I couldn't resist that title! After seeing Polish Pauper's post I decided to just go ahead an put Unicorn Puke (Clairvoyant) on all my nails. How is it that I love it more every time I wear it? It almost has a metallic quality to it because there are so many flakes in there! I received confirmation that the Unicorn Puke bottle version are due to ship to us no later than October 7th, which means we should have it sometime between the 13th - 25th. With polishes in that quantity being "hazardous materials" for shipping it can be a little slow. I am trying to determine whether I should do pre-sales or if I should just wait for them to arrive and put them on the site.
Someone asked the difference between Unicorn Puke & Clairvoyant. Let me tell you there is absolutely no difference in the polish at all. We are only making the bottles a little different. The Unicorn Puke bottles will have gold screen printing instead of silver and the label will say Unicorn Puke. The Clairvoyant bottles will have the silver screen printing you see in the pictures below. (I actually have a few empty bottles and poured my lab sample in it to see how it would look.)
There will only be 288 of the Unicorn Puke screen printed bottles and I will most likely only sell 250 of them. I will use the others as gifts or giveaways etc. I was thinking of getting a gold sharpie and numbering each of them. What do you guys think? Since these bottles are special we won't include them in any of our sales, they will just retail for $10 until they sell out. Pretty straight forward there. We haven't decided if we are going to put the maximum at 2 or 3 bottles per person. I am leaning towards 2 though.
Anyway that is the information on the puke! I can't believe in just two short weeks I will have these bottles in my hands! EEK!

The blogger spotlight is getting harder and harder to do. There are so many amazing blogs out there featuring Cult Nails! I may have to do more Blogger spotlights!

Today's spotlight is PolishPauper! First off I think Kisten is amazing as a person and she has been hugely supportive of Cult Nails since she heard about us. But I actually had the opportunity to meet her and wish she lived closer to me! She is yet another blogger that I now count as one of my friends. I say that so when I invite myself to go stay with her for a girl's get away - she won't be able to resist. And while I am there I am stealing the Monique Lhullier shoes she got while we were in Vegas! Seriously though - She is wicked awesome (And so isn't her friend Rachel.)

Another thing I love about her post is that I have been wearing Vicious for a few days now and actually grabbed Unicorn Puke (Clairvoyant) to put on my ring finger, and then decided I wanted to wear it on all my fingers instead, but then changed my mind again, so I actually haven't done it yet. But I will be!

Check out the rest of her pics and post at www.polishpauper.com

In the mean time try to stop drooling while you check out these pics! Ok - that's it, going to grab Unicorn Puke and putting it on!

We finally made our decision on what to do with our computer situation. We ended up deciding on buying an iMac desktop computer and an iPad so here I am in my car actually dictating my blog post! I'll be uploading pictures from Flickr and see if it works. If this works we may be back in business! Well we'll be back in business after we backed up all the information we lost off the old Mac but we're getting closer.

The weekend is over, so sad. We actually unplugged(ish) for the weekend and spent it at a friend's "beach house". We were barely an hour and a half away from home and his beach house is as close to the beach as my everyday house is as close to the beach. Actually I think my everyday house is closer. But his house overlooks the water (where the ocean and river meet). Mine does not. I find it so crazy that I needed to get away and my beach wasn't good enough! LOL! Actually my beach is plenty good enough, it's the house that isn't. I mean if I stayed home and tried to unplug, I would be reminded of the boxes of nail polish and polish related items that need to find storage, or the laundry that needs to be done, or the errands that need to be run. So there would be no unwinding. By actually packing up and leaving, I might just actually unwind. Plus it was free! Well with the exception of all the money we spent on food! Yikes!

The view from the living room

Let me just say, I totally did. I checked in on Twitter and Facebook here and there. I Instagram'd a few photos, I even read my email. But  I didn't respond to a single email, which is huge for me! I was able to just chill by the pool (because the beach was overrun by jellyfish) with family and friends. It was beautiful!

The pool I spent most of my time at this weekend.

