New Essence Haul

I have some fun new things to show you today. Ulta is getting some new products from Essence. I am unsure when they will hit the shelves. I imagine within the next week or so. I work there, so while stocking this morning, I discovered them and could not contain my excitement. I was lucky enough to get to purchase them today. :)

None of these are completely brand new. Essence usually puts things out in Europe before they make it across the pond into our stores. The Colour & Go polishes I purchased are re-releases, which I happen to love. There is nothing better than bringing back something you thought was gone forever. The rest of the beauties hitting Ulta seem to be goodies that Europe got last Spring. I saw magnetic polishes, limited edition polishes, nail art tattoos, eyeliner, and few other things.

I grabbed up three Colour & Go polishes and the two sets of nail tattoos. I will probably get more later, but these were my must haves. Onto the pictures!

Absolutely Stylish, Enchanted Fairy, & A Lovely Secret

All About Me & Friends Forever

I love Colour & Go polishes! I normally avoid minis because I feel I don't get very many manis out of them, but that's not the case with these. And you cannot beat the one dollar price tag. Absolutely Stylish is a brown creme with what looks like pink, blue, and green micro flakies. Enchanted Fairy is a dusty light pink with subtle shimmer. A Lovely Secret is a lavender creme with purple shimmer. My descriptions might be off a little. Appearance in the bottle can vary from on the nail.

The nail art tattoos look adorable. Holographic butterflies/stars and spring flowers. The reviews for these look great. I cannot wait to try them.

Is anyone else is excited about these as I am? A Lovely Secret was on my wishlist and I am so happy to be able to take it off.

Update (6/24): Apparently Ulta is getting these just to go straight to clearance. Very odd. The prices are great, but this means the stock will be small. I'm rather disappointed. There are still new Colour & Go polishes though.

New Essence Collection & Born Pretty Stamping Plate

Another haul post! :) Just a small one this time. 

Essence Like Leo's Pilot Jacket, I Wear My Flying Goggles at Night,  
No Better Way to Sky, & I Am A Viator

Plate m71 from Born Pretty

I noticed Ulta had a brand new display with the Limited Edition Essence Legends of the Sky Collection. Nouveau Cheap has a great post about the entire display, if you're interested. It seems that the U.S. displays only have four of the six polishes from the collection.

I literally gasped when I saw the display and was so happy to get all four. I was honestly a little iffy about the shades, but I could not pass up a LE Essence collection. I have a post planned for Wednesday with these lovely polishes, and trust me, they are worth owning.

On to the stamping plate. Born Pretty has been running a promotion for a very long time that offers a free Hello Kitty stamping plate to ten people per day. You do not even have to place an order for anything else. The plate can be found here, along with instructions on how to receive it for free. It does take some time to arrive. I ordered mine on April 9th. It shipped the next day and arrived today. The shipping is free from Hong Kong, so the time is not surprising.

Polish Haul and Nail Mail

I have not posted a haul or nail mail (aside from my surprise swaps) in months. I wasn't sure people liked seeing my purchases. However, I decided to start up again. Hopefully someone likes seeing them. :)

Color Club Blossoming Collection

Blushing Rose, Sweetpea, Lavendarling, Blue-ming, Hydrangea Kiss
& Diamond Drops

Ulta Pinata-Yada-Yada (3), Lav-ish & Maine Attraction

OPI Houston We Have a Purple, Lincoln Park After Park
& Essie Pink-a-boo

Zoya Zuza, Skylar & Bijou

Nabi Cute Punky, Spoiled by Wet n Wild Pet My Peacock
& Maybelline Twilight Rays

Its an interesting variety of polishes, I know. I finally have the CC Blossoming Collection. My mom found it at Burlington and was sweet enough to purchase it for me. I got all of the Ulta on sale. The glitters were clearanced to $2 and the others were 2 for $4, so I ended up getting them all for $2 each. The OPIs, Essie, and Zoyas are all from a Bloom.com order. Does anyone remember the $5 for $40 vouchers? I finally used mine. The Nabi and Spoiled were purchased from Copious and the Maybelline was a Walmart find.

One Month of Polish Shopping

I have not posted any of my polish buys in a month. And a lot has accumulated. Too much to do up close shots, without there being dozens of pictures. So I just did a few basic group shots. If anyone wants to see a better bottle shot of anything, let me know. :)

Wet n Wild Lust, Nocturnal, Glitz, Morbid, Rustic, Lust, Poshe Nail Strengthening Base Coat, Super Fast Drying Top Coat, Orly Androgynie, American Classics Gelous, OPI Give Me a Coral Sometime, Mermaid Tears, Rainbow Connection, L.A. Colors Art Deco Ice Breaker, Ulta Material Girl, Barielle Grape Escape, Zoya Charla, Ashley, Unforgettable Moments Sparkling Turquoise, Brash Sergeant Khaki, Totally Teal, Essie Turquoise & Caicos, Miami Nice, Color Club Orna-minted and Cosmetic Arts Covered in Diamonds. I purchased all of these myself except for the Essie polishes. They came from a swap with Ju from Lacquered Me.

