Here we are at the halfway mark of Digit-al Dozen week! This is usually about the time that my mani's go from good to less than. But I am also really proud of what I have for you today. It's one of those seemingly intricate nail art designs I was always discouraged to try, but it was pretty easy to do!

I just wanted to show ya'll something cool!

I don't post alot about Julep these days, while I still really like the brand and use a lot of their products, I just haven't had the money to buy the boxes so I've skipped quite a few. But this month!

They FINALLY have a polish named Missy...so it sucked me in.

They actually have some pretty cool polishes this month, I wanted to show you what box/add-ons I went with:

This is just kind of a quick and dirty swatch/nail art I did a few months back using a gorgeous polish by Julep.

Ok, I am getting better at getting these up now. This one was only supposed to be up on Tuesday, so I'm only two days bad on this guy! I promise I will get back on track! So - Untried Polish Challenge. This prompt is for "Ugliest" Polish. Oh poor uglies. I happen to love all polishes unconditionally...so I picked three for this challenge, ones that while I think are all quite pretty (though most people may not), when paired together, they make one fugly mani.

Hi friends! It's Sunday here, and it is pouring rain and thunders here, so I figured I would laze about and get this post up. I was contacted by littlewoods.com some time ago to do a review on several OPI polishes, the first round of which you can see HERE. Well, you guessed it, here is Part 2! Enjoy and have a wonderful weekend!

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If you live in the UK - you need to check out Littlewoods! They have a ton of cool stuff to buy and LOTS of awesome nail polish to choose from as well!!

**some items in this post were sent to me by the company or their PR firm for free in exchange for my honest review**

Here is my Day 3 mani for the Digital Dozen Bling Week theme! As I'm finally done with all of these and writing my posts up I see they all kept within certain similarities. Today, as well as the next two, are very gold heavy! And the last two I showed you were both purple! I must be feeling very regal this week!

I have a couple of quick posts to drop on you tonight - some new goodies you may want to see!
My Julep monthly Maven box rolled in today (add-ons will be here monday, boo!) - so I figured I would show you my monthly unboxing of it.
I opted in for the Bombshell this month - which consisted of Minnie and Adrianna polishes as well as Juleps new Rock Star hand creme.


Here is my freshly opened box! As always, adorable packaging with cuter little cards and quotes.


Everything out of the box. This months freebie is a Strawberry Mint lip balm. The tube is super cute and it smells really good. I usually toss these to my boyfriend since I have tons of lip balms, but I may keep this one for me.

 

Been awhile since I did a Dupe Comparison - lets check this out!

Lately, Julep has really been killin' it with their monthly box choices.
Makin' it hard for a poor girl like me to decide what I want!
One of my recent box acquisitions is this lovely - a raspberry/gold shimmer called Joan - named after famous Silver Screen Siren - Joan Crawford:


Holy bazoobs - do you see that?



If you aren't a Julep Maven, you are really, truly missing out.
Even this month right now they have some amazing boxes to choose from, and even more amazing add-ons.
All you do is take a test, and it chooses the box best suited to your results.
You can get your first box FREE using code FREEBOX, too!
You can CLICK HERE to get started!

Hey Gang!
My Julep Maven box arrived yesterday in yet again, lickety split time.
I didn't have much planned for today so I figured I would do a little unboxing for you.

First up, lets see what I went with this month:

One thing I am loving about this newfound blogging approach I am taking is that I am writing my posts on the fly, in the moment. Before I had them stacked up for sometimes weeks in advance and never really connected with my readers. Now I just do a mani, and post the post when I get to it, no scheduling, no wondering what day it will fall on and what I should talk about for that day!

Enough blabber though - today is Sunday and its cold and warm at the same time here in Georgia.
It makes it hard for me to sleep, the constant covering up then uncovering. My cat makes it hard to sleep too, she's a total butthead.  Anyway - it's winter, but it gets warm and you just never know what to expect. Because of that, I decided to do this unlikely bright lightning bolt design!

It's a pretty simple tape manicure technique - one straight piece of tape almost vertical down the nail, then a triangular piece overlapping it to make the zigzag.

I took this weekend to go through all of my polishes...I needed to shop my stash and see what I had, after going months without even opening the drawers, I'd forgottem most of what I even owned. So while I did that, I reorganized back to categorizing by brand (I used to do by color family) and I pulled out every polish I was at least 75% sure I hadn't worn before. Worn, I use that term loosely I guess. I mean, used as at least 50% or more of the manicure, not just a polka dot on a nail art design.
So this is what came of THAT project:

Yes, these are in fact, all of my untried polishes. I didn't count but I estimate somewhere in the 200 range.

Given that I am going back to a different way of organizing, I knew that I would have a hard time using polishes I haven't before, so I am devoting the blog to alot of using up my polishes and trying to purge a lot of the dupes as I go.

So today, I did two manis, one of which I'm (finally) about to show you. And that knocks out 4 untried polishes! Woot!

Here we go, sorry for the bigmouth.

So here we are, using Sinful Colors Savage and Julep Fiona - both of which are matte finish polishes.

Julep Fiona, a gorgeous chartreuse neon that dries matte. I used two coats and I used it as the base for this manicure. It was a little streaky at second coat, but overall pretty good for such a bright neonish matte polish. I had issue with my tape ripping up the green later because I used a glue basecoat, so any sort of bumpiness you see is from that and not from the actual polish application.

The green is pretty color accurate in these photos but the Sinful Colors Savage is definitely darker in real life and leans more teal in color. It covers well though, this is one thickish coat over Fiona.

Finished off the mani with 2 coats of Color Club Vivid Top Coat just to get a bit smoother finish.

SO what do you think? Are you enjoying neons in winter or are you still rocking vamps or on to spring shades? I love em all, I do not care what time of year it is!