Zoya Promotion - Free polish!

Received this promotion in my email today. Wanted to share in case someone hadn't seen it yet. 

*Mystery shades have never been available for retail sales and will not be available for individual (open stock) purchase. The three shades will be available exclusively in mini (0.25oz) sizes as part of the mystery gift only.

**International processing fee applies for orders outside of the US.International fee includes pre-payment of all duties and miscellaneous fees. Certain dollar amount and weight restrictions may apply. Any orders shipped to Alaska or Hawaii may incur additional freight charges. Customer will be notified of charges prior to order shipment. International shipping available to consumer accounts only.

***Terms & Conditions

Shipping & Processing fee of $15 applies. Valid online at www.zoya.com 1/7/15 – 1/14/15 (11:59pm EST). Excludes Zoya Nail Treatments and Delight and Satins Collections. US and Canada only. Not valid in conjunction with other coupons, codes or gift with purchase items. Returns or exchanges of promotional items not permitted. Art of Beauty is not responsible for incorrect addresses, credit card entry errors, declined credit cards or web related issues. Limit one code per order. Code must be entered at the time of purchase – code cannot be reinstated on canceled orders. Orders will begin shipping at the completion of the promotional period - Please allow up to 5 weeks for processing if volume warrants it.

Anyone planning on ordering? I'm super interested in a few of their colors. 

What I'm Using

I saw this fun post and decided to have a go at it! My current products, and which ones I plan to keep. You will likely be seeing a lot of these in future Empties posts!

Shampoo and conditioner: Pantene Beautiful Lengths Conditioner. My shampoo varies between Pantene Beautiful Lengths Shampoo, The Generic Shampoo (Nexxuss knock off maybe?), Selsun Blue, and Suave Daily Clarifying Shampoo. 

Styling products: A brush and hair ties? I hardly ever fix my hair. If I do, I straighten it and use a heat protective spray.

Shower Gel: Dial Lavendar Twilight Jasmine 

Body Moisturizer: Again, I'm using a couple of different ones to use them up since I've stockpiled them but it's generally a Bath & Body Works Velvet Tuberose, Twilight Woods, or Victoria's Secret Strawberries & Champagne.

Deodorant: Secret Clinical Strength Stress Response

Fake Tan: Don't fake tan.

Cleanser: Cetaphil Daily Cleansers for Oily Skin and Gentle. I alternate depending on how my skin is feeling (with my Clarisonic in the mornings in the shower).

Toner: Don't use it.

Exfoliator: My Clarisonic brush. I have a tub of St. Ive's exfoliating pads that I purchased accidently instead of a tub of their apricot scrub that I use intermittently but not faithfully.

Peel: Don't use them, but I should.

Mask: I don't generally do masks, but sometimes I'll use Queen Helene, the green clay mask. Sometimes.

Serum: Don't use. 

Moisturizer: Again, finishing off some different ones. Cetaphil Daily Moisturizer with SPF and Bare Escentuals Moisturizer for Combination Skin. The BE one I've come back to a few times, which is surprising since I have such a hard time finding moisturizers that don't break me out or make me more oily.

Primer: Using up the end of my Rimmel 5-in-1. I haven't been priming much with the cold weather.

Foundation: Garnier BB Cream in Light/Medium for Oily Skin or Revlon ColorStay for Normal/Dry Skin

Concealer: Garnier Skin Renew Concealer or Make Up For Ever Lift Concealer in 3.

Powder: Sephora Matte Mineral Finishing Powder

Blusher: Milani Baked Blush in Rose D'Oro or Dulce Pink.

Bronzer: Rimmel in Sun Bronze.

Highlighter: Lime Crime Nymph.

Eyeshadow Primer/Base: Urban Decay Primer Potion. Enough said. Helps even out my eyelid and underneath my eye lid and keeps my concealer/foundation on all day without creasing.

