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Wednesday, February 13, 2019

My Mani Box review: September 2018

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Hello!


I'm back today with a look at another My Mani Box, this time the September 2018 box...If you don't already know,  My Mani Box is a subscription box service through Beautometry, where they curate nail stamping supplies around a theme each month for nail art fans. To be clear, you can't buy this box anymore (although you can buy some of the contents through Beautometry), but this will give you a look at the type of contents you get, and some ideas for manis. :)


Let's take a look at what was inside:

Beautometry's September My Mani Box

Here's what's all in the contents:
  • 2 pouches pumpkin spice sugar scrub
  • water decals
  • 2 nail art leaves
  • MoYou London Festive Collection 61 plate
  • MoYou London Festive Collection 62 plate
  • Dixie Plates Thanksgiving 01 plate


Here's a closer look at the stamping plates:


MoYou London Festive Collection 62

MoYou London Festive Collection 61

Dixie Plates Thanksgiving 

Okay, on to the manis! I love nail art challenges, so this became a little mini-challenge of how to use fall, Thanksgiving, and Halloween-themed images during spring/Valentine's season, so let's take a look at what I came up with...

I call this first one "Wednesday Addams is so OVER Valentine's Day...":


MoYou London Festive 61 and 62 over Zoya Brighton and Everly

MoYou London Festive 61 and 62 over Zoya Brighton and Everly

Base Polish(es): Zoya Brighton and Zoya Everly
Stamping Plate(s): MoYou London Festive 61 and 62
Stamping Polish(es)Girly Bits Cosmetics Little Black Dress and White Wedding

Can I just say how much I adore those little hearts with the scary jack-o-lantern faces and the bones?!


In a similar vein, I can the next one "Love Potion #9"...:


MoYou London Festive 61 and 62 over Zoya Everly

MoYou London Festive 61 and 62 over Zoya Everly

Base Polish(es): Zoya Everly
Stamping Plate(s): MoYou London Festive 61 and 62
Stamping Polish(es): Girly Bits Cosmetics Little Black Dress and White Wedding

Nothing wrong with a little love potion to get your Valentine's night going right...;-)


Next I did a simple manicure that I have to admit I'd wear all year 'round:


MoYou London Festive 62 over Zoya Brighton

MoYou London Festive 62 over Zoya Brighton

Base Polish(es): Zoya Brighton
Stamping Plate(s): MoYou London Festive 62
Stamping Polish(es): Girly Bits Cosmetics Little Black Dress

Simple, fun, and pretty. :)

The next mani is pretty fall-ish, but I do think these images could work for spring or summer to:

Dixie Plates Thanksgiving 01 over Girly Bits You Can't Handle The Spruce and Irreplaceable

Base Polish(es): Girly Bits Irreplaceable and You Can't Handle The Spruce
Stamping Plate(s): Dixie Plates Thanksgiving 01
Stamping Polish(es): Girly Bits You Can't Handle The Spuce
Other: Nail art skeleton leaves


And for the last mani, I went with a timeless manicure, a mermaid!:


MoYou London Festive 62 over The Lady Varnishes Sky Reflections

MoYou London Festive 62 over The Lady Varnishes Sky Reflections

Base Polish(es): Sally Hansen Creme De La Creme and The Lady Varnishes Sky Reflections
Stamping Plate(s): MoYou London Festive 62
Stamping Polish(es): Girly Bits White Wedding & Silver Bells, and Moonflower Amatista
Other: Loose glitter diamonds from the August My Mani Box.


So what do I think? For $35, I think this box again is a good value for your money, and as always, I just love the fun of opening up a box like this and playing! If you'd like to see a few other boxes to judge if this is something you'd like, you can find my review of the August box here, the June box here, and the May box here.


You can sign up or future My Mani Boxes on their site, here.


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Wednesday, January 2, 2019

The Lady Varnishes She Lavas Me, She Lavas Me Not

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For this month's Mythology PPU theme, The Lady Varnishes chose one of my favorite mythological Godesses: Pele! If you don't know her, she's the Hawaiian goddess of fire and volcanoes. She's often depicted with lava floes as tendrils of her hair, and legend has it she fell in love with, and seduced, her sister's husband.


Yowza. That's some fiery passion.