Of course we got back home yesterday and we went right back into Cult Nails work. We had orders to pack people! So I sat there rolling little polish cigars and Juan packed everyone's orders. So much for cooking dinner, or getting laundry done or anything else! Looks like I'll be spending my week catching up! But oh it was so worth it!

The beach - just look at how clear the water is! Darn jellyfish kept us out of it though!

Well, maybe we'll catch up on housework tomorrow, tonight we need to go look at MAC's and make a decision on what we are replacing my dead Macbook with. We are tossed up between the desktop MAC and another Macbook. I for one prefer the Macbook. But the desktop might have a bit more to offer us. But the desktop needs a desk and a place to put the desk. I hate the look of a computer desk in the house! Maybe a cabinet we can close? I don't know, I guess we will find out tonight! Hope everyone has a great day!

Quick possibly senseless post from my phone. I apologize in advance.

I have to make my final for our winter collection, yet here I sit still mixing! I received a few mixes I requested on Tuesday, plus I have the ones I didn't do for the Fall, but for some reason here I sit.

Here is the latest. I posted a video on my Facebook, so feel free to go there and check it out and let me know what you think.

But for now Here are some pics. So far today I have received 4 compliments on this one and a I have to have that from someone I know. Do I rush this & make it the final color?






-- Post From My iPhone

Today's blogger spotlight is Fishing4Beauty. This was a tough one to pick, since I just released my base and top coat, I wanted to choose one of the bloggers who received an early sample. They received the final product, it was just that our bottles were not ready yet.

I chose Fishing4Beauty because she did a great comp on the base coat and her pics are fabulous. I also like on her sidebar she has a what I am wearing right now on tips and toes. That is so cool - I kind of want to steal that for my blog! :) But I had a tough time deciding since all three reviews I have seen so far have been amazing.

One thing I like about the giveaways, sometimes I do them for just bloggers, other times I do them for everyone. This was an everyone giveaway, and a blogger ended up winning. So it was kind of cool to "see" someone using the prize. Plus now I found a new blog. If this keeps up I will sit here reading blogs all day!

I was thinking of posting her comp review pic on the basecoat, but I think you should go to Fishing4beauty's blog to check it out!

If you haven't taken advantage of our awesome sale, now's your chance! Head over to www.cultnails.com and buy the Cult Nails Get It On/Wicked Fast Combo and any color of your choice (I recommend our new color Vicious.) and enter code: TREATS at check out for $5 off! That means you get Wicked Fast, Get It On and a color for $20!

I am so excited to announce I now have a base coat and top coat! I will try to give you as much details as possible, but I'm running late for work, so not sure how good I'll be able to do.

First up Get It On Perfecting Base Coat. This was a lot harder than I thought it would be. There are so many different types of base coats one can make. Everyone's nails are different and have different needs. So which needs did I want to meet? Working with the lab they worked with me on different types of options I could focus on. Did I want something strengthening? Yes! Did I want something moisterizing? Yes! Did I want something for peeling nails? Yes! Did I want it creamy white? Sheer pink? Blue? Clear? Um what difference does it make? Did I want it to be a gripping base coat? Yes! So after several rounds I picked something that would give a little of everything, so this is a one size fits most base coat. I thought since I can only start with one, I want one most everyone can use. It is a stregthening base coat to help those with weak, thin, splitting or peeling nails. The great thing is we were able to do this B3 free and camphor free! This of course was important for me. I choose sheer pink because it helps give your nails a brighter appearance if you decided you wanted to wear it alone. That and I can't stand when I think I grabbed my top coat to freshen up a manicure only to get downstairs and realize I grabbed a base coat! Grrr - I wanted to be able to tell them apart quickly! And of course it has some amazing gripping properties so that your manicure will last longer! I can't say enough about my love of this base coat and I think you will love it too!

