Yabba Dabba OOOH!

Get ready to go bowling, break out your foot-powered car, and get your Dino on! Today is the 50th anniversary of the 1st episode of the Hanna-Barbera classic, 'The Flintstones'!!! Fun tidbit- for the longest time when I was a kid- I always thought that Hanna Barbera was a person, not the last names of two people. I eventually caught on though... Today's nail art is a tribute to the stone-age smile-inducers- the Flintstones (and the Rubbles). On my left hand, I have Fred, Wilma, and Pebbles Flintstone, with Dino on the ring finger, and a closeup of Fred's garb on the pinky. On the right hand, I painted The Great Gazoo on my thumb, then Barney, Betty, and Bamm-Bamm Rubble, with Bamm-Bamm's club on my pinky.

I used:

Left:

Thumb: Fred Flintstone

Orly Snowcone as a base, with American Apparel Summer Peach for his skin, then mixed with Color Club Best Dressed List for his stubble. For his tongue, I used a combination of American Apparel Palm Springs and Orly Pixy Stix, for his eyes, I used Sally Hansen Professional Lavender Cloud and for the hair and outlines, I used American Apparel Hassid.

Index: Wilma Flintstone

Orly Snowcone as a base, with American Apparel Summer Peach for her skin, as well as as a base for her hair. For her hair, I used CND Electric Orange. For her necklace and teeth, I used Sally Hansen Professional Lavender Cloud, China Glaze Salsa for her lips, then outlined everything in American Apparel Hassid.

Middle: Pebbles Flintstone

Orly Snowcone as a base, with American Apparel Summer Peach for her skin, as well as as a base for her hair. Like Wilma, I also used CND Electric Orange for Pebbles' hair. Sally Hansen Professional Lavender Cloud for her eyes and the bone in her hair. For her dress, I used Pure Ice Wild Thing, then outlined everything with American Apparel Hassid.

Ring: Dino

Orly Snowcone as a base, with Color Club Ms. Socialite for the purple, then mixed with American Apparel Palm Springs for his muzzle. I also used this combination in a different strength for his tongue. For his collar, I used Zoya Yummy, with Barielle Aura Angora for his 'dog' tag. I used Sally Hansen Professional Lavender Cloud for his eyes, and American Apparel Hassid to outline.

Pinky: Fred's 'suit'

CND Electric Orange as a base, with Zoya Yummy for his tie, with American Apparel Hassid to outline, and for the spots on the orange fabric.


Right Hand

Thumb: The Great Gazoo

Orly Snowcone as a base, with L.A. Girl Army Green for his face, CND Green Scene for his shirt and helmet, a mixture of CND Green Scene and
American Apparel Hassid for his collar, Sally Hansen Professional Lavender Cloud for his eyes, and American Apparel Hassid to outline everything.

Index: Barney Rubble

Orly Snowcone as a base, with MAC Abalone Shell for his skin, then mixed with Color Club Best Dressed List for his stubble, American Apparel Manila for his hair, OPI Ginger Bells for his 'suit', and American Apparel Hassid to outline everything.

Middle: Betty Rubble

Orly Snowcone as a base, with American Apparel Summer Peach for her skin, China Glaze Salsa for her lips, Sally Hansen Professional Lavender Cloud for her eyes, and American Apparel Hassid to outline, as well as for her necklace and hair.

Ring: Bamm-Bamm Rubble

Orly Snowcone as a base, with American Apparel Summer Peach for his skin, Sally Hansen Professional Lavender Cloud for his eyes and hair, CND Electric Orange with American Apparel Hassid to outline and for the spots on the hat.

Pinky: Bamm-Bamm's Club

Orly Snowcone as a base, with L.A. Girl Army Green for the club, outlined with American Apparel Hassid.

Topped everything off with 2 coats of Seche Vite top coat.

It's a living.

NEW Limited Edition Sally Hansen Complete Salon Manicure Polishes

So I went to Rite Aid on my lunch, and what do I see.....the NEW Sally polishes!! I love my Rite Aid, they are always up to date on the new collectionc. I only grabbed 3, for the rest looked very common, imo.

This is Problem Child. Which reminds me very much of OPI's Merry Midnight. I think of Problem Child, as Merry M. little sister. PC, doesn't seem to have as big of, or as much flakies compared to her big sis. Still this color is beautiful!

This is Golden Ticket. Since it's sheer, I layered it over Problem Child, and really like it!

This is my FAVORITE of the 3 that I got, It's Sequin Scandal. A very dark olive/army green, with gold & green tiny glitter and what may be teeny tiny iridescent flakies, but not many, so don't get too excited.



