Thursday, October 30, 2014

Hurray for Halloween! Part Two

Hello hello! So it should be pretty obvious by this point that I am totally obsessed with Halloween polish. So, today I will share even more with you :)

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First up is Pahlish Caramel Apple Orchard, a lovely candle apple red holo, with Lynnderella Very Pretty Vampire, a mix of red, black and burgundy glitters, layered on top. I love this mani! Always fun to get to reuse a polish in a totally different way :)

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 Next up is Dollish Polish The Witching Hour, a magical blackened green holo, with Enchanted Polish Pumpkin Gutz, a mix of orange, black and green glitters, layered on top. I am seriously in love with TWH - so deep and dark and sparkly, yum!

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 Last up is Dollish Polish The Curse Of Michael Myers, a mix of orange and yellow glitters, layered over Elevation Polish Aconcagua, an orange jelly holo, and Colors by Llarowe Black Gold, Texas Tea, the original jelly true black holo version. Very Halloween-y!

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You can find more out about Enchanted Polish at their Facebook or website~
You can find Pahlish at their website or Facebook~
You can find Colors by Llarowe at the site and Facebook~
You can find Lynnderella at their blog, Storenvy, and store~
You can find Dollish Polish at their site and Facebook~
You can find Elevation Polish at their Facebook or website~

Have a magical day!

Tuesday, October 28, 2014

Hurray for Halloween! Pahlish, Candy Lacquer, and More

Hello friends! Today I have some super spooky manis to share with you ;) only a few days left til Halloween!

left to right, up to down: Candy Lacquer Pumpkin Fairy, b.i.t.c.h. by jaclyn
Pumpkin Tits, Pahlish Pop Rock Panic + Enchanted Polish Practice Safe Hex

First up is the delightful Candy Lacquer Pumpkin Fairy, a mix of various satin/matte/holo pastel glitters in a sheer orange creamsicle base. It came with an extra little bag of pumpkin/heart/star glitters for even more glittery goodness :) I layered it over Colors by Llarowe Read My Lips, More New Colors and China Glaze Son of a Peach here. Love this combo! I love how this polish is Halloween-y, but girly and pretty at the same time.

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Next is Pahlish Pop Rock Panic, a magical medium purple mega holo, with Enchanted Polish Practice Safe Hex, a mix of purple, black and silver glitters over it. Perfect combo! I am in LOVE with the Halloween Pahlish labels - cutest ghostie ever!

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 Finally we have b.i.t.c.h by Jaclyn (formally known as Pretty Bitch Polish) Pumpkin Tits (lol), a beautiful vibrant burnt orange holo with orange flakes. It looks super foil-y in the shade, but very holo in the sun. Pretty! Very autumn-y.

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You can find more out about Enchanted Polish at their Facebook or website~
You can find Pahlish at their website or Facebook~
You can find Colors by Llarowe at the site and Facebook~
You can find Candy Lacquer at their site and Facebook~
You can find b.i.t.c.h. by Jaclyn at their site or Facebook~

Have a fantastic day! ♥

Saturday, October 18, 2014

Lots of Lynnderellas

Hello friends! Today I have a few pretty Lynnderella manis to share with you.

left to right, up to down: Nolita Lolita, Violet's Dark Side, So NoHo!

First up is Nolita Lolita, a mix of various pink glitters in a clear pink-shimmered base. I layered it over Digital Nails So Disco, a purple-y pink holo. What a perfect combo! I especially adore the giant flower glitters - I have seen them before but this is my first polish that actually has them!

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 Next up is So NoHo!, a mix of cobalt and orchid glitters in a blue-shimmered base. I layered it over Colors By Llarowe In the Navy, a navy holo. Again, a perfect combo. I love the look of the bright blue glitters over the inky navy base - so much depth!

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Last up is Violet's Dark Side, a deep purple microglitter with various scattered accent glitters. I believe this was 3 coats on its own. Such a magical unicorn color! Of course I had to use tons of topcoat because it was very textured, but totally worth it.

