Julep Diamond Mystery Box

So, it was a tough week, at school, it always is, and my district, is one of the only nearby districts that doesn't have the entire week off next week, and my students are done, and I'm done, therefore it was nice, when I came home to find I had a package, and got this at the office:

My first thought was: "Damn that box is huge."

This was the view from inside the box.

Sorin [my black and white kitty] was pretty curious about what was inside the box.

The Diamond Mystery Box was my first Mystery Box. I just got one out of curiosity since the big seller was the glittery topcoat nailpolish that sparkled like diamonds, and I like things that sparkle. For my add ons, I just picked a mystery gift because I like surprises.

My surprises included all this:

Julep Doublestep Foot Treatment, Pink Grapefruit Body Frosting [which the name totally reminds me of when my best friend in high school gave me edible chocolate body frosting for a birthday], A black thing that I have no idea what the hell it is, and Moisture Masks for the hands, feet, and nails, which sound interesting.

I also got all these polishes:

from L to R: Fireworks, Adele, Lois, Ally, Coco, and Babara.

Fireworks is very fourth of July, hence the name fireworks. It's a patriotic glitter polish, which I think will go perfectly with my habit of wearing nailpolish at school to support holidays [like Memorial Day] or just nailpolish in general that seems color appropriate for holidays.

Adela is a glittery gold shimmer color. I approve.

Lois is a shimmery glittery pink neutral color, it's perfect for just any day sort of wear. I approve.

Ally is a bright blue color with a purple shimmer. I happen to really like bright colors, so that works for me.

Coco is a dark brownish red color. It's not really my sort of color. It's not a bad color, it just won't get much wear, if any, perhaps I can gift it to a friend.

I'm excited about Barbara because I had it once, and I loved it, but then in the great nailpolish catastrophe of 2013, it got shattered and broke, so I'm glad they sent it back to me,. It's dark glittery purple with a pink sheen.

Inside of the diamond mystery box were these:

from l to r: Candace, Antonia, Lucy, Eva, Karen, Geo, and Karmen.

I got two repeats: Karen and Carmen, but both are colors that I really love, so I don't really mind having a few extra bottles around, either for myself, or to gift.

Candace is a dark bronze glitter color, I like it because it's sort of a neutral glittery color that can be worn for a lot of occasions.

Antonia and Geo were the diamond colors they promised in each box. One is a pink holographic glitter and the other is a light blue/purple holographic glitter, They're both very pretty.

Lucy is a dark brown color with a hint of red, which will not get worn by me at all because it isn't colorful enough, but perhaps I can gift it to somebody.

Eva is bright pink and I love it. I love love love bright pink polishes!

I gave the rock candy to my fiance, he enjoyed it.

So, no diamond studs from my end, but that's okay, I'm really not much of an earring persin anyways.

However, I got seven polishes, and each retails at about $14.00, so that's $98.00, which is three times what I paid for the box, I got well over what I paid.

My opinion of Mystery Boxes is that they're pretty cool. I don't know if I would buy them all the time, unless it was a theme I enjoyed like Halloween, Glitter, or Christmas, but I do think it was a good investment. I would buy one again.

Now I can't wait for my December Box, I totally upgraded and used my Julep points to get every single color :)

Julep: Holiday Sale

October through January is such a bad time for my wallet. I just love sparkly glitter nailpolish colors and makeup, which is why, when Julep had a holiday sale, my wallet was sad.

So, after I came home, from a long day of crazy pre-k students, who are totally burnt out, and probably just as eager for Thanksgiving break as their teacher, I was ecstatic to discover a package for myself.

I will say this about Julep, they NEVER EVER notify you when your stuff is shipped, so I never know when it's actually going to show up, this came within a week.

It's bigger on the inside.

From L to R: Daria, Char, Angela, and Karmen.

Daria is a dark blue grayish color that's a bit more blue than gray. It's about the same color as my eyes, to be honest, which makes me think, it'll be a great color to wear.

Char is a bright blue color, it's the color the polo shirt I wore to school today. I like it because it's blue and bold and bright.

