Thankful for Giveaways Giveaway Hop!!

Hi everyone!!! As I told you last week a few times, I have another giveaway for you guys!!!
I LOVE the holiday season, so I decided to do another one for Thanksgiving! The group I'm in Up All Night Blogging is hosting the Thankful for Giveaways Giveaway hop from today, 11/12/14 to 11/26/14 at 11:59 EST!!

I'm giving away two of my FAVORITE nail polishes!!! Green is my FAVORITE color so I picked two of my favorite greens! You will be entering for a chance to win Julep's Angela and Butter London's Squatter!! These are two great brands that I LOVE and use regularly, and hopefully you will love them too!! :) I'm also going to be throwing in random extras in your package like, beauty, skincare, and other random samples that I have.

This is currently open to the U.S. only and will run until 11:59 EST on 11/26!
I'll pick a winner on 11/27 and email you so make sure and enter a good email! You will have 24 hours to confirm, so I don't have to pick someone else, and I'll ship the next day! :)

Here's a picture of the polishes for your viewing pleasure, and GOOD LUCK TO ALL!

Happy almost Thanksgiving!!! Make sure and enter the other giveaways in the hop too! And if you like you can attend the twitter party, and have the chance to win EVEN MORE PRIZES! RSVP HERE!

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Welcome to the Thankful For Giveaways Giveaway Hop, brought to you by The Hopping Bloggers & Up All Night Blogging! We are a group of bloggers that specialize in giveaway hops - so stay with us and you will have many chances to win some amazing prizes! Each blogger participating in this hop has a giveaway with a prize value of at least $15 - and some are much more than that! Be sure to visit them all - there is no limit to how many prizes you can win! Good Luck and Have Fun!

 

Xx Ashley C.

Frankenstein Nails for Halloween 2014

Good morning lovelies! I've been trying for WEEKS to figure out what kind of Halloween nails I wanted to do this year... and tonight I think I've finally decided on Frankenstein/Bride of Frankenstein nails! :) 

Now, forewarning, I'm not like super awesome at nail art or anything, but I can tell a BIG improvement from last year, and Halloween is my favorite time to do cutesy things with my nails! :) I still kind of want to figure out how to do some witch nails, or zombie nails.. 

SO without further adieu, HERE THEY ARE in all their not so spooky glory!

For this mani I used:

• China Glaze - I'm With the Lifeguard
• L.A. Colors Black Striper Polish
• Julep - Nicolette
• Julep - Rebel
• Sinful Colors - 24/7
• Pretty & Polished - Matte Topcoat

I've had this China Glaze for awhile now... I have absolutely NO idea why I hadn't used it until now.... because it's basically the most amazing lime green EVER. You can't tell in this picture because I used Instagram filters and whatnot, but here's a picture of it in all it's amazing glory pre-cleanup and pre-franken-nails!

Lime green WHAT!? This is with my matte topcoat over it, but it didn't really need it, as it's super neon and kind of matte already. I love it so much, like if I could only pick on polish color for the rest of my life, I'd definitely pick this one! What do you think?!

Okay so ANYWAY, this is a super easy mani to do, if you want a real tutorial, I can make one for you, so just comment if you do and I'll make a pictorial. :) I'd be happy to! I haven't made one in ages, and I kind of love making them!! 

Directions:

1. Paint nails your base green color.
2. After that's dry, on your three non accent nails, using a black polish and striper brush, make stick marks randomly over the nail. Two will probably suffice, as some of mine have three and look messy-ish.
3. Next, on the nails you want to be Frankensteins, paint in the hair using the same striper brush. I made my Franken... Man have squared off hair, and the Bride of Frankenstein have her classic big hair.
4. Next I drew on the mouth of my Frankenstein using the same stitch type design as the non-accent nails.
5. I let that dry for a minute to avoid smearing as much as possible, then used a larger dotting tool and my white polish (Nicolette) to dot on the eyes. I definitely had shaky hands last night when I did these and one of my eyes got a little wonky.. so be careful!
6. Then I used a small dotting tool to dot in the eyes with black.
7. Add the silver (Rebel) zig-zag streak to Bride of Frankenstein's hair.
8. Draw on pink (or whatever color) bow, and you're done with your nail art! Unless you want Bride of Frankenstein to have little eyelashes and a nose like mine, in which case you can paint those on whenever.
9. Topcoat and DONE! I used matte topcoat over these just because I'm out of regular. lol But either would probably look awesome!

