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Mani Monday

Holy Glitters batman!
That was my thought when I first applied
the new China Glaze Prismatic :)
I'm sure I'm gonna be cursing when it's time to remove it but for now I'm absolutely in love with how shiny & glittery & blingy my nails are ;)

I also said I'd attempt to do an Effie trinket polish look BUT I didn't really like how it turned out so much on my toes, so I stamped over it with the flowers & I liked it a LOT better & my toes look extra sassy hahaha ;)

Its the start of my 3rd week for the Bikram 30 day challenge I joined that started April 1. I've lost 10 lbs. I cant believe it!....well actually I can....I sweat like massive buckets in that class but what I can't believe is that I survived past the 1st week it's a pretty proud accomplishment & I even got a yelp gym junkie badge out of it which was a badge I never thought I'd acquire hahaha ;)

Busy Monday today!
I hope you guys have a great week ;)
xoxo ivyPINK

April Birchbox 2012

I LOVE my April Birchbox!!!!

In fact this might be my favorite box so far!!! :)

(I forgot to take a pic with the wei face mask below)

These are the items in my box....

MicrodermaMitt Full size $28.50

I'm totally looking forward to trying this!!!

I visited their site & they said you dont have to use it with product

you just use it as is :)

Zoya polish in Bevin-$8.00

and Taylor Swifts Wonderstruck-1.7 oz. $49.50

WEI White Lotus Hydrating Face Treatment Pad-6 pack $68

I'm curious to try this face pad BUT I doubt that I'd ever really shell out

$68 for a pack of 6 I use asian face pads often but I definitely did not pay $68 for them

so I'd like to see the difference & how my skin feels afterwards :)

Out of all the stuff I've received from Birchbox one of my favorite brands

that I've tried through their samplers are items from Befine

I've purchased a FULL size of everything I've tried by Befine

& in this Sampler it came with a gentle cleanser & moisture duo-$24 each for full size

which I actually already both own & I LOVE the smell & how clean it feels afterwards.

I use the cleanser with my Clarisonic & it's great :)

I'm actually starting to pack for a vaca coming up in the next couple of weeks,

These sachets are great to bring with!

*If you are interested in receiving more info about Birchbox

or if you are interested & want to try Birchbox

Click HERE for a referral :)

That's all for now

xoxo ivyPINK

Flowery Nails

Ugh I swear I meant to post this for Mani Monday & next thing I know it's after midnight!!!! Where does time go?!?!

My favorite tree (theres 2 of them in front if my house) is in FULL Bloom!!! I'm kinda sad though because they use to bloom in PINK but now they are more white ;(
But, I still think they're pretty ;)
I was sorta inspired by them to do a cherry blossom-ish nails on my mom ;)
Normally I let her pick her colors but this time I surprised her & told her she had no say ;) she LOVED it!!! I free handed the branches & stamped the tiny white flowers & just dotted some pink dots.

On Saturday I went to a baby shower & I thought I was going to wear blue so I painted my nails blue BUT yeah no I wore pink so my nails didn't go at all ;( I don't usually have a problem with my polish peeling or anything but I don't know what happened one of my nails completely peeled off at the shower & then 2 more the next day!!! Luckily I took a pic of this for my friend (it was a quick pic so its not really a good one) So it was my mani for like a day! ;)

Anyway I hope you guys have a great day
I have to get back to my reading I'm totally sucked in to my new Succubus book I'm on the 2nd one now ;) hahaha

xoxo ivyPINK

Mani Monday PLL Inspired

Hi Hi Hi! This weeks mani was inspired by

Hanna's nails on Pretty Little Liars

The leopard print she has on is from the Sally Hansen Salon Effects

BUT I decided to stamp my leopard spots instead

 with the bundle monster 221 plate

I didn't do red though I wanted a springy bright color

The leopard print base is Rage by Orly

which is a pretty metallic rose gold color 

and the purple/fuchsia is Rich Raspberry from Revlon

Yesterday I went to see Hunger Games (LOVED it!!!!)

and I LOVED Effie's nails

did you see it? did you spot it?

Here's a close up

I want to do a similar look...

maybe in a couple weeks :)

I did however put my hair up in Katniss Everdeen

 inspired braid yesterday

It was an easy peasy version of it anyway

I hope you guys had a lovely weekend!

