The New Hard Candy polishes! Where I've been, and more.

Sorry for being so absent most of last month, I notice I barely posted and need catching up again on everyone's blogs. Last month nearly everything that could have gone wrong, had done. One of my cats was really ill, she's getting better now, but had to be taken to the veterinarian's care and tests all sorts, and might need more in future, she seems to be on the mend though.

So that caused a lot of stress, some issues with the house and a whole host of lovely other things just piled up at once to make the month awesome, right left and center. I'm positive things are on an upswing though.

Nail polish wise, I'd been trying new ones, and have a bunch to swatch for you all, several pics that I had taken conspired against me, either they didn't turn out well and weren't salvageable in photoshop or repeatedly were funny angled with bad shadows overlapping...

Some polishes were so bad they chipped the same day and and that was so pretty started to recede about half an hour upon application it was craziness.

Have tried two out of the three Maybelline Express Finish polishes I brought, and two strikes so far. >.< Great colors, just chip-tastic, and it brings the lulz with a claim of 50 seconds to dry. Not even 5 mins on that second coat. Still had to whip out the Poshe to speed it up.

Went to Walmart yesterday to get odds and ends and naturally was excited to scope out the new Hard Candy polishes, especially since they are now so inexpensive, (well for Hard Candy!! Wicked!).

Unfortunately, two women were just stocking the Hard Candy section and I am a bit timid so I asked them if I could quickly grab some so I kind of blindly grabbed quite a few (and I mean that!), but next time I go, will really take a good hard look at them! There was an awesome looking taxi cab yellow.

One of them had the ring/plastic off, they are shrink wrapped in plastic onto the bottles, and are quite hard plastic and slip off the bottle necks unlike the original jelly rings that were sometimes hard to shift off the necks at all.

Click the picture to see it enlarged! ^^

Colors in order are...

Mr. Right, Hot Pants, Sweet P, Pretty in Punk, Mermaid, Envy, Rumor Mill, Break Up.

Also, just to show the difference in bottles over time, there's an original bottle of holiday LE Icky Eggnog, which I shook like crazy to make look like more was in it, looks so much like Sweet P, which is why I grabbed it, save Sweet P is smooth glitter rather then chunky holo glitter, and the newer bottle is flanked by a later Hard Candy polish bottle in Glitch. ^^

Nerdery time.

Last night my friend tried to synth me a signed (with his name on) Aristo's, the first synth failed, because he wasn't facing south apparently...but the second worked! This was his first Aristocrat's Jacket synth ever! I'm so proud of him and he's so excited I'm glad to wear it and advertise his Pro crafting skill, the NQ version is of course the Noble's Tunic which I put on the AH immediately. LOL. XD Good for him though, last sold Aristo's sold for 2.7 million gil. Average cost of gil to make, 500-600k gil. Hot!

Ulta Haul, Nerdy Haul...stuff.

I finally got to hit an Ulta today for the first time ever lol, there aren't any around where I live, but I went quite far off for a shopping adventure with my sister and a friend with my nephew and her little one and there was an Ulta on the lot so I made haste and hit that action so fast!

Errm, also something like these aren't like the others, I also made a haul of a different kind which I will also address wahey. ^.~

I bought a bunch of the Sula polishes, I'd seen them on All Lacquered Up, they are Paint and Peel polishes, like grown up Tinkerbell polishes! That is just sick, such a gimmick I can get behind, totally had to restrain myself, cute color range as well.
From left to right the Sula shades are Midnight, Moss, Azure and Sky.

I also picked up Ulta's own brand polish in Starstruck and a Piggy Polish in You're Blue-tiful, after seeing so many lovely Piggy Polish swatches on Kittyluv's Color'sblog seeing them in person I knew I had to pick one up, was hard to choose!

Oh, yes and also finally picked up UD's Primer Potion in Sin and am so excited about it especially in this weather where makeup goes to pot in the humidity in seconds.

Now to address the nerdy elephant in the room (picture?).

Since I was shopping with Mr Maxy I had to hit the toy aisle (sure, that's my working excuse in this paragraph) scoping out what's good getting him and his brother a surprise and oooh look Baroness, I can't resist, she is my fav. character in the GI Joe world growing up I was a GI Joe nerd and loved the evil evil (also dark haired!) vilaness! So anytime I see a cool Baroness figure. Plop. My nephews will give me them from time to time, it is very cute ^^

Also the mini Jetfire, it's like a having a mini robotic version of my father. For the lulz. And for the nerdery. There may or may not be a non pictured largish Ironhide.

