At Your Fingertips: November 2012

Friday, November 30, 2012

Polish Swap with Laura at Mice in the Kitchen

I love polish swaps. It's always a surprise in a package and so exciting- you never know what the other person picked out for you! Due to loooooving swaps, I joined the LaLa Lists and Lipgloss and Crayons nail polish swap.

I was paired up with Laura from Mice in the Kitchen (such a cute name!). We weren't provided with much information and I wanted to make sure I got Laura polishes that she would like so I quickly emailed her. After a few emails back and forth I was ready to go shopping!

Just a few days after I sent Laura's package out, I received hers. I was sooooo excited to open it!

Spencer was super excited too. (pardon the creepy yellow eyes :))

Look at those beauties! All three of these were original to my stash and amazing with their own right. Sally Hansen's are good for stamping and I know that gold is going to be my go to for that!

I decided to try the Lustre Shine (a new collection that Salley recently released). Let me tell you, this color was fantastic. Three easy coats and great coverage.

Plus, it's such a unique color in my stash. I have NOTHING like this at all! The pictures don't do it justice but take a look.

Thank you again Laura! I will enjoy theses lovelies and proudly display them with the rest of their sisters in my mountain of polish.

Anyone else join a holiday swap and get amazing new beauties?

<3 Krystan

Thursday, November 29, 2012

Swap from Aylin

Back in May, I saw a post on someone's blog (sorry I can't remember who) about a limited edition Essence collection. Now me, I'm a huge Disney fan. When I say Disney, what I really mean is Disney Princess'. I looooove Disney Princess'! When I was in college, my friends knew how much I loved Disney Princess' and they got me all this silly little girl stuff like a princess bingo game, a small princess tent, stickers. Silly things but I made me laugh. Back to the polish...Essence was coming out with a Snow White Collection...and I had to have it! I mean seriously, 4 full size polishes (one a apple red and the other 3 glitter toppers) and 7 mini's (each named after one of the seven dwarfs)- so cute!

Unfortunately, Essence wasn't going to be releasing this limited edition collection anytime soon in the United States. So, I scoured Ebay, posted on LiveJournal, and begged just about anyone I could find to help me get this collection. Then, I say a post on one of the mini polishes on a blog I follow: Posh Nail Art. Aylin was amazing enough to send me the WHOLE collection! Including the nail file and the stickers! And then, she included 4 other polishes!!! Goodness, I was so excited and extremely grateful. I was able to track down some of her lemmings and help her out too.

I have only used one of the mini's so far but have no fear, I will feature them all at one point.

Thank you so much again Aylin!

Have you gotten to kill any lemmings through a swap? Have a favorite swap buddy?

<3 Krystan

CG Riveting

I know I have been gone for awhile. Life got in the way of things. But hey, let's get back to it shall we?

I wasn't a fan of The Hunger Games until I went to see the first movie. After that, I couldn't put the books down. So exciting! I kept thinking about what Katniss would be doing.

This leads me to Riveting. Which is exactly what it is!

Such an amazing fire orange. I love the gold flecks in it too!

Beautiful though it was, I wanted more. So I added Cirque's French Roast.

I won French Roast from a giveaway run by The Polished Perfectionist a few months ago.

This ended up being an amazing combo! French Roast is a brown glitter with slightly larger, and darker browns mixed it. It really did look like tiny coffee grounds (and I love me some coffee).