Thursday, August 11, 2011

REVIEW: Sally Hansen Insta-Dri Anti-Chip Top Coat

I saw another blogger reviewing this top coat and I wanted to try it. 

The brand of top coat I typically use is Beauty Secrets, which I buy in a huge round bottle at Sally Beauty Supply for about $5. This one is my favorite of all the top coats I have tried. So far. I have tried Seche Vite and the first time I thought it was great. But the more I used it...I didn't like it as much and I think it's super thick. Almost too thick. It's great that you can apply it to wet polish and you know that it won't smudge (which is wonderful - especially with Konad polish), but it's so thick that I end up with a big goopy mess. I don't like thick polishes. 

Anyways... back to Sally Hansen Insta-Dri Anti-Chip Top Coat. 
I think this is a great top coat. 

Price: 
Sadly, I do not remember how much I paid for it. 
I know it's less than Seche Vite, which is like $9. 
If I had to guess, I would say I paid $5 or $7. 

Chipping: 
 I painted my toes for vacation (click HERE if you want to see) using this top coat on Wednesday, Aug 3. We left on Friday, Aug 5 and didn't return until the following Tuesday, Aug 9. At the time of writing this, it's Thursday, Aug 11...and my toes still look great. No chips. At all. 
Even after five days of sun, sand, and waves. 

Application: 
 This polish is thin. Really thin. More like runny. It does go on smoothly though. 

Brush:
It seemed smaller than a regular nail polish. 
But it doesn't really affect the application. 


Here is the package:

Here is the bottle: 


Overall, I really like this top coat. 
I would definitely recommend it.

Tybee Toes

I just got home from vacation!
I wanted to share with you the design I painted on my toes for the trip. 


Pretty simple. Well, actually, very simple. 
It’s a lavender purple nail with three flower decals in the corner. The base color is a lavender color polish with the words "love & beauty" printed on the bottle. I picked it up at Forever 21. I love this polish. It's my favorite shade of purple!




The decals are an unknown brand. It was a little sheet of random decals I found in my nail polish drawers. We went to Tybee Island. For those of you who don’t know where that is, it’s in Georgia near Savannah on the east coast. 

Another design inspired by this vacation is in the works and will hopefully be finished and posted soon, so watch for it! If you're interested more in my trip, click HERE.

Thursday, August 4, 2011

Harry Potter

In honor of the final Harry Potter movie, I came up with this simple design.
 (And yes, I know I'm way late.)



I myself have not seen the movie yet. I'm actually a little behind...I haven't read any of the books (even though I own #3 somehow) and have only see the first five movies. I hope to watch the sixth one and part one of the seventh soon so that I can see the final movie while it's still in theaters and before I go back to school.



Again, this design is very simple. 
The center nail is the "HP" logo on a golden background. 
The Gryffindor nail is red and gold in a checker pattern. 
The Ravenclaw nail is a blue nail with a thick diagonal gold line.
The Hufflepuff nail is divided vertically, painted half black and half yellow. 
The Slytherin nail is divided into four diamonds, two green and two silver.





Tuesday, August 2, 2011

Ke$ha

I was given concert tickets for my birthday back in June. 
The concert was this past Saturday night.
Can you guess who it was?

KE$HA!! 

Here is the design I painted for the concert:

 The thumb and ring finger are a bright glittery purple with Ke$ha's signature dollar sign in gold glitter. The remaining fingers are a shimmery yellowy gold stamped with Konad leopard print. A corner of each gold nail is a purple triangle set off by a thick, glittery, gold line.


If you haven't heard of Ke$ha, you  probably are old
...or you've been living under a rock for the past three years.   

 Ke$ha first mainstream exposure was as the female vocal part in Flo Rida's single Right Round in early 2009. Her first single Tik Tok was released in later that year and took the music scene by storm topping the charts in 11 countries. Her first album, Animal, was released in January 2010 and her second album, Cannibal, was released in November 2010. Her tour kicked off in Portland, Oregon on February 15 of this year and is scheduled to end on September 20 in Phoenix, Arizona, hitting Australia and Europe as well. And Ke$ha loves glitter. 
And wears blue lipstick.

 Anyways, back to the concert.
Ke$ha puts on quite a show! ...After you sit through her TWO opening acts. 
The first act was a little scrawny guy (didn't catch his name) that rapped for 45 minutes. He was boring but his music was good, at least. The second act was called LMFAO. It was two guys who danced and rapped. They were more entertaining than the first act, especially when they tossed an inflatable ZEBRA around into the crowd. Yeah, I said zebra. At regular concerts you smack around a beach ball; at a Ke$ha concert you throw around a zebra! LMFAO played for almost an hour and a half. They just kept going..and going..and going..and you get the idea. (Side note: after the concert where I had no clue who these dudes were,  I found out that they were apparently pretty popular because everybody was like "you saw LMFAO!?!?" and totally knew who they were already haha) They played almost as much as Ke$ha!! I was tired of hearing them and eventually just sat down on the floor and waited. I was SO happy when they were finally finished!
 

When Ke$ha finally hit the stage, she opened with Sleazy, the tour's namesake, followed by Blow and Take it Off. She gave us a short preview of her new song Dirty Picture, then played BlahBlahBlah, Party at a Rich Dude's House, Backstabber, Cannibal, and The Harold Song. Ke$ha showed a more serious side as she revealed her favorite song she's written is Animal and even got a little choked up after singing it. Then she played Dinosaur. Ke$ha pulled a guy from the audience, saran wrapped him to a chair, and sang Grow A Pear to him. The show ended with Your Love is My Drug and Tik Tok. And then some of the equipment above the crowd caught on fire. Pretty sure that WASN'T part of the show because it started sparking down ONTO the crowd and the arena staff started freaking out. I thought the huge spotlights were going to fall! Ke$ha came back out and said she wanted to sing one more for us and re-emerged in a glow-in-the-dark leotard and helmet with big feathers coming out of it like a mohawk and sang We R Who We R.

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