Nails by Zeke

This is Zeke in his first 3 years and 9 months of life! In the middle is one of our first picture together that I remember taking, also my favorite first picture. lol The others I was dopey because I had a c-section and I was hyperventilating the whole time. Not to mention my face was puffy from the morphine and crying in all the other pics. lol

This is Zeke today on his 4th birthday!!

Today my baby turned 4! I can't even believe it! The time has just flown by so fast, especially since I had my second son Elijah. He'll be 2 in December. Zeke was born at 11:55 am weighing in at 8lbs 14oz and he was 21 inches long.

He's got a lil attitude, but he cracks me up! He is such a funny kid, people are always laughing at him. He has some pretty great facial expressions too. 

Anyways, Zeke has always been kinda interested in my nail polish and my nails when I paint them. He always tells me "oooh pretty" or "those are nice nails mama." So since I wanted to do something fun this week for his birthday, I decided I will let him paint my nails.

When I asked Zeke if he wanted to paint my nails he got SOOO excited! He ran right to my closet that I keep all my stuff in and was opening it up trying to get everything out. So he helped me pull it all out and sat down with me at the table and started picking out colors. He picked out a million colors, so I had to tell him to put some back and to only pick 4 colors. Then I let him pick a glitter to go with it. I must say, he did not too bad of a job, I honestly thought I was going to have to clean my table and have it all over my hands when he was done, but he didn't get any on anything buy himself and I and it wasn't much, just a few small smudges. He had so much fun and wanted to keep going when we were done, so I might have this be a tradition until he thinks its dumb. lol Maybe have him paint my nails for my birthday as well!

Anyhow, here are the pics:

Helping mama blow on her nails to dry them.

Really getting into it!

Concentrating so hard!

This was before he put glitter on. I cleaned up the couple smudges he got on my skin.

I even got some accent nails!

Forgot to take a pic of this hand before glitter.

The colors Zeke used were Buffy The Violet Slayer by Wet n Wild Fast Dry. A pink glitter color that I dont know the name of by Blue Cross Beauty. Lightning by Sally Hansen Insta Dri. Pool Party by China Glaze, and then the glitter is Kaleidoscope by Studio M.

Hope you guys enjoyed my post! Have a great week! xoLeah

Leah's Collection

Happy New Year everyone!!

So I recently went to put my new Christmas polishes that I got into the box that I keep my nail polishes in and realized they're starting to not fit anymore. Not to mention the $40 I just spent at the Julep end of the year sale which I haven't received yet. All these polishes except for about 3 I have acquired in 2 years, but mostly in the last year. We moved about 2 and a half years ago and I wasn't all that into polish at the time like I am now, so I put a bunch of it in storage. I have no idea where that box is now, not to mention they're probably all broken/exploded from the heat/cold changes. That makes me very sad, and I wish I would have kept them all out of storage, but at least I got a new collection going for me now!

This is the case I currently use. I was being lazy and didn't want to get my camera out again so I took a screenshot of the case on the Caboodles website. Its a great case, has shelves for other stuff like brushes, files, etc... Currently all my polishes fit in it, and I have a lot.

That is the top view of my current polishes that aren't in storage. You can't really tell from this pic, but I have an obsession with sparkly and glittery nail polishes! lol I have been trying to branch out from pinks too with my new collection of colors. My old collection was mostly pinks cuz its one of my favorite colors, but I seem to be leaning towards blues this time, haha.

To be honest, I am not really sure why I am doing a post about my collection of polishes, but I would really love to see pics of everyone elses collections!! Nail polish is one of my favorite things, and I love to share it! Panacea and I were talking about how we like to mention how we want to see certain things that you other ladies do, and we have yet to see anything from anyone! So don't be shy, share your pics with us!!