To honor her, The Lady Varnishes created She Lavas Me, She Lavas Me Not, a deep blue jelly-based polish filled with color shifting flakies and glitter:



The Lady Varnishes She Lavas Me, She Lavas Me Not

The Lady Varnishes She Lavas Me, She Lavas Me Not

The Lady Varnishes She Lavas Me, She Lavas Me Not

The Lady Varnishes She Lavas Me, She Lavas Me Not

The Lady Varnishes She Lavas Me, She Lavas Me Not

The Lady Varnishes She Lavas Me, She Lavas Me Not


Coverage: two coats
Formula and application: Jelly based; Excellent application.
Other issues: None--I wondered if this would stain, but I wore it for a couple of days, and it didn't.


This. Is. Stunning. I love how she captured the look of lava, and I love that she chose a dark blue base rather than a black base, because part of Pele's legends involve her lava floes clashing into the ocean. When I visited the Big Island, I was lucky enough to see where those floes met water--it's an amazing sight, especially at night.


I love the dark, dangerous beauty of this, so had to do something vampy but classy with my nail art:


UberChic Beauty Art Deco Elegance over The Lady Varnishes She Lavas Me, She Lavas Me Not

UberChic Beauty Art Deco Elegance over The Lady Varnishes She Lavas Me, She Lavas Me Not

UberChic Beauty Art Deco Elegance over The Lady Varnishes She Lavas Me, She Lavas Me Not

Base: The Lady Varnishes She Lavas Me, She Lavas Me Not
Stamping Plate: UberChic Beauty Art Deco Elegance
Stamping Polish: MoYou London Ginger Rust


I love how sexy this polish is, and the art deco just adds to it! What do you think?


This polish will be available during PPU's January sale, from January 4th to January 7th. In the meantime, you can find The Lady Varnishes around the interwebs here:





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Friday, December 14, 2018

The Digit-al Dozen Day 1 and 5: Unicorns + Holo = Awesome!

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So today's the final day of The Digit-al Dozen's Holo theme, and since I missed day 1, I decided to do two manis with holo in this post...plus a bonus third mani...;-)


For these manis, I used My Mani Box's August box. If you aren't familiar with My Mani Box, it's a curated mystery box for nail stamping fanatics that you can buy just one time or get on a subscription basis. You get at least two plates, a polish or another equivalent value item, and several nail art accessories. If you buy just one box, the cost is $35, and if you get a subscription, the cost drops according to the length of time you sign up for.


You can't buy past kits, but to show you what type of stuff you get, here's a look at the contents of the August box, which had a unicorn theme:




Contents: 
Danglefoot What's Your Unicorn Name scattered holo polish (exclusive to the box)
MoYou London Hipster Collection 23
MoYou London Hipster Collection 24
1 Coupon for a free polish through Beautometry
2 pots diamond glitters
2 striping tapes
1 set unicorn nail wraps
1 "What's your unicorn name" activity sheet


For a more in-depth look at the contents, check out the video review I did:



Here's a close-up of the two plates that came in the box, which I used for my manis:





For my first mani, I started with a base of the polish that came with the kit, Danglefoot Polish What's Your Unicorn Name, and I stamped with Moyra Silver, and filled in my unicorns with Wikkid Polish Satin Blue, (coming soon to Lantern & Wren):


MoYou London Hipster 24 over Danglefoot Polish What's Your Unicorn Name

MoYou London Hipster 24 over Danglefoot Polish What's Your Unicorn Name


For my second mani, I went an alternate holo route--holo glitter! I layered Spellbound Nails Hem, Hem over Metamorphmagus, then stamped with Moyra Silver, using MoYou London 24:


MoYou London Hipster 24 over Spellbound Nails Hem, Hem

MoYou London Hipster 24 over Spellbound Nails Hem, Hem

And for my final mani, I started with a base of Spellbound Nails Prophecy, and stamped with Moyra Silver and Kaleidoscope White, with MoYou London Hipster 23:


MoYou London Hipster 23 over Spellbound Nails Prophecy

MoYou London Hipster 23 over Spellbound Nails Prophecy


So, what do I think about the box? Like the others I've reviewed (click here to see June's box, and here to see May's box), I think this is an excellent value for your money. The only question is whether or not you're the sort of person who likes to be surprised (I am definitely that sort of person!). If you aren't, probably any sort of surprise-based box like this doesn't work for you. But if you are, you can rest assured you'll get an selection of quality up-to-date items in hot themes.


And, that's it for Holo week! Do you have a favorite of the holo manis I did this week?


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Tuesday, October 30, 2018

(Before & After) Seven Deadly Sins + Halloween, Day 6

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Today we're on to a sixth sin: Sloth!


I'll admit, this one was the very hardest to come up with a match for...until I thought of the movie Seven. In that movie, the guy who gets killed for 'Sloth' is chained to a bed until he withers away to nothing more than a skeleton covered in skin. So, I figured, skeleton it is!


