Luxe Box Summer 2013 Limited Edition Boxes
Labels:
beauty boxes,
limited edition boxes,
luxebox,
summer 2013
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This season, Luxe Box from Loosebutton is creating limited edition boxes which you can reserve to make sure you get the items that you want. Some boxes like the Fragrance box are free to upgrade but others like the Wedding box require additional payment to ensure those items come in the box. So let's take a look at the possible upgrades for the summer boxes!
I gotta give it to Loosebutton, their pictures are always super pretty. For me, I'll take my chances without upgrading and see what wildcard items I get. The two free boxes just don't really interest me since the whole hair chalking thing is a lot of work and I have really bad allergies meaning no perfume for me. If I were to pay for one, I think I would go for the wedding box because there are more full sized items. The sample sizes in the Lou Lou box are just too small although you do get 4 complimentary Lou Lou magazines with that upgrade. A quick reminder, today is the last day to upgrade so log into your Luxe Box account and get your upgrade today!
<3 Jackie
World War Z Nails
Any Zombie/Apocalpse fans out there? Well this one is for you guys and it is my design for the World War Z movie coming out of Friday. I actually am so behind on watching movies... I still haven't watched Iron Man which came out like months ago. Anyways, this was actually requested by my coworkers (again because they're all guys and they like this kind of stuff haha) and well, I'm down for Halloween-esque any day. Although today isn't like the normal tutorials that I do, I have taken some photos in between so that you can see how I ended up with this design.
I started with a base of My Vampire is Buff (OPI) and used a brush to freehand the "Z" and the zombie hands in Black Magic (Revlon).
Then I used the brush to freehand some grey zombie hands in Maximillian Strausse-Her (Essie).
Finally I painted on some awesome bloody cuticles using A-List (Essie) also using a brush.
And that is the final result! Gruesome icky zombie nails. I'm pretty happy with the final result, lots of freehanding. The "Z" actually turned out a lot better than I thought.
Anyone else like me and hasn't seen a movie at the movie theatre in ages?
<3 Jackie
OPI My Vampire is Buff, Samoan Sands, Don't Pretzel my Buttons, Essie Sand Tropez Comparison
I'm just a little obsessed with nude polishes and I figured it would be a great reference if I compared some of the most popular ones that I have. So today I have OPI My Vampire is Buff (it was just kinda there because I like the colour), OPI Samoan Sands, OPI Don't Pretzel My Buttons and Essie Sand Tropez.
I would say after comparing them, Samoan Sands is not quite a dupe of Don't Pretzel My Buttons. Samoan Sands is a little peachier while Don't Pretzel My Buttons leans a little more beige. For me, both polishes look really good on my skin tone so I would say with others that have the same skin colour, either one of the polishes should be suffice as an excellent nude polish. For these pictures I used three coats on all but for real life, you'll only need two coats for all of them except for Samoan Sands which is best at three coats.
I hope you found this post helpful! AND I swear I read all your comments and really appreciate all of them. I'm trying to install some other way to comment because I'm not a huge fan of the blogger comments which is why I haven't been replying. <3 you guys
<3 Jackie
June 2013 Ipsy Products and Review
I guess I've kinda spoiled the surprise with my header but I figure you'll see it all anyways so why hide it right? This time, there is an assortment of makeup from Ipsy, some I like other not so much. Without further ado... click read more!
Superman Nails
Labels:
butler please,
Essie,
hey sailor,
mellow yellow,
nail art,
nails,
Sally Hansen,
superman
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Quick post today! SUPERMAN! Here's my earlier post on how to do Superman nails in case you want to sport the Superman logo too. Honestly I think my excitement over Superman is really because I think the actor playing Supman is super-dashing ;) Good thing my boyfriend doesn't read this blog lol.
For this design I used Butler Please (Essie) as a base and Mellow Yellow (Sally Hansen) and Hey Sailor (China Glaze) for the details.
For this design I used Butler Please (Essie) as a base and Mellow Yellow (Sally Hansen) and Hey Sailor (China Glaze) for the details.
I'm quite enjoying these short and sweet posts. What about you? More pictures or less pictures?
<3 Jackie
June 2013 Topbox Products and Review
It's time for Topbox stuff! I have got to say, I am so impressed with this month's regular box.
Makeup tools and makeup galore! It looks like Topbox finally listened and created a box with only makeup stuff. Excited? Click Read More to see what I got! (Also if you're interested in the Ipsy bag, here's my post)
Polish Days: To Boldly Go - Star Trek Nails
Labels:
galaxy,
nail art,
nails,
polish days,
star trek,
to boldly go
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Polish Days again! I missed last month's and very nearly missed this month's too. Thank goodness for Bloglovin and everyone else who does an amazing job of posting on time. So the theme this month is To Boldly Go which encompasses the science fiction realm. In other words, a manicure that is super out of this world (witty no? no. That wasn't very good lol). In fact this also coincides really well with my conversation the other day with my coworkers. Keep in mind, in a startup of only eight people, I am probably their first ever female hire. So they are absolutely fascinated with my nails (very amusing because they're all boys) and they were suggesting all these nails that I could do and one of them was Star Trek nails. Perfect right?
So
I started with a base of Stone Cold (China Glaze Hunger Games) and then
sponged on a variety of metallic and shimmery polishes that I had. In
retrospect I completely forgot about dotting the stars... wups. Then I
free-handed the Star Trek symbol which was super easy.
I was experimenting a couple more poses and some different lighting which is why I tool a ridiculous number of photographs. In other news, can't wait to show my fellow co-workers the highly requested Star Trek nails. Funny how it's the guys who are more amazed by my nails than girls haha.
<3 Jackie
PS. Google Reader is going Kaput July 1st so if you want to keep following me, try Bloglovin (link up there on the sidebar) or Feedly or really whatever floats your boat.
PPS Check out the awesome other nails done for this month's Polish Days!
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