February Haul

Hey everyone

I've never done a haul post before! I collected a lot of polish this month so I thought it would be quite appropriate. Plus my quasi-resolution was to be a better blogger. This is my attempt. :)

So that's the entire haul. 21 bottles of polish, 1 mini-bottle of cuticle oil, 2 sets of nail art designs, and 5 nail art pens. I also received my February Nail Art Society box too which is why I have an odd number of polishes, I included the polished I received in this haul. I will be doing an actual review on the box soon. Before I get my March box, I promise!!!

So you saw that I bought white flocking powder. I saw this set at Rite-Aid and bought it too. Now I have black and white. I'm so tempted to attempt a zebra design, just not sure how I'd go about that. 

I got this set at Rite-Aid as well. It looks to just transfer with water. There are 30 sheets with 4 different designs. I'm quite excited to try this out!

I'm thinking my local Sally's received their Cirque du Soleil set late, because they have been trying to get rid of it. They've had it marked down buy one get one free for a while now. So I bought Creative Fantasy and Get Carried Away by China Glaze.

A few days later I went back to Sally's and saw they had new Orly bottles. The old bottles made Orly unique, now they kind of look like everyone else. At the same time, I like the new black lids. So if you bought any of the new bottles you go one of the old bottles for free. They literally had 2 boxes full of these polishes. Plus they received a ton of the cuticle oil by accident. So they were giving that away too. I got Snowcone & Des Fleures in the new bottle and Plum in the old bottle.

Did I mention I have 2 Sally's in my town? Yeah, I'm lucky. Expressionist Red came in my Nail Art Society bag. But I went to the other Sally's and they had a promo where you bought a bottle of Fingerpaints and got a cute little black purse free. I bought Micheltangelo & 15 Minutes of Frame And if you renewed your Sally's card you received any of their Ion Hair Products $8 and under for free, so I got a can of hairpsray too. I almost always walk out of Sally's with free stuff, :)

I cannot stress enough how important it is to check the end caps when you go to a store. The best deals are always at the end caps. And Target and Walgreens always have beauty stuff in their end caps. Target had the Sally Hansen Insta-Dri in Co-Balt Blue marked down to $1.78! Walgreens had Loreal in Tweet Me and Revlon in Jaded Night.

Walmart still had their new Pure Ice display up so I picked through it and found more polish that I wanted, of course. We have Over You, Never Satisfied, It's Complicated, and Sheer Luck. I've bought 9 or 10 of the new collection, I need to swatch them soon and post them.

I was at Walmart the other day and happened to look through this pile of mixed up polish that doesn't have a place in the racks. Tucked in the very back was this package. Sally Hansen Nail Art Pens are about $8 a piece and this pack came with 5 for only $10. I could not pass it up. It was the only one of it's kind and I had to have it. It did come with a Red that I already have and 2 Chartreuses, but I think for $10 I can make do. :)

I fell in love with Jindie Nails over Instagram. The polishes are so pretty. Then I saw Candyland with it's neon glitter, I knew I had to have it. So I start looking all over and see it at Llarow, but they are doing a restock soon so I go to Jen's actual Instagram to see what to expect, turns out she made a Remix to Candyland named Candyland Remix. So I not so patiently waited and as soon as I got my email saying it was in stock I bought it! I love this polish so much. The picture doesn't do it justice and that's kind of on purpose because I want to have it's own special post. 

Lastly I got these little beauties. I blame Let Them Have Polish for this purchase. She posted swatches on her Instagram and I ran right to Milani's website and bought 5 out of 6. The only one I didn't buy was the dark purple because the "fuchsia" looked pretty purple to me. You guys are going to love these, I can't wait to show you the swatches. They come in Tainted in Red, Yellow Mark, Aqua Splash, Spoiled in Fuchsia, and Shady Gray. 

So there it is! My entire February Haul. I hope you enjoyed it and I cannot wait to show off all of these polishes to you!

What did you say? F..flocking power?

Hey everyone

Every time I went into a craft store and asked for Flocking Power I got the same reaction. Then I got little giggles from the person behind the counter. I went to Hobby Lobby 3 times and Michaels 2 times. Finally I got lucky and found a single container of flocking powder, sadly they didn't have anymore in the store. 

I went home and couldn't resist starting my mani immediately. I did 2 coats of OPI's My Boyfriend Scales Walls and then another coat only for adding the flocking powder. I patted it lightly so it would stick better. Then I brushed off the excess. I didn't seem to be very fuzzy so I lightly took the polish and brushed it over some of the bare spots in the flocking powder. And yes this got on the powder but I think the final product turned out great.

It's so white. And it's so soft! It really drives me nuts when I paint my nails and the first thing someone does is touch them. Why are you trying to ruin my top coat?!? So when I went to work with this mani I didn't tell anyone what I'd done. I just showed it to them. Of course seeing their faces as the touched my nails was hilarious. Some people jerked their hand back and some people didn't even notice. 

The key with flocking powder in my opinion is to find a color that matches the powder. Because yes after using my hands all day and having people pet me the fuzziness did wear off on the edges. I expected it and wasn't upset at all. It's powder, it won't stay all day. So the base polish matching the power makes it look completely normal The fun part is washing your hands. Because it clumps up and looks a little strange on the nail, but then it dries and look relatively the same. White does get dirty though. I work in a bank and deal with money which is disgusting so of course the white turned darker after messing with the money all day. But it wasn't a deal breaker for me because no one noticed it. 

The whole time I had my nails like this I thought of Despicable Me!

All in all flocking powder is a total win in my book. I can't wait to get more and continue to try it. It's a super fun way to do your nails that can still be understated and not in your face like some nail art designs can be. I recommend everyone try it at least once!