Bundle Monster Peacock Clutch and Nails

This item was sponsored to me by Bundle Monster in exchange for my honest review.

Hello everyone, I know its been a while again, but I have been painting and photographing the whole time.  Honestly its taking me a while to adjust to managing my new job and writing posts.  Its nice to be back and to share what I have been up to!  Today is going to be a first for me.  I saw a while back on Bundle Monster's Facebook page that they were looking for people to do reviews on products.  I sent an email and was sent a lovely Clutch.  The exact title for it is Women's Rhinestone Peacock Clasp Velvet Evening Clutch Handbag.  I like to call it the Peacock Clutch, its a bit shorter.  :)  I did paint my nails for this clutch, and will get to them after I discuss the clutch!

First off I would like to say how impressed I was with the packaging of this clutch.  It was very well protected through its journey to me.  The clutch I am discussing today is a small velvet clutch with a peacock covered in rhinestones.  It comes in 6 different colors, I chose Boastful Beige which is a nice light tan color.  I liked the idea of a color that would go with anything.  The clutch is very soft, and the peacock part actually lifts up to let you inside.  It has plenty roomy for me, I always travel pretty light when going out.  I had my I.D. and debit card, a large rollerball perfume, lip stick, and my Iphone 5 all in there with more room to spare.  The clutch has three carrying options; no chain, long chain, short chain.  I chose no chain.  At first I did think it might be a little difficult to get my hand inside under the peacock, but once I did it a few times it was no problem to easily get in and out of the clutch.  Overall it is an awesome little clutch and it fetched many complements!  Now on to the matching nails!

I knew instantly that I wanted to do something inspired by the clutch with my nails.  Then I immediately thought of my Bundle Monster stamping plates!  I decided to pull 4 colors from the peacocks feathers to use on my nails, and then used BM-212 to stamp feathers on.  The colors I used were Color Club Get A Clue, Julep Annie, Julep January, Julep Mackenzie, and Maybeline Bold Gold.  I really love how well the polish colors match the peacock feather colors on the clutch.  This was my first big scale success with stamping.  I recently bought an XL sticky stamper and used it for the fist time yesterday.  After much trial, error, and almost tears, I finally got the right method for stamping.  I found that the swiper and stamper do not need as much pressure when contacting the image plate.  Over all I am excited with how well the stamping came out and am in love with my new Peacock clutch!

This item was sponsored to me by Bundle Monster in exchange for my honest review.

Julep Maven Box-April

Hi everyone!  I'm so excited because I can say "Hi everyone" and there is actually a "everyone" now!  Thanks to a couple new followers, 17 to be exact!  Im so excited to be finally connecting with others who enjoy nail polish as much as I do, this is all thanks to many helpful ladies in a couple Facebook groups I am in.  Side note; this is a bit of a lengthy post, but I had a lot to say!

So, I have been a Julep Maven for a while now, I started sometime around summer of last year.  The first two polishes I got were Mischa and Georgia, I remember this because my Mischa came broken!  The awesome people at Julep immediately replaced the polish, with ANOTHER broken bottle!  Crazy, I know!  Julep once again replace my Mischa and finally the third one was the charm!  Ever since then I have been eagerly awaiting for my Maven box to arrive in the mail every month!  There have been a couple skipped boxes, and one golden box, but I have never blogged about my box.  I always think about blogging about it, and then when it comes in the mail I tear into my box and immediately think, "Dang!  I forgot to take photos before ripping into it," sometimes I try to repackage everything to get some photos.  Ultimately it never works, and I always say "Next time."  Well, I finally remembered to hold my horses before tearing into the box like a wild banshee!

This month I went with the Boho Glam box which came with Kaylen and Lena, and I added on Abbie and Mackenzie.   I have never ordered the whole collection, and this time I had pretty much decided to be bad and do it, but alas everyone else had decided to do the same thing and it was sold out!  Oh well, I will get the rest eventually I suppose.  I thought it would be fun to do something using all 4 of the polishes, so I did a simple half/half design using the ones that came in the Boho box together and the ones that I added on together.  All of the polishes were great, however I noticed that when Kaylen dried it had this matte plastic-y look to it.  I actually kind of like it, but don't think its supposed to do that...I have had one other polish do this before too, but with a little top coat every thing is cool!  I knew it would be easy to layer Mackenzie over Abbie, but was wondering about Lena going over Kaylen.  I was pleasantly surprised with Lena, the coverage was great!  I basically had to do one swipe with it.  I also must say I really love Lena, I cant wait to use it by itself, Lena is definitely my favorite of the four.  So, now that I finally remembered to take photos before wildly tearing into my box, please enjoy them!    Please excuse the "ehh" photos of the box itself, I will do better next time!  :)