Suave Seasonals Peppermint Bliss

Looking for a cheap last minute gift?! Look no further! Suave Peppermint Bliss Shimmer Body wash sells for less than $2 at Wal*Mart and is my all time favorite body wash! This body wash is creamy, moisturizing, lathers well, and smells like sweet peppermint. I am a huge fan of peppermint in general and I love anything that smells like it. In fact, all fall and winter long my HG fragrance is Twisted Peppermint from Bath & Body Works, and I swear Peppermint is a dead on dupe. The best thing is, you get the amazing smell for way cheaper! The only thing bad about this body wash is that it's limited edition. I grabbed two bottles of this body wash at Wal*Mart last year and I went through one bottle in a snap. This summer I found this at Big Lots! for $1.50 and bought four bottles. I've seen it again this year at Wal*Mart along with four other seasonal scents so if you find it and like it, stock up! This is my HG body wash so I'm probably gonna go back and pick up a few more bottles as back ups just in case they decide to not bring this back next holiday season. *corsses fingers*

~Dori

Christmas Green

Color Club Object of Envy over Zoya Ivanka. I'm not even a fan of green polish but holy crap, I love this! This to me, is exactly what a Christmas green should look like. LOVE.

~Dori

Zoya Ivanka

This polish is so hard to photograph!.. Especially on a dark, cloudy, rainy day.Zoya Ivanka is from this past summer's Sparkle collection. The is a true medium green (reminds me of $$$... maybe it's names after Ivanka Trump??) that has a gold duochrome to it. I love this. It sparkles, it shimmers, it has a bit of a foil look to it too... and even though it came out in the summer and it looks like a summer color to me, it looks like Christmas to me too! Yesterday I got a dozen compliments on my nails at work. I think this polish has gotten more compliments than any other nail polish I've worn in a very long time. Winner winner chicken dinner!!

~Dori

Christmas Snowman

Hello readers! Any of you own any of these cute lil snowmen polishes from Rite Aid?.. the ones by Blue Cross? Well none of the colors really appealed to me but the bottles are too gosh darn cute to pass up so I had to get at least one and this frosty red snowman with tiny holo glitter was the lucky winner that got to come home with me!

And to make him even more festive I added China Glaze Party Heart on top! Woop woop!

A Christmas party on my nails? Yes please!!

~Dori

Philosophy Gingerbread 3-in-1

I knew this collection was too good to be true! Philosophy Gingerbread 3-in-1 is the dud of the collection! I think you all can tell by now I love everything about the holidays. I am a huge fan of anything that tastes or smells like gingerbread. In fact, I am eating gingerbread flavored yogurt right now as I write this review (limited edition for the holidays, Lucerne brand bought at Vons, in case you're interested ;] ). I was expecting a delicious, sweet, yet spicy gingerbread smell in my shower when I used this and unfortunately, I was greatly disappointed in more ways that one. First off I don't even know how to comment on the smell of this product because I'm not even sure there is one. No sweet, no spice, not anything nice. I kid you not, I took the whole top off and shoved my nose in the bottle and still couldn't smell anything. Now for the lather, neither of the other two 3-in-1's in this collection were very good at lathering and foaming up as a shampoo so I wasn't expecting much for this one either. However, Gingerbread 3-in-1 didn't later at all as a shampoo, and barely at all for a body wash. As a shampoo it was almost as if I had think honey in my hair (what the hell??) and when I used it as a body wash, I found myself having to open the bottle up a second time to use more product. I didn't quite use twice as much product for this 3-in-1 as I did the other two but I came pretty close. I hate to even review this cause I feel like I sound like such a Negative Ned but, what's a girl to do? Anyways, I love the Cinnamon Buns and Pumpkin Spice Muffin 3-in-1's so at least this collection wasn't a total loss. For now I'll enjoy my gingerbread in a yogurt cup rather than in my shower. :0)

Hope you had a fantastic weekend! Did you finish all your holiday shopping or are you gonna be out Christmas Eve night as all the shops are closing up? lol
~Dori

Color Club Magic Attraction

Color Club Magic Attraction is form the Glitter Vixin collection and is a super gorgeous light pink silver holo. The holo in this polish is of the chunkier sort, along the lines of the China Glaze Kaldiscope Collection. There's also random dark rose pink glitter in this polish that helps give off the pink look to this polish. I love this color and how sparkly and eye-catching it is but application was a PITA. This was 3 coats and I had to wait 2-3 minutes between each coat to prevent dragging and gloopyness at the tips since the polish was so thick. Overall though, I love this polish and am so glad I finnaly got my hands on this. I've had a lemming for this polish for almsot a year and I found the whole Glitter Vixin set last week at Ross for $7.99 so I could not resist! Score!!

P.S. Anyone notice at what time I am posting this? ...I have issues.
~Dori

Christmas Nails

Can you believe there's only a week left until Christmas?! By this time next next week I will be sitting under my tree with my family opening gifts. Or possibly we'll still be eating our prefect Christmas breakfast (now that we're all adults my mom insists that Christmas morning breakfast come before presents, not after) consisting of the most amazing glazed upside down sticky buns (I'll make sure to share pictures!!) and Lil' Smokies. Yum, yum, yum!! But with only one week left until Christmas, I'm scrambling to crank out as many Christmas manis as possible. Christmas only comes once a year, and since I'm a huge fan of the season, I want to go all out in every way possible.. including nails! Here's my Christmas nails for today, I was going to wait to show them tomorrow but I'm too excited about them to resist! I got off work late last night and stayed up til 1:00 doing these. I think my lack of sleep was worth it :0)

Left hand: Santa's Hat, Gingerbread Man, Christmas Tree, Candy Cane

Right Hand: Ice Skate, Christmas Present, Rudolph, Snowman

And for my thumbs I was at a bit of a loss as to what to do, so I just put China Glaze Party Hearty on top!

I actually really like how Party Hearty looks over Color Club Magic Attraction (the base color I used here), I think I'm gonna have to do a full mani like this.. it's so sparkly and festive and I love how every color glitter in Party Hearty shows up over Magic Attraction. What other colors do you all like Party Hearty over? Anyone else do any fun Christmas nail art?

Hope you have a wonderful Saturday!
~Dori