Swatches and Comparison pt4

More swatches! :D Here we go!: 

FLASH!

Essie vs. Essie

(From L to R): Essie Peach Daiquiri, Essie Cute as a Button, Peach Daiquiri, Cute as a Button

this is 2 coats of each.

My camera doesn't like me. For some reason, It doesn't like to capture the colors true colors. *sigh. I need to play around to see if I can adjust the camera setting to see if the colors will capture better.

But in the mean time, these pictures will have to do. Hope you guys won't hate me haha. The non flash pictures are defintely too orange. These two colors are both pink. Peach Daiquiri is more a vibrant pink compared to Cute as a Button, which is a softer pink. In the picture with the flash, the flash soften the colors up a bit as well, I think it is more vibrant. 

I hope you guys are doing well! <3

Nail Polish Haul!

Sorry for not posting new things in a while, but there were some tragedies near Christmas time (worst time of year to have tragedies too!) so I haven't been able really in the mood to post things. And now that shock is finally starting to die down, another one gets blown in my face today. HA. Life just doesn't stop surprising you huh? ANYWAYS, here we go with the haul!

YAY! Who doesn't like nail polishes? haha I can't seem to stop buying nail polish...not that I don't want to. hehe. So I wasn't really planning on buying nail polishes for this haul, but funny story: 

I'm pretty much the only person in my immediate family that likes nail polish. When I go home, I always ask my mom and my sister (when she is back home) to do their nails, but they always refuse! (what?! i know right?) On Christmas night, I asked them to do their nails again, and my sister was looking through my collection when she saw my swatch of Nubar 2010 over Black, and she totally fell in love with the look of the rustiness and wanted me to instantly do the manicure on her. So the next day when we were on our way home, she asked where I go and buy nail polishes. We went to the stores and she picked out a couple polishes. I think she wanted the same Nubar 2010 polish, but I bought that online. And obviously, when I was around all the glorious nail polish, I wanted to buy some as well!

So here are the polishes I purchased! :

haulage!

L to R: Revlon Perplex, Revlon Star, OPI Russian Navy (matte), Ulta Jaded, Ulta Devious, Essie Tart Deco, Essie Going Incognito, Essie It's Genius, Sally Hansen Mint Sprint.

I like this picture way more, but I realized later when looking through photos that I had forgotten to put one more up and that is......

to the very right: China Glaze Ruby Pumps!

I have already done a couple manis with some of the polishes that I have planned to post up in the near future. Some are definitely new favorites, and some are honestly a bit disappointing to me. And you will see that they are. 

Do you guys have some of the colors I bought? If so, let me know which and if you like it or not!

Hope you guys are doing well!

<3CarissaKuo

Swatches and Comparison pt3

More swatches! Aren't you impressed that I'm keeping this up? haha :D I'm so proud of myself!

FLASH!

Essie vs. Ulta

(L to R): Essie Tart Deco, Ulta Peach Parfait, Tart Deco, Peach Parfait

3 coats of each here.

UGH, I hate how the camera distorts the color sometimes. This is one of them. If I put the camera on flash, the colors look too pink and if the camera isn't on flash, the color is too orange. BLAH. I think the actual color is the blend between the two pictures between flash and no flash. 

Anyways, as you can see, the colors are very similar. Tart Deco is just a tiny bit more pink and Peach Parfait is more..well, peachy. I think Ulta makes a lot of nice dupes of colors. Although its not my favorite polish, it is definitely not bad, especially for the price and all the sales that they have. I love sales! :) haha 

Hope you guys are all doing well! <3

Swatches and Comparison pt2

So most of the comparisons that I am doing is with nail polishes from the haul post I did a while back. 

Essence vs. Ulta

(From right to left): Essence No more Drama, Ulta Vintage Violet, No More Drama, Vintage Violet

This is 2 coats of each.

