Hello!  I know I've not posted in a bit, but I was enjoying my SquareHue.com nails so much I wore them all week.  Plus I've been busy with work and just couldn't be bothered with changing my nails again this week ;-p But I'd been dying to try my new Zoya polishes ever since they arrived last week so today I thought I'd start down the road to Valentine's Day with them today.

I have to admit I'm not big into the whole Valentine's thing, but I am looking forward to doing some fun nails leading up to it.  So in trying to get into the spirit I came up with these, again not too smooshy and hearts yet!

First can I just say how I'm totally in LOVE with Storm (ok maybe more Valentine-y then I thought!).  Zoya's website says it is a "full coverage, holiday black with a high concentration of micro fine diamond holographic glitter."  I'm not sure I agree with the full coverage part as I found it tended to go on a bit spotty and then drag when I tried to put on a second coat.  I opted to put on a base color black and then layer Storm over that.  However even with the application issues, I absolutely ADORE this polish!  It's SO sparkly and shiny!  I added an accent nail in Zoya Portia and did my best to use Storm in the stamp from Mash plate 48.  I actually quite like the way the stamp turned out, but wish it had pulled more of the glitter.  This is two coats of each with Seche Vite top coat.  Portia also went on a bit streaky to begin but evened out fantastically with the second coat.  As always I'm never disappointed with Zoya polishes!

cheers and hearts xx

Hello Everyone!  About a week ago I received my first SquareHue.com box with my Arctic Collection, I was so excited and decided to try it out for real. 

I decided to use glacier skies and midnight flurries.  I really like these two shades of blue, I don't have a lot of blues in my collection so I'm really happy these lovelies were part of the January box teehee!

Glacier skies is a pretty light blue creme polish.  I have to say initially I was a bit disappointed in the application of this one.  The first coat went on kinda streaky, in fact really streaky but it evened out nicely with a second coat.  I had to do a little touch up on some, but still they turned out really nice and they didn't get clumpy or anything. 

 Midnight flurries is an ah-mah-zing midnight blue glitter (maybe holo? dare I guess).  For a shimmer glittery polish the application was fabulous.  The polish looks lovely on it's own, but you can really see the depth of this color layered.  In fact I can't wait to layer it over a darker shade.  I think it's going to really show the glitter and shimmer in it.





You can really see the colors in the glitter in this pic that I LOVE!  So far I'm really  happy with my SquareHue polishes.  I can hardly wait to see next months collection called Vintage Love.  If you've not checked out Squarehue.com you can do so here, and you can read my post about my first box arrival here.

I hope you agree with me that these make for GOOD winter blues!!

cheers xx

Hai!  I received my first Julep Maven box last weekend and I've been dying to try my new pretties I received Jodie and Alfre.  I also received the very yummy essential cuticle oil, that has become one of my new favorites!

Julep Maven is a subscription program from Julep that as far as I can tell is an awesome deal!  I've been dying to try Julep, but was holding out for no specific reason really.  So when I read about Julep Maven on a fellow blog (forgive me, I can't remember which one) I decided it was time!  The Maven box is $19.99 a month, which might seem a little steep for some but I got two polishes ($14 ea), cuticle old ($18), and two glitter pots (unknown value).  If my math is right this totals $46 so this seems like an awesome deal to me!  Also as a Maven you get a discount on all products on their website, you can gift your box to someone else any month you like, you can preview what your going to get each month, and you can add up to 3 other items before your box is shipped each month.

My first box arrived rather quickly and was packaged very nicely in a little pink bag tied up with a black bow inside of the box.  I would add pictures if my phone would connect to my laptop properly :-/ 

And so here is Jodie....

At first I wasn't too sure about Julep's style assesment saying I was "classic with a twist", and initially I was overwhelmed by the colors sent to me in my first box.  But look at this in the light....

Jodie is a beautiful gold-ish pink/salmon toned polish shown here in two coats.  This polish has a beautiful gold subtle shimmer to it and looks lovely in the light.  this is not a polish I would have probably picked out for myself, but it looks great on!  I have to say application was a little streaky and seemed to even out with a second coat, but in the light you can still see a little streak on a couple of nails.  But overall I really love this polish and so glad that I'm going to get new ones next month!