Happy Monday :)

xoxo ivyPINK

 

St. Pattys Day Nails

I just wanted to share my St. Pattys Day

Mani with you :)

 

I really LOVE these holographic 3D polishes from Milani

I LOVE how it applies & I LOVE all the colors! 

These are the polishes I used....

The Revlon polish is in color Bonsai
I stamped the clover with Zoya HOLLY

and I used this nail stamping plate

Easy peasy!

Hope you have  a great week!

xoxo ivyPINK

Americas Beauty Show Haul

Hey Guys :)

I just wanted to post this video really quick

I meant to post it yesterday but it took 4ever to upload!

So I went to Americas Beauty Show yesterday

and I just wanted to share the stuff I bought.

It's in 2 parts cuz it was too long!

* Here's the product lists*

Amika Obliphica Travel hair Dryer
Amika Nourishing hair Mask

Amika Shampoo

Amika Obliphca Oil Treatment

12 benefits rapid blowout spray

*this is the one I use by Kenra I love it

because it cuts my by blow dry time in 1/2 & it smells amazing!

This is the polish i have on for Mani Monday: China Glaze Foie Gras

Jenna applied the orly GelFX on my nails (suppose to last 2-3 weeks)
only took 30 seconds to set for each layer...base, polish & top coat

Orly Mini Kits  Happy Go Lucky & Pin up

Orly Mineral Effects-Rock the World, Rococo a go go & Rock It
Space Cadet, Rage & Luxe

Orly GelFX wipes

Dare to Wear by Le Chat

Colors: Smokin Diva, Stepin Out, Memaid,

Starlight, Twinkles, Amethyst Ice & Kiss the rain

City ready, Love Potion, Fools Gold, Solitary, Pop Artist & Pirouette

Pure Illumination Lip Gloss Party Girl Pink, Nude beach & Vixen

Nigel beauty Emporium
Z Pallete

Crown Brush

Hempz Lotion* My Fave scents are original & cucumber

Moraccan Oil

The West Brush

Bio Ionic Travel pro Hair Dryer

Tease Lip Stain

Essie Naill Polish Mint Candy Apple, Super Bossa Nova, Dive Bar,

 Mink Muffs, Sexy Divide & Loop Hole

 

xoxo ivyPINK 

Minty Mani Monday

Sorry for the late Mani Monday post

I was running late this morning & I didn't have time to type this up

BUT here's this weeks mani

It's looks like a "net" in this pic

BUT it's actually scallops

I used the RA-111 plate

Here's the polishes I used

(L-R) WNW I need a refresh-Mint

Spoiled Use Protection S046

(BTW spoiled polishes are 2 for $3 @ CVS this week)

OPI Alpine Snow

Sally Hansen Diamonds 120

(ALL Sally Hansen polishes are on sale B1G1 free @ Kmart this week)

I stamped with Sally Hansen Insta Dri in Emerald Express

 

I was really surprised by how ridiculously large

the brush was in the spoiled polishes

I did not like it all!

Here it is compared to what i consider a regular brush

 

It's thick & wide & not easy to use at all!

The WNW also has a wide brush

but it's not as thick as the spoiled brush

I just don't like either of these brushes

BUT I do love both of these polishes.

 

Also a nice find I found this week is this

Boots Rose cuticle oil

*I found it @ my Target on clearance for $2.38

(that's what made me try it)

What I like about this product

besides the rose scent, is that it doesn't feel super oily

after you apply it. It just kinda soaks in to your skin.

Another AMAZING find at TARGET......are you ready for this

GAH!!!! I found it :)

BUT....yeah there's a BUT.....

I didn't realize it was a fabric material

which makes it a little flimsy :(

It's a tiny bit too small for all my crap

(just means I have to bring less I suppose)

and I really do NOT like the magnetic closure!

BUT the print & color is even more adorable in person

I like that there's a few pockets inside :)

I'm pretty sure I'm going to keep it just cuz I'll prob regret it if I return it.

 

Other news that I'm happy about......

 

I FINALLY

FINALLY

FINALLY reached GOLD level Starbucks status

LOL it took flippin LONG enough :)

I'm so excited to recieve my GOLD card even though

I always use my Starbucks card iPhone app

The only thing I find annoying is that you have to "re qualify"

each year to stay in the gold status :(

Which means you have to purchase 30 drinks within a year

to stay GOLD doesn't sound like a lot or very hard I know...