Pastel

Hello :) Today's a swatch day from the vault since I didn't want to change my nails after my pink leopard nails. For these swatches, I used plastic Nailene tips because my nails were nubs. They do look a little funny on me haha. But I hope you enjoy the swatches.

American Apparel Butter

pastel yellow. The swatch is 2 coats and 1 coat of top coat. I love American Apparel nail polishes, the formula is nice and it applies nicely with awesome color. Butter is one of my favorite pastel yellows that actually works with my skintone.

American Apparel Coney Island

a pastel pink. The swatch is 2 coats and 1 coat of top coat. It's suck a cute girly pink. :) The formula and application was awesome, typical American Apparel.

Essie Looking For Love

a pastel periwinkle jelly creme. The swatch 3 coats and 1 coat of top coat. It took another extra coat because the formula was kind of thin so it came out sheer. It applied nicely though. :)

6 more days until my giveaway closes ~ hurry and enter in

you can also click on my right hand column.

hope you enjoyed,

<3katherine

Happy for men...ovvero il profumo della felicità by Clinique!

Una confezione completamente arancione per un profumo che vuole infondere felicità e benessere!!

Arancione come gli agrumi da cui trae qualche nota!!

Happy






Fresco ma al tempo stesso deciso e penetrante. Ragazze uno di quei profumi che lasciano il "segno" e che, per strada, ci si volta per vedere chi è lo porta!!

Da annusare

Esiste nella versione da 50 e 100ml.

La stessa fragranza la troviamo anche in versione After Shave, After Shave Balm e Deo Spray!

Ancora una volta grazie a Clinique!!

Makeup tutorial: Black kiss fai da te!

Come non completare questa settimana di look vampireschi con delle labbra all black?

Lo scorso anno alcune case cosmetiche avevano lanciato dei rossetti e gloss di questo colore, ma secondo me non è proprio un colore che si possa indossare ogni giorno e spendere per un prodotto da usare un paio di volte non è il caso.

Ecco allora come usare i cosmetici che già possediamo per farcelo da sole!



Io uso questo sistema anche quando voglio un gloss dello stesso colore del trucco occhi, semplicemente miscelo ad un gloss trasparente il pigmento o l'ombretto.

Per questo tipo di trucco è fondamentale che le labbra non siano screpolate e non ci siano pellicine perchè altrimenti si vedranno!

Consiglio quindi di applicare prima del trucco un burrocacao per una mezzora per ammorbidire le labbra e poi di rimuoverlo con una velina.
Se possibile la sera prima fate uno scrub delicato.


Cosa ci serve:

Elenco prodotti usati:

• gloss ELF Super Glossy Lip Shine (essendo nero il risultato da ottenere va bene qualsiasi colore)
• ombretto Kiko 20 nero mat
• matita trasparente per labbra L'Oreal Indefectible Lip Liner 700 Sheer Fidelity
• matita Dior Crayon Khol 099 Noir
• un contenitore per mescolare i prodotti
• uno stuzzicadenti

pennello:

• pennello piccolo per labbra

Procedimento:

Passo 1: contorno il bordo ESTERNO delle labbra con una matita trasparente che prevenga "cadute" di colore nelle pieghette (step fondamentale per tutti i rossetti rossi e scuri in generale)








Passo 2: con la matita nera (una qualsiasi per occhi ma con mina dura) disegno il bordo delle labbra, stando attentissima a non andare fuori dal contorno tracciato prima










Passo 3: con la matita riempio anche l'interno delle labbra













Passo 4: sfumo con le dita in modo da avere la base su tutte le labbra













Passo 5: nel mio contenitore faccio cadere una goccia di gloss e un pò di polvere di ombretto grattata con lo stuzzicadenti. Mescolo con lo stuzzicadenti i prodotti, deve venire un bel nero intenso, aggiungo ombretto fino al colore desiderato











Passo 6: con il pennellino stendo il gloss sulle labbra e... il trucco è finito!














Un piccolo suggerimento: se volete conservare il gloss, sia per rapidi ritocchi che per usarlo di nuovo in futuro, usate come contenitore un barattolino di qualche campioncino con il tappo a vite!