Now that the base coat is in order, let's move on to Wicked Fast Top Coat! I can't even tell you how much I love this! Once upon a time I thought I found the perfect top coat, this was years before Cult Nails, and then half way through the bottle it was a thick goopy mess that needed constant thinning. Before long I decided it wasn't worth the hassle of constantly thinning and would just buy a new bottle at the half way mark. Talk about costly! Then I discovered one online and it was the best top coat ever...until they changed the formula. Why they decided to change, I will never know. Soon after I started Cult Nails, I heard they changed the formula back, but it just wasn't the same. Or maybe it's because at that point I already decided I needed my own. This was a labor of love. I can't tell you how many versions of top coat I tried! But now I have Wicked Fast, as it's name states, it dries wicked fast. It dries shiny and doesn't become a goopy mess half way through the bottle! Can we say LOVE? Yes, Yes I can! The top coat is also B3 free, but does contain Camphor. I think you will love this as much as I do. Empty that drawer you have full of top coats, there will only be room for one in your life after you try this one!


This is a truer depiction of Vicious. It was taken with my phone, so the quality of the photo isn't great, but the color accuracy is pretty good. (Clairvoyant/UP is on my forfinger)

 The result was gold flakes going down the middle of my nails. It looks way more amazing in person. It is like going out on a hot date amazing, or girl's night out amazing, or weekend in Vegas amazing... You get the idea. But for me it is going to be going to work all week amazing! I had to finish the manicure and do all my nails. I can't stop staring at my nails. This is friggin amazing! Fall is just days away and it is the perfect mani to welcome Fall.

What a week! Let's see my MAC is dead, I sprained my foot (not my ankle - my foot! - who does that?), the laundry is out of control, um my MAC DIED!!!! My favorite bracelet broke, I'm still one color short for our winter line. It has definitely been a trying week! But through it all it really hasn't been THAT bad. There are some bright spots thrown in there!


OK so the MAC is dead, the bright side is, that it might be repairable or worst case I get a new MAC! Um while that sounds like fun, it certainly doesn't for my wallet! It's just not in the budget right now. Yeah kids, I know you're growing and need new pants, but mommy needs a new MAC! I'm sure the kids will love that one! The downside - all the pictures and videos I took that still need editing for the blog and website are all on there. The bright side, Apple can probably help us retrieve that, we just may need to give up an arm and leg in exchange. So I am left with pics I have previously posted on the blog

The broken MAC has left Juan looking a bit dejected

I'm a color short for the winter collection. I need to pick one more color! When I started this whole Cult Nails thing I mixed a red polish. Just an ordinary red and decided on Quench instead. But my daughter and her friends and any of my friends who see it, want this creamy red. So I am thinking, just maybe this red? But ugh - I don't want a "plain" color. But Unicorn Puke looks great over it. But ugh - winter - red, does it get any more obvious? What to do.... On the bright side, I sent two more mixes to the lab so it is down to one of three colors. Once I finalize the last color, the winter collection will be set to be put into production.

I think this is the pic of the red - if not it looks an awful lot like this one. So we'll just call it good. LOL!

Then I roll my foot and "stretch a ligament". Such a minor thing, so why is it causing so much pain? The downside - Before the MAC died I bought a new pair of heels, boo - I can't wear them for a few weeks now! The bright side - I get to buy flats since I have nothing besides casual sandals and boots for flats and they are not really work or weather appropriate. The down side - my MAC died, so there is no getting new shoes at the moment. Hmm, guess there really is no bright side to rolling my foot. Darn it - I tried!

I think this is the face I made when I rolled my foot

To make it even more interesting, a few links on one of my favorite bracelets broke! Boo! I got this on JewelMint and I am pretty disappointed that the third time I wore it, I noticed broken links. Not good! I haven't emailed them yet, so not sure if there is a bright side yet - but I am hoping so!


After a week like this you would think that I would be looking a bit like this...


But no, not for me! We have 1,799 likes on the page as I write this! At 2,000 likes we are giving 1 of every polish in stock to one lucky person! I love give aways - so I am super excited that it will happen soon! If you don't like us on , I suggest you head there now! I'll be doing the same give away on the  page once we have 2,000 followers there, so if you don't follow us on - what are you waiting for?

