USA! USA! USA!

Earlier in the month I went down to the USA for my annual cross border polish shopping. I got to spend good quality time with my mom and Aunts, we didnt stuff our faces like usual and we all found some great bargains. I had a really nice time just hanging out with them at the hotel, and all the mcDonalds coffee I had was really good, too.❤

Onto the shopping !!! Oh Dollar Tree - I love you more than the Dollar Rama - but not more then my favorite dollar store in my town ( Looney - Twoons dollar store ). Every time I go to the USA  - I buy the most stuff and my favorite things are from the Dollar Tree. I did find that Kmart had some great deals on make-up and polish - I found the 2 Insta Dri's I was looking for ( Coco a-Go-Go and Bronze Ablaze ) I wasnt sure if they were coming to Canada so I figured I should grab them when I saw them.....

So this is a haul post - Its Friday night ATM and I am ready to hop into bed with a big bowl of chips to watch a movie- If I dont get up early to correct spelling grammer and add proper names to this post - Sorry!!! ❤

 Check out these awesome cheetah nails from the Dollar Tree!

holographic cheetah print - yeaaaaaaaah!

soooo pretty - I love the white base on these

I picked up a few sets of these nail polish's from the Dollar Tree - they are made by Markwins which also makes Wet n Wild Products. I struggle with bottle handles like these...... but I hope to mess around and make some cool frankens. There is a very nice fleck in the apricot and rose coloured polish's

these have no names...... lets give them names!!!!

I also found some double packs of NYC Long Wearing Polish.... If you dont already know about the magesty of NYC Love letters there is a photo below - ( these are .99 cents at Target!!!! )

L-R Love Letters, Scandelous Blue Glitter, Glitzy Grape Glitter

here it is layered over..... something. NYC Love Letters walmart/Traget USA = 99 Cents!

 I have already swatched the pretty purple on the right, These Nail Fetish polish's came with nail stickers or a nail file. I left behind quite a few shades, a gold, shimmery black and a darker vampy purple.

L-R Babe, Clash, Scorpion, Tank Top

See - the Dollar Tree is where its at! The local store I buy by LA Colors polish from charges 4 bucks each for these Nail Art Polish's.

I will likely do a whole post on all my stripe polish. I do not find any different in quality among all the brands I have tried. Does anyone else?

.... and I picked up a few glittery color Craze polish's as well. I have duped myself as I now have these 5 polish's below in stripe polish above LOL!

I took these out of the package without recording their names..... I'll have to hit up the LA Colors website for the proper names.

and a visit to Kmart proved successful. I love Kmart. We used to have them in Canada but when Walmart came that is who they bought out and took over the stores. Below is Coco A-Go-Go and Bronze Ablaze.

I happened to walk by the nail art section( even though technically I am not allowed to buy any more stickers/ nail art items till 2012) and found these on sale for $3.99 = okay; these are $10.99 or more in Canada. Is there some reason that Kiss products are double or triple compared to USA prices? Anyhoo - I had just seen the most fabulous dot manicure on ABOP and snagged these to copy..... for 1/3 of the cost in Canada, grrrrrrr.

I knew that Sinful Colors were on sale for .99 cents at Walgreens in the USA thanks to Nouvea Cheap who lovingly keeps North America posted as to what sales are going down in American stores, but I was pleasantly surprised that Wet n Wild Fast Dry polish was also .99 cents so I couldn't pass that up either! 2 of these I had already.... the ones I passed on were dupes of polish's I had already.

I'm soooooooo lazy - do I really have to name these?

And the Sinful Color polish's I was looking forward to finding at Walgreens I love the form ula on the creme polish's. I can always count on 2 to 3 coats with Sinful Colours.

