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Monday, May 12, 2014

A Flakie Comparision + a Life Update


I'll tell you about the comparison first! The other week I used ELF's Fairy Dust in my mani and it made me remember that I had heard it's a dupe for Essie's Shine of the Times and since I have both  I wanted to see of it truly was. I had a really cute mani in mind to test them out, but the flakies did not want to show up well! It was so horrible that I didn't even keep the pictures. Then I thought flakies show up really good on black polish, so instead of painting my nails black, I just used a nail wheel.

We've got Essie Shine of the Times on the left and Elf Fairy Dust on the right. They are very very similar, but for me they have one tiny difference; I think the flakes in SOTT are finer than the flakes in FD, allowing you to grab more of them on the brush. Since the flakes in FD are a little bigger I feel like you are not able to get as many on the brush, causing me to have to use 2 coats of FD and just one of SOTT Other than that though they are pretty much identical to me, Essie is around $8.50 and the Elf is $2

I have looked at these swatches several times trying to figure out which one I like better and I'm still not really sure. Which every one you choose you can't go wrong, both are great flakie polishes!

Life Update
Y'all last week was such a crazy week for me, I felt like I had no time to blog at all. I've been on the hunt for a job :/ I had put in several applications over the past couple of weeks and was beginning to think I was not going to hear anything about any of them. Well Monday I drove the 200 mile round trip to visit my Mom and when I got home Monday night I had a message regarding one of the jobs I had applied to! Thursday I went for an interview then went back Friday to fill out some paper work. Supposed to find out Tuesday for sure if I got the job and when I start!!!! The whole process was a bit overwhelming for me, I have not filled out an application in seriously over 10 years and I've not worked outside the home since 2006! If I get it, I will most definitely be out of my comfort zone, it's a factory job and all I've ever done is retail, so fingers crossed I get it and I can keep up with everyone else :)

Tomorrow  I think I will have Essie's Vices Versa from the 2014 neon collection!

Do any of you watch the show Revenge? OMG

6 comments:

  1. That's about the same conclusion I came to. I like that Fairy Dust is a little less dense, though, as SOTT can be a bit overwhelming. Other than that, though? I identical.

    OMG I hope you get it!! *HUGS* I'm kinda in the same boat myself. Putting in applications and no responses even though they say on the site "we'll contact you one way or the other". Sure. If I don't hear anything by June I'm just gonna try with the schools again. *grumbles*

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    1. *HUGS* Thanks Lizzy, hope you hear from one of yours soon. Round here there's really only 2 things to do, find a factory job or work at one of the prisons and I ain't cut out for the prison LOL I'll leave that to my hubby ;)

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  2. did they last about the same time? I think i have that ELF--going to try it out!
    love the essie neons!

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    1. I feel like they lasted the same, didn't notice one wearing more than the other. I have 4 of the 6 and I'm kinda on the fence about them, the shades are amazing though ;)

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  3. I'm shocked at how similar these are! Good luck with your job, fingers crossed for you that you'll get positive news today. Starting a new job is always so scary but I'm sure you will knock it out of the park!

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    1. I was shocked too, thought they would at least be some what different.

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