BUT it's just the point that if you don't you lose your gold perks.

 

That's all for today

I'm leaving you with a pic of one of my lil BIG furballs Molly :)

xoxo ivyPINK

Nail Rack Success

Hi hi hi :) I just have a quick post.....

I received a couple emails this week

for sucess stories for the DIY Nail Rack

and I just wanted to share the pics with you guys :)

First up is my cute aunt who lives in Texas :)

(I've shared some of her manis here before)

She's a girly girl & loves floral this is how her rack turned out

Something I actually hadn't thought of

My aunt used wrapping paper to wrap her bars

in case you didn't have any tape & didn't want to go

out & purchase some she just used something she had on hand :)

Another great money saver since tape can run around $5-8

and I'm sure most of us already has a variety of wrapping paper at home.

This next rack is made by friend Julie

Long time polish fanatic, but 

the most recent person I introduced to nail stamping :)

I LOVE the zebra duct tape! Looks GREAT on white :)

For some reason I really like the white base better

than how the black looks I feel like it looks "cleaner"

If any of you made this DIY Nail Rack

share your pics with me I'd LOVE to see your finished projects :)

Have a wonderful Thursday

Thursday is one of my fave week nights cuz it's my TV night

I have shows on from 7pm-11pm lol :)

xoxo ivyPINK

Mani Monday & DIY Nail Rack

WOW this past week just zoomed by for me

I couldn't even keep my days straight!

Any how I hope you guys had a lovely weekend :)

My Mani this week is pretty much the same as last weeks

except I also used the snowflakes in the Konad M59 plate

I used Revlon Blue Lagoon, Zoya Ibiza & one of my fave

glitter polishes fr. China Glaze Snow Globe it REALLY

reminds me of snow it's just SO pretty :)

Now on to the "DIY" part :)

 I was searching online for a nail rack

because the drawers underneath my sink was just not

working out any more :(

I wanted something like THIS

but then I came across this DIY Rack YouTube video

(There's a TON of videos showing similar DIY's

BUT I loved this video the MOST because the directions was

 easy to understand & she showed the process fr start to finish)

I was totally inspired I pretty much had everything else

on hand already all I needed was the foam board

So, I went to the Dollar Tree & bought 3 for $1 each

I came home cut & taped the pieces

(took about...20-25 min)

I used this Mod tape fr Fancy That! in Black

because my bathroom color theme is Black/White/lavender

This is what it lookedlike when I finished hot gluing everything :)

I want to say it took me about an hour  or maybe a lil less

to complete everything :)

Here's what it looks like all filled up with pretty polishes :)

I'm kinda sad that it covers my butterfly decals :(

I haven't tried to remove it yet 

so I'm not sure if I can re stick it on again or not

BUT I'm happy with how it turned out

& how it looks in my bathroom :)

I made the shelves 1/2" wider than what was on the video

because I wanted 2 rows of polish instead of just 1

I'm contemplating on sticking another piece of foam 

in the center of each row for extra hold since

I still have some foam board left over anyway :)

For $3 I cant complain! I might have to make

another one for my scraproom to hold lil embellishments

or even ribbon rolls! The possibilities are endless Hahaha :)

Make it  great MONDAY!

xoxo ivyPINK

Mani Monday:Nicki Minaj Polish

Sorry I'm a lil late posting todays mani monday

I was pretty much out the whole day & just got home a lil bit ago

My nails are still drying as I hurriedly polished it for todays post ;)

This morning I bought the NICKI MINAJ polish minis

These are all the polish colors in her line

It'll probably be in stores this month :)

So for todays mani I used FLY & Save Me & china glaze For Audrey

I just LOVE FLY its such a pretty blue

For this mani I was thinking Jan=SNOW

so I used some snowflakes from the

 Red Angel RA-119 & Bundle Monster BM14 plate

on the mid finger I applied Save Me over Fly

which has some round micro silver glitter 

& some long holographic silver ones too :)

Really pretty I don't have any polish like this yet

but I don't think I will be purchasing the large bottle of it either.

I like to buy the minis 1st before I buy the large bottles

just to see how much I really "LOVE" the color on me :)

I dotted the pointer finger with For Audrey

& also the center of the white snowflakes :)

Happy Mani Monday!

xoxo ivyPINK