Julep Maven Box unboxing

Hello Lovelies! I recieved my second Julep Maven box and I wanted to share with you my experience with getting a real box this month instead of the intro box. Well, it's basically the same! Only this time I got candy! Yay candy!

My polish came in this lovely tissue paper with silver stars (which sparked mani ideas of course) and a cute ribbon that I tied around my ponytail for Fourth of July! Yay recycling!!! It had a card in there that said something about it's your time to sparkle...blah blah. Who cares give me the polish!!!! (is this rude? oh well that's what I was thinking).

A mani idea....yeeaaahhhh...I'll get right on this one. Btw. The color swatch on their promo stuff=way wrong!
plus behind there is a voucher for a free polish. What is a good color for me to get?!?

This is a box it came in. I use these boxes to stamp on. It came with cute red, white, and blue shredded paper crap in it though. Blah blah WHERE'S MY EFFING POLISH?!?!

Bubble wrap.

From L-R: Julep Daphne, Mila, Kate, and America

YAY THE POLISH! *hugs and hugs and hugs* (that's not weird is it?) 

I don't know why Daphne looks like it has a shimmer...or a smudge..I think the label wasn't put on correctly. Despite the promo pictures that is a more accurate representation of that color. Midtone dusty teal. I haven't worn this color as a mani yet, but it was opaque in a thickish coat on a nail wheel!

Mila is exactly as they describe it, a multicolored glitter. The glitters in it are small and slightly more muted than your average multi-colored glitter. Went on regularly and takes 2 coats to become opaque. (Swatches to come later)

Kate. Ah Kate. Typical streaky white. The shimmer was barely visible on the nail, and after 4 coats it was still streaky. Strangely terrible to remove too. Mila was easier to remove....explain that.

America is really neat. The stars are kind of hard to get out of the bottle and I think there are two sizes of blue glitter. The red glitter in it reminds me of China Glaze Ruby Pumps and it also has silver glitter. Let's put some more glitter in that shall we?

I've heard some issues in the facebook group Polish-aholics Anonymous that people aren't getting the correct polish and one lady said that her America did not contain any stars whatsoever. Did you have any problems with your box?

Update

Hi Ladies, I know I'm a new blogger and there aren't that many of you, but I'm going to have to take the next  couple days off (at least today). I work overnights at a mass retail store and my body is not cut out for working overnights. I get about 3 hours of sleep a day and no matter how tired I am, I can not get my mind to shut off enough to sleep during the day. It is even worse when I am in school. So today and quite possibly tomorrow I will be sleeping, or trying to anyway. Please feel free to comment, leave me ideas, request a polish to see from my stash list or tell me a funny joke!

The 31 day nail art challenge will continue when I feel well enough to post again. I'm hoping this doesn't happen anymore, because I enjoy blogging (thus far) and I want to be a reliable person!

Hope all goes well for you.

Challenge Day 9: Metallic nail fail

Hello Ladies, I'm just gonna say this: I am not feeling the whole metallic nails thing, and I hated this mani. But it's too late to go back and I don't feel like doing this again. Ha! So on to the mani!

"That doesn't look very metallic, Robyn" You're right. It doesn't in these pics. It looked more metallic in real life, and honestly I should have left the crackle off. I was going for a look I saw on a Sephora pinterest video about the Betsey Johnson nail polish collection and It would have worked if my nails were longer...and pointier...I wish I could find that video. 

I thought I had more photos of this, but I guess not. Anywho, I used Wet N Wild Precious Petals on my thumb and Pinky, Penny For Your Toughts on my pointer and thumb and Got a New Com-pewter (I dont understand how computers or the word pewter fit in with this vivid green...) on my middle finger. All of those wet n wild polishes are from the new chrome collection. Then I sponged NYC Tribeca Silver on the tips and followed up with Sally Hansen Ink Splatter  for the crackle. The pink nail in real life was really pretty. Everything else...blealksdjfglhru.

