Took a GelMoment today!

OK I Dove Right In and got some self care pampering time in this afternoon with new fingers and matching toes! 

I’ve given myself a Lovee Dovee accent nail - thinking I want to eventually add some nail art to it! Just need to narrow down a choice cause there are so many choices in my head! 

I could do an ombré of blue polka dots, a flowery or mandala stamping plate with Dove Right In tinted gel, the rainfall technique with blues/silver, a silver Cullinan shimmer or SSpectrum Chrome … how’s a girl to choose?

Be as Bold as your Polish!

Margaret 

Live, Laugh, Love

Be Totallyawake4-life

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Are all Whites the Same?

The biggest difference is definitely the size of the brush - Meet Me at the Chapel is perfect for French manicures and nail art while Lovee Dovee is for that full coverage manicure! 

However if you have the Creativity Set you can use the brushes within to make either one work for both by wither swapping for a larger flat brush for full coverage with Meet Me At the Chapel or the fine tip to do a French or nail art with Lovee Dovee OR you can be like me and just buy it all cause you have OCD issues with complete collections of things 🤣🤣🤣

Margaret 
Live, Laugh, Love 
Be Totallyawake4-life

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Whatcha Wearing Wednesday?

Wednesday ... I am still over here wondering and worry about what colour polish to wear for my next manicure!

 

 

 

Sometimes when you have anxiety it’s just easier when someone else makes the decision for you … when I had the home childcare running I would get the little ones to help choose my next manicure colour by majority vote wins and they’d be all excited to see it the next day … somehow Paul is not quite as excited to help nor invested in the outcome as the crew was. Men, eh?

 

I am lucky that thanks to my GelMoment Fortify treatment my natural nails look fairly stunning even when they are naked!  

So help me choose - what is your favorite Spring colour?

Be as Bold as your GelMoment polish!

 

Margaret!

Live, Laugh, Love

Be Totallyawake4-life 

 

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Do you have a Saturday ritual??

Sharing is caring - drop us your must haves to help you recharge in the comments.

 

 

 

We spent some time out in the backyard cleaning up the deck to enjoy sitting out by the fire and discussing plans to have an overgrown pine tree removed, got creative digitally making fun content, Love my Aloette Muddy Up detoxification mask, added some DoTERRA lavender to my Epsom salts to help with the relaxing, currently working my way the through an Audible book Cognitive Behaviour therapy in 7 weeks by Seth Gillian PhD., Aloette has an amazing Hand polish and cream that helps turn back time on the hands & GelMoment cuticle oils are a must for healthy nails, we are currently working our way through the Mandilorian for Saturday night family movie night, I love using wool dryer balls with a couple drops of doTERRA Serenity make for amazing fresh linens and Sundays are the perfect day to plan for a sleep in - hopefully my brain cooperates!

 

Be well and if you are looking for more clean living, eating and self care tips and tricks come join our Totallyawake4-life & Nailin' It Together community!

 

Margaret

Live. Laugh, Love

Be Totallyawake4-life

 

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Be the Reason!!!

 

Love this quote!

 

 

We definitely need more lifting of each other up, more seeing the abundance of opportunities out there verses seeing others as in competition with us, more collaboration and support for each other, more sharing of our life and business stories so others can learn from both the successes AND failures or others rather leaving others floundering to get hit by the bus of life’s tough lessons. 

 

Life can be so hard sometimes and a simple smile, a hand to reach out for or an ear to listen to can make the world of difference for someone! 

 

Be the reason someone smiles today! Looking for more inspiring conversations come join us in the Totallywake4-life & Nailin' It Together community!

 

Know someone who could use some pampering? Or do you want to enjoy some pamper time yourself? Check out the GelMoment body spa line for some amazing scrubs and bath products to help you escape and recharge! 

 

Margaret

Live.Laugh.Love

Be Totallyawake4-life

 

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I Propose a little Pampering

Who is excited for all that spring has to offer?? 

What’s your favourite thing about spring? 

Longer days for the warm sunshine, return of colours with the gardens budding and the promise of summer nights hot on her trail and most of all the return to OPEN TOE SANDALS!

Proposal shown here with an adorable accent toe using stamping plates and silver gel is the perfect colour for spring! A gorgeous pinky coral that really pops against those first sun kissed signs of warmer weather to come! 

Get your feet sandal ready with our amazing Eclipse exfoliatator and moisturizing treatment! 

Pamper yourself with a home pedicure today!! 

Margaret

Live, Laugh, Love 

Be Totallyawake4-life 

Tasty Tuesday Teas!

