Beauty Beats the Beast: Fab Chick Nail Lacquer Giveaway

I've just received my Glitz and Glam Summer Bundle , which I blogged about earlier this week, yipeeee! I'm already wearing the Showstopper lip gloss that I've been dying to try and I love it so much!

Anyway, this is not an another review so let me just cut to the chase. Sharing is caring and since I already have After Party, and plenty of glitter therefore should share Glitz and Glam, I am going to give these two polishes to one random friend. After Party is the unique neutral I was raving about and the Glitz and Glam glitter looks so great over it! So here's the three step deal-io on entering the giveaway, the three things you need to do aaaaare:

1. Facebook users: "Like" Fab Chick by Harlem Diamond's Facebook Page here and share it on your page tagging me. Anti-Facebookers: Subscribe to Fab Chick's newsletter here and mention you found out about them from "Fabulous Life of a Senorita" for confirmation. No worries, they neither post or e-mail often. I've yet to see either.

2. Read what Fab Chick is about on my August 3rd post about them and leave a comment at the bottom answering the question asked at the end of the post (conveniently highlighted in bold purple for you baby dolls). Click here to be directed to that post.

3. Since Fab Chick's charitable efforts is one of the things that attracts me to them most, please re-post this blarticle on nail lacquer Butterfly onto your Facebook profile and tag me so I know. Non-Facebook users: share the post via e-mail with your friends and CC' me at adventures.of.a.NY.gypsy@gmail.com. $2 of every Butterfly purchase supports the Lupas Foundation of America, so please at least get the word out on this products availability.

The only exclusions are the people who live with me, since you are always stealing polish from my polish jar anyway. Oh, and if you live outside of U.S. or Canada (genuinely sorry!). Anyone and everyone else can enter, and as promised, an entry for any of my current followers that I have recorded counts for 2, as long as you enter.

I'll be wrapping this up Thursday, August 25th at Midnight, East Coast time (always thinking of my Night Owls). If you are the winner and prefer your name not be announced, just Post Script that in your comment (I understand, I'm bashful with those things too!)

If you have any questions (eh hem, my non internet social savvy friends), please feel free to contact me at adventures.of.a.NY.gypsy@gmail.com or call me at #anyonewhoshouldhavemynumberhasit. Good luck cutie pies and thank you for reading!

Besos, Beijos, Filakia, Muah!

Love,

Lisa xo

Beauty Beats the Beast, Numero V: The Many Ways to Enjoy the After Party like a Fab Chick

I recently typed about one of my favorite neutral colors, After Party, from Fab Chick by Harlem Diamond. Since I will be giving this color away later this week (an extra one, slow.your.roll. I'm keeping mine) I figured now would be a good time as any to show you the different ways I've been using this non-color color, as promised in a previous post. After Party is a whitish/gray color that looks great alone or as a base. I don't have the best hands for modeling, or the best camera for photos, so now that my disclaimer is out there I'll say, enjoy the ideas and it looks much better in person!

After Party from Fab Chick by Harlem Diamonds

"Electric Graffiti" crackle polish by Icing over Fab Chick's After Party. I had a hard time finding a base for this neon pink crackle polish, After Party is perfect with it, says the girl with 47 nail polish colors.

"Broken Glass" crackle polish by Icing over "After Party" by Fab Chick

"Shatter" crackle polish by Icing over "After Party" by Fab Chick. I like it. It looks like a cow...not really, but kinds sorta.

"Kaleidoscope" glitter polish by Wet n' Wild over, you guessed it, "After Party" from Fab Chick by Harlem Diamond (Ha, ha! Betcha didn't see that last part coming!)

"Shatter" by Icing over "Kaleidoscope" by Wet n' Wild, insert breath over "After Party" by Fab Chick. The Glittery Cow, lol.

I will be posting the details of the giveaway by midnight tonight. The giveaway will be for Fab Chick by Harlem Diamond After Party and Glitz and Glam glitter.  So if you love look #1 and look #5, stay tuned because I'm so excited to be offering it to one of you!

Thanks for reading!

Besos, Beijos, Filakia, MUAH!

Love,

Lisa xo

Beauty Beats the Beast, Numero IV: Aqua-ish Nails!

