JewelMint's Modern Love Friendship Bracelets Review

This may be a shocker or surprise for some of you. I say this because I am pretty stunned myself. LOL. Ok, if you were in my FaceBook JewelMint "circle" (as some girls say), you will know that JewelMint rubbed me the wrong way. I use to be in AWWW of the company, their products, and style. Of course, there were definitely some kinks that needed to be worked out and their customer service was one of them. After one of their employees showed me what customer service reps shouldn't do, I cancelled my account.
Now here I am months later, and I have signed up for JewelMint again. Recently, I have been getting so many compliments about my friendship bracelets by JewelMint that I previously owned. I have always loved them and thought they were great layering pieces so I can understand why others would loved them too! I was doing ok and still not thinking about JM until my friend said that she wanted some good friendship bracelets, but she couldn't find any anywhere. I admitted to her that I couldn't either because I had been on the look out for a few weeks myself. When I told her about the ones I had and how it was a steal because it was three in a set, we both took the leap together and here is my purchase...

Top-Muted Purple/Dark Lavender w/ RoseGold
Middle - Bright to Medium Purple w/Tarnished Gold
Bottom - Dark Deep Red, but not quite Burgundy w/Tarnished RoseGold

After my JewelMint purchased, I found these at Target and was really happy with their bracelets especially the style and price. They were $4 each, or 3 for $12. I opted for these three and I will be going back for sure to rack up on the other colors they had like blue, red, pink, and one of my favorite colors which is black. 

Target Bracelets
T-Mustard Yellow with Clear Rhinestones
Left-Citron Lemon or Neon Yellow 
Right-Pumpkin Orange

Modern Love Set with my new Pumpkin and Neon Bracelet

I like to really load up the bracelets like this!
(Same match up but I added: RoseGold Bangle from BB, Tiffany & Co. bracelets, & a bracelet from F21)

Here is a close up

       Overall, I am happy with the bracelets even though the picture from the site shows much brighter bracelets. See or yourself HERE .The ones I received were not bright at all. The purple bracelet is the brightest of the three, but it's still nothing like the website picture. Also, it would have been nice if JewelMint made one of the bracelets with a silver toggle instead of all the toggles being dark in color. Luckily for me, my other sets have one bracelet with a silver toggle so that'll work for future mix metal arm parties :-) 

I guess I will see where my journey takes and how things go for me after this purchase. I am going to do things differently this time around for sure because I got way too over-involved with JewelMint previously so that will not be happening again. 

What I'm wearing - Sally Hansen Pacific Blue

Thanks for stopping by, XOXO 

Sally Hansen "Big Money" Gem Crush

I was searching for special effects polish since I have heard so many good things about it so I was on the hunt! After I checked a few stores, no one had it so I gave up:-( While at CVS, I did run across Sally Hansen's new nail polish called Gem Crush. It wasn't the special effects I was searching for, but it was something new so why not? I absolutely love all of my silver glitter polishes, but I do not have any in gold so I wanted to try my hand (literally) at the gold. LOL. I picked up"Big Money" which is a glitter gold with specks of peach or Rosegold colored glitter.

Big Money

I was unsure what kind of coverage the polish would give since it was a glitter polish so I wanted to use a colored base polish, just in case the polish was too sheer. 

I was going to grab Deborah Lippmann Nefertiti Nail Lacquer, but I thought the metallic from that polish would overshadow Big Money so I grabbed Bourbon St. by Funky Fingers. I never used this polish in this color before, but I guess it'll work. 

Bourbon St.

Flash

No Flash

Below: I used Bourbon St. as a base coat on my pointer and middle fingers, with Big Money on my other fingers.

No Flash

With Flash

They all look the same to me. If you look very closely to at my pointer finger, you can tell that it is a little darker than the others because I used 2 coats of Bourbon St on that nail only. Otherwise, you can barely notice a difference. 

Yay's (Pros) about the product:

• I am glad I had the chance to see how gold glitter polish would look on me.
• If you love Gold, then you would love this nail polish.
• Two Coats is all you need so the coverage is really great!
• Very sparkly and shiny.

Nay's (Cons) about the product:

• Too expensive (cost over $7 at CVS). I can usually get polish for much cheaper from Sally's Beauty or shopping online.
• Hard to get off like all my other glitter polishes. You definitely need pure acetone to remove this because it is going to be a struggle.
• The Rosegold/Peach colored glitter specks appear to be black when your hands are not moving. Not sure if I really like that too much. 
• The color does not go well with my complexion. I will stick with my silver glitter instead of gold. 

Would I buy again? I probably would, but only if the product is on sale and I am able to get it in a totally different color like Bling-tastic