SO yeah! Super easy semi-tutorial for your Sunday!

Anyone have any wicked awesome Halloween inspired manis to share?! I'd love to see them! I did some candy corns, ghosts, and pumpkins last year I think! I love Halloween Nail Art!!

Xx Ashley C.

Top 10 Favorite Nail Polish Colors for Fall 2014

So I've decided to compile a list of my top ten favorite nail polishes this fall. It's usually pretty hard for me to make these lists, since there's just SO many that I absolutely LOVE, but I'm going to try my best! :) Let me know what yours are too in the comments!! I'd love to see/hear about them! I'm all for finding new shades and brands! I may even have a blog sale soon too!

1. Zoya - Nail Polish Pixie Dust Collection

For some reason as soon as fall hits, I always start using my pixie dusts. Not necessarily this collection, but I really like to use Carter and Chita! These are great! :)

Zoya - Nail Polish Pixie Dust Collection Summer 2013 Edition - $49.41, 4.99 shipping - Available at Amazon.com Marketplace

2. Zoya - Matte Velvet Top Coat .5 oz

I also really like to rock the matte nails during fall. I have lime green matte nails right now, and my favorite way to accomplish it is with a matte topcoat. Zoya has a really nice one and so do some other companies. That way instead of having just one or two colors, you can have ANY matte color! :)

Zoya - Matte Velvet Top Coat .5 oz - $10.00, 4.57 shipping - Available at Amazon.com Marketplace

3. butter LONDON - Nail Lacquer in Bric a Brac

Fall is a great time to break out your reddish browns, and darker colored glitters! Here's a super pretty color from Butter London, that I don't have, but I need.
butter LONDON - Nail Lacquer in Bric A Brac - $15.00, Free shipping - Available at Revolve Clothing

4. Essie - Fall 2014 Collection 6 Bottle Set

Or, better yet check out the Essie 2014 fall collection! I actually just started using Essie, and I really like it. The fall collection looks pretty sweet and has everything from red, grey, brown and blue. They are all super nice colors! I really dig the grey one. These are a nice choice if you don't like shimmers, plus you can get them at the drug store!

Essie - Fall 2014 Collection 6 Bottle Set When I'm Buttoned Up, I Always Dress To Kilt Lacquer Nail Polish 0.46floz - $28.99, Free shipping - Available at Amazon.com Marketplace

5. Sassy - Glow in the Dark Nail Polish 

Halloween is just around the color!! I love to use Glow in the dark nail polish for Halloween and catch myself using it year after year! :) It's fun for kids too

Sassy - Glow in the Dark Nail Polish Nail Care - $4.99, 1.99 shipping - Available at Amerimark Direct

6. butter LONDON - Nail Lacquer in Burnt Orange

Here's a really pretty burnt orange color from Butter London. This reminds me of leaves and would be really awesome for some nail art!
butter LONDON - Nail Lacquer in Burnt Orange Burnt Orange Female all - $15.00, Free shipping - Available at Revolve Clothing

7. butter LONDON - Nail Lacquer, British Racing Green, .4 fl oz

Time to break out the dark green polishes!! British Racing Green is a super great choice, as well as Jack the Lad! Check em out!

butter LONDON - Nail Lacquer, British Racing Green, .4 fl oz - $15.00, 5.99 shipping - Available at BeautyBar.com
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8. Zoya - Natural Nail Polish - Dream - ZP686

Zoya - Dream is probably my favorite polish ever. Great for every season, but especially fall since it's a dark, shimmery blue color. LOVE it!

Zoya - Natural Nail Polish - Dream - ZP686 - $9.00, See Site shipping - Available at LuckyVitamin.com

9. Color Club - Nail Polish, Brown, Feverish, .05 Ounce

Fall is a great time to try out unusual colors that you wouldn't normally pick. Like brown. I've actually got a couple browns now in my collection and I think they're pretty cool. They're versatile, a great alternative for black, and great for nail art! Because you never know when you're going to need to paint an owl, and you don't want to be like oh crap, where's brown!?
Color Club - Nail Polish, Brown, Feverish, .05 Ounce - $3.75, 6.95 shipping - Available at Amazon.com Marketplace

10. Glitter Gal Purple Duo Chromes Nail Polish- Distorted Platinum

Purple chromes seem to be another one of my go-tos for fall. I love purple in general, but chrome seems weird to use until it gets kind of cold outside in my opinion. Almost a winter color, but not quite! :)

Glitter Gal - Glitter Gal Purple Duo Chromes Nail Polish- Distorted Platinum - .5 Fluid Ounce (15ml) Bottle - $15.00, 1.00 shipping - Available at Amazon.com Marketplace

So! Those are my favorites! What are some of yours!?