"For Audrey" by China Glaze adorns my fingertips

Ever since I bought my clients at work Gianna's Rockin' Blue by Brucci at Rite Aid for St. Patty's day this year, I've had a thing with green (the above mentioned is an awesome blue-ish green). Since that purchase I've also added Caribbean Turquoise by Quirius to my vast collection of polishes. As it so often happens, it's almost the same color as Gianna's Rockin' Blue. Lovely, but I've been looking for green/blue closer to aqua; like a Tiffany's bag, ooh la la.

Color Splashing the photo didn't make it as cool as I'd imagined

Well, the other day I saw my sister walking out the door with the color that's pictured above on my nails and I fell in love! I stopped her in her tracks and asked her where she got the polish. It's called "For Audrey" and is by China Glaze. It can be all yours for $4.99 on the Sally Beauty Stores website, <---there you can also find a store locator to see if you can pick it up at a location near you.

What I loved about this polish and color other than how pretty it is, is how well it stayed on. Anything that lasts a shift at my job passes my nail polish test. My sister has had the same "staying power" experience with the polish color, however, she has a few other shades by China Glaze which she said for some reason don't have the same great long lasting results. Hmm, something for me to look into further when I am in "Senorita Scientist Cosmetic Biochemist Mode". I hate that I can't get my keyboard to make a tilda on the "n" in Senorita,  grrrr.

*China Glaze Nail Lacquer's are made with hardeners which help promotes healthy nail growth and is Tolulene and DBP Free. China Glaze Nail Lacquer' details:

• Professional 220-strand brush for easy application
• Long-wearing nail lacquer is an oil base
• Flexible and will not chip
• Greatest fashion shades
• Non-Thickening formula
• Great coverage

*Source of above information: Sally Beauty Website 

 Speaking of a Tiffany's bag, it seems the bag may have been the inspiration for this color.
"For Audrey"--->Breakfast at Tiffany's--->Audrey Hepburn--->DUH.
I found this blog post while searching for better images of this polish since I wouldn't hire my teeny tiny nail beds to sell it to you! Check it out here--->BETTER NAIL MODEL<---to see a post with pics that do this polish justice. The Tiffany bag made an appearance on that post too! :p

Here's that much better hand model!

I hope you all love this color as much as I do and thanks for reading!

Besos, Beijos, Filakia, MUAH!

Love,

Lisa xo

Help others by Treating Yourself with "Butterfly" Nail Laquer

It doesn't take getting something in return in order for me to give, and I'll add that it shouldn't for anyone, however, I especially love it when a product I purchase gives back. Sometimes, I even buy things I don't need because they are being sold for charity and just save them as gifts for people I know would enjoy them.

A few weeks ago while writing a blarticle on Fab Chick by Harlem Diamond, I came across nail laquer "Butterfly" and discovered that with every purchase of the $8 polish, $2 will go to Lupas Foundation of America. I already loved this indie cosmetic line that sells nail polishes, lip gloss and lip stick with consumer's health in mind, but discovering the generous and charitable heart of founder Grace Williams made me love it even more.

You can support Lupas Foundation of America and a phenomanal small business with your purchase of Butterfly here. To learn more about Fab Chick by Harlem Diamond and their products, please click here. You'll be led to their site of DBP, Formaldehyde and Toluene free polishes and Vitamin E and Green Tea Extract enriched lip products free of parabens.

Please check out the highlighted links and thank you for reading my lovelies!

Besos, Beijos, Filakia, Kissies!

Love,

Lisa xo

Le Bargainista: Fab Chick's Glitz and Glam Summer Bundle

Hello my friends!

