O.P.I. in Austin-Tatious Turquoise
I've had a lousy past couple of days, which practically sucked the life right out of me. I went to the mall to cheer myself up on Wednesday, thinking I could find a little materialistic treat to make me feel better (I had a $100 gift card, too, so my materialistic treat would be totally guilt-free!). But alas, I couldn't find one single thing that I absolutely had to have. I think it was the combination of A) the fact that the mall here really sucks, and B) I was in one of those moods where I really hate capitalism. So, although grudgingly (I interviewed for a job there last fall and never heard back from them), I trudged to Ulta, because I know I can always find some kind of cosmetic to make me happy. I picked up three nail polishes: a rubberized base coat from Orly that has solved all my problems (my nail polish always chipped or peeled off within a day...not anymore!), "Significant Other Color" by O.P.I., and the one pictured here from the new Texas collection. Oh, and I picked one up for one of you guys, too, just in time for Valentine's Day weekend. It's (mini-)giveaway time!
Up for grabs: A bottle of O.P.I. nail polish in Austin-Tatious Turquoise
To enter: comment on this post and tell me what you're doing for your Valentine this year.
This is open to anyone, anywhere. I'll contact the winner on Valentine's Day!
Oh the mall here really does suck balls. Hence my constant online shopping!! Not surprised you couldn't find anything- I always end up desperately hunting for something in Charlotte Russe and usually come back disappointed!!
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Charlotte xxx
Sweeet! Love that color. Hubby and I really don't celebrate V-day, so we probably won't be doing anything special. Lame-o, I know!
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First off I should say, as usual, you look damn gorgeous.
ReplyDeleteSecondly, for some reason, I just can't hang in malls. It's just too much for me. I don't know. I'm mentally a bit off.
I'm not even sure if we're doing something for Valentine's Day this year. I'm horrible at planning and apparently so is he. haha
Oooh so pretty! My bf and I are probably just going out for dinner at a restaurant in Toronto that has my fave pasta ever! I do plan on wearing a dress with hearts on it though because I'm cheesey like that!
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There's is something that can stop nail varnish chipping and peeling... I need that!
ReplyDeleteValentine's? Nada, because I hate that 'they' keep inventing days which aks me to spend money (cards, flowers, a dinner...) Luckily the other half feels the same (otherwise it would be a bit cruel).
I hate it when you go shopping and just can't find anything!!
ReplyDeleteFor Valentines day I'm not doing anything special, I received my card in the post today as the boy and I won't be in the same city. I'll be working at the school during the day and we've scheduled a skype evening together.
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This is a gorgeous colour.
ReplyDeleteI'm spending the weekend away with my boyfriend for Valentine's Day.
I love your head scarf and your makeup - you look beautiful.
ReplyDeleteI don't think I should enter your giveaway, I think you know why. (Want to give other people a chance to win something!) But that doesn't mean I'm not drooling over the color!
Have a great weekend!
That's so nice of you to have a little giveaway! :)
ReplyDeleteI should have an exam at Uni on that day, but now I'm thinking of skipping it. So what will I do? I will go to lunch with a friend and maybe I'll do makeup for an online magazine (they still haven't called me) and later I will go to pilates. So nothing special. But I will give my hubby some chocolate ;)
Oooh that colour is beautiful!
ReplyDeleteI was going to cook my boyfriend a romantic meal and make the food really extravagant. But we're both from Yorkshire so I settled for making a heart shaped steak and ale pie with sticky toffee pudding for dessert because it's his favourite. ^_^ Good old British meal lit by candlelight. Sometimes things are best when they're simple.
That color is so gorgeous! I love OPI. For Valentine's Day, I'll be having lunch with my best friend, and just hanging out with the family. Pretty laid back :)
ReplyDeletea rubberized base coat? say who what? i think i will look that up right now and order it.
ReplyDeletesorry you've been icky. i'm sending you a hug right now. there. did you get it?
v-day will be spent at work and then getting a facial after work. then i'll come home and my husband will have nothing for me. but i won't care. because we don't really celebrate it. every day is lovie dovie day at my house.
xo,
tracy
great giveaway! im always up for a new nail polish! This valentines day i think hubby is arranging a special dinner.... he has kept it quite hush hush so Im not quite sure. Its our first valentines day as a married couple so Im excited even if we do nothing.
