Sparkled Beauty

Another red-ish colour, for the holiday - SpaRitual Improvisation.

I don't normally come across this brand easily, except for the Winners/ Marshall group of stores. This particular shade was from the clearance section for $3.

SpaRitual has proven to be a brand that creates lots of good-looking polishes by the look in the bottle, but the performance on the nails sometimes differs. I found myself buying quite a few bottles just for the look and then played the luck game with them on the nails :)

Improvisation looks more of a muted pink with a hint of red, instead of straight-up red. The green/ blue sheen is more random on the nails than in the bottle, only when the light hits.

Pigmentation wise, it is still a little sheer after 2 coats. I would add another coat or probably just add this shade to the layering polish pile.

I lost my favorite mani/ pedi place near my mom's house, so I haven't had any fancy-looking NOTDs to show you like previous years. Wanted to do a Christmas-theme mani for you, but you know how bad I am with nail art, so we'll see.

We went to the beach for 3 days last week. I was "unplugged" totally and went without makeup the entire time, felt so liberated. Still had my nail polish on though :)

I couldn't help myself but wanting to try the rest of the Craze collection I got, so here is Rustic, a very deep rusty brown/bronze.

To me, it is truly a fall colour, when all the leaves turn brown and chill breeze is in the air. Goldmine is probably more appropriate for this time of year, but I'll get to it soon enough :-)

This is just 2 coats, very opaque already, fabulous! I didn't add any glitter this time, as Rustic was pretty on its own. Made me feel so cozy inside.

On a positive note, I did find the whole Craze collection at my Walmart, a different store from the one WetnWild pointed me to on twitter though, lol. The bottles were tucked away at the corner of the shelf, and each colour had about 2-3 bottles left.

I only picked up Shield and skipped Glitz (a glittery purple) as a dear friend had picked up for me a bunch of Sally Hansen new Xtreme Wear on sale, including the new glitters.

Didn't get anything from Shoppers except Sally Hansen New Lengths Ceramics in Diva, in clearance for CAD1 .

I found SpaRitual Amigo Matte top coat at Winners for only CAD4.99 (retail $15), thought I might as well try out the new matte polish trend.

While there, I tried on a very beautiful dress (CAD99.99), felt so glamorous. I had no intention to buy it, as I don't have an occasion to wear it to, but I was curious how a $100 dress felt like, lol.

The 2 Burt's Bees Beeswax lip balms are from the lip balm blitz at Planet Organic. The bf came in with me, so I could exchange 2. Love events like this!

And a little late on the vampire wagon, but I watched The Vampire Diaries last night. Besides the fact that Ian Somerhalder (Boone in "Lost") is in it, the 2 main characters are also cute together, and I like Elena's makeup, lol. It's just funny all of a sudden so many vampy things are on tv. Keeping people entertained, I guess.

It was very nice out on Saturday but gloomy today, I didn't feel like doing much. Hope you had a nice weekend!