Grey By Grey

No matter how much I gripe about the brushes on the new Sally Hansen's...I am absolutely in LOVE with the colors.

Friday, I was singing on a friend's live recording and another friend who was singing forgot her makeup. We ran down to the local Duane.Reade where she grabbed some eyeshadow and I saw 4 new nail polishes that I've been eyeing. Argh, Grump.Humph. LOL I swear I need NA...Nail polish Anonymous!

So, I decided since I had pretty much been stuck in the house on Saturday, besides the time I shoveled out my car, I would take some time and polish my nails a hot color. The color goes on like the others...fully opaque in 1 coat...but because I'm anal, I have on 3....with Seche as a top coat.

By the way...am I the only person who has issues with Seche Vite top coat when the bottle gets half empty? If you have any tricks on how to make it easier to use, I would greatly appreciate it!

My First Time...

Last night, well early this morning after I got in from driving in the blizzard, I ordered my first RBL nail polishes. They are having a quick 48...well probably less than that now sale. LOL. Here's the 411....

7 nail polishes on sale

Sorry to see you go! 7 great Nail polishes for only $50. Retail price is $126. These polishes are going to be discontinued. Snatch them up now for a huge discount before it's too late. When they're gone...they're gone.

Polishes included are:

* Pink Shimmer
* Sheer Pink
* Opaque Pink
* Lulu
* Sheer Natural
* Ani
* Square Pants

If you want to get your own....click here....

I can't wait for my Sponge.Bob Square Pants!! Wooootie!!!

Weekly Poll......

1. How has your week been so far? Comme-ci comme-sa...not great...but surely not bad. I'll be glad when the sun shines on a consistent basis...cause this gloomy rain and snow is for the BIRDS!!!!!

2. Would you rather be stuck with -10 degree weather and snow the rest of your life or sun and 95 degrees? I am a sun baby. I will tolerate 95 degree weather ANY day of the week. Right now I am in absolute AGGGGONY...to quote a friend Help me Bobby! LOL

3. What’s on your nails? When I copied this...I just had on Nail Magic...but I was staring at a bottle of American Apparel's Palm Spring...so I started painting my nails that. I love it. I'm a real peach person...so I'm grateful for the lift

4. How far do you commute to get to work/school? Okay...so I'm a freelance opera singer, but while things have been low I have been teaching 5th and 6th grade chorus. So...the commute is about 40 minutes door to door when traffic is so so.

5. What kind of bag do you carry on a daily basis (purse, large tote, backpack, etc.)? It depends on the day. My favorite bag is a black patent leather pocket book that holds too dern much. Most times that I carry it I have a pain in the bend of my elbow from carrying too much weight. I usually have 2 opera scores, my book with my arias and things I'm in progress of learning, a small makeup bag, 2 ipods (one for recording voice lessons, the other with all my favorite music which keeps my sanity), 2 tubes of lotion, Burt Bee's cuticle cream...and on and on....it is absurd. Oh...and yes, I have all of this around me most of the time.

6. Are you crafty? What kinds of crafts do you do? I'm rather crafty. I used to scrapbook, but I don't have time anymore. I do crochet and other random things.

7. What is the best thing you can cook? Well, I don't do too bad...I think one of my biggest hits with my ex was either my salmon with curry and honey, mashed potatoes and asparagus...or my favorite trash food...bbq hot wings.

8. Are you good at math? Totally. Love it. But they say that most musicians are either good in math or science...or both. Something about correlation. *shrugging*

9. Do you take risks when it comes to your haircut or color? No. Unfortunately it would be totally absurd. That whole opera singer thing...and being in one of the most conservative art forms out there. Pish-Posh!

10. Ever heard of Sugarpill cosmetics? Yes because Temptalia.com reviewed them recently. They have beautiful colors!

Zoya Haul

I swear...I'm so, so sad. LOL Last week Zoya had a sale of sorts. You spend over $10 and you get 2 polishes free. Now...any normal person would buy 4...get 2 free....but not me. I ordered 6. Ack. LOL I got some colors that I have been lemming and one was a surprise to me. LOL

I ordered Yummy, MarryJ, Layla, Star, Paz and Savita. The Savita was a surprise...I have no idea why, but I didn't realize it was a matte. Funny enough this was the color that I was drawn too. So, I opened the box and there it was in all of its purple glory. Wootie Woo!

Sexxay!! I wonder if there will be one color by Zoya that I DO NOT like??

with China Glaze Fast Forward Top Coat

matte...no flash for both.

Weekly Poll on a Friday....

It is Friday...and i am ecstatic. This has been a really longish week and I just want a day of sleep...and maybe a good movie in the process. Harumph. LOL There is so much to do and not enough hours in the DAY!!

