Notoriously Morbid’s November 2016 Vanishing Cabinet

This is a little bit late I suppose but I strongly suspect that you’re used to that sort of behaviour on this blog. It’s part of the charm that is Gym Bag Makeup! I actually love the theme of this month’s Notoriously Morbid Vanishing Cabinet Subscription; Charmed. Charmed is still a guilty pleasure show for […]

Essie – Playing Koi

Essie as a brand seems to be either a “love it” or “hate it” kind of situation. I am firmly in the “love it” camp. I have tiny fingernails and I really appreciate Essie’s minute little brushes. I’m also a big fan of their formula in general. Essie’s Fall 2016 collection is an interesting one. […]

Marc Jacobs Glow Stick Highlight – Spotlight

So. Marc Jacobs. Where to begin? I don’t have extensive experience with the Marc Jacobs makeup line as a whole, but I have to say, most of the items in the line seem perfectly fine, but boring and a bit basic and not interesting enough to warrant the rather hefty price tags. My personal experience […]

Zoya – Hunter

This post is a long time coming. I’m really bad about taking photos of manicures, starting a draft about the polish and then just not finishing it. It’s a problem really! Anyway Zoya Hunter was part of a major haul that I posted way back in March. Hunter applied very well, no issues at all. […]

My Pretty Zombie – 13 Gypsies

I’m sure that there are people of the makeup wearing variety that don’t care for gold or copper eyeshadows but I think that a lot of us can get down with gold shades. 13 Gypsies is one of these lovely golden coppery shades. The MPZ website describes it as “…a warm heavy copper with copper […]

China Glaze – Let’s Jam!

Pastel purple nail polish can be a little difficult for me to pull off. It’s unfortunate but true. Every so often though I see a pale purple that just calls to me so I risk the dreaded lobster hand effect. Let’s Jam! is one of those shades, and fortunately, it didn’t make my hands look […]

October 2016 Empties

I’ve been binge watching Doctor Who all morning so my brain’s a bit mushy and all of my internal dialogue is in David Tennant’s voice. You can take that to mean that this post might be a bit weird. That being said, let’s just jump right into my garbage bin so to speak! Let’s look […]

OPI – We The Female

I apologize in advance because the photos of this manicure are super messy. Sometimes I remember to clean up my cuticles and sometimes (ok ok, most of the time) I don’t. This is the second polish that I purchased from the OPI Fall/Winter 2016 collection (Washington DC is the theme). I’m about to shock you […]

OPI’s Suzi- The First Lady of Nails

OPI’s Fall and Winter collection for 2016 has a Washington DC theme. Really it’s a rather odd theme with some even stranger shade names but I digress. “Suzie -The First Lady of Nails” (heretofore referred to as First Lady of Nails because ain’t nobody got time for that) is a lovely olive green shade. The […]

Notoriously Morbid October 2016 Vanishing Cabinet

Have you seen how many subscription boxes there are now? I actually had an email advertising a subscription box for girls “who don’t paint their faces” and it went to a website (with no female models anywhere btw) that offers various levels of “survival subscriptions”. Yep. That’s how far we’ve gone. For the low low […]