OOTD: a peaceful day at the garden

I went to walk around a botanical garden today.  I've been to a botanical garden before, but not this one.  The botanical garden I visited was a small local one, which was neat and so well taken care of.  Since it's winter, I obviously didn't see a lot of color.  Just green and brown and no flowers or butterflies, but it was still a nice cozy walk.

black long sleeve shirt from Gap
black coat from Forever 21
navy blue chiffon pleated skirt from Abercrombie
black opaque tights from Gap
black boots from Steve Madden
bright purple purse from Coach

Christmas nails

I'm home for winter break!!!  Which means...... Christmas is almost here!  I am so excited!  Christmas is probably my favorite holiday of all because the whole world (maybe not the whole world) gets lit up with beautiful lights and decorations!  Since Christmas is right around the corner, I decided to paint my nails green, red, and gold.  And of course, I had to add glitter.  I'm pretty sure you've figured this out by now, but I really like painting my nails plain or with a glitter polish over the plain color.  

As you can see, I have just alternated the color.  These three colors are so so so pretty!  The green is a perfect Christmas tree green color with fine green glitter, which is not very visible.  This gold, let me tell you, is probably the most gorgeous gold polish I have ever seen.  It is super pigmented and packed with fine gold glitter.  I actually forgot the bring the red color that I wanted to wear, so I had to borrow my sister's red polish, but that's okay.  This red is just as pretty, but not as dark.  This red color is more of a pinky red with fine red glitter, but the one I wanted to wear was a deeper red with fine gold glitter.  And finally, I just painted the tips of my nails with a glitter polish.  The glitter polish consists of gold, silver, green, red, pink, and blue glitters and they are both chunky and fine glitters.  It matched the theme of my polish a lot, so I decided to top off the tips of my nails with this glitter polish.  

Green polish is called envy (Ulta salon formula)

Gold polish is called high roller (Ulta salon formula)

Red polish is called i stop for nicole (Nicole by OPI)

Glitter polish is called pinata yada yada (Ulta salon formula)

OOTD: Casual Sunday outfit

Today, I went out to buy materials for a nail polish rack that I'm planning to build.  I am so excited to work on this project!!!  Anyway, I wore this simple outfit to shop around comfortably.  And I have to mention that those boots that I got on black Friday are super comfortable.

black long sleeve shirt from Gap

green and brown coat from Gap

black skinny jeans from Ann Taylor

brown boots from Belk's

Annual sale haul from CVS and Walgreens!

I've never been to any Walgreens sales before, so this was a pretty exciting trip for me.  On the other hand, I always find awesome deals during the CVS sales, but unfortunately, this year, I don't think the deals were as good as before.  But I still picked up a few things, which I will show in a bit.  I went to Walgreens on Monday and went by CVS on Thursday.  I'm not sure how long these sales last, but you may want to stop by your local drugstore.  Maybe you'll find better deals! :)

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At Walgreens, I got 6 nail polishes and a lip product.  The four polishes with super cute packaging is the new Sally Hansen polishes.  The Jordana twist & shine moisturizing balm stain is awesome for its price!  It wasn't on sale, but as you all know, the Jordana products are all very affordable; I believe it was 2.99$, but I may be wrong.  The new Sally Hansen triple shine polishes were also not a part of the sale, but it had a promotion of buy one get one half off.  The Sally Hansen crackle polishes were about 2.50$ each.  I've never tried these crackle polishes.  I know I know, I'm super slow on this bandwagon, but that's because I really really love wearing my polishes plain.
In the third picture, I'm rocking the new hot pink lip color and showing off the blue sparkly polish!

At CVS, I just got a seven of these Sally Hansen salon effects nail strips.  I love these so much because they're so easy to apply!  And, they offer so many different cute prints too!  These are originally 10$, but with the 75%, they became 2.50$.  What a deal, huh?  I also got a Kiss nail dress.  This one is more like a sticker and they're just as good as the Sally Hansen ones.  Make sure not to apply top coat with the Kiss, but you can apply top coat with the Sally Hansen ones.  So glad I stocked up on these!
Okay, end of this haul!!  Until next time :)

Black & White polka dot nails

I am absolutely loving this new polka dot polish I got earlier this week!   I know these Maybelline color show polka dots collection came out a while ago; I think it came out in the summer, but I'm not quite sure.  I don't know what took so long for me to try them out.  I also got it in the blue color from the same polka dots line.

This color is sheer with the black and white polka dots.  The dots are different sizes; there are bigger and smaller dots.  If I knew this was going to be a sheer color, then I might have layered a base color below.  Maybe next time, I'll try this out with a very light color underneath.  Oh yes, this is called clearly spotted!  I almost forgot to mention the name of it.  If you are getting bored of the regular glitter polishes, you should give this line of polka dot polishes a shot!  Looks super fun and cool on the nails and in the bottle as well.

gray nudy glitter nails

I wasn't sure if I could post about my nails today because my internet's been down for few days.  Seriously, nothing annoys more than internet being super slow.  That's why I missed my "tea Tuesday" post this week; I'm sorry!  Okay, enough about internet being slow and blah blah blah.  This week, I wanted to rock a nude color because it's finals week so I wasn't feeling any fun color.  This nude color that I'm about to show you is one of my absolute favorite nude color!  I'm constantly looking for similar colors from different brands; I have no clue why because I have this one.  I always do that!  I always look for dupes when I have the product I love... So weird!!!  Are you like that too?  :O

The nude color has a gray undertone which I think looks great against my skin tone.  It's Ulta's salon formula nail lacquer in the color Set the Nude.  And since the nude color has a gray undertone, I thought it'll look great to pair it with this gray glitter polish.  The glitter polish is one of the polishes I got on black Friday, and it's called A Phil's Paradise from Nicole by OPI's Modern Family collection.  It has super fine silver glitter in it and it's such a pretty, fun color!
Hopefully, I won't miss anymore posts.  But I have to say, my internet is constantly acting up.  I'll try my best not to miss anymore posts. :)