GIVEAWAY WINNER!

At long last, we have picked our winner!

*drum roll*

preciouspearl
From: http://preciouspearlmakeup.blogspot.com/

Congrats! Please check your inbox and reply back within two weeks :)

Thanks again everyone for joining our giveaway and for being so patient!

-Milan and Vanaily

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An exciting day

So it's been a long time since I've been excited about nail polish. Over the last few months I've lost my excitement for them because there wasn't anything really new... and nothing really tickled my fancy. It's so much harder to justify buying any more polishes because we already have too much. But yesterday as I was shopping around this is what I came across! (Sorry for the quality these were taken from my iPhone, high-resolution coming soon).

Sephora at Yorkdale opened a little Nail Bar island. I know they usually have their own stand for Sephora by OPI, but none of them did anything for me... it was like "okay, what else is new". But when I saw this nail bar, I felt like a kid in a candy store. I mean... canadian girls TAKE A LOOK AT THE TOP ROW! Sephora is finally carrying Illamasqua in Canada!. I think I was a little overwhelmed, not to mention they were having a promotion so they were going for $14CAD. I might of been to fixated on Illamasqua, but I should mention it looks like Dior expanded their nail line. A couple of them were pretty impressive/expensive at $24CAD.

I thought this was cool looking. This was a display outside The Bay for MAC's SHOP collection. It was set up like shopping aisles.

End of the day, this is what I ended up with:
Illamasqua Lament and Phallic. Lament was a color I was interested in for a long time. I mean it's pink, coral and bright! I could not help myself. Although this color is not that unique, there are definitely cheaper alternatives like: essie's cute as a button and wet and wild 437F.

As for Phallic, Milan did a quick swatch for me in-store. It was deep, rich with beautiful shimmer. I was sold, I threw back Milf and Jo'Mina for it.

Lastly I brought YSL's new Volupte Sheer Candy in #2 Dewy Papaya. This one smelt really good. The color is very sheer, but I brought it to wear over my other YSL Volupte lipstick. I'm sure there are many alternatives to this one, any sheer lip product will do...haha. ($38CAD).


-vee

Give-a-way update

Hello everybody! Just a quick update that we are starting to tally up our give-a-way. We will still accept entrants until February 10th, eastern standard time.

We've been super busy but we plan on picking a winner by end of February. So make sure you check your inboxes!

-m&vee

OPI: Merry Midnight

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I know I’m about 2 years too late in swatching this. This is from OPI’s 2009 Holiday Wishes Winter collection.

We don’t have anything in our nail polish collection like this...a jelly dark plum with red flakies and blue round glitter?! Man, I need more flakies!!! :(

I’m wearing 4 coats in these pictures. I could’ve stopped at 3 coats though. This polish was super sheer in the first coat, but it builds up quickly. This dries pretty quickly too, so I have no problem with applying 4 coats.

If you girls have any recommendations of some nice nail polishes with flakies, I would love to hear it! (Preferably something I can get in Canada). :D

-m

P.S. Don't forget to join our giveaway (click here to enter)!

Give-a-way time!

Hello everybody!

My sister and I been so busy lately that we haven't got the chance to update our blog as much as we like. Right now we like to start up a giveaway to show our appreciation! Right now we're going to start off with a small giveaway that includes 4 China Glaze polishes and 1 nerdy pear made by yours truely. We are hoping to add more to this giveaway before it ends. Possibly more toys... depending on what you girls like. We will post updates when we make more additions to the giveaway!

See what we have so far:








How to enter:
+ You must be a follower via Google Friend Connect
+ Leave a comment below with your email address so we can contact you (you get 2 entries for this, since we have not came up with a finalize date yet)

Extra entries:
+ Blog/Youtube/Twitter about this giveaway (two entry for each)
+ Add us to your blogroll :)
+ Any mention of us anywhere will also count, wheither it is makeupalley or what not, just show us a link and we will count it!
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Stay tuned for more updates and goodies!

P.S: I will add the names of all the polishes once I get home. If I recall properly we have: Flip Flop Fantasy, Light as Air, Happy go Lucky... and I need to check the name of the black one lol.

-M&Vee

Re-post - Chanel: Paradoxal

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I wore this colour a few pictures ago and though it would be a good idea to update my swatches for this.

If you girls remember, I wore this in my first very first post! :3 This time around, it lasted more than a week with no signs of wear! No chips, tip-wear, nothing! If probably helped that I used the good ol’ “wrap technique”, haha...and for good measure, I also “wrapped” my nails with topcoat. I bet this would’ve lasted more than 7 days, but I wanted to change it.

You can find my full review of this by clicking here.

As much as I love this colour, I still can’t believe I spent $30 on this. Man, I must’ve been nuts.

-m

piCture pOlish: Mudshake

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At first glance, this colour reminded me of American Apparel’s Mouse . This colour is more of a grey though and has a slight hint of purple in it. I wouldn't say this colour reminds me of mud since it's more on the grey than brown side.

I believe this is also more opaque than Mouse . I’m wearing 2 coats and top coat in these pictures.

I didn’t have such an enjoyable time applying this one. The brush was on the flimsy side and the polish was somewhat thick. After the first coat, I had to add a few drops of thinner since it the application wasn’t smooth. I also had to redo a finger because I banged my hand on the table. u___u sigh. How ironic...because says "No mess! No fuss!" on the bottle, haha.

On the plus side, this polish lasted about a week. After 6 days I got 2 small chips but I still didn’t have any tip-wear because I used the “wrap technique”.

All in all, I think I like Mouse more. You can find my swatches and review of Mouse by clicking here. What do you girls think?

-m

OPI: So Many Clowns...So Little Time

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I have no idea what the name of this nail polish means. On another note, I really like this. I thought it would look strange on tanned hands but it turned out to be quite flattering. This made my nails look so much healthier haha.

I’m wearing 3 coats in these pictures. I didn’t have much a problem with streaks with this nail polish as I do with other sheer nail polishes. This also lasted quite long. I wore this for a week. Although I didn't get tipwear, it did start to "lift" up at the cuticles.

This is the only colour vee and I brought from the Femme Cirque collection...now I’m thinking we should have gotten more.

-m

Essie: Wicked

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(I like how vampy it looked in this picture...the reflection in my nails look like creepy castles hehe)


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JIMINY JILLICKERS. MY EYES ARE SOO HAPPY. It’s SOO glossy! Oh my, I think I might be drooling as I’m typing about this. How embarrassing.

I might even consider this a jelly. This is 2 coats, no top coat. I definitely recommend top coat with this colour (and every other vampy colour out there). You’ll know why when you realize you have red scratch marks on sheets of paper and on the walls, haha...true story. I plan to add another coat of top coat in a couple of days to revive the lustre. Application and everything was fine.

I brought this colour because I heard it was a dupe of Chanel’s Rouge Noir/Vamp. It looks pretty much the same as Rouge Noir, but Rouge Noir has more of a brown undertone. So I rather just have this and save myself some money and stress. Applying $30 nail polish stresses me out haha. I actually bumped my finger into something as Paradoxal was drying before. I didn’t even have the heart to re-do the finger, so I just put top-coat over it.

-m