Nubar Mother's Day Sale

nUBAR offers our retail customers 20% off retail orders of $30 or more with code MOM20 through May 6th, with free shipping on orders of $75 or more after the discount is applied.

Our 10th anniversary color, Nubar 2010, and The Night Sky Collection are available today, so visit us at www.bynubar.com to take advantage of this offer! We thank you for your business, and wish you a happy Mother's Day.

NB: Nubar 2010 looks a lot like that HTF Sally Hansen Hidden Treasure everyone is lemming for...

Nubar haul

From their last sale.

Nubar Sparkles Collection, Fire Sparkle, Night Sparkle and Petunia Sparkle.



From the Prisms Collection, Prize and Brilliant:



Duochromes Midnight Glory and Indigo Illusion:



Glitters Gilded Gold, Silver_Spark, Sugar and Opulent Pearl:

Bath Diary: 03 April 2010

Skindecent Head in the Clouds bubbling bath salts in I Dream of Berries,
1/4 Skindecent Butter Bomb in I Dream of Berries,
A nameless salt scrub in Lavender,
Skindecent Dry Oil Spray in I Dream of Berries,
BPAL Chaos Theory Series II in a lavender-berry combo.

Buy 2 Get 1 free nail polish at Sally Beauty Supply

I didn't even know they were doing this until I looked at my receipt and asked the cashier why my FingerPaints Tapestry in Taupe rang up at $0.00. I got Orly Snocone and Orly Gumdrop, and the FingerPaints (for my mother) was free.

The sale is for the entire month of April, so if you have a Sally nearby, it's time for polish-buying!

Bombs Away!

My most recent Skindecent order arrived yesterday, and here's the most photogenic part of the order, the Butter Bombs:



Clementine: A strong, fresh orange scent with no bitterness.

Treefrog Jammies: My invention, a clean lavender scent blended with piney green notes.

The Forbidden Strawberry: A decadent strawberry scent with a hint of musk.

Pink Carnations: A spicy, vivid carnation scent, a gorgeous not-really-a-floral floral.

Raspberry Ginger Ale: I have no idea how Marliss manages to make this smell fizzy, but she does, and combined with the raspberries, it's really wonderful.

Lavender: This one is the perfect dreamtime scent, fresh and relaxing.

I Dream of Berries: An absolutely gorgeous blend of blackberry, raspberry and lavender. It has the calming properties of lavender, but enough zing from the berries that I don't fall asleep as soon as I smell it.

The Butter Bombs are an amazing value, at $7.27 American per pound. I smash 'em up and drop a handful of the bits in, and I get silky smooth skin instead of winter-parched skin. I love hot baths in the winter, and the Butter Bombs let me take a bath every night if I want to and not pay for it with painfully dry, itchy and flaky skin. Plus, with Skindecent's product range and scent menu, I can layer scents, and drift off to bed in a happy cloud!

Accidental preppie-cure!

This was my attempt at a spring color combo that wound up in perfect preppie pink and green:



Zoya Happi and Zoya Midori.

Winter paws

I'm a middle-aged polish lover in frosty NE Ohio. I use glitter polishes, which require acetone remover, rather frequently; forget my gloves; pump my own gas and exercise three to four times a week in a chlorinated pool. So why don't I have the cuticles of a lizard in a drought?

Skindecent.

My holy grail trio of hand products are all from Skindecent, which is nice as I can get them all in matching scents or unscented as I wish.

I start by washing my hands with plain ol' soap. While the water is warm and my hands are warm and wet, I do a quick but thorough scrub with Manicure in a Minute. I pat my hands dry, and then go over my cuticles and joints with Cuticle Balm. I buff my nails, then right before I go to sleep, I massage my hands with the melted wax and oil combo from the Massage Candle.

All three of these look like unassuming little pots of not-much, but they work well and are absolutely worth every penny.