New Milani Eyeshadow Palettes - Bold Obsessions and Most Loved Mattes

I stumbled upon these beauties in my local drugstore but they were totally sold out! Bummer, but only for a few days until I was able to order them directly from Milani's website at $20 each.  The palettes in the store were sold out, but they still had sample palettes to play with and swatch.  The colors looked so pretty and the golden glitter was calling my name.    

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Each palette has 12 shadows and are cased in a mirrored gold finish.  They also include a full size mirror.  

What's even better are the shadows inside.  Below is the Bold Obsessions palette.  Can you see why I'm crazy over the gold? It's even more beautiful in person.  This palette is a combo of shimmers and mattes, perfectly balanced to create numerous looks.  

A closer view of Obsessions.

The Most Loved Mattes palette is also beautiful, but many of the shades are close to my skin tone.  I just wish there were a few darker shades to create more of a contrast. 

After swatching I see more contrast but I still wish there were a few more dark colors!  I do like that there are several shades of beige (50 shades of beige, lol) because I find they all look different against my skin tone.  It's tricky to find just the right shade that serves as a base color and has some color correcting properties to help with the darkness of my lids. 

The palettes look and feel high quality.  The performance of the Bold Obsessions palette surprised me.  I tried 6 of the shadows and they applied and blended very easily.  They are pigmented and have great color payoff.  I also like the matte palette but honestly I have not used it yet.  

I think these are a great buy for what you are getting.  Their quality rivals some of the higher end brands at half the price!  

New Fall Drugstore Makeup: Milani Metallics

Hey beauties! I stumbled upon, the new Milani Metallics at my local drugstore.  They appear to be part of their Holiday collection (or marketed as such) because they were in a separate display.   I choose one shadow palette and lip creme from the collection. 

The shadow palette I choose is Metallic 08 Must Have Metallics Everyday Eyes

The swatches are really speaking for themselves. This palette is like a mini UD Heat palette but better.  All of the colors are gorgeous! 

Eye look I created with the palette. 

Milani Metallic Lip Cream: Making Me Matte 

Video on the above look. 

There were 2 lip cremes in the Holiday display.  I chose the darker color Making Me Matte, because I thought it would go along better with the eyeshadow.  There was also a lighter lip creme available.  Like the name suggests the lippie is metallic.  The best thing about it, is that it lasts all day!  The down side is that it can be drying. I countered that by applying lip balm first.   

I've been using these 2 products all week and I'm pleasantly surprised. The palette consists of 5 shimmers and one matte black and can be used alone to create an everyday or dramatic evening look. I normally don't wear shimmers as an all over/transition color, but surprisingly it worked!  Color 1, the largest color in the palette, is a shimmer and I was able to use it as an all over/transition color.  It's very pigmented and helped to camouflage my dark circles.   The orange and red (colors 3 and 4) blend effortlessly and the gold (color 2) was great as an inner eye shade.   Of course you can mix and match them however you choose.  Overall, I'm impressed with the performance of these products.  Definitely worth the ten bucks, but an even better deal if you can catch them at BOGO 50% off!

Milani Color Statement Collection - Summer Fall 2014

 I found the new Milani's at my local CVS hidden on a bottom shelf. Well not exact "hidden" but I could have easily passed them up. The polishes sport the new bottle shape, similar to Nails Inc but slightly larger. There were 12 polishes in the display: a couple of glitters, shimmers, cremes and 1 quick dry top coat.  I selected 4 colors along with the quick dry top coat.

Holiday Manis

Hope you're enjoying the Holidays! I had a great Christmas but now all I want to do is sleep and eat chocolate chip cookies. Part of me wants to get up and get moving but the other part wants to sit back, relax and enjoy the break :D

My current nail of the day is a foil stamp using the Red Angel plate RA-107. I really like the flower petal image so I tried it again with the Color Club Foil Collection over Wet N' Wild Black Creme. The outcome was a very dramatic but I like it!

The colors I choose were Cold Metal (blue), Perfect Molten (green), Hot Like Lava (pink) and Sally Hansen Silver Sweep. To create this look I randomly placed dots of each polish over the image then swiped. The colors will combine to create a swirled appearance. The silver is very dominant so you only need a smidgen.

I love this so much I might wear it for New Years Eve!

And my simple Christmas mani. I used 1 coat of Wet N' Wild Hallucinate and sponged Milani Melt In The Sun over it. The nail decal is by Born Pretty.

And those are my Holiday manis. Until next time, Happy Polishing!

Milani Gems Gradient

Today I created a glitter gradient using the Happy Birthday dupe Milani Gems. You have to be extra careful with this one because it goes on thick. Use 1/4th of what you think you'll need.

To create the gradient, I gently dabbed the brush onto the nail. For the base I used WnW Black and China Glaze Devotion for the tip. Super fast and super easy!

(Out of focus shot to show the glittery goodness)

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Holiday Manicure Ideas - 4

Hello dear Readers! I hope you're having a great weekend so far. Today I wanted to share more Holiday nails. I know black and white are not your traditional Holiday colors, but I think it's still pretty festive.


Carol of the Bells is one of my favorite Christmas songs and inspired this mani. For stamping I used China Glaze Hi-Tek & Color Club Where's the Soiree. I filled in the bells with China Glaze 5 Golden Rings, then topped it off with a couple of rhinestones and Milani Jewel Fx Gold glitter.

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Milani In a Flash and Melt in the Sun

Hi everyone! I wanted to make a really quick post about the Milani's I found on Sunday. I went on a hunt for the Liquid Metal Collection but unfortunately I could only find one which was Metal Gear. And since they were having a B1G1 50% off sale I also got In A Flash. I was really impressed with these two, especially Metal Gear. It was so pretty I just couldn't bring myself to stamp on it.

Here's "In A Flash" stamped with Konad white and image plate M63 which is great for a pseudo marbled effect.

2 coats over a nude base

Now for what you've been waiting for "Metal Gear". It's a beautiful burnt orange and went on with 2 coats. Can you say drool city?

I think this was a wise investment and I'll continue looking for her sister polishes, lol. I hope you guys have a great night. It's close to midnight here and I've got to get a few hours rest. Thanks for stopping by and if you haven't already please enter my giveaway!!!! The deadline is June 30 10pm Central Time (US)