Angela is a shimmery greenish turquoise color, and I cannot wait to wear it.

Karmen is an example of a red nailpolish color I like. It's red, but it's glittery and shimmery. It's absolutely perfect for the Christmas holidays.

Julep had this deal, last week or so, where you spent like thirty or so dollars, and you got the holiday glam set [a 72 dollar value] for free. I like free, so I gave in.

From L to R: Anisa and Oscar.

Anisa is very red. It's a dark red than Sheila though, and not the color of a fire hydrant, so it has the potential to be worn. Oscar is gold glitter.The two of them combined, would make a lovely Christmas nail color.

An eyeliner pencil sharpener, which is awesome, a brown shimmer/carbon black eyeliner combination pencil, and Daring lip gloss.

I'm excited about the eyeliner, I love eyeliner. Eyeliner is basically the only daily makeup I wear. In college, I would beg my friends, who actually, knew how to put on makeup, to put black eyeliner on my eyes, so I looked goth.

Therefore, any new eyeliner is fun and exciting for me.

I'm not sure how I feel about Daring. It's very red. I don't really wear red, let alone lip color that is red, so I'll have to try it on, and see if it's as red as it looks before I pass judgment.

But overall, I'm very satisfied with the holiday glam set because I love the nailpolish, eyeliner, and sharpener. That's 75% satisfaction, at least, possibly more after I try on the lip gloss.

The eyes aglow set has five mini eyeliners. From l to r: violet shimmer, black shimmer, teal shimmer, charcoal shimmer, and bronze shimmer.

I haven't worn them yet, but I like them. They have the crayon-like tip that I enjoy so much from Urban Decay's 24/7 eyeliner, which is my go-to eyeliner. They're also slightly shimmery and glittery, and I like the variety of colors. Unfortunately, unlike 24/7, I don't think they're waterproof, but that's fine. I think I'll try to wear one to school tomorrow and see how they look.

The Little Lights nailpolish: Jameson, Colbie, Ivy, Paris.

Jameson isn't glittery or shimmery like the other three. It's a very dark blood red color, almost brown. I'm not sure I'd wear that one.

Colbie is green and silver glitter. Perfect for the holidays :)

Ivy is glitter blue, but the glitter is woven into the nailpolish, so it's a solid glitter color, not like a top-coat. I like it a lot and it will definitely be worn a lot.

Paris reminds me the electromeganetic spectrum. It's big silver white glitter, with all the other colors in glitter form mixed in. Another great holiday color... AND IT'S SO SPARKLY!

So overall, I am quite satisfied with my holiday store purchases.

My wallet may be sad, but I am glad.

Nailpolish Writeup

Since fiance and I are really attempting to reorganize our apartment that we moved into in August, and make it less of a trap, I reluctantly went through my nailpolish collection today.

Mind you, I moved here from NJ in August 2012, and mu nailpolish collection experiences some casualties along the way such as a bottle exploding, but due to my personal and freakish attachment to all the possessions I brought from NJ to Texas, I refused to get rid of them.... UNTIL TODAY

So I thought since this is mainly a nailpolish blog, I'd post the colors that survived the nailpolish genocide of 2013, and write about them:

This is most of my Julep collection. I've been subscribing since March 2013, and I will admit, I did not get about three of my boxes. All due to a fault of my own. After a tonsillectomy, I managed to leave my debit card in an ATM machine, and I had to get a new one, and forgot to change the original debit card to the new debit card, so I never received my April box.

Then, we moved from downtown Houston to another town in Texas, and I forgot to change the address on my Julep account, so I'm pretty sure the new tenant in my old apartment stole my September and October boxes, luckily, that's fixed, so no random person will be getting my awesome nail-polishes anymore. I suppose I could call customer service, but that just seems like too much of a hassle :/

Anyhow from L to R: Sylvia, Martha, Claire's sun changing nailpolish [not Julep], Jane, Veronica, Portia, Alaina, Meryl, Kennedy, and Cassie.

