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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. ...

Today I have the follow up with more details about my Snowie inspired nail art, which I posted yesterday, click here  to see if you missed it! First, can we talk about what OPI I Juggle...Men did on my nail? When I applied my topcoat ( I used Seche Vite  here) it totally wrinkled up??? When this happened I all of the sudden remembered reading about this happening to another blogger years ago when this polish came out. I used it on another nail with out topcoat and it did the same thing. Such a bummer, its such a pretty holo topper! The red/orange is OPI My Paprika is Hotter than yours and the blue is OPI Can't Find My Czechbook (which I'm using a lot lately....heck year round!)  what the heck??? For the stamped snowflake like nails I used the Pueen Fairy Tale Lover 01 plate  . I just used a dotting tool for the dots and Lightning bolt nail vinyls for the bolt....It got a little tricky to place the blue shadow for the bolt. I didn't feel like wait...

Hello! Today I have a the Lush Snowie bubble bar, a tribute to David Bowie! This bubble bar is so cute! I'd be lying if I said I didn't buy  it because I knew it would make cute nail art! The scent is light and fresh, and very clean smelling. My internet research says it has the same scent as the Frozen bath bomb, which I haven't tried yet  because I'm afraid of all the glitter! But I probably will at some point. You can see in the short little video how much I cut off for this bath. Just the smallest amount made an enormous amount of bubbles!! There's something about pure white, glistening bubbles :) I'm really impressed with this bubble bar and I think I'll get a lot of uses out of one bar. The scent is mild and clean and would pair well with any other bath bombs. If I have a chance to get some more on sale I definitely would! Here's a better look at the matching mani I did, I'll have a post on that tomorrow! ...

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! 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...

Hey guys! Today I have my final Fall collection from Lush review before we dive in to the Christmas goodies! I did order a (ahem) sizeable amount of stuff, but I couldn't order one of everything as much as I wanted to! Boo hoo! And, I doubt I'll be able to get through all of it before Christmas is over so I'll proably still be posting holiday items in Jan and Feb :) This is the Autumn Leaf bath bomb, which I think  is new this year. I've had it for a while but finally had time to do a matching mani and use it! And, it does not disappoint! These are the colors I used, I just combined them on the plate and scraped to blend like I have done recently. Check back tomorrow for lots more about these nails! Check out this video to see Autumn Leaf in action! This bath bomb smells REALLY good. To me it just smelled like good old fashioned clean, soap smell. I had to look up the ingredients again because I couldn't remember....and it shares the scent profi...