NOTD - OPI Meet Me On The Star Ferry

The polish that I have been wearing the last week is OPI's Meet Me On The Star Ferry. A gorgeous  metallic berry color with multi colored shimmer, and there is lots of shimmer. I've actually had this polish in my collection for a long time and I don't know why I haven't worn it before, this is one of my favorite polishes now.

artificial light

natural light

In natural light you see more of the metallic, and in other light you notice more shimmer. One of the things I love about this polish is that it's a dark color, but it's more of a wearable dark color, not so much of a pop in your face. 

I just can't stop gushing about this color, I am so in love. I've gotten lot's of compliments, and now I just keep shoving my hands in every ones faces showing them because I am so excited about this color.

-StayFabulous Girlies

NOTD - Sally Hansen Complete Salon Manicure in Yellow Kitty

 Spring spring spring!! I am just so excited and I keep showing it through my nails with yet another springtime polish of mine.  This is Sally Hansen's Complete Salon Manicure in Yellow kitty.
A beautiful canary yellow that is sometimes bright, and sometimes pastel depending on the light.

I picked this up sometime last year at walmart when they were having a sale, but never wore it till now.  I had no idea what on earth I was missing. I had seen Ingrid ( MissGlamorazzi ) have this in one of her videos and just fell in love the color. I wanted a yellow nail polish bad!!

 This is my only yellow nail polish, and I love it! the color and consistency are fabulous, and just looking at my nails made me happy :)

This is three coats though....the only downside since I am so impatient. I wish this were more opaque. Till they reformulate this, I am dealing with it.  This does dry fairly fast but 3 coats? come on...

I did see a post on Allison's blog ( Amarixe ) on a new Revlon polish called Buttercup that was gorgeous that I'm dying to pick up now that I've tried this.

This Little darling of mine sure loved this polish too :)
He couldn't stop rubbing the bottle and purring and meowing at me.

-StayFabulous

NOTD - OPI Come To Poppy

OPI - Come To Poppy

Spring is in the air. Finally! And as a salute to spring I decided to paint my nails the most spring-ish color from my collection.  This is OPI's Come To Poppy from their summer 2011 Nice Stems collection. A stunning bright poppy pink that leans slightly on the coral side.  Slight shimmer and high shine.  I used  two coats but you can definitely get away with one, because this polish is  pretty opaque.  This color is so young and fun and just screams  nice weather, so much i have it on both my hands and toes :)

 What's your favorite spring polish?

-StayFabulous


Few things I've been up to lately...

 My favorite breakfast joint that my friend shared with us while my boyfriend and I visited him in Calgary has opened a bunch of locations in BC!!  Cora's! This is one of my faves! 1990's harvest. It's pretty much a raisin cinnamon bun done up french toast style with an egg and some bacon and a pile of fruit. So Delicious!

I went to my first ever Canucks game. This was the Vancouver vs. Chicago game.

I'm not the biggest Canucks fan (maybe a Bieksa and Kesler fan *wink wink ), but I do love hockey!

 I got my hair done!! it's hard to tell from this picture but I got some natural blond streaks throughout all of my hair to lighten it up and some blond ombre in the front and a tiny in the back. I haven't loved my hair so much in such a long time. 

My friend Mike got one of those aging apps on his iPhone and when he sent me my picture I couldn't stop laughing!!

 And yesterday my bestie Carly and I spent practically the entire day together. We shopped for my boyfriends birthday present, had the yummiest wraps for lunch, then randomly decided to visit all the places she used to live in our city (she recently moved to a nearby city) and had so much fun. We went for a walk in some trails that were behind the last house we visited that we have so many memories from. We reminisced the bittersweet memories and I picked some wild daffodils that were nearby. Then we stopped at our high school that we used to go to and walked around looking at all the old classrooms and pictures on the wall. They had all the grad class photos except for ours :( we were really disappointed. Last stop we went to one of our favorite local pubs that have Tuesday wine specials and sipped on our pinot grigio and gossiped on the patio.  I ended the night going to see Titanic 3d with my boyfriend (And yes I had to drag him there. He had never seen it before! crazy.) It is just as amazing as I remembered it. I tried so hard to choke back the tears but caved during the scene when Rose is with jack on the water. It was the first time I cried in front of my boyfriend. Humiliating and memorable haha.

Do you have any embarrassing stories of crying in front of someone special?

NOTD - Butter London 's Yummy Mummy

NOTD- YUMMY MUMMY

Butter London's Yummy Mummy
11 ml / 4 Fl oz.

I remember seeing Yummy Mummy in a video on youtube from TiffanyD, and instantly I fell in love. I tried so hard to find this color in store but they were always out :(

Finally the mall in my town started carrying them at The Bay, and after I squealed in excitement I ran, yes RAN to the Butter London stand and searched for this color. And thank the heavens it was there!
I was hesitant to pay $17 CDN, but now that I've tried it a few times the price is well worth it for the quality and the color selection they have. If you find a color that you absolutely love, go for it. You won't regret it.

Yummy Mummy is a camel taupe color with lots of the same colored shimmer. The formula is super creamy, and incredibly opaque. The picture above is just one coat!!! and dries so fast ( Fast as in like 2 minutes go ) Sadly this seems like more of a fall color, but I needed to wear it just one more time before all this spring colors pop into season.

PS- The packaging is so friggen cute!

What are your favorite Butter London polishes?

-StayFabulous

NOTD OPI Crown Me Already

OPI

 Crown Me Already

OPI's Crown Me Already, is a sparkly silver polish from the Ms. Universe collection. It has shimmer, small glitter, and a bit of large glitter...all silver. Is it just me or do glitter polishes seem to dry a whole lot faster than regular polish? first coat was dry in less than a minute. Second was dry in less than a minute. wowza.  One coat is a gorgeous topper ( I love it over Essie Lady Like!) An two is magnificent on it's own.

-StayFabulous

China Glaze "Rainbow" review and swatch

China Glaze "Rainbow"

I don't own very many China Glaze nail polishes but the more that I buy, the more that I want! They dry so fast, are generally opaque, have a great brush applicater, and have a very vast selection of colors to choose from. (Not as many as OPI, but then agian who does?)

I was browsing the polish section when I saw this color that just stood out from the rest, and I couldnt grab it quick enough. Now I don't know if love at first sight exists for every area of life, but for this polish it was the real deal.

Not the best picture, but the only one where I could get any pink to show up on camera

It was so friggen hard to get a picture that had the pink pearl effect show up! In almost every lighting it just showed up as a pearly white, when just below my camera you could see this beautiful pearly pink that showed up as the light hit it at different angles.

Now the first picture of the bottle I would say is the true effect of the polish. It's a stunning snow colored white pearl with almost a duo-chromed effect of a pink/violet.  It's basically white until the light hits it at it's different angle and you see a pink glow.

It's not a color that people are going to notice from 15 feet away and be like "wow! whats that!" but rather something that is more subtle, but noticeable close up.

This is an 9/10 in my books!

With one coast it could add a fun topper to different base polishes but worn alone needs at least 2 coats to become opaque. So I'm not sure if the need for 2 coats is a con, or is that if with 1 coat you can use it as a fun top coat is a plus? That's up in the air for debate.

Never the less this is a unique color that I think is worth at least a look at.

-StayFabulous



On a little side note...its the middle of January and the snow has Finally come to Vancouver! *little late old man winter*