Sylvia is a gorgeous purple color. It's like a deep but light, almost blue but purple, almost the color of a violet, and it's pretty. It looked really good on my nails. I really liked this color.

Martha is a pastel pink color. It looks very pretty. It's very much a summer color for me. Once I got a little bit of color myself, from tanning and reading my kindle, at the pool, it looked great with the tan.

Claire's Sun-Changing polish is awesome. I bought it on a whim and painted my toenails with it, over the summer. It would be silver when I was in the apartment, and then at the pool, it would turn bright purple glitter and it was amazing. It also goes on thick, and I only needed one layer, usually I needed multiple layers of glitter polish. But it's such a fun summer glitter polish.

I like to highlight a nail with Jane, I'll paint all my nails, but one on each hand, a nice neutral color, usually a gray, and then I'll paint one toenail with this glitter polish and it looks really cool. My first graders, last year, gave me a lot of compliments, when I wore my nails like that last year.

Veronica reminds me of strawberry ice cream. I love strawberry ice cream. To me, it's a nice dark pink color that's perfect for around February or in early fall, when you don't want to say goodbye to summer.... not that summer ever goes away in Texas because it's a darker color, but it's still summer-like, if that makes sense.

Portia is pretty. It's basically like glitter paste though. It takes a layer or two to go on, but then it also comes off easily, and it's nice tough enough if your very hands on every day, like a teacher is, but it's a cool sparkly color.

Alaina is a gray with a slight hint of purple. It pairs very nicely with Jane.

Meryl is a gray color. It's a medium gray color. I like it because I like painting my nails colors like gray and black, but it's sort of boring.

I did not like Kennedy, it's a yellow-gray color and I just thought it looked horrible on my nails. It's too yellow, and it looks like nail-polish faded and rotted on my fingers. This is one of the colors that I got from Julep that I really did not like and will probably never wear again unless I want my nails to look like Jaundiced skin.

Cassie is a fun color. It's like a peachy pink color. It's perfect to wear for work, or to wear to Schillterbahn like I did over the summer on vacation. It's very much a beachy and fun color to me.

From L to R:  [all Sinful colors unless noted] Pink Forever, Glass Pink, Cream Pink, Mermaid to Order [Sephora], I Miss You, and Out of This World

You can see evidence from the Great Nailpolish Explosion of 2012 in this picture.

Pink Forever is a light pink color. It's a fun color, I've worn it before.

Glass Pink is a shimmery and sparkly pink. You can't really see it in this picture, but it's a very pale pink color with pale glitter in it. It's one of my favorite winter colors because it's light enough and sparkly enough that it sort of reminds me of snow.

Cream Pink is neon pink. It's a perfect fun and neon color. I wear this one a lot.

Mermaid to Order is from Sephora. It's a turquoise color that's more green than blue and sort of reminds you of water. I like it because it brings out my eyes. I don't wear it as much as I used to, but it was always one of my go to fun colors.

I Miss You is purple glitter. It's another one of those colors that I like to pair with another color, usually a neutral gray or a black color and highlight a nail or two with the glitter. It is a pain, however, to get off your fingers, so I recommend an undercoat of some sort. It makes removal, a lot easier.

Out of This World is a silver glitter color. I like it, but it does go on pale, so I tend to need 2-3 coats for the color to show, but it's a perfect winter color because it's a shimmery white gray, and I love glittery and silver polish.

from L to R [all sinful colors unless noted] Under 18, Run with It! [Sephora], 24/7, Secret Admirer, Forget Now, and Frenzy.

Under 18 is one of the only red nailpolish colors I like. It's a shimmery red, so it's red with red glitter in it, it's not an over the top red, like other polishes. It's one of my favorite colors to wear around Christmas because it is glittery.

Run with It! by Sephora is okay. The nailpolish, itself, is very thin, so it takes a lot of coats to actually get the color to show, there are much better silver polishes, for half the price.

24/7 is another neon pink color, but it's a pastel neon pink color.

Secret Admirer is one of my favorite black colors. It's a black color, but it has silver glitter in it, it's almost like oil slick eyeliner by Urban Decay in nailpolish form and I love it.

