Thursday, January 16, 2014

Black & Gold is All I See

Hi friends! It seems like I am never doing nail art, just to do nail art. I am either doing it for a challenge or nailing the book. I never seem to do nail art, well, just to do nail art. I used to all the time. So I want to get back to that! Today I have nude, black, and gold nail art.



The polishes I used in this design are:
-L.A. Colors Black Velvet
-China Glaze Mingle with Kringle
-NYC French White Tip
-Sally Hansen Silver Streamers

On my thumb I used a dotting tool for a dot gradient. I like this one A LOT. 
For my pointer, I used striping tape.
On my middle finger, I have a sticker, and I don't remember where I got it, sorry. 
On my ring finger I have Silver Streamers over Mingle with Kringle. 
I did this half moon free hand. The glitter is from a pack of glitters I got at the dollar store.
I topped all of my nails of with Seche Vite.
 


Thanks for reading and have a great day!

Wednesday, January 15, 2014

Nailing The Book: City of Ashes by Cassandra Clare Nail Art

Hey there! Today has been rather.. boring. I did school, cleaned up, then I had to fill out some paper work. It has been a really joyous day, for sure. I'm going to be doing some nail art in a little bit for the fun of it!

Today I have nail art for the book City of Ashes by Cassandra Clare. I gave this one 5 stars. AH-mazing! Click here to see my review. It is the second book in the Mortal Instrument series. I once again, based these nails off of the cover of City of Ashes. I'm not sure why, but I was having a hard time getting anything from the cover. My thumb and pinky are runes. My pointer and middle finger are the city scape and my ring finger is an abstract version of the girl's (Clary) hair.

City of Ashes (The Mortal Instruments, #2)




I used a nail art brush on all of these designs.
For my thumb and pinky, I used Elf Dessert Haze and L.A. Colors Black Velvet.
For my pointer and middle finger, I used Color Mates Little Blue Box, L.A. Colors Black Velvet and NYC French White Tip.
For my ring finger, I used Nicole by OPI Hit the Lights, NYC Times Square, and Sally Hansen Sun Kissed.
I topped all of them off with Seche Vite. 




Thanks for reading and have a great day!

Tuesday, January 14, 2014

City of Glass (Mortal Instruments 3) by Cassandra Clare Review

"There is no pretending," Jace said with absolute clarity. "I love you, and I will love you until I die, and if there's a life after that, I'll love you then."

City of Glass (The Mortal Instruments, #3)

I CAN NOT. GUYS. OH MY FEELS. I hate writing reviews for my favorite books, because I have no clue how to. Like how can I possibly give this book enough praise? I can't. But I can try.

Me: How in the actual hell. OH MY GOD. I DON'T CARE IF I HAVE THE NEXT BOOK I AM STILL GOING TO CRY MY LITTLE HEART OUT.

Me: *Bangs head on the desk* IT WAS SO BEAUTIFUL

Me: WHY CAN'T THERE *Sniffle, tear* BE MORE GUYS LIKE JACE. ITS NOT FAR TO THE HUMAN RACE.

Me: My heart won't stopping racing. If I didn't know better, I would think that I was having a heart attack. 

Me: Wait. I have to write a review on this? Fuck this. How can I possibly put Clare's utterly beautiful words and make a review out of them? I can't do this.

Me: Yes you can! You are smart, go get that review.

Me: But...

Me: But nothing. Go write the damn review.
 
So here I am. It's 1:30 am and I have school tomorrow.  I promised my mom that I would go to bed at 11. Well..... techinally I was in bed.. just not sleeping. I promised myself that I would finish this book today. I only had like 200 pages left! Well guys I have an important lesson for you: Reading is superior to sleep any day.

In City of Glass, Clary and the gang are in Idris (Like the main shadow hunter city) finding a cure for Clary's mother. There are a lot of moments were I was really pissed at Jace in this one. He was acting like an ass for show. How surprising. Not. But I swear that Jace is probably my favorite fictional (or real) male in the world. He is just so caring and bad ass.

Clary really stepped up her a-game in this book. She goes with her impulses and stands up for herself. I really like her character. I actually liked Simon in this book too. In the past Mortal Instruments books, I really didn't enjoy Simon's character. But in City of Glass, he was selfless and really a cool guy.

Unlike the first two books in the series, I literally prodicted the whole ending. Not even slightly joking. I can't tell you guys about the ending, I refuse, but I knew like the whole thing, and I couldn't be happier. It was kind of a shock since City of Bones and City of Ashes were such shockers for me. But I couldn't have asked for a different ending.

If I didn't know that Clare was going to this trilogy (series), I have no clue what I would do. Probably pout and complain for a few days, without leaving me room. But I do have the next book! And I intend to read it after Beautiful Redemption (Caster Chronicles 4), since Beautiful Redemption is a library book and all. But guys, go do yourself a favor and read The Mortal Instruments! You'll be happy you did!

Sunday, January 12, 2014

Sally Hansen Disco Ball Swatches & Review

Hey guys! Sorry, I have been pretty busy lately. My brother's comfrimation was yesterday at 3 pm. I spend most of the day cleaning and making food then we went to the service and then had a party afterwards. It was pretty fun! Today I was either sleeping or playing with my little cousin the whole day. But I figured I would get a post in before going to bed today!

I got Disco Ball, a few days ago? It is one of those glitter tops with white glitter and holographic glitter. It's hard to explain, but I have seen many companies fail at this glitter combo for some reason. I thought Sally Hansen did a pretty good job. I haven't seen this one in stories before, so I think it is pretty of the new Xtreme Wear glitters they have in their section. It had a good formula and I love this glitter topper! The only reason this wasn't a great formula (instead of a good formula) is because it was a little thick, but totally workable.