Good morning - this quote is SO true! 

Hands up if you’re a tea lover? 

Did you know that GelMoment also carry’s an amazing tea lovers line??

Not only are the ingredients that make up our amazing teas sourced from women-owned farms, they are also really delicious loose leaf teas that also contain biotin to help nourish healthier nails and hair. 

Seriously I came for the polish but I stayed for the TEA! I love that we have black, herbal and caffeinated and caffeine free choices depending on the time of day I am relaxing with a cup! Plus with the weather warming they make GREAT iced tea flavours too! 

Margaret 

Live, Laugh, Love

Be Totallyawake4-life.com 

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Pancake Tuesday

 I’ll take any excuse for pancakes over here! 

My favourite recipe is from All Day I Dream about Food 

Ingredients
4 large eggs
¾ cup almond milk
¼ cup avocado oil
2 teaspoons vanilla extract
2 ½ cups blanched almond flour (about 250g)
¼ cup Swerve Sweetener
2 teaspoons baking powder
¼ teaspoon salt
Additional oil for the pan

Instructions
In a large blender, combine the eggs, almond milk, oil, and vanilla. Blend 30 seconds to combine. Add the almond flour, sweetener, baking powder, and salt and blend again until smooth. Let the batter rest 5 minutes.

Heat a large nonstick skillet over medium-low heat and add lightly grease with a little oil. Use about 3 tablespoons of batter for each pancake and spread into a 3 or 4 inch circle. Cook the pancakes until bubbles begin to appear on the tops and the edges are set and dry, 2 to 4 minutes.

Carefully flip the pancakes and continue to cook until golden brown on the second side, another 2 to 4 minutes. Repeat with the remaining batter, adding more butter or oil to the pan as needed.

Bon Appetite 

Margaret 

Live, Laugh, Love

Be Totallyawake4-life 

#pancaketuesday #grainfreeliving 

Attention all Nail Addicts

I can’t be the only one who gets excited by new product releases from my favourite brands!

Dropping tomorrow at 2pm are the following GelMoment goodies!

Not sure what I love more the new colour or the mug being used to model it!

Get Glowing is simply stunning! 

Seriously it’s just so shiny! 

I also love that it can not only stand on its own but also gonna bet it will be stunning as a top coat over coloured polish! 

Check out the Valentines Day specials - perfect for making self care a priority! 

Where are the bath lovers at??? 

Want to make sure you get pampered this February? Show yourself some love with this

VALENTINE'S DAY SPECIAL!

With purchase of this bundle Valentine’s Day Bundle, you save 40% on our NEW BodySpa Towel Wrap!

Valentine’s Day Bundle includes:

 1 BodySpa Euphoria Eucalyptus & Peppermint Bath Salt (120g)

1 BodySpa Euphoria Grapefruit & Rosemary Bath Salt (120g)

1 BodySpa or FaceSpa Coffee Scrub (choice)

1 BodySpa Body Scrub (choice)

1 BodySpa Eclipse Radiance Gel

1 BodySpa Towel Wrap

Comes with EXCLUSIVE Gift Sleeve, only available through this offer. 

Valid from January 23rd at 2 PM ET through February 14th, 2022.

Find it in the Specials & New Releases section of our website. Also available in the BodySpa category.

PRICES of Bundle with 40% Savings on the BodySpa Towel Wrap:

$72.30 USD, $89.00 CAD, $101.10 AUD

I don’t know about you but for me nothing feels better than stepping out of the shower into a nice wrap around towel that says where it should while I am doing my hair and occasional make up routine! 

I haven’t seen it in person yet but when with my big extra fluffy forefront the  57.5 inches should do to wrap around 🤣

NEW: BodySpa Towel Wrap

Up your spa game with this luxurious BodySpa Towel Wrap! We are so excited to announce our newest addition to the BodySpa collection: an ultra-absorbent 100% cotton wrap-around towel. Complete with an adjustable velcro closure to secure the towel to your body, freeing your hands so that you can busy yourself elsewhere while the towel does its job for you.

Available at 2:00 PM ET January 23rd, 2022.

Find it in the Specials & New Releases section of our website. Also available in the BodySpa category.

PRICES: $28.00 USD, $35.00 CAD, $41.00 AUD

100% COTTON

28.5” L X 57.5” W

Care Instructions:

Machine wash in Cold Water

Do Not Bleach – Use a Non-Chlorine Bleach If Necessary

Tumble Dry Low

Do Not Iron

 

Be As Bold as your GelMoment

Margaret 

Live, Laugh, Love

Be Totallyawake4-life

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Where are the tea lovers????