Forget now is a shimmery dark pink color. It's really pretty. It's like a deep pink and it shimmers and has glitter, it's one of my favorite nailpolish colors.

Frenzy I bought just because it reminds me of the Cheshire Cat's colors from Disney's Alice in Wonderland because it's purple, pink, and blue glitter. It's a really fun color, but it takes a lot of coats for the color to actually stay on your nails, and then once you get it on your nails, it's fragile and it smears and comes off easily.

from L to R [all sinful colors] Bali Mist, Tapping Nails, San Francisco, You Just Wait, Let's Talk, and Big Daddy.

Bali Mist is a pretty light purple pink color. I like it, it gets worn.

Tapping Nails is usually my go-to Thanksgiving color.  It's a dark shimmery orange with yellow glitter, and it's one of my favorite colors, and I usually don't like things that are orange due to an ex-boyfriend, who OBSESSIVELY wore an orange Old Navy Performance fleece, but I love this color.

San Francisco is just a dark green color. Nothing special, but a good shade of green for St. Patty's Day, or an occasion like that.

You Just Wait is a shimmery yellow-pink color, it's like a pale pink color with shimmers of yellow.

Let's Talk is dark royal purple.

Big Daddy is a dark neon orange color. It's a good Halloween color.

From L to R: Ocean Love Potion [Sephora], and Sinful Colors: Love Nails, Mint Apple, Purple Diamond, and HD Nails.

I'd just like to point out that Ocean Love Potion [from Sephora] and Mint Apple are the same color, only the Sephora version cost almost triple the Sinful Nails version. They're a greenish aqua color. The Sephora one is more matte, and the Sinful nails version is more shimmery, I personally like the Sinful nails version better.

Love Nails is a dark turquoise  color. It's shimmery and it's a really fun color. It's also really bright.

Purple Diamond is a glitter light purple color, but the glitter is blended into the polish, so it's not a glitter polish. It goes on very nicely, and it's a very pretty shade of purple.

HD Nails is a dark green color, but it's not as dark as San Francisco, it's probably a shade or two lighter.

from L to R: Fancy Schmancy [Sephora], O Canada [Julep], All About You [Sinful Nails], and Going Platinum & Heels of Steel [Fergie for Wet and Wild]

Fancy Schmancy is very pale silver color. It's slightly glittery. But it goes on very pale and takes a lot of layers to show on your nails. That's my big complaint about it.

O Canda is a glittery smorgasbord from Julep. The polish is like white glue with balls of gold, blue, and red glitter in the glue. It's most of a color that you would layer on top of another color and not wear alone.

All About You is gold glitter. I like to wear it on top of one of my green colors from above, so they're sort of green glittery Christmas nails and that always looks pretty awesome. Sometimes I color my nails red and green, and top them with the gold glitter. It's a fun holiday color.

Going Platnium is a great silver color for like $1.99. It's a silver sparkle polish but it's polish, not glitter, so it glides on nicely and it gives your nails a very blingy platinum look. It's really fun for holidays, especially around Christmas time.

Heels of Steel is a dark gray/black glitter polish, as well. It goes on nicely, and gives your nails a nice and sparkly look.


And that concludes my current nailpolish collection.

My earring fetish, part one:

It all started last year, when I taught first grade, I got into the habit of wearing holiday themed earrings for the holidays. I had always had a nice collection of skull earrings that I liked to frequent for Halloween, and in school, during the holidays, I got away with it, so then I decided to stock up on all holiday themed earrings. I love wearing them, and my students love them, they're always curious about what I'll be wearing for what holiday.
They're always full of cute little compliments.

This is a small sample of my Halloween earrings. I've got candy corn, a pirate Jack O'Lantern, a glittery Trick or Treat, a collection of skulls, and colorful glittery spider earrings. I seem to get the most compliments on the skull and spider earrings.

