Katy Perry Shatter Nails...I Love You!

Happy Wednesday Fabulous Readers!

Jessica here and I am so excited about nail design week and being able to share with you my review on the awesomeness of the cracked/shattered nail look.                


Specifically I tried out the O.P.I Katy Perry Collection, Black Shatter. I LOVE the look of this! It is the first time I experimented with the cracked/shattered nail polish and I wasn't sure how it worked...still don't really know how it works, but I think it looks FABULOUS! It actually comes out looking like a zebra or leopard print over the nail color you use as the base color.

You know I like my products to work with little to no effort and let me tell you, it looks like I spent time on my nails when it only takes a few minutes to paint on and it dried SUPER fast. That being said I do have some tips and suggestions for you to do if you want to try this.

TIP: First you can choose any color you want as the base color, but I recommend picking a lighter color than what your shatter is or if you have a light shatter (silver) picking a dark color for the base might look best. Since I tried the black shatter I used a baby pink color as the base. Once you have painted your nails a color and let them dry you are ready to apply the shatter.

TIP: The shatter dries so fast, so you want to make sure you have an ample amount of polish on the brush before you apply. It's always better in this case to have more than less, because when you have less and have to "double dip" it's not as nice looking and you end up layer / over lapping too much.

This actually lasted a long time when used correctly...I had experimented and tried putting the polish on by itself and it basically was just like a matte black nail polish and it chipped off easy...very strange considering when applied with nail color it shatters and last forever....but anyway I get curious :)

This is for sure my go-to nail design polish and I will use this up fast for sure! I love the look of it and I don't think I could ever get bored or tired of looking at it. Too cool, and I have so many options to change the look by just changing the nail base color.  I loved this SO much I have to show you all a demo of it working before your eyes! So this Friday I will work on a YouTube video dedicated to showing you how amazing this is and you can see for yourself! I will use a bunch of different colors so you can see the different looks...

Until then, Keep on Being Beautiful You!

PS - Katy Perry is just plain cool, so you can only expect products with her name attached to them to have a "girls rule, be your own person" type of strong style!

Introducing our Newest Member Amy!

Happy Weekend Fab Readers!

This weekend our guest blogger is the newest member of our team, Amy! Like Blake, she has sensitive skin so she will be blogging from time to time on the topics that she can talk about and tell us what products help her skin sensitivity. Enjoy :)

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 Hello readers, Amy here, newbie to the FINY staff.

I don’t know about you but this is the time of year when I tend to take a little extra care of my skin since the weather here in the North East can be rough.  I pay particular attention to my face so let’s talk about face moisturizer.  Growing up, there was only one kind of soap in our house and that was Ivory.  It was used as a hand soap and body soap (I think my father even used it as shampoo) Yikes!  It was drying to the face however so I always used a face moisturizer and the old stand by was Oil of Olay (you know, the original beautiful pink cream moisturizer).  Well it’s still my favorite today except I use Oil of Olay Complete All Day UVMoisturizer for sensitive skin and I use it every day.  By the way, I still trust Ivory as hand soap, just not on my face.

 

Oil of Olay Complete All Day UV Moisturizer is light, yet provides great coverage and my face feels soft and smooth all day. I also love that it’s 100% oil and fragrance free and provides protection against UVA/UVB rays.  I love it!

  

Now when the weather turns really cold and especially dry, I also turn to Cetaphil Moisturizing Lotion for all skin types. Cetaphil is a must have for sensitive skin like mine and provides immediate relief to those flaky areas that just scream “Help me”!  I slather it on at night or when spending the day outside and my skin is truly grateful.

So remember to take care of your skin this season but most importantly, take care of yourself.

Enjoy the day!

This Burn Will Turn Into A Tan…I Hope!

Hey Readers, It’s Jessica.

Okay so you put your sunscreen on (before getting into the sun) and laid your towel out at your favorite spot on the beach. The sun is so warm and a nice cooling breeze makes it the perfect day to lie out and achieve a tan…finally! The ocean waves are so relaxing and there are actually no screaming kids around or huge families setting up camp two feet from you trying to play football in your space. You close your eyes and drift off…

Before you know it you are suddenly ripped from your relaxing sleep to find yourself surrounded by strangers invading your personal space, seagulls eating your lunch and a naked two year old is throwing sand at you while the parents look the other way. To top off this nightmare you look down only to find your skin is as red as a lobster! Now what?!

