol.  The new feature, Stingray Bay, was equally awesome.  You pay a couple bucks and go into this tent that has a huge pool a couple feet deep with stingrays swimming around in it.  You can pet them as they swim by, or buy a cup of small, frozen fish that you hold in between your fingers. My AWESOME sister, Stacy, kindly purchased a few of these cups so that we'd all have a shot at it. Putting your hand almost flat on the bottom of the pool, the rays swim over it and basically suck them up out of your hand like a vacuum.  If you're in Chicago, you HAVE to go to Brookfield Zoo and check it out.  My bestie, Julie, said she heard it's only a temporary attraction so go while the getting's good!


And now onto the comp entries, here's my 'G' entry.  It's Girly Bits 'Eggnogoholic'.  When I first saw a picture of this on Llarowe, I had to have it.

It's a sheer white base w/gold flakies.  Very pretty, but VERY sheer.  I used 3-4 coats in the pictures above and you can see that it's still a bit transparent.  I would recommend putting this one over a white base to save time (and polish!).  Still, it's a good quality polish and I'm looking forward to using it as a backround for nail art in the future.

My 'H' entry was primary colored hearts on a black backround....colors used were Color Club Endless Summer, a mystery Essie and Maybelline Electric Yellow over A-England Camelot.

I'm not thrilled with the way it came out.  It works, but I need to start fine tuning my dotting skills as I think it came out a bit sloppy.

I don't have an 'I' entry, because I was in Chicago and forgot to take a picture of the Pure Ice 'Irreplaceable' I'd put on.  But I do have a good excuse.  While I was back, our family went to Orland Square mall to get portraits done and we had an hour of waiting around time before the CD of the photos would be ready.  Of course, I took this opportunity to check out Sephora...both the store and the area they have inside JC Penneys.  I grabbed the Sephora brand 'What Film Noir You In?' and 'I'm With Brad'.  WFNYI turned out to be discounted down to $2.00!  I totally love the color, it's a bright, shimmery purple.

I also went to Macys to see how much they wanted for the Chanel I've been lemming since seeing swatches of it...Taboo.  While it had been released in the States and Canada, I was told it wouldn't be out in the UK until June.  And since I'd probably save a £ or two by getting it in the States (gotta love currency conversion), I wanted to buy it there.  Sure enough, they had several arranged in a nice little pyramid.  The end result was my saving £1.  Not as much as I'd hoped, but every little bit helps.  So I couldn't wait to put on Taboo and WFNYI and took off Irreplaceable before remembering to photograph it *Facepalm*.

I'll have pictures of both in the blog I do for the 'J' and 'K' entries, as I used both polishes in the 'J' one.

Well, I think that's about it for now.  Going to do some cleanup on my current mani and get it photographed while the sun is still shining.  Hope you guys are all doing great and I'll see you next time!