Today, in a search for Thanksgiving themed earrings, I wound up with these:

I figure they can represent Turkey Feathers, especially since I keep reading my students the story of "Timmy the Turkey", who keeps on dying his feathers different colors to try to please other animals, but he pleases nobody, than he dyes his feathers all different colors and becomes the most beautiful Turkey of them all.

And then I picked up some Christmas/winter themed earrings for the upcoming month.

Most of them are dangly and glitter, and they were buy one and get some 50% off :) I can't wait to wear them because I know my students will love them. We've got Santa, stockings, snowflakes, and snowmen :)

I also picked these up:

because Gummy Bears are Legit.

And holiday scented "Happy Chappy" to bribe my students with, who can resist? We've got Caramel Apple, Gingerbread, Xmas Cookie, Candy Cane, Spearmint, and Hot Apple Cider.

I JUST LOVE HOLIDAY EARRINGS!

I just buy them mostly at Claires, they're pretty cheap there, they're the most over the top ones, which I like, also glittery. They usually have pretty good deals too... like buy one, get another 50% off, or buy two earrings get one free. But I've seen holiday themed earrings at Walgreens, where I got my Christmas Tree and Penguin earrings, I've spotted them at Walmart, and Target, so they're everywhere :)

And they sort of make teaching more fun, for both me and the students :)

Happy Chappy

I did say this was a teaching and glitter blog, right?

Let me introduce you to the best frakkin thing I've ever done in pre-k, and yes it sort of involves makeup.

This is Happy Chappy, I saw this at a training, this year, so I can't exactly take credit for its discovery, but it's amazing!

Every time my pre-k students behave themselves, whether it's at workstations or at circle time, I take one of the Bonnie Bell lip smacker flavors, dot it on their hand, and say they made me happy and this is "happy chappy."

They love it. They sniff it, they try to guess the flavor, and they love happy chappy so much that they want to behave, especially since they never know what flavor I'll give them.

Pre-K students are also gullible, so when I lie and say watermelon is gummy bear flavor or vanilla is cupcake flavor, they totally believe me, so even though I don't have unlimited flavors, I do have a creative imagination.

My class has crazy students, and happy chappy even works for my behavior problem children.

It's the best reward/motivation I have ever discovered.

Try it, you won't regret it, and you can get Bonnie Bell, or even any other flavored lip gloss for kids- Hello Kitty, etc- at any place really, Target, Walmart, a drug store, the supermarket, etc, and it's pretty cheap and will last you awhile since you're not exactly wearing it.

I've also discovered if I go "time to stop, hands on top", no matter what my students are doing, they'll stop it and put their hands on their head and listen to me.

And on an unrelated note, one of my students today, felt my hair, and told me "Your hair is so beautiful, it's long, and it's smooth like a baby's bottom", while I question the origin of that comment, it's another point for Deva and the wonderful things it does for my unruly crazy curly hair.

October Birchbox

First of all, with Birchbox, it's a seriously a hit or miss sort of deal. I've been getting Birchbox since August, and some of the stuff I've gotten was great, other of it was meh, which brings me to my October box:

Most of this box was meh. I enjoyed the chapstick because you can always use chapstick, but I wasn't impressed with the lipstain, it reminded me of strawberry jello. I was indifferent about the other products, HOWEVER, I NEED TO RAVE ABOUT DEVA CURL.

I have CRAZY UNRULY CURLY HAIR AND I HATE IT. It frizzes, it never looks good down, I feel like it looks like a fro, and I've done so much in my life to try to fix my awful hair such as bleach it, dye it, Brazilian blowout it, and use keratin treatment on it. They were all temporary fixes.

I had heard about Deva, but I'm cheap, and didn't want to spend money on something I had never tried. So I was super excited when birchbox decided I should get a sample of their three-step curly hair treatment.

I tried the sample before fiance and I went to the Texas Renaissance Faire. Texas is hot and humid, and the Renaissance faire is all outdoors, so it was the perfect chance to prove it's worth.

It was amazing. It was a hot and sunny day, and my hair stayed perfect curled and bouncy until I got sweaty and threw it in a ponytail. I took a cute picture of my fiance and me, and I got tons of compliments when I posted in on facebook about how awesome my hair was.

