June Haul and reviews

Hi guys! Somehow it's already July... How did that happen? I don't know about you, but for me the month of June just came and went in the blink of an eye. I love summer because I work at a college and over the summer we work four 10 hour days since the campus is closed on Fridays, which means 3-day weekends for 11 glorious weeks. It's wonderful, and it means I have more time for blogging (yay!), reading (yay!) and shopping (bad!). 

So over the summer my goal is to put up a bunch of how-to posts: how I paint my nails, shape them, photograph them, care for them... you get the picture. I know that I found those types of posts very helpful when I started painting my own nails, and I still hit up those kinds of things every now and then, just to see if there are any more techniques out there that could improve my routine. So if you're interested in those types of posts, stay tuned.  : )

But now, on to the haul. If you remember from my May haul, I told myself that in June I would be under a "no-buy" moratorium. Well, I almost immediately broke that promise because I found a super sweet deal on eBay for a lot of 4 Essie polishes that included three specific shades that were on my "want" list. But it was such a terrific price that I really don't care, I literally couldn't pass that offer up. After that I actually only bought one more bottle of nail polish in the month of June, everything else I'll be talking about below were all gifts. I did, however, buy a lot of makeup and makeup tools in the month of June, so I guess I really didn't do a very good job after all....

May haul and musings

Hello again! 

I've decided that at the end of each month I will try to do a monthly haul post of all of the new nail polish I've accumulated. I am TRYING, however, to behave myself and not buy something nail or beauty related every time I go into Target or a drugstore. It's hard though, because I like to think of myself as going through what I call my "rubber band" phase. For the longest time I spent money strictly based on need. I literally almost never bought anything for myself, except a quarterly Bath & Body Works splurge to get my favorite lotions and body wash (which are Moonlight Path and Warm Vanilla Sugar---for the record). I just didn't care about buying things for myself, I cared more about saving money. But now I realize spending some money here and there isn't gonna break the bank... hence the rubber band theory. I think that since I have held back for SO LONG I'm like a rubber band that has been pulled tight and released---now I want to buy SO many things! It's really not good....