Elle nail polish

I recently got four free samples of the Elle brand nail polish and loved the colors.  I was super excited to try them out because my daughter and I paint each other's nails every week, we are always trying all these cool ideas we get off pinterest.  I tried the first of two colors last night and was very disappointed. I usually use OPI, Sally Hansen or China Glaze brands, those are my favorite cause they go one great and last forever on my natural nails.  I have a hard time keeping my nails because I bake, clean and do a lot of crafts etc.  The first color I tried was the pink they sent me, I will update this post later with photos and the names of the colors. The pink went on very thick even after shaking the bottle for awhile.  The brush is kind of rough then when it dried it looked like it was globed on the nails.  I decided to give the one of the other colors a try on my nails, cause I did the pink on my toes.  I went with the light blue and it went on a lot smoother, didn't seen as thick.  When I was done with the two coats it looked very nice, had a little bit of a shimmer to it and the color was very nice.  I let it dry and didn't put the top coat on because it was so late I was ready for bed and couldn't wait for another coat to dry.  When I woke up it was bubbly and then after cleaning a little today it was all chipped off and looked awful.

I still have two other colors I plan to try so I will try to remove these colors later this week and then I will update on how they worked out, but as of now I am not the least bit impressed and for the cost I would stick to my regular favorites.

Stay tuned because later this week I have a few more items I want to review before I go on vacation, then I will be writing about my vacation to Tennessee.  I will be posting some back to school deals and coupons also.  Hope everyone is having a great week=).

Travalo Travel Perfume holder trial

I got this in the mail today.  It is the Travalo perfume or cologne travel holder.  It retails for $16-$20 depending where you buy it.  It is amazing!  If you travel a lot and the new rules for sizes of items that you can carry on for our shampoo, etc this is a great product.  It is super easy to fill.  You just remove the spray top from your perfume bottle and press the Travalo to it and watch it fill up.  I was impressed at how easy it filled up.  That was the only thing I was concerned about was a mess trying to put my perfume into this bottle.  It is easy to carry and it sprays good.  I highly recommend this product to everyone who travels by plane and uses perfume.  I don't fly a lot but I love to carry a small bottle in my purse of perfume.  I usually buy the small bottles just for that reason.  

Some Nail Art from before

From now on I will be posting photos with the polish bottles, name of polish, where I got it, cost and what is needed for the look.  These are a few we tried from pinterest and then we have the nail art stamper also.  Enjoy them=).

Trendy Bracelets

Okay here are the new trend in bracelets that everyone is wearing.  They can get very costly, I have seen the ones with love or hope on a macrame cord for, get ready for this, $95 at a high end department store.  That is unbelievable.  Don't get me wrong I love to carry designer hand bags versus fake or knock off ones but a bracelet?  I don't think so.  I make them and costs me a couple dollars.  I will be posting more photos of the ones I have made and then how to make them.  Also where you can purchase the items to make these and more.

Welcome

  I have been blogging for awhile now, I have a blog for my interior design and party event planning passion.  I started a business on my own and it has been pretty successful.  I am currently taking classes and what ever intern jobs I can get to learn more about both so that I can one day be super successful.  I am very organized and creative.  I love to bake, decorate and shop.  

  I also started a blog on bargain shopping, and some of my favorite hobbies like crafts, refinishing amazing furniture I find at garage sales and craigslist etc.  I decided it was time to start another kind of blog.  I am very into pinterest and love seeing all the amazing things that everyone does.  From making stenciled curtains, taking old pieces of furniture and transforming them into new pieces that are amazing, but most of all I love the make up, nail art, hair color etc tips and ideas.  I also love all the new trends I get to see.  I am not a trendy girl, I am not one for following trends and I have never been a makeup wearing girl.  I am girly and play with makeup then I have two daughters so I am always doing their make up.  I do wear make up if we go to a wedding or to a special event, but I grew up like a tom boy and never had anyone to show me how to apply make up or any one to influence me when it came to girly stuff.

  All the girly stuff I have gotten into is stuff I have learned to like or do on my own over the years.  I have a passion for nail polish and nail art.  I love eye makeup and I have always been one to dye my hair all different colors.  I have had every color hair in the book, and done most of it all myself.  I have bleached it, dyed it black, done the brazilian keratin myself, highlights and lowlights myself.  Anything to save money so I can spend it on purses, jewelry and home decor items.  I refuse to ever buy something for full price and I am not one who only buys designer name brands.  I know I am not a housewife from the oc lol and I know I don't have tons of money.  I am a stay at home mom who dreams of becoming a interior designer/party planner, that would love to have expensive clothes, bags and home decor but since I can't do that yet, I look for ways to make the same expensive looks, with out the expensive price tag. 

  I am not one who blows my husband's entire paycheck trying to make myself happy and fill some void.  I actually look for ways to make money on the side without having to leave my kids and go to work daily while they are being raised by a daycare assistant.  I want to raise my girls.  I know how to hustle and make money, from making earrings, bracelets, selling diet pills, selling stuff on craigslist, making cakes and baked goods that I sell, refinishing furniture and reselling it.  Either way most of the stuff I buy I use money I make selling my own stuff.  I love to read reviews on products, look for ways to get the less expensive version of a new trend or possibly make it myself.

  This passed weekend I went to ULTA for the first time and actually bought a $8 bottle of magnetic nail polish.  I usually buy my nail polish online, on clearance or a no name brand.  I loved the way the magnetic polish worked though and thought maybe I need to make a blog and review products.  Review trends and show others how to save money.  I am always doing nail art on my kids, making jewelry, shirts, shorts etc that look just like the expensive trends.  I want to make that possible for others too.  I have people ask me all the time where I got stuff, or found an outfit, necklace etc.  A lot of the times people gasp when I tell them where I found it on sale for very little money or even better yet, my favorite cause I get that proud feeling, when I can say "I made it".  Love that one=).  

  I have a gorgeous home that I have decorated myself and it is always a work in progress.  I constantly am changing my style of clothes, design, taste, I re paint my nails and toes probably 3-4 times a week, my daughter is even worse she does that every other day or every day lol.  We always are trying new products and new techniques.

  I recently have been making the new macrame bracelets that everyone is wearing.  I saw a layered set worn by a celebrity with the sideways cross and the hamsa hand.  The set was over $260 for a charm and some string.  Don't even ask how much the real gold and silver ones were.  I made the same ones for under $3 each and sell them for $6-10 depending on the cost to make.  I also was up watching tv one night and saw these amazing earrings worn by basketball wives I am one to google and surf the web so I went online to see how much a pair of these would cost me, I almost died when I did find them and a designer pair were $95-200 and knock offs were a little less but still more then a stay at home mom can afford, who spends her days coupon clipping and bargain hunting for the same items I see on tv or in magazines but can't afford.  I made my own and ended up selling some for way less.  Everyone would stop me when I wore the ones I made asking where did you get those.

  So welcome to my new blog.  I am going to review products, post trends, show you cheap ways to get the same look, and so much more.  I hope you enjoy and please check out my other blogs too.  One is my business blog for baking and decorating.  www.dlitefulsweets.blogspot.com and then my hobby page which I also post trends and money saving tips on www.dlitefulvintage.blogspot.com.  Please help me get some followers and I will do the same for you=).  Thank you, and hope to make this blog successful