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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...

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...

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...

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 more adventures in me getting into stamping. This is the mani I wore all last weekend. I was really feeling neutral and brown so I decided to dig through my Essies! The lighting was really terrible out-gray and cloudy. bleh. I used Mochacino (brown sparkly, untried), Parka Perfect (dusty blue, untried), Sand Tropez (nude) and Beyond Cozy (glitter). The plate I used is Moyou Festive 02, which is all single snowflakes. I just love it, but man is there a knack to picking up the whole image, especially when you aren't using polish specifically made for stamping! Some of those snowflakes have such detail engraved in them. Those fine detailed designs are definitely harder to get on the stamper than the regular ones. These polishes stamped fairly well, considering. indoor lights Overall I was pretty happy with this mani, especially since I was able to duplicate this on my right hand too! Point -> Stamping! I still have a lot of work to go.

Hello! Today I have a little post with more detail about the matching mani I did for the Lush Lord of Misrule bath bomb from the holiday collection! This bath bomb has quite the reputation and I was really excited to finally get one and try it out! Check out my post  yesterday to see the review. I went back and forth on what design to do since there is really no character to this bath bomb. I was originally going to do a splatter design but then my first Moyou order came in and even though its mostly holiday-ish, I was determined to find something I could use! I settled on the Enchanted Collection 06 plate, which was part of the holiday bundle I ordered. I probably wouldn't have ordered it on it own, but I'm glad I have it!  Polishes I used are, from left: all Zoya Ness, Tiana, Vespa, Nana, Arabella This is what I usually do before stamping on my nails, I play around with polishes and stamp on paper. The wolf and leaves are on the Moyou plate and the butterf...

Hello and Happy Thanksgiving week! Who's excited about Moana coming out tomorrow??? We were planning on seeing it tomorrow but now we will have to wait a few days. We love all things Hawaii and Disney so when we first heard about this movie ages ago we were so pumped! It looks really amazing and I hope it does well at the box office! I got the idea last night after I saw something about Moana on the internet and remembered my new Moyou Tourist plate I just purchased...it's Hawaii themed. There was so many I wanted, including an Australian one, but a girl has to stop somewhere loading her cart ;) I sketched out some ideas and got to work!  We all know the main reason I am getting into stamping is that I can not free hand anything. The little bit I used to be able to do I can't anymore. So there was no spelling out her name or painting her face. But there was plenty on the plate to work with!  This is what it looks like....heart eyes!  Here ar...