Lush Lacquer's Flippin Out and some Crazy Awesome Nail Mail!

I was finally able to swatch my Lush Lacquer Flippin' Out.  Since I haven't received a replacement label from the recent name change, I'm just showing the bottle side not the label.  The name of this polish was recently changed and Lush Lacquer asks that we not use the old name--legal reasons, I suspect!  Anyway, this is Flippin' Out over Julep's Emilie.  Great combo, right?!

Yet another label problem with one of my nail mails-- I ordered Princess Celestia from Darling Diva Polish and the bottle was mislabeled.  The store owner is sending me a replacement label but I couldn't wait to show it to you.   Love it in the bottle and will soon have it on my fingers and toes!

 This next polish is Strawberry Limeade from Two Birds One Store.  It reminds me of a different take on Floam or Sand Art.  Soo pretty and says "summer" to me.

I get a lot of polish advice from following The Trace Face Philes blog and facebook page.  She said the Windestine store was open and so I ran over to score these two beauties.

 Someone else on Facebook posted that HSN was having a sweet deal on Deborah Lippman polishes.  Don't Tell Mama and Dream a Little Dream of Me are full size and were under $10 for the pair.  Brings my humble total of DL polishes to 5!

I must confess that I recently dropped my Julep subscription.  There was a little problem with my gift certificate order never arriving and I was given the run around by customer service. After not receiving their 2nd attempt of shipping I gave up.  Still, I love America and O Canada so I happened upon a deal where if I ordered two Julep polishes, I'd receive America for free.  I bought O Canada and the pre-order of Chelsea. So at $24 I got my polishes for $8 a piece.  I'll take that and no, Im not renewing my subscription!

 Last, I ran out of Sinful Colors Snow Me White, one of my nail art staples, and went to Walgreens to replace it.  I found the Suit Up with Haute display and bought these four lovelies too.   I now have 70 Sinfuls...omg!

So I am quickly approaching 500 separate, unrepeated bottles of polish.  That doesn't include the stuff I've bought for giveways.  What an expensive, rewarding,  and cluttering hobby this nail art thing has turned out to be!

Nail Haul #2

So this haul is an amalgamation of nail mail and gifts!


Deborah Lippmann just released her 3D holos and my dear friend Jaime bought me Ray of Light!  Its so lovely!

 

Ulta had China Glazes on buy 2 and get 1 free so I scored the shimmery glitters including the fabulous Luxe and Lush from the Capitol Colours collection!

 

 

I saw this on a blog sale and really wanted it but just missed out :(  Luckily Ulta had Where Is The Party for 99cent!

I added Fina to my May Julep Maven Box.  Oh my!

My mother-in-law (who is awesome) has heard me go on and on about polish and so she gave me this polish.  Its a shimmery pink and adorable.  Perfect for summer toes!

Denver doesn't have CVS and I forgot to run by CVS when I was in Texas a few weeks ago to get some Spoiled polishes!   So I ordered these from CVS.com!

I love everything about this mini polish set from Ulta.   I haven't decided if Im going to use it or give it away to my followers:0)

Ulta had their polishes on sale for $2 so I bought these six with glee!    Blues and purples and greens and glitters!

 The following polishes are from my May Julep Maven Box.  I haven't really jumped on the magnetic polish bandwagon but I'll try it.  I love, love, love Ellie!

So these latest polishes put me in the upper 300s.  Gah!  What do you do with all that polish...besides love it and use it? 

Julep Easter Mystery Box...OMFG!

I am so freakin' happy!  After going for "It Girl" for April, I also opted for a $20 Julep Maven Easter Mystery Box.  I was totally floored by what I received!!!

Not only did I get chocolate, more argan oil, fast drying topcoat, and Melissa, Hayden and Anne BUT I also got a $50 gift certificate.  You know I wasted NO time in spending the certificate.

Using my maven discount and the gift certificate, I bought the April American Beauty box which has the Best Pedi creme, Eva, and Rene.  I also added Emilie, Taylor, and Brooke.  For $23.50, I was able to get eight Julep polishes, a top coat, argan oil, pedi creme, and chocolate.   SCORE!!

Today is Awesome! Nail Mail!!

The nail gods smiled upon me today as my Deborah Lippmann and Julep Maven orders arrived at the same time.

If you are a glitter fiend like me, you would have jumped at the chance to get two of Deborah Lippman's awesome glitters, Across the Universe and Happy Birthday for 50% off.  Deborah put these two glitters and one other on sale for one day only for a segment on GMA!  I happened to catch her tweet about it and voila! magic happened!

I can tell you that w/o the sale I would never have ponied up the $18 per bottle that the DL polishes, especially these two glittters, sell for so I feel pretty fortunate to have caught the one day sale!

Next, as always, I enjoy the delight that is my Julep Maven box.

No, your eyes aren't deceiving you--that is a nicely sized piece of chocolate in my Julep Box!  I tried some and it was sooo good!  The two polishes I received were Glenn, a sparkly red polish, and Oscar, gold glitter.  I also got some great smelling roll-on cuticle oil.  Last, Jane's tip on my Julep postcard is one EVERY glitter fiend must practice.  She says to get glitter off nails, "saturate a cotton pad with polish remover and then press the pad on the nail for a few seconds before wiping the polish off."  This is exactly what I do.  My tip to add to this is...if your regular polish remover still doesn't work well, you probably should use 100% acetone instead.  This is especially true if you do glitter layers.  Be sure to moisturize your hands prior to glitter removal because leaving remover on your skin for long can and will dry out those cuticles.   Better yet, use your new Julep Roll-on Cuticle Oil to protect cuticles from harsh removers!

Love days like this where I increase my polish stash with polishes on my wish list and polishes that I love and can't wait to use!