Oh and the week ends on the brightest note EVA! My base coat - Cult Nails Get it On and top coat - Cult Nails Wicked Fast are ready early!!! WAHOOO! I should get my shipping confirmation today and I should have them some time next week! I am so excited to be getting them early! I can't wait! WAHOO! All though I wish that I had them today because tonight I am going to a friends Jewelry party and she wants me to have a Cult Nails table. It would be nice to have them for that, but really - a week early! Heck yeah! 

So in spite of it all, I am jumping for joy - on the one good foot I have!

And of course it's Friday so the weekend will be here before we know it - so all in all, not a bad week!

How has your week been?

This last weekend we decided to hit the beach. It seems kind if strange that we hadn't been in about a month when we live a half a mile away. I always said I wouldn't become on of those people. But yup I most definitely am one of those people now! I missed the beach. It seems like all the world's stresses just go out to sea. But just because, we drove about 30 miles away to hit a different beach! Lol!


Love our little beach set up! Makes me want to go right back there now!


I had taken the polish off my nails and simply put my base coat on for protection. I am going to be mixing polishes and I end up testing them on a nail as I create, so I try to keep my nails undone when I am creating.



As I was sitting there, I realized that my nail bed length is different on each nail. This of course means that the free edge on each nail is also a different length to compensate. The end result is perfectly even nails even though nothing actually lines up 100%. that got me wondering, are your nailbeds even? If your not one of the lucky ones and your like me, do you grow your free edge evenly or do you offset your free edge like I do so the the overall nail is even? I'm just being curious.


Here's a shell I found on the beach. I wonder how old it is?


-- Post From My iPhone

As one of the most-recognized purveyors of fashion trends, super-stylist and designer Rachel Zoe has put her boho-chic style stamp on countless celebrities and captured the collective attention of fashion mavens everywhere. Her ability to whip beauties into fashionable shape has led her to endless collaborations: a smart-budget clothing line with QVC, a trend-forecasting role with Piperlime.com and her own Bravo TV reality show, The Rachel Zoe Project. It was only a matter of time before the “major” style star dipped her Chanel-accessorized hands into beauty—and that she has as the front woman for Exude lipstick. The innovative lip color line boasts nine universally flattering lip creme shades as well as five lip glosses—but it’s the delivery system and formulation that hooked the discerning stylist. “[Exude co-founders] Laurence [Mille] and Diane [Breidenbach] approached me with the product, and I was immediately intrigued because I’m completely obsessed with lipstick and anything that pertains to it,” Zoe laughs. “I was very excited to be shown something that was new and different, and I thought it was really, really cool.”

What’s cool about it? The lip color is housed in a tube containing an innovative crystal-clear applicator shaped like a traditional lipstick bullet; when you twist the bottom, a drop of pigment-rich color is released into a recessed area in the bullet’s tip. If too much product comes out, twist the bottom in the opposite direction and the lip color is sucked back into the applicator. Clean, efficient and oh-so-chic! “I’m a germ freak and I love that you can roll it up and roll it down, and none of it gets messy—it always looks pretty and doesn’t get on anything in your purse!” Zoe says.

Joey Maalouf, Zoe’s right-hand makeup man, views the applicator as being a great beauty tool as well. “The plastic applicator also allows you to move the lipstick around on the lip so that you don’t need a lip liner; you can easily and cleanly fade the color into the lip,” he says.

But for Zoe, what’s inside this magic bullet is what counts. “The system is great, but even if it’s a great concept, the actual product needs to be good—otherwise I’m not getting involved,” Zoe recounts. “But when I put it on, I literally fell in love with it in five minutes flat.” The deeply hydrating, anti-aging formulation blends vitamins C and E, omega-3, omega-6 and goji berry, laying down a somewhat elastic, lip-clinging finish. Despite being creamy and soft, the crèmes wear long and strong. “My biggest thing with lipstick is that it always dries up because I have to talk a lot and my lips get really, really dry,” Zoe laughs. “Exude lip creams feel like I'm wearing lip balm. They stay on. I went through a phase when I wanted matte, matte and matte, and then I realized I constantly looked like I had chapped lips and it was not chic. Not cute at all!”



