Beauty Tips for Women: Chinese New Year 2014 Manicure

Happy Chinese New Year! I was inspired to try my hand at a Chinese New Year manicure when I looked at Jior Couture – Light The Festival.  Light The Festival is beautiful gold polish with small glitters of green, red, pink and silver. Nail Art Polish Beauty tips for Women 325

For the stamping portion of this manicure I used Bundle Monster BM-H15 and used Sally Hansen Rapid Red to stamp the image.

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I did two coats of Light the Festival.

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I then stamped the images.  It was a bit difficult to stamp since I am down to nubs but I managed to get the images in.

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I loved how the manicure turned out.

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Beauty Tips for Women: Nicole by OPI – Am I Making Myself Claire? And Jior Couture – Coming Through Manicure

I was feeling like a purple manicure but with a bit of glitter bling.  I wanted something simple because lately I have been pressed for time, so here is what I came up with.

I did two coats of Nicole by OPI – Am I Making Myself Claire? from their Modern Family collection.  The color is so lovely; it is a grayish pastel lilac.  The application was a bit on the streaky side.

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To add the bling, I added a coat of Jior Couture – Coming Through.  Coming Through is a blue, purple, and bronze color glitters in a clear polish.

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I had a hard time capturing a good picture.

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I liked how it this manicure came out.

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Sketcher’s Sneakers for kids

Buy buy baby coupons is going to share a review on the ever-popular sketchers sneakers. In particular buy buy baby coupons is going to talk about the sketchers twinkle toes sneakers for girls. As any parent knows the commercials for sketchers sneakers, in general, are always running on the channels that air kid shows; hence the insanity over having the latest pair.

I have to start off by saying that the buy buy baby coupons father is an exclusive sketchers shoe and sneaker wearer. However, the buy buy baby coupons mother is not. I can never find a shoe that fits me comfortably and over all I believe they run narrow but I digress, so back to the topic.

After much pleading on behalf of the buy buy baby coupons kids, I gave in. Granted that the sketchers twinkle toes have cool designs and light up. They come with laces, without any laces, and with Velcro straps. I found the shoes ran small. My oldest wears a 12 but in sketchers sneakers is about 13.5. The twinkle toes without laces that have an elestic run very narrow. My kid was unable to comfortably fit her foot into any size of the sketchers twinkle toes with elestic. We did eventually settle on the sketchers twinkle toes with laces and one with the velcro straps.

After about a month of use from the buy buy baby coupons kids some very noticeable problems happened. The lights of the left shoe of the lace up sketchers twinkle toes stopped working. This upset my kid since part of the attraction to these sneakers is the light up aspect. I couldn’t return the sneakers to the store so I decided to contact sketchers to see if there was a way to fix the problem myself or have the one shoe replaced. Sketchers response was to send them the pair of sneakers so that an engineer could look them over and evaluate the problem. There would be no guarantee they could fix the shoe nor could they guarantee replacing the one shoe. The whole back and forth was a total waste of time and too much of an out of pocket expense to ship the shoes without a guarantee that they could be fixed. The second problem experienced by the buy buy baby coupons family with the twinkle toes shoes was that after the shoes got wet during a rainy day, the coloring/glitter started to peel off. I was not about to contact sketchers with this second problem.

The buy buy baby’s coupons household is giving the sketchers sneakers for kids another try. This time we opted for a regular sneaker, sketchers ventures-skipping star, with no lights or glittery designs. So far after several weeks they are showing no signs of problems. Buy buy baby coupons would not recommend the sketchers twinkle toes model; however, still likes the sketchers brand and would recommend a regular type sneaker which they have several models to choose from.