WEEKLY BEAUTY CRUSH: SALLY HANSEN X CRAYOLA

WHY I'M CRUSHING
This week Sally Hansen released its latest bold and bright collaboration with none other than, Crayola. The collaboration is a part of my favorite Sally Hansen line, the Insta-Dri series which dries in 60-seconds flat. The quick drying feature is a necessity for a busy mom like myself. The 12 colors range from a saturated red to a muted white.

WHY YOU SHOULD BE CRUSHING
Just in time for the Back to School season to start, this colorful collection is reminiscent of the crayons we all know and love. If you have a girly-girl on your back to school shopping list this would be the perfect addition to her list. The quick dry time will make it easy to switch out colors as quickly as these kids come out with a new app these days. The colors include:

Wild Strawberry, Sunset Orange, Carnation Pink, Dandelion, Granny Smith Apple, Cerulean, Vivid Violet, White, Razzmatazz, Scarlet, Denim, Purple Heart. 

PURCHASE DEETS:

Availability: Available for purchase beginning July 1st

Price: $5

Where: select retailers nationwide

#MANIMONDAY - COLOR FRENZY

 

The Scoop

Happy Labor Day everyone! This week I'm showing a little U.S.A pride for this week’s #ManiMonday. And, just a slight update on last week’s #ManiMonday post – I took the Sally Hansen Fuzzy Coat off yesterday and it did require a little elbow work to fully remove the “fuzz”. I definitely had to use more polish remover pads than I normally would. This week I used more Sally Hansen products the first is the Sally Hansen Hard as Nails Extreme Wear ($10, amazon.com) nail color in “White Out” and covered it with the Sally Hansen Color Frenzy Textured Nail Color ($3, ulta.com)  in “Red,White, & Hue”. The color Color Frenzy line has been flying off the shelves; Amazon even says there’s only one left in stock. 

About Sally Hansen Fuzzy Coat

The Sally Hansen Color Frenzy Collection is a line of nail polishes featuring 8 unique splatter effect multi-dimensional glitters. In looking at the bottle you get the impression that there will be this explosion of glitter on your nails when it’s applied however I did not feel that was the case (and you’ll see what I mean in the pictures below). So needless to say I was a little disappointed in the amount of glitter that was left on my nails. In addition, the “Red, White, & Hue” polish is made with a pink tinted clear polish so when I placed it over my white nail polish it dulled down the color. My nails also took forever to dry, I woke up this morning with impressions on my nails and this was after my nails had ample hours of dry time. So with all of this I was not a huge fan of this week’s mani. I was pleasantly surprised however with the Hard as Nails nail polish because of the value – it was great for the $3 price tag.  

The Look

Despite the pink tint of the Color Frenzy polish my nails still came out pretty white…

 

#MANIMONDAY - PLAYING KOI

 

The Scoop

Look at me, super on top of my #manimonday post this week. I’m getting better, you guys should be so proud. Since I shamelessly plugged Sally Hansen’s Insta-Dri nail polish in last week’s post I figured I would go with a Sally Hansen color this week. I am in L-O-V-E with this shade of orange called, “Play Koi” from the brand’s Triple Shine collection.

Although some people aren’t huge fans of Sally Hansen’s wide/flat brushes I love them. They work so well if you are like me and have large nail beds (hey we can’t all have small dainty hands ladies haha). The brush picks up just the right amount of color and the polish formula is not streaky at all.

Here I am still using my Probelle Nail Hardener as a base and a top coat coupled with two coats of the Sally Hansen polish. Check it out….

 

What has been your favorite tangerine shade to rock this summer?

 

 

 

 

 

 

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SHADES OF SUMMER

 

1.      Obsessive Compulsive Cosmetics Matte Lip Tar in True Cyan Blue, $18 (occmakeup.com)

2.      Debra Lippman Nail Lacquer in ‘Video Killed the Radio Star’, $18 (ulta.com)

3.      Ulta Color Coat Cream Eyeshadow in ‘Magentic Blue’, $8 (ulta.com)

4.      Sally Hansen Triple Shine Nail Polish in “Play Koi’, $5 (drugstore.com)

5.      Mally The Perfect Bright Lip 2-Piece System in ‘Sexy Siren’, $26 (qvc.com)

6.      Clark’s Botanicals Ultra Rich Lip Tint in ‘Because I love you’, $19 (clarksbotanicals.com)

7.      Sigma Beauty Eyeshadow in ‘Catch’, $11 (sigmabeauty.com)

8.      MAKE UP FOR EVER Eyeshadow in ‘Matte Cold Red’, $21 (sephora.com)

9.      Josie Maran Argan Infinity Lip & Cheek Creamy Oil in ‘Endless Guava’, $18 (sephora.com)

10.  Pop Beauty Nail Glam in ‘Cute Coral’, $10 (Walgreens.com)

11.   Ka’Oir Lipstick in ‘Banana Milkshake’,  $18 (kaoir.com)

12.  Pop Beauty Nail Glam in ‘Sunny’, $10 (beauty.com)

13.  M.A.C. Cosmetics Eyeshadow in ‘Chrome Yellow’, $15 (maccosmetics.com)

14.  Smashbox BE Legendary Lip gloss in ‘Azalea’, $20 (smashbox.com

15.  Lauren B. Beauty Nail Couture in ‘#ImSoLA’, $18 (laurenbbeauty.com)

16.  Urban Decay Eyeshadow in ‘Woodstock’, $18 (urbandecay.com)

17.  Whitening Lightning Lighted Lip Gloss in ‘Bermuda Exotic’, $24 (whiteninglightning)

18.  OCC Nail Lacquer in ‘Electric Sheep’, $10 (sephora.com)

19.  bareMinerals Eyeshadow in ‘Princess’, $14 (beauty.com)

 

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Therapy

Therapy…

…sometimes you just need a little. Call it a quarter-life crisis if you want. Call it a “give me a sign I’m doing the right thing” from powers greater than one’s self if you will. But at some point we all let go of the wheel and allow our life to unfold uninterrupted by our own control issues. Let’s say I’m in that place. 

Now, this current state I would say was forced upon me. Those close to me know that last year I worked my little booty off to move back to NYC and start over. Well, it wasn’t long before I had to come to terms with the fact that NYC may not be for me anymore. On January 10^th while walking home (in Jersey City) from work (in NYC) I slipped on ice and broke my ankle on both sides (MOTHER FU&*%R)! 

[My ankle, present day; swollen and scarred.]

So that dream job I JUST landed disappeared and city living quickly lost its shiny sparkling luster. A recovery that started out estimated at three months is now pushing on month five and will probably go into at least month six. I still have to get a second surgery for crying out loud and I still have a lot of pain when I walk (with a limp might I add).

So, what to do you when you’re driving along in life and someone throws a brick at your windshield? You buy stationary!!!

[Planner $3, Notebook $4, Notecards, $1 ea, Pencils $4 (Target)]

…and beauty products (of course)!

I suppose for me I always take things like this happening as a sign to focus on things I’m really passionate about. Perhaps that “dream” job I worked so desperately to get wasn’t really MY dream at all? 

So now I have the opportunity to put my time and energy into things that I am passionate about such as blogging and growing my children’s online website (Lonon-Rock.com).

 I hope that you guys are still rocking with me even though I’ve been on a hiatus while I’ve been trying to recover from this injury. Moving forward I definitely want to incorporate more mommy focused posts on the site since being a mother is such a huge part of my life now. Check out my handsome little first born…. 

[London James, Age 2]