Last Julep Maven Box

This will be my last post about the Julep Maven Box. I wanted to try a win 150 nail polishes but I didn't and I am finding that I am getting similar colours and not enough neat ones so yeah I'm done.

 So in this month's Julep Box, I got pixie sticks(which I can't have so that sucks), vanilla mint lip balm that has SPF in it and my 3 new colours; Sash, Sandra and Morgan.

Sasha, the salmon pink colour isn't really my deal but will look nice for a pastel splatter idea I have. It is a nice matte colour.

Sandra is a metallic fuchsia pink. I liked to wear bright pinks when I had red hair, but now that I have dark purple I think I will be looking at more purples and blues for my nails.

That is always the question though when it comes to trying to figure out colours: to match or clash? I usually stay on my body matching and then clash with my clothes. But then I guess I do change it up and clash my makeup and nails with my hair and have a matching outfit.  What do you like to do?

And speaking of matching, Morgan was my favourite colour as it goes great with my dark purple hair!

The vanilla mint lip balm is super nice, I wouldn't normally think that vanilla and mint would go well but they are both subtle enough that the flavours compliment each other.

If any one knows of other good makeup trail boxes please leave a comment!

-xoxox Mamma S.

Battle of the Magnetics

 So look what came in the mail! My New Julep Maven Box, and I had been waiting so long to get try a magnetic nail polish that I already went and bought one by Nails Inc. at Sephora. So now I get to test and compare both magnetics! The Maven box also came with 2 other colours and a pedi creme.

  The Nails Inc colour is called "Trafalgar Square" and the Julep colours are; "Ashley"(the gold), "Parker"(the copper) and "Kylie"(the magnetic purple).

 So let's start the battle!

 So obviously you can see the winner already: nails inc. wins! I had tried the "Kylie" before and the lines showed up more so then this time, I don't know what happened. I followed the instructions as directed: apply 1st coat and let set, then apply a generous 2nd coat and then quickly hold magnet over nail for 10-15 seconds. I kinda got one line on each nail, but they are very faint.

The  "Trafalgar Square" polish goes on nicely, this is 1 coat in the pic. I held the magnet over for 30 seconds and got super thin, defined lines. This magnet is attached into the cap and has a little edge on it so you can press it to your finger and not touch your nail, which is better then the Julep wand as I have very shaky hands when I do my own polish. I had held it on before on a 1st try of it and got thicker ones because I only held it over for 10 seconds.   The lines move around like those "3D" photos you can get where they transform into something else: they move up and get thicker and thinner depending on the angle you are looking at them. 

The "Ashley" and "Parker" were nice, the pic is a bit crappy, I just did 1 quick coat on my nails to see the colours. I'm never a big fan of orange but I do like the yellow, I would like to put some darker gold, maybe the gold from last month's Julep Maven box over and see how it looks.

And finally I tried "The best Pedi Creme Ever!"  and it really is! it has cucumber in it and is very nice smelling, it soaks in pretty quickly and has a very awesome cooling sensation. I'm used to using foot creams that heat up because my feet always hurt, but this is a nice switch up.

Well 'till next post: Mike and Sonya's Shag

I hope someone enjoys the shag prize I donated to them!

-xoxox Mamma S.

April Julep Maven Box!

So today I got in the mail my new April box of Maven! This samples theme is called "It Girl!"

 It was a very nice surprise inside my little black box today: I got easter eggies, a really nice little black makeup bag, my 3 new polishes and little spongy toe separators.

 So the 3 new colours are called: "Niecy", "Penelope" and "Jessica". Jane's Beauty Tip for this month was(condensed): "wearing the colour for your toes on your hands & switch to a different colour on your ring finger." As you can see from my photos, I did do the ring finger the blue colour on both hands.

Niecy is the bright pink colour that is close to the light fuschias that I have been loving lately. It is a very nice "Barbie" pink, and went on solidly without much streaking.

Jessica is the baby blue colour. It too went on very well in a nice creamy flow, which settled nicely.

Both Niecy and Jessica both went on perfectly and dried in a timely fashion.

Penelope, which is a nice very soft cream pink colour(perfect for french manicures), went on a little off. It was a bit see through and didn't settle as nicely. I also had to put about 3-4 coats on it for it to be full, which made the drying time a bit longer. But I also wanted the full true colour, which I wouldn't go for as thickly if I was doing a french manicure.

The bag is a nice makeup bag, has a rimmed bottom so it stands up on its own, a thick zipper which being a punk, I love. It has a small cell phone sized pocket  and another set of smaller stretchy pockets that can fit lipsticks, or the Juelp Nail Vernis bottles themselves in there! The toe separators are the standard foam ones but I ran out so they came just in time!

Of Course the eggies were delicious!

-xoxox Mamma S.