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Hello! Like I said before, even though it's after Christmas I still have plenty of holiday things to post. After this one I have maybeeeee 3 or 4 more Lush Holiday items to post about (some I haven't even used yet! For shame!) so those will be coming soon. I'm going to try to get them up by the end of January. Today I have the Father Christmas bath bomb. It's pretty cute...can you get any more Christmassy??? The base pink I used was Zoya Kitridge. I really struggled with coordinating nail art for this little guy! I don't have any stamping plates that have any Santas on them, so I went with the next best thing. I chose a Christmassy sweater print from the Moyou Festive collection 06 plate. However, I had just filed my nails way down and even though these images are teeny tiny,  I still couldn't fit it on my nail! I even tried using tape to take off and add partial images, and it was just an overall fail. Talk about frustrating! I gave up and repainte...

Hey guys! Merry Christmas Eve! I hope everyone is chilling at home or with family and not stressing to much ;) Today I have more information on the inspired nail art from the Lush Mistletoe bath bomb I posted about yesterday! I chose  Zoya Eden  for the darker pink and   Zoya Wednesday  for the darker green. The lighter green is  Zoya Tiana  and the lighter pink is Zoya Kitridge. I stamped with Eden and Wednesday, they worked pretty well! Here's another look at my typical yet messy setup. I set out the bath bomb and comb though my polishes for matching colors. I also have to try out each polish to find ones that stamp well since I don't have "stamping" polishes, and sometimes I have to pick out other colors that are more opaque. The plates I used are Moyou festive collection 08 for the owls and hearts and  Moyou Festive Collection 06  for the holly. I don't have a plate that has mistletoe on it, plus holly is cute...

 Hello! I'm still working on going through all the content I have and getting it posted! These Lush posts are more work than a regular post because I have to produce the coordinating nail look, then get around to using the product and then posting about both here! I wish I could have gotten through it all before Christmas but I'm only one person with so much time! I will continue to post these as I get through them even after Christmas. AND, I have a few other items that aren't holiday-ish I want to review as well! I really like this little theme so I'm going to keep up with it until I get tired of it, haha. Today I have the Mistletoe bath bomb, which is new this year.  On my nails is more of a holly design, which isn't exactly  the same thing, but it will work! I thought some cute owls looking at each other lovingly would be a nice touch. I'll have more on that tomorrow. The Mistletoe bath bomb is a really pretty combination of colors and it fun to w...

Hey guys! Today I have the Golden Wonder bath bomb from Lush. I got this one based off my in-person smell test at my local store before I made my online order. It has your typical combo of orange oil and lime oil with cognac oil. I think it's designed to smell like a cocktail but to me it comes across as a very typical Lush item smell..very clean and fresh. This bath bomb is HUGE!! I don't know if it really translates in the picture but it's way bigger than the regular round bath bombs. It's also covered in lustre....which y'all know is not really my bag. I had a hard time figuring a way to hold if for the pictures and I kept getting it all over myself. It made me kind of dread the bath, even though it's so pretty and smells so good! When you put it in the water it starts fizzing immediately and turns the water yellow. Luckily,  surprisingly bright turquoise bubbles come out quickly and start transforming the water. Golden Wonde...

Hey guys! Today I have more on the mani I posted about  yesterday  inspired by the Lush Peeping Santa bubble bar. He's just so cute, it was a no brainer when I was searching for things to inspire nail art! I started with Zoya Aphrodite  (red), Purity  (white), and Codie (brown) for my color pallet. I used latex because you can't mess around with red-it loves to stain your cuticles! My original idea was to use the candy cane striped image on the  Moyou Festive collection 06 plate . I practiced several times on paper..... Guys. I tried. Like, 3 times. It kept getting that fold/wrinkle in it! How infuriating! And in different places every time. Every time of repainting that nail, waiting to dry, the whole thing. Am I pressing too hard? My base layer not dry enough? Ugh, I finally gave up and just painted that nail red. I went ahead with the other nail while I was waiting for the first one to dry and used nail vinyls to tape of...

Hey guys! I'm back with another Lush review....it's official, I'm not going to get through my holiday Lush stuff before Christmas! But that's ok, I guess. It was a self imposed deadline anyway. Today I have the Peeping Santa bubble bar....HOW CUTE IS THIS LITTLE GUY????  I mean, seriously. He has little eyes made of chocolate chips and sandwiched in the middle is shea butter to make your bath moisturizing. I have to say, the bubble bars that have bath melts built into them are by far my favorite so far. Check back tomorrow for more on this mani! :) Peeping Santa has a definite strawberry scent to it. Which isn't my favorite, but my kids love it! I am going to be trying some of these more moisturizing items on my son that has KP,  I think they will help. Look at the pink water! That was a nice surprise. As with every Lush bubble bar I've used so far the amount of bubbles a tiny amount of the bar produces is crazy. Much more bubbles than...

Hello! Can y'all believe Christmas is in one week ?? I never feel ready! Today I have a closer look at the Lush Christmas Penguin bubble bar inspired nail art! If you missed that post check it out  here. Anytime I need a blue I go straight for my OPIs because I have the most of them. OPI No Room for the Blues   was the best match!  I used OPI Tiffany case on my first finger, which is a sparkly blue textured polish, and Where did Suzi's man-go for the orange creme. Zoya Beatrix  is the orange texture.  To make the penguin nail I picked up the whole image and then used scotch tape to remove the part I didn't want. Then I did the same with the second color. I'm still practicing a looooot with my stamping before it actually goes on my nail. Passes the time waiting for it to dry! Here is a look at the  Moyou Enchanted 05 plate , isn't it just gorgeous??? I used the littler snowflake image on the left that matched the border on t...

Hello! Today I have the Lush Christmas Penguin bubble bar! How cute is this little guy?!?!? I swear I saw somewhere that this little guy was inspired by the Little Penguins of Australia, which I have actually seen in person! I can't find that anywhere now :/ but we are just going to go with that! For those that don't know my husband is Australian and I made a trip over there with him before we were even engaged. We went down to Phillip Island with his sister and saw the Little Penguins. It's a whole process of learning about them and then making your way to the beach where they have a little set of bleachers. You sit and freeze your rear off until the sun goes down and then all the Little Penguins come out of the ocean and waddle up the beach with food to feed their babies in the nests in the dunes! You have to be super quiet and photographs are STRICTLY forbidden so you don't scare them. They were the Cutest. Thing. Ever. It was so worth it!!! When I saw this bubbl...

Hey guys! Here is more on my Lush Shoot for the Stars Mani as promised! My mom has been visiting this week and I thought I'd still maintain my blog schedule but I wound up just taking the time off the hang with her! I've also (unrelated) lost my voice! I'd love any suggestions on how to cure laryngitis....vocal rest is not an option!! The base color is my beloved OPI Ogre the Top Blue, which I vowed to steal from a friend until I found my own. Actually, I think I ordered it from Amazon! It's fairly hard to find now. The gold stamping is (obviously) OPI 50 Years of Style and a light coating of China Glaze Fairy Dust , of course! I swear it matches more in real life than in this pic! If you missed my review of the amazing  Shoot for the Stars bath bomb you can see it  HERE .  This is my typical process, I practice stamping *alot* before on my nails. I wasn't sure how well the gold would show up over the dark blue.  For the individu...