How many people do you know get motivated to work out by taking a vacation? Somehow having the time to totally relax and step away from it all has completely re-motivated me. I used to work out all the time, but that was several years ago. Somehow along the way I stopped working out and it has been near impossible to get back to where I was. I keep active, I do stuff, but it seems like I am always in and out of keeping to a schedule. I have so many other things going on in my life, that working out only seems to happen when I am feeling totally out of shape and then once I am feeling good again I stop. It seems I am in a constant state of flux. So now that I am totally refreshed I am totally determined to get back to my former fitness level. Day one went well enough, Juan and I took a seriously brisk walk on the beach for 30 minutes today - in the rain and then I came home and did some yoga. It felt great. I am determined to continue on this path. Anyone an avid fitness nut? Any tips on how to keep motivated?

Today I need to redo my manicure so I used Essence Glamorous. I haven't used this one since last year, but I remember really liking this color. But now that I have it on, I'm not sure. It is pretty like a jewel, but it seems so 1990's holidayish to me. I'll probably just take it off tonight if I continue to dislike it. What do you think?

I got back from my weekend cruise with the girls yesterday, it was a perfect weekend. We relaxed, soaked in some sun, danced, ate, visited the spa and will you believe I even woke up early to work out each day? Yup and I took the stairs so many times instead of the elevator that my legs actually have a little burn feeling when i walk now. If I didn't have to work, I could totally get a workout in every day. It was so easy when I didn't have to rush anywhere. I wish I could be that dedicated at home!

It really was a perfect get-away weekend. I hardly even spent any money! YAY! The girl who set up our cruise is also an owner in the travel agency and she took care of our group. We had several cocktail parties where drinks were included and an onboard credit, so I didn't spend much at the spa or otherwise. I actually came home with most of my money! YAY!  Here are some photos from the cruise. Hey some of these can count as outfit of the day pics, which is great since I don't have a nail photo for you today.


That about covers the cruise from the weekend. It was a great time and now it is back to being a mom and working my tail off.  I hope everyone had an equally fun and relaxing weekend. Peace, Love & polish girls!

Good morning ladies! I skipped my post yesterday. I was so busy yesterday, I woke up and scooted right out of the house to get to work. Knowing I would be out of the office today and Monday, I had a lot of work to do. Don't you love how you need a vacation from work to recharge, but in order to go on vacation you have to work all kinds of crazy hours before you go and once you get back in order to stay caught up with everything? Or is that just something I struggle with? Either way, no thinking about work now, now it is time to enjoy my weekend with a cruise. I can't wait, but at the same time, I have the guilty pit in the bottom of my belly because I am leaving Juan and the girls for the weekend. Not to mention the fact that I am going to miss them like crazy! Part of me just wants to stay home with my family instead. But I know I am going to have a great time with the girls and I know it's good for me to spend time with friends outside of family, so I will just miss them like crazy while I am gone and enjoy them more once I get home.

On a side note, my comments weren't working on my last post. Rather frustrating. I can't figure out why either. I am hoping the issue gets resolved for this post. Keeping my fingers crossed. Yup they work! I accidently posted this before I was finished. Oops!

The poll seems to be going great for Pre-Sale. Although the No pre-sale is winning. Boo! Ha! I love the feedback and I am glad you girls are being honest. Almost 100 people have completed the poll. That is amazing. So if I got almost 100 people to complete the poll would it be impossible to get 100 more to complete it? Let's see what happens!

The contest for the last color chosen by you for the Cult Nails line release isn't going as well as I expected though. I was hoping for 300 votes, and it doesn't look like we will get there. So how about this, the person who created the winning color is going to get the Cult Nails release line for free before anyone else. But what if I give one of the voters the line free once it releases? Does that make you want to vote now? :) You have until midnight tonight to vote and one of you will win the first 3 colors upon release! So Click Here and vote!

Hopefully I will be coming back some time today and adding a photo of my nails for the cruise. Let's see how the morning goes first though. I am actually going to work for a few hours from home this morning, so not sure if I will have time to come back and post before I have to leave. Fingers crossed!

I added some purple to the brown I showed yesterday. It was a medium purple coloring I added to it. It came out pretty cool. It looks brown, but purple all at the same time. I should have gone with my first instinct and added the dark purple, but this is still a nice color that I can see myself wearing often.


Here it is inside with indirect light. It just looks slightly lighter than yesterday's brown. In person it looks a little more purple.

I was on Twitter talking to a few awesome bloggers last night and the talk of Pre-Sale came up. I have also received a few emails and comments on pre-sale before this. What do you guys think? Should I do a pre-sale? I put a little poll up on the upper right hand side of my blog - let me know what you think? If I offer the pre-sale it won't be until I finalize the samples and can get swatches up, but at least I'll know what everyone wants and we can go from there!


