Zombies!

Forget vampires (for a moment), and let's talk about zombies.  Walking Dead is one of my much-catch shows (despite some of the acting and hilarious memes being created due to the show's awkwardness from time to time) and while I've never done it, I love the Zombie Walk that several cities participate in (San Diego, Austin).


While in college, I worked for my campus newspaper, and our editorial cartoonist was a man named Jeremy Martinez who has decided to continue his artistic abilities beyond the pages of our newspaper.


This past Halloween, he was offering zombie caricatures for $10 digital or $25 for digital and a 11" x 14" print.  (FYI: He's still doing this!)


I told him to basically have free reign on it - I preferred purples and didn't want any cleavage bearing (conversation zombie?) and gave him a few pictures to reference.


So here I am in my zombified glory!

Love it.  Jeremy, thumbs up.  Thanks!


Jeremy's website is My Talking Head and you can also like him on Facebook and follow him on Twitter.    He has another website at Jeremy the Artist which has its own Facebook and Twitter.  All his Zombie creatures can be found on Zombeez Galore (no affiliation with Polish Galore but it's hilarious).  And finally, Jeremy has started creating comics related to the We The People 99 movement (which also has a Facebook page).

NOTD: 17 November 2011

Okay, so this was really 8 November 2011, but whatever.  I was looking for a way to wear my Sephora by OPI Be-Claus I Said So which is a red glitter in a clear base, so I decided to put it with OPI Wocka Wocka! from the Muppets collection.  I forgot to take bottle pictures, but I'll be individually reviewing each shade and will link those reviews to this post at a later date.


I used a base of OPI Natural Nail, 1 coat of Wocka Wocka!, 1 coat of Be-Claus I Said So and a top of Seche Vite.

Full on sun does this no justice.  It looks lumpy and kind of weird.

Shade is so much better!  I love the large and small red glitter reflecting over the red base.  I couldn't stop staring at my nails for 2 days straight.

Indirect sun and again you can see how the larger glitter is reflected weird - almost like strawberry seeds or something.

The indoors with the flash makes the polish look harsh again, but I really really love this combination.  I'm debating on wearing this for my next pedicure or just going my normal China Glaze Ruby Pumps...

Disclosure: The product[s] in this post was [were] provided to me by the company for consideration.  For more information, please read this post.

Miranda Kerr: Get The Look

Please enjoy the following press release from Y! Public Relations!

Last night's 4th Annual Film Benefit at the Museum of Modern Art in NYC brought out A-listers such as Blake Lively, Emma Stone and Olivia, Wilde, however, no one looked quite as radiant as Victoria's Secret super model Miranda Kerr.  Miranda's look was created by makeup artist Rose-Marie Swift and is the perfect combination of classy and modern …

Here are Rose-Marie's tips & tricks for recreating the look: 

Step 1: Start with a luminous base - Rose–Marie combined her RMS Beauty "Un" Cover-Up with a touch of the RMS Living Luminizer to create a flawless glow.

Step 2: Eyes - Rose–Marie used the RMS Cream Eye Shadow in Lunar over the whole lid and highlighted the corner of Miranda's eye (right at the water line by the tear ducts) with luminizer.  She curled her lashes and added a touch of mascara.  Finally, Rose-Marie darkened the brows to make them really stand out.  

Step 3: Lips & Cheeks -  Rose-Marie used the newly reformulated RMS Lip2Cheek in Rapture on both Miranda's lips and a touch over the apple of her cheeks.  

Step 4: Final bit of glow – To complete the look, Rose-Marie added a touch of luminizer over Miranda's color bones and shoulders to attract the light and create the illusion that her skin was glowing.  

China Glaze Snow Globe

China Glaze Snow Globe is a repromote glitter from the Specialty Collection (also called Glitters & Cremes) that came out in 2009.  It's been featured in the Winter 2011 Let It Snow collection.  This has a mix of different colored and different hexagonal sized iridescent glitter pieces.


I used my previous Noir manicure (thank you nubar!) and just added one coat of Snow Globe.  As you can see, I'm back to cloudy days.  I topped the manicure with Seche Vite.

One coat just isn't really enough - the glitter didn't really spread like I'd want it to.

Indoors with the flash pretty much swallows up all the glitter.

I decided to add a coat of ManGlaze #Matte Astrophe to see if it would bring out the glitter more and can we say mission accomplished?  I think this is my favorite view of this glitter.

China Glaze can be found online through several etailers, including my favorite Head2Toe Beauty, Sally's Beauty Supply as well as TransDesign.  You can like them on Facebook and follow them on Twitter.

Disclosure: The product[s] in this post was [were] provided to me by the company for consideration.  For more information, please read this post.

nubar Noir

When I first met Noubar Abrahamian, founder of nubar, while at Cosmoprof 2011, my first words were "Hi, I'm Krystal and I've actually never tried your polish before."  Facepalm.  Not the best introduction I've ever done.  I had Katie Cazorla standing next to me and she looked at me and cracked up.  Mr. Abrahamian is a very firm but soft-spoken man and he just turned and started filling a bag up with his polishes and smiled at me.  I think my face was about 10 shades of red.


One of the colors he put in my back was Noir, "one of our basics".  Noir is a basic black that dries to a bit of a rubbery finish.  I'm calling it "plastic" because it looked a lot like the ORLY Plastix collection to me.


For a simple black manicure, I used a base coat of Zoya Get Even and 2 coats of polish.  When I'm layering something on top of Noir, I just use one coat.

Unfortunately, I have nothing but clouds right now.  I'm not sure if you can fully see the plastic type finish (or rubbery) but it's not as shiny as when you'd add a top coat.

I should have held a different bottle to show where my nails end, but as you can see this is a very opaque color.  It's a great black for me since I ran out of my CND Blackjack and haven't made a purchase yet.  I use it for pretty much every layering I do.


nubar can be purchased on their website for about $7.50 a bottle in the US.  They do have international retailers in Russia, Sweden and the UK.  You can like them on Facebook and follow them on Twitter although their Twitter has been a bit bare lately.


Disclosure: The product[s] in this post was [were] provided to me by the company for consideration.  For more information, please read this post.