I did a gradient, so you could see this glitter over different colors. From thumb to pinky: Revlon Diva, NYC Times Square, NYC Times Square Tangerine Creme, Essie Tart Deco, and Nicole by OPI Hit The Lights. Here is two coats over each of those colors, with top coat.






Thanks for reading and have a great day!

Friday, January 10, 2014

Physicians Formula Shimmer Strips Nude Palette Swatches & Review

Hey guys! My first make up post huh? Yes! Well I got the Nude palette for Christmas and I must say that i'm pretty impressed. It is basically my go-to palette for every day. This is going to be SUPER picture heavy, so why don't we just get into it?

First of all, my I just say how adorable this packaging is? Its black and pink lace all around with a little cute pink bow on it! 

At first, I wasn't sure what to think about this brush. I don't use it that much, but I did find that the pointed part is great for filling in your crease and doing small details. But other than that, I just use a normal eyeshadow brush with these.

For my swatches, I am actually going right to left, starting with the lightest shade and ending with the darkest. Since they don't have names, I'm using numbers. Like I said above, 1 is the lightest shade of the right, then it goes in numerical order all the way up to 9! All of my swatches and dry and without primer. 


Number 1 is a light shimmery white. It looks very yellow in the packaging, but its really not. It has a little bit of a hint of yellow, but not much. 


Number two is a shimmery light copper. I really like this color, I also think that it works well with my eye color and skin tone!


Number 3 is a darker copper color. By darker I mean, darker than number 2. Its a pretty light shade. I like the color but the formula was a bit iffy. I thought it was a little flaky, but maybe that's just me.


In the palette number 4 looks like a light shimmery pink, but its really a light shimmery rose almost. I like this color but it is kind of weird, since it look nothing like I thought it would.


Number 5 is a dark dusty tan. Like the rest of the shades, it is very shimmery. I like it a lot, and I think it goes really well with blue eyes.


Number 6 is a dark shimmery brown with a hint of copper in it. I don't like this one on its own, but would be great in a smoky eye.


Number 7 is a light shimmery tan. This is probably my first of the palette. Its really pretty and subtle.


Number 8 is a dark shimmery brown. This is the darkest true brown in this palette. Just like number 6, I don't like it on its own, but I use it a lot in smoky eyes for my crease.


Number 9 is a shimmery brown. I honestly will probably never wear this. Not that I don't like it, its just not really my thing. But for what PF was trying to do here, they did a good job.

Overall thoughts?

I like a lot of these colors. It wasn't awful in the formula department, but it wasn't the best I have seen either. It does have a good formula for a drugstore product though. I got mine for around $10 and I think its a good deal. Its not perfect by any means, but if you are looking for a cheep UD Naked dupe, you got some here.

Thanks for reading and have a great day!

Wednesday, January 8, 2014

Nailing The Book: City of Bones by Cassandra Clare

Hey there! Soooo.... City of Bones nail art today. HOLY SHIT. CITY OF BONES <3 Probably one of my favorite books ever! It is soo intense and funny. I need to give you a little background so you can understand the nail art (no spoilers though, I promise!). The main characters in this book are "shadow hunters". Shadow hunters are half-angel half-humans, who fight demons. They draw runes on their arms for different things like protection and strength. Some of the runes are shown below!


So I was thinking of nail art for the City of Bones. Duhh, runes! I probably came up with that idea in about 3 seconds flat. I didn't want to just do runes on all my fingers, so I did two on each and added glitter. The glitter you see is Revlon Meteor.




 So like I said before, I used Revlon Meteor for the glitter. I used #1 on all my nails for my base then topped my pointer, middle, and pinky with #2. For the runes I used a nail art brush and NYC French White Tip. I topped them all of with Seche Vite.





Thanks for reading and have a great day!

Tuesday, January 7, 2014

Beautiful Chaos (Caster Chronicles 3) by Kami Garcia Review






“When I first met you, that's what I remember. I looked up at the sky and thought, I'm going to love this person because even the sky looks different.”

Oh. My. God. My heart. I think I lost it. I keep thinking that maybe, just maybe, I could give one of the Caster Chronicle books a 4 star, but no. Garcia has a way of pulling so many different unique things together beautifully. I would have laughed if someone had told me that you could fight supernatural beings, southern accents, a small town, and a great romance into one book. They just don't seem to fight. Fitting together casters (or witches) with an obsession with the words light and dark and southern church goes? Oh yes, it works very well.

I like the plot, the setting, the romance, the characters, well damn, I like everything about this series. The plot is exciting and the setting makes it all its own. The romance between Lena and Ethan is completely believable. Its really beautiful actually. The characters are hilarious and spot on brilliant.

I like how Garcia actually made it so that I don't hate any characters in this book. For some reason, it always seems like I hate at least one character in every book. With the Percy Jackson series, it was Annabeth. With The Vampire Diaries it was Bonnie. With the Twilight series.... wait. I hated everybody but Alice and Jacob in those damn novels. I could go on and on. But really? With this book I was trying to find someone to hate but I just couldn't.

I have to talk about Ethan (The main character and hottie). Sorry, I might start to ramble. He seems like the only non-badass hero that I actually swoon over. Ethan is a smart, romantic guy that you just want to cuddle with. But he is really selfless too, in a "I need to protect everyone I love kind of way". He is just... awesome.

Oh and did I mention that I went to the ER tonight? I hit my head really hard and have a concussion. But I still finished this book and am writing a review at 2 am. That is how good this book is. Do yourself a favor and go and read this beautiful piece of literature.
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