Spotted: new Sinful Colors Girls in Pearls collection (new shades!)

A huge thanks to Erika of Polish Fixation and Jamie of Nails Adored for this awesome sighting!

A few days ago, Erika emailed me to tell me that there was yet another new Sinful Colors display popping up at Walgreens, and that there were FIVE new shades in the display! Sheesh, I just bought all the new shades from the Cast Away collection and was excited to swatch them for you. By the time I get to them, they'll be old news!

Anyway, the NEWEST display is called Girls in Pearls and thanks to Jamie at Nails Adored, I can show you what the display looks like:

image courtesy of Nails Adored (used with permission)

If you'd like to see all FIVE of the new shades in this collection, Erika has nail wheel swatches up on her blog here. As the display states, these colors are "sheer shimmers", which seem to be the next big thing in the nail world (what comes around goes around, right? I remember when nobody wanted sheer shimmers!).

I have to admit, even though I'm not big on sheer shimmers, Erika's swatches are beautiful, and they don't seem terribly sheer even after one coat. 

So...be on the lookout for this display, my fellow Sinful fanatics!

Another huge thanks to Erika and Jamie for the great info and pics!

Wet n Wild $0.69 sale: at Rite Aid and CVS too??

As you all now by now, Walgreens is doing another Wet n Wild $0.69 promotion starting April 1st and running through April 28th. All regularly-priced $0.99 items will be on sale for $0.69 and you can view the display here.

But thanks to so many of you (seriously, thank you!!) it appears that the same promotion is already underway at both Rite Aid and CVS! If you have seen the $0.69 promotion at your CVS or Rite Aid, please leave a comment on this post and let us know the details! Is the display the same as the Walgreens display?

Thanks so much, everyone!

Weekly beauty sales at Target, Ulta and Kmart (3/18 - 3/34)

Time again for the weekly beauty deals at Ulta, Target and Kmart. As always, this post is a "best of" and not a complete listing of all sales for the week. Please consult the weekly ads (links below) if you have any questions or need further information. HOT deal of the week: 40% off all Physicians Formula cosmetics at Kmart (just like at CVS!).

Sales for week of 3/18 - 3/24

The Lipstick League – week of 3.12.12

Lipstick League Question of the Week

 Do you change your makeup with the seasons? And if so, what are the colors you’re excited to wear this spring/summer?

G's answer: Hum...not really. I do wear darker lip colors in the fall and winter, but I pretty much keep the same core eyeshadow shades throughout the year. This spring/summer though, I'm looking forward to wearing a few more pastels (pink blushes instead of my usual corals, berries and peaches) and of course I'd like to revisit orange lipsticks. I used to wear a lot of orange lipsticks back in the early 90s but then they kind of fell out of fashion for a while, so it will be fun to wear those again. It's always a challenge with me and orange though, so I expect there will be a lot of trial and error before I find the perfect drugstore orange that works with my skintone.

Links of the Week:

Gouldylox Reviews – Embrace the orange trend with this long wearing lip gloss from Armour Beauty. Try wearing it under your regular lipstick to ease into the orange, if Lucy is too much for you on it’s own.

Krasey Beauty – shows you the newest addition to the krasey family, her pet morkie, Moe!

Nouveau Cheap – A drugstore eye makeup remover that leaves absolutely no oily residue behind? Yep, it’s as Simple as that.

Pink Sith – Tells you why she unsubscribed from Beauty Army sample service, but it’s not as bad as you think.

Prime Beauty’s – search for THE perfect coral lipstick is over. See how Lancôme’s Rouge In Love In Corail completes her.

Phyrra – My Independent Spotlight for March is with Maria of Cult Nails! Learn all about Maria and her dream.

Vampy Varnish – feeling un-artistic lately? The new Milani paint palette inspired Eyeshadow Palettesmight get the artist in you to come out!

we heart this – helps you navigate the jungle that is the makeup isle with details on the L’Oréal True Match App.

Beauty Junkies Unite – Here’s your sneak peek review of Too Faced’s new Summer Eye Palette before it hits stores late March/early April!

Clumps of Mascara – is absolutely in love with Butter London’s Spring/Summer nail polish collection. Just how cool is Knackered?

Do you change your makeup with the seasons? If so, are there any shades you're excited to wear this spring/summer?

New Revlon Runway Pearl Nail Color (Chanel Pearl Drop dupe?)

There seems to be a new Revlon dupe of a Chanel polish hitting the drugstores, my fellow polish fanatics! If you're new to Revlon polish dupes, in the past few years Revlon has created dupes of Chanel Paradoxal (Revlon Perplex), Chanel Graphite (Revlon Carbonite), Chanel Black Pearl (Revlon Black with Envy) and Deborah Lippmann Glitter in the Air (Revlon Whimsical).

Well it looks like there's a new dupe hitting drugstores, and thanks to reader Ashley I've got all the details, including bottle shots and swatches!

Ashley found a special Revlon display containing one shade of polish called Runway Pearl at her local Walgreens recently (for those who don't know, when Revlon releases a special dupe, they often put it in a display all by itself with no other colors). Looking at Ashley's photos, this appears to be a dupe of the Chanel Spring 2011 shade Pearl Drop which retails for $23 (although I could be wrong--this is my best guess though):

 image credit: Ashley for Nouveau Cheap

The Weekly Drugstore Makeup Sales (3/18 - 3/24)

For a listing of the beauty sales this week at Ulta, Target and Kmart, click here.

Lots going on this week for makeup, skincare, haircare and more! If you're looking to stock up on Suave products, there are great ways to save at all three drugstores this week (see details below).