Waiting for the Monthly version FFXI/A Moogle Kupo d'Etat update to finish up. Have done the download actually, which went fairly quickly surprisingly. Haven't bought the Moogle Kupo d'Etat expansion, to be honest haven't finished/gotten into ACP. With the reset maybe I can run into Bloodtear or Steelfleece my fav. NMs. I like rams. What can I say.

Geeky Screeny!

Butter London Chimney Sweep

Here's another of my Butter polishes, this time it is a super shiny grey called Chimney Sweep, it is very nearly black but falls short of it and it is shiny once its on, but I do have a top coat of Poshe on, so I must add that disclaimer. There are three coats of Chimbley on ^^. The outdoor picture you can really see the shine. Sorry not the best of clean up here. The formula on this one was great, I could have gotten away with just the two coats.

Indoor lighting.

Outdoors, overcast.

Have some lovely Illamasqua" polishes on their way to me that I am very excited about. ^^ Like a lot of people Phallic was one of my purchases. So gorgeous. Check out this post @ Bring on the Bling showing just how beautiful it is.

Close on the nerdery again. @E3 they released the trailer for FFXIV, the New MMORPG coming next year and look hi rez choco! How cute. Looks hefty on the same looking hume guy. ZOMG. But still. Have enough to get through in XI, but can't say I'm not curious about XIV Oh, yes trailer. Where's the taru?!!! Embedded below.

Oh the Official XIV site is up with screenies & trailer @ http://finalfantasyxiv.com

Zoya Rihana Polish

Ugh had a lovely dentist appt. today, not fun! Ahh well. But I do have lovely pictures of Zoya's Rihana polish. Plus it is sunny today, so I can not complain. ^^ Ok, onto the lovely bottle shot! Bottle shot!!!!!!!!!

Indoor lighting, three coats and a top of Poshe. This looks very lit from within. Actually this looks a lot like, except with a more burgandy than red tint of course, like the later releases of Urban Decay's Gash polish. It has that same deep glow about it.

Outdoors, in the sunlight.

Hmm, considering buying and Illamasqua or two this month. So many pretty shades to choose from. Ahhh what to do, what to do! lol.

Close with something nerdy, let's see in XI got my WHM to 71/72 solely on Campaign and two Besiegeds. That is bad. Server hop maybe XD Nah.

Revlon Black Lingerie/Amour Brilliant Ocean Blue

I decided to retry the suggested french mani with the black tips with Amour's Brilliant Ocean Blue with Revlon's Black Lingerie, and it is so pretty. Turned out much lovelier than the Rainbow Hologram. Took a picture indoors and out, couldn't capture how nice this actually was. The metallic blue it turned the tips is so shiny and shimmers light blue as well in the light.

And outdoors.

Oh when I was going on about FFXI yesterday forgot to mention about how much I dig the RDM JA Composure, finally when they got round to giving RDM one it was decent. Eventually I'll post some of my geeky but cute screenies, if I can find em. lol.

FFXI Anni Ring Time. Stats Ahoy. Geekery Inside.

So it is time that the Anniversary XP band is released, joy and rapture. Not sure which job I'll bung the uses on, either finish out WHM or ease the pain of BLM lvling with. But with the mog giving you your band you also get your yearly updated stats of various things like...

KO'd : 1260 deaths. I'd of thought it'd be more with Campaign/Besieged and my nasty habit of getting ganked purposely by Blackbeard fishing. That's over the course of four years.

Battles fought: 49954. Although I did Campaign so I'm sure it's gone over since I reckon the numbers go per mob.

Defeated: 35312 of the above mobs. Wahey.

GM calls : 3. How helpful were they. 0. Sorry. How many I've seen in 4 years. 3! Sick gear though worth a look should people be shouting one is around lol.

Frightening chat frequency number I'm not even going to show, etc.

Got to 17 fishing, not on purpose, am fishing up nebs like crazy for money as I don't have the patience to farm my new tier two En spells or the rest of my new WHM spells. Plus I plunked a shazz load on a HQ Dark staff upgrade...finally because I'm cheap with the gil. Farming is the devil. Might have to sell my blau. Naaah.

Nars Ziggy,Rocky,Orly

Here's Nars' Ziggy, it is cute, but the formula was just not fantastic. Very streaky this one was. It is such a gorgeous shimmery almost buttery gold. Does not at all suit my skin tone. Blech. Pale and pink ftl!! Naah just gold doesn't suit me. Heh.

Putting in on it reminded me a lot of Chanel's (Petillant) Shine.

They are certainly closely matched Ziggy being a touch warmer.

Thought I'd spruce Ziggy up with a coat (will add another I think) of Orly's Prisma Gloss Gold.