I won these polishes Shadow's Nail Art 1 Year Blog Anniversary Giveaway. Beauty UK Sage Green, Black, Gunmetal, Electric Purple, Electric Blue, and Voodoo all from their Midnight Minx set, along with Pure Ice Crackle Catwalk and Shattered.

I got Color Club Beyond the Mistletoe and Foiled Collection sets from Ross. Not including the top coats, they come with: Sugarplum Fairy, Beyond the Mistletoe, Holiday Splendor, Jingle Jangle, Candy Cane, Gingerbread, Perfectly Mol-ten, Antiquated, Cold Metal, Hot Like Lava, Foil Me Once, and Lumin-icecent.

I grabbed all these from the clearance bin at Walmart. They are all Love My Nails. If you want specific names, let me know.

Abby, an awesome woman I know from PAA, was nice enough to get some Funky Fingers for me. Teal Scales, Burgandy Scales, Golden Coast, Power Chord, Monster Ballad, Cayman Island, Stage Dive, and Zeppelin.

All of these are from Amy's blog sale on I'm Feeling Nail-venturous. I originally only bought two, but she was looking for someone to hopefully purchase the rest of her listing in bulk. Since we live in the same city, I made her an offer and picked these lovely polishes up from here. These will make my first polishes from Sephora, Kleancolor, Konad, Nfu-Oh, Scherer, L.A. Girl, and Jesse's Girl. There are just too many to name, but if anyone is curious about any of them, I will post names. :)

Its a ton of polish, I know. But I'm a very savvy shopper, so I promise I did not spend as much as it seems.

Massive Haul - Shopping & Nail Mail

I have a lot of new polishes to show y'all today! I have not posted about my new ones in a week and a half. One wouldn't think I'd accumulate so many in that span of time, but I guess I really am an addict. Prepare for picture overload!

I did not think it was so much until I was collecting it all together last night to take pictures. And these are not all. I got another package in the mail today that you will see at the bottom. These are from a couple of shopping trips and several packages of nail mail.

These are from small purchases made in the store. You might recognize the far left and right from my giveaway. They were so beautiful that I picked up one for me and one for my giveaway. From left to right: Essence Choose Me!, Salon Perfect Cracked Rose, Sally Hansen Hardener, and Ulta Pinata-Yada-Yada.

I ordered this from Forever21.com when they had a promotion for free shipping on orders over $10. From left to right: Love & Beauty Black Knight, Glitter Plum, Indie Rock Glitter, and Forever 21 Lavender Rose Petal.

I got all of these from Alaina, that I know from PAA on Facebook. I ordered OPI Mad as a Hatter and the rest are extras she was nice enough to include. From left to right: Bubble White (a nail whitener), Finger Paints Easel Come Easel Go, Psychedelic Sunshine, OPI Mad as a Hatter, Sally Hansen Ice Queen, and OPI Pedicure.

These are the Morticia's Nails collection from Essie. I got these from HSN for only $10. I could not resist. From left to right: Essie Midnight Tango, Bone Chilling, and Blood Curdling.

These are my first stamping plates ever! I'm so excited. They are the 21 piece set from Bundle Monster, along with a Konad Stamping set I got off Ebay. I am so excited to start stamping!

These are my very first Barielle polishes! Elle's Spell and Decadence.

These two are sets I got from Burlington. Not anything too exciting. But they are pretty. The top set are all shimmers and a top coat. The bottom are all fruit scented. The bottles remind me of Sally Hansen Diamond Strength. None of them have names. So I gave them names, very simple ones. The top got named Pink Shimmer, Green Shimmer, Purple Shimmer, Champagne Shimmer, and Cream Shimmer (plus the top coat). The bottom I named after their scents. Wild Berry, Cucumber Melon, Vanilla Sugar, Passion Fruit, Strawberry Kiwi, and Raspberry Lime.

During my Burlington trip, I also picked up e.l.f. The Brights Trio collection. It includes Hot Pink, Fire Coral, and Fuchsia.

I ordered a massive collection of Wet n Wild cosmetics from Walgreens.com. All WnW was 50% off, plus I had a coupon for 20% off, and you get free shipping on all orders over $25. So for just a little less than $27, I got 36 cosmetic items, including 29 bottles of polish. In the top picture, you can see the makeup I ordered, but the closeups are just for the polishes. All of these are WnW Fast Dry. From left to right: The Wonder Yellows, SaGreena the Teenage Witch, Buffy the Violet Slayer, Teal or No Teal, The Gold and the Beautiful, Blue Wants to be a Millionaire, How I Met Your Magenta, Hannah Pinktana, Everybody Loves Redmond, FuchsiaRama, and Teal of Fortune. Not all of the bottles show up color accurate at all, but it was hard to get so many to show up well. 

More from my Walgreens haul. From left to right: Tropicalia, Candy-licious, and Red Tape.

Still more of my Walgreens haul. From left to right: Wild Card, Eggplant Frost, Night Prowl, Burgundy Frost, Jezebel, Sparked, Red Red, Kaleidoscope (two of these), and Hallucinate.