Earlier this month I published a blarticle on Harlem Diamond's Fab Chick natural cosmetic line. Today I discovered that they are offering a phenomonal "HEY IT'S STILL SUMMER!!!" offer with their Glitz and Glam Summer Bundle. The bundle includes the Glitz and Glam Collection from their 3 Free Nail Laquer Line, which consists of 4 colors and a top coat plus Showstopper Lipgloss, all for only $20. A savings of over 50%! You can click here to purchase the Glitz and Glam Summer Bundle. I'm really excited because the 2 nail colors AND lip gloss on my wish list are in this bundle, as mentioned in my post a few weeks ago. So you can, like, click on the word "post" above to read the blarticle. Or you can click on the word "blarticle". Either way, click on one of them because they are a great indie cosmetic line to read about, buy from and wear ;)

Colors also included in this bundle aside from my wish list's Hot Gurl and Go Get 'Em Girl, are my much raved about After Party and Glitz and Glam glitter (which looks amazing over After Party!) and the Glam and Glossy top coat. Polish your nails in one of these beautiful colors and add some of that Showstopper lip gloss to your bare lips or over one of your lipsticks and you'll be set to go! Free of formaldehyde, dibutyl phthalate, tolene, parabens and rich with Vitamin E and Green Tea Extract for the lips...that's a great way to be ready, set and beautiful!

Go get 'em girls and thanks for reading! Besos, Beijos, Filakia, Kissies!

Love,

Lisa xo

Go Get 'Em Girl from the Glitz and Glam Collection of the 3 Free Nail Laquer Line is part of the Summer Bundle promotion!

Hot Gurl Nail Laquer is also a part of the Summer Bundle and one of the 2 polishes on my summer color wish list. I am so glad that summer isn't over yet!

I love the way Fab Chick by Harlem Diamond packages their products! Above is my first set of polishes from Fab Chick thanks to the honor of being one of the winners in the Face of Divas in the City contest! In my goodie bag I received After Party and Hue of Hughes!

Beauty Beats the Beast, Numero III: Fab Chick by Harlem Diamond Cosmetics

I’m a beauty product junkie by birth. It’s genetic, the gene comes from both sides of the family (inherited from my aunt on my father’s side, my grandmother on my mother’s side. See, there you have it). While my stock of mainstream product lines is plentiful, there is nothing I love more than trying out products from new cosmetic companies and I am really excited about Fab Chick by Harlem Diamond™

Their mantra is, "Be Fabulous, Amazing and Beautiful while maintaining a health friendly balance in our beauty routine."

Now if a mantra like that doesn’t get you wanting to find out more about a product line, then I don’t know what will! For me it was that and the similarity in our usernames (I’m Fab Chitating and they are Fab Chick!)  Fab Chick is an eco-friendly line that carries two nail polish collections, a lipstick collection and a lip gloss collection. Simple, fun, fabulous and beautiful.  

Fab Chick offers a 3 Free Nail Laquer line which consists of nine beautiful colors and a glossy top coat. And what, you ask, is it free of? It is free of 3 things that we really don’t want anywhere on and definitely not in, our bodies:

1. Dibutyl Phthalate (DBP)
2. Formaldehyde
3. Toluene 

Here are some learned facts from Fab Chick’s website on these 3 lil puppies:

·         DBP is a “potential developmental and reproductive toxin that may cause birth defects and is banned in Europe”

·         Formaldehyde is a “chemical that is proven to cause cancer”

·         Toluene is a “chemical that the EPA restricts from our drinking water and it can cause damage to liver and kidneys”

There are two fabulous nail polish collections available in this cosmetic line. One is a tribute to the one and only Harlem. The Harlem Collection consists of sinfully sultry and sexy colors with Harlem worthy names such as Billie’s Blues, Hue of Hughes, 2 Fifth and In My Own Skin (I just LOVE the names!) The second collection is the Glitz and Glam Collection which also consists of four colors plus a super glossy finish top coat, Glam and Glossy. The colors in this collection are vibrant, fun and sassy; perfect for a night out! Top any of the colors in the line with Glitz and Glam silver glitter for a quick makeover from "working girl" nails to "happy hour girl" nails, or let your nails draw attention to you with a color that pops such as Hot Gurl. You can go ahead and be a go getter with Go Get ‘Em Girl, a delicious shade of red, or lay lounge low (but never unnoticed!) with After Party, a unique neutral shade!