 

Hey tea lovers! Check out the NEW Tea Time Flavours & A Brand New Look! I personally love all our current teas flavours and I 💗💗💗 that they source ingredients from female owned farms so am excited to try the two new ones when I place my next order!! 

Try our newest Tea Time flavours: Mint To Be and Moulin Rouge. Made with some of the best ingredients on Earth sourced from female-owned farms and sporting beautiful new packaging, this tea is exactly what you need to break in the new year.

Mint To Be is a nourishing, refreshing tea that will wake you up and revitalize the senses.

Moulin Rouge will equip you with endurance and vitality with its comforting scent and taste.

Your skin, hair, and nails can benefit from these Biotin-infused delicious teas full of vitamins and antioxidants.

Find it in the Specials & New Releases section of our website. Also available in the Tea Time category.

Be as a Bold as Your GelMoment

Margaret 

Live, Laugh, Love

Be Totallyawake4-life

Self Care on the Go

Guess that’s gonna be first and last time inside a Starbucks 🤣

Unlike the coffee scrub treatment you could technically do a GelMoment manicure while sipping your Starbucks - our Essentails kit LED lamp can plug into any USB slot including a power bank so you can treat yourself to some pampering just about ANYWHERE without people calling the cops on you 🙂 

Sitting in the waiting area for your kids extra curricular activities - use the time to pamper yourself! 

Watching from the picnic table as your crew burn off some energy at the local park - great time to pamper yourself! 

Stuck on the Go train for a long commute - use the time to pamper yourself! 

When could you squeeze in some pamper you time?

Be As Bold As Your GelMoment Polish

Margaret

Live, Laugh, Love

Be Totallyawake4-life 

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Goal Digging!

Soaking up all the empowerment I can get my hands on right now to help me kick start 2022 like a rock star 💫 

Today  I took advantage of  The Goal Digger Girl live workshop on creating your roadmap! So packed full of goodies had to come back for the replay cause my shorthand couldn’t keep up live 💕 so much love and respect for those who love to share content with those new to a journey to help them grow and thrive! 

Do you have goals your looking to rock? 

Margaret 

Live, Laugh, Love 

Be Totallyawake4-life 

#gratitude

Are you a nail polish smudger?

Do you tend to SMUDGE your polish when you try to do them yourself?

The quick cure results of the GelMoment at home nail care line is definitely what drew me to give it a try when I attended a virtual party of a friend. Bring a klutz I love that with the quick cure time I can choose to do one finger at a time and still have quick results for a complete manicure! 

It’s THIS easy!

And well I am FRUGAL so being able to get amazing results at a FRACTION of the cost sealed the deal 🤣

If you want to make your life easier too grab an essentials kit - link to my GelMoment shop is here.

Be As Bold as your GelMoment polish! 

Margaret 

Live, Laugh, Love

Be Totallyawake4-life 

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Why I 💕 Direct Sales

I know that direct sales business get a lot of flack in the media but I just want to share this small glimpse into why I LOVE supporting my direct sales peeps and why I love being part of the direct sales community … because of little moments like this that show the true collaboration and support that IME represent the majority of the industry and how they have the backs of each other! I love how we can work together and pool resources so we can all thrive! 

This is a little warm fuzzy from a fellow GelSister in a Flyer/meme request community for distributors. Where those of us whose strengths lie in the creating digital content help out those whose strengths might be in making tutorials videos or showcasing nail art or what not that they share with us -  but the key is that these are independent business owners or what some in society would call “competitors” who all come together and SHARE because when we help one another rise we know we can all rise together! 

It took me a commercial break each on the show we were watching as a family to whip these up for my fellow gel sister! Plus I find creating relaxing and it’s a great support for my anxiety to use the creative side of my brain cause than the anxiety side can’t be up to being fixated on stupid stuff! 

IME Direct sales opportunities allow for people to work from home, set their own hours, to balance bringing in an income to support the household with the full time role of parenting and household maintenance! They allow people to CHOOSE how hard they want to work their business depending in their own needs, to work their business as a side hustle hobby or to strive to reach goals and rank up and to grow a team or not. IME they  also can provide an amazing opportunity to help people overcome fears, to push past their comfort and flourish in new ways! A good direct sales company offers lots of training and support to its members to help them not only build the business but to GROW as a human being! I personally belong to 4 different direct sales models and ALL of them offering this “sense of community and support” where they invest in building their teams up from the INSIDE out - that focus on when you are whole in mind, body and spirit than you can radiate that to those you want to help and serve in your business! An investment in the workforce that I honestly haven’t seen in my other career settings at least not as successfully. 

