tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-12747698622801497312024-03-13T14:58:40.640-07:00Lavender ParfaitValeriehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05731681030764235093noreply@blogger.comBlogger101125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1274769862280149731.post-74179718055449521302012-11-10T09:35:00.000-08:002012-11-10T09:35:00.245-08:00Revlon Vixen and OPI Man With the Golden GunHappy weekend, readers! I have a fun weekend planned. It's filled with studying for midterms, a violin performance and a twelve page research paper. Thankfully, I'll be taking a lot of study breaks to keep myself sane. Here's what I'm wearing now, Revlon Vixen:<br />
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And here it is topped with OPI's Man With the Golden Gun. I snagged this one up at Ulta after looking for it since the Skyfall OPI collection came out. I played around with my lighting in the first of these pictures and my topcoat looks crazy shiny!<br />
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Talk to y'all soon, and have a great weekend!Valeriehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05731681030764235093noreply@blogger.com5tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1274769862280149731.post-39815197985232486522012-11-09T09:00:00.000-08:002012-11-09T09:02:05.138-08:00OPI Stranger TidesHere's a go-to favorite of mine. I swear it looks nice on my skin, for some reason my camera just freaked out and wanted to show lobster hands! At least Zoidberg is a funny character so I'm okay bearing a resemblance to him.<br />
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<br />Valeriehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05731681030764235093noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1274769862280149731.post-11281166703814738392012-11-07T17:31:00.002-08:002012-11-07T17:32:43.851-08:00OPI DS OriginalHey everyone! School year resolution: blog more. On this blog. I started a neuroscience blog last year but it's pretty pathetic (as in zero people visit it) and I do enjoy swatching, so I'll be posting here more frequently!<br />
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This is two coats of OPI DS Original, which I realized I have no swatches of alone on here. Here you go!<br />
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Decided to keep it clean and simple today. This was two coats of Revlon Powder Puff topped with one coat of Snow Angel. Clean and pretty!</div>
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Here's another blue polish to balance out the purple :) This is Revlon Chic, two coats. This is a very... blah polish to me. It's pretty, but would be prettier with some hidden shimmer. It's too plain!</div>
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Lots of Revlon posts lately!</div>Valeriehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05731681030764235093noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1274769862280149731.post-58335172546946447552012-01-10T10:00:00.000-08:002012-01-10T10:00:02.114-08:00Revlon Royal Cloak<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;">
I have some purple spam for all you purple lovers out there! I'm actually not a huge fan of this polish to be honest (and by not a huge fan I mean I don't like it at all...). It looks nice in the bottle, but not as nice on the nail. Boo! Even so, Revlon is on FIRE lately with how many great nail polishes they're releasing. Definitely my favorite nail brand right now! I think this was two coats.</div>
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What do you think? Like it? Leave it?Valeriehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05731681030764235093noreply@blogger.com3tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1274769862280149731.post-43080941867989309372012-01-08T10:49:00.003-08:002012-01-08T11:33:58.848-08:00Revlon Fashionista<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;">
I can't believe it's already 2012. I found these over winter break with my friend, Layla, in Ulta. I saw the Revlon display that has Whimsical in it totally empty, and I had to ask if they had put the polishes out.... they didn't! So I got to go through all the boxes of polish and get first dibs to any colors I wanted. Hooray! One polish I chose was Revlon Fashionista, a beautiful one-coater.</div>
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I decided to make it funky for New Year's Eve. I can't file my fingernails into points because they're super short, but I can make them pointy using polish! I used a nude franken for my base color and Revlon Fashionista for the tip color. I think it's super cute!<br />
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Know what else is super cute? BABY ALBINO OTTERS!! Am I right??</div>
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<span style="font-size: xx-small;">(Not my picture, taken from http://abcnews.go.com/Technology/slideshow/photos-albino-animals-ghosts-wild-4633992)</span></div>Valeriehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05731681030764235093noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1274769862280149731.post-60669097046179942852011-12-15T20:00:00.003-08:002011-12-15T20:00:47.083-08:00Revlon Lily with LA Splash Baby Octopus and GITA!<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;">
Today I have one of my favorite cremes, Revlon Top Speed Lily. It has an awesome formula and the color is amazing. Try this one out if you can, it's totally worth the $6!</div>
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<b>Here it is with LA Splash Baby Octopus. This is a holographic glitter polish with circle and octagon glitter. </b></div>
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<b>Here it is with my favorite, Lippmann Glitter in the Air!</b></div>
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Thanks for lookin'!Valeriehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05731681030764235093noreply@blogger.com6tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1274769862280149731.post-73352847533486035342011-12-13T14:55:00.002-08:002011-12-13T14:55:50.996-08:00Teal Franken<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;">
Today I have a teal franken that I made a while ago. I made this one using NYC Kisses, Wet n Wild Black Creme and an LA Colors Color Craze blue that I had lying around. The sparkles come from NYC Kisses, and I'm in love with them! Everything was under a dollar, too: I bought the LA Colors polish at the dollar store, and bought the NYC polish in a two pack at the dollar store as well. Wet n Wild Wild Shines are already 99 cents to begin with, and Rite Aid had a deal a while ago to get two for 99 cents, so I stocked up! Cheap frankening is my favorite by far.</div>
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Thanks for stopping by!Valeriehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05731681030764235093noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1274769862280149731.post-65647034672607553872011-12-12T21:39:00.001-08:002011-12-12T21:39:16.990-08:00OPI La BohemeHey everyone! Long time no see. Sorry about that- life got in the way. I'm not going to make any promises about posting regularly, but I completely lost interest in nail polish in the past couple months and it's just now starting to come back. I have a couple pictures I never got around to putting up on here which I'll cue up to post in the next couple of days.<br />
