FingerPaints - Summer in the City

Finger Paints: Sexy Sundress, To-Teally Hot, & Late Night Rendez-Vous

Sally Girl: In Love & (no name)

California Mango Magic Cuticle Treatment Oil




My local Sally Beauty flyer featured some new Finger Paints polishes. I picked up a few of the colors. I don't have any spring/summer greens so I can't wait to wear Sexy Sundress. Have you tried any of the new colors yet? So far I am enjoying the cuticle oil. It smells great and the small size is nice before committing to a giant bottle that will last a long time. 

Sally Beauty Haul

 Orly: Love Each Other & Fifty Four China Glaze: Re-fresh Mint Barielle: Advanced Top Coat Pro

 Sally's was having a buy one get two free sale on their polishes so I couldn't resist picking a few up. I don't have many Orly polishes and the sparkles were calling my name. Re-fresh Mint is a classic and I wanted a polish with green tones without being GREEN. I like to try out different top coats and saw that Sally's is now carrying Barielle. I'll let you know what I think of the topcoat.

Sally's Haul - Finger Paints

Finger Paints: Pop Rock Pink, Prints & Printsess, Circus Peanuts, & Grape Gumball.

I have been dying to get my fingers on some of the new Finger Paints Gum Drops & Lollipops collection polishes. They are exclusive to Sally Beauty, but when I asked my local store if they were going to carry them the sales lady looked at me like I had three eyeballs. I was debating buying them online until I got a flyer in the mail announcing a new store opening across town. I was SO excited to find that the new store had most of the colors. I picked up three, but wanted them all. Prints & Printsess is not part of the collection, I'm just on a quest to find a nice peach or tangerine for my skin tone. 

small Rite-Aid haul

Rite-Aid had some polish deals this week so I picked up a few new (to me) polishes. I think I will try a subtle mani with Walk on the Beach and Galactic on accent nails. I'm curious about the disco polish...it has "black light nail polish" written on the bottle. Does it glow?

Chameleon: Galatic & Calypso Jesse's Girl: Confetti

L'Oreal:  Walk on the Beach & Versailles Romance L.A. Girl: Vinyl Record Revlon: Royal

Color Club tape mani

I absolutely love the creamy pink color of Color Club's Blushing Rose, however I do not like the formula. It was streaky with two coats and on some fingers even streaky with three coats. I'm bummed because it's my first time trying Color Club and I had hoped to buy more colors. 

Color Club: Blushing Pink & Sweetpea China Glaze: Spontaneous

I used blue painters tape to create a striped accent nail (it reminds me of fruit striped gum!) I love the look, but you really have to make sure each coat is fully dry or your tape will pull off the polish. By the time I got to the last color I had 5 layers of polish on my nail. 

Rite Aid Haul - Color Club

Color Club: Blushing Rose & Sweetpea, Sinful Colors: Outrages & Lets Meet Wet N Wild: Penny For your Thoughts 

I've seen Color Club swatches all over the place and was bummed I couldn't find them in my area. Imagine my shock when I walked in to a Rite-aid and they had a whole pretty display of them! I found the Blossoming Spring 2012 collection. The colors are soft and dreamy. I wanted ALL of them, but settled for the two pinky colors. The display was full, but they didn't have Diamond Drops =( I plan on doing a graduated mani with the two Color Clubs and the Sinful Colors polish. They had most of the nail polish displays above eye-level, so I have a feeling that's why they were untouched.

I also found two Wet N' Wild displays Chrome and Neon Crackle. I skipped over the crackle, but I did snag a Chrome polish. The Chrome polishes are a bit more expensive at $3.99 a bottle so I want to make sure I like it before buying more.

I picked up the random yellow polish because I don't have any and want to do a summery water marble mani soon.

And last, but not least I picked up Maybelline Instant Age Rewind Protector Finishing Powder. Holy hell with a loooong name like that it better work! It was mentioned on a YouTube video for being a good Mac MSF dupe.

Nail Polish Storage

As you can see my current storage method is just not working out! I've been researching some different storage options like shoe boxes and drawer units. Ultimately I decided to try a scrapbook storage cube. Michael's had storage products 40% off and I had a 20% off my entire purchase coupon making the cube only $16.79. A deal if you ask me! 

All you need is a cube and some shelf liner to keep the bottles from sliding around. 

I dumped out all my polishes and sorted them by brand. I was tempted to sort them by color, but I think it will be easier to keep from buying duplicates this way. 

Tada! Here is my cube all filled up. Well thankfully it isn't totally FULL =) 

Bottom Drawer: Kleancolor, Claire's, Nails Inc, Finger Paints, Spoiled, Wet N Wild, & Red Carpet Manicure.

Middle Drawer: Sally Hansen, Milani, Ulta, Revlon, Loreal, & Essence. 

Top Drawer: China Glaze, Zoya, Orly, Sephora by Opi, Essie, and Nicole by Opi. 

I decided to put all my tools, base coats, top coats, and Konad plates in a bin on top of the drawers.