Oh they match an old pair of Kaos eyelets! Would downsize to match lol, they are cute!

What a mess I made of this hasty mani, ordered some more of those correction pens when I caved and purchased Revvvolution, so this time I will be honouring the non messy pics when I have more. Oh and for fun I thought I'd post a picture of my Rocky Johnson, he is sat on a suction cup, he knocked over his hammock that was attached to the cup. lol. Isn't he handsome? ^^

Played FFXI, and didn't get my en spells, a friend was able to locate some of the new WHM spells for me though. Quelle surprise another maintenance today. There is always maintenance after maintenance. Should just announce it will be two days in a row. Oh Squeenix. XD

BPAL update! FFXI

Wahey, it's BPAL's The Salon: Velvet Paintings. Scroll down towards the bottom of the page. This update is fantastic I snagged myself Velvet Clown,Velvet Pink Kitty, Velvet Tiger and Velvet Unicorn! Just read those descriptions, they are going to be phenomenal!!!

Just mini squee, I'm sure there was something I meant to write about or some hot polish action. It will come to me...eventually ^^

Am downloading my FFXI, post maintenance/Crystalline Prophecy update. New stuff for RDM and WHM. Been waiting on it! More En spells!

Retried Pictures, IS/Anatometal, NFU Oh 50

Alrighty, here's better pictures of the head on and shot of the wearable/saddle on the Industrial Strength's Gem Eyelets and Anatometal's 'Blings' Gem Eyelets. To see the information about them please check this earlier post which goes into the difference of gems,metals worn and wearables. IS's Gem Eyelets are now available in a Double Flare option.

Saddle and wearable comparison shot.

Head on comparison of widths and channel setting depth.

Still researching cameras. My crown fell off today. >.> /Groan Hot dental action tomorrow to get it repaired.

Alrighty here's another shot of Nfu Oh 50 with flash on.

Mini review on Feria's new formula. Not loving it at all, I don't do whole head for months at a time choosing to stick with roots and then if it has really faded out drag the rest through via their instructions. Am now straw-like and need a larger trim than I'd hoped to do and much deep conditioning. Guess I will go back again to Clairol or splash out for that Fekkai one down the road. But there is humour, my hair is light black so I like to dye it blue black on occasions, here's the kicker it grows in grey in front so for the first few washes I have electric highlights, which are especially neon in sunlight. Mind the flash.

Feria...for teh lulz

Was grabbing a prescription at the pharmacy and was mesmerized by Orly's Love Each Other polish, it truly is cute pinky and purplish flash in it. Think that will be my next mani, prolly tomorrow if I can resist the call of Peppermint Patti. ^^

I caved and bought the expansion for FFXI : A Crystalline Prophecy. Not expecting super much, already hearing whinging in my LSes about how free Haubys for all. XD

Possible Buffy MMO? BPAL 13, Polish

I was reading a post at Slay Alive.com that there is (post is in the Figures and Collectibles sub forum) a Buffy MMO in the works! I've been playing FFXI since late 05 (although can't seem to stay connected due to some Comcast hijinks of late! Grrrr) am a big fan of MMORPGs, save WoW cause I just couldn't get well into it at all. A Buffyverse! Can't even begin to squee about how wicked exciting that would be. Oh lord ^^

Would pay a monthly for the game for sure, hell I'd drop ol' XI in a heartbeat in favour. Hope this is true, wonder if it would be all Sunnydale style or more in the vein of post Chosen season 8? Hmm, season 8ish would be very interesting Slayers a-plenty! No matter where it falls time line wise, this could rock bells as a MMO! Wishing for the best graphics portion as well if it is indeed happening and of course character customization which is something XI lacks save for a few variants on the same base chars. Basically a couple hairdo's and two choices of tints I think it is.

Finally I'll be able to try some of the gorgeous Nfu Oh shades, I purchased 51,52 and 60 via Fabuloustreet.com. Now, I'm going to have to behave as there is quite a bit incoming and spending like this needs to be reigned in. ^^

Oh and of course it being friday the 13th a new incarnation of 13 is available at BPAL! Am madly in love with February of this year's 13, the brown sugar note is divine. Plus ahoy the new Chaos Theory V: Recursive Self-Similarity V4: The Snake Oil Series. There are also bases of Dorian,O and Penitence. Gorgeous one and all. I can't get enough of Snake Oil though (like the hoarding of Boomslang,Lilith Victoria and Western Diamondback in particular) so I can't wait to see what randomness pervades!

Grrr why aren't those L'Oreal Star Magnet polishes available here? Not only is there a bunch of shades other than the two (one was Europe exclusive) Lancome releases but the price is so much better. Sigh.