I gave it a second try when I went to the aforementioned rock concert with my fiance. It was an outdoor festival, tons of people, tons of jumping up and down, and tons of body sweat. My hair stayed wonderful, and again, I took a picture because I'm desperately in need of cute couple pictures for my Holiday card I haven't made yet, and got more compliments on my hair.

Then I gave it a third try [the sample was huge] when I went to a professional development with co-workers, who had never seen my hair down [I rock the messy bun look], and they started playing with my hair and telling me how great it looked down and how it was like Barbie hair.

SOLD.

I bought the full-size trip of shampoo, conditioner, and gel. I'm not a fan of the smell of the shampoo or conditioner, they're not bad, I just don't like them, but I LOVE THE SMELL OF THE GEL, IT'S LIKE GREEN APPLE JOLLY RANCHERS.

I wore my hair down today, the first time all year, and we've been in school since August, and my students told me I looked like a princess.

Totally worth the fifty bucks I spent, a lot cheaper than a keratin treatment, and photo friendly. If you have crazy curly hair that you can't stand and do anything and everything in your power to get rid of it, TRY THESE PRODUCTS, YOU WILL NOT REGRET IT.
[and here's a nifty link to it: http://www.birchbox.com/shop/devacurl-3-step-system/

Julep: November Box

According to Julep, my style profile is "Classic with a Twist", while I'm not sure I agree with that because I tend to like big and bold colors, which really isn't "classic with a twist", I've been pretty satisfied with what I've gotten, so I haven't bothered to change it.

In my November box was the following:

From L to R: Glowing lip gloss, Zora, Cynthia, and Sheila.

Let's preface this by saying, I am not a makeup person. My makeup routine consists of eyeliner and lots of mascara, I scarcely ever wear lip gloss, and I hate lip stick. Therefore, I was like meh when I got the lip gloss.

However, I figured I'd give it a try, my fiance and I went to a rock concert in the Woodlands, and I put on the lip gloss. I was very happy with it. Glowing isn't pink at all, which is good because I hate pink. It's basically neutral and it just made my lips glow, hence it's title. It tasted like toasted marshmallow, which is a definite plus, and it lasted awhile. I didn't need to reapply it, at all, so I recommend it.

Zora is the color of pearls and it's shimmery, it sort of reminds me of snow with a hint of pink. I haven't worn it yet, but I wouldn't say that I wouldn't wear it.

I wore Cynthia last week. My pre-k students like it. It's a golden glitter, it reminds me of sand on the beach. The glitter isn't overwhelming like HOLY BLING, but it's glittery enough to make this glitter freak happy. It goes on nicely, and it has a nice texture. It does chip easily though, but I'm a pre-k teacher and I'm a klutz, so that may be no fault of the nailpolish, it just might be me.

Sheila is bright bright red. It reminds me of bright red lipstick. It also reminds me of a fire hydrant. It would be the perfect shade of red to illustrate what red is to pre-k students. However, it's too red and too bright for me and will probably be shoved in a drawer somewhere, or given to a friend, who can appreciate it's redness. Nothing against it personally, it's just not my personal style.

So overall, I was happy with my November box. I truly enjoyed 50% of the products in it, am indifferent about 25% of them, and meh about the remaining 25%, but that's pretty much 75% satisfaction.

Looking forward to my December box and all the random December stuff I bought off of the December holiday sale, so I should hopefully have more  reviews for you then.

Julep: Halloween Secret Store

First, of all, let me preface this by saying, I LOVE HALLOWEEN, AND I LOVE FALL!!! Unfortunately, living in Texas, there's NO SUCH THING as fall.

But anyhow, if I'm going to blow my money on makeup at any time during the year it's from Halloween to Christmas because those holidays are my favorite time of year. I love the colors, I love the sparkles!!! I especially love Halloween, I have a million pairs of Halloween earrings, and I literally wear them up to Halloween, which my pre-k students love.

So needless to say, the October secret store, got me excited!

