NOTD: Color Club's Revealed.

Color Club's Revealed is a pink-peach with subtle shimmer. I had hoped it would be more peach than it was and decided pretty quickly that this colour was actually quite unflattering on me. Lovely shade just not for me.

All pictures are taken in natural light with 2 coats. The difference between the first pic above and the second below is that the second one is not in direct sunlight.

 

Pretty and definitely work appropriate but not for me sadly.

Jacx

A tale of Hauling and a girl called Jac.

Let me tell you a story. It's a story of a girl (me) who likes to spend money on sparkly things. And along the way I found a lot of little things to pick up and share with you.

So firstly I went to Priceline where they had a 3 for the price of two special on Bourjois.

Pictured: Healthy  Mix Foundation (51),

Healthy Mix Concealer (light) and Blush (Lune D'Or).

Next I went past Kmart and they had some pretty nail polishes from Face of Australia's Molten Metallic collection. So I got 3 for myself...

Pictured:Bronze, Iron Ore, Flaming Lava

And 3 to give away to others (more on that to come).

Pictured: Titanium, Verdigris and Amethyst

Excited by nail polish purchases at Kmart I came home and made more...um...nail polish purchases online. This time from the China Glaze and Color Club Summer Collection releases.

Pictured:Otherworldly, Wink Wink Twinkle

and Starry Temptress (top coat)

Pictured: Blue Iguana and Senorita Bonita

Satisfied with my purchases I then decided to rest.

A few days later at work I was offered the opportunity to do some higher duties which I happily accepted. The bonus being that my fortnightly salary goes up significantly during this time. So in a plan hatched between T and I we decided to split the spoils of my first increased pay. 

Around the same time as this was happening, I went into Mecca where I had some Nars foundation and blush applied. I was immediately put off by the prices though with the foundation being $99 alone.

Hours or days later I became aware that I could order the same items from KissandMakeupny for a fraction of the price and enjoy their capped $9.95 shipping rate. So I did...

Pictured: NARS Sheer Glow Foundation (Mont Blanc),

Blush (Madly), and Velvet matte Lip Pencil (Bettina)

I also picked up a beauty blender as I have been interested in these for ages...

Because I managed to acquire these items at US prices online I had moneys left over to spend on myself. I decided it was finally time to try another mail redirection service in HopShopGo and order from Sephora (can you hear the angels singing when I type that or is that just me?)

Now let's face it - if you are ordering from Sephora then there must be one item on your list...

Pictured: NAKED palette, Too Faced Caribbean in a compact

(Snow Bunny) and Stila Long wear lip colour (Darling)

Let's just have a slightly closer look at that Naked palette shall we...

Ooooh so pretty!

Now this is where things start to get stupid. I happen to be born on the same day as T and this year that day also happened to be Mother's Day.

So after getting all of that stuff in came the Birthday/Mother's Day pressies. Thankfully some were gift vouchers -HopShopGo from Dee and Steggers, while T gave me one for David Jones (which I used last weekend - but I haven't taken pics of that stuff yet). Now for some pictures...

Pictured: Sigma Synthetic Face Kit

Pictured: Katy Perry Purr perfume.

God I love that bottle so much - almost more than what is inside it. It is the most offensive cat-lover kitsch piece of fabulousness ever... let's take a closer look...

Pictured: pretty much every bath bomb/melt that Lush makes.

So after all of that I felt completely pampered, spoilt and very loved. Now I need to have a blog sale for all of my items that are sitting unloved but I'll need to work up to that.

Hope you are all having a great week, I'm off to try all my new fancy stuff x

The End.









Haul: China Glaze, Color Club and Essie.

 

I must have lost my mind because I ordered even more nail polish this time from Head2Toe.

 I've realised I don't have many pinks in my collection and at the time (I assume) I wanted to rectify that in one order lol.

China Glaze Something Sweet

 

China Glaze Empowerment 

China Glaze Something Sweet and Encouragement

 

Essie Tarte Deco

 

Color Club Magic Attraction

Color Club Sheer Disguise

 

Now the only colour I have tried so far is Encouragement and it was super sheer. It would probably make a great French Manicure colour.

God all this hauling it tiring. Unfortunately there is more... and we haven't even got to my birthday stuff yet.

Clearing the backlog NOTD x 3

Ok I am soooooooo behind on my swatching so here are a couple of complete stunners that have been gracing my nails recently. After that is an extremely average attempt at crackling.

NOTD: Color Club Untamed Luxury

Oh I wanted to love this colour so much but it's a disaster. This is two coats and is not completely opaque. Three coats just makes it feel unbearably thick on my nails. The glitter is patchy and it chipped the Next DAY.

Maybe I got a bad bottle but this polish does not work for me AT ALL... I'm off now to go and sob quietly and mourn the loss of what I had hoped would be a HG polish.

NOTD: Color Club's Pucci-licious

I heart this polish. 

I discovered Color Club after pouring over swatches on Scrangie - my favourite nail polish blog. Before that I was sold on China Glaze. I find her reviews extremely honest and her pictures of colours very accurate so when she gave a rave to CC I decided to give them a go.

As for Pucci-licious this was released in CC's Poptastic Collection. I found it difficult to find swatches of this entire collection but decided to give it a go based on colour and name. And I love this formula it is perfect....it's easy enough to maneuver around around the nail without being runny, it's very forgiving and I think everyone should start with CC the first time they paint their nails.

This isn't quite a neon but it is a fierce purple all the same. This is a creme - not an ounce of shimmer here and it is soooooo not required to make this a hot colour. It is a blue based purple that I think is very flattering in tone and lasted without chipping despite me spending an afternoon assembling IKEA bookcases. This colour was opaque in 1 coat but this pic above is after two coats without any topcoat.

This company is pretty much a 10/10 for me. I get mine from here

NOTD: Color Club Wild At Heart

I know this is a blog but sometimes a picture speaks a thousand words....

Purple holographic nail polish. It's smooth to the touch and dries quickly. If you're in a rush this is opaque in 1 coat... Bliss!