People Say I'm Nuts

...but really, I'm just a-corny. :-D (bad joke)

A book came out yesterday from my FAVORITE author, David Sedaris, called 'Squirrel Seeks Chipmunk: A Modest Bestiary'. I bought it tonight, and I'm SO excited to read it. Seriously, if you haven't heard of him, or if you have, but haven't read any of his stuff yet, you seriously need to get on it. The man is a genius, and I've laughed more while reading his books or listening to him speak than I have at most comedians. His deadpan delivery and dry, self-deprecating humor will have you rolling, and I highly suggest, at the very least, LISTENING to one of his audiobooks. (My favorite is the Santaland Diaries, which chronicles his experience employed as an elf at Christmastime in a major department store) A while back, reader Shannon L. suggested that I do squirrel nails, and that got me thinking about acorns, and tonight, I joined both ideas together in honor of the new Sedaris book! :) The acorns turned out to be a funky version of a french manicure! (with lots of shading!! :-D)

and my nails with my new book.... :-D

I used American Apparel Palm Springs as a base, with butter LONDON Crumpet over it, then mixed OPI Ginger Bells with American Apparel Palm Springs and MAC Rich, Dark, Delicious for the tips, with a darker version of that mixture for the textured 'scales' on the acorn caps. For the shading on the acorn, I used a mixture of American Apparel Palm SpringsOPI Ginger Bells and MAC Rich, Dark, Delicious to shade, a mix of OPI Ginger Bells and American Apparel Palm Springs for the darker highlight, then pure American Apparel Palm Springs for the main highlight. For the thumb, I used OPI What's With the Cattitude? as a base, with American Apparel Palm Springs as a base for the squirrel, topped with OPI Ginger Bells, then a mixture of OPI Ginger Bells and MAC Rich, Dark, Delicious over that, then a few swipes of American Apparel Palm Springs around the eye, ear, and tail. For the eye, I used American Apparel Hassid, and for the grass I used CND Green Scene , L.A. Girl Army Green, and Pure Ice Wild Thing. Topped everything off with 2 coats of Seche Vite top coat.

Stand on the magic star, and you can see Cher!!

Yany's nails - 1

Sakura's nail arts- 1

PINK POW

New nails today :) It took me a while to figure out what I wanted to do for my nails and I thought of different ideas. I will post in the future manicures that didn't work out for me though because not all my nails always come out perfect.

Bringing leopard/cheetah print back~

nail polishes used:

OPI Pink-A-Doodle

Nabi Pink M. Star

Sally Hansen Twisted Pink

LA Colors Nail Art Black

Here's OPI's Pink-A-Doodle by iteself, it's a shimmery sheer pink. It's soo adorable! The swatch is 3 coats and 1 coat of top coat.

Don't forget to enter in my giveaway ends October 6th~

Hope you enjoyed,

<3katherine

Skin Supplies for men da Clinique rigorosamente per lui!!!

Ecco la linea di Clinique Skin Supplies for men solo e tutta per lui!!

Qui parliamo di pre-rasatura e dopobarba.

Face scrub per preparare la pelle, i granelli sottili sollevano i peli della barba e riducono quelli incarniti. Favorisce la pulizia dei peli ostruiti.





Non parlo per esperienza perchè la barba per fortuna non mi è ancora cresciuta ma dai commenti di mio marito durante la rasatura so che i peli che restano sottopelle soprattutto per chi ha una barba dura e fitta è un vero incubo quindi se arriva un aiuto da un prodotto perchè non sfruttarlo? Ho provato inoltre a passare lo scrub sul dorso della mano ed in effetti i granuli sono veramente microscopici e non aggressivi. Un leggerissimo odore mentolato completa l'opera!!

Modo d'uso:

Applicarlo sulle mani e miscelarlo con un pochino di sapone o se lo avete con Face soap o Liquid face di Clinique. Massaggiare il viso!!

Post-Shave Healer è una fresca lozione idratante, aiuta a lenire gli eritemi da rasoio ed a decongestionare gli arrossamenti. E' privo di oli. Assolutamente privo di profumo.

Fanno parte della linea dopo barba anche Soother anti-blemish formula, specifico per ridurre le eruzioni cutanee e favorire lo scivolamento del rasoio, e Soother Beard control formula aiuta nel tempo ad ammorbidire ed affinare la crescita del pelo.

La gamma comprende anche prodotti per la rasatura, il sistema in 3 fasi per la pulizia del viso, gli specialisti e la linea corpo.

Insomma uomini non vi potete proprio lamentare :-)

Ringraziamo Clinique per averci inviato questi prodotti.

Scotch Tape Striped Mani - Is my love for Turquoise Opal obvious?

I actually did this mani yesterday, but didn't get a chance to post it. I was trying to find other designs I could do, using scotch tape. Stripes came to mind. So I grabbed my trusty black, and Sally Hansens Nail Prisms Turquoise Opal, and started working on it. It was actually easier than I though, and I love this effect

This is with the flash on, see how much the turq. shows!!!