I forget the name of the packages I spent all my money on, but here's the nail polish colors I indulged on:

from left to right: Glenda [a silver cackle], Tracy, Karen, Amity, and Cleopatra.

Glenda, is your typical silver cackle, I admit, I haven't tried it yet. I've never actually done cackle nail polish before, I used to have a bottle of black cackle, but en route from NJ to Texas, the bottle had an unfortunate accident in my car, but I definitely like silver better than black.

Tracy reminds me of Van Gogh's Starry Night. The picture doesn't do it justice. It's a deep blue color with glitter. It goes on nice and thick, and reminds me of stars in the sky, not that you really see many stars in Texas.

I LOVE KAREN, I painted my nails with it this week, and one of my pre-k students told me that it looked like pumpkin pie. It's a nice smooth, pumpkin colored nailpolish. It's also thick enough that I needed only one coat. My pre-k kids love it, therefore it gets two thumbs up, a pat on the back, and a stamp of approval.

I wrote Amity about two weeks ago. It's a pale silver white color. The color is so light that it took me several coatings to even see the color on my nails. I love silver, but there are better silver polishes to use that I don't need to use one hundred coats of it to show.

I have not tried Cleopatra, but the black latex intrigues me. Perhaps I should try that with Glenda. I do love black nailpolish, and considering it's called black latex, I'm sure it's a very thick black nailpolish. I shall let you know when I try it.

With one of my nailpolish packages, I got this:

A silk skull scarf. I've tried it on, it will be a nice accessory for a Halloween outfit I can wear to school next year.

and this:

Halloween nail decals. Mind you, I am way to lazy to actually figure out how to put these my nails. I spent all day chasing four year olds, when it comes to being home, I want to do nothing that involves using my brain such as figuring out how to use nail decals. But they are very cute.

This was one of my add-ons:

A pomegranate sugar scrub. I love sugar scrubs. This one smells very nice. But it doesn't meet my sugar scrub expectations. The sugar itself, isn't thick enough, and it doesn't blend well on wet skin in the shower, and it doesn't leave my skin silky like the Victoria's Secret or Philosophy ones do, but it was only three bucks, and I do like the smell.

On the Halloween nailpolish note, I picked these up for 99 cents with my Walgreens card:

First of all, I LOVE SINFUL COLORS, they're only two bucks, and I find their nail polish is better quality than some of the more expensive stuff like Sephora brand. I have almost every color of theirs, and I always buy colors I don't have.

From l to r: Call You Later, Faceted, Black Magic, Glow in the Dark, and Citrine.

I've tried Black Magic on my toes. I didn't really like it. It's supposed to be black with orange sparkles, but I found the orange sparkles got lost in translation from the bottle to my toes, and it was mostly black and not very glittery, which is a sad face :( It's also very hard to get off your toes!

I used Glow in the Dark on the dollar  skeleton gloves I bought from Kroger to make the bones glow in the dark, and it worked beautifully, and my pre-k students thought that was the coolest thing ever.

I currently have Citrine on my toes and I love it. It's bright and screams fall to me and reminds me of foliage in NJ and pumpkins. It also goes on smoothly, and I found I only needed one coat of it.

I'll let you know about the others when I try them.

Welcome to my Glitter Obsession

As a pre-k teacher, my life can be very stressful. So, really there is nothing better than coming home from a long day in the classroom, and finding a package addressed to myself. There's also the fact that I am OBSESSED with glitter... Glitter nailpolish, glitter eyeliner, I love it all.

That's how I got into subscribing to Julep, which is mainly a nailpolish company, but they have other makeup products too. Basically, for twenty bucks a month [although you can get your first box for free], based on a style quiz, which may or may not be accurate, they send you a box full of product a month.

That's also how I got into Birchbox, which is genuinely the same thing, but Birchbox has more products they send you. It's the same basic thing though, you pay twenty bucks, and you get a box of makeup and such that's hand-picked for you.

Anyhow, I'm going to use this blog to review products I get.

So, hope you enjoy it.