If you're looking for a good deal and interested in Julep I would definitely look into the Maven box.

cheers xxx

Oh what thrill it was when I came home this evening to see this lovely little box outside my door!  I found about SquareHue last month when I read one of my favorite bloggers The Nail Network's review. Chelsea said such amazing things and with her little blogger discount, I just had to try it!

SquareHue is a 4-free (free of DBP, toluene, formaldehyde, and camphor), monthly subscription ($21) that you can pause and cancel at any time.  Each month you get three new colors selected based on fashion trends.  Also one of the things I liked about SquareHue is that they donate a portion of their proceeds to different organizations, this month it's The A21 Campaign.  I've tried a couple of other subscription boxes and cancelled them after a couple of months as I was totally disappointed in the sizes of the products I was sent.

I opened my lovely little box and was so excited (and NOT disappointed)!

 Here are two coats of each without a top coat (forgive the messy middle finger, I did these just to see the polish)


Arctic Frost is an almost clear polish with silver and white flakies and glitter.  In the bottle it looks like a creamy silver but on the nail it's sheer and almost looks like frost!  Glacier Skies is a lovely sky blue and the formula is a nice and creamy. Last but certainly not least is Midnight Flurries, this might be my favorite out of the three.  This is an awesome blue shimmer with little colorful glitters.  These are all beautiful on their own, and might be better with three coats; but I can't wait to try them layers to really show off their colors!!!

If you haven't checked out SquareHue yet you should definitely do it today!  And if you have looked at it but were unsure about it, order it today!!!

cheers xxx

Yesterday I stopped in Old Navy to get a pair of jeans, and you know how they have it all set up so you have to stand in line with all of the little trinkets for sale? Kinda like a the grocery store where they place the impulse items. Well they got me with this pretty little bubble gum pink shimmer polish on sale for $1.50! 

It's a pretty polish and I wanted to wear it, but being in Chicago in January I wasn't really feeling shimmer pink.  So I was thinking about this color and what I could do with it, and somehow I started thinking of elephants and mainly one elephant named Horton.  I dunno why but Horton always make me smile, and that little flower that held Whoville kinda reminds me of that polish.

 Elephant? you say?

You can kinda see it right?


So I went with Zoya Carey which is a favorite of mine, it's so smooth and creamy.  The dots on my ring finger are Old Navy Tip Toe Preppy Pink Joli Rose, butter London Disco Biscuit and Snog.  I'm quite happy with how this turned out, and will still be suitable at work.  My husband said I should have used a matte top coat on all the grey, so I guess I will have try something like that next time :-)

cheers xx

Hello there!  I say that as if anyone is actually reading this thing lol  Anyway for Christmas my mom got me a gift card to a local beauty store so I could get some polish!! YAY!!  She said she didn't dare pick any out for me!  So off I went to pick out my new pretties!

You will learn over time that I am horrible at making decisions!  Suffice it  to say I spent a lot of time a the shop, looking at all of the lovelies there.  Pick up three, sure I was getting those only to put them down because I found a few others I thought I liked more.  In the end I decided to pick up my first deborah lippmann. I'd been lusting over her polishes for awhile now, but just couldn't bring myself to spend the $$ and what is a gift card for if it's not to buy yourself something you wouldn't spend your money on! 

So Let's Go Crazy!!!!

This pic isn't the best, I had a hard time getting the lighting right to show off all of the colors in this glitter polish.  Let's Go Crazy is full of fabulous pink and lavender hex glitters in addition to the loads of smaller purple, red, green, and blue glitters.  All of those gorgeous little ladies are in a deep royal purple almost black jelly base, and so here I've layered it over butter London HRH.  I really like this polish!  It's so pretty and sparkly and festive!  I wore this all week long to work and it stayed put.  Although I have to say that I used Seche Vite top coat and it seemed after a few days it got a little...bumpy is the only word I can think of. 

Overall I love Let's Go Crazy and will probably wear it a lot!  I also want to try it over a black polish and see if the glitter colors stand out even more!

cheers xx