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I hate when I can't find anything I really want! GRR!!
ReplyDeleteAnd I looove that green color!!
My entry: for Valentine's day I will be spending a romantic day at work with my co-workers, then going home to work on my websites :p
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Yay! Sounds like a fab giveaway. I'm going to make cards for my friends this valentines day. I'm single, but I always find great joy in arts and craftsy projects. I might also bake some heart cookies! Too bad about the dud trip to the mall. At least you picked up some fab nail polishes. http://thearcenciel.blogspot.com/
ReplyDeleteNothing like a little retail therapy - although usually when I'm trying to cheer myself up with things, I too can never really find anything!!
ReplyDeleteFor Valentine's Day, I'll probably make dinner for my single friends and I (this group will include The Dude Who I Have My Eye On) and then we'll be watching a horror film. Very fitting, after all. :]
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Beautiful pictures - LOVE the colour! OPI are so good!
ReplyDeleteWe do nothing, haha. The Boyf and I have been together for 5 years and in the beginning we celebrated 'Vonnie and Jamie Day' -basically a weekend after the 14th when we wern't working or on a school trip or something. It always felt so special, our own little day, and we didnt have to buy into the whole 'commercial holiday invented by card shops and florists' stuff. We made cards and presents, or got stuff cheap in the post-val day sales hehe! Now that we live together though anyday and everyday can be special and loved up haha.
We're poor students so I reckon we might put a soppy dvd on and snuggle on the sofa with a bottle of wine... <3
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I have heard so much about OPI nail polish on everyones blogs so it would be nice to give it a try and I Love the colour. Valentines day I am working during the day and Hubby is working night shift so we wont even see each other sob sob :(
ReplyDeleteOPI! hmm...my grilfreinds and i will be organising a single ladies night (since most of us are unattached), and if possible, we'll hit the island on the 14th !
ReplyDeletehahaha our mall sucks MAJOR donkeyballs too, I can only find something nice there if I haven't visited ANY shop over the last three months or something and thus hungry for MONEYSPENDING
ReplyDeleteenter me for that nailpolish, gorgeous color! I will be doing nothing, haha! I'll be enjoying my first day back at school and probably some kinky sex at night, haha
I really love that color!
ReplyDeleteFor my v-day, my secret admirer will be the UPS man, delivering me all the clothes and shoes I've purchased for myself to help me wallow in my singleness.
In the evening, I will watch Chuck, and cuddle with the dog.
I will buy myself a heart shaped box of truffles for half off on Tuesday, and proceed eat them all.
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i don't have a valentine this year, so i'm just gonna have to spend my day with the girls!
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yay for giveaway! im going to eat chocolate on the couch. alone. it will be awesome! LOL
ReplyDeletenail polish always cheers me up. i have a slight addiction. i just bought a matte top coat today and cant wait to try it out.
WOWSA!! I just have to say, that pic of you looks straight out of an Anthro catalog or something. You look stunning, and it looks very artistic too. Very ethereal!!
ReplyDeleteWell...V-Day and I have a complicated relationship. I'll be taking the day off to process the sixth anniversary of my mom's death that day. But I have also learned over the last couple years to be able to incorporate celebrating my husband and how much he means to me (though I try to do that every day :) ). It will always be a bittersweet day, but I have been able to shift my focus to gratefulness even in the midst of my grief. :)
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Lovely nail polish! Great color, and the sparkle is very pretty!
ReplyDeleteI'll probably wind up hanging out with friends, or eating the baked goods my roomie's made up. :D
You produce magazine-quality pictures from combining your exceptional natural beauty, chic styling and visual creativity. No wonder you're the envy of bloggers everywhere!
ReplyDeleteYou need to come here to shop. Long Island has the best clothes shopping in the world due to the presence of both affluent consumers and famous retailers who feed off each other.
If I got serious about buying women's clothes (e.g., dropped $40,000 a year, like many women here), I could actually look good.
Ohmygod I am hunting for that basecoat. I have the same problem!
