Recently I got my hands on a couple of polishes from last year's Essie Gel Couture Bridal Collection and I kind of fell in love with them. I don't actually buy a lot of gel look polishes, because I feel like they never really look like gel to me, but Lace Me To The Altar from last year's collection really gave me that feel of actual gel polish. So obviously, I was really excited to try out this year's Essie Gel Couture Reem Acra Wedding Collection* polishes, hoping to find a few shades that would hit that same mark for me.

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Whenever I get the chance to try out new cleansers, I'm always excited about it. More than anything else - even all of the actives I use in my skin care routine - I find that maintaining a good cleansing routine that cleans the skin without stripping it or damaging my moisture barrier has made the biggest difference in the overall appearance and health of my skin. Recently, I got the chance to try out three hydrating cleansers from CeraVe, and I was 100% all in.

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Last year, I got my hands on a Radius Travel Toothbrush* and I absolutely fell in love with it but I never got around to featuring it here on the blog, so when I got a chance to try a few more Radius oral care products, I decided that I was going to remedy that. I feel like oral care doesn't get enough love, perhaps because it's pretty personal, but it's such an important part of health and beauty that I think it needs to get a little bit more attention... don't you?

Keep reading to take a look at three oral care products from Radius that I've been trying out.

For this week's Mani Monday, I teamed up with Jayne and Renee again to put together leopard print manicures inspired by the mani Jayne did a couple of weeks ago for our ombré theme. I have to admit, I've always wanted to try a leopard print, but my fear of hand anything hand painted has kept me from trying it out. I needn't have worried, though, because the nature of this manicure being a little bit... well, blobby, really, means that you don't have to be too precious about perfection.

Obviously sleep is really important for a lot of things to do with health and beauty, that much is a given, but I don't necessarily think we give it as much credit as it probably deserves. I don't think I have the worst sleeping habits, but they could be better, and I've always known that my anxiety does have a negative effect on my sleep and have been looking for things to help. Recently, I've been trying out a couple of what I call "bedtime beauty" products from thisworks. and I'm pretty excited to share them with you guys!

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I've been a big fan of ACURE Organics ever since I completely and totally fell in love with The Magical Wonderfluff, which has since been discontinued and BROKEN MY HEART. Still, because I fell so madly in love with that product, I'm always excited to try out new products from the brand. Fairly recently they had a complete rebrand, with sleek updates to all of their packaging (and I assume the murder of my favorite product - RIP Wonderfluff BFF.... I swear, I'll never be okay about this) and there has been a ton of new releases since then. Recently, I've been trying out the ACURE Organics Seriously Soothing Micellar Water Cleansing Towelettes* and even though they're no Wonderfluff, I've definitely been enjoying them.

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Hey guys! I've got another Adult Toy Review for you today - and I have to say, I'm really, really excited about it. Everytime I do one of these reviews, which initially made me feel a little bit uncertain and insecure, I'm feeling more and more empowered by them and I hope that you guys are really enjoying them! Recently, I got to try out a couple more toys from LELO, and I wanted to space them out a little bit, so for this first round I'm going to be sharing my thoughts on the LELO NEA 2 Personal Massager*. It might look a little bit unassuming, but I assure you... It's a winner!

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Hey guys! Hope you had a great weekend. Admittedly, mine was pretty packed full of stuff, but I still managed to sit down and do a mani that I'd had in my head for a few days. I don't know what it was, but I had the idea of a sort of aquatic toned mani in my head and I got lucky and found a couple of essie polishes in a clearance bin on Saturday that I knew would work perfectly. I'm calling it Vintage Warm Teal Textile Nails because it really does look like a vintage textile to me, maybe a little bit like a couch from the 70s, but in a good way.

I feel like the number of new foundation releases in the drugstore recently has been sort of epic - so I've had to really think about what I'm going to try out. That being said, as soon as I saw these two new complexion releases from essence - the Fresh & Fit Awake Makeup and the Camoflage Full Coverage Concealer - there was no chance that I wasn't going to be trying them out. I'm always curious about trying products from the more affordable drugstore brands like essence, particularly products like foundation that are starting to run fairly spendy even in the drugstore.

So, how did they measure up? Keep reading for more!

Stamping is probably my personal favorite type of nail art. I suspect it's because I am a perfectionist who doesn't have the most steady hands, so all of those beautiful hand painted nail designs just never quite look right on me but a well transferred stamp is always going to be perfect. Of course, getting a well transferred stamp isn't always the easiest thing in the world. Since I've really gotten into nail art in the past year, I feel like there are definitely things that I've learned about stamping and I figured I'd share them because I think some of them can be really helpful!

It might be a little bit TLDR; for you, so in each section there's a main bullet point takeaway if you just just want to skip to the main points! Keep reading for more!