Xx Ashley C.

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What to review? Readers choice!

Yep I am working on the starlooks review from the july box ,but while im waiting I want to hear from you! The sad thing is I may have something you request in my stash. But if not I'll run out and get it. Of course please keep in mind I only have a sallys as our towns "high end makeup store" and I'll have to keep a budget of a max $20.00. So while I m doing spaghetti Tuesday I want to hear what you guys are wondering about. With any luck I'll have something you guy's request in the comments.  Yes I may be a little obsessed with makeup but this could work to our advantage! Annnnd GO!
~melissa

Easy Nails for the 4th of July!

I totally meant to post this BEFORE the 4th, but apparently my body decided to sleep through it. ANYWAY here are my holiday nails! They were super easy to do, and I think they're pretty cute myself!

The colors I used for this mani are:

Julep - America

Zoya - Liberty

Zoya - Cosmo

Vapid Lacquer Quick Dry Topcoat

Click on any of the links above for more info or to purchase! Zoya Libery is part of their Pixie Dust line, and Cosmo is a Magical Pixie! I love them both!

For this essentially I painted my accent nails with America. I had to fish out stars but it was worth it. It's a really neat color even though I only use it like once or twice a year. A must have.

I painted the rest of my nails with Liberty then used a makeup sponge for the gradient effect with cosmo. Super easy right?!

Until later,

xX Ashley C.

Vapid Lacquer Swatches & Review!!!

Hello all!!! Today I decided to bring back the polish posts! I've had SO many sponsored posts to do lately, that honestly, I haven't had time to do much else, but I've been DYING to show you these colors I received from Smelly Goods & Pretties!!! She makes an indie brand of polish called Vapid Lacquer, and they are SO SO wonderful! 

Months and months ago, when Glambox was still around, I received a color called hypomaniac, and looked at her site to find out more. WELL, what I found was like a million AMAZING holos, and I knew from that point on that I would need to have ALL OF THEM!

So far, I have three of them, and now I'm going to share their greatness with you! 

I'm not the best swatcher by any means, as I'm pretty new at this, and VERY new at swatching acrylics, but you should definitely get the point!

First up, is a fantastic color called Catch Me If You Can. 

This one is an awesome teal polish that has TONS of linear holo. This picture seriously doesn't do it justice. The formula is awesome too. Not streaky at all which is always a bonus, and I'm pretty sure I used two coats here and got full coverage.

Here's a sunlight picture, but it still doesn't do it justice. I LOVE this color. It's so hard to capture how awesome it is with a cellphone camera. If you want to buy it CLICK HERE!

Next is Grapestomp. Out of the original two I purchased, I was the most excited for this one. It's seriously SO SO pretty and has SO MUCH FREAKING HOLO!!!!! I love purple polish, and this is essentially perfect. It's a jelly, so I used like 3 or 4 coats because I like to over compensate but whatever. :P I had a teensy issue with this staining the crap out of my acrylic nails though... but on natural nails. It's a total must have.

This was before I made the mistake of putting on acrylics...

ANND after. For the record, I took this picture at night, with my phone, and there is still THAT much holo. If you want to purchase this bad boy, CLICK HERE!

NEEEXT is Twerk-uoise, which I was lucky enough to receive after my staining incident. I picked this one, because it's just plain pretty, and figured I'd try out something lighter. ANNND swatch!

Just ignore how awful my acrylics look and focus on the polish. It's sooo pretty. This is like three coats, but you could easily get away with two. Again, AMAZING formula, LOTS of holo that you can't see in this picture, and I LOVE IT!  CLICK HERE to buy IT!

I ALSO want to comment on the fact that I got to test out Vapid Lacquer's topcoat, and it is equal to, IF NOT better than HK Girl, which I have been using for months now. So if you're unhappy with your current topcoat, seriously give it a try. It's awesome, dries super fast, doesn't smudge, and is only $6.99! CLICK HERE to buy it! It totally smooths out the polish, seriously.