I started with a base of Spellbound Nails Sloth, a sky-blue holo with silver holo glitter:

Spellbound Nails Sloth


Then I stamped with Dixie Plates Halloween 2017 and MoYou London Punk 07, with Kaleidoscope White and Black, and Moonflower Polish Obsidiana:


Spellbound Nails Sloth as skeletons!

There's something a little creepy about skeleton hands and feet against a shiny, beautiful blue sky...


So what Halloween baddie would you pair with Sloth?


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Monday, October 29, 2018

(Before & After): Seven Deadly Sins + Halloween, Day 5

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We're up to the day five, and today's sin is: Pride!


Yeah, nobody promised me this would be easy.


One aspect of pride, at least the bad side of pride, is out of control vanity. We've all seen the pictures of people (men and women!) who are so worried about getting old and losing their looks that they get a ton of plastic surgery, or whose plastic surgery goes badly...so I decided the perfect Halloween baddie for Pride is the mummy.


I started, of course, with a base of Spellbound Nails Pride, a red plum holo with gold holo glitter:


Spellbound Nails Pride


Then I stamped eyeballs, lips (you can't really see them under the bandages, and bloody gashes, covered with bandages. I left it messy to look like a surgery gone wrong...I used My Online Shop Jr-22, MoYou London Gothic 04, UberChic Beauty Zombie Love, and Messy Mansion MM28, stamped with Messy Mansion Spring Green, Sterling, Red-y or Not, Carbon, and Sally Hansen Sand Storm:


Spellbound Nails Pride--The Mummy


What do you think? Is it creepy and goopy enough? What halloween 'baddie' would you have chosen for Pride?


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Saturday, October 27, 2018

(Before & After): Seven Deadly Sins + Halloween, Day 4

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I took a break yesterday to show you a ton of gorgeous polishes coming up in November's PPU, but today I'm back with my fourth deadly sin...Lust.


Usually 'lust' means sexual attraction, but I decided to go a slightly different way with this one, because I think people also lust after other things in a way that can be destructive--like a lust for power and immortality. So, in line with that, the Halloween baddie I chose to pair with this sin is Frankenstein--and his monster.


I started with a base of Spellbound Nails, a denim-blue scattered holo with silver holo glitters:


Spellbound Nails Lust

Then I stamped using My Online Shop Jr-22, MoYou London Gothic 04, UberChic Beauty Zombie Love, and Messy Mansion MM28, stamped with Messy Mansion Spring Green, Sterling, Red-y or Not, Carbon, and Sally Hansen Sand Storm:


Frankenstein and his monster...

I've always been fascinated by the ethical issues raised in Frankenstein...who's the real monster, Frankenstein or his creation?


Let me know what you think of my choice, and what you would have paired with Lust, in the comments below.


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Sunday, October 21, 2018

Seven Deadly Sins Nail Art Series--Day 1!

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So, you may have noticed I've been posting a little less frequently this month. That's for two reasons. One is, I'm the Polish Pickup Blogger of the Month this month, so I've been busy swatching like crazy to bring you that post here in a few days! The second reason is:

I GOT A PUBLISHING CONTRACT!!

Yep, that's right, you've heard me talk about being a writer and a lot of people have asked when they can read my stuff--well, it looks like that'll be happening sometime next year!! I'm super excited and will let you know more details when I have them--but for now I've been hard at work editing book 1 and writing book 2. :)


Okay, so, back to nail art! This is my 7th Halloween as a nail blogger (where. does. the. time. go.), so I thought I'd do a little something different for Halloween this year...It also just so happens that recently reviewed Spellbound Nails Seven Deadly Sins collection (that number 7 again!), and something about that theme just feels Halloweeny to me. So I decided to do a Seven Deadly Sins Nail Art Series, combining that theme with Halloween. What that means is, for each deadly sin, I'll pick a classic Halloween baddie that I think symbolizes the sin.


I'm gonna kick things off with Gluttony. So first, here's a look at Spellbound Nails Gluttony, a pumpkin-orange holo with a scratter of gold holo glitters:


Spellbound Nails Gluttony


For my Halloween Gluttony baddie, I chose vampires, because they drink all of the blood they can get their fangs on!


Spellbound Nails Gluttony, featuring Vampires!


I stamped this using It Girl Nail Art IG123 for the background blood, then MoYou London Gothic 04, Festive 16, Bundle Monster 301, and Messy Mansion MM11. I used Girly Bits Cosmetics White Wedding, Little Black Dress, and Fire-Engine Red.


What do you think, are vampires a good choice for Gluttony? What would you have chosen?


