bubbles and beauty

I'm seriously so thankful for my youtube friends. I feel like I've grown all these amazing pen pals and friends around the world that I really connect with and love! Charmaine and I naturally became good friends because we both had wedding bell fever.. but then we realized how much we have in common! I love her classy, romantic yet a bit of bling (gold bling only!) style and her extremely amazing artistry of making beautiful things like websites, business cards, banners, etc. (She actually helped me design my business cards!)

All in all, I truly adore her and am so thankful for her friendship.. and for all the goodies she got me this Christmas!

From the top left, clockwise.

1. Benefit luv it up! set. This is such a fun nude set. It has three eyeshadows, a creaseless shadow and the dandelion lip gloss all in this cute little box! 2. Japonesque smudge brush. Have always wanted to try stuff from this brand! excited to try this brush out! 3. Lorac Smolder Little Lace Palette. So excited to try this teeny compact palette! It's so cute and totally perfect for travel! 4. Lorac Ravish Little Lace Palette. These two palettes will probably give me all the eyeshadows i'd need on a little travel trip! 5. Alice and Olivia Starbucks Mug. OMG. I've been DYING for this cup but being in NY it was sold out EVERYWHERE. She spotted some at her local starbucks and picked one up for me! SO glad to have this little baby! 6. Eyeko Mascara Wardrobe. This is cool. It's 1 mascara with three different brushes. I've always wanted to try their products I heard awesome things about their mascaras and highlighters! 7. Benefit love at first shine! set. Been dying to try these plush glosses for a while now - so this is the PERFECT set to get my lips started! WOOT! 8. Jelly Pong 2 in 1 liner and shadow. I got a similar one in my GlossyBox, so I do really love these! 9. Jelly Pong Lip Blush, Lip Stain. I got this in my GlossyBox and really love it! It's perfect to throw in your purse for a pick me up :)

Thank you SOSO much charmaine! Happiest Holidays to you and your lovely family!

love you! xoxo

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It is that time of year where its time to whip out fantastically holiday-ish fun... especially on your nails! When I think of holiday - I automatically think of holiday colored glitter (especially GOLD!)

Kirsten, owner and maker of allthatglitters nail polish was kind enough to send me her whole holiday collection of polish. Holy SHMOLY, it was like christmas blew up in the best kind of way.

Unfortunately, after my wedding I lost my camera. I know it is somewhere at my dad's house amidst all of the stuff that was thrown together and packed, I just have yet to find it. I was also scared I wouldn't have time to borrow my sister's fancy camera in time to show you these awesome polishes.

Therefore, I had to resort to using my iphone and jazzing them up in instagram form.

Here they are in all of their glory (i'm only missing one which will be in a giveaway on my youtube channel soon!). How fun do they look altogether?! <3

The swatches below are all on fake french nails. This way you can personally see the opacity of each color with two coats of polish.

Here is cool yule which is my favorite out of the bunch. It's a gorgeous opaque light blue with medium size, circular glitters in blue, purple and a teal. It reminds me of glittering snow!

Here's Pinch of Grinch, which is surprisingly fun. It's a metallic green with small silver, green and red glitter, medium hexagonal darker green and red glitter and an occasional fun YELLOW STAR!!! I always get so excited when a star comes out! Although this is gorgeous alone, as you can see - it is not completely opaque, but when it is layer over an opaque color the green REALLY stands out. (i put it on top of a black color and it was FANTASTIC)

I LOVE THIS NAME! <3 Here is eggnog wasted which is effortlessly fun! It's a creamy white-ish base with teeny gold glitters, small red and copper-ish glitters and green flecks! This is like a party on your fingers! Although you can still see my french tip base underneath the polish, I think with one more coat, the opacity would be perfect. I love how all of her polishes evenly distributes all the fun glitter so you aren't crazy worried everytime you paint your nails.

Let me preface this by saying in no angle did any picture do this polish justice. It's so holigraphically fun! Its a silver base with all sorts of iridescent, holigraphic fun in small glitter, hexagon shapes, squares etc! I've seen swatches of this being completely opaque silver, but mine seems quite sheer. I put this top single coat of my silver Xtreme hardware (sally hansen) polish and it was SO FUN. I think this color on top of different bases would really help the iridescent sparkles really stand out.

You can find her polishes at her etsy shop here :)

Will try to get the others up soon! and a fun holiday tutorial this weekend!

enjoy your weekend! x jess

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