Drug of Choice Fashion: Timberland Winter Boots

From Drug of Choice Fashion

It's that time of year again, time to start thinking about the snow that's going to be flying. Better to get prepared now and save yourself the trouble when the weather starts to get rough. If you think ahead you can look great all winter long, especially with the help of winter boots from Timberland. Check it out here.

Nails Inc.

This post should keep you busy for the remainder of the weekend. I can't tell you how excited I was to read about some of these trendy nail polishes released by Nails Inc and exclusive to Sephora. If you're lucky enough to live near a Sephora I hope you'll get a chance to check these out in person, I'm stuck here lusting after them for the time being.

Nails Inc has a lot of great colors to choose from. Some nail polish brands tend to stick to certain shades for the most part (Essie I'm talking to you) and others follow trends blindly when they can't really pull them off. I want a brand that brings me great shades that aren't too trendy but just well done collections. Their primary collection has a little something for everyone and I love the British themed names since they are based in London. Adorable. At $9.50 they are pretty comparable to OPI, China Glaze and Essie but still a little more than I would like to spend on a bottle of polish. Thankfully they have some pretty amazing colors that I would definitely be interested in trying out but I'm more interested in their special polishes. Take a look at these.

Magnetic polish. How freakin' sweet is that? You apply the polish like normal and then a magnet in the cap brings out this awesome texture on the nails. This is more my style than crackles. You still get the amazing effect without the peeling polish. Genius. I'd definitely spend $16 on this. I just wish the magnet would work on some of my other colors, unfortunately it's only going to work with Nails Inc Magnetic polish. I want both the purple and the gray!

If you are into the crackle look they also have a crackle polish. The colors they have look amazing, I'm especially loving Clapham Teal, Hoxton Purple and Hackney (a silver glitter crackle). These ones are only $9.50.

There are 3D glitters and a fun matte topcoat but I'm ecstatic over the holographic topcoat. Everything is better in a holo. I loved holos even before I knew what to call them. They're those shimmery polishes that reflect the entire rainbow back at you and look gorgeous doing it. I love that the glitter in these polishes is smooth and you can't even feel it. I like my nails to be soft, not rough and bumpy. Plus holos are a heck of a lot easier to remove than glitters. I'm a firm believer that every nail polish would look better with a little rainbow holo!

ROC Retinol Correxion Sensitive Night Cream

As a 26 year year old I've already started preventative aging practices. My 48 year old mother shunned eye cream that I tried to pass on to her because she's "not an old lady". Sigh! I, for one, want to prevent aging before it starts but if genetics are in my corner I know I'll be doing fine. Despite living with a smoker for the last 9 years my mom still has pretty amazing skin. She's got some lines but she doesn't look "old".

Retinols are the most effective products for aging and they have the added benefit of being great for acne as well. I picked up ROC's overnight retinol but found it a little too strong for every day use. If I use it every night my face starts to peel and flake although it never gets red and raw. What I started doing was layering it over Estee Lauder's Advanced Night Repair Serum. I let the serum soak in for five minutes and then add a light layer of the retinol. The baby powder scent is a little much for me but it's not annoyingly strong. And I ALWAYS end up with an itchy nose about 10 minutes after I apply this stuff. What is up with that? I can still only use it every other day but most nights I forget anyway.

Over the course of my trials I've tried a few different retinol products, one from Neutrogena and one from ROC as well as prescription retinoids. Wow were those strong. I got immediate peeling and redness after just one use, I guess my skin is too sensitive. Now ROC has a new product Retinol Correxion Sensitive Night Cream. How great is that? Retinol for sensitive skin. I can skip the extra step of adding a serum and get the full benefits of a retinol product. At $23 it's also highly affordable and available at most drugstores and mass market stores like Walmart and Target. Check it out if you wanna head off looking "old" before you're actually O-L-D!

OPI Touring America and Muppets Collections

I can't keep up with all these nail polish lines. As a girl who didn't do much with her nails in the years before starting this blog I have a lot of catching up to do. As I've mentioned before I was always painting my nails in middle school but after high school I just couldn't be bothered. I used to get so many chips that I basically gave up hope of ever having a good manicure. Stupid, stupid, stupid! All it took was a good topcoat and I was good to go.

Still there are times when I miss a collection and this is no exception. The OPI Touring America Collection had me at I Eat Mainely Lobsters. Hello! I'm a Mainer and I LOVE me some lobstah! I've seen swatches of this one around the web and I must agree that it is spot on, the exact color of a cooked lobster. Yummy! I'm drooling just thinking about it.

