Icing Lemme See Your Peacock

As Katy Perry said in her song Peacock, "Lemme See Your Peacock." I went on a mini shopping spree at Icing yesterday and picked up 4 nail polishes on their perpetual Buy 1, Get 1 50% Off deal.

One particular glitter polish caught my eye and it was aptly titled Lemme See Your Peacock because it does remind of the colours of peacock feathers. It is a beautiful mix of large aqua, green and fuchsia hexagonal glitters. It is a fairly dense glitter polish with a clear base.

2 Manicures, 1 Box of Sally Hansen Salon Effects

I recently picked up my third box of Sally Hansen Salon Effects Nail Strips when I was redeeming my Shoppers Drug Mart Optimum Points (Canadian's know the goodness of what I'm talkin' about). The difference between these nail appliqués and most others I have come across is that these are made up of the equivalent of 6 layers of nail polish, whereas others are just stickers.

The pattern I picked up was 440 Animal Instinct. It has a pink, slightly glittery base, with black zebra stripes.

**CLOSED** My First Twitter Giveaway!!

To celebrate almost 2000 followers I decided to have a Twitter giveaway for some fun! I've been collecting products for giveaways for quite a while now, so I feel now is the time to start unloading some products on your guys. 

I am pretty active on Twitter and I love interacting with everyone. If you've ever tried to send me a message through YouTube, you may know that I am terrible for responding, therefore, Twitter is probably the quickest/easiest way to get a response from me. 

Winners will be chosen randomly from the entries. I have two prizes for y'all (both are Canadian brands):

Prize #1 is a pair of metallic Quo cometic bags, a Quo Smokey Eyeshadow Palette 2 (purples and browns), Annabelle Cosmetics Le Big Show mascara w/Glitterama Liner, and three Annabelle Smoothie Eyeshadow Pencils in Licoriche, Mokamirage and Acaidasiac.

Prize #2 is a Quo Smokey Eyeshadow Palette 2 and an Annabelle Cosmetics Smoothie Eyeshadow Pencil in Licoriche.

Here's how to enter my giveaway:

1. Must be a follow of mine on Twitter &

2. Click the following link to tweet: I've just entered @Sokolum's Twitter giveaway! #SokolumsGiveaway.

You can tweet one entry per day. The giveaway ends on Tuesday February 21st, 2012 @ 11:59 pm PST (-8:00 GMT). The winners will have to respond within 24 hours of the announcement. This giveaway is open to everyone. :)

You DO NOT need to post links to your tweet, I can find your tweet via the hashtag.

**IMPORTANT - If your Twitter account is protected, I will not be able to see your entry, you must first unlock then tweet and then you can protect your account again.

Good luck everyone!!

The Hunger Games - Capitol Style

I was originally asked by a friend of mine to create a look inspired by The Hunger Games, but the project was pushed back by a third party... I decided to post this video anyway and design another look for the project.

This look was designed with the Capitol City people in mind. The men and women had bright lipstick and hair and some had dyed skin and facial tattoos. To people from the various districts, they looked like clowns.

Revlon Colorstay Longwear Nail Enamel

My husband and I went to Anaheim the other weekend for our 10th anniversary and I managed to come across a CVS! To American's, it must sound silly that I was so excited about it because the prices and selection are fantastic.

Anyway, I came across a sale on Revlon Colorstay Longwear Nail Enamels, buy 1 get 1 50% off.  I believe that their regular price was the same price in Canada, but we almost never see these kinds of sales. I decided to give Stiletto (black) and Sequin (silver foil) a go. I didn't buy the base coat and top coat because I found the polishes to be overpriced in general so I didn't want to spend more on them. Maybe it would have made a bigger difference if I did though. The enamels are supposed to be a gel hybrid that use regular light to cure, which means that you do not need a UV lamp to set it.  

This is day one, it's my Steampunk Nail Tutorial. 

OPI Metallic 4 Life

So I have a new favourite glitter polish. Before it was Nicole by OPI's Nicole's Nickel, an amazing mix of gun metal glitters in a black jelly. Now my new love is OPI's Metallic 4 Life, which was released with the Nicki Minaj collection in December or January. All I can say is that it is DA BOMB!

It has multi-sized silver glitters in a black jelly base. Like Nicole's Nickel, it is next to opaque, full coverage in 2-3 coats. In this photo, I have 2 coats on top of Sinful Colors' Black on Black. I used a black base in vain to try and prevent chipping.