glitter

I'm not talking about that poor excuse of a movie. I'm talking about this cute little nail trend thats been spreading around the beauty community. I have to credit tiffanyd of youtube for introducing the trend to me in the first place, and all it is, is a glitter accented nail on your ring finger. Now, I normally hate anything sparkly: eyeshadow, lipgloss, blush and definitely nailpolish but for some reason I just had to dip my toe (or finger in this case hee hee) into this trend. I think it's a cute nail look for the holidays, and it's more unique looking than just coating your nails in solid glitter don'tcha think? My nailpolish of choice for the following look was OPI's Coney Island Cotton Candy. Oh and btw, I used actual glitter from the craft store (tiffanyd's tip) to get more opaque coverage. All you do is paint half your nail with top coat and dip it into the glitter, press the glitter in place and finish with a good slap of top coat to seal in the glitter. Fin :)

Please forgive my unsightly paint job!

harry potter is mah fave

Alrighty so Harry Potter and The Deathly Hallows comes out on Friday (YAY!) and xsparkage of youtube aka Leesha did a Gryffindor inspired look...and I pretty much just copied her. But I DID change some parts of it, mainly because I don't own any maroon eyeshadows :( Note to self: must ask for Cranberry eyeshadow by MAC for Christmas! Anyway the look is a simple gold lid with a light brown crease with some big bold brows. That was my attempt to look more lion-esque...lion-ish? I kept the cheeks simple because I wanted the lip to be the centre of attention. And as if there wasn't enough gold on my face, I pressed some gold eyeshadow onto the centre of my lips to really OD on the sparkles.

Not gonna lie, it really pisses me off how

much my camera washes out the intensity

of my eyeshadows =/

murky purple, greige, mud?

Well, I call it a dupe for Sephora by OPI's cult fave Metro Chic. It's just slightly less purple with more hints of brownish gray goodness. The color is called Storm and it's by Joe Fresh available in Superstore and online. I don't know if you American folks have Superstore...BUT for you all you Canadians definitely pick it up if you see it because it's only $4! Which is 3x less than the whopping $12 I paid for Metro Chic. The formulation is a bit thinner, as you can probably tell in the swatch below, and I probably should have done three coats as opposed to two but I was obviously too lazy. The photo was actually taken about 2-3 days after application without a topcoat so I'm pretty impressed by the wear. Oh and the bottle is only 6mL but I don't really find it to be a ripoff because I know I'll actually use it up. Who has honestly ever gone through an entire 15mL bottle of polish?

I really need to invest in a higher quality camera :(