CVS shoppers:  This is a GREAT week to try any of the new 2012 products from Physicians Formula since ALL Physicians Formula cosmetics are 40% off! Keep your eyes peeled for those rebate and instant $$ off stickers on some of the boxes, because the savings will really add up if you use coupons/rebates in conjunction with this sale! I have to apologize--I thought that last week was the final week for the CVS Cash Card promotion (spend $30 on participating items and you'll receive a Cash Card worth $10 to spend as you like at CVS) but according to this week's circular it's still going on, so we've got more time to get that $10 Cash Card!

Rite Aid shoppers: All brands of nail enamel except for Essie and L'Oreal are BOGO1/2OFF this week, so of course the sale applies to Jesse's Girl, Sinful Colors, Wet n Wild, LA Color, LA Girl, CQ, Petites, Color Fever, etc.! And all brands of lip color are BOGO1/2OF this week (except for L'Oreal, CoverGirl and Physicians Formula). There's a special offer on P&G brands this week (CoverGirl, Olay, Secret, Always, Tampax, Pantene, Clairol, Pantene and possibly other P&G brands not listed in the Rite Aid circular) that I want you to know about. If you spend $50 on products from these brands, you'll get $10 +UP Rewards AND also qualify for a $15 Gift Card from P&G. To sign up for the gift card, click here to print the form on P&G's Facebook page (I do not believe you have to be a Facebook member in order to access the form or offer). So in other words, you'll be getting $50 worth of products for $25 when all is said and done AND many of the products from these brands are on sale this week at Rite Aid, which brings your final price down even more. There's also some nice in-ad coupons this week that you can stack with manufacturer's coupons if you have them ($2 off any Aveeno skincare and $2 off any Clean & Clear product).

Walgreens shoppers: Thanks to so many of you for confirming that Walgreens is still running the 50% off select Rimmel cosmetics sale that they started a few weeks ago. I'm thinking maybe this is a month-long promotion (if you work at Walgreens or can confirm, please let us know in the comments. Thank you!). Also, it seems that another month-long promotion is BOGOFREE Organix haircare. I believe this is an unadvertised sale so check with your store to be sure it's still going on in your area. And don't forget that starting April 1st (and running through April 28th) all regularly-priced $0.99 items from Wet n Wild will be $0.69. Click here for more details.

St. Patrick's Day Manicure Round-Up (pic heavy)

Happy St. Patrick's Day, my lovelies! Last week I asked for reader photos of your St. Patrick's Day manicures and boy, you did NOT disappoint! In fact, the response was so overwhelming (200+ submissions!) that I'm unable to feature every photo I received in this post. After many hours of going over your submissions, I narrowed it down to 42 photos (please trust me when I say that this was more difficult to do than you can possibly imagine), but please know that I truly loved each and every photo sent to me, and I wish I could have featured them all.

I used a lot of different criteria for narrowing down this list. Of course artistic skill and creativity were important, but I also selected some designs that were executed in a way that is not only beautiful, but accessible for those of us who are not "hardcore nail people". I wanted this post to be full of "oohs" and "aahs" but also I wanted it to be about inspiration, so I deliberately chose some photos of manicures that might make you say, "Hey, I can do that!" and send the message that anyone can have pretty nails, even without the skill that comes with years and years of practice.

There's a little bit of everything here, from simple layering to intricate nail art to water marbling to stamping to frakening and everything in between, so I hope there's something here to inspire newbies, polish addicts, seasoned nail artists and anyone else who loves nail polish!

PLEASE NOTE: these photos are not in any sort of order. I love each and every one of these manicures and I would never try to "rank" anyone's skill or creativity!

That said, let's start with Mr. G's personal favorite (he didn't help me narrow down the list, but he did watch me look at all the photos and offered his "two cents" about the ones he loved). This first photo is the one that actually made him say, "WOW, that is AMAZING" so congrats, Sarah at Chalkboard Nails! My boyfriend's in love with your nails!

 Sarah at Chalkboard Nails blog submitted this free-hand white clover mani:

Sarah of Chalkboard Nails used:

Orly Fresh

Konad Special Polish White (but this design is not stamped)

It's baaack! Walgreens Wet n Wild $0.69 promotion starts April 1st!

It's not an April Fool's Day joke, folks! The Wet n Wild $0.69 promotion is BACK and it starts April 1st and runs through April 28th. I stopped by a local Walgreens the other day and they had the end cap already set up (with the $0.69 price blocked until the official start date of the promotion):

My newest obsession: Target Up & Up Bamboo Lime Hand Soap

When winter comes to an end, I immediately start to crave crisp, invigorating citrus scents. So when I spotted the new hand soaps at Target a few weeks ago, I immediately gravitated toward this one and just had to bring it home with me:

 Target Up & Up Liquid Hand Soap in Bamboo Lime

(retail: around $1.50, 7.5 oz)

No stranger to Target hand soaps (remember this obsession from almost exactly one year ago?), I'm consistently impressed with the unique fragrance combos that Target releases each year. Like I've mentioned before, I'm a sucker for unique and interesting fragrances when it comes to something as boring as hand soap. Who doesn't like to spice it up a bit, right?

Last call for St. Patrick's Day manicure photos!

Just a reminder that if you'd like to submit a photo of your Saint Patrick's Day manicure for a round-up that I'll be posting on Saturday, please email me your photo by MIDNIGHT PACIFIC tonight, 3/16! Any photos submitted after midnight Pacific tonight will not be considered/included in my post.

I have been absolutely blown away by the beauty and creativity of the submissions I've received so far, and I cannot wait to share the pics with you on Saturday!

For details about how to submit a photo, please click here.

Erin go Bragh!