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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! 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...

Hello! Today I have the super popular Shoot for the Stars bath bomb from Lush! This is a re-release holiday item, but it got a makeover this year. To me it's brand new! Shoot for the Stars shares it's scent with Honey I Washed the Kids soap, which if you've never smelled its like honey/caramel/creme brulee/vanilla all wrapped in one. My kids and my husband swooned over the smell as soon as they came near it! Lots of sweet teeth in my family :) I don't normally combine bubbles when I'm using a bath bomb for the first time, but I did this time. They are from the little Penguin bubble bar, review on him coming later this week. LOOK at the awesome royal  blue swirls in the water! Heart eyes! Once the bath bomb dissolves, which it does fairly quickly, it pops out several little gold lustre filled bath melts which take their time melting into the water and BOY do they make your skin soft!  LOOK at this amazing blue color! I. AM. IN. LOVE. ...

Hello! I hope where ever y'all are you're having better weather than us here in Tennessee. The past week has been really crazy and sad wildfires in east tenn, now we are full fledged into the winter season. We basically didn't have a fall! Winter in Nashville is bleak: gray, overcast, drizzly, and miserable. We go for a week at a time with no sun. It's just terrible! We are on day 3 of this bs now with no end in sight. I'm so glad I had this bath bomb from my Christmas  order to lift my mood! Nails: OPI Hey Baby (pink) and I Just Can't Cope-cabana (yellow) Never Mind the Ballistics is (I believe) new this year, it's a full bath bomb dipped in cocoa butter so you have the effect of a bath melt and bath bomb in one! This is the first one of this kind I've ever used. It's so bright and cheerful it can be used year round!! And the smell?! It. Smells. So. Good. I just could not get over it. (I can stil detect it in my bathroom a day and half late...

Hello! Today I have lots more on the Lush Autumn Leaf Bath Bomb inspired nails! Of course ;) I grabbed my new stamping stuff. For some reason I keep being drawn to this   Pueen Nature Lover 01 plate ! I feel like its all I use lately! Go figure. These are the colors I picked from my collection that I felt like best matched the colors of the bath bomb. Picture Polish: Watermelon, Sorbet, and Honeydew Here's a little glimpse of the maddness that becomes my desk, ha ha. I thought I took a picture of combining the polishes on the plate but I guess I didn't! You can see the came concept in my post  here. I started with a white base and then used my liquid latex to protect my nails and reduce cleanup. Also, sometimes I don't always use it with lighter colors but my skin is extra dry lately and it absorbs more polish and is harder to clean. I combined the polish on the plates and experimented with about a hundred different options before I found on...