Aggies Do It Better

Hey guys! I have another WAY over due post! I haven't been blogging as much over the past couple months (aside from swatching) because I've been busy with stuff around the house. And we recently joined our YMCA (finally!) so I've been taking some yoga classes trying everything possible to get my issues with my neck and shoulders worked out. I think....I know it will help me in the long run but I'm still in the beginning stages of everything hurting all the time always. ugh! So its another thing pulling me away from the computer. I have a new planner and I'm trying to work out a schedule of fitting in all the thing I want to be doing! First world problems, I know. Back in August I was planning on doing a little end of the month summary of the polishes I've been wearing when I'm not swatching (still trying to use so many untrieds!) so I could document them here. Fast forward to December and I still haven't posted them here! Sooooo I just decided to combi...

Hey guys! I have a non-nail post today! I plan on mixing in more non-nail/lifestyle posts in the new year, that was my intention all along when I formally switched my blog over to a mostly nail blog! Rimmel sent me their new tinted lip balms a little while ago and I've been testing them out and wearing them comparing them to my favorite current lip balms, the Fresh Sugar lip treatments and the NYX Butter lip balms. And now.... Here are the 5 colors (the entire collection I believe) they sent me: Keep Calm Lip Balms From left: Keep Calm and Shop (010) Clear Keep Calm and Kiss (020) Pink Blush Keep Calm and Play (040) Rose Blush Keep Calm and Rock (030) Berry Blush Keep Calm and Party (050) Violet Blush Here is my current collection of Sugar balms...before your jaw hits the ground they are minis! I don't have any full size, I tend to grab the little mini packs when they are available! For the price of around 2 full size balms I got this set of 5 minis in a...

Hey guys! I have a few comparisons for you today! I really love doing comparisons and looking at other's comparison blogs! Today I have 3 comparisons for China Glaze Cheers! collection  for  Holiday 2015 that stood out to me immediately when I got them. If you are curious about any others let me know in the comments and I will put them in my schedule if I have them! First up is Peppermint to Be. This immediately reminded me of Ahoy! They did look very similar in the bottle but on the nail Ahoy is much more pink and Peppermint to Be is much more red...but the formula on them is almost identical! This is 2 coats of each.  Peppermint to Be comparison I swear these looked way more similar in real life!  bottle comparison Next is I Soiree I Didn't Do It. Its a green glitter in a light green jelly base. This reminded me IMMEDIATELY of Atlantis! I'm so glad I have this CG-I picked it up randomly one day in a grocery store not knowing then how hard to find it is!...

Hey guys! If you don't follow me on Twitter or Instagram (links to the right!) then you don't know about the plague on my house for the past month! I've been battling bronchitis (constant coughing....constant) and my littlest was really sick with a sinus infection and then a virus that had him (and me) benched for a week :( Even though we weren't all better we traveled over Thanksgiving and then as soon as we got back another kid and Mr. Aggies got sick, and my cough got worse! I've been to a doctor's office more times in the past 4 weeks than I care to mention. bleh! We all seem to be getting back in the swing of things, we are all ready to be healthy again! I've had this collection for a few weeks but it has just been impossible for me to get to them until this week-which I HATE and have been really feeling terrible about. But now here they are yay! I do have a couple comparisons and I was going to include them here but there's so many pictures alrea...

Hello! I have a fun one today! Hard Candy recently came out with a 20th Anniversary collection with 8 polishes in their original packaging and colors! 5 of the 8 were original colors, and 3 new colors in the same packaging. They even included the cute little rings on the bottles! By the time I got to Walmart and saw if they had these, there was only these 2 plus 2 others that I didn't like, so I wasn't going to buy them just for the sake of the blog! ( I do enough of that anyway, haha). The only other ones I want are Mint and Coconut! Still on the look out for those, although I'm sure they're long gone :( I was lucky enough that one of the ones I got was Sky, one of the originals! whoop! I'm a little tardy posting about these but you know...life!   This is 2 coats of Sky. This was almost a one coater!  I even wrote "whoa!" I my notes, giggle! Amazing, most mint or light blue crèmes I have are 3 coaters. No topcoat! Sky the other one I grab...

Hey guys! I have little mini-review for you today! I have these under the "purchased by me" tag but they were actually a gift from my sister in law in Australia! It me forever to get to them, shame on me! I love them so much (heart eyes)! First up is a brand I've seen online but never owned until now! Its called Nail It! (giggle) and this minty (matte!) crème is called Sports girl. I didn't write down how many coats I used but I'm pretty sure it was 3! The formula was a bit tricky as with all matte crèmes, this is the only matte crème I have, the rest of the matte polishes I have are shimmery, etc! But who can resist a good mint nail polish?? NO ONE I say!  Nail It! "Sportsgirl" I used the other polish she gave me, Face of Australia "Studio 54" to create a little gradient with a sponge! Its a really pretty coppery glitter topper. I added a coat of my OPI matte topcoat to keep it matte! What do yall think?? (I just re read through ...

