Julep Glam Roc

Today I have Jule's Glam Roc which is part of the February Julep Maven box subscription box. I had a really hard time narrowing down what colors I wanted this month so I ended up picking a box and then adding on two polishes. This month I went with the Bombshell box and added on the two Stardust Finish polishes: Cameron and Glam Roc. Stardust Finish is Julep's version of texture polish similar to Zoya Pixies and OPI Liquid Sands.

Glam Roc is a royal purple texture with tons of glitter and shine. It's almost a little Mardi Gras-ish with it's green, gold and pink micro glitter. The formula on this was super thick but still very easy to work with. That thickness made it almost a one coater! I did need two coats though to get it full opaque. If you have Zoya Chita I would say the formula is most like that one where it is just super thick but so perfect. I wish it was sunny here so I could properly show just how much shimmer this has in the light. I am going to attach a short video clip showing just how much sparkle this gives out. I am really impressed with my first Julep texture and hope the other one is just as great as this.

Julep is a monthly polish subscription that you can get for $19.99 a month. Most boxes have two polishes and some kind of product in makeup or beauty. They also have all polishes boxes and all product boxes. You can get your first month for free and just pay shipping with the code FREEBOX. If you are interested in finding out more about Julep or signing up I will post my referral link below.

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Red Coat Tuesday

Everyone has bad nail days and today was one of mine. It was like everything went wrong from painting to clean up to smudging a nail a few pics in so this was pretty much the best I got. It's a total fail but in the spirit of Pretty Little Liars I am just going to blame A. I used Zoya Blaze on on my fingers except my ring finger where I used Zoya Chyna. I used a french tip image from Bundle Monster plate 216 at the top of the nail using MASH stamping polish. On my ring finger I drew an A using a dotting tool and acrylic paint. It's definitely not my best but I am still happy that I tried.

Nail Art for Nubs Monday

I seriously have a love hate relationship with Mondays but this challenge is part of what makes me love Mondays. I always look forward to trying something new and check out the other great nails that the girls who participate come up with. Today I am keeping it simple and going with two of my favorite things: Hello Kitty and Cult Nails. I started with two coats of Cult Nails Nevermore on all my nails. I stamped on a Hello Kitty skull pattern on all my nails except the ring finger using Cult Nails Tempest and Fab Ur Nails FUN plate 9. For my accent nail I went with a skull and crossbones Hello Kitty. I know it is supposed to be the Hello Kitty equivalent of a pirate skull and crossbones emblem but all I see when I look at is is Nick Fury. Maybe it's just me though...either way I love it! I finished it all off with a coat of Seche Vite.

Sinful Colors Black Cherry

Today on the blog I have Sinful Colors Black Cherry. Black Cherry is a deep dark red that is so dark it basically looks black. It is probably the darkest a red can get without actually being black. The perfect vampy color! 

Formula on this polish was pretty good for a matte. You want to make sure to let it dry a bit between coats because dragging was a bit of a problem on the second coat at the top of the nail near the cuticle. It was an easily fixed problem but I needed three coats total because of this. I was happy that I didn't have any problem with streaking and brush stokes like some other matte polishes. 

A friend of mine was kind enough to RAOK this polish to me because it was a Rite-aid exclusive polish. But...yesterday when I was at Walgreens I spotted it in a new display so keep checking any stores near you that carry Sinful Colors. 

Red Coat Tuesday

So even though I am really far behind on Pretty Little Liars and really need to catch up, I thought I would still participate in Red Coat Tuesday. Just for the fun of it! Well, I'm also a huge PLL fan too! I started off with two coats of Zoya Sooki which is one of my favorite reds ever. It's so easy to work with and has a fantastic formula. I decided to add a little kiss and some leopard print with black so I used MASH stamping polish and Bundle Monster plates 221 and 303. I topped it all off with a layer of Seche Vite. Besides inspiring me to paint my nails today I think this is inspiring me to really catch up. I feel a PLL marathon coming on this weekend!

Nail Art for Nubs Monday

So sorry for the almost week long absence but it was my birthday last week so I kinda took a lazy week. Well not super lazy I worked a ton but I tried to relax and just spend time with my family which was really nice. So today I am just keeping it super simple for the nubs challenge. I started with two coats of Sinful Colors Pistache and then stamped some cute gators using MJ plate XII and Zoya Hunter. I finished with one coat of Seche Vite. Please  make sure to check out the rest of the amazing ladies participating in the challenge!!

Turquoise-ish

So this was a major fail but I thought why not go ahead an share it anyways. I wanted to create something that resembled turquoise but fell a little short. I started with two coats of Essie In the Cab-ana and then did one coat of Sephora by OPI It's Real 18K gold topcoat. That didn't have large flakes like I had hoped so I continued on. I did stamping with Pueen plate 45 to try to get a pattern like you would see on turquoise stone and it was close enough. Next I used a dotting tool to add little spots of Maybelline Bold Gold in random spots. I definitely want to try again sometime to actually get what's in my head onto the nail. It's not what I wanted but I'm not disappointed either. It was a good attempt and I learned alot from it. This mani was inspired by a Pinterest pin found HERE.