So there's my thoughts on what I have so far from Vapid Lacquer. Seriously, awesome indie polishes right here. I definitely plan on getting ALOOOT more of them, if not ALL of them. PLUS there's a white holo that is calling my name.

CLICK HERE for their website to see the pretties! :)

Until next time,

Xx Ashley C.

Rainbow Honey May 2014 Mini Mystery Bag Unboxing & Review + My very first order!

Okay so I know it's technically June now, but I've been waiting to make sure everyone received theirs and all that Jazz before posting up my Rainbow Honey Mystery bag. Thanks to my friends Melissa and Liz, I am officially addicted to all things RH. They polishes they carry are absolutely stunning. Some holo, some packed full of the most random awesome glitter combinations ever, some just awesome. 

Since this is my first time ordering from them, I decided to just do the $10 version, which has mini polishes instead of full size. However, that being said, their minis are pretty big! I also bought a fullsize of the color Midnight Fountain, which I wanted to get in one of my Ipsy bags a few months bag but tragically didn't. 

I used a 25% off code and my paypal hoarded money, and ended up spending only like $3 for the whole order AFTER shipping. WOO! Future Coupon Queen over here.

Here is what I received in my May mystery bag:

This, my lovelies is my May mystery box!

It contained: 

• Waves - Mini 15 mL
• Neon Blossoms - Mini 15 mL
• Petit Four - Mini 15 mL
• Summer Juice Perfume Rollerball
• Summer Juice Shea Butter Soap
• Honey Mint Lip Balm
• Little bag of adorable nail studs

My favorite of the three polishes here is DEFINITELY Waves. It's the only one I currently have a swatch of so I'm totally sorry for that, but it's super summery and pretty and I basically LOVE IT! :)

Sorry for the wretched cuticles, but isn't this SOO cute?!! It's from their upcoming summer collection, I can't wait to see more.

Here it is sandwiched in between Midnight Fountain, which is the other color I had to order a fullsize of! I love them both! And before I get to the other colors in this months bag, here it is MACRO STYLE:

SOOO Many Gorgeous layers of glitter here!  I love this one! It's so complex and wonderful!

Up next is Neon Blossom, which is a neon topper filled with Neon Pink and Yellow Hearts and flowers. It has smaller metallic glitters as well and is absolutely STUNNING! I will post a swatch as soon as I can!

And Petit four is a yellow cream polish filled with red, turquoise, and pink glitter. Honestly, this is my least favorite of the bunch. The color palette just isn't calling my name. But it is definitely very different from anything I've ever seen before.

The soap in this bag smells AMAZING! I haven't used it just yet, but it smells exactly like the perfume, and they're both super fruity and summery and great!!! 

I also LOVE the lip balm. I figured I'd receive the lime one like everyone else seemed to, but I really love the Honey Mint flavor, its like a mild Burt's Bees and is just minty enough, but not super intense.

Overall, my first mystery bag is a HIT! I'm definitely going to be ordering another one as SOON as possible. 

If you'd like to learn more about Rainbow Honey and their polishes, Visit their website HERE!

Until Next time,

xX Ashley C.

Birchbox April 2014 Unboxing & Review!

I got my Birchbox pretty late this month, but I'm thrilled to finally bring a review to you!
For those of you who don't already know, Birchbox is a monthly subscription program bringing you 4-5 deluxe sample size/full size products for only $10 a month based on your profile! It's a great way to test out new products and I have found MANY that I LOVE and would have never bought otherwise! If you'd like to sign up, please use my link HERE! :)

The theme for April's box is Rainy Days, which is pretty cute in my opinion. I love my box this month!
Here's a first look!

Spoiler Alert if you keep reading! 

Easter Nails take one!

So as always I've decided to do holiday nails for you guys. My nail art skills Re definitely getting better every year with more and more practice. These were a little time consuming but we'll worth it!!! 

My six year old daughter and 3 year old niece LOVE these and here is what I used:
Butter London - Cotton Buds
Julep - Bess
Julep - Carrie
Julep - Lexie
Julep - Marjorie (On sale for $2.99!!! Such a pretty orange color for summer or fall!)
Zoya - Neely
Sinful Colors - Candy Coated
Sally Hansen Xtreme Wear - Black Out

And here they are in all their Easter glory:

Hope you like them! There are definitely more to come soon! And a post about my epic Sally's/ CVS haul!!!

