NOTD - Bejeweled Violet

I decided to start doing NOTD (nail of the day) posts because I change my polish quite often and lately I have been layering different polishes because I have a very limited collection with me at the moment. So today I bring you Sally Hansen Violet Voltage and Sally Hansen Be-Jeweled. To get this look I did one coat of Violet Voltage and one coat of Be-Jeweled. I will apologize now for the bad cuticles and all the hang nails, my hands got really dried out and I forgot to moisturize.

Sally Hansen Happy Manicure Limited Edition Set- Xtreme Wear

 

This was the one collection that really confused me, the colors just didn't really go together at all in my opinion. 

 

Included in this set are:

 Bubblegum Pink

Bubblegum Pink with opalescent shimmer

 Violet Voltage

Lavender purple with pink shimmer

Celeb City

Silver metallic

 

Blue Me Away!

Bright teal creme

 

I am not a huge fan of Bubblegum Pink at all, Violet Voltage is a great purple for spring but also looks great with a glitter top coat (Be-Jeweled), Celeb City almost rounds out my basic metallics and chromes, and lastly Blue Me Away! is a great blue and it matches a crochet project of mine perfectly.

The application for all of this was great all I needed was two coats and they looked great. 

Of all three limited collections I could find I found only the Gem Crush one to work well for the holidays. So I am confused as to why the colors were paired up.

Sally Hansen Happy Manicure Limited Edition Set- Insta-Dri

I finally bought the other two Sally Hansen Happy Manicure sets and in this post I am covering the Insta-Dri set. This set includes:
Fast Fuchsia
A bright fuchsia color with a purple iridescent micro-shimmer

Lightening
A bright yellow creme

Lickety-Split Lime
A bright lime creme

Vigorous Violet
A bright violet with a purple iridescent micro-shimmer

 I had a really hard time picking up the micro-shimmer on Fast Fuchsia and Vigorous Violet.

I do like this collection of colors but they don't really work for the holiday season so I probably won't get much use out of these this winter but come spring I will.

Fall Loose Button Luxe Box

My Fall Luxe Box From Loose Button

I did not have the best experience with Loose Button company from the start so I will sum up what happened before going over the box contents. First off I paid for my box in early August and they estimated that the fall box would ship early September but they never informed the subscribers that they changed the ship date a couple of times. By the time they got around to letting the subscribers know when the boxes would be shipping it was already the end of September and I was getting ready to move to Germany. I had written the company to cancel my box but they wouldn't refund me so I changed the shipping but they still sent it to wrong address. It ended up getting forward to Germany but I was so tired of waiting 3 months for this box that when I opened it I was very underwhelmed.

So what did I get?

Sally Hansen Happy Manicure Limited Edition Set- Gem Crush

Since moving to Germany I have been trying to keep an eye out on post for nail polish but there is a very limited selection. Then I noticed three little sets of mini polishes from Sally Hansen. I have been eyeballing them for about a week and I finally caved and bought one set. These little mini bottles are just so irresistible.

So tiny but so cute!

Sally Hansen has 8 colors in the Gem Crush collection so I am glad I can try out half the collection without committing to a full size bottle. I know these colors have been around for about a year but since I don't normally buy drug store polishes I hadn't seen these before.

On to the swatches!

Sally Hansen Salon Effects Nail Color Strips Review

Sally Hansen Salon Effects Nail Strips in Animal Instinct (pink) and Rock N' Roar

CEW Insiders' Choice Beauty Box

This box is packed with so much stuff I couldn't actually believe it, not everything is high end product but most of it is stuff I wouldn't have tried just browsing at my local drug store. Several of the items included things I was really wanted to try but couldn't justify the price point (what if I didn't like it?) Other items I wasn't too sure about until I could try them. I think the best part of this box is that most of these items can be picked up at your local drugstore and the prices aren't too bad.

So here is what was in the box: