Polish Haul, NOTW + Update on Ze Collection

Hello, loves.

It's Wednesday.

I'm frustrated because I'm living with this HUGE zit on my chin. I swear, it's prolly one of the biggest I've ever had, if not the biggest.

I took a picture but then I was like "ugh, that's completely disgusting. Do not want!"

Haha. Can't believe I even got the idea. Guess I'm *that* out of it.

ANYWAY.

Early this week (I think it was Monday?) I finally got my notice!

Did my first eBay purchase and after about 3 weeks of waiting. Tadaaaa.

But I didn't get it Monday or Tuesday because of my exam =\

So today I decided to go for it!

Caught a cab, just so I didn't have to deal with commuting and getting stressed that I wouldn't make it there before their lunch break. I left past 10 I think.

I went to the posty and I was on a jeep to my uni by 11. I felt so awesome for the quickness :p

I got to school super early (try 11:15ish?) and so I just waited around 'til Mai came a little past 12 and we had lunch at Kido Manga :D

Damn. Gotta stop eating junk, huh? ._.

Haha. That's when I examined my package more.

Though it's annoying to get stuff from the post office (I CANNOT see why it's SO hard to send things to my house. Srsly) I love getting stuff in the mail. At an age where everything's so quick and stuff, there's something about getting something in the mail that just gets me so excited. Mai thought I looked like a kid getting excited over this :p

Everything came secure! I just wished they were all upright and stuff, but meh, I'm just anal about things like that because of my OCD :p Took a look at them but the lighting was bad at the place (yellow/orange) so I just saved all the waiting for later :p So that's four bottles :p

Then we had class. It ended early and me and Mai just went around the mall. After lots of walking, we ended up at Nail Up, a stall at the mall with lots of nail stuff :D

After looking around, I couldn't resist picking up a few things D:

So after walking a lot (my feet hurt D:) We finally headed home.

And now it's time to see what I've got :D

[Haha, you can totally tell I've been taking pics with PhotoBooth on my Mac before doing the blog :p] The four on the left was from my eBay purchase and the two on the left were from Nail Up :D I got the ones on the left for ($27.96) P1,629php and the ones on the right for 200php :) I think the eBay purchase was worth it, if I were to order anywhere else, I think it would've cost a lot more =\ The thing that made it expensive was the shipping. Otherwise all four bottles would only be $15.96. Yes, $12 for shipping. Outrageous :p

Got Seche Clear Base Coat and Seche Vite Dry Fast Top Coat :) I've been hearing mad raves about this so it's really got me curious. It's not really available around here so for the longest time I'd just sit around wishing I had it. I'm intrigued by how people talk about how shiny it is and all. Can't wait to use them! I'd have to finish off my Orly Top2Bottom first though :p I'm through half a bottle so it's all good :)

Next up is China Glaze 2030 and Millennium. These came out in the 2009 Khrome collection. I didn't know about them. It's actually Sol who sparked my interest in 2030 and got me to searching about the collection. I didn't think I'd be able to get it because she said it wasn't available but when I saw that a seller on Multiply had it, I went ahead and ordered it. Sent an order form and everything. I asked if it was available so I went for it (despite the outrageous price of 480php) and you know what? To my dismay, it wasn't in stock. Fail. That night I went on eBay (no idea what possessed me) and looked up polishes! I let all my frets on eBay go and went ahead and ordered. Set up for combined shipping and the waiting game was on! Here's what they look like!

• Swatches from Scrangie
• Swatches from VampyVarnish

Next two is BK polish in #40 (120php) and BNC Nail Color in M22 from Daewon Cosmetics (what a mouthful :p, 80php). I'm not really sure if the BK one is really named #40, it's only #40 on the swatch board and when I tried looking it up online, weird crap turned up (please don't search for BK polishes ._. it's traumatizing. You'll see why if you do, don't blame me) so let's just call it that. It's actually kinda cool, reminds me of something like Bad Fairy (sans the glitteryness) from MAC's VV collection, specifically the Maleficent part. I'm not saying it's a dupe (and from the swatch, doesn't look like it, then again, it was just one coat) but I'm happy with it all the same. As for M22, ya'll know how I felt about the Orly Cosmic FX line not coming out here right? Though Hannah awesomely offered she could get them for me (Thanks, love :D) I thought long and hard about it but when I went to nail up and saw M22, I no longer felt bad and instead, a light bulb went on in my head. It's not really how it's shown in the bottle. It's clear with lots of blue and blue green sparkles. It looks divine over black and I'm guessing it could spice up a lot of polishes into looking a little more special :) I may not have Haley's Comet and the other polishes I was lemming for but hey, I still have it good as it is :D

A second shot at #40 just because it deserves it.

Now for my NOTW :D

Used Caronia in Goddess as my base. Not really loving the color a whole lot, and to be frank, I don't like their formula much anymore. I wasn't happy with how un-smooth the white was (just thought I had a bad bottle) but when I used this and it chipped the next day, I was like, "Okay, sticking to Bobbie" =\ And I thought Caronia was the shizz. Guess I was wrong D:

My design - stamped flowers on and used my dotting tool to put on a curve of dots. Looks kind of Chinese-themed to me. I like it a lot. And yes, pardon my chipped index finger. The pic was taken while I was studying for my exam, not after I finished my mani =\

Yay for failed symmetry! Haha. It's hard working with my left hand ._.

Now I remember Em's question a while back about my nail polishes, talked to Mai about it actually. And bringing these new babies home, I had to reorganize because I didn't think they'd all fit D: (and yeah, not everything fit in one place because of my nail art stuff and whatnot, so I put polishes and prep stuff in one place and others in another... 'til I find a better solution)

Here's what it's like now :)

Yay! OCD STILL APPROVES! Haha. So those are the polishes, glitter stuff and treatments (base coat, top coat, matte top coat). So far I've got Orly, Seche, BK, China Glaze, Chic, Caronia, Bobbie, ones from HK, OPI, Wet'n'Wild, 24k, forgot the brand of the other thing, and Sinful Cosmetics.

The rest though, is not in such an orderly home.

OCD does NOT approve =\. I've got nail stickers in here. Nail paints, dotting tool, cuticle remover, emery boards, glass nail file, nail art pen, image plates, stamping stuff, a brush, cut up paper plate wedges for when I'm doing "art" and all that. Can't even close this chest ._. Oh wells.

These have to go though, their time is done :)) Well except the rightmost. I just didn't like the color but I put it back in my storage after because I felt bad since there was nothing wrong with it :p

Status?

• 46 polishes
• 3 glittery things
• 4 nail "treatments"
• 5 nail paints
• 3 things that gotta go

Damn. Honestly didn't think I'd fill up my little storage thing. Wow. Hopefully when sembreak comes along I would be able to:

• Tidy up my room
• Get my freaking license (for the love of all that is good)
• Fix my set up with makeup/nail polish
• Get a job and make Xmas pressie moolah :p (and possibly Xmas pressie moolah.. for me? :D)

So there.

Now I leave you with a shot of DQ ice cream cake from my cousin's bday

Yum. It was delightful :D

'Til then,

Love muchness,

Ciao!!!