Xx Ashley C.

P.S. I'd LOVE to see your easter manis!

Julep Maven March 2014 Unboxing & Review!

Today I received my March Julep box! This is the first time in awhile I've been overly excited to order my Julep colors. I'm a sucker for anything bright and anything green, so I quickly knew what colors I wanted!

For those of you who don't already know, Julep is a monthly subscription service that provides the latest nailpolish colors right to your door for as low as $19.99 a month. Every month they come out with four different sets of colors and a beauty product based on your style profile, which is a quiz that allows them to decide which color you'd like best. You can either pick between these four, or opt for their Modern Beauty box, which is contains no polish and awesome beauty items instead! They also let you upgrade to get the whole collection! Sign up right now and use code FREEBOX to get your first box for only the cost of shipping!

Now on to my box!!! For March 2014, Julep brought us "The Riviera Collection"; nine beautiful bright spring colors and lipglosses. For Modern Beauty they brought us the "Buff Lip Scrub" and "Luxe Lip Conditioning Treatment". 

My style according to Julep's style profile is "Bombshell", which is the box I chose this month! Take their quiz HERE to see what yours is! :)

My March box contained:

Lilou - Lemon Chiffon Creme

Monaco - Dazzling Mariner Blue Creme (Pantone color of the year for Spring 2014)

Julep Lip Gloss in Fearless
Candy Cane Extra :)

Add ons:

Lizanne - Sea Green Shimmer
Tania - Multidimensional Mermaid Teal Glitter

Now, I usually don't get add ons, but I had to have these colors! I don't have any swatches of Lilou for you today, because I am thinking about selling or trading it, because I already have something similar, but here are the others!

I love LOVE LOVE Monaco. It's the perfect blue creme for spring and summer. I can't get enough blue polishes. And Lizanne is great too! Personally, I don't really see any "shimmer" once it is on, its more like a bright teal cream, but beautiful nonetheless! I used Tania as an accent over Lizanne.

In the bottle, Tania reminded me of Julep's Esmerelda, so I decided to do a comparison photo to see what the difference was. Esmerelda is one of my favorite Julep's I own.

The glitters in them seem to be very similar in color, but Tania has an opalescent base color that completely changes the color of the base nail polish. I'm interested to try it on it's own, but that's for another day!

Here's a swatch of the lippie I chose. It will be great for the spring and summer. It's a beautiful hot pink shimmer gloss that makes my lips shiny and fuller. I love it and can't wait to use it over a pink or red lipstick!

I love Julep's new glosses because they smell and taste super good and aren't overly sticky!

So that's my box! Like I said if you're not signed up for Julep already, definitely check them out! They have some great products as well as polish, and I'm sure you will be JUST as addicted as I am!

If you are signed up, which box did you get this month??? Love it or hate it?

Xx Ashley C.

Pretty & Polished March Beauty Box Review!

It's 12:30 AM and officially my birthday!! YAY Happy Birthday to ME!
I am majorly slacking off on blogging lately, but I've been dealing with the loss of a job as well as the emotional baggage that goes along with that. I've been meaning to post this up for a week or two now, and I've mentioned it a couple of times to you so here it is!!!

Earlier this month, Pretty & Polished announced their new Beauty Boxes! Each month they are going to be offering a subscription box full of 2 full sized polishes, a mini of an older polish that is currently sold in the store, a beauty/skin care product, as well as other bonus items to go along with that! Pretty in Polished is my favorite indie brand ever EVER, so this works for me. I will ultimately probably end up cancelling my Julep subscription for this, or at least one of my other subscriptions, once my three months runs out.  That being said, they are offering this in 1, 3, 6, and 12 month lengths but the one month option sold out QUICK this month, so you have to be super fast! It's $22 and you can purchase one HERE! If you love these colors, you can actually still get a 3 month subscription and get a March box right now! So head on over!

My March box contained:

Matte Topcoat

Liquid Gold

Day in the Park

Jawbreaker (mini)

Coffee Junkies cuticle balm stick

Nail File

Flower Fimo Stick

15% off coupon for March

Now, before I get to the swatches, I want to talk about the other stuff. First things first, I use their regular cuticle balm on the regular in the scent Coffee Junkies and am pretty much just as addicted to it as I am coffee. I was super stoked to receive this in stick form because it is infinitely more portable and easier/less messy to apply. This stuff smells GREAT, just like a fresh cup of coffee.