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Sunday, August 26, 2018

Beautometry's June My Mani Box!

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Hello!


So a few days ago, I reviewed Beautometry's May "My Mani Box," a subscription box that sends you a sweet package of nail stamping goodness each month, and reported that I thought it was an excellent value, and a lot of fun...Well, I'm back to take a look at the June box, and see if it holds up to what the quality of the first box.


Here's a look at the full contents:


Beautometry's June My Mani Box

The theme for this box is 'travel', so I think it's really cool that they include a travel-sized glass file in the box:


Beautometry's June My Mani Box


This box also includes some cuticle barrier for your nail art:


Beautometry's June My Mani Box

The box includes two MoYou London plates, Mix & Match collection 13, which has a very cool retro 90s Miami Vice kinda vibe:


MoYou London Mix & Match Collection 13

And MoYou London Explorer Collection 33: 

MoYou London Explorer Collection 33


And here are some shots with a ruler so you can judge the size of all those little images:




The polish in this box is Femme Fatale Fates Bound Together, which, OMG--is one of the prettiest polishes I've seen ever, including a duochrome blue/purple element, flakies, and a thermal blue/purple element, so pretty much all the time you've got beautiful shift:


Femme Fatale Fates Bound Together

Femme Fatale Fates Bound Together

Femme Fatale Fates Bound Together

Here's what it looks like on--tell me this isn't ah-maze-ing:


Femme Fatale Fates Bound Together

The box also included Hit The Bottle Polish Holo There Beautiful, a stunning silver holo stamping polish:

Hit The Bottle Polish Holo There Beautiful

So, to recap, here's what all you get:


Beautometry's June My Mani Box


Okay, before we get into manis, let's do a recap. I am again impressed by the contents of the box. It's clear after seeing two boxes now that Beautometry takes care to pick a really special polish for the box that matches the theme and images on the plates--not just a run-of-the-mill polish. And, of course, the quality of the items are great--MoYou London plates are the best.


So let's count up the value:

Two MoYou London plates: $19.98
Femme Fatale specialty polish: $13.00
Hit The Bottle Mini: $4.00 (approx)
Peel Putty: $9.50 (based on similar cuticle guards)
Travel-size glass file: $7.50 (based on similar product)
Total value: $53.98

So yeah--I'd say this is well worth even the most expensive $35 price for the box (the cost of the box goes down if you subscribe for more than one month). Great value and great quality--that combo doesn't come along every day!


Okay, now it's time to play! For my first mani, I couldn't resist playing with those llamas on MoYou London Explorer Collection 33!!! I started with a base of Zoya Cole, then stamped and did some reversed stamping with Messy Mansion Carbon, Misty Jade, and Hydrangea Blue and Zoya Jack. Here's how it turned out:


Mani with Beautometry's June My Mani Box: MoYou London Explorer collection 33 over Zoya Cole

Mani with Beautometry's June My Mani Box: MoYou London Explorer collection 33 over Zoya Cole

For this next mani, I went simple. I just wanted to play a little with holo stamping over the beautiful colors in Femme Fatale Fates Bound Together, so I stamped what's supposed to look like a moon reflecting off a pool...I'm not sure it came out like I hoped, but I still think it's crazy pretty:


Mani with Beautometry's June My Mani Box: MoYou Mix & Match collection 13 over Zoya Cole

Mani with Beautometry's June My Mani Box: MoYou Mix & Match collection 13 over Zoya Cole

And to celebrate the color change with the thermal, I grabbed a shot of the polish when it was a little colder:


Mani with Beautometry's June My Mani Box: MoYou Mix & Match collection 13 over Zoya Cole

For my final mani, I went full-on retro, baby! I started with a base of Zoya Daisy, then stamped and did some reversed stamping with MoYou London Mix & Match 13, Messy Mansion Misty Jade, Hydrangea Blue, and Petal, and Hit The Bottle Polish Holo There Beautiful: 


Mani with Beautometry's June My Mani Box: MoYou Mix & Match collection 13 over Zoya Daisy

Mani with Beautometry's June My Mani Box: MoYou Mix & Match collection 13 over Zoya Daisy

And here it is matted:


Mani with Beautometry's June My Mani Box: MoYou Mix & Match collection 13 over Zoya Daisy

Mani with Beautometry's June My Mani Box: MoYou Mix & Match collection 13 over Zoya Daisy

This box is just so fun! Those llamas and those 80s images--it all just makes me smile. I'm definitely a believer--Beautometry's My Mani Box is a cool way to get your mani on. You can sign up for the next one here, and you can follow Beautometry around the interwebs here:





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