Last but not least, from my almost never ending Walgreens haul. From left to right: Tickled Pink, Lady Luck, Blue Moon, Lavender Creme, and Caribbean Frost.

These last two are from Bee from Bee Polished. She included some fun stuff in the envelope. Upon opening I noticed feathers. You can see there were feathers, shredded paper, and sequins, along with Razzles. I love Razzles! The two polishes she sent me where Wet n Wild Tangled in my Web and Correction Tape, both from this years On the Prowl collection.

Its a lot of polish! I'll be swatching all of my new colors on my nail wheels soon, so if anyone wants to see a swatch of any of these colors (or any from my stash), let me know. :)

Funky Fingers Sand and Stilettos

I got my very first Funky Fingers yesterday. I was so excited to try it. So tonight, I sat down to do just that. It is amazing! Sand and Stilettos is packed full of holo glitter. Basically a glitter bomb. It was opaque in two coats and has so much bling.

The first and third are blurred a little so you can see all the colors. The last is with a flash. I am in love with this polish! Its has so much sparkle! I have never had so much glitter on my fingers before.

I also got some more nail mail today and made a trip to Sally's Beauty Supply. My mother wanted the hand scrub that came with my Julep Maven Intro Box and since it was cheaper to order the box instead of the scrub, she became a Maven. I got the rest of the goodies though since she's not into polish at all. I received Olivia, Miranda, and Essential Cuticle Oil. I smiled when I saw the cuticle oil. I got their nail therapy base coat in my intro box, so getting the cuticle was a lovely surprise. I used it before my Funky Fingers mani and it is amazing.

I also got some rhinestones from an Ebay seller from China. Same one as before. I ordered another set of 3mm and two sets of 2mm ones. I love them!

From top to bottom the bottles are Essential Cuticle Oil, Miranda, and Olivia. I also took an up close of the 2mm rhinestones, since I've already posted about the 3mm ones.

At Sally's Beauty Supply, I grabbed the biggest bottle of acetone I've ever seen and some polish thinner. If you need any polish remover, Beauty Secrets has all their 32 ounce polish remover on sale for $4.99.

Breast Cancer Awareness & New Polish

I have so much to talk about! First of all, its Monday. Which means PAA's Monday Nail Art Challenge. This week was Breast Cancer Awareness. I'm already big into raising awareness so the theme was perfect, and gave me a chance to use my new pink ribbon nail tattoos.

On all of my fingers except for my ring finger, I used two coats of No6 Pretty Young Thing. I love this polish and color so much, but I do not think you can find them anymore. I've searched high and low. If you find any, definitely pick it up; its worth owning. On my ring fingers, I used two coats of Love My Nails Innocent Pink then placed on one pink ribbon tattoo per nail. The ribbons were a little difficult to get on, they wanted to stick to the plastic covering instead of the paper, but I managed. 

I also still have my toes pink for breast cancer awareness. As I did before, I promise not to torture you with my toes. I have a swatch on my nail wheel of the polishes my toes have. A coat of a Bon Bons pink with Sinful Colors Pinky Glitter on top.

I cannot seem to stop buying polish lately, so I have some new ones to show (that do not include the collection coming by mail).

Top from left to right: Salon Perfect Cracked Silver, Sally Hansen Plum Power, Revlon Blue Mosaic, and Sally Hansen Pacific Blue. Bottom from left to right: Pure Ice Iced Merlot, Sally Hansen Cherry Smash, and Pure Ice Cheatin.

The pictures are very color accurate for all except for the Sally Hansen Xtreme Wears. Plum Power is a deeper purple and very much plum. Pacific Blue reminds of the Cornflower blue crayon from Crayola.

I know everyone has probably seen Blue Mosaic a million times along with its two glitter companions from this Fall's Revlon collection. But its so pretty, its worth another look. I snagged a Facets of Fuchsia awhile back, but this polish was no where to be found until today. I just love the green glitter thrown in the blue. Makes it a unique polish.

When I saw the Salon Perfect Cracked Silver, I was a little hesitant. I had never heard of Salon Perfect before, but I could not pass up a three dollar crackle. Once I got home, I googled them and realized I had heard of SP, but did not make the connection because they mainly sell false eyelashes. I could not find a thing online about their crackles. But I was optimistic. So I got out my nail wheel and swatched. I layered it over Sinful Colors Black on Black and No6 Party Punch. It looks so much better over dark colors, in my opinion. Even limiting it to wear over darker shades, its still a steal for only three dollars. If anyone is interested, I found mine at Walmart. They had several colors of crackles, along with the silver.

Two more bits of news, then I promise my long post is over. :) I reached 50 followers today. YAY! To thank you all for reading, commenting, and following, I will be putting together a giveaway this weekend. I hope it'll be something everyone can enjoy!

My last bit of news is that I wanted to share my happiness over winning part of Shadow Nail Art's 1 Year Blog Anniversary Giveaway. I'm very excited. I love giveaways, even when I don't win. Its so nice to see how giving this community of bloggers is. To host giveaways for their follows.