Haul of the Month: July 2013

Above the Curve The Baby Blues

Above the Curve Fallen Angel

Above the Curve Risen Angel

Above the Curve What No Buy?!?!

Above the Curve Caty Perry-winkle

Catrice King of Greens

Chaos & Crocodiles Harmonious (Clear Edition) - hasn't arrived yet

Contrary Polish Gift Wrap

Duri Rejuvacote

Essie A Cut Above

Hard Candy So So Sequin

Orly Peaceful Opposition

Orly High on Hope

Orly Elation Generation

Polished by KPT Hot Like Wasabi
Polished by KPT Camellia

Sally Hansen Pink Grape-Fruit

Sally Hansen Lava

Serum No. 5 Lei Down the Law

Serum No. 5 Day Glow

Don't judge! These were all for my birthday next month... :D Also, many of these were either on sale or from blog sales. Score!

See you guys on the other side of the day!

Michelle

Haul of the Month: June 2013

Avon Vintage Blue
Avon Honeydew Dazzle

Colors by llarowe Angels Sing
Colors by llarowe Black Gold, Texas Tea

Cult Nails Bitten

Not many this time! Yay! I'm finally able to curb the spending and hauling.

See you guys on the other side of the day!

Michelle

Haul of the Month - May 2013

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Hi guys! I'm going to do haul posts again to keep track of my spending and curb the impulse to buy nail polish. I've been good since I got back home. The below is all I got! Yay! :D (I am posting now because there is no way I can for the next couple of days. Lots of stuff happening.)

Nail Pattern Boldness Glitter-A-Peel

First off, I purchased what could be one of the answers to preventing the agony of removing glitter polishes. I'm still testing it out right now!

OPI Black Spotted

Yes, this is THE OPI Black Spotted. I bought it from ebay for $19.95 (+ free shipping). OPI Black Spotted was only available to some countries (I think all were European ones), possibly because of an ingredient deemed harmful by the authoritative bodies.

OPI Polka.com
OPI Oy - Another Polish Joke!
OPI A Woman's Prague-ative
OPI  My Vampire is Buff

I got these four OPI's from Cut and Blow for $5.75 each! Cut and Blow holds events (usually lasts at least 5 or 6 days) in which it sells beauty products, ranging from hairstyling tools to nail polish, for less than their retail prices. Here is my referral link for those who'd like to join in on the fun!

LA Girl Teal Dimension
LA Girl Green Sand
LA Girl Uninhibited
LA Splash Golden Seahorse
NYX Girl Gilded Glitter
NYX Girl Dreamy Glitter
NYX Girl Dorothy
China Glaze Luxe and Lush

Cherry Culture e-mailed me about its Memorial Day coupon for 20% off all items. I was so happy and got a bunch of polishes! Even though all of them were already on sale, the coupon code still worked on them. :D I believe I paid roughly $26 for everything! (This figure also includes shipping and tax.)

Messy Jessi Lacquer Quail
Messy Jessi Lacquer Snowy Plover
Messy Jessi Lacquer Mockingbird
Messy Jessi Lacquer Easter Bunny
Messy Jessi Lacquer House Wren

Lastly, I purchased these Messy Jessi Lacquer polishes! Messy Jessi Lacquer is a relatively new indie and its inaugural collection is its take on the Illamasqua speckled polishes. I personally prefer Messy Jessi Lacquer's version because the glitters are bigger. The collection is on sale now and you can purchase it here. (Unfortunately, only Easter Bunny and Mockingbird are still available.)

Hopefully, I will be better next month! But believe it or not, this is actually a good starting point for me. Most of my previous hauls were much larger than this.

I'm beginning to dose off now... See you guys on the other side of the day!

Michelle

Ulta Haul + Barielle on Hautelook!

You guys! There's a 2-day coupon for $25+free shipping on ulta.com right now! I do believe the coupon just went live today, but please don't quote me on that. Usually, it's $50+free shipping. Use the coupon while you guys can!


My Haul:


China Glaze Crackle Lightning Bolt- Right now it's only $2.99! I don't know if it's a sale or if ULTA officially changed the price for the China Glaze Crackles, though. :(


Nicole by OPI Khloe Had a Little Lam Lam- Last time I ordered it, ULTA sent me an e-mail apologizing that it was out of stock. :( I guess the inventory wasn't updated yet. Great service though! I didn't have to pay for the polish!)


Revlon Royal, Mistletoe, and Whimsical- Whimsical, you are finally mine! The other colors were also on my wish list.