As for the Fimo stick, I've never used one of these before but this little thing is pretty cute, and I will probably cut off a slice or two and try it closer to summer. And I don't know about you, but I can never have enough nail files, so that was a happy bonus as well. 

I'm very, very happy with the March Box! I've been DYING to try a matte topcoat for awhile now, so I was super excited to find this item! And LUCKY for you guys, I tried it tonight for my pre-birthday nails. 

This is "Cutie Pie" from their limited edition Sweetheart Duo this Valentine's day with "Day in the Park" as an accent nail. "Cutie Pie", the yellow, is actually already matte, but the topcoat made it even better, and I really like that there is no shine AT ALL. I will say that my bottle of "Day in the Park" has ALOT of glitter in it and it is a teensy bit hard to work with, but it's definitely still BEAUTIFUL and is even more awesome with the matte topcoat over it. 

Here is a bottle shot of "Liquid Gold". I've been trying to figure out a way to best describe this polish, and what I've come up with is a Bronze/Goldish to Pinkish Duochrome Holo. Does that make sense? It's so so pretty in the sunlight, and while I typically don't love bronze polishes, the holo factor totally sells me.

Here's a flash shot of it so you can see the holo goodness. You can also see the bronze to pink shift in it, which is really subtle and nice. :)

I think it's super appropriate that the first box would have "Jawbreaker" in it. This was my very first indie polish, and also my very first Pretty & Polished color. I've actually already reviewed it on here in November, and you can read it HERE. I love this color, it looks JUST like a Jawbreaker and reminds me of my childhood. It's also got a really great formula. 

I'm happy to say that this box is a total win for me. I usually wait until at least the second month with subscription boxes, just to make sure they aren't going to be horrible, but I'm glad I got this one. I don't think I could have lived with myself if I didn't have "Day in the Park" in my collection for this Spring!

My favorite part of this box is that the colors are exclusive to the month, and they will ONLY be sold in that month's box. How can I pass that up?! 

I hope you like these polishes! If you've never heard of Pretty & Polished, make sure and check them out on their website HERE. They're a GREAT indie brand with awesome customer service, and their products are basically amazing. :)

More posts tomorrow!

Xx Ashley C.

February 2014 US Weekly Birchbox Unboxing!

For those of you who don't already know, Birchbox is pretty much the first beauty subscription box there was, and has been around for awhile. Like one of my other favorites, Ipsy, it's just $10 a month and they send you 4-5 samples of higher end products so you can try them out before you purchase them! I've been subscribed for three months now, and my favorite part of the Birchbox program is that as you receive items, you can review them and then receive points towards anything in their store. 100 points =$10, so it's pretty great. If you'd like to subscribe feel free to use my referral link RIGHT HERE!
This month's Birchbox partnered with US Weekly to bring us the latest and greatest brands, so they say, and this is what I received....
**Spoiler Alert!**

Pretty & Polished Old World Blues and Kimono'ver Here Swatches & Review!!

As many of you guys already know, Pretty & Polished is basically my favorite indie brand ever. So, needless to say, I've been SUPER excited to show you all these since I received them the other day!!

Last Monday, Pretty & Polished announced a TON of new colors coming out March 1st including, the "Spring FX" collection, "A New Equation" (which based on the show Adventure Time, and they are AWESOME), two new "Country Girl Swag" polishes, as well as two awesome color changers that were sent to me to review, that I am going to showing you today!

Who's ready for some swatches?!?! *Warning Lot's of Pictures!*

First up is Old World Blues, which is my favorite of the two. It's a holographic polish that is a blue holo when cold and a whiteish/silver holo when warm. I've actually been wearing it for a couple of days just to test it out, since this was my first color changer ever. Not going to lie, I was super excited. :)

This is what it looks like cold. I ran my hands under cold water, but these polishes are super sensitive and also change based on your environment, or if you're like holding a cold drink or something. It's really awesome because when you're wearing them they just change randomly throughout the day.

This picture is just for a bonus. I drink Monsters every day, plus you can tell how blue and shiny it is next to the blue table. :)

Here is what it looks like warm. I like how you can definitely still see that it's holographic.

And here is an awesome picture of what it looks like when I ran the tips under cold water. :)

Up next is Kimono'ver Here. It's a reddish orange to gold color changer with lots and lots of multicolored & Gold flakes in it. It's super pretty and really does remind me of a Kimono! :D 

Here is what it looks like cold. It's nice and bright and you can really see the gold flakes in it! 

