A Haul of Mini Essies! And Hawaii Day 4 :-)

Don't you hate it when you can't decide on a nail polish from a collection? Why not get all I say :-P Well almost all, here we have the two mini sets from the Essie Summer and Essie Resort collections. I believe there's only two missing and that's from the summer collection. I feel I need them too :-P



I was on the lookout for these in Hawaii but sadly I couldn't find any new collection Essie, but I found a truckload of other Essie polishes! Nordstrom didn't stock them at Ala Moana (despite standing next to a seasonal Essie 4 pack set while asking them if they sold Essie...) So I perused online and purchased the minis of the Essie Summer and Essie Resort collections. I dislike working with mini brushes but they're not too bad to apply. The two that stick out to me are Knockout Pout and Haute as Hello but I decided to go with Knockout Pout first:



That's two coats. It's quite glossy because of the Seche Vite topcoat but really it was quite matte without. I'd give you a non flash photo but let's be honest, Canberra won't be showing the sun again until October :-P Haha kidding. The sun goes down just after 4pm and I'm still at work so no daylight swatches for me :-( But knockout pout is gorgeous! So bright, so girly. I feel the need for a full sized bottle... hmmm.

Here's a short clip for Hawaii Day 4. We went snorkeling and I haven't touched the underwater camera videos so this video is basically a shopping trip :-P Victoria Secret is nice but crazy hectic.

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Lush Lip Scrubs and Hawaii Day 3!

Australian Lush stores finally got the Lush Lip Scrubs and I have no idea why it's taken so long to get these, I have been waiting for ages! It was actually on my Hawaii shopping list and then they go and release them in Australia just before I leave! I waited until I got back but I only managed to get 2 out of the 3 lip scrubs in my local store - they were sold out of the bubblegum flavour (it's meant to smell like snow fairy). And that was the one I was really after! :-( I think you can still get it online though.



I got Mint Julips and Sweet Lips. As the name suggests Mint Julips is very minty very fresh and I keep that at my desk for my daily sugarush ahem I mean lip ex-foliation. The other, sweet lips I keep next to my bed which probably isn't a good idea with all the sugar (ingredients are caster sugar and various flavour oils).



The vanilla is supposed 'lock in moisture' but jury is still out on this one, I do feel the need to put on some By Terry Baume de Rose afterwards to keep my lips ultra moisturised. I have become super addicted to these lip scrubs though, but I think it's just for the sugarush :-P Cute idea though. I still want Bubblegum! They retail for 9.95AUD.

Here's some more pictures from my trip. We stayed at the Royal Hawaiian in Waikiki, beautiful hotel built in 1927. We took so many photos of the building itself, it was absolutely stunning.



We had breakfast at the Surf Lanai with a gorgeous view of Waikiki beach and Diamond Head in the background:



And of course since this *is* a makeup blog primarily, here's Sephora at the Ala Moana shopping center! I went here several times of course and I really wanted to go back on my last day but didn't get time :-( I wish they shipped internationally!



And if you're interested, here's day 3 of my Hawaii trip. Consists primarily of the Honolulu Zoo and my new found love, Yoghurtland :-D

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Back from Hawaii! Day 1 video...

Well I'm exhausted! I just had 9 days in beautiful Hawaii. I didn't blog much because the net access wasn't overly reliable, and rather difficult to work with on the iPhone. I spent a bit at MAC. Several trips worth. But this was the major one:



I've got another MAC to the beach haul coming up, just waiting for my order to arrive. Got some things in the USA too because it's so darn cheap :-|

But basically I got a bunch of palettes, eye shadow, blush and quads. As well as MANY eye shadows to go in them. I had been saving the list for Hawaii :-)

Also got the MAC to the beach bag because 1) I can't get it online and 2) I was going snorkeling at Hanauma Bay and I didn't have a beach bag. The place is gorgeous:



What I love about Hawaii is the birdlife. Birds everywhere and there's wild chickens just roaming about! I grew up with chickens so I was stoked when I captured this gorgeous chicken under a park bench at Hanuama Bay:



And I did manage to do 'quick' day by day videos of my time in Hawaii. Let's begin with Hawaii Day 1. My apologies for any failing, I only just figured some settings out towards the end of my stay (sigh). And this was recorded on my iPhone!

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