Estée Lauder Beyond Black Alternative

One of the trends this fall for nails are dark colors that are almost black. A famous ad campaign is estée lauder's beyond black collection. However if you do not have the budget to buy nail polishes that are $20 a bottle then the new Elf nail polish collection is a great alternative. It has a similar color effect.
The Elf nail polishes are $2 each at target. The downside to the Elf nail polishes are the smell and the fact that the bottles don't have nail polish names on them. You just have to go by color. I bought 3 which includes a dark teal, dark emerald and a dark purple. The dark purple reminds me a of nail polish in the estee lauder bête noire and the dark emerald reminds me of viper.
It's hard to get the color right in pictures. These colors look so much better in person.

E.L.F. Hypershine Gloss in Fairy

I totally love this. It's like my new fave lipgloss. It looks lovely and it feels great. Plus the price is amazing for only $0.99 at Target. I just applies EOS lip balm then the gloss for the swatches below.

Wet n Wild Fergie Collection in Grammy Gold

Here is another color from the Fergie Collection. I love it as well. Great price and quality.

Wet n Wild Fergie Collection in Going Platinum

The new Wet n Wild Fergie collection is out now at CVS. They have the nail polishes on sale for $1.99 and there is a $1 off coupon from Redplum. With the coupon, the nail polishes are a steal for $0.99 plus tax.

I love these nail polishes. They are great for fall with the metallic trend. Great quality with easy application because it comes with the broad brush like in the Wet n Wild Megalast nail polishes.

Get them while you can.

I love that this silver nail polish has very slight gold shimmer running through it. It makes it different from other silver nail polishes.

FOTD- Dior Travel Palette

I have found my love for Dior again as I was going through some of my makeup today. It's been awhile since I used this palette so I used it today and I am very happy with it. I will try to use it more often. The colors in this palette are universally appealing and it has great quality. Although if you don't like shimmer then this palette is not good for you.

Wet n Wild Megalast in Sugar Coat

I love this nail polish. It's a great value, only $1.68 at Walmart. It's a great everyday color and it lasts a very long time. Application is also very easy as well because of the broader, sturdier brush.

Free OCC Lip Tar

lecosmetique.com is having a promo now til Wednesday, September 12, 2012. If you spend $30 or more, you can get a free OCC Lip Tar of your choice. I think this is great because one lip tar retails for $15. Plus what I love about this site is that they have great customer service, good prices and fast shipping. Shipping is also free in the US, no matter what you buy.

Butter London in Pink Ribbon

So I finally got to buy some Butter London nail polishes yesterday because Ulta had a buy one get one free sale yesterday. I had high expectations for this brand because each polish normally retails for $14. I was a bit disappointed however with this color because of its very sheer, jelly finish. To me, it looked better in the bottle. Nonetheless, the nail polish goes on very smoothly and would be great for French nails. I just put it on so I can't really comment on its longevity. I will update you on that later. Overall, I would give it 3 out of 5 stars. I feel like you can get a Wet n Wild nail polish that will perform the same.

I used two coats and one coat of Seche Vite top coat.

Defiance

Don't let your colours fade.
[Water colours, Ink and fine-tip black pen]

Hope you like it! xoxo

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