After yelling at myself on the way home about not using a stronger SPF, I take a cool shower and put on all the Aloe gel that I can. I actually just discovered (well, it was always in my house as a kid but I never thought about it until recently) and started using Witch Hazel, which helps to heal minor burns….like a sunburn. So I now rub that all over the burn area and it has been an amazing natural remedy! The benefits of Witch Hazel do so much I also use it on my face every night and day before lotions, creams, serums and makeup. I was actually at a networking event and talking to this nice lady that had amazing skin. I asked her what her secret is and she said she just uses Witch Hazel!

For an after sun lotion I had a great experience with Designer Skin’s Angel Daily Moisturizer with Hemp Seed Extract and a yummy Kiwi Pear fragrance. It also claims to be anti-aging, firming and packed with vitamin D to protect and soothe skin. I am not sure if it helped my sunburn go away any faster but it was very soothing to put on and it definitely moisturized my inflamed skin.

As always, you can’t do too much about the peeling skin after a sunburn, but as I had blogged about before in my June 15th Blog, Nivea My Silhouette! Redefining Gel-Cream with Bio-Slim Complex took away my peeling skin from a sunburn and it lasted all day! The scent (as I have stated before) it so wonderful, you don’t even need to put on perfume and I LOVE the gel consistency for the product because it absorbs fast into the skin.

I hope this has helped you for when you experience the burn from the sun…I will now be walking around with a red front side and a white back side…*sigh*…until I have time to correct my uneven “tan” with a quick trip to the salon for a Mystic Tan.

Burns are just reminders to be good to your skin and to yourselves; you only have one body and one life to live!

Have a great rest of the week and enjoy your weekend!

Be well and stay beautiful you!

Meet the Certified Fabulous Ladies!

Hey All!

Just wanted to let you all know that our website launched last week!

Come find out more about your blogging team:

http://www.certifiedfabulous.org/

East Coast Bloggers: Jessica, Grayce, Sara, Tara

California Blogger: Beckie Boyden

DON'T FORGET: Check out of Facebook page and become a fan to get insider information and pictures!

Self tanniing - You do not have to turn into an Orange

Hello everyone!!!

Self Tanners is the name of the game this week...

So when I was a teenager my mother gave me St. tropez self tanner... told me it was "the Product"... I should be using this because I was the "extremely fair" as she would try to put it nicely.... My mother has beautiful olive skin tone and I on the other hand am as white as paper...

Okay, So Who said a blog isn't cathartic, Lol.

The St.tropez at the time was a kit of some sort and a bit overwhelming to me... I tried a number of different brands over the years. A lot of the products turned me very unattractive colors, streaky, and sticky, etc.

Well today, thank goodness there are so many options out there, it really is up to you to try different ones and out to figure out what is best for you.
I have Fair skin with a pink tone to it.... and Believe it or not the Tanner I use nowadays is St. Tropez Bronzing Mousse. It is AWESOME!!!! Firstly, it is instant!, it is easy!!! and I look TAN!!!! No streaks, No fuss!!! You can not tell I am wearing a tanner, it looks completely natural!

It has become a joke in our office... every time I go into Sephora, I basically put on a demonstration, someone will see me and buy it... they must think I work for the Brand, lol. (I don't.) I just love the product.

So how do they work... is I am sure the reason you are reading my blog...
Dihydroxyacetone, also known as DHA. This skin browning effect is non-toxic, according to the available data. In basic language DHA reacts chemically with the amino acids in the skin's surface. As people we all have different skin, so we react differently to DHA, producing different tones of coloration from yellow to brown "tans". This part can take up to a few hours to start seeing the change in the skin.

The instant part... Some of these products have iron oxides, you will see them listed as CI 15985 (for example), in them which act as bronzers, which are basically make up that sit on top of the skin... and are washed off in the shower. this is the part that gives the immediate change in color to the skin.


Combine these ingredients and this is why different colors are achieved... Just like in a foundation or any tinted moisturizer that can look fabulous on one person, and look like "ooooh what happened to you" on someone else....

Patch test, in discrete places (not your face) (at home please) to find your proper match... Once you know the color is working for you is when I would then apply it to my face... These self tanners effects can last 3-4 days.

Of course there are many other ingredients that are involved in these products.... All the other ingredients are a part of the base. To make it feel like a cream, mousse, serum, or otherwise... Find your preference :)


If you have questions please feel free to comment on my blog and I will be happy to try to help explain these products/ ingredients further.