Live Colors App

Disclosure: I got this product as part of an advertorial.


Details: Live Colors: A new tablet app for young children and their parents.  Can be found in 7 countries, for preschool aged children.  Helps children learn: creativity, imagination, color mixing, fine motor skills, and confidence in their own handy work.

Disclaimer:  I received one or more of the products mentioned above for free using Tomoson.com. Regardless, I only recommend products or services I use personally and believe will be good for my readers.





"Key Features: (quoted from their site)
Key features:
— The most simple and handy interface
— Eye-candy graphics
— 20 animated coloring pages
— Soundtracks recorded by professional actors
— In-game help to mix the colors in the palette
— Color the picture by template or conjure it free-hand
— Automatic saving of all pictures in the gallery
— Come back and complete the masterpiece at any time
— Eraser in case the drawing needs slight corrections
— Share your young artist's work in social networks
— Print your artwork, hang it on the wall and admire
— Available in English, French, German, Italian, Japanese, Portuguese, Spanish, Russian, Simplified & Traditional Chinese


My Review:  This type of app isn't new to myself or my children.  We love coloring apps, we have one on each of my kid's phones, our Kindle Fire, and we do lots of art in school as well.  I looked at this in a home school situation, thinking it would be great to give my preschooler something educational to do during a period of time when the older sibling needs my one on one attention.  It's animal concept is really cute, they animals talk and move while you paint them.  There is encouraging music that helps to stimulate the mind.  However, for my 4 year old, this was too boring for him.  He wanted more options, wanted to try other ways to mix colors.  So after looking into this I would really saw that the target audience should be 2-4, not 5.  By age 5 kids are going to Kindergarten and should already know their primary colors and know how to mix the secondary colors as well as neutral colors.  So this would be too easy, not stimulating enough for that age group, which my 4 year old falls into as he is going to Kindergarten in the fall.  My honest option is that my children didn't like it, because they were too old.

Pros: cute animal theme, great stimulating music

Cons: too young for my 4 year old, not challenging enough, not creative enough for my preschooler

My Rating: Thumbs Down

Nail Cones and Manicures

Disclosure: I got this product as part of an advertorial.

Details: Nail Cones is a deliciously easy way to apply nail polish.  An easy way to protect your skin when painting your nails.  A great way to get the perfect manicure and pedicure every time!  Directions for use: wash and dry hands, apply nail cones tightly under nail, polish nails and allow time for drying, remove nail cone slowly.

Disclaimer: I received one or more of the products mentioned above for free using Tomoson.com. