MY BABY..........JUST LIKE MOMMA!!

Today I have kind of a few different things to share with you guys. First up, I know that you all that follow me on social media have seen a TON of pictures of my baby Aubrey, but for those of you that don't this will be your first time getting to meet her.  She takes after me in SOOO many ways, she is bossy and impatient and loves to paint her nails!  She is almost 18 months old and at that stage where we have to watch her every second because she is getting in to something she shouldn't.  Like painting her toe nails while I was taking a nap.  I gotta say though.........she never spilled the bottle and from the looks of it she dunked the brush in there several times to get that much on her foot.  As you can see, she was very proud of herself!  ( I was too a little bit, lol, but don't tell her!)

Next up is a few pics of some misc. mani's I did.  The first set of pics is one I did on my mom and the other two are some I did on me over the holiday weekend.  They chipped or got changed before I could take better pics of them but I loved them both so much I wanted to still share them.  I've added limited details on what I used for these mani's from what I could remember.  Sorry - I'm trying to get back into the swing of things and get my pictures taken right away before I destroy my mani.

 The base color is OPI LE Sally's Beauty 50th Anniversary polish - 50 is the new fabulous.  Stamped in silver using Mo-You London Mother Nature collection plate #02.

The base is a purple gradient stamped in white using Mo-You London Bridal Plate Collection #05 for the rose & #07 for the lace.  LOVE THE LACE PLATE!!!  Then my newest favorite trick to do is to use a OPI sheer tints polish to go over the white stamp to make it match the color of the mani.  This made it look like those plastic lace table cloths, but in a cool way.  I loved this one!

For this I painted my nails black and stamped in white with MO-You London Hipster Plate Collection #05.  Then to add color I did my trick of adding layers of OPI Sheer Tints and I used a few of the Sally Hansen Triple Shine polishes that are like the sheer tints.  Compared the OPI polishes were superior to the Sally Hansen ones though.  The colors were more vibrant and didn't cause dragging/smudge marks when used.

SALLYS HAUL - THEY HAVE FRUIT NOW!

Had to go to Sally's last night because . . . . LOL Like I really need a reason to go, I just went! Anyway, I found a bunch of new nail art kits including the little fimo fruits! I have a SERIOUS banana pedi in the works coming up! Hope to work on it this weekend!

I had a 20% off my whole purchase coupon, and a gift card - needless to stay I made away like a bandit!

FINGER PAINTS - BECOMING ONE OF MY FAVES!

I have really been loving Finger Paints here lately. While I think they are a tad on the expensive side, I love to scoop them up during sales and clearances. I got these for a mere $1.99 each. Actually I got them for free with a gift card, lol! I am loving each of the shades I picked out!


I'VE BEEN FRAMED
(This had awesome hidden shimmer not noticeable until on the nails!)






SIGNED BY THE ARTIST
(Just look how this one GLOWS!)






CURATOR'S CORAL






PINK CRAYON






Check out your local Sally's for their stock of clearance Finger Paints!

MY D'OH MOMENT YESTERDAY

I'm almost a little embarrassed to say this, but for the sake of cheap nail polish, I will share my d'oh moment with all the world.


So, my usual trips to Sally's include me making a beeline for the nail polish. My Sally's usually have a little round rack they keep by the front door and they usually keep it stocked with misc. clearance items, including clearance polish from time to time. This is what I THOUGHT was the whole clearance section of Sally's.

Last night I popped in to see if China Glaze Magic Matte had come in (no luck) and I needed some shampoo, which I normally don't get from there. But since I had my 15% coupon and I was already there, I thought what the heck. So I ventured to the back of the store. And there I laid my eyes on it!! A whole back shelf stocked full of clearance items!!! I had no clue about this rack as I normally stick to the front of the store. Imagine my surprise when I noticed the new Orly's now reduced to $3.99 ea!

Lesson learned ladies - check the back racks at Sally's.

If you know this already . . . .why didn't you tell me??? I wonder what good deals I have missed out on thus far . . . . . . .????





These were the only two colors they had left, but my two faves from the collection, so score!!




These weren't on clearance, but they (Nina brand np) are on sale at Sally's (for the month, I think) for $2.99 ea.

SALE AT SALLY'S

Last night I stopped in to Sally's to get me a bottle of pure acetone and noticed they had several nail polishes on clearance. I don't know if it was just my store, if all the stores were clearing out these particular brands and colors. Either way, it might not hurt to stop into your local Sally's and check, especially if you are on a tight nail polish budget like myself.

They had several to choose from, these were just three of the ones I chose. Most of the colors that were on clearance were along these same lines - light shades, very work appropriate colors.

Look at the difference between the flash and non flash pic - the color really kind of changes colors.

Mmmmmm, doesn't this look like sugar in a bottle? I guess this must have been part of a wedding theme collection because of the name. I am excited to try this one out.

I think this is more mauve or pink than lilac as the name claims.

SALE AT SALLY'S

I just got an email from Sally's Beauty Supply I thought I would share with you all.

IN Store Only Shopping Event

Save 15% on $20 or more*

Make a purchase at Sally Beauty Stores in May and save 15% on your next purchase of $20 or more in the following 30 days.*

*Coupons cannot be replaced. Coupon will print on bottom of receipt for purchases made in-store between May 1 - May 31. Coupon will be valid for thirty days beginning the day after purchase. Not valid when purchasing gift cards or salon equipment. Cannot be combined with any other offer or price matching.

SALLY'S HAUL - AGAIN

While visiting one of my favorite nail polish blogs, Nail Juice, I saw a very hot konadicure! For the base color she used China Glaze - 2Nite from the OMG! Collection. This color is pure hotness (please click here to be directed to the pictures on Nail Juice I am referring to)! I left a message in her comments section that I had to go get it - today!

So true to my word, at lunch I hightailed it over to Sally's Beauty Supply. As I stated earlier they are having a great sale going on, buy two China Glaze polishes get one free, plus if you have their discount card, which I do, it comes to $3.25 a bottle, so really with the one bottle free that comes to a total of $2.17 A BOTTLE - - - for China Glaze! Don't know how long this sale will last, but if you have a Sally's close by I would recommend picking up some China Glaze.

However, when I got to Sally's they did not have this color. But I picked up 6 colors that I previously didn't have. Some are kind of boring because I needed just some basic colors for some of my nail art designs. I purchased:

Platinum Silver (a silver shimmer)

White on White (white creme)

Solar Power (bright yellow shimmer)

Liquid Leather (black creme)

Sexy Silhouette (magenta shimmer)

Ruby Pumps (red glitter)

This is the second Sally's I have been too that has been sold out of that new Christmas collection green glitter that just came out! Bummer man!

I still had one more option to get my 2Nite shade, there is another little beauty supply store, so I headed over there. Yes! They had it, but they wanted $6.99 for it (see how good that $2.17 looks now?!)!

I also picked up China Glaze - Crystal ball, a maroon with silver/holo glitter, and this one was $5.99 - darn you Sally's!

I also picked up a new Kiss! art brush and some little storage vials from Cinapro for my nail art supplies.

All in all - another good nail polish trip!