Essie Apricot Cuticle Oil- My main objective, but I didn't want to pay shipping and it was a way to cut down on my wish list. :x Can't wait to try this because my cuticle cream is NOT working for me! I guess I may have very dry cuticles.


And, of course, 3 free samples. :) FREE!!! I love free stuff, even though one of the samples I chose I already had.


But most importantly... Hautelook is selling Barielle right now!!! They're selling at $4 a pop instead of $8!!! Get them soon because the Barielle event is ending soon (how soon I'm not quite sure). The website is hautelook.com and click on the beauty tab. It's too bad I didn't see this sooner. :( So many colors I wanted Hautelook is selling. Oh, well. You win some and you lose some. Regardless, I'm happy and this won't kill me. :)


See you guys on the other side of the day!


- M

Apology + Haul

Hi guys! I'm really sorry that I did not post the surprises yet! A lot of midterms are coming up soon and I'm been studying even harder this semester. I'll say it straight: my priority is my education and grades. Not this blog, though I do love it. My nails are also really brittle and weak right now; the other day I was sliding off my bed and my pinky nail slid across my jeans. My poor nail ended up chipping (yes, chipping) at the corner. I've no idea why that happened; my nails have always been strong and I don't remove and apply nail polish every day. I bought a new strengthener today (Sally Hansen Hard as Nails Strengthener in clear) and I'm going to see how my nails are in the next 1-2 weeks. I really hope they're strong again!

So now onto my haul from today...

Claire's Galaxy

Galaxy is a black polish with silver glitter throughout. I tried to capture the glittering sparkle, but I couldn't. I blame my webcam and myself for not having a camera and finishing up my light box.

Claire's Candy Shop

You guessed it! Claire's Candy Shop is a MUCH cheaper dupe of Deborah Lippmann's Candy Shop. And yes, they also have the same name! Candy Shop has multicolored glitters in a pink base. I found out about this dupe from one of the many blogs that I follow, nouveaucheap.blogspot.com. Now I can cross off a polish from my insanely long wish list! :D 

L'Oreal Walk on the Beach

Walk on the Beach is a beige-ish/very whited-out taupe color. It is very pretty and elegant in person. I love it! It is also my first L'Oreal nail polish! I was so lucky when I got this because my friend YJ scanned her card on the CVS kiosk and a $3 off L'Oreal Colour Riche Nail coupon came out! This polish wouldn't have came back with me otherwise (I actually wanted it, but then put it down because of the price. Thank goodness for the coupon!)

Sally Hansen Nailgrowth Miracle in Creamy Olive

Creamy Olive is a light olive creme. I have always wanted this polish ever since the first swatches came out for it, but then I got Sinful Colors Seaweed and didn't think I needed it. Flash forward to the present and I found it on sale at Ulta for only $2.99 (from $5.99)! Seaweed was also thickening up after only less than 1 year (but this reason was really only an afterthought...). I can't wait to wear it after Walk on the Beach!

Essence A Lovely Secret

A Lovely Secret is a pretty periwinkle with what appears to be purple and red shimmer running throughout. Can't you see the pretty shimmer in the picture?! :3 I almost didn't get this polish because it seemed so ordinary and I was going to get so many other polishes already, but then I picked it up since the color was so pretty and then I saw the shimmer! I quickly held onto this last one.

Revlon Naughty

Familiar, is this polish not? Naughty is actually a re-release of the immensely popular and quickly-sold-out-polish Perplex, just now with a different name. Ring another bell? Perplex is a spot-on dupe of Chanel Paradoxal. I'm so glad that Revlon is re-releasing (and making it part of the core collection, as I've read from nouveaucheap) Perplex. When I found out about it and Paradoxal, it was pretty late in the game so I never had the chance to attempt to find it. But now this baby is MINE!

Naughty is a greyed-out purple with purple shimmer in it.

Manicures will follow as soon as my nails become healthy and strong again and my midterms are over! Manicures of my surprises will also come!

Pictures are not high quality because, as I've mentioned, I am using a webcam and do not have a camera or lightbox. Boohoo! :( I took pictures because I felt so bad for leaving you guys hanging.

By the way, I got a haul from last week too! It consisted of:

China Glaze Trendsetter

Nicole by OPI Kim-pletely in Love and It's All About the Glam

Essie Shine of the Times (Yay! My first flakie!)

Ulta Army of 1, Envy, Oh!, and Pinata-Yada-Yada

Also watch out for these manicures! :)

See you guys on the other side of the day!

-M