1. How has your week been so far? Long, hectic and a TRUE test of my patience.

2. Have you ever gone through an entire bottle of nail polish and bought a second of the same color? Yes. Revlon Red.

3. What’s on your nails? Right now, just Orly Calcium Shield...and prayers that my nail will grow.

4. What are you reading right now? The Time Traveler's Wife.

5. Do you do pedicures in the winter? yes, yes and more yes. I just like for my toes to be pretty...even if I am the only one looking at them in my flip flops in the house.

6. Where do you paint your nails? Either while sitting on my couch or at my cute little table. This is new to me since in my pre-teen and teen years I was told I could only paint my nails and toes in the bathroom. I have finally got to....my house, my rules. LOL

7. What’s the last thing you bought? YELLOW KITTY NAIL POLISH. okay...I'm going back in my corner and I will stop screaming.

8. Do you love it when we “spring forward” and it’s light out until 8:00-9:00 pm? Yes, I don't mind in ways the spring forward, but my internal clock is ALWAYS jacked up no matter what. I don't sleep well...so it really doesn't matter.

9. What is your favorite print or pattern (can be for clothing, furniture, or whatever)? My favorite pattern lately is this pattern apart of the Vera Bradley line...Raspberry Fizz.

10. What are your two fav color combination’s? Two...ha! LOL My 2 all time favorites...yellow and pink...and turquoise and brown. Love them... luscious!

OYI.

That is the only way I can describe today's manicure and nail drama. Last night I finally broke out Dorothy Who? from the Wizard of Ooh Ahz Collection. Lemme just say, I actually love the color, but I obviously did something wrong. When I woke up my right hand looked like this....

And my left hand looks like this....

Harumph! That's all I can say. Then then the day got worst...well nail wise....LOL...the nail on my middle finger broke in a half jagged crazy look. Argh! ARGH!! So I think i will be polish free until something good happens. Pish-posh!

On to good news...well, during the icky snow last week, I ran by Ricky's Beauty Supply here in New York City...and they were selling Barielle nail polish for $1.99. I picked up 3...Joytini, Suntini...and something else that I can't find. LOL This is Joytini with 2 coats of Orly Prism Gloss Gold...and Seche Vite. I love it...but it happened that I didn't go out of the house, but my nails looked snazzy...while I sat in the house and watched the dreadful day this past Monday.

Oh and one last piece of good news...I had been lemming...more like having a SUPER LUUUUUUUUUST for Yellow Kitty..which is a part of the Sally Hansen Complete Manicure line. When I saw it on Elaine of Lacquer Laine...I about died. LOL I couldn't find it ANYWHERE and lemme tell you, I was hunting like crazy!

Well...lo and behold, I went to Target tonight (a place that I have been avoiding like the plague.) I strolled by the nail polish section and there it was...in all its pretty yellow glory...YELLOW KITTY! Wootie Woo!!! Needless to say, I almost skipped down the aisle. LOL I am looking forward to my nail growing back so I can use it!

Now...off to spoiling myself with a couple of Zoya's. You know they are having their sale in honor of New York Fashion Week. Spend $10 and get two polishes free!!!! Just use the code NYFW.

Get to Zoyain'! LOL

Oh beautiful for spacious skies....America!!!

Happy President's Day!! I know some people are off today and others are not. I am off from my teaching gig..which by the way I am super duper loving. I was sitting on the couch uploading some files for a vocal competition and decided to paint my nails to kill time.

Next to me here on my couch are 4 boxes of untried Zoya polishes. Seriously. When I did my first Zoya haul, I bought 4 reds...I don't know why, but the names were catchy. I got Kamilah, Tosca, Delilah and America. Plus, 2 of the names are opera characters...so you know I couldn't leave them. LOL

Anywhoooo...back to Ms. America. She is a great blood red and it was matching my t-shirt...(the one I'm still sitting in...still not having gone to the gym. ack.) I think it is a fabulous rich creamy red. It reminds me of tomatoes that were grown in my grampa's backyard. So bright and yummy and full of flavor.

I'm also testing out the whole paintbrush to clean up technique. I haven't mastered it, but I am VERY impressed with my first run. I found a set at Michael's by Craft Smart. I liked the square stiff tip. Now I just have to master it and get a cleaner cleanup. lol

(with flash)

It's not easy being Green

Grass slippers. Whew....love it. I wore it on the 1st Sunday this month and it was a hit at church and with the supermarket cashier. LOL Some of the girls in the youth choir asked me what was it and where did I buy it.

I must say, it wasn't my plan to wear it to church. I got in late the night before and the weather was crappy...I had to be at church at 8:30....and it was just one of those days. By the way, the color made me feel happy, so what could a chickie do?