The contest is getting some amazing results! Right now the results are tied between two with another one just trailing behind those two and the other three just trailing behind those. I added some better pictures of EvilAngel's color by the way. I wanted to let everyone know, since it was such a tough one to photograph. I wonder who the winner will be? Want to know the sucky part? (Is sucky a word? Ha!) I will be on a ladies cruise when the contest ends! OK - that really isn't so sucky is it? Ha! I will be hangin' with the girls on a cruise to the bahama's, which is going to be awesome - but I won't know who won until I get back on Monday! Juan is going to shut the contest down and tabulate all the results for me. Which of course I will confirm on my own and post the results on Monday.


Speaking of the cruise - I am still not packed and I still don't know what color I want to wear on my nails. I was hoping my samples would be back in time for me to rock the red holo - but my luck it will get here after I leave on Friday or something! So any thoughts? Suggestions? I was thinking an old favorite like RBL Bangin' or Chanel Kaleidoscope. Any other suggestions?


Right now I am wearing a brown I created. I have been wearing this since I think Friday night, and through  giving myself a pedicure and everything and didn't take pictures until right now, so excuse the tipwear. But not too bad considering it's early Tuesday morning!

It's time to vote for your fellow blogger polish creations. Cult Nails will create the winning color as part of the launch collection. The winner will of course receive all three colors of the launch collection before everyone else! (well not everyone, since I guess I will have it first, but you know what I mean.) Below are the descriptions and pictures for the entrants dream colors. The contest will run through Friday September 24th at 11:59PM EST and the results will be posted here on Monday September 27th. Help spread the word about Cult Nails and have your friends, family and followers help select the winning shade! Here are the entries in no particular order:


1.  Blogger: Lacquered Lizard
     Color: Sage green with purple shimmer
     Description: Lacquered Lizard entered this color for another contest and still would like to
     see this one happen. She did a post on her blog about this color, which you can see here.
     She would like "A color like the Mexican sage plant with it's silver green leaves and purple 
     flowers. A sage green polish with purple/pink shimmer. The green pictured below is spot
     on, but she would like to see more purple shimmer come out in the final polish."
     Inspiration: 


2.  Blogger: Tierny

Before we start today's post I have a message for Brianna. Yeah Brianna - this is for you! Yesterday Brianna read my post and made a comment something to the effect of "Who does your mom think she is saying the Kardashian's have nothing on her, for one they are younger." Brianna was kidding. (At least I hope she was) and she is the Kat's friend. Well of course I think that means that she misunderstood my comment from yesterday's post. But I thought it was clever and funny, so of course now she gets a bit of payback! Brianna I was referring to the size of my rear end. Not their gorgeousness, nor their age. Although I resent that age comment young lady! :) And hey thank you for even putting me in their league! I love it! That means this momma still has it! (It had to be the combo between those cargo skinnies and my shoes and not the butt according to Brianna who missed the reference!) Ha! 


OK so now back to the posting, How is everyone planning on ringing in the weekend? We have a wedding to go to and I still don't know what I am going to wear. I think it is a somewhat casual wedding, so a cute sundress and some hot shoes? I guess I better get in my closet and see what I have since shopping is out of the question right now. Speaking of, did you know you need like a million business licenses to start a business? I swear every time I turn around there is another requirement! It is crazy. Fed ID, State Certificate, County License, zoning license, City license, Sales & Use tax license, Trade Mark, and let's not forget the merchant account and Paypal account and the list goes on and on. I swear, I don't even have a bottle of my polish in my hands and all this other stuff is keeping me busy! 


Anyhoo, let's get onto the nails for today. This is another one created by one of my daughters. Coco created this gold matte polish. This was very streaky but the concept is great. Not to shabby for an 1 year old. Matte gold, who would have thought of this one? 
Cool right? Alright girls, I will see you back here next weekend, with hopefully another outfit of the day.  Have a great weekend!

Oh wait before I go - today is your last chance to enter the contest to have your dream color be part of the first release of Cult Nails! Go to www.cultnails.com/Shop.html for details and how to enter. Check back next week for the entrants and to help select the winner!

I totally forgot I took pictures on Friday for an Outfit of the Day post. How could I forget? I think these are my best pictures yet. I tried to pretend that there was no camera and it almost worked. I think I might actually get the hang of this after all. But boy do I feel conceited when I take these pictures, but hey let's be serious, if I am doing all this, then I must be just a little bit conceited right? I am a Leo after all! HA!


So I have been seeing these J Brand Houlihan Cargo Skinnies all over the place and I fell in love with them.

I was trying to create a purple brown toned polish with a green duo chrome effect. I got pretty close. It showed perfect in the bottle, but on the nail it came out with more green than the purple brown color. But it still came out pretty cool none the less. I may have to think this one through a little more though if it is going to make it into the line. But either way I am having a blast trying to create different colors! I have already created over 20 polishes in the last week and a half! It's crazy! I need to see about getting more bottles already!