Update: Broadway Nails Gel Strong Ultra Violet

I'm a few days late on getting this up, but I did want to update y'all on the wear time of the Broadway Nails Gel Strong Polish.

I applied this polish on the 14th and I took this photo on the 18th. So about 5 days of wear, I'm thinking not too bad, because usually after about 2 days my nails are chipped bad. This only chipped in the areas where my nails were peeling, mostly on my thumb, other than that I only got tip wear for the most part.

Very happy with the wear time on this polish, but still kinda bummed about the drying time. I do think I will try another color and see if the drying time is any different with it.

Super short post, going to go enjoy the rest of my day off :)

Sinful Colors Thimbleberry

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Happy first day of April, I swear I feel like March just began and now it's gone! Anywho, today I have a springy nail look for you using Thimbleberry from Sinful Colors and some stamping plates from Born Pretty Store.

Let's take a closer look at the products I used; As mentioned above Thimbleberry from Sinful Colors, Black Heart from Sally Hansen, Iceberg from Avon's Gel Finish line, Born Pretty stamping plate BP-54, how cute are those little owls, and BP-50 I originally chose this plate because I really liked the heart pattern. You'll see below I used neither one of those images for this nail look.

When I was deciding what image(s) I wanted to use from these plates the flower in the center of BP-54 kept jumping out at me so I went with that one and attempted to make decals out of it. It worked really well, it was just very time consuming and the decal ended up being to big for my ring finger, but worked perfectly on my thumb. Next time I know to use a smaller image for decals! Once I got my flower decals made I found myself being drawn to the BP-50 plate by the leafy image on the top left, I thought leaves would tie in good with flowers, so I just went for it.

I'm quite please with the way it all came out, even the little hiccup I had with the decal being to big for my finger. I had thought about adding some Salon Perfect Cosmic Dust, but I didn't want to go overboard LOL

Have you ever made homemade decals from nail stamping plates?

The plates I used in this nail look are currently $2.99 on Born Pretty's website, you can save an additional 10% by using coupon code: SMBW10

Update on my job, I'm still loving it! It's more responsibility than I've ever had at a job and I was just kinda thrown into it. The last person that held that position said it took them 3 months before they were closing the store on their own, and I've only been there just a little over a week and was left to close the store on my own last night. I didn't have any major issues, so I'm gonna say it went pretty well ;) It helps to have such nice and helpful co-workers though!

Hope you all enjoy your day! Hope you are having some great spring weather!

Project 10 Pan Update: 1 Month

I can't beleive it has been a whole month since I started my Project 10 Pan, which I'm really considering just calling it, I want you out of my life, or using up what I've got lol.

Okay, so last month I picked out 10 products from my stash that I wanted to try and finish, first month did not go so well :(
Here were the items I selected:

1. Philosophy Vanilla Birthday Cake body wash: I only used this once during the past month, but I am determined to finish it off!
2. EOS Hand Cream: Finished!!!! Yay Me! :)
3. ELF Healthy Glow Bronzing Powder in Luminance: I have decided to remove this item from my Project 10 Pan. I honestly just do not like it anymore. I think I have like 2 or 3 more of these that have not even been opened 
4. Fresh Sugar Rose tinted lip treatment: I used this a lot while in my office blogging or whatever else I may have been doing in there.
5. ELF Golden Bronzer in Golden: I have also decided to remove this item from my Project 10 Pan, I feel like it is way to shimmery for me. I have gotten to where I don't like a lot of shimmer in my face products.
6. NYC Smooth skin primer: I have only used this a few times, again another product I am determined to finish up.
7. Maybelline One by One Volume Express Mascara: I have been using this every single day! This will be something that I repurchase, Love it.
8. Wet n Wild Megaslicks gloss in Strawberry Ice: Removed this item and #9 from my items. These are just too drying on my lips, probably why I did not finish them a long time ago. 
9. Wet n Wild Megaslicks gloss in Rose Gold: See above
10. Avon Ultra Luxury eye liner in dark brown: My favorite brown eyeliner! I have used this pretty much everyday as well.

So what will I be using to replace the four items that I took out of my Project 10 Pan, and the one item that I used up?
1. Milani illuminating face powder
2. Twilight Woods body lotion
3. Avon Vita Moist hand cream
4. ELF Luscious Liquid Lipstick in Pink Lemonade
5. ELF Luscious Liquid Lipstick in Caramel Candy

Below are some pictures of the 'new' products in their current state. I have also merged together the pictures of the products from last month with the pictures I took today to show how much or little they have been used.

Current State: I use this everyday :)

This is a little less than half empty. Should be able to use it up pretty quick

Almost gone!

I should be able to finish this up this month.

Hopefully you are able to see how much of this I used  during the month.

Current Sate. Not sure how long it will take to use these up.

I made a little dent in this product

I will be updating again on April 10th :)

Post #100 and an Update

Woo hoo for post number 100 on my blog! LOL :)

An now for an update as to why I have been MIA from my blog for so long. I started having some sinus issues around the middle of June and was put on antibiotics for a sinus infection and they did not help, so my doctor tried another kind and they did not work either. So since she could not figure out what was going on with me she referred me to an ear, nose, and throat doctor. Well My appointment was more than a week away and I started running a fever and coughing really bad, I ended up in the ER with pneumonia and a sinus infection. All of that was caused from a new blood pressure medicine that my doctor put me on around the middle of May, now I have to be put on something different, so I got to spend the majority of my summer sick. But I'm all better now and ready to get started blogging again :) I will be working on some posts over the weekend so keep you eyes opened for them. I'll have a hits and misses of my June Birchbox, August Birchbox first impressions, Some winner/gift mail, my recent empties and a few haul items.

MIA

I want to apologize for being MIA, this last week or so has just been crazy LOL! I started doing some transcription work at home to make a little extra money, then I pulled a muscle in my back, if you've never had that happen it hurts really, really bad :/ So I have had little time to blog, but I will be back next week with new posts! YAY! Since I'm trying to save up money to go to the beach in September I won't really have any hauls so, I think I will do reviews on some of the products that I have bought lately and possibly some nail tutorials :)

What have you been up to this past week?

Hope you have a great day!

It's Thursday

It's Thursday, but there will be no Avon haul today. I probably won't have another Avon haul until September. I'm trying to save up my money to take a trip to the beach with my best-friend :) So until then I think on Thursdays I'll do reviews on products that I have previously bought from Avon.

I hope you all are having a wonderful day!