No matter how much I love the color, I still haven't mastered the whole brush thingy. It is driving me batty, but I will suffer through to wear this color again. LOL

Sloane you're sexy

Last week on Twitter I saw a posting from Zoya saying that they were having a free shipping day. *sigh* Me being me, I had absolutely NO control and bought 7 new polishes...Nina (chocolate brown), Zanna (a creamy mauve), Hope (sexy pinkish purple), Gwin (from the new collection), Isla (burgundy frost), Max (pinky red) and Sloane (dark vampy plum).

Today I have on Sloane...OH.MAH.GAWSH!!!! Wow...so hot, so sexy. It reminds me of a flashier Essie Wicked...and I love Wicked. Wicked was the first vampy color that I got into. I remember a friend at church had it on and it looked so amazing that I had to try it. I bought and was instantly in love...just as I am right now.

All I can do is oo and ahh...wow....OH.MAH.GAWSH. That's all I can say. I swear Zoya keeps me swooning....constantly!!

No flash

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Ugh...and no sun. Sun...you've left us once again for snow! Argh!

So...Here we GOOO!!!

Okay...so as of today I am on a no polish purchase diet. I am OUT OF CONTROL. I can't even tell you how many polishes I have bought in the last 2 months. It is just STRAIGHT ABSURD!

Also, today I made my first evah trip to Ulta. Never again my friends, NEVAH again. (yeah, yeah, whatevah!!) I don't even know how many I got in today's haul. I don't want to know. I'm serious!! LOL

I guess the cashier has never seen anyone do that before because he snarked and said..."Are you opening a nail salon?" And since I can be very defensive and snarky about my habit...I looked at him without blinking an eye very dead pan. He didn't say another word and continued to ring me up. *sigh*

I did pick up OPI's Mad As a Hatter that I have been lusting for. LOL Then...there are the other bottles of junk I got. LOL

So...off to what I have been wearing randomly. PLEASE excuse the non cleaning in some of the pics. I am working on cleanup practices, but the paint brush and I haven't become good friends yet.

Today's look...China Glaze's Good Witch. Yes...I'm just busting this out. LOL I love the pink glitter in the pale frosty pink. It went on easily and it is very subtle and feminine.

Sally Hansen's InstaDry Lightening. Hmmm...I didn't really care for it. I would prefer not to give it the finger, because I LOVE the color so much. I found it streaky and that dangblasted brush...I HATE IT. The brush really wore me out. Even with my gripes, my students said my nails looked hot. I love those crazy kids!

China Glaze's Shower Today... Wow. I am sorry that the picture without flash. This color is AMAZING. I went to a friend's inauguration for city council this past Saturday and people stopped me to find out the color and where did I buy it. It is a kinda tealish blue. OMG...it is sexy. LOL

Color Club's Wild at Heart...I love purple and this was my first holographic color. I love it!!! There is really nothing more to say!

And finally...this is Victoria Secret's Velvetini. You can see nail wear and this was just overnight. I swear...me and my ability NOT to keep nail polish on.

Well, I know there are probably a couple of more pictures, but I can't find them. LOL I will get it together for sure.

Smooches!!!

Pre-picture heavy post....

1. How has your week been so far?

Normal...crazy. LOLOL I don't see it crazy even though my non artistic friends thinks it is INSANE. As I always say, I am grateful for the gift of music.

2. Tarantino or Cameron for the Oscar Best Director win?

Actually I'm for Lee Daniels, even though it is probably the most long shot out there...so neither. LOL

3. What’s on your nails?

China Glaze's Good Witch from the Wizard of Ooh Aazz

4. What’s your greatest (realistic) fear?

Failure

5. What’s your greatest (non-realistic) fear?

Failure

6. Have you tried Dr. Pepper Throwback yet (or Mt. Dew or Pepsi)?

No, but I WILL be on the look out for it. I LOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOVE Dr. Pepper.

7. Are you gonna get anything from the MAC Spring Colour Collection?

I've put myself on a no buy MAC diet. OMG...I have entirely too much makeup and I refuse to buy more...unless it is a needed lip/eye liner.

8. Do you like rollercoasters and which is your favorite?

I love them, but I haven't been on one in years.

9.Which spring nail collection have you liked the most so far?

I think complete collections...China Glaze. I saw it today at Ulta...whew boy.

10. What’s the last movie you watched?

Precious...it is a great movie even though it is dark...but it is real for a lot of people in America. Don't be fooled.

*hanging my head in shame*

I have been in singing overload (thank you GAWD!!) which has caused me to slack majorly on my blog. I should be back in the groove starting tomorrow. Even though I have been doing things that don't really allow me to wear the OUTRAGEOUS colors I love, I have been hauling like crazy. *hanging my head in shame again.* The latest being a haul from Zoya using a free shipping code. I bought 7. *sigh*

I'm out...gym at 7.

Til tomorrow!!!