Happy Ending, Cream Pink, Nirvana, Fly Away, & NYC In a New York Minute Backstage Brown from Kmart

Unicorn, Savage, Rich in Heart, Innocent, I Miss You

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♥ NYC Mulberry Street & NYC Taxi Yellow Creme ♥

NYC Taxi Yellow Creme - 2 coats layered over NYC Mulberry Street & 1 coat of TC

This polish NYC Taxi Yellow Creme is opaque in 3 coats, however, I layered it over a pretty sand coloured polish NYC Mulberry Street. This is a nice shade and finish of yellow.... it's not too in your face and the subtle shimmer in it is very pretty. I picked this up in the USA for .93 cents. Many of these NYC polish's require a few extra coats more than other DS polish's, But they have a quick drying formula, sometimes faster drying then the more expensive brands. 

I honestly cannot see the difference between Drug Store polish's, such as this brand NYC, and the more expensive brands such as OPI and China Glaze. I would say the only downside is selection, there are approximately 15-ish colours in the NYC  Long Wearing Nail Enamel line, and 25 or so in the NYC In a New York Minute Line.

While I am desperately trying to limit the volume of polish's I acquire due to space, I think that every single NYC polish I have seen first hand and on the interwebz is very pretty and worth having. Even the 'boring' shades like Mulberry Street have impressed me.

♥ Thank You NYC polish - Your polish's are fabulous! I wish I didn't ignore you all those years ♥

{p.s. I took most of these photos in my jammies by a sunny window. It is already getting too cold to go outside for photo ops in the a.m. }

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Below is 3 coats of NYC Mulberry Street with a coat of Nailene Acrylic Strong Top Coat. It is a girly sand coloured shimmer; I had my eye on this polish for a while but never picked it up for some reason. I thought it would be brush strok-ey and plain. The shimmery-ness keeps it from being boring, the colour is very nice and I think this is one of those shades of polish that makes you look like you have a tan. I wore this for the day before I topped it off with the yellow polish above.

NYC Mulberry Street - 3 coats  - 1 Coat of Nailene acrylic Strong Top Coat

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♥ Sally Hansen Sapphire Chrome ♥

Here is my current mani - Sally Hansen Sapphire Chrome - a very pretty pale blue chrome..... we  just got some sunshine in my town and I am planning some simple nail art and hope to get some sunshine pics of my recent chrome haul.

This looked pretty boring the bottle, a silver with a smidgen of blue, but it actually is prominently baby blue.  I used 2 thin coats with 1 coat of Nailene Acrylic Strong Top Coat.

When I did a post earlier about the many discontinued shades of Sally Hansen Chromes, I forgot to add the AVON MIRROR SHINE NAIL ENAMEL polish's that are still readily available. There are vibrant beautiful shades and are probably BF3 free.

Also has everyone seen the 2 new green Avon polish's that are available - they are soooooo pretty!

Anyhoo - here is my NOTD, I will be jazzing this up ASAP and hope to get some sunshine pictures = Have a great weekend♥

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♥ Sally Hansen Gilded Pearl Crome ♥

Sally Hansnen Gilded Pearl Chrome 2 coats no TC

Middle nail is Sally Hansen Amber Chrome 2 coats with Nailene Acrylic Strong Top Coat

I hoped to do some layering of the polish Sally Hansen Gilded pearl Chrome with some other oldies I had recently picked up = but the polish I want to use needs sunlight to show off it's beauty and today is nothing but gloomy rainy skies. All my photos are indoors under fluorescent lighting.

This was 2 easy to apply coats that dried fast and perfectly. No T.C. except on my middle nail which is my mani from yesterday - Sally Hansen Amber Chrome. I have been and will be sewing alllllllllll weekend, hence the tip wear on my middle nail.

These polish's were $1.29 CAD at a fabulous dollar store in my town.  We did not have a London Drugs in my Provence until 2004 and seeing the older price tags on some of these is fascinating. One of then is listed at $5.99 CAD, which was pretty pricey IMO for a polish in the late 90's.

Thanks everyone for the emails and comments on these. Its actually fun to do research and learn a little about something I am interested in.

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