 Essie (owned by L'Oreal who DOES test on animals)

 Milani (cruelty free)

 Kleen Color (cruelty free)

 Wet n Wild (cruelty free)

 Sally Hansen (cruelty free)

 Studio M formally known as Massini (cruelty free)

 Pure Ice (cruelty free)

 Lynnderella (cruelty free)

 More Sally Hansen (cruelty free)

 L.A. Colors (cruelty free)

Blue Cross Beauty Care Winter Wonderland Ornaments Holiday Glitter Collection (not sure if they're cruelty free or not) 

 Rimmel London (claims to be cruelty free, but says in cases where required by law, like selling in China, etc... they do test on animals for that reason)

 Diamond Cosmetics (cruelty free)

 NYC (cruelty free)

 Julep (cruelty free)

 YH Beja (not sure, but they have been messaged to find out. I will update you all with the answer)

 Nabi (not sure, can't find any info on them.)

 Maybelline (owned by L'Oreal who DOES test on animals)

 Mary Kay (used to be cruelty free, but dropped their cruelty free status in order to sell their products in China who requires by law that companies test on animals.)

O.P.I. (cruelty free)

 Sinfun Colors (cruelty free)

 Sinful Colors that I forgot to put in the pic (cruelty free)

Another Sinful Color that I forgot to put in the pic (cruelty free)

Funky Fingers, Color Club, Lex, and Spoiled (all cruelty free)

When I first started to do this blog with Panacea, and we discussed making it a cruelty free polish blog, I was scared that I was going to have a lot that were NOT cruelty free, but I was glad to find that almost all of mine are!! 

I hope that you enjoyed looking at my collection of polishes!! Please don't forget, we are curious to see what your collection looks like too! Post pictures on our facebook page HERE or you can email them to us at Mynailpolishispoppin@gmail.com!

Stocking stuffer ideas!

Hey guys! Sorry I keep slackin on getting out posts from me. I surprisingly have been unmotivated lately. I am already sick of my fake nails too. Thinking about taking them off here soon. I was going to do a paint post tonight, but I just rocked my 1 year old to sleep and it made me tired, so I decided to talk to you about some sweet stocking stuff ideas for Christmas that I seen at Meijer!!

 Every year at Christmas time Meijer gets a really cool stocking stuff area in their Christmas section. Its just a whole aisle of little things that work as cool, cheap, lil stocking stuffers/gift ideas. I was browsing the area the other day while shopping and came across some really cute polishes and nail stuff. They had this Blue Cross Beauty Care Winter Wonderland Ornaments Holiday Glitter Collection and this Sally Hansen Happy Manicures Insta Dri pack. Each were only $4.99! The Winter Wonderland collection are almost full size bottles of polish, and the Sally Hansen ones are not too much smaller than that! What a deal! Not only did they have these, but they also had some really cute little snowman bottles of polish, cute packs of emery boards, cute packs of those lil toe separater things, manicure sets, etc... Among the other great non nail related gifts. I am definitely going back and scooping up some more stuff very soon!!

 This pic doesn't do them justice, they're all glitter polishes and they're all pretty sweet looking! They all seem to be thick one coat colors, but I haven't tried them yet, so I am not entirely sure. The pink and red are color and glitter. The 3 middle polishes are just clear polish with chunky glitters. I am going to do a separate post using the colors another time. I am not sure if this brand is cruelty free or not. I did try to call them and got no answer and couldn't find an email. I will try again to call and confirm it before I do the second post.

Ok, so these aren't really Christmas type colors, but look at how awesome they are! I am all for bright colors and I just couldn't pass this up, especially since they're insta dri! Fast drying nail polish is my friend. Its so hard to paint your nails when you have little kids running around all the time! 

 Don't have any stockings to stuff? Pick them up for yourself, grab them for coworkers, your kids teacher, little girls that you have to buy for. There really isn't that many people I know of that don't like nail polish.

Sorry to cut this kinda short, but I am falling asleep over here. haha I will be posting again soon, possibly tomorrow, so stay tuned for that!

Hope you enjoyed my post! Merry Christmas!
xoxoLeah