I’ll start with the bonus item first. Which is the Vitabath Asian Orchid and Coconut Hydrating Lotion

It smells amazing, but seems a bit out of place because the Coconut makes me think of summer. I do love it though.

Everything else on the other hand was really nice and absolutely spot on.

There was the Rimmel Scandal Eye Retro Glam Mascara which is very nice. It has a dry formula and gave me an effect similar to the YSl Shocking but not quite as big.

Next in the box was these Dr. Scholls for her cozy cushions insoles which I plan on putting in either my Wine colored Old Navy shoes or in one of my pairs of Hunter Rainboots. These feel insanely soft and I can’t wait to use them.

The last beauty product and my absolute favorite thing in the box were the Kiss Gradation polishes. They’re just so pretty, I got them in the color Film Noir but I noticed a gold version of these polishes in the little add in the box and I really want to pick that one up too. I love the Glitter, it’s just so stunning.

Then there was food included in the box:

Some Blueberry Belvita cookies which are absolutely delicious

and finally a Lindt Lindor Milk Chocolate Truffle. These are some of my favorite chocolates and I’m so excited about this one.

I think these vox boxes just keep getting better, and this has been my favorite one yet. Thank you so much Influenster for providing these items for me to try out. What item would you most like to see a review on?

It probably doesn’t help that one of my favorite blogs Nails In Nippon blogs about nail polish and she swatches the most beautiful colors. But usually it’s something I own, or I own something similar and I don’t really decide that OMG I kinda need that right now. Until her post on Rainbow Honey. Somehow I didn’t know indie nail polish was a thing, and why I didn’t I’ll just attribute to me living under a rock, or something like that.

 But I digress, it is a thing, and it is amazing. After reading the blog post, which is about polishes that aren’t yet for sale, specifically from the Sweet Talk collection, I wandered over to the Rainbow Honey website to see what she had for sale currently and that’s when I discovered the Equestria Collection, and kinda died a bit. Then I sat down with my son and guessed by the names of the polishes which ponies they went with.

Then I decided as soon as I can I must buy the full Equestria Collection. Which comes in two sizes Full size 15 ml for $10 each or $80 for the set or half size 7ml for $5 each or $40 for the set. I’ll probably be investing in the 7ml sizes, because I have so much polish. I actually really love that she sells them that way because it looks like she does all of the colors that way, and sometimes you just don’t need a full size bottle. Most of the time I don’t need a full size bottle, but if there was a particular color that ends up being my favorite I would probably invest in a full size.

I promise I’ll do a review as soon as I pick the colors up!

Side note: I was wearing Lancôme’s Noir Caviar with Orly’s Shine on Crazy Diamond until recently and later tonight I’ll be painting them with Deborah Lippmann’s Putty in your hands and OPI’s I Lily Love You, because I saw the dress Lea Michelle wore to the PCA’s and I think if I use that combo it’ll look like her dress-ish

It’s Blogmas Day 19 and I’m still sick! Which is terrible because according to Norad, Santa leaves the North Pole in 4 Days. For those of you doing the math on that one if you’ll remember the international date line and that China is a full day ahead of us then the math is correct. Anyways I’ve been spending a lot of time curled up with Cocoa, watching Christmas movies, and whining about how awful I feel.

Isn’t my cocoa so pretty? I topped it with Cool Whip and a ton of mini marshmellows. I thought it was so pretty sitting there that I had to take a picture.

I  also took a picture of what I had on my nails the other day when I did my lip swatches for day 17

Normally I’m not a big fan of pastel’s for winter, but I’ve had some variation of Red and glitter or dark grey on my nails since Thanksgiving. Since I wanted to shake things up a bit I went for Mint and Glitter, and as you can see there is Red Glitter in that bottle. I know I was trying to branch out, but it is the Christmas Season.  I used 2 coats of Essie’s Mint Candy Apple and then I did a crescent moon of the glitter and then used what was left on the brush to dot glitter all over the nail. I plan to do my nails this way for my family’s Christmas Party but most likely with An Affair in Red Square by OPI instead of mint.

I had hoped to get Lancome’s Flirty Red to wear for Christmas, but when I went to get it they were sold out or something because I didn’t get it. I do love an Affair in Red Square though and I bought it last year with Sephora by OPI’s Only Gold For Me when Red nails with Gold Glitter tips was the thing that everyone loved.

I haven’t done that combo yet this year and I might but I quite like doing the crescent of glitter instead of the tips. I’ll paint my nails that tonight and if I can get a good picture I’ll add into tomorrow’s post.

Tomorrow’s post may actually be on all my favorite winter polish’s since I haven’t done one yet, and I do have a lot of polishes.

It’s about Gifts. I adore giving gifts. I love everything about it except how much money I spend doing it. I love the planning and shopping, and seeing people open them, but especially wrapping them. Oh I complain about it when the time comes because I have to stay up til 3 am a few days before Christmas to get them all wrapped, but really that’s all false. I have a little routine that involves me spreading out all over my living room floor after everyone’s gone to bed, and cocoa and christmas films non stop til I’ve finished.

The wrapping isle’s in stores get me very excited, I just want to buy everything. I love ribbons and paper and bows and stickers and tags, and tape and ink pens for name writing, glitter, twine, cards and boxes. It all just makes me so happy. I love a beautifully presented gift. As anyone who follows me on Pinterest can tell. I’ve been pinning pictures of gifts all morning. And planning how I’m going to wrap my presents this year. The past 3 years I’ve used wrapping paper with Dr. Suess’s The Grinch on. I adore that movie, but I’ll talk more about that in my favorite holiday movies post. But this year I think I want something more glittery. Or something simpler. I was thinking of doing parchment paper, and creating little swirls of glitter on it once wrapped and then tying with a glittery twine if such a thing exists and sparkly tags.

Now I will say I don’t like oddly shaped gifts that are hard to wrap. I really like to wrap boxes or books, things that are easy to wrap. I don’t put the oddly shaped things in to boxes, I just wrap them as they are, but I’m never happy with the turn out. I have found a new way that for smaller odd things I’m going to try this year, and if it works out I’ll let you know. I’m just so excited to get started wrapping things and putting them under my tree (that won’t go up until Thanksgiving).

 I said this post was sort of a kick off, well that’s because I plan on putting up some Christmas Gift Guides soon. For Him, For Her, and For Children. Since I love buying presents so much, I make these sort of lists for myself all the time. There will also be a What I Want for Christmas post coming up soon.

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