Hey guys! Today I have half of Smokey Mountain Lacquer's Winter 2015 collection for you! I only have one polish of her brand and I love it, so when Kim asked me to review these for her of course I said yes! These will be launching November 20th at 8pm EST so be sure to check out Smokey Mountain Lacquers  to purchase! I'll put more information on the pricing at the end of this blog.  Smokey Mountain Lacquers Winter 2015 collection Swatches and Review by Aggies Do It Better

Hey guys! Today my blog is all about my design for Picture Polish's second nail art competition, Nail Art Quarterly! I was so excited to be chosen again because the theme "geometric" is waayyy more my style than the floral-themed last one! Here's what I came up with!  We were able to choose 3-5 shades out do our own collection (and only striping tape or straight nail vinyls) and I chose five of my favorites. Marine, Tiffany, Honeydew, Bonbon, and Chillax. All blues and greens! I also arranged them in sort of a lightest to darkest order to create a subtle ombre effect.  I hope you guys enjoy this progression of pics  I took as I went :)

Hey guys! Here's my comparions for the new Matte Velvets! I wasn't even going to do them because I feel like they've already been done some but I just did them anyway! I do love a good comparison ;) If you missed my post yesterday you can find it here. 

Hey guys! I'm back from a little hiatus. Its been a whole month since my last blog! I just had to focus on getting some things done around the house. Yall know how that is! Today I have what's probably my most anticipated collection from Zoya since the last Matte Velvets came out, the new Matte Velvets for 2015! As soon as I saw the pictures of this collection I was PUMPED for that blue matte! This collection has a few similar collections as the last one and some new colors! Here's my post on last year's Matte Velvets!  I totally was *not* going to do any comparisons because by the time I received my replacement shipment (the first one was so badly damaged I still can barely talk about it) I feel like its already been done a lot buuuuuuttt I did anyway so those will be up tomorrow. I tend to gush about the Matte Velvets because I love them so much (just like last year) so know that even though these were sent to me to review I actually honestly love them just so much lo...

Hey guys! Life has gotten a little busy for me lately so I'm just now getting these up! Sally Hanson sent me a few of their new XTreme wear shades to review! I really really love the brush in this line, but the formulas can be hit or miss. They just recently revamped the whole line. Lets just get right into them!  Sally Hanson XTreme Wear 2015  

Hey guys! Here's my round up post for the second part of the nail art challenge going on right now! I don't have time to blog every single mani so this is how I'm doing it to document my mani's! I'll keep my intro short since there's so many pics. If you missed my first section round up you can see it here! One last thing...I've noticed several new followers to my blog this week....if you just started following my blog let me know in the comments where you found me! :)  31DC2015 part two

Hey guys! Today I have a little roundup of all the mani's I did for the first part of this year's 31 day challenge! This is a fun little challenge that goes around in the  nail world each September and this is my 3rd year participating! Maybe I will actually complete it this year :( I always get stuck and burned out on the last part! My goal for this year is to try to use as much untried/unblogged polishes as I can, I have a little system of marking each one as it gets blogged about, it helps me when I want to get rid of some! This post has a lot pics and I will just get right into it! I have chosen not to blog for each  mani because I just don't have time!!! So I will have one post for each part (10 mani's). I will list each polish I used for each mani. If there's any other info yall want just let me know in the comments! At the end I have links for my manis from years past, its fun to see the improvement each year!   31DC2015 part one!

Hey guys! Today I have China Glaze's fall collection! It consists of 5 cremes, 3 duochromes, 1 shimmery creme, 2 metallic polishes and 1 glitter. Talk about variety haha! I wasn't too sure about this collection from the photos, but as I was swatching it there are some I really fell in love with!! I was gonna divide this into 2 posts but I thought since it's not divided into 2 sub collections like some other brands I figured I'd just do one! Change Your Altitude is a light gray creme. More on the lavender-taupe scale. Really pretty but the formula was just ok-it didn't want to level out. I added a 3rd coat to one nail and it still was a little lumpy. This is 2 coats plus topcoat.  Change Your Altitude My Lodge or Yours is a rose toned taupe. I had the same issues here but a light hand with your brush definitely helps. I also had trouble with it running down the brush so be sure to scrape it off good!  This is 2 coats plus topcoat.  My L...