I can't believe this week is already almost over! It went by so fast! The kids are on Spring break this week, so I have been trying to do stuff with them, while they have been rebelling and wanting to hang out with their friends. Teenagers! We settled on a mix 50% of the time they did stuff with us and the other 50% they got to hang out with their friends. I think that's a good mix!

On Friday's I'm going to just post some of my Instagram pics from the week. What do you think? I heard that Instagram is going to be releasing a Droid app soon! How cool is that? So all you on the droid market can join us on the Instagram fun! WAHOO! I can't wait because I love seeing everyone's pics! As you know I mainly use Instagram for my Outfit of the Day photos, rather than bore you here on the blog everyday. But now you get to see them all on Friday's! If you have an iPhone download the Instagram app - I'm CultNails on there.

Top view of the applicator

Side view of applicator - it's flat for easier application.

The swatch above is color accurate.

On the left is my natural lip and on the right is Hot Flash.

Next up, In A Flash. This is a vivid purple with pink and blue shimmer. The bottle pic below photographed pink, but believe me in person it's purple. The pink and blue shimmer transferred onto the lips as well. I have to say this one was my favorite of the bunch. Again I had to blot it down to make it wearable for me, but I loved how the purple contrasted with the shimmer in this one!

Tis swatch is extremely color accurate. LOVE!

On the left is my natural lip on the right In A Flash

My natural lip on the left and Flashy on the right.

Milani cosmetics are available at CVS pharmacies and on their website www.milanicosmetics.com. (They ship in the U.S. and Canada) The Haute Flash Full Coverage Shimmer Lipglosses retail for $7.49 each.

We are trying to do some stuff with the kids today while they are on Spring Break before turning them loose to their friends, so just a quick post today. Hope you have a great day!

The kids are on Spring break this week. They want to spend time with their friends, I want to use the opportunity to spend time with the family. We thought we could maybe take a few days and go someplace and rent jet ski's or try zip lining or something equally fun and adventurous. You know something that would keep 3 teenagers interest. Our kids have other ideas. One would love to try zip lining, the other two are not into it. Two would love to go Jet Skiing, the other one is too scared. So in the end we decided we would stay home and do a few small things throughout the week, while allowing them time to spend with their friends. So we rented a boat for today so the kids could go tubing in the cold river water.

Well last night as I lay in bed, I just couldn't sleep. Juan was lying next to me snoring like he was getting paid for it, and I was left laying there punching him every few seconds. Dang it I had to be at the gym at 7:30 this morning and here it is midnight and I am still awake thanks to him! I was about to get up and go sleep on the couch, but I refuse to not sleep in my bed! Well finally sometime later I fell asleep, but then I heard a slamming noise. Like someone let the front door screen go. I sat upright and Juan who had been snoring soundly seconds ago was silent and he just whispered "What?" I said "Did you hear that?" Now mind you I hear weird noises all the time. I have even had whispers in my ear saying "Ma" just like my kids say it. I always think they are messing with me and I always am left with no one else in the room but me & Juan. I freak out every time. I always wake Juan up and ask if he hears the noises or whispers and his response is always no. He thinks it's me dreaming and perhaps he is right. But not last night. Last night, he said "Yup I heard that!" OK now I am REALLY freaked out! As Juan gets up looking for a weapon before heading downstairs I grab the phone in case I need to call 911. At this moment I am thinking hmm maybe we do need a gun in the house, since the only thing close enough to weapon upstairs is a pair of stilettos. With no weapon to be found, Juan just throws on the light and runs downstairs. I am upstairs, my heart beating like a bird is trying to fly out of my chest, listening for any signs of something being wrong. Juan came back upstairs probably less than a minute later, but it felt much longer than that. There was nothing, all the doors were locked, nothing outside or inside. Just a weird noise!

Now I am laying there and snuggled into Juan as close as I can get, totally freaked out and Juan is already snoring! UGH!!! At this point I knew I was not going to get any sleep and with us getting a boat for today, I needed to be with it, not tired! I looked at the clock and realized there was going to be no way I was going to the gym in 5 hours with no sleep. Now I am up and feeling guilty for not hitting the gym. I bet if I forced myself to get up, I would have been able to do it. I'll have to do some at home workout today to make up for it. But at least I get to get out there and have some fun in the sun with the family today and the noise was nothing! PHEW!

ANYWAY, what does any of that have to do with today's post? Nothing really. Just thought I would share my little crazy night last night since I can't seem to get it out of my mind still.

Anyway on Saturday night the entire family left me for their friends. I was home alone and so I took the time to relax and did my nails. I'm trying to be a bit more bold with my nails and so I put three rectangular rhinestones in varying colors down the center of my nails. I'm wearing Mind Control as the base of my nails. Check it out and let me know what you think.





I hope you all have a great week and just wanted to remind you that there are just a few days left to vote for me. :) http://brad.bookperk.com/engine/Details.aspx?p=V&c=52618&s=18069147&i=1

Last night I went to a friends birthday dinner. We were going out to eat sushi and then a local beach bar. These two things scream two totally different outfits to me. Going out for sushi to me screams a fun city chic outfit, going to a beach bar screams casual beach fun attire. I know most people probably don't think in these terms, but for me everything is an opportunity to play dress up. Even if I am home cleaning the house, I still find myself thinking of the right outfit for that but usually in that case it is something that I wouldn't be horribly embarrassed if someone knocked on the door, but I don't really care if it gets ruined with bleach or some other cleaning product. I can't be the only one who thinks like this, but sometimes I feel like I am. I think some of my friends must think I am vain, but really it has more to do with my love of pretty things than my looks. Pretty things make me feel pretty, it's that simple. Just the same way many of us buy polish because it looks so pretty in the bottle even though we know we will most likely never wear it. It makes you feel good. That is me with clothes and accessories. If I couldn't do Cult Nails, my dream job would be to be the host of What Not to Wear or How Do I Look, I love making other people find the appreciation in pretty clothes and how it can make you feel. Plus I think, while I love these shows, they make everyone look so cookie cutter, and I think you can express yourself in many different ways without being so cookie cutter.