Eyeshadows: I generally skip eyeshadows for my daily makeup but I generally have on hand Naked and Naked2 and a few other palettes by Urban Decay.

Eyeliner: Don't generally use it.

Curler: I think I have one from Revlon that I use sometimes. I don't use one on a daily basis.

Mascara: Maybelline The Falsies Flared in Black. My go to mascara. I will be changing this one out once I use it up since it's not cruelty free. I do like Urban Decay Super Curling Mascara, Blinc, and Hourglass.

Lashes: Just my own.

Lipstick: e.l.f. Seductive or e.l.f Charming depending on if I want warm or cool neutral. Or Burts Bees.

Lipgloss: I grab whatever is handy or a Revlon Lip Balm Stain.

Nail Color: Varies every day. As you can see on my blog! 

If you do a blog post like this too, feel free to share your links below! I'd love to see!

Happy New Year!

I know this is a little late, but Happy New Year! I rang in the new year asleep with pneumonia, so I'm hoping yours was better!

While my nails have been naked since Christmas (I know, I know...) I'm going through some older pictures while I get mine together, hopefully this weekend.

You may have noticed the page looks a little different. As much as I love glitter and purple, the old style was getting a little old. It'll likely go back later this month, but it feels nice to have lighter colors and a fresh space.

Hope all is well out there with ya'll!

Beach Vacation Spam

I'm leaving today for home, I have work in the afternoon. Waaah I don't wanna go back home. I want to live here! It's been so nice but it'll be even better to get back to my own bed. I've had so much fun here though.

Anyway, I have a few pictures that I've taken. I'm not a very good photographer, but I picked out a few to share!

I meant to take pictures of my mani I wore here but I didn't have time and now it's destroyed. If you follow me on Instagram or Twitter you may have seen a quick pic of my nails. A quick camera phone photo below .. Milani Sail Away and Milani Beach Front. My right hand has the colors reversed, and my toes matched my hands! It was quite fun. I'll have to do this again soon.

Bath & Beauty Products Stash Craziness

While I was doing my previous post on April's Goodbyes, I decided I needed to take a good look at all the products I have to make myself realize it's way too much. And because it's crazy, I thought I'd share. I'm a blogger, it's what I do. I take pictures of my life and share them so people can feel better about their own neuroses.

So now ya'll can see the insane amount of products I own and use...

Bath Products

Get To Know Me!

I saw this on Peace, Love, & Polish and thought it looked fun! It's 26 facts about me ...

Vacation!

Again? I know, right! It seems like I just had one. Well, I did. And now I do. Again. Bah. You know what I mean.

I take my test later today, and then I go on vacation tomorrow! Wee. I'm going to visit the little town I'm moving to in June to look for houses and do some paperwork at my new job. And I know ya'll don't read those long tag posts (which is cool) but I wanted to reiterate that there are no Walgreen's, no CVS, and no Sally's in this town I'm moving to. They have a Walmart. And that's it. One single, lonely store to buy nail polish! Sniffle. I don't like to think about it.

I just wanted to let you guys know I <3 ya and if I'm slow on commenting, it's because I'm out of town without my computer, and it's slow as heck to comment on my mobile phone. I do have some posts scheduled so my blog won't be lonely while I'm gone.

Thanks for all the suggestions for skincare/makeup. I'm going to try a few of them and see what happens. I'm also thinking about getting some Dermablend from SkinCareRx (they have a different formulation there). After seeing Dermablend's crazy promo video, I've been wanting to check it out! BTW I think this guy is hot - that stare he gives - melts me every time!

And in case you wanted to know, this is what I am wearing for my test! I went with purple (because you know I loves me some purple) and flakies. I figured glitter might be too distracting. I ended up with Zoya Savita with Finger Paints Motley.

Influenster Holiday 2011 VoxBox Discussion and Review

I mentioned before I had signed up at Influenster.com and I received the Holiday 2011 VoxBox for review. So here I am to share my goodies (and thoughts) with you.