Maybelline Polka Dots and Electro Baby Lips

Hi guys!

Taking a moment to reflect on Cory Monteith's death this morning. I don't watch Glee, but losing yet another member of the arts community is never a good thing. My heart goes out to his family, friends, cast mates, and fans.

This is just a quick update to let you know about some new stuff I got!

No doubt by now you've heard about the new Polka Dots and Electro collections from Maybelline. From the time I first heard about the Polka Dots collection, I knew I wanted Clearly Spotted. I wasn't too interested in the Electro collection until I saw Emily Noel's blog post.

I've been searching for a good coral lip product (balm, stain, lipstick - I wasn't picky!) and I hadn't found one that I really wanted. While the Oh! Orange Baby Lips is obviously orange, it's sheer enough that when it mixes with your natural lip color, it turns a pretty peachy, coraly color.

On Monday, I picked up both of them at CVS (I love that the CVSes here actually carry the limited edition stuff I'm looking for!) and I'm in love.

I'm currently wearing Clearly Spotted on my nails over Julep's Renee, and it's awesome. It looks like paint splatter which is something I'm totally into, and it's actually really great for hiding small chips.

Please ignore my index finger!

Honestly, looking at the pictures I have now, they don't do this polish justice. I would definitely suggest looking at other swatches if you're into the paint splatter thing.

As for the Baby Lips, I tried to try the line itself before, but ended up accidentally buying the mint one (I'm starting to sense a theme..) which I don't like, so I hadn't tried it until this. I'm really sorry I didn't, because I love it. I'm definitely planning to pick up a non-colored one so I can have both.

Are you excited about either of these collections? What limited edition collections are you most excited about this summer?

Wild Butterfly Boutique and Julep goodies!

I've been meaning to do this post for a while because I wanted to give a shout out to two people. First, Brooklyn Burton who runs This Little Blonde for having the giveaway I somehow one at the end of May and second to Wild Butterfly Boutique for sending me this beautiful turquoise teardrop necklace after I won!

I had been admiring their necklaces for a while (and entering a ton of giveaways to win one) and I was so excited when I finally did! I've been loving statement necklaces lately, and this one is beautiful and a perfect addition to my (hopefully) growing collection. 

Julep was also having a sale recently, so I picked up a few polishes for only $4 each. 

They're so pretty!

I picked out Lucy, a "modern, dark burgundy creme": 

Renee, a "Spring lilac creme":

And Candy, a "Grape rock candy nail glaze" which, for some reason, I didn't realize looked like this:

Obviously I need to pay better attention, because what I wanted was a dark purple, not a sheer purple. I'm working on trading this for something else.

I also traded away some of my Ipsy and Target Beauty Box items to get Nan, a "Nantucket red creme":

In other nail news, I painted my nails for the first time since I've been here with "Love Song" from Nicole by OPI's Selena Gomez Collection.

It was a pretty enough color that I made it work, but the formula on this was awful! I ended up with two coats, one incredibly thin on and one thicker, kind of gloopy one. It self-leveled, but it was really annoying to work with, and you could definitely see the coats.

For accent nails, I used Ulta's Pinata Yada Yada which, as I mentioned here, I'm officially obsessed with. 

I'm now wearing China Glaze's Aquadelic with Pinata Yada Yada for accents. Beautiful color, super easy to work with, and bright and blue for summer!

What jewelry and nail polish have you guys been loving lately?