Sally Hansen Salon Effects - Ghoulie Girl

Hi all. Today I am showing you the Sally Hansen Salon Effects strips in Ghoulie Girl.

I had never tried these strips until last night. I picked these up a few weeks ago at Walgreens and wanted to wait until closer to Halloween to use them. I have heard such good things about these strips -- unfortunately I can't agree with all the positive feedback.

The Ghoulie Girl strips are comprised of little orange and white ghosts on a black background. You get 16 strips in varying sizes in one pack. I've heard of people being able to get two nails done with one strip, but I am not so talented as to be able to do that.

Let's start with the positive -- the design is REALLY cute! And definitely not something I'd be able to recreate on my own, so the strips are good for that. They let people who aren't as good as nail art still have cute designs on their nails with minimal (kind of..) effort.

So what didn't I like about these? Well, first of all, I ripped one of them down the middle trying to get it off the backing. My nails are almost ALL between sizes so I got pieces of the strips on my skin and had no decent way to remove them besides scraping the excess off with an orange stick. Which made the sides all rough and jaggedy. Also, when I tried to file the excess off of the tip of my nail, it wouldn't make a clean cut. The tips of my nails are still all sharp and jaggedy and I feel like I messed up the shape of my nails trying to just get the extra strip off the ends.

They took FOREVER for me to put on (which I'll admit is probably because it was my first time using them) and I feel like I could've done three manis in the time it took me to apply ten nail decals.

I DO think these are cute, and they're a good alternative to doing your own nail art... I just don't think I'll be repurchasing. Especially for ten bucks a box. When I only got one mani out of it. And I don't think I'll be wearing these any longer than I would a normal mani. In fact, they probably won't stay on a day because I can't stand how there's little pieces of nail decal floating around on the tips of my nails and stuck to my skin.

At least they look cute?

What do you guys think of the Salon Effects strips? Do you like them? I think I'm probably the only person ever that has hated these :(

A lazy attempt at salvaging a failed mani :(

Hello! When I sat down to do my nails today, I wasn't feeling creative AT ALL and had no idea what color to use, so I settled on my fallback nail color which is For Audrey. I won't say much about this since I'm sure you all know, but here's 2 coats of For Audrey:

 

I wanted to put some foils on my nails going diagonally, but after I applied the glue and tried to apply the foils, it was a HOT MESS. I'm talking foil everywhere, smudged polish...it was terrible. So I removed the polish from the nails that I put the glue on and reapplied For Audrey. By this point I was so irritated at my failure of a mani day that I decided to just put some little stickers on, which was all fine and dandy until I realized that I put one sticker on upside down so it got stuck in my hair and messed up the polish. 

ON TOP OF THAT, it's about a billion degrees here in Indy so my camera fogged up (which I didn't know while I was taking pictures) and my hands look lobster-y. So, all in all, NOT a successful mani day. Maybe it was because I was rushing.. I have a phone interview today so I was trying to get them done quickly so I could have time to kill between when I finished and my interview. BLAH! Maybe tomorrow...poor nakey nails :(

-Amanda

Subtle...for me

I've just got a short post for you all today as I'm not feeling very well :(

This is pretty tame by my standards...but when I sat down to do my nails last night I just wasn't feeling any in your face nail art. Apparently I just decided to use in your face glitter polish instead :)

I started with three coats of Essie's Nice is Nice. Which isn't really very nice if you ask me... I always have so many problems with Essie's formula, but they do have some really nice colors in their collection. Do you guys dislike Essie's formula, or is it just me? Aside from the polish being sheer and streaky, it did dry quickly so I guess there's that. But I still say you're slacking, Essie. After that I topped my nails with one coat of OPI's Teenage Dream. I've gotta say...when the Katy Perry collection came out I wasn't too enthralled with the colors....until I tried this one for myself. I love it!! Last thing I did was put two little butterfly stickers on some of my nails... I think these ones are by Kiss. You can get them at any drugstore :)

 

Look at the holo goodness! I'm really liking this one even in all its simplicity.

Hope you're all having a nice weekend :)
-Amanda

One of my most favorite polishes - Commander in Chic and a special EOTD!

As the title states, today I have for you one of my most favorite colors. I know you all are probably tired of these greige colors for they are old news, but I love this. It's Sally Hansen's Commander in Chic. It's so neutral and well....chic at the same time! The formula on this one was good, aside from the tapered wide brush. I happen to like that it's wider because I can cover my nail quicker but the tapered middle of the brush IS kind of annoying. /End rant

Here is two coats of Commander in Chic:

I spruced it up with two coats of China Glaze's Gold Digger on the tips and put some little white rose nail stickers on every other nail.

So simple but I think it's pretty cute at the same time! What do you think?

I also have a picture of my makeup from Tuesday to show you all! I don't ever do makeup pictures but I was especially proud of this makeup. I decided to branch out and try the red in my Wet 'n' Wild Night Elf palette and I think it really turned out pretty well.

That's all I got for you guys today. Take care!

-Amanda