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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Diagional Mani's - A Trip Down Memeory Lane

Since I will be wearing my mani from yesterday again today ( and possibly tomorrow ) here is a spam post of diagonal nail looks. Normally I would list the polish's that I used for these looks and  I would make a link to the original post = but that will take a looooong time.

( "yesterday again today; and possibly tomorrow" = is going in my franken polish name file, that is a fabulous name for a nail polish )

 Since the beguinning of adding nail polish photos to the internet I have been diligent about labeling my photos with the polish's I have used, as well as my blog name deez-nailz........... so if you click on a photos it will take you to the picasa photo album they belong to, with the names of the polish's  and products used as well as the date it was posted.

♥ But if there are any questions, please let me know in the comments. ♥

There are 3 readily available french nail tip guides that can be found easily at drug stores or department stores. ( Available In my region - I know there is some fancy french tip guides available but this is what I'm work'n with)

I have also used mailing label stickers, scotch tape, packing tape, green painters tape and those re-bingder things for paper. All with success - but - I often have a sticky glue residue left on my nails. So when it is humid out, I am sticking ( lol ) to store bought french tip guides.

I have also found that waiting until my base polish is dry, then applying top coat and let it set before I try anything type of french tip sticker application - will ensure that I do not 'pull up' my base polish or have any type of residue stuck to my nails. So many of these looks are with fast drying nail polish's, and some are day old manicure's that jazzed up.

This look is so easy to do. It is a perfect disguise for tip wear or chips. If you are unsettleb by a wonky-wavy line where your two polish's meet; it is fast and easy to trace that line with glitter.

..................and here are many, many photos for inspiration

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