The Wet N Wild Chrome collection I bought at wal-greens, and I wish I wouldn't have. I only bought these three colors but I will probably never wear them. They are too expensive for a drug store polish that size. The application was great. I only needed 1 coat. They stamp okay too. Nothing spectacular as they are slightly see through when stamped. It's similar to stamping with Orly Luxe if you own that polish. I really wanted the Wet N Wild stars and stripes collection, but we never got it here.

What is your worst fail art? This isn't my worst, but I'm not liking it. I should have just stuck with the pink and silver and do an Effie Trinket kind of manicure.

On a side note, I keep trying to type every word with the first letter capitalized. lol.

I Hope you all have a good day! (It's bedtime for this bozo).

Challenge Day 8: Black and White nails

Hello Ladies! I have moved from the rainbow favorites week into the normal 31 day nail art challenge! Today is the black and white challenge. I was dreading this to begin with, I could not think of anything. But I randomly saw a sidepost on a blog that I read, I wish I could remember which one, that showed someone who did a mani similar to my thumb, middle, and pinky fingers (if not exact, if that was your blog, please let me know so I can give proper credit!) and then for my other two fingers I got inspiration from this post on pinterest and I wanted to recreate that look. My first attempt failed. My nails are just too small for that. so then I decided on this. 

I have no idea why I look so red, so just ignore that and the straggly nail polish on my cuticle. But here it is! I loved this so much I did not want to take it off!

For the base on my ring, pointer, and part of my thumb and pinky I used Wet N Wild Megalast Break the Ice and on the rest of my fingers is Wet N Wild Ebony Hates Chris (fun fact: every time I type Ebony Hates Chris I usually type "Christ" eek!! Learn to type Robyn!) and then I applied the Rhinestones to my pinky, thumb and middle fingers. To make the rhinestones on my ring and pointer finger black I just painted over the rhinestones with my black. You can see where I nicked it onto the white on this photo, I went and fixed it on the photo above, but I forgot to check for it on this picture.

I really love the far away shot, despite my ring being crooked (it's always crooked...in fact it is right now..lol). I think that this would look even more fantastic on longer nails, but I had to trim my nails down to super nubbins due to an unfortunate accident with a utility knife at work. I had accidentally cut my thumb from the base of my actual finger all the way up, through my nail (but not into the skin beneath, explain that one..), leaving my nail pretty much split in two. So I've had to keep my thumb super short so that I did not rip it in half or off completely. It was really annoying. But they are finally grown out so now I don't have to cut my nails again unless one of them breaks, which inevitably it does.

What do you think? would you rock this look? Have you ever done anything traumatic to your nails like I did?

Challenge day 7: Pink and Purple

Hello Ladies! Sorry about the lack of post yesterday, I'm actually running a bit late today too...but I had a massive swatchfest today and I want to make sure you get the swatches of my favorite pinks and purples. But first, bottle spam! I love these pictures!

Mmmm...purple. Me likey da purple.
More after the jump!

Sorry Guys

I am unable to post my purple favorites today because I have run out of time. My fiance has been out of a job since December and we have spent the last couple days taking him to job interviews and drug testing. He starts his new job tomorrow! He also has another interview on tuesday. I work graveyard shift and it is already past my bedtime, therefore I do not have time to edit and post my pictures. Tomorrow you will get both pink and purple! Yay!

Hope you are doing well!

Episode 5: Return of the..Yellow?

Hiya ladies! Today is blue day, but I'm not feeling blue. Annoyed maybe...but that is because of the lingering pain in my stomach and other real world problems, but you don't care about that! Only two days remain of Lacquer Dream's Rainbow themed week of favorites. Today I'm going to spam you with blue bottles! yay!

Army of blue! Looks so peaceful. Blue is very calming for me. I have so many bottles (this barely dents my blue collection) but I rarely wear them. Do you have any like this?

In this photo is Essie Bikini So Teeny, Essie Bobbing for Baubles (looks great with Fingerpaints Motley fyi), Deborah Lippman Let's hear it for the boy, Sinful Colors Cinderella, Sinful Colors Sweet Dreams, Julep Jessica, China Glaze Kinetic Candy, and China Glaze Aquadelic (try mattifying this! is GORGEOUS).

and my Mani after the break!!