Above: Fab Chicks Butterfly polish, in support of Lupas Foundation of America

Before I get into these two hot collections, I have to mention that outside of these collections is one shade that stands tall and proud on it's own and is the most important of the crew. Why? Because it's made to raise money for charity. The 11th color in the line, every $2 out of the $8 nail polish sale of Butterfly goes straight to the Lupas Foundation of America and includes an LFA Bracelet. The color is described as a deep eggplant purple. Please click here to purchase. Involvement for charity is so important to me. Ask my Macy's credit card! Back in the day, Estee Lauder got me every time with their Breast Cancer Awareness collections when I went to try and pay off my card. Needless to say, it took a loooong time to pay that card off! That being said, I am incredibly impressed that a new and small business has created a product in honor of a cause so early on, and such a generous one at that. See, there are so many reasons why you should shop Fab Chick, as there are so many reasons why Fab Chic is Fab! 

Above: Hue of Hughes after my above mentioned work shift.

Of the Harlem Collection, I had the opportunity to try on Hue of Hughes. This color is a beautiful, deep, sultry wine color; it reminds me of merlot. I wore it to work to test its staying power, and I work at a place where I’m lucky if polish lasts more than my first hour of clocking in. Impressively, not one chipped nail by the end of my shift. 

Click pic to buy Hue of Hughes

< My friend Maria is now the proud owner of Hue of Hughes since I don't often wear dark wine colors on my teeny tiny nails unless I have a tan. She was so excited! I knew she would love it, wear the color more often than me, and therefore be a great public hand model for the Hue of Hughes!

Click Pic to get After Party

Of the Glitz and Glam line, I tried After Party. There are endless possibilities with this color (I will surely have a post with at least 2 different looks in the near future). Not only does this color look great on alone, it’s a great base for designs (hence, endless possibilities). I own at least 20 different nail polish colors and not one complimented my hot pink crackle polish until I tried it with After Party. Purrrfect-fit. I received so many compliments on the color both alone and with design. It literally goes with everything! I should also mention that I wore this color on my toes to work out, followed by the beach, and it survived the sand and waves!

Last but not least, the Kissable Lips Collection  offers six lip glosses and five lipsticks. The line is paraben free, infused with green tea extract and vitamin E which means you will be getting smooth, kissable and non sticky lips!

I unfortunately have not tried the lip collection (yet) but these colors are AH-MAY-ZING! So much so, that two of the lip glosses are sold out! I’m definitely going to get my hands on some of these shades too, I’m thinking Bella for lipstick (my “adopted” big sis’s nickname for me) and Showstopper for lip gloss (reminiscent of my days doing the show girl thing when I lived near NYC). What are your favorite color picks? Click here to see the kissable collection up close and personal, pass your cursor over the pictures, click away, and share with me your opinion. Let’s internet confabulate ladies!

If you click on any of the light purple text within the post, you will be redirected to a link on the topic or the item on Harlem Diamond's website. Thank you so much for reading and keep an eye out for more on Fab Chick by Harlem Diamond on my blog coming soon! Til next time baby dolls!

Besos, Beijos, Filakia,

Lisa xo
Twitter: Fab_Chitating
Email: Fabulous.Life.of.a.Senorita@gmail.com
 

Beauty Beats the Beast Numero I: If you don’t like black, then YOU DON’T KNOW JACQUES! O.P.I. Nail Lacquer

I love the way this color looks against white!

Have you ever admired how black nail polish looked on other people to only think “eh” once you had your own fingers adorned in the trendy color? I don’t know what it is, but once it’s on my own fingers I am taking it off within the first 24 hours.

I’ve tried dark purples, blues and burgundies to pull off the dark colored look, though none have satisfied my desire to pull off this look in a way that suits me. Then one glooooooooooorious day while going through my aunt’s medicine cabinet I discovered YOU DON’T KNOW JACQUES! the other black nail color ;p This color has been around for some time and is part of OPI’s Paris collection and comes in Suede finish as well. Though described as a “dark gray”, to my 20/20 vision eyes (eh hem, lies, lies) it’s more like a taupe meets brown, meets black, meets gray, meets some shade of purple type of color. While the online pictures of the color do look like a dark gray in the bottle and on others nails, live and on me (and in my bottle) it looks like my own personal description above. And don’t blame it on my lack of 20/20 vision, with glasses on it’s a perfect 20/20 ;)

Any hoo, with the discovery of YOU DON’T KNOW JACQUES! I now have my preferred alternative to the black nail polish trend in my possession!

Besos, Beijos, Filakia,

Lisa xo