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.

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.