Back To The Clearance! Deborah Lippmann Mermaid's Eyes

Hi everyone! So..today I have a post that goes in a kind of series that I started last year. Back to the clearance! Does anybody else love sales as much as I do? I'm a bargain hunter. I got most of my polishes on sale or for less then their original price. These posts are for showing what I find and maybe helping my fellow bargain hunters get good deals too!

The polish of the day is Deborah Lippmann Mermaid's Eyes.

Deborah Lippmann Mermaid's Eyes Sunlight

Deborah Lippmann Mermaid's Eyes Shade

This beauty was a part of The Mermaids collection for Summer 2013, released as part of four companion shades to the very popular Mermaid's Dream polish.

It's a metallic blue base with small dark blue hex glitters and tons of gold shimmer. It's almost a texture, and I swatched it above without topcoat to show the effect. It's a beautiful color, and there's something really awesome about using a Deborah Lippmann. You just feel so fancy.

The best part about this is the price. This polish goes for $20 on the Deborah Lippmann website, shipping not included. I got it for $6.99 at Marshall's. TJMaxx has it as well for the same price. I adore those stores. Every time I go in its like a treasure hunt to find the good stuff. I never know what's going to be there.

So, are you a bargain hunter or do you buy new polishes the second they hit the shelves? Or both?

Happy painting!

Back to the clearance! Zoya swatch!

Okay lovely people, what time is it? Adventure time! Hah just kidding, it's time for a new back to the clearance post! Last time I did one of these I explained that, due to my natural need to save money, I tend to gravitate to the clearance section of just about every store I go into. So these posts are dedicated to the polishes I get on sale!

Today I have for you..drumroll please..

An amazing Zoya polish! I was in Ulta yesterday, and they had a whole bunch of them on sale for $4.99 each! Including some of the famed Pixie Dust shades! I almost got a few of those(I'll probably go back for those soon), but the one above really caught my eye. It's called "Ziv", and it's a beautiful cool yellow toned gold foil, with bits of warmer gold glitter in it. It also has very sparse holographic bar glitter. I'd been on the look out for a good gold foil and this was perfect!

Now..onto the review..

Application

It was a tiny bit thin, so it took three coats to get it right. But it built up nicely and evenly, so I perfectly fine with that.

Look

I love it. Unfortunately, the bar glitter didn't really make it onto my nails at all. I wish it had made more of an appearance but I bought it more for the gold anyway. It's a nice flattering type of shade that I think would flatter a bunch of different skin tones.

Price

Normally $8.99, but as I said before..back to the clearance! :)

Overall

Im very happy with this, i'm wearing it on its own now and will probably use it for nail art in the future! I'm so glad I found it!

Back to the Clearance! :)

Hello everyone. Today I'm starting a new type of post. I call them back to the clearance posts! Name inspired by my favorite movie. Something about me is that I'm almost always on a budget, and because of this I tend to gravitate towards the clearance section like a fat kid does to the cake at a birthday party.
So these posts will be all about whatever I picked up recently that satisfies both my "OOH pretty colors! I must have ALL of them!" thought pattern whenever I'm in a store that sells polishes and is kind to my wallet. So here we go. Todays clearance buy was Covergirl Appletini, a bright lime creme.
Normally I wouldn't dare buy one of them, even though the colors are adorable. The thing I don't like about the glosstini collection is that the bottles are so small! Teeny is right! They're 3.5ml. Bon bons nail polish bottles are bigger then that and thats seriously saying something. If this one hadn't been on clearance, I never would've gone for it. Even if they're kind of a rip off in my book, the color is pretty cute at least, so I was kind of glad to find this one for a $1.19 at Target.
So here it is!

Appletini Natural Light 1

Appletini Natural Light 2

Appletini Flash 1

Appletini Flash 2

I think its a cute color in genial, but it doesn't really suit my particular skin tone. I have strong pink 

and occasionally red tones in my skin, and this color just isn't bringing out the best in it. I did have one last thing I wanted to try with it, another polish that I found on clearance. Here it is!

This glitter is called "Green Rocket" and it has a mix of tiny, small, and medium metallic green hexes, tiny, small, and medium matte white hexes, and small white bar glitter. Maybe you are starting to see a small pattern here, and I admit it, I love the color green. That might have something to do
with the fact that my birthday is St. Patricks day and the fact that I have a slight obsession with irish mythology. Whatever the reason is, I just love the color. I've been searching for the perfect emerald green polish for some time now. But anyway, back to the glitter.

This was 2 coats of Green Rocket over Appletini. I'd say this looks okay. The one problem I have with it is that its kind of lumpy. The top coat didn't really smooth it out either, so it has this weird texture. Its not too bad when you just look at it though. 

Overall ive done better with color choices, but I say $2.50 for a Covergirl and a Sally Hansen polish isn't bad, since the normal price for both would be $6.18 at walgreens.