ReplyDeleteHeading to a gourmet pizza joint with my beau and probably sharing a 6 pack of Carona's mmm = Chill Valentines Day plans.
Sorry you have had such a sucky week and even more sorry that retail therapy didn't help
ReplyDeleteI just saw the Texas collection the other day at Ulta. I love most all of the colors in it. Especially the blues and the one khaki color
Happy nails make for a happy day!
Hope your weekend is much better
V'day...Husband probably doesn't even know that it is V'day weekend. LOL
ooh, gorgeous color dear :) count me in. for valentines day? i have work in the morning then school at night from 6 to 930pm. so nothing special on that day. lol.
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You look tired dear Ashley... (and gorgeous as usual!). Absolutely nothing!! This holiday exists in my head as "the day to make teddy bear manufacturers a bit richer". That's it. (cynical, remember?). We have 364 other days to celebrate life and love!!
ReplyDeletei never celebrate the Valentine, so i probably won't do nothing special.
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Beautiful color! I wish I could go picknick with my bf and have romantic dinner and watch our favorite movie (Benjamin Button), but I have school and exams, so we are going to celebrate it 2 weeks later!
ReplyDeleteOeh lovely give-away! I love the O.P.I nailpolishes so bad!:D
ReplyDeletehmm. what I'm doing for my valentine? well, we have thise roseaction on school, so I orderd some roses for him and probably will take him out to the movies :D
Now I'm curious, what are you going to do for your valentine?!:D
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You look lovely babes....Im working on VDay, lol...very very romantic, hahhaha
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It would be wonderful for you to have found something you like in a lousy mood. Retail therapy always work wonder for me.
ReplyDeleteI have bought some romantic novels to be read and I think I will stay in bed and read about love and probably weep my heart out :)
well, for my valentine this year..
ReplyDeletei'm doing nothing. single. so i'm going to make myself my own valentine and sit in front of the tv/hulu and eat some ice cream. <3
Oooo I just love that shade of Turquoise!
ReplyDeleteValentine's this year? Usually I do F.A because I don't believe in it - it's just a commercialised holiday where the card companies make silly amounts of money. This year however my bf is whisking me away. We are leaving early tomorrow morning and have tomorrow and Monday to be tourists. Tomorrow night will be night of luxury in a fabulous hotel with haute cusine and many, many courses. So this Valentine's Day... I expect to get fat :D x x
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I will be surprising my other half with a funny card and some beauty treats, he does like to care of himself :) I may bake some red velvet cupcakes too ;) and will make a delicious risotto in the evening, followed by some red wine plus chocolate :)
ReplyDeletelovely giveaway xx
Beautiful photos AGAIN! I love OPI. i've been wanting their super sparkly ones.
ReplyDeleteand YES! I love those heels (in my last post) haha. I remember seeing grey and black ones too!
that is such a nice colour!
ReplyDeletefor valentines day my boyfriend is taking me to southbank, in london because he remembered me once telling him it was my favourite place at night xxxxxx
This is so, so so pretty! I want that nailpolish- it's gorgeous! I love your headband:)
ReplyDeleteWhat a fun color. I'd probably never buy that, so winning it would be fun.
ReplyDeleteAnd, I'll be in class on Valentine's Day after a day of teaching. Maybe something special will be waiting for me at home!
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Enter me! we are making a blanket fort and hiring all our old favourite movies and having a childrens style sleepover!
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p.s i am doing a giveaway aswell.
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Love that shade of turquoise. I find myself shopping online a lot lately. It's too hot to drag myself from shop to shop!
ReplyDeleteLovely colour! Thanks for your comment!
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youre so very gorgeous.
ReplyDeleteand thats a beautiful nail color.
so i'd love to win it! HAHA. :)
im going out with my best friends to a japanese hibatchi.
Sorry to hear you're having a rough couple of days. Hope things get better for you. That's a wonderful nail colour.
ReplyDeleteNo plans for V-day (although I am having my boiler serviced - no that isn't a euphemism).
that color is gorgeous!!!
ReplyDeletesadly i dont have any plans for valentines day...just school :(
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Darn! I'm sad I missed this! Totally my fault, haha, I love the color though!
ReplyDeletelike your nail polish
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