Christmas Nails!

Hey! So I got a FREE Essie nail polish a few weeks ago (the color is Pama, and it's a deep red -- very pretty!) in the mail.. and yes, it is full size! I loove Essie nail polish so I was excited to try out this new color, but I've been so caught up with studying for finals that this bottle of nail polish has been sitting in my drawer for wayyy too long.

So I attempted to do something christmassy.. but I didn't have any green nail polish soooo I guess it's not all that christmassy. Lol.

So this is how it looks like:


Don't mind the metrocard lol, I used it to wipe off excess nail polish...


These are the products I used:
- Essie nail polish in Pama (for french tips),
- Orly base coat (Bonder! Love this stuff!)
- Rimmel nail polish in Pink Flash (I used this on the whole nail, it's actually more of a clear polish with some pink specks that show in the light)
- Sally Hansen topcoat (yes, I am running out!)
- some random white nail art polish I got at the dollar store. :)

Extra pictures:

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This pink cardigan was on sale $28.90 (regular price is like 60) at Abercrombie so I had to try it on. I really liked it! I loooooove cardigans, I have them to so many colors lol.


I also tried on brown. The pink looks cuter but the brown fit better and it is easier to match.


Then I stopped over at Charlotte Russe and tried on some tops. Their tops are so cute! I liked this one but I ended up not getting it ._.


Liked this one too but not enough to buy it!


I got this one because it was soo comfortable as well as cute.


Omgosh, this is the CUTEST cardigan ever. It's a combo of the classic black cardigan with a girly satin bow. LOOOVE it. I wouldn't wear it everyday, but definitely nice for special occassions!


Bought this jacket. $32.99 but still affordable. Only thing I don't like is the short sleeves. Not practical to wear a shortsleeve peacoat... lol maybe I'll return it


Grabbed THIS at Express! I was buying something and there as a $30 off $70 purchase coupon and this top was $30, so since I spent over $70 this top was basically FREE! AND it's my favorite piece of clothing of the dayy. I'd definitely wear this.

Finally got it: CHI Flat Iron

Hey! I ordered a CHI flat iron along with some other things from beautychoice.com the other day. I received my package today!

So this is what I got:

This is the CHI Silk Infusion and it's basically a gel formula that makes your hair more smooth and silky, and prevents flyaways. You just put a tiny amount onto your hair before you straighten it. I tried it out and it works pretty well. It really does smooth the hair out and even makes it more silky, without creating oil build-up in the hair (I hate products that do that). It also smells really nice, hehe. But at $8.95 for a 2 0z. bottle, it's a tad too expensive. But I'll use it up and if I really like it, I'll buy a bigger bottle which is probably a better deal.


This is the CHI ceramic round brush and I really hate it. Those things sticking out of it aren't even brush-material, they are like metal wires! How am I supposed to brush my hair with that? I did try it out, and it didn't tangle my hair or anything, but the bristles are way too rough for me to use. It's also huge! It was $15 and completely waste of money. I hope nobody else buys this.


Look at how big it is compared to my hair. Ridiculous.

THIS is the 1'' CHI Flat Iron by Farouk. When I first opened the box and saw it, my first impression of it was "dang, this thing looks cheap!". Then again, I had high expectations for a straightener that cost me $79. But I tried it out, and I used the CHI Silk Infusion first, and I didn't see great results right away. There's an on/off button and once you turn it on, it heats up within seconds (seriously, seconds! my old straightener took at least 5 minutes to "warm up") which was soo amazing. And the outside part (black part) is not hot at all, but I somehow still managed to burn myself by accidently touching the inside ceramic plates (yellow part). That was suppper hot.

My burn.

It had a neat little "CHI" written at the end. Hehe.

My order came out to be like $102 but I got a [$10 off $100] coupon so it was $92 & free shipping! It ordered it last tuesday and they didn't ship it out until friday but the shipping was pretty fast because I received it today. I'm pretty satisfied with everything (except that darn brush!)

Hot pink nails with white french tips.

I looove hot pink nails, they're cute & chic, but still everyday and fun!

I came across this youtube video showing how this girl did her french tips and I totally loved it. So I tried it out. [click here for video]

This is my first attempt at doing french tips free-hand on myself, that is, without the white tape or special tools or anything of that. I've always liked french nails, but they're too much of a hassle for me, and I especially hate the white tape method. It takes practice, but doing it free-hand is actually a lot easier than using the dumb tape. For the nail polish, I used Sally Hansen Hard as Nails Xtreme Wear in "White On" and "Fuschia Power". My CVS had them for $2.79 each, buy 1 get 1 50% off, so the other one only cost me $1.39. Good deal! (and they're Sally Hansen so you know they're good)
























While I was at CVS yesterday, I also grabbed a hold of a basecoat and a topcoat by Orly because I heard they were like realllyyy good. But they were super expensive at $5.99 and $7.99 each (but I have to admit the Sally Hansen bottles were 11.8ml and these were 18ml). The basecoat is called "Bonder" and it's supposed to prevent the color from wearing off, and the topcoat is called "In a Snap" and it's supposed to dry the nail polish really quickly, hence the name. I was really excited to try the pair together because I've heard so many good things about it. So I tried it. I used the basecoat after washing my nails, trimming and filing them, and before applying any color. I used the topcoat after I used the two nail polish colors. I'm loving them so far! It really dried instantly and it leaves the nail looking sooo shiny and so brilliant. I've used tons of different top/base coats and none of them can compare to these two. They're definitely worth the extra few bucks.


































Then I was a little bored so I designed my nails, kind of. In the video, the girl used a toothpick to do it, but I just went ahead to used this little bottle of nail art paint I had lying around. I think it works the same.

Yesterday, after stopping by CVS I went back to my dorm and my roommate wanted me to help her do her makeup for this halloween party she was going to. Her costume is like, a moulin-rouge inspired outfit (or lack of) that's full of frill and lace. It was black and pink so I tried to do the makeup with those colors. I did the eyes really dramatic, heavy eyeliner, smoky eyeshadow, and all that, and did nude lips. It turned out really nice, at least to me lol.

After that, I rushed downstairs to catch the the white church van, aka the "tofu bus". I went to church and it was pretty cool because I got to meet a bunch of the newcomers and I finally met our pastor, Pastor Sunny, lol.

Oh yeah! And there's an update on my blog, which is the music box on the right side. I got rid of the videos because, I don't know about you, but they kept pausing at times. But isn't the teddy bear music box sooo cute?

I've got an Accounting exam on monday, so I gotta go back to studying. It's less material than the first test but it's supposed to be a lot harder because the material is more in-depth and expanded-on and such. Pray for me!

All I wanna do is bang-bang-bang, and a kaachingg and take yo money