So for every one “Karen” out there who the media makes fun of for being pushy or aggressive and not taking NO for an answer in her selling approach pleas know that there are 100s of others who are just wanting to share what they love and help others, while earning an income and balancing work and life in a way that works for them that a “outside the home” gig just can’t offer! And for every crappy companies that doesn’t do anything to support its seller and basically preys in them to make quotas and that’s the end of it please know there are LOTS of other companies out there who truly do invest in their teams to ensure that they thrive in all areas of their lives! 

Be As Bold as Your GelMoment! 

Margaret

Live, Laugh, Love

Be Totallyawake4-life 

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Winter Wonderland

LOVE this GelMoment Winter Wonderland mani inspiration from fellow Gel sister Darla!

And check out this a tutorial showing how easy it is to add some snowflakes to your nails!! 

Plus cause the photo doesn’t do it Justice a video to show just how sparkly this gorgeous combo is!

Products needed to recreate this beautiful inspiration:

• Maliblu (base)
• Siberian Shimmer (ombre starting at cuticle)
• Lovee Dovee and white stamping gel mixed, placed with the dotting tool brush from the Creativity Set
• -Guilty Soirée for gold detail 

Be as Bold As Your GelMoment!

Margaret

Live, Laugh, Love

Be Totallyawake4-life 

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Tutorial Tuesday - Christmas nail art

How adorable are these quick yet stunning nail art creations?

Check out this quick little tutorial showing just how easy it is to create such stunning accent nails using GelMoment products! 

📸 Sylvia Gorenszach

The Penguin - recreate using Ravens Kiss, Lovee Dovee, Candlelight or Scandalous 

Santa Suit - recreate using Scandalous, Lovee Dovee, Raven’s Kiss and Chandelier or if you want a  gold buckle Gilty Soirée.

Santa Hats -Recreate using In the Mood, Scandalous and Lovee Dovee 

Tye Dye Christmas tree - recreate using Maliblu, Jungle Island, Chandelier, Lovee Dovee and Raven’s Kiss.

For more nail art inspiration be sure to join us over on our Facebook group Totallyawake4-life & Nailin’ It! 

Be as Bold as your GelMoment 

Margaret 
Live, Laugh, Love

Be Totallyawake4-life

 

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Favorite Ornaments and the Story behind them!

 

Over in my GelMoment  VIP group on Facebook we are sharing our favorite ornaments and the stories behind them!

 

 

 

This is one of my favorite ornaments - it’s a handmade memorial ornament for my fur baby Nevada who passed away little over three years ago.I rescued her in 2003 from a pot light in Las Vegas when on vacation ~ she was the light during a challenging time in my life!

 

 

Several months later we rescued Lily and Luna, not to replace her but to help fill the hole in our hearts she’d left behind! 

 

 

Since being infertile and having had my hysterectomy so young I had never had a “shower” of any kind so my amazing friends threw me a surprise “fur baby shower” with all sorts of fun stuff for the newest additions to our hearts and one of the gifts was this memorial ornament for our dear Nevada along with some adorable ones of Lily and Luna to add to our tree!

 

Every year I pop it up I remember not only how much we loved Nevada and what she brought to our lives but how much I really appreciated my friends in showering me with the only “baby shower” I am gonna have - a fur baby one!

 

Do you have a favorite ornament you'd like to share the story about?

 

Margaret

Live, Laugh, Love

Be Totallyawake4-life 

 

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How cute is this little Santa manicure?

Is it this the cutest little Santa that you ever did see! 

Let’s recreate this look!! It’s as easy as 1,2,3….4!

I would recreate using:

• In the Mood is a nice nude for skin tone
•  Lovee Dovee 
•  Ravens Kiss
• Gilty Soirée or Chandelier for your buckle
• Choose whichever Christmas Red you want for Santa’s

Be as Bold As your Gelmoment Nail Polish 

Margaret 

Live, Laugh,Love

Be Totallyawake4-life 

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November Nail Art winners

 Congratulations to all of our November 'Nails of the Month' Distributor Contest Winners! 🏅

📸: Ebony Wylie, Jamie Leigh, Kimberley Klassen, Shauna Dewar-Siwik, Sheralyn Guilleminot, Stephanie Thiessen.

GelMoment is great for recognizing its distributors and offering lots of chances to win prizes and awards! So many wonderful Lee Asian to join the team!   

Be as Bold As your GelMoment nail polish! 

Margaret 

Live, Laugh, Love

Be a Totallyawake4-life

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