Press Sample Greetings, dear readers, and happy Monday! I hope you've had a wonderful weekend and your week is off to a fabulous start! Today is the last day of the August opening of the Polish Pickup, so let's jump right in on today's blog post. One of the highlights for me when it comes to the Polish Pickup is the sugar scrub offering from KBShimmer. The theme this month is "The Four Elements", and Christy of KBShimmer has created a scrumptious "Farmer's Market" scent, inspired by the Earth element, to pair with her wonderful sugar scrub formula. Getting up early on a Saturday m ..read more

Gifted Sample Greetings, dear readers, and happy Monday! What could be a better way to start off the way than by how I like to start (and end) my day: with fresh, clean skin! I've had the pleasure of testing out two skincare products from the brand KIMTRUE, and I am here to share them with you today. Before I jump in on the review, let me give you a little more information about the brand! Based in Los Angeles, California, KIMTRUE is a new brand that will be hitting its first anniversary next month. Per the brand itself, KIMTRUE stands for the following: KIM- brilliance, TRUE- real, accurate ..read more

Happy Monday, dear readers! I hope you feel refreshed after a weekend and ready to tackle a new week. Today is my kids' last day of virtual schooling, and I cannot tell you how excited I am about it! It has been a struggle to get anything done on my end as I've had to constantly watch them to make sure they were paying attention and doing the correct work. I have sorely missed having something of a routine when it comes to the blog, and no longer having to monitor schooling will be a huge relief! Now let's get to today's post since it's already going up later than I wanted!  Press Sample ..read more

  Press Sample It's the first weekend of June, and that means it is time for another Polish Pickup! The theme for this month is "Rainbows" and ellagee polish has added an extra special twist inspired by Pink Floyd. Dark Side Of The Rainbow is an emerald jelly polish with bright green shimmer and trippy rainbow iridescent sheer micro flakes. If you're not entirely sold on green nail polishes yet, this one is sure to make you step back and give them a serious go! I love this shade of green in general, but the rainbow micro flakes add a particular WOW factor that has me swooning. Dar ..read more

 Press Sample The May "Guilty Pleasures" Polish Pickup is in full swing, so today's post is about two offerings by KBShimmer for your consideration. If you haven't nabbed these from the website yet, be sure to do so before it is too late! Freshly Blended Hand & Body Sugar Scrub I'm a big sugar scrub fan, and I especially love those from KBShimmer! I use them for both manicures, pedicures, and as a body scrub and have a jar at my sink and another in my shower at any given time. Living in Arizona, sugar scrubs can get a little melted in transit coming my way. It may disrupt the ..read more

 I don't know where the time is going, but it's a new month and just about time for the opening of the next Polish Pickup! The theme for May is Guilty Pleasures, and having quite a few myself, I'm eager to find out what everyone else is enjoying and possibly find yet another rabbit hole for me to fall into. The world has been crazy and intense the past year, so give me all the guilty pleasures! Press Sample For today's blog post, I have Laura from ellagee polish's guilty pleasure to share with you: TikTok! Those of you that spend countless hours on social media when you probably should ..read more

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 Greetings, dear readers, and happy Monday! I missed you last week, but my second Moderna vaccination really kicked my behind and I was not particularly functional. I'm still not fully *there*, but tonight is the Super Moon, I've been thinking A LOT about things, and I have been putting off this giveaway far too long already. It's time. Let's do this. For those that have been following me for the past year or more, you already know I've been through a lot physically and mentally the past 13 months. While my blog is usually my sanctuary against the stressors of day-to-day life, it just ..read more

Happy Friday, dear readers! I hope you had a wonderful week! It's been an intense one around here as my physical therapy activities have changed. I don't mind the extra pain it brings on too much except it amplifies my insomnia which then trickles down to how functional I am during the day. I'm running on caffeine at the moment, but I really wanted to get this post up. While I have a few minutes to myself now, I better get to it and put this post together. Let's do this! Press Sample I've been mindful to follow a good skincare routine for the past several years in general, but now that I hi ..read more

  Press Sample It's been a toasty week as we've been in the 90's, and I think we just might hit triple digits at some point this weekend! The plants have been loving the weather and throwing out blooms, and I had to grab the Zoya Darling Collection for another floral manicure. I really loved my Monet/Impressionist painting-inspired florals from the previous week, but I wanted a more obvious floral look this time around. I opted to go with a quick dotticure version for a fast nail art design. To create the look, I started off with Zoya Tweedy as my base shade. I then used a do ..read more