Weekly Wax Wrap Up: 9/20/15-9/27/15

I'm starting a new weekly weekend feature on my blog. I'm a reformed candle addict who has turned into a wax junkie. Candles are expensive, take up a lot of space for storage, and I get tired of scents quickly, so I decided to switch to wax melts. Every Sunday, I'm going to do a wrap of up and review of all the wax melts I melted that week

You can melt wax melts in a warmer. I like the Glade electric warmer best. The wax melts are small and the scent last between 8-12+ hours, so you can switch out scents frequently. I primarily purchase only a handful of brands. I like Glade, Better Homes & Gardens, Scentsationals, and Ten Digits Creations an indie wax vendor. You can find Better Homes & Gardens and Scentsationals for $2 for 6 little tarts at Walmart.

I melted all Ten Digit Creations wax this week. I love TDC. There are other indie vendors out there I've tried, but TDC is the best in my opinion. They have the best quality, their TAT (turn around time) is super fast, and their customer service is amazing. You can purchase their wax melts (they're dye free) in singles, doubles, 4 packs, 12 packs, or a big 14oz loaf. I typically burn a half or whole tart/melt depending on the scent.

Here is what I melted this week!

Fall Festival
Scent Description: pumpkins, fall leaves, caramel apples, hayrides, and hot cider
My Thoughts: I'm not hugely into sweet/bakery scents, but I adore this. I can really smell the caramel apples in this. It's sweet without being too much. I detect the pumpkin and leaf notes in this which tone down and round out the sweetness!

Twisted Peppermint
Scent Description: peppermint, vanilla, and sugared musk
My Thoughts: This a Bath & Body Works dupe. This is spot on. It's a sweet peppermint, but again not sickly sweet. The peppermint in this is STRONG. It will clear your sinuses. This is a great bright and knock your socks off scent. 

Green Tea & Willow
Scent Description: green tea with notes of fresh air, bergamot, white willow, and jasmine
My Thoughts: Green Tea & Willow is a very fresh and green scent. I love clean scents like this, the clean/green scent is the high note in here with some subtle but nice sweet floral background.

Autumn Night
Scent Description: crisp autumn nights come to life with nutmeg and cinnamon  layered with applewood and cedar
My Thoughts: This is another Bath & Body Works dupe. This is a great fall woodsy scent. It's spicy, dark, smoky, and rich all at once. This is masculine, but not really in terms of cologne, it's those woodsy and smokey notes that make me think masculine. 

Christmas Spirit
Scent Description: cranberry, bayberry, fir needles, clove
My Thoughts: This is spot on Christmas scent to me. It's a very fresh and nature kind of Christmas smell. It smells like a fresh Christmas tree out in the cold winter air with hints of tart cranberry to round it out. There is nothing artificial or too strong about this scent. It's very festive, crisp, and inviting. One of my favorites!

Black Pearl
Scent Description: lavender and chamomile with notes of myrrh, olibanum, and sugar
My Thoughts: This is a Lush dupe scent. This is the perfect bedtime scent to me. It's very soothing and calming. The chamomile note in here is strongest to me which I love. I adore this scent. I want to spray it on everything. The sugar notes in this really balances it out to be sweet (not candy or bakery sweet though) and soothing, not medicinal like some lavender scents can be.  Another favorite here!

Christmas Tree
Scent Description: complete with lights, ornaments, and garland
My Thoughts: This had a very nondescript scent description, so I took a gamble. I wanted to like this so bad, but I sadly this isn't for me. This has a something what I think is a licorice note to it mixed with pine. It's just a combination that my nose does not agree with it all. It's too sharp and has a sweetness to that I didn't find pleasant. 

Cactus & Sea Salt
Scent Description: green cactus mingled with ocean air, sea spray, driftwood, and sea moss
My Thoughts: This is another clean/spa scent. I like this one. It has strong watery and sea salt notes to it with a hint of green from the cactus. It's not the most exciting scent, but it's a great go-to clean and fresh scent that works year round.

That's all I melted this week, which is a lot! I switch up scents every other or day and sometimes everyday. You can purchase all the ones I listed above on the Ten Digits Creations website.

I know many of you are just nail polish readers, but I hope you will enjoy this. I hope I can turn some of you into wax addicts too!

Happy Sunday!

Sweater Weather Tag- I Tag You!

I saw this "Sweater Weather" tag going around some blogs and Youtube, and I decided to take part. I wasn't tagged, but I'm doing it anyways, because I like living on the edge. I thought this would fun and different.

I changed up some of the questions because some of them included fashion questions about sweaters, boots/uggs, leggings/skinny jeans. I do not own any boots, uggs, leggings, or skinny jeans, and I don't really have a sweater either. I am so incredibly unfashionable I'd make some of you fashionable people cry. I own one little jacket/hoodie that I take out the 3 times of year it gets below 65 degrees in Florida.

1. Favorite candle scent?

Bath & Body Works Snow Day, Better Homes & Gardens Red Wood Pomegranate, and Better Homes & Gardens True Fall Splendor.

This is actually my second candle of Snow Day.I also have the plug ins! People describe this as Twisted Peppermint light. I loathe Twisted Peppermint, it is way too strong for me. Snow Day is a soft vanilla peppermint scent, with a fresh wintery air scent thrown in. I love it!

I'm very impressed with the Better Homes & Gardens candles! The smaller one I got for $4 and the larger one I got for $5 at Walmart. Red Wood Pomegranate is a fruity woodsy scent, and True Fall Splendor smells exactly like BB&W Leaves to me.

2. Coffee, tea, or hot chocolate?

I like coffee and tea, but I don't drink either regularly. I'm a decaf coffee drinker, and will drink maybe a cup 3 or 4 times a week.

