Moar Cult Nails Nail Mail!

Happy Monday all! I hope everyone enjoyed their weekend. Now that it's back to the work week, here's some nail mail to brighten your day.

I have gotten a lot of nail mail in the past few weeks, which is always exciting. In the past, most of my nail polish has come from stopping at my local drug store(s) and picking up polish that catches my eye. Now that I've become part of the nail blogging community, there are so many more options for buying polish! This may be bad for my wallet, but it has introduced me to so many great brands that are not available in store.

Anyway, in addition to ordering the Divas and Drama collection, I also took part in the Cult Nails $5 sale. The sale was to celebrate Cult Nails (and Maria) reaching 5,000 likes on Facebook. It's quite a milestone and Marie was nice enough to treat us Culties to this great sale. It's essentially a 50% off sale, since her polish is normally $10 a bottle. She did limit it to 3 bottles at $5 in order to make sure it was fair for everyone and for her as well.

I definitely took advantage of the sale and even stayed up till midnight to order. I usually never go online at the exact time things go on sale, but this one was worth it.

Because of the timing of the new collection and the sale, these ended up arriving a few days after the Divas and Drama collection. It was an epic nail mail week for me. As  you can see, I picked up Let Me Fly, Enigmatic and Captivated. 

From L to R: Enigmatic, Let Me Fly, Captivated

They are all gorgeous colors and I can't wait until I've worn all three! Here's some bottle spam in the meantime.

Did you take part in the $5 Cult Nails sale? If you did, what did you end up getting? Did you stay up until midnight Eastern time like I did? 

Cult Nails Manipulative with Seduction Accent Nail

Happy Sunday readers! I had a nice, quiet weekend that involved wine, shopping and a haircut. How was everyone else's weekend? Today has been rainy and cold for most of the day, so I've been finishing up Mad Men on Netflix and relaxing. For a Sunday, the pace has been nice and slow. I never want Sundays to end, so I'm enjoying it while I can.

Now onto the polish! I have yet another Cult Nails related post. Once I got my Divas and Drama collection, I had to put it on ASAP and this was the first mani I did with the collection. I started with two coats of Manipulative, which is a blue creme polish with a very subtle shimmer. Manipulative leans a little green as well. The color was a bit darker than I thought it would be after seeing Maria's swatches and pictures, but it's gorgeous anyway.

I also love Maria's swatches of Seduction over Enticing, so I recreated the layering combination as an accent nail on my ring finger. I used two coats of Enticing, which is a sheer baby pink creme polish. It's a gorgeous polish on its own and two coats provided great coverage. One of these days I'll have to wear Enticing without covering it up. 

After everything was dry, using Wicked Fast top coat of course, I added the accent nail of 2 coats of Seduction. I also used Cult Nails Get it On for the base coat. 

So there you have it, yet another gorgeous Cult Nails combination. I think what I love most about the Divas and Drama collection is that all of the colors go so well together. They're just made to be used together, whether it's layering, accent nails or nail art. It's a collection that I'm doubt I'll ever get tired of. 

The Divas and Drama collection from Cult Nails is available here for $40 or you can buy the individual polish colors for $10 each. 

Have you tried this combo yet? What have been your favorite manicures using the Cult Nails Divas and Drama collection? Let me know in the comments section!

Deadly Seduction: Layering with Cult Nails and KelBel Cosmetics

Cult Nails Seduction is quickly becoming my favorite nail polish. I just can't get enough of this beauty! I absolutely love flakies and Seduction is no exception. The Cult Nails website describes Seduction as "a sheer purple/red jelly top coat polish loaded with red and blue multichromatic flakes." With a polish like this, there are endless layering possibilities.

Playing off of the purple base of Seduction, I decided to layer it over one of my own colors from KelBel Cosmetics. The base color I used is Nightlock, which was inspired by The Hunger Games of course. For those of you who haven't read the books or watched the movie yet (and have been living under a rock), nightlock is the name of the deadly berries in the books/film that are supposed to have a dark purple color to them.

KelBel Cosmetics Nightlock is a dark yet vibrant purple polish, that is not a creme but not quite a shimmer, it falls somewhere in between. I used two coats of Nightlock with Seche Vite top coat. After that dried, I layered 2 coats of Cult Nails Seduction over my pointer and ring finger nails as accents.

This combination was made for each other! Nightlock is my perfect kind of purple and matched the jelly base of Seduction well. Plus it helps that jellies can morph depending on what they're layered over..

I will definitely be wearing these two together again in the future. I even got a compliment from a cashier when I was buying lunch, which made my day!

What do you think of this combination? Which colors have you layered Seduction over? Let me know in the comments section!

Nail Mail: Cult Nails Divas and Drama Collection

Last week I finally received my Cult Nails Divas and Drama Collection pre-order! I have been really excited about this collection and after waiting, it was great to finally have them in my hands!

I love the Cult Nails polish burritos! It's such a cute idea and environmentally friendly too. 

Seduction from the Divas and Drama collection has become my new favorite polish. It is absolutely gorgeous and I just want to wear it all the time. I keep thinking of new layering combos that would work great with the purple jelly base. I just love it! Plus, it's a "cousin" of Cult Nails Unicorn Puke / Clairvoyant, which I probably will sadly never own. This is the definitely the next best thing. 

Ahh, look at those flakies!

The whole order. I also added the Cult Nails Get it On Base Coat and Wicked Fast Speed Dry Top Coat to my order. They work perfectly with the rest of the Cult Nails colors.

The Divas and Drama collection from left to right: Scandalous, Enticing, Seduction and Manipulative. The entire collection is available now on the Cult Nails website for $40 for the collection or $10 each if you just want one or two. However, if you want Seduction (which I know you do) be sure to order it sooner rather than later because it's a Limited Edition (LE) color. So once it sells out, it's gone. I already missed out on Toxic Seaweed. 

I'll be posting my swatches soon hopefully. Lately this collection seems to be all I've been wearing, I love it so much!

I Love Your Blog Award!

On April 4th, DJ of Makeup Chic, Literary Geek and Beauty Pop Shop received the I Love Your Blog award and then chose me as one of her 7 nominees! I meant to do this post a lot sooner, but time has just been flying by.

But my motto is better late than never, so thank you so so much DJ! It's an honor to be named for this blog award, especially since she is one of the bloggers I look up to. I am also happy that her Beauty Pop Shop is growing! I like to see good people succeed. Over the past few months I've gotten to "know" some great people because of blogging and I love our little nail community.

I figured I would share the love, the rules of which are:

1. Add the logo of the award to your blog (I couldn't find it, so I skipped this part.)
2. Add a link to the person that awarded it to you. (Done!)
3. Nominate 7 other blogs.
4. Tell your nominees.

Without further ado, here are my 7 (not including Makeup Chic, Literary Geek since she nominated me.) They are in no particular order because I love them all!

1. Piano Finger(nail)s 
2. Dream a Little Dream of Polish
3. Sincerely Stephanie
4. Samarium's Swatches 
5. Polished Claws Up!
6. Polish and Pigments
7. Nail Polish Wars

All of the above blogs are great. Go check them out!