It's Fall Y'all!!

Temperatures have dropped, leaves are turning, pumpkin spice everything is everywhere and Halloween is just around the corner!  
We were able to go to this amazing corn maze and pumpkin patch this year and last year.  I absolutely love all of the fun things there for our whole family!  Jackson has loved playing in the big tub of corn both years and of course riding the barrel train and wandering through the pumpkin patch.
I love just being there and seeing all of the fun things!!  They have lots of little fall photo opp set-ups all around and have a light show after dark and all sorts of fun things and yet it has a small, homemade feel to all of it.
Here's a list with some other fun corn mazes and pumpkin patches here in Utah.  Happy Fall!

Unbiased Jamberry Nail Wraps Review

 My wraps after 2 weeks 

I have such a hard time with nail polish lasting and not chipping.  Plus, I rarely have time to let it dry before I have to start doing something, so my nails usually start out a little smudged or damaged right from the get go.  Not to mention I am a very sloppy nail painter and have to wait a day or two for it to wear off of my cuticles and actually look good.  So even though I love the look of a cute manicure, it is next to impossible for me to do for myself!

Then I heard of Jamberry.  This product promises to solve all of those problems for me!  Cute patterns and colors, check; no drying time, check; won't chip off, check!  But do they actually work? Do they really stick and stay on?  How hard are they to apply?

I am so excited to report that yes, they do work and do stick and stay on!!  Do they have Pro's and Con's?  Yes, they definitely do.  I am going to walk you through my personal experience and also touch a bit on my mom's experience with them.

I have been accumulating these wraps for a while whenever I could find a deal on them.  They are always buy 3 sheets get 1 free and most consultants will give you samples if you want to try it first before making that kind of a commitment.  The sheets are $15 each and provide 2-3 manicures according to Jamberry's site but they can be used for even more manis and pedis with these tricks.

They are definitely cheaper than a salon manicure or pedicure but you have to apply them yourself.  The application process is a little tricky and has more steps than slapping on nail polish but it does get quicker and easier with practice.  Each nail needs to be very clean, needs to have the cuticle pushed back off of the nail and each wrap needs to be sized so that none of it touches the cuticle or skin.  Each wrap needs to be warmed before applying and then applying the wrap where you want it can be tricky too.  I really struggled with this!

The nice thing is that I was able to stop a few times during the application for interruptions from my son and I did not have to worry about ruining wet polish.  This mani was time consuming but no more time consuming than the DIY gel nail mani I have been trying to do recently to keep my nails from chipping.

These lasted on me for over 2 weeks on all but 2 of my nails (those 2 lasted just over a week).  These 2 I had painted over with clear polish because they didn't seal as well as the others.  I don't know if they peeled off sooner because of the polish or because they didn't seal as well.  They did sometimes catch in my hair when I was washing it at the beginning and this got worse as time went on.  Also these may not work for everyone.  My mom tried them a while ago and couldn't get them to seal well at the top and she wasn't able to make them work for her.

Biggest Pro's: super cute and lasted a long time.

Biggest Con's: tricky to apply (some weren't centered and none were as close to my cuticle as I would have wanted them to be which was super noticeable as time went on and they grew out).

Overall I really liked having these on my fingers and I am excited to keep using them and hopefully I will get much better at applying them exactly where I want them and at doing it a little quicker.

Have you tried these nail wraps or a similar product?  Let me know how it worked for you in the comments below :)

Thanks for reading!!  

Amazing deals at Burlington Coat Factory!!

I just went to Burlington Coat Factory this week and it was awesome!!  We were shopping for matenity clothes and I found so many and for super great prices.  They had tons of Motherhood Maternity tops and sweaters and they were all under $20 with a lot of them under $10!
My Mother-in-Law, Shauna, and I went so that I could spend my Birthday and Christmas money and we found so many cute things!
I made a "haul" video to show everything that I got :)

They also had Barco Scrubs there for $10 a pair of bottoms and $8 per top which is an amazing deal so I had to grab a pair of scrubs too :)