June Julep Maven Box

Hey guys,

So I really didn't want this to happen, I told myself I would be good. Then it happened. I upgraded my Julep box AGAIN. This month Julep introduced their new My Maven program. All existing Mavens would have the choice to continue with their current subscription program which is you choose which box you want then you can have up to three add-ons. Or upgrade to "My Maven" and pay $25 a month and be able to customize their box, which I actually like because you can swap out a polish you don't want for one you do want. Or you can upgrade to the Maven Luxe box and pay $40 a month and get to choose more products in your box. I upgraded to the My Maven, but after looking at this month's collection I splurged. I blame the fact that this month's collection is whimsical. It's very A Midsummer's Night Dream.

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Julep - Kyla

Hey guys,

So I had a rather chaotic weekend, I flew out to my cousins wedding which was beautiful. Then today when I went to go home after sitting at the airport for several hours my flight got cancelled. So now I'm going to be out of town a little longer than initially expected. Oh well. I'm going to try and keep posting. 

Today I have a really pretty jelly with iridescent orange glitter. This is a great summer colour if you can pull off orange. This is one coat over Essie Tart Deco. 

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Julep - Kyla

China Glaze - Sand Dolla Make You Holla

Hey guys,

So I have had a great day today, on my accidental day off, I actually got to go ride my horse because I actually caught him. Always a good day when I can catch him. I fly out tomorrow for my cousin's wedding so there won't be a post tomorrow.

I have another polish from the Sea Goddess collection. Before I wore them all this was my favourite in the collection. It's a super pale pink base with rainbow micro glitters. This didn't wind up being my favourite in real life but I did really like this one. My camera however HATED it. So bear with me and the crappy pics.
This is three coats.

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China Glaze - Sand Dolla Make You Holla

China Glaze - Kiwi Cool-Ada

Hey guys,

So today at work my entire department was off on a course with the exception of me and my coworker, it was like a ghost town on our floor. And then I have tomorrow off as well, since I forgot that I had booked it off. Whoops. Of course if I was smart I would have booked Monday off because Tuesday is a holiday but I definitely didn't realize that.

This is a polish I had waffled over for a long time, it is a bright lime green, it's much brighter in real life, for some reason my camera wanted nothing to do with the brightness of this. It's a neon so it was fairly sheer. It would have been better over a white base but I wanted to see how it would build up.
This is four coats.

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China Glaze - Kiwi Cool-Ada

Anna Sui - Snow White

Hey guys,

So I have a really hard time making choices sometimes, I am much more the type of person to be like "Oh I can't decide, let's do both" I've never been good at having to make a choice of one thing. So every month when I get my new audible credit I have the worst time trying to figure out which audiobook I should get for the month. I know they have a return policy but it's a tough decision. Anyone have any suggestions?

I have the second Anna Sui polish to show you today, this one is a white polish with a bit of an iridescent pink sheen to it along with some holo glitter in there too. I didn't notice the rose smell in this one. I really liked this one. This was 3 coats.

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Anna Sui - Snow White

Dollish Polish - Penny... Penny... Penny...

Hey guys,

So tomorrow I'm gearing up for one of the busiest/most stressful work days of the year for me, the Beer Draw, I have done my best to get my act together so I am ready to go first thing tomorrow morning, but we have 288 six packs of beer to be won. Busy, busy day. Wish me luck.

This has been a big lemming of mine since it was released. It was always sold out every time I went to put in an order though, alas it is finally mine! Anyone who has watched The Big Bang Theory with any sort of regularity will get the reference for this polish, plus it is copper glitter in a milky copper base. Perfect for a polish called Penny. Nice application too, this was three coats.

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Dollish Polish - Penny... Penny... Penny...

Anna Sui - Midnight Purple

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So a couple weeks back when I got my package in the mail from Melissa I freaked out when I saw that inside were two limited edition Anna Sui Minnie Mouse polishes. First off I finally had some pretty Anna Sui polishes in their pretty bottles and on top of that these ones were DISNEY THEMED! I could not have been more excited.

So this is the first of two, this is a gorgeous purple. I don't feel like this is super ground breaking but it was so beautiful with such a nice shimmer. Apparently rose scented polishes are an Anna Sui signature, I HATED IT. I don't know what it was but It was driving my crazy.
Great application, nice and smooth. This was two coats.

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Anna Sui - Midnight Purple

Deborah Lippmann - Forsaken: Bad Things Set

Hey guys,

So I hope that everyone had as great of a weekend as I did, like I mentioned yesterday I spent a vast majority hanging out with the Lawrence brothers, and obviously by that I meant I spent my weekend watching Brotherly Love & Melissa and Joey. It was fantastic... if you don't know who the Lawrence brothers are (yes I am looking at you best friend Nicole) please click here or here, have your memory jogged.

Tonight, True Blood. The last season. It's happening, and today I have the second Deborah Lippmann True Blood set to show you. This one included 3 minis. I had the same problem with this set as I did with the last set, while I think the black cherry sheer polish is fitting, what is up with the pink? Why? How is there no bright red?

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Dollish Polish - Get Your Sprinkle On

Hey guys,

So I had an insanely productive yet MELLOW day. It was awesome, totally what I needed. I swatched this month's Julep box, finished making the dragon egg I have been working on all week, edited a bunch of pictures, finished staining the two signs I've been working on, baked cupcakes, filmed a video, AND watched a crap load of tv I have been procrastinating on. Oh and I watched a few episodes of Brotherly Love which was easily one of my favourite shows in the 90's, seriously you gotta love the Lawrence brothers. Actually I was so busy I almost forgot to blog. Whoops.