And here is warm! I think this color would look really really good on someone with a dark skintone or someone super tan. :) It's a nice light goldish color and I like how you can still see the flakes in it even though they match the polish color! :) 

It looks even cooler when half is warm and half is cool in my opinion. You can really see how complex the polish is! It's super pretty! :) All the little gold flakes like fade into the red. 

So, like I said these two BEAUTIFUL new polishes will be available for purchase on March 1st, as well as the others they are releasing! I'm super excited about all of the changes that were announced last Monday!

They are also releasing a Beauty Box, which I subscribed to as well, and have already, so I will be reviewing that for you very, very soon! 

For more information about the Press Release on 2/10/14 you can CLICK HERE for all the details!!

And to purchase from Pretty & Polish or add it to your favorites for when these babies come out, you can CLICK HERE to visit their website. 

If you don't know anything about them, or haven't heard of them, definitely take a look. As well as nail polish they carry some other GREAT items that I use all the time and love such as sugar scrubs and cuticle balms!

So what do you guys think!?! Love?? I love them.

See you soon with the Beauty Box review!

Xx Ashley C.

*Note these products were provided to me for my honest opinion and review.

Julep Cupid Mystery Box 2014!

So before I get to reviewing my February Maven box, I figured I'd share with you guys some awesomeness Julep has going on right now on their site.

It's that time of the month/year again! Last year, I actually ordered one of these and it was my VERY FIRST Julep Mystery box!! I was super excited and definitely NOT let down! If you've never tried Julep out before, this is a great way to get your feet wet without making the commitment of actually signing up to be a Julep Maven.
Right now Julep is promoting their Cupid Mystery Boxes!!! They're PERFECT for Valentine's Day AND there are THREE different versions! Each with a different PINK Valentine's limited edition polish! :)

FYI - Click the photos throughout for more details or to purchase a box! :)

Aphrodite, Pedi Lover - A Steal at $24.99! (& My favorite!)

"This Cupid's Mystery Box is packed with $75 of pedi-themed polish and product, including a bottle of Aphrodite - Classic with a Twist, a rose with silver metallic microglitter."

And here's a swatch of Aphrodite! Isn't she BEAUTIFUL!?!

    

Lindy, Makeup Lover - ALSO a STEAL at $24.99!

"This Cupid's Mystery Box is packed with $75 of makeup-themed polish and product, including a bottle of Lindy - It Girl, a carnation pink iridescent glitter glaze."

& Here's a swatch of Lindy, Also SUPER pretty for a Valentine's topper or subtle Mani :)

Venus, Mani Lover - Guess what? ALSO $24.99!

"This Cupid's Mystery Box is packed with $75 of mani-themed polish and product, including a bottle of Venus - Bombshell, a pink quartz holographic chunky glitter top coat."

And Here's Venus. Who doesn't love a chunky Julep Holo Glitter?!

My personal favorite is the Aphrodite mystery box!? Which are you ordering? They're all a great value at $24.99 for $75 worth of product! AND don't worry, if you can't decide, you can order one of each Cupid Mystery boxes and since they are all different with different styles, you won't have any chance of receiving any duplicate items! 

However, Julep states "Purchase of multiple Venus, Mani Lover [same goes for the other two] boxes will result in polish or product overlap. Offer may not be combined with any other offer or discount. No exchanges or returns are possible on Mystery Boxes or individual items. Estimated full retail value is $75."
(Sometimes you can get away with entering a coupon code at check out. I did last month.)
You can also purchase add ons with your box, and there's usually a Mystery Add on for $10! Even more Value! Use code BEMINE for any polish free.  :)

Julep usually always has really great Mystery Boxes! Especially if you are a newer Maven or a total newbie to Julep. If you'd like to see an example of their December mystery box, check out Chynel's review of the Naughty & Nice Mystery Box HERE! 

One more thing! According to their email they sent earlier one lucky person who purchases a box will receive a pair of  1ct. Diamond Earrings!!!

SO Head on over to The Julep Site & Pick up your Cupid Mystery Box for yourself, your Valentine, or whoever & Let me know which one you get! I'll be ordering one too, so I'll definitely be reviewing it later on this month! Better hurry! This offer is only valid until 2/10/14 at 11:59 PST!

Xx Ashley C.

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