Nails

February Julep Maven

So far this has to be my favorite Maven box yet!  All their boxes were Oscar themed featuring rich shades of red, rust, gray, or blue.  Every box had the great gold glitter polish, dubbed Oscar of course!  My box included Marissa which is a shimmery deep cobalt blue, so gorgeous and topped with Oscar seems so fitting for my upcoming trip to California.

My treatment in this box was the Essential Cuticle oil which I just fell in love with.  It’s soothing lavender oil comes in almost the same jar the polishes come in only this one has a sweet roller ball on the end to distribute the oil to your cuticles.  Because it dried quickly the treatment was fast and mess free.  I only painted 1 nail Oscar for this pic so you could also see how gorgeous Marissa was (which only needed one coat!!!!).

xoxo Heather

January Julep Maven

Oh how this kicked off my new year.  I received my Julep Maven box this past weekend and was soooo happy with the contents.  I received 3 polishes!!!  Woot Woot!   The first one was the Nail Therapy to help strengthen and condition nails, also works as a great base coat.  The next one was called Heather(!!!!) and was a metallic gray with this cool pinkish mauve undertone, swoooooon!  The last one was a pastel yellow, Blake, that I admit I was extremely excited with.  I have been searching for the perfect buttery yellow and only the Chanel one has caught my eye, but I refused to pay that much for a nail polish.  The treatment that was included in this box was a Pomegranate body scrub that will no doubt go perfectly with the body lotion I got last month.  I’ll post up Blake when I use it on BtL’s fb page, for now below is Heather.

xoxo Heather

December’s Julep Maven – Happy Holidays!

I’ve decided to make my Julep Maven boxes a post ritual and share the surprise with you every month.  This month I was delighted to get a lovely Happy Holidays inspired box!!

It included:

• Pomegranate Body Creme
• Peacock Nail Appliques
• Fast Dry Topcoat
• *Bonus* Glitter Pot for Nails: Iridescent green pearls

The body creme is super hydrating which is great for the cold winter months that we have coming, my skin is going to eat this up after a nice hot shower.  This is my first time using these nail appliques too!  These are very luxe with 3 dimensional like peacock feather patterns on them.  Have you ever given the appliques a shot?  How did you like it?  I was shocked at how easy it was and it took me only 5 mins to do!!  Jane at Julep suggested putting the top coat polish on them to keep your manicure looking fresh for longer.

If you haven’t signed up for this program yet I highly recommend it.  You get truly high end and natural products for such a minimal cost.  I believe Julep is still offering the discounted code “BEHINDTHELASHES” to make your first box only $5.00!!!!

xoxo Heather

Shopping Avon: Holiday Scene Stealing in 10

One thing I love about Avon (and Mark) is that their items are not sold in stores.  It’s a sure way the other girls at the party won’t be rocking the same items, and hell their products priced great!!  Here are my top 10 picks to help grab attention at your parties.

1 Scene Stealer Necklace

2 Earn Your Metal Liquid Shimmer Eyeliner

3 Showcase Color & Clutch To Go

4 Nailed It Trend Holiday Mini Nail Lacquers

5 & 6 Play with Prints Top & Party Lines Skirt

7 I-Mark Metallics Custom Pick Eye Shadow

8 Power of Change Necklace

9 Glitz & Gloss Mini Purse & Go

10 Totally Suitable Blazer

Right now you can enter code CYBER2011 for Free Shipping!!!

xoxo Heather

Meet Julep Maven & *Giveaway*

Today I’m absolutely so thrilled to share my Julep nail kit with you!  Julep started out being a popular nail spa destination in the Seattle area and now is growing into a powerful girlfriend movement.  They created a full line of amazing nail polishes as well as manicure and pedicure products, all of which are toxin-free!!!  More recently they just announced the launch of their new service Julep Maven!  The Maven program was designed to allow every girl, and girlfriend, out their to receive the same special treatment that beauty editors do.  In each box you get two nail colors, one being not available yet to the general public, and a special treatment.  I just got the Boho Glam Maven box and the colors were gorgeous!  There was Olivia and Miranda (special color not yet released for sale), and a bottle of their Facial for Hands Glycolic Hand Scrub.  The colors were insanely rich and lasted much longer than my normal at-home-manicures, they also didn’t smell as horrible as normal nail polish do.  The hand scrub was soooo amazing, seriously didn’t know what I was missing there, and took my at-home-manicure to a more professional level.

Loved this saying off their bag:

 Powered by Girlfriends.

At Julep we believe in the power of connection.  How together, we resonate.  How we inspire each other to be the best versions of ourselves.  We are a community of women celebrating other women in unison.  And that is beautiful.

*Giveaway*

With that said Julep and I have teamed up to give one beautiful lady a complimentary 3-month membership to their Julep Maven program (valued over $60)!!!!

To Enter:  Visit Julep.com and leave a comment below with what your favorite color polish is.

Want extra entries for more chances to win?

• One extra entry and comment for sharing this giveaway on Facebook!
• One extra entry and comment for tweeting this giveaway on Twitter!
• One extra entry for Liking Julep on Facebook!

Giveaway will be open until November 22, 2011 at 11:59pm.  Winner announced November 23, 2011.

Good Luck Girlfriends!!!

xoxo Heather

P.s.  Julep set up a fancy code for all Behind the Lashes readers.  Using promo code “BEHINDTHELASHES” at checkout, my readers will receive their first Julep Maven Sneak Peek Box for just $5! (valued over $40)

Sneak Peek!

Just a quick shot to next Monday’s post….pssss….there might be a giveaway involved!  I’m so excited about this one I don’t know how I’m keeping it in until then.  Love you ladies!!!

xoxo Heather

Pan Am: Laura’s White Nails

Ok…I’m loving this show.  There’s something about that time when a woman really did go to extreme measures to get made up but at the same time looked so natural.  Besides the lovely winged eyeliner, that I’m saving for another time, I found myself obsessed with the light white nails.  The shade on Laura Cameron, played by Margot Robbie, this past week especially…

I found a shade that I think resembled hers pretty well.  Mine is a translucent white so you can just make out the pink/white of your own nails.  What do you think?  Are you fan of this look too??

xoxo Heather

My Weekend…

Some favorite details:

• Snuggle time with the man
• New manicure with Essie’s French Affair…I have a feeling this color will consume most of my summer
• An amazing night with some OG friends–love you ladies and Happy Birthday Christina!
• Exploring Fort Hancock in NJ after a car meet–can be a little creepy haha

What about you loves?  What was your favorite part of the weekend?

xoxo Heather

Miss Nails part2

Snow and snow and more snow.  Ughh…  Well at least my nails are pretty even though nobody sees them except me…and my bf…well, and you   These are the other 2 colors Miss Professional Nails sent me, Hot Atomic Red and Poppies.  Only 2 coats needed, sorry it looks a little sloppy on my fingers, it really does look much better in person haha.  Poppies was just as shimmery as the silver!

xoxo Heather

P.s.  Here’s a snap of Sebastian, he loves to curl up in my sink just as I’m about to wash my face haha.

Miss Professional Nails

I was contacted by this lovely California based nail company, Miss Professional Nail Products who was kind enough to send me 3 lovely shades (Thank you Jacky!!!!).  The first one I tried was Hot Metallic Silver which is a super shiny shimmery silver that reminded me of the fresh paint off my Volkswagen when I first bought it.  (I’ll post the other two when I apply them.)

Miss gave me a link also to this awesome video they had a blast shooting for the nail polishes.  So jealous because this looked like a lot of fun!!!

xoxo Heather