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Here's OPI La Boheme. She's a multifaceted beauty! I tried getting La Boheme at different angles with my camera, and experimented with different kinds of light. Here were my results. I'm sure most of you have seen this polish before, but I hope that my pictures show what it looks like in person more accurately than others I've seen.<br />
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<b>Here she is with different tilts. You can really see the green and gold in these pictures, especially on the left side of my nails!</b></div>
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Thanks for still checking out my blog while I've been gone- I noticed I accumulated 200 followers during my absence. You guys ROCK!! Thank you!Valeriehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05731681030764235093noreply@blogger.com3tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1274769862280149731.post-40670865563900255982011-09-30T08:00:00.000-07:002011-09-30T08:00:10.212-07:00China Glaze Hey Sailor<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;">
Ahoy! This is a really, really pretty one-coater red. If you buy any red, I would buy this one! it's sooo easy to apply and it's very pigmented. This was one coat of awesomeness.</div>
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This is 5 coats of Milani Rad Purple. It's a really pretty purple jelly- reminds me of grape juice! It has a weird matte finish though, which kind of showed in the first picture on my pointer and middle fingers.</div>
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Long time no see! I've been really busy with school/being tired 24/7, so I haven't been focusing on updating as much as I should be. Not sure if my franken thing will happen now... I can't really get myself to make them! I may do it today because I'm feeling pretty energized, but we'll see if that actually happens :)</div>
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This is Ulta After Party, on it's own. I think this was 4 coats. It's a really pretty pink and red glitter!</div>
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Hope you guys are well!Valeriehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05731681030764235093noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1274769862280149731.post-91512870938502011622011-09-18T08:00:00.000-07:002011-09-18T08:00:06.210-07:00Revlon KHAKIzing<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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Hello, world! This is a polish a friend gave me a couple weeks ago. I didn't realize how much I loved this until I put it on... the duochrome is prominent in the bottle, but not as prominent as in person. Take a look!</div>
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Crazy bright neon green! I love how unique this polish is. Unfortunately, it's long discontinued and was limited edition in the 90's (I think?). In any case, it was really nice of her to give it to me and I love it!<br />
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Have you guys ever wanted or bought a nail polish just for its name? That was the sole reason I bought OPI Hungary for my Honey. I thought the color was fugly when I saw swatches of it online, but I thought since I am Hungarian I had to have this color. I was happily surprised when I put it on... the color aint half bad! It reminds me of paprika, which I'm sure is what they were trying to go for. Fun fact- OPI was actually started by a Hungarian!</div>
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<br />Valeriehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05731681030764235093noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1274769862280149731.post-14308621697672813232011-09-13T08:00:00.000-07:002011-09-15T13:33:35.816-07:00Franken Using Maybelline Colorama #40 Frosty Pink Hi! I wanted to show you all this franken I made. I used a whole bottle of Maybelline Colorama Frosty Pink in it. Here's my recipe:<br />
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I love it! These swatches are over two coats of First Mate. My camera was being really weird and didn't show how deep this polish really is... to be honest, it's almost black but it's definitely blue. It's a blue-black!</div>
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Here are some pictures that are also a little bit more color accurate where you can see the shimmer. I think I need to put this one on again! :)<br />
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Let me know if you replicate this and what you think of it! I think I'm going to hoard Frosty Pinks... they look *great* in frankens.<br />
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This is China Glaze Pelican Grey, two coats, on its own.<br />
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Here's a comparison of Ahoy and China Glaze Strawberry Fields. Ahoy is on my pointer and middle fingers and Strawberry Fields is on my ring and pinkie fingers. Ahoy doesn't have the same shimmer as Strawberry Fields, as you can tell, and Strawberry Fields is much lighter.<br />
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Valeriehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05731681030764235093noreply@blogger.com3tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1274769862280149731.post-77568365993171833902011-09-03T08:00:00.002-07:002011-09-03T08:00:00.306-07:00HAREpolish Pegasus<br />
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Hope everyone who is going to school has a great first day, and I hope it's as stress-free as possible for all you moms!Valeriehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05731681030764235093noreply@blogger.com3tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1274769862280149731.post-35956535382505709452011-09-01T17:42:00.001-07:002011-09-01T18:50:56.429-07:00LavenderParfait Creations<br />
Hey everyone! I'm not sure if you've noticed, but I added a new tab under my header called LavenderParfait Creations. I had mentioned before that I was thinking of selling some of my nail polish creations, and I finally bit the bullet and I'm starting up a blog with information about it! Click <a href="http://www.lavenderparfaitcreations.blogspot.com/">here</a> to see more info about the polishes. I don't have much up yet, but I'm working on it! Here are some of the polishes I'm going to be selling swatched. Each will retail for $10 besides What Have I Done?! which has gold leaf in it, and will retail for $15. All are full sized (.5 oz).<br />
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It Came in the Night, 3 coats.<br />
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What Have I Done?! 4 coats.<br />
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