If you're not into the orangy-red of Mainely Lobsters I can't think of a better line to try out from OPI, this one is so diverse there's literally something for everyone, just like America.

I might have missed the Touring America release date but I'm not going to miss the Muppets Collection. This one comes out in time for the movie on November 23rd and just in time for all your holiday shopping. If you have a sister, mother, neice, aunt, cousin or bestie you better give them some OPI love.

Here are the names in order:
Animal-istic: bright red
Meep-Meep-Meep: saturated fuchsia
Wocka Wocka!: deep, dark berry
Pepe’s Purple Passion: dark, plummy purple
Designer…de Better!: light bronzey metallic (a DOC fave)
Warm & Fozzie: copper metallic
Rainbow Connection: rainbow glitter (DOC fave)
Excuse Moi!: pink glitter
Gone Gonzo!: bright blue glitter
Fresh Frog of Bel Air: green glitter
Divine Swine: magenta glitter
Gettin’ Miss Piggy With It!: red glitter perfect for the holidays

Don't miss out on this one when it hits stores in November. Let me know which ones you picked up.

Drug of Choice Fashion: Celebrity Lines

My goal for this coming winter is a post each day for DOC Beauty as well as a post on any of my various other sites. At this time Drug of Choice Fashion is up and running with blogs on home decor, fitness, reading/writing, music and celebrities in the works. I hope to have them all up and running by Christmas and hope to be able to post more on each page as they grow into something you know and love. So anything you'd like to see covered? Shoot me a line at Drugofchoicebeauty@yahoo.com and I will definitely do my best to get it going for you. In the meantime here's my latest DOC Fashion post on celebrity fashion lines.

Buxom Waterproof Smoky Eye Stick

You all know how big a fan of Buxom by Bare Escentuals I am don't you? Yeah they're right up there with Urban Decay for my favorite brand. If I had to pick two companies to wear every day for the rest of my life those would be it. I'd have a hard time choosing between the two. I love everything Buxom puts out and the Waterproof Smoky Eye Stick is no exception. That Sephora promotional picture caught my attention right away in InStyle magazine. I couldn't stop thinking about it. Even though the model and I couldn't look any more different I think I could totally rock this look and Buxom Waterproof Smoky Eye Stick is a big part of making it happen.

When Karla Sugar posted swatches of these a while back I couldn't stop fantasizing about Nunchucks, a bright metallic blue. Even though most people call them numbchucks (which I hate) the correct term is nunchucks lol. Now I think I want them all. Ice Pick was the one used in the look above and I was hoping it would be a little more blue than gray, for the look I was going for anyway.

These can be used as a liner or as a shadow and Karla says they're more blendable than my beloved 24/7 Shadow Pencils. As much as I love liner I think I might love shadow more and I usually end up using it as my liner too. The only thing that can top that is a shadow pencil or crayon like this one, I love me some of those!

This look also features Dior's shadow quint 008 Smoky Design and Make Up For Ever (MUFE)'s Smoky Lash which I featured here. At $18 the Buxom stick is the most affordable of the bunch, there's no way I'm shelling out $59 on the Dior quint no matter how gorgeous it is, it's not in my nature.

Gucci Guilty for Her and Him

His and Her perfumes cute or corny? Well when they smell as good as Gucci Guilty (or if you look as good as Chris Evans and Rachel Evan Wood) then I say go for it.

It's always nice to wear a scent that coordinates with your hubby's. You don't want to clash but you don't want to match either. Save for the times when we're both wearing CKOne I don't think we could really get away with wearing the same scents. I love all of his but I don't see myself wearing them out in public and I'm sure he'd say the same about mine (not that he wears mine in private either, I think!).

When we were on vacation and hit up Ulta I just had to spritz Gucci Guilty pour Homme on Matt. I love Gucci Guilty for her and the spicy oriental is right up my alley. I fell just as hard for the guy's version although I think Matt was a little less excited. I think he thought I was going to spend money and buy it for him, that might have been his issue.

For the rest of our car trip I kept telling him how good he smelled even though I smelled equally good with my Elizabeth Arden Green Tea scent. What is so great about this you ask? It smells kinda foodie but not ridiculously so. It's still manly under the vanilla/cinnamon scent I detect. It's not too heavy but powerful enough to be noticed and didn't give either of us a headache, a huge feat in its own right.

Even though it's not parmount to the quality of the product itself I'm in love with the bottle, the Sephora picture seriously doesn't do it justice. I'm a little miffed that it looks absolutely nothing like the also incredibly hot women's bottle pictured below.