Zoe had her hand in the design of the packaging, a minimalist and modern white tube that is velvety smooth to the touch. “The feel is so important to me, and of course I want it to look chic,” she says. And, naturally, the stylist has a favorite color of the bunch. “I love Cranberry. I’m wearing it now, and I’ve been wearing it for five hours and it hasn’t worn off…has it?” she demures.

The nine lip crèmes (Bronze, Brown, Coral, Cranberry, Nude, Pink, Plum, Red and Rosy Brown) and five lip glosses (Clear, Brown, Crimson, Dusty Pink and Scarlet Red) will be sold exclusively at exudelipstick.com beginning this month, and will officially launch in October. —Karie L. Frost

The lipstick and glosses retail for $29 each! But if you hurry Lucky Magazine is offering these until 10:59AM today 9/14/2011 only at 50% off! Just go to exudelipstick.com and enter discount code: luckydaily2 at checkout! I assume that code is good through 10:59AM EST, but it doesn't say on it's site. So get a move on if you want to get this deal! :)

Press release from Creative Age Communications

I am finally getting around to editing the videos I took about a month ago! Each video takes about 2 hours to edit and put together. I still have two more to go for this collection and a few others I created. I am hoping to get to them over the course of this week. In the meantime, this video will give you a better idea of what In a Trance looks like. Once I get them all done, Juan will add them to the Cult Nails website.




That's all I have for you this Tuesday. Hope you have a great day!

I decided to add a new feature to my blog. If you blog about Cult Nails make sure you post it on our Facebook page or Twitter page. Each week, I will feature one of my favorite posts.

Chit Chat Nails is a blog written by Marta in Canada. I love her posts, she gives us a bit of insight into who she is. Her Twitter is the same. You can feel her vibe and energy in each and every post. She makes me laugh all the time. I actually think if I lived near her, we would be inseparable. Do you ever read or follow a blog and think, I wish we could hang out? Well that's how I feel about Marta. If you don't follow her blog, you should.

And her pictures are amazing to boot! She not only takes nail pics, but she takes some pretty creative pics of the polish bottles. I have actually contacted her to use her pictures on the Cult Nails site. Now if I just had the time to redo the site!

Here are just a few pictures that she featured of In a Trance on her site last week. I absolutely LOVE this picture! I want to take a picture like this now! I just don't think I can pull it off like her.



See what I mean? A blog not to be missed! So go check out Chit Chat Nails, I think you'll enjoy her blog as much as I do!

When I decided to stop wearing enhancement I looked at everything on the market that was created to help repair nails. In the end this is what worked for me. I used Dr. G’s Liquid Diamond Nail Hardener swabs on my nails every day. This liquid soaks into your nails and is not a polish at all. Once that dried I topped my nails with Mavala Nail Shield Strengthener. This is a two part base coat. One has fibers in it and the other smooths it all out. I still use Dr G’s today if I feel my nails are getting a little weak. I don’t really use the Mavala Nail Shield system anymore though. But at the time I was getting tears below the free edge on the sides of my nails, and this was great at preventing that.

This was when my hair was much longer than it currently is now and I did a faux bob in my hair. Love this look. My hair is short enough now, where if I curl it I think it will just be this length. I have to try it.

Messing around with some green polishes I created. Wasn't a fan of this in person, but it looks cool in the picture!

OK so I just answered that one. LOL! No I don’t change my polish every day. I typically do change it every 4 or 5 days though, unless it’s the weekend, sometimes I will try 5 or 6 colors on the weekend, if I am creating or more if I am swatching. But sometimes I have to stick it out a full week if I am testing a new color for wear.

Fl blogger meetup! I figure if I post this I will remember to schedule another meetup! I've been so lazy lately and I miss my girls!

My fav blogger buddies - Libby's Pink Vanity & Once Bitten

How do you get your polish to last – mine always chips?

This book contains all my Cult Nails secrets

A friend of mine took this picture. I remember her telling me "Just relax & be sexy!" I was trying to channel sexy here. It only took about 100 pictures for me to relax! LOL!

This is the moon rising over the ocean. Love the beach! I haven't been in forever! Makes me want to go take a walk!

Have a great weekend everyone! Hope you enjoyed this post!