I am definitely eyeing the Essence polish more, although I love both. I'm not the biggest pink fan and the Ulta polish has a pink tint to it, but it's still gorgeous! This is also my first essence polish, and I am definitely not disappointed! Application was pretty smooth and the color is awesome! :)

Hope you guys are having a good one! <3

Swatches and Comparison pt1

So I decided to do some comparisons of polishes. This is first of many that I have lined up! 

Essence vs. Sally Hansen

One my nails (from left to right): Essence Space Queen, Sally Hansen Disco Ball, Space Queen, Disco Ball

In the bottle, Essence had a slight pink tint, but on the nails, they both look pretty much the same. In fact, I think they have almost the same glitter density as well. I love both of these though :) I love glitters!

Hope you guys are doing well! <3

Firsts of 2010!

So, I decided to make a lists of my first this year. My first of personal experiences, beauty boughts, and other random stuff. I don't know if anyone has made a tag for this, but I thought it would be fun to look back on this year and see how awesome it was!

Personal Experiences:

• first time I stayed over night in SF 
• first time to Seattle, Washington
• first time making sea glass candy
• first time being hit on by a random stranger (that I know of haha)
• first time to Fentons Creamery 
• first rode trip
• first time driving more than 15 minutes on the highway
• first time I've been to Davis
• first time buying/owning colored contacts, or any contacts
• first time going to the Philippines
• ^first time travelling with my best friend's family
• first time getting a manicure
• first time going into a movie theatre that only has 30 recliner chairs
• first time sitting in first class on the plane (free upgrade as well!)
• finally got a first cousin on my dad's side of the family
• went on the first family vacation since college started for me: Hawaii
• first seeing a sea turtle as close as I did while snorkling
• first acupuncture
• first time going to Boiling Crab
• first time kayaking and biking at Monterey
• first time going to Pogonip (a state park in Santa Cruz)
• first time seeing rainbow roses! very cool!
• first time singing in an open mic
• bought my first candles from bath and body works..Smells so good!
• first time posting any videos on youtube
• made my first tumblr
• made my first BLOG! :D

Beauty: My first year to start REALLY getting into make up and beauty

Face: 

• bought/owned my first foundation
• bought my first lipstick
• bought my first blush
• bought my first concealer
• bought my first mascara

Nail Polish:

• bought my first O.P.I. polish
• bought my first Orly polish
• bought my first China Glaze polish
• bought my first Essie polish
• bought my first Revlon polish
• bought my first Fingerpaint polish
• bought my first Man Glaze polish
• bought my first Wet n Wild polish
• bought my first Nubar polish
• bought my first Essence polish
• bought my first UV changing polish
• bought my first Poshe base coat

WOW...so many firsts, and I'm pretty positive that I'm missing a bunch too. And talk about splurging this year huh? haha so bad. I need to try to control myself this coming year...hopefully. :D I have definitely learned a lot this year, but can't wait to mentally grow and learn some more this coming year of 2011. I'm ready for all the challenged that I will have to face, BRING IT ON!! 

I hope you guys do this too! See how many experiences/things were your first for the year of 2010. 

Anyways, I hope you guys are doing well, Happy soon to be New Years! <3 

Swatches!

So I have finally decided to do some swatches..my first swatch post! hehe

Okay, so I put these colors together since these where the holiday polishes that came out and I'm sure you guys have all seen swatches of these colors anyways. But that okay, this is good practice for me for posting and swatching :)

The first color is China Glaze's Peace on Earth. I love this color. Such an awesome green yellow. This is 2 coats here. 

China Glaze's Jolly Holly. Here, I only did one coat, but it was opaque enough to stand alone.

China Glaze Little Drummer Boy. I don't think my camera really captured the right color, but let me say, it is such an amazing blue color and nicely opaque, this is only one coat. Love it! 

Anyways, so this is my first swatch post haha, I have more that I will be posting up :) Let me know how I can improve these swatch post, I feel like I didn't say much at all for this post...but maybe that is a good thing since I tend to ramble on about nothing :P hehe

Anyways, hope everyone is doing well. It is still in the holiday season, so, Happy Holidays! <3