Anyway, that was a tangent wasn't it? Hey I'm working from home now, there's no one here to talk to. It's so quiet. So now I am just blurting it out here. You're Welcome! (Or maybe not! LOL)

SO as I was saying, back to the dinner and drinks scenario. I needed an outfit that would go from sushi to beach bar. It was in the back of my mind all day. I had no idea what to wear. I stood in my closet and nothing felt right, but I kept coming back to the Toulouse Stripe Cap Sleeve T-shirt dress from French Connection that I found at TJMaxx. When I saw this dress there I thought it would be the perfect outfit to wear around town. In my mind I thought Farmer's Market and walking around a historic district antique shopping and sitting outside a chic coffee bar having coffee while people watching. Sounds so ideallic - except, I NEVER do any of these things, but I had to get it, because I would love to do these things, so in case the opportunity comes up, I'd be ready! Right? (Yes that is how my crazy mind works when it comes to clothes - I picture where I am going to wear it and the idea of it makes me buy it. so sad.)

WOW - OK another tangent. ANYWAY, so I saw this cute French Connection dress at TJMaxx and it was only $19.99 if I remember correctly and it retails for $78 at French Connection - SCORE!

Last night while looking through some pictures on my phone, I came across this picture I took earlier in the week.

I'm wearing Awakening on my nails. Awakening is a jelly creme. Meaning it applies sheer and builds to opacity. It gives the polish such an amazing depth and shine. I haven't worn this in a while. I forgot how much I love this color. As much as I make blues and greens, they just don't always look that amazing on me. But this one walks the line because the color is a bit darker and so it works perfectly with my skin tone. I am LOVING this look. It is fun, edgy and yet still classy! I'm leaving this on for a few days.

It's the first day of Spring here today. It feels like Spring outside too. Well for me anyway, some people might say it feels more like summer here since it's already in the 80's. But that's Spring in FL!


Last week I played around with a few colors from our upcoming Divas and Drama collection. I used Enticing on my base and then I used Manipulative for the dots and Scandalous for the French.


In my mind this was going to look amazing. But then as I was actually doing the nail art I realized I was exhausted and didn't really want to do all this to my nails. But I was committed so I pushed through. I have to learn not to do my nails so late at night! When I saw these pictures I couldn't  believe how off the tips were! The worst part is that I had to wear this manicure for almost a week because I was so busy that week! My kids kept making fun of my Easter egg nails!

Last week I wore my new favorite jeans from JBrand. I am officially a convert, those jeans make my bum and legs look so good! Last week when I put them on I kept looking at my butt and exclaiming to Juan "Just look at how good it looks!" When I left the house I had to make a stop at the ATM and while walking to the ATM, I hear a lady shout "Work it girl! You are rocking that outfit!" She was behind me, so I know it had to be the butt in those jeans! LOL!


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Hope you all have a fabulous week!

I posted this last night because I was just way to excited to wait. But I decided I would post it here again today. Last night after rolling what felt like a million polish burritos (But was really more like just under 400), I needed to do my nails. I had every intention of going upstairs and coming up with some fun green manicure for St Patty's day. I'm not really into the whole theme nails thing, but I am trying to make an effort. When I see everyone's designs, they look so cool I want to play too. But when I went upstairs and saw my bed, all I could think of was "crawl in there and close your eyes lady!" So I did. Then I looked at my nails and knew I had to at the very least take the polish off. (The glitter I applied was coming off and it just looked gross.) Once I took the polish off, I thought, well I suppose I could just file them and so they look a little better. And then I thought, well I could just put a base coat on them to keep them protected. Which of course led to well Devious Nature is right here, so maybe I can just put that on and call it a night. But then when I reached for Devious Nature I saw the orange base I used when creating scandalous and I instantly knew that I needed to mix them together. I added a little white base to get it opaque and BAM a new color! So much for just crawling into bed!

Captivated is on my ring finger

On a side note - Way back in the day (like 18 yrs ago back in the day), I used to rock out to the Cranberries song Zombie all the time. I LOVED that song! I would replay that song so much it was crazy. Fast forward today, right here, right now, as I write this, I am listening to my daughter rock out that song on her guitar!


So of course I had to include the original video on here(Well, you'll actually just have to click the video and it'll bring you to Vevo on Youtube to watch it). Remember when MTV used to actually play videos? OK if you don't remember, then I'm not talking to you! LOL!

And I also want to include a little shout out to J'Lostein who is a Cultie with a beautiful voice who plays the guitar. Her Youtube videos of her playing the guitar & singing are partially what inspired my daughter to pick up the guitar and play it. Juan plays and loves music, & my oldest showed interest, but it never really stuck until she saw a Cultie playing. I guess something at that point clicked with her. I don't remember how we found J'Lostein's music, I think she posted something on our Facebook page once and we clicked on her name and found her music from there. But either way, I thought I would share her music with you too as a thank you for adding another musician to the house. :) How cool is this!

Just thought I'd do a quick post of my Instagram posts for last week. These are in no particular order.