August 2014 Julep Maven Spoilers! The Wanderlust Collection!

SOOO I found some spoilers a day a head of time for Julep's August box and I am REALLY REALLY excited about it so I figured I'd share it with my readers too. This is the first box I've EVER been this excited about and I love every single color. I'm not thrilled about the beauty product this month, but that can be remedied and I'm sure some people will really love it.

If you don't already know what Julep is from all the press, my posts, or commercials on TV, it's a monthly nail polish subscription program with different style profiles you can pick from every month! The window opens on the 20th and you can either pick one of the set ones, or customize your box! You can get everything too, or only just polish. I've been subscribed for over a year now and LOVE it. Plus you can usually get your first box free with code FREEBOX, or head over to my Julep Steals & Deals page and there are more codes there! CLICK HERE TO FIND OUT MORE OR SUB TODAY! It's only

So without further ado, Meet August 2014 Julep Wanderlust Collection!
If you don't want spoilers, don't keep reading by the way!! :)

Julep Maven December Glitterati Collection Unboxing!

I am thrilled to say that Julep finally has an option to upgrade to an ONLY polish option. I've never upgraded in the past because I never 100% LOVE all of their beauty products, so when I saw this month's box full of glitter beauties PLUS a polish only upgrade, I jumped at the chance.

For those of you who have never heard of Julep before, they are an independent nail polish company that offers a monthly subscription box with various "style profile" options tailored to your tastes. The box costs $19.99 a month for either two polishes and a beauty product, two beauty products, or three polishes. I love Julep because they give you the option to skip entirely if you don't like the collection. They also now offer Polish only upgrades for $44.99 in which you get all 9 colors! :) I think the regular upgrade is 50$.
Check them out if you love polish like me! And use my referral link HERE, so they know I sent you!

Who's ready for some swatches!?! My apologies in advance for the photo quality. I was so excited when I got my box that I didn't charge my phone and my flash stopped working halfway through the polish!

Everything was boxed up really nicely this month! The new boxes are super cute, although I think they're a waste of paper. It also came with a 40% off code and 2 twistband hairties. I will wear them as bracelets only.

From left to right:

Mia, Jillian, Cara, Celia, Evelyn, Shoshanna, Andrea, Joelle, Misti

Visit Julep's Website HERE to purchase these amazing colors

I'm going to describe Cara and Evelyn for you because I sold/traded them and I forgot to take pictures of the bottles first :/

Cara - I thought this was going to be a pink shimmer polish. That's what the Julep swatches looked like. However, it looks pink in the bottle but it's actually a really nice red frost color. Julep describes it as a "cranberry frost".

Evelyn - A "Magenta purple cream". I'm so tired of Julep's cream polish. This color was so/so for me. It's a nice color if you don't already have a bunch of purples I guess.

First up is Misti. It's a pretty smokey blue cream that will be perfect for more snowmen. This is two coats over my existing Rebel for full opaqueness.

Meet Jillian. This is supposed to be a "deep eggplant with bronze molten" I think it's more brownish red.

To me it looks like a dupe of Sephora by OPI I'm with Brad

It went on amazingly though. That swatch is just one coat over my existing polish.

This is two coats of Joelle over my Rebel. This is the most amazing silver holo full coverage glitter. I am absolutely in love with it. 

This is Shoshanna. I will have to wear it this weekend and post another picture because this does it no justice. It's a beautiful yellow full coverage holo glitter filled with green and red glitters as well. Love it!

EDIT: Here's an additonal photo of Joelle and Shoshanna over Julep Nicolette for your viewing pleasure.

I love these colors! Not so much over the white but this is a much better picture to give you an idea of what they really look like!

Andrea is a really pretty full coverage bronzey/gold color. This is two coats over Rebel. Went on really nicely for a full coverage and wasn't too difficult to take off!

EDIT: On my ring finger and thumb is Andrea in all it's glittery glory. I love this color so much it isn't really bronze to me, definitely more gold, but it is absolutely beautiful!

This is Mia. I'm not totally amazed. It reminds me of if Julep Stefani and Zelda had a baby. It would be this polish. It's supposed to be a greenish silver, but I only see silver.

EDIT: As it turns out, I used Mia again and it is actually a pretty greenish silver color. What I love the most about it, is how metallic and wonderful it is. This is Mia paired with Shoshanna on my thumb and ring finger. LOVE THEM!

Saved the best for last!! This is Celia. It's an amazing Green metallic that is perfect for winter and christmas. This picture is just ONE coat if you can believe that!

And here are my nails. Using Celia with Joelle on top and Rebel for the Christmas Tree. :)

And here's a bonus mani picture of what they looked like before I did the swatches. :) That's Rebel. It's my favorite.

Again, sorry for the lame pictures. I will take better ones I swear. What colors did you get this month??? Love or hate them?!

Until next time,

Xx Ashley C.

Julep Gem Collection 2013 by Chynel Webb

So I ordered the Gem Collection Set 2013 when Julep Maven had their sale of 50 percent off of everything, plus a maven discount and a promo discount and got this bad boy for 37 dollars! Woot! It took 6 days to get here which felt like forever but I am so happy it is finally here! So it came well packaged and perfect. 

 Ugh it is sooo beautiful!  So lets do some swatching!

So L-R Colors are : Kenya, Oscar, Barbara, Echo, and Hilary. Kenya was so gorgeous! It was like that Holiday Red and had some sparkle to it, definitely a fav!

 Paris, Carly, Angela, Mary, and Jordan

 Last Jasmine, and Bette. Left Angela and Mary on so I could do some thing fun with them. 

So this was all of them and they were all pretty easy to put on except for Echo. That one was really thick like grape jelly.... Weird. I am so happy I got these, they are absolutely perfect for the holidays. I can already tell you what I polish I am going to be wearing for Christmas. They are so beautiful and I totally recommend purchasing this set for yourself! Thanks for stopping by!

Oh and this was how I had my nails after the swatching using Mary and Angela!

Until Next Time! <3 Chynel