Gay Pride Month, Naked Nails, NOTW and a messge

For Gay Pride Month everyone is doing some kind of themed nails. I wanted to take it up a notch of course, try to do something a little different. It doesn't help that the rainbow has seven colors (red, orange, yellow, green, blue, indigo and violet) and I have 5 toes on each foot and 5 fingers on each hand (as do most people lol). So I did a little improvising: 

The other pics are terrible really but the colors show great:

Sorry it was right after my shower so my toes are wrinkly lol. Anywho this is WnW Red Red, WnW Sunny Side Up, Ulta Sun-sational, Sinful Colors Irish Green, the big toe has 3 colors (though you can't really tell lol) Zoya Tallulah, a mix of WnW Bijou Blue and Fingerpaints Be A Pal-ette for the indigo, Sally Hansen Xtreme Wear Purple Potion, CG Fairy Dust and WnW Kaleidoscope over it all. That's a lot of polishes! 


As for my fingers I wanted to do something a little different so I decided to paint them white using Fingerpaints Well Cultured Pearl and stamp rainbow colored flowers on them using my MASH 15 plate. 

 So same colors minus the indigo since I just didn't have enough nail room lol. My nails really are way shorter than they were though you really can't tell. 

As far as I'm concerned it shouldn't be just one month out of the year I feel it should be an all the time thing, pride for who we are and what we support. Gay Pride to me means being yourself and feeling that you won't be hated for who you are and what or who you like. Maybe if everyone was more accepting of others the world would be a happier place. Maybe if you didn't feel you would be persecuted for your beliefs, feelings and sexual orientation everyone would be more confident and get along better. Maybe there would be less bullying and suicides. It's something that I have personally dealt with as well as seen for myself. No one is asking for special rights just EQUAL rights. 


My wish is a wish that people will soon understand that being gay is not a disease or a choice! People who are gay are not looking for a cure or special rights, but acceptance and Equal Rights.


Will you be doing something for Pride Month? I might add something to my toes :) 


As always, thanks for stopping by and I hope you all take a look at how you treat others :)

Hauls & Nail Mail

I thought I would share with all of you who aren't on the Facebook page yet what I got recently :) If you haven't checked out Copious yet I would highly recommend it since most of what you are about to see I got from there. 


The first thing I got was this super cute super sweet card and stones from my friend Sherry :) 

I also got these Kleancolor minis (which I thought would be full size) from Copious along with Julep Melissa. The Kleancolors are Metallic Sapphire and Metallic Fuschia. And a pearl ring from Sneakpeeq.

And a couple nights ago I got Wet N Wild Sunny Side Up from Walgreens. 

Last night I got these three Pure Ice from Walmart: No Means No, Mint dream and New Lilac.

Today in the mail I got from Copious:

Pure Ice Rio, Kleancolor Chunky Holo Teal and Sally Hansen Gem Crush Be-Jeweled

From Ulta today: 

 The first dupe I've accidentally bought: Sally Hansen Xtreme's Virtual Violet and Marine Scene (which I didn't have)

 Ulta's Purple Haze and Alter Ego

NYX Glitters: GP09 Disco Ball and GP01 Blue

And from Dollar Tree:

 Flakies!

 Bar Glitter

And Microbeads

So there you have it all :) I've been a busy little bee lol and I still have a couple more things coming from Copious. Really if you haven't signed up yet you really should. You get $10 free credit just for signing up and they sometimes send you email offers for more credits. They gave out one Monday for an extra $10 and $10 for Marilyn Monroe's birthday. 


That's it for this post if you haven't entered my giveaway from Julep yet you can find that here. Also make sure you sign up to be a Julep Maven and get your first box for only a penny using the code MAVENINTRO when you check out. You can do that from here. 


As always, thanks for stopping by :)

Quick Post: Amberlee's Giveaway

Go check out Amberlee's giveaway on her blog here. It's great and it would definitely be awesome to win :) And don't forget to enter my giveaway of course! 

Julep Review & Giveaway

Today I have a treat for you (and of course for me lol): 
I got the chance to review a Maven Box from Julep and I jumped all over the chance, of course. So here are some great pics for you!

So we'll start with packaging, it comes in a box that I find pretty useful actually. I keep my stamping supplies in one that you can read about here. The polishes are all bubble wrapped inside a pink gift bag that rests on a bed of confetti and tied with a black ribbon. I think Julep does a great job with packaging. 
What I actually received is the It Girl box that came with 2 toe separators and three polishes. 

So cute!

From left to right: Brooke, Mandy and Jessica

So who wants swatches? You guys of course! 

Mandy, Jessica and Brooke 1 coat inside house

1 coat, sunlight

One coat, sunlight

One coat sunlight

So very opaque in one coat for both Jessica and Mandy. I would use Brooke as a topcoat over other polishes.

2 coats, inside the house no direct light

2 Coats, Brooke Direct Sunlight

Brooke 2 coats, direct sunlight

Mandy and Jessica 2 coats direct sunlight

2 coats shade

2 coats shade

Mandy and Jessica both have great pigmentation and I don't think they really even needed the second coat. I definitely plan to use them for stamping in the future! Brooke is very sparkly and pretty :)


The polish applied great and the brushes were all even, no stray hairs. I would definitely recommend signing up to get Julep's monthly Maven Box. 


Now to one of the best parts: Because Julep is awesome they are giving ALL of you the chance to try one of their boxes for only 1 penny! Yes, you read that correctly, 1 PENNY! So all you have to do is click right here and take the style quiz. It will tell you what your style is (if you don't like what it picks for you, you can change it by clicking see other styles and adding the one you want to your cart). When you checkout use code MAVENINTRO. Make sure you choose your state and your balance will be $0.01.


Now for the best part, Julep wanted to do a giveaway for you guys! 


The giveaway will run for a week and is really easy :) Don't forget to click and get your 
first box for a penny!


As always, thanks for stopping by and good luck :)


**I received the products mentioned above free for a review. I was not paid for said review and all opinions are my own.**


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My Mani Routine

If you read the Exfoliator review you may know that I regularly use one as part of my routine. But here is the whole thing from start to finish :) 

As you can see I added a flower by stamping with China Glaze Carribean Temptaion and  Red Angel plate RA-109
The gold is Art Deco

Step 1: Take off old polish. (I use pure acetone though it's not great for you)


Step 2: Exfoliate with any kind of exfoliater that you like. If you'd like to see what I use click here. 


Step 3: Let dry completely, then file.


Step 4: Moisturize. I use a thick creamy lotion like Dermasil (its only $1.00 at Dollar Tree and works great!)


Step 5: Clean nails. I use rubbing alcohol or Zoya Remove +. You could just go wash your hands but I'd rather just clean the nail and leave the lotion on :)


Step 6: Paint! Basecoat, polish, any art, top coat.


And that's it! I don't use cuticle oil as I decided I hate it and after using it decided I didn't see any difference. I also do absolutely nothing with my cuticles since they seem just fine to me lol. Of course everyone has different opinions on things, some say not to use acetone while others praise it. Some swear by cuticle oil, while I  think its completely unnecessary. Once every couple weeks or so (or if my nails are really stained) I will buff out the ridges I get on the top of my nails as well.


So what do you do?


As always, thanks for stopping by :)