This was a polish from Dollish Polish's Ice Cream Collection. I actually really liked this collection, it was bright and fun and was perfectly fitting of the ice cream theme. I only wound up ordering one from this collection but I chose a yellow crelly full of bright rainbow glitters. Good even application. This was three coats.

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Dollish Polish - Get Your Sprinkle On

Deborah Lippmann - Forsaken: Sookie Sookie Set

Hey guys,

So a few months ago I found two Deborah Lippmann sets I had been lusting over for months. I've said it before, but I am a total sucker for anything tying into anything I fangirl over. So while the polishes within these sets may have not screamed my name, the fact that they are True Blood Deborah Lippmann's was enough to make these a must have. And I found them at Winners so DOUBLE BONUS. Actually if I was a good friend I would have also grabbed them for Melissa but alas, I suck.

If you are a True Blood fan then you'll know that the season premiere of the FINAL season starts on Sunday, out with Game of Thrones and in with True Blood. Oh HBO you really know how to not overwhelm my schedule. I dig it. I'm still really sore over Warlow's departure. If you haven't seen last season and that is a spoiler for you, the statute of limitations on spoilers for last season is up so deal with it.
Anyways here is the first of two sets!.

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Julep - Kathy - June Birthstone

Hey guys,

So I love random crafts. I'm currently working on a dragon egg, which turns out is a lot heavier than I expected it to be, so it could possibly double as a weapon should I ever need to throw something at someones head. Although my aim can't be trusted so it would likely just wind up being me throwing my dragon egg, breaking it, then being bummed out about breaking said dragon egg.

I have June's birthstone to show you today! I actually really like this one. I know a lot of people were whining about the way Pearl turned out "it should have been white," "couldn't they have done _____ instead" Whatever. Pearls come in all different colours and this gold pearly shade is very pretty. The application was better than I expected too. This is two coats.

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Julep - Kathy
Pearl for June

Ciate - Chalkboard Manicure

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Has anyone else noticed that this month seems to be FLYING by? I have my cousin's wedding to go to next week and that suddenly just dawned on me, so of course I was scrambling and crawling through my closet trying to figure out what dress to wear. Why is it bad luck to wear black to a wedding? BLACK IS THE BEST!

So a couple weeks ago I got a fantastic package in the mail from Miss Melissa over at Claw of Cthulhu. Aka Nail Polish Bestie, aka just all around awesome chick. And inside was the Ciate chalkboard manicure set. This was my first experience with Ciate so I was kind of excited. Now You can totally get this same look with some nail art pens and a good matte topcoat but this is still fun. The kit includes a matte black, 4 chalk pens, and a matte top coat.

At first I put the matte black on over top of my regular basecoat. BIG MISTAKE. the matte wanted to dry and crack like it was a straight up crackle. So I removed and put it on without a basecoat like the recommend. Much better plus it had a fantastic chalky matte finish, perfect matte.

Then the chalk pens, I found them a bit hard to work with since all the liquid chalk seems to want to pool really easy once it gets going. And my yellow pen was totally shot, the nub wouldn't spring back out.
So I just attempted some random designs. Waited for it to dry then slapped the matte top coat on.

Overall I think this is pretty cool, but I don't think buying the set it totally necessary, unless of course you want to!

Enchanted Manicure

Hey guys,

So after already checking my local Michael's store I had to drive about 25 minutes into the city to a different Michaels to try and find wooden plaques and stryofoam eggs. This is my life as a crafter.

Mixing it up today I have my last Disney manicure that I had in my drafts to show you guys, I've been sitting on this for a while, I'm not exactly sure why since it's not like I hate this at all. I love the movie Enchanted. It is probably one of my top 10 (at least top 15) favourite Disney movies, and contrary to what everyone is saying about Frozen it was totally the first Disney movie that called bullshit on the love at first sight thing. Plus Patrick Dempsey and James Marsden. So here we have Giselle (her eyes are a tad close together but whatever), her dress, the posioned apple, and the Prince's poufy sleeves.

Enchanted!

OPI - What's A Little Rain Forest?

Hey guys,

So did anyone watch the Game of Thrones season finale?? Of course my favourite character bit the dust. Sad day for me, I won't say who it was, spoilers and all but aww man. I sort of expected this to happen way sooner than it did but sheesh. Stupid show. Guess I have to pick a new favourite. This makes me feel like the grim reaper.

I have the very last Brazil liquid sand for you today. This was my favourite from the collection, a beautiful sky blue with the same sugary finish (I really feel like that is the perfect description for it) this is such a fantastic summer polish. Perfect for toes too. This was two coats.

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OPI - What's A Little Rain Forest?

OPI - You're So Flippy Floppy

Hey guys,

So on a totally non blog related note, Yesterday my best friend and I decided to do the "Baby Food Challenge" and film it and then of course upload it to the internet for the world to see. So if you feel like watching me choke down some baby food click here! The plan is to start making product review videos and putting them on youtube. Who knows if this will last but heck why not right?

Today I have my least favourite of the Brazil liquid sand polishes to show you, honestly the only reason this was my least favourite was because of the colour, I know some of you with a darker skintone can probably ROCK this canary yellow but it just makes me look jaundiced. Although I do have it on my toes right now and it works much better as a toenail polish. Like Brazil Nuts this one was a bit more sheer, this is three coats.

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OPI - You're So Flippy Floppy