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Saturday, September 5, 2015

Review: Wax Warm Ups Part 2

I melted the Gardenia scented wax warm up last night for about 4 hours. It had moderate to strong throw; scented my small kitchen nicely. It was a pleasant and not overwhelming but generic floral scent. It reminded me of floral scented laundry soap. Overall I like the concept of this wax soaked reusable sponge. It did make cleanup a lot easier while still having decent throw. They are definitely reusable; it still smelled as strong when I stopped melting it as it did when I started. I just wiped up as much of the wax as possible with the sponge and put it back in the bag it came in. You do need a warmer with a flat plate though. They do not fit as well in the 15 watt wall plug in kind.

This morning I have been melting the Mahogany scent for about 2 hours. I'm getting moderate throw; slightly less than the Gardenia scent from yesterday, but this may be due to it being really cold this morning and the warmer taking longer to heat up. The scent is nice; similar to BBW Mahogany Teakwood or 719 Mahogany Driftwood.

Overall I would be interested in purchasing more of this product. Their site is now open for business and I have been browsing their products at www.waxwarmups.com. The scents I'm most interested in trying are:

Vanilla Buttercream

Salted Caramel Cupcake

Rose

Island Coconut

Fresh Melon

Amber

Friday, September 4, 2015

UPDATE: Wax Warm Ups Site

It looks like they are selling 3 packs of 1 scents for $7.75 each, or sampler packs of 6 for $14. Some of their scents sound really good.

http://waxwarmups.com/products/

Review: Wax Warm Ups Part 1

I was contacted through Instagram by a company called Wax Warm Ups. They sent me free samples to try and review. I'm not affiliated; I just want to share these interesting new wax products with you guys!

Wax Warm Ups are essentially a many layered felted sponge like shape that hold scented wax. They can be used with any regular wax warmer and when heated they disperse the wax into your warmer. When you are done using them you turn the warmer off and wipe the liquid wax up with the sponge for easy cleanup and disposal! Here is an Instagram video showing how they work. https://instagram.com/p/7NiWwuM5iC/

They plan to offer a variety of scent and shape combinations. They are not available to purchase yet, but the company hopes to have their website up soon, possibly even by tomorrow according to their Insagram page. Right now they are just spreading the word about their products through social media.

I have not melted them yet, but they smell very strong on cold sniff. These are not necessarily scents that I would have chosen for myself as I am more of a foodie/vanilla than fresh/floral gal, but I was so grateful to receive such generous samples! If these work well I would be very interested to see what other scents they have to offer. I will melt one tomorrow and report back!

Thursday, September 3, 2015

NOTD: NOPI Back To Reality TV

Nice formula; smooth and quick drying. This is 2 coats with Ulta top/base coats & Dainty Digits Drop The Ball on accent nail. The subtle shimmer is mainly only visible in the sunlight, but beautiful color overall. I had to nubbinize because of some weird breaks. :/ I feel like longer nails made my fingers look more elegant, but hopefully now I can get them all the same length.