Joe Fresh Queen West is Open!

Last week a new Joe Fresh stand alone store opened on Queen St. West near Bathurst. This makes me very excited! Why? Because they have great staples at a an affordable price, that’s why!

They offer on-trend items at a less expensive price. If you are looking for a comfy fall sweater – this is the place!

And they also have a beauty line. I haven’t used much of the cosmetics, but I recently bought their nail polish. At $4 a piece or 3 for $10, how could I not?!

Unfortunately my ‘lil nails have already started to chip! I applied the polish on Sat eve and got serious chippage by Tues. The polish also got thick quite quickly while applying.

Sad Nails...

Not the best polish, but again, if you’re looking for on-trend colours and dont want to spend $10 on one bottle, these are a great bargain. However, if I was going to get some fashionable nail colours again, I’d go back to E.L.F. You can read my post on their polishes here.

The new Joe Fresh store is bright, fun, has an adequate amount of change rooms (they were all full when I was there, but turnover was pretty quick) and there is a brand new Winners right above it in the same complex!

Oh how I love to shop….

xoxo,

dg

Review – E.L.F Nail polish with some dupes!

A couple of weeks ago E.L.F had a promotion on their website where shipping was only a $1.98.  Since they are a US based company and their shipping is usually more than their product, I decided to go on a little nail polish spree!

I got 9 nail polishes for $1 each!
Above, from L to R and top to bottom, the colours I got were:
Chocolate
Hot Pink
Nude
Plum
Fire Coral
Champagne
Fuchsia
Mod Mauve
Smoky Brown

I tried a few of the colours and overall I really like the colours! Most were true to the colour in their bottle and almost all of them gave full coverage with just two coats. My two disappointments were Maude Mauve (which took 3-4 coats) and Nude (which really was “nude” as in no colour. At All).

L to R: Mod Mauve, Chocolate, Plum & Fuchsia

Thumb: Smoky Brown

Hey – for $1 each, I can afford a couple colours I’m not crazy about. And not only did I get some fun new colours, I found three great product dupes of other pricier nail polishes too!

As with all E.L.F products, you really have to try them for yourself. They have a great variety of affordable (aka dirt cheap!) cosmetics and as long as you are OK with a few duds now and then, they really are an awesome every day alternative to some of the pricier brands.

xoxo,

dg

Review – Essie Matte About You Nail Polish

I FINALLY found the Essie Matte About You nail polish at a store in Toronto! I had been looking for this polish online and it was between $9-$11 per bottle depending on the website, which was fine, but then shipping on every site was an additional $10. I just couldnt do it for one bottle of polish. Which is why I ecstatic when I found it at Trade Secrets in Toronto for about the same price without the shipping! Yay me!

The Essie polish claims to take any regular nail polish and make it matte. It definitely delivers. As the polish dries, you can see the shiny finish change to a very cool matte effect. Below is one of my favourite polishes from Sephora – Domestic Goddess. I love this polish as a fun purple for the spring and am completely satisfied with it, but having the versatility of wearing it two different ways appealed to me.

TIP – It is important to cover the ENTIRE original polish with the Essie polish or you will get little spots of shiny poking through around the cuticle and sides that take away from the effect. I usually do one coat and let it set and then go back over lightly any of the parts that I may have missed.

My only qualm with the Essie polish is that the finish doesnt last. After a day or so, my nails seemed to slowly go back to being shiny. Not the full shine of before, but an awkward medium between matte and the shine it was supposed to be. Putting another coat on fixed this, but I dont really want to have to reapply a top coat on a polish every other day.

If you’re looking for a different look to polish that will have high impact on a special night out, this is a pretty neat product, but the lengevity just isnt there for it to be a regular in my rotation.

Overall, Im undecided. I like that one product has doubled my nail polish collection because I can now get too different styles out of every colour, but I feel like I’ll go through the bottle quickly trying to maintain my nails, so I still dont quite have a final verdict. Sorry!

If you have the Essie polish and have an opinion on how it works, I’d love to hear from you. What are you favourits styles with nail polish? Are you a nude nail or statement gal?

xoxo,

-dg

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Sephora by O P I in Metro Chic

I love this colour, but it takes a few coats to get proper coverage and I found the nail polish got thick pretty fast after purchase. I added a few drops of nail polish remover and we are back to being smooth.

TGIF ladies!

xoxo
dg