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All so pretty! I was especially ecstatic that Lynn recently released a New York-inspired collection, since I visited New York for the first time this past summer and fell totally in love :) I have been on a major Lynn kick lately - I feel like I got lost in a sea of holo and forgot the allure of glitterbombs for awhile, but that's over now - glitter all the things!

If you'd like to check out Lynnderella visit their blog, Storenvy, and store~

Have a wondrous day!

Tuesday, October 14, 2014

Igor Says: This Is Halloween

Hello hello! Today I have my first Halloween mani of 2014 to share with you! I started out with a base of Different Dimension This Is Halloween, a dusty dark purple linear holo from the October 2014 Llarowe A Box, Indied. I then layered on Enchanted Polish Igor, a festive mix of green, purple, orange, black and white glitter.

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 Love this mani! The two polishes go great together. A great one to kick off Halloween 2014!🎃

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You can find more out about Different Dimension at their Facebook or website~
You can find more out about Enchanted Polish at their Facebook or website~

Have a wonderful day!💗

Monday, October 13, 2014

Influenster Keurig 2.0 VoxBox Review

Hello friends! It's been a few months seen I had an Influester VoxBox to share with you, but today I've got an especially cool one! Recently I was sent the brand new Keurig 2.0 to try out and review! I am sure most of you are already at least aware of what Keurigs are, but basically they are coffee brewers in which you use single-serving K-cups to brew all sorts of different types of coffee easily. You can also brew other sorts of hot drinks (with the right K-cup, of course): hot chocolate, apple cider, tea, and probably more! I already had a Keurig before this actually (and was totally obsessed with it, lol) - so let's see what makes the 2.0 so new and different!


The main difference from the original Keurig to the 2.0 is of course that it now can brew K-carafes instead of just K-cups! The machine comes with a carafe (see in the bottom right of pic above) that you just stick under the brewer like a coffee cup, use a K-carafe pod, and it will make a pot of coffee with 3-5 cups! (You select on the super cool touchscreen how much you want to make).

size difference of K-carafe vs. K-cup
Unfortunately, there is another main difference that bothered me quite a bit when I first discovered it. The Keurig 2.0 uses DRM technology in the labels. This is so that the machine can read the label to match the best brewing settings for each individual drink. HOWEVER, it also means that any coffee pod that does not have that DRM tech in the label won't work with the machine at all - it won't brew it (this includes both unofficial, non-Keurig pods, as well as old, pre-2.0 K-cups). Since I already had a Keurig (and with it, a LOT of official K-cups) I ended up with a bunch of pods that became unusable to me in my new machine :\ I ended up giving my old machine to my sister (and with it all the old pods) but it still was kind of annoying when I realized this.

K-carafe, new K-cup, old K-cup (must have "Keurig Brewed"
ring around cup to work in 2.0)

Anyway, other than those, here are a few observations I have about the new 2.0:

Pros
- Quite a few K-cups and K-carafes are included with the machine! (see below pic)
- The water tank lights up! You can pick blue, red, or green, I believe. A little silly but exciting :)
- You can brew plain hot water by just opening and closing the pod-holder without inserting a pod.
- The touch screen is pretty cool :)

all the K-cups/carafes included with the machine - it's a lot!
Cons
- Again, the DRM preventing use of old K-cups. Kind of a bummer.
- The water purifier that goes in the water tank was difficult to assemble. I had to get help, lol.
- I can't seem to make the hot water function work - it says it makes 6oz, but I usually can only get 2-3oz out (typically has old coffee grounds in it too, no matter how many 'cleaning cycles' I do).

Anyway, overall it is a pretty cool machine. Someone new to Keurig would not be bothered about not being able to use old K-cups obviously - and I have gotten over it at this point (helps that I had something to do with them besides just tossing them - I guess I could have just kept both machines on my counter til I used them up, but it's not like I have an abundance of counter space) but I thought it was very important to share this observation here, since it was not something I had initially realized myself.

If you are interested in learning more about the Keurig 2.0, check out their website or Facebook for more info!

Have a lovely day!
 

~These product(s) were provided for an honest review by me from Influenster~