3. What's the best fall memory you have?

I always remember going for long walks on Thanksgiving with my parents. We'd always go on short walks, but on Thanksgiving we went for like a 2 hour walk around our neighbor with our dog. I enjoyed the weather, the scenery, and the family time.

4. Which makeup trend do you prefer: dark lips or winged eyeliner?

I can't do winged eyeliner, I am completely eye makeup challenged. I do really like dark lips though. These are some of my favorite dark lip colors this season.

L-R: NYC Sheer Red, WnW Cherry Bomb, NYX Monte Carlo, and WnW Sugar Plum Fairy

5. Favorite fall fragrances?

L-R: Harvey Prince Yogini, Philosophy Inner Grace, Kate Walsh Boyfriend, B&BW Twilight Woods, and B&BW Winter Candy Apple

I love warm, rich, and sophisticated scents for fall and winter, and these all fit that bill. If you like those types of scents you'll appreciate these too!

6. Favorite Thanksgiving food?

This isn't traditional, but I love this squash casserole I make every Thanksgiving. The recipe is based off the squash casserole served at a southern food restaurant in Austin called, Threadgills (if you're in Austin you need to go here!). It's a yummy mix of a yellow squash, butter, cheese, green chili, and bread crumbs. You can find the recipe here.

7. What is autumn weather like where you live?

Autumn doesn't really exist in Florida. I would say it stays uncomfortable hot for most of autumn. When you get int he last month of autumn (which now) we can get milder temperatures in the upper 70's and low 80's. That is not autumn by any means, but it is a relief from the heat.

8. Must-have nail polishes for fall?

These are polishes I've been grabbing for lately. Yes, this was hard to narrow down.

L-R (starting at top): Cult Nails Lamestain, Revlon Chic, Orly Wild Wisteria, OCC Man by Man, KBShimmer Teal Another Tail, Zoya Pepper, and Cult Nails Time Traveler.

9. Is pumpkin spice worth the hype?

I would of said no, if not for yesterday. I've pretty much maxed out my pumpkin spice love last year. I overdid it, but then I found these beautiful morsels of joy yesterday.

Ghiradelli Milk Chocolate with Pumpkin Spice Caramel. OMG. I die. These are heavenly. You can find them in the holiday mix baggies.

10. Favorite fall blushes?

Milani Rose D'oro, WnW Heather Silk, WnW Spotlight Peach, and Milani Red Vino.

That's it! I tag anyone who wants to this, but I'd love to hear your answers in the comments! Copy and paste the questions below and fill in your answers in the comment section.

Here are the questions:
1. Favorite candle scent?
2. Coffee, tea, or hot chocolate?
3. What's the best fall memory you have?
4. Which makeup trend do you prefer: dark lips or winged eyeliner?
5. Favorite fall fragrances?
6. Favorite Thanksgiving food?
7. What is autumn weather like where you live?
8. Must-have fall nail polishes?
9. Is pumpkin spice worth the hype?
10. Favorite fall blushes?

Happy Thursday!

Fall Favorites Part 1:

I got a request from BudgetBeautyGoddess to do a post on my fall favorite polishes! This post is going to be in 2 parts. I'm going to organize these by color families. I've combined some color families, simply to save time. I also tried to use my best judgment on some colors, considering some colors could lean more purple, more brown, more pink etc. I just threw them into what category I felt fit. In addition besides for listing my favorites I'm going to list other recommended colors that are in the same family. These colors I all own, so of course there are many unmentioned that are great too, I just don't own them. All of these colors I list are easily available either in drugstores, beauty supply stores, or online, and of course they are all under $10! Obviously, these are just recommendations, and you can wear whatever colors you want in fall!

Greys/Taupes/Silvers/Greiges
Sephora by OPI- Metro Chic

Color Description: A taupe/purple grey creme.
Price: $9
Where to buy: Sephora or Sephora online
Other Color Recommendations: Confetti Moonstruck, Color Club High Society, OPI Lucerne-tainly Look Marvelous, & China Glaze Ingrid

Blacks/Blackened colors
China Glaze- Wagon Trail

Color Description: A deep blackened base with gold/olive shimmer.
Price: Varies on E-tailers, but around $3
Where to buy: E-tailers- Head2ToeBeauty, Victoria's Nail Supply, TransDesign
Other Color Recommendations: Wet N' Wild Blackmail, Sephora by OPI  212, & Orly Goth

Purples
China Glaze- VII

Color Description: A deep plum/aubergine creme.
Price: Varies on E-tailers more expensive at Sally's
Where to buy: Sally's & e-tailers
Other Color Recommendations: Orly Galaxy Girl, China Glaze Bogie, Color Club Uptown Girl, Pure Ice Purple Reign, & Zoya Anastasia


Blues
Zoya-Kotori

Color Description: A deep blackened blue base with with medium steely blue shimmer
Price: $7
Where to buy: Zoya website
Other Color Recommendations: Sinful Colors See You Soon, Color Club Naughtycal Navy, Confetti Smitten, Revlon Midnight Affair, OPI Suzi Says Feng Shui, & Finger Paints Easel-y Entertained

Greens/Teals
OPI-Ski Teal We Drop

Color Description: A deep teal creme.
Price: $5.24 on Transdesign & $8.50 at Ulta and salons
Where to buy: Transdesign, Ulta, some salons, and some beauty supply stores (not Sallys)
Other Color Recommendations: Zoya Irene, Confetti My Favorite Martian, Sinful Colors San Francisco, & Zoya Envy

I hope you enjoyed this post! In the comments please leave some of your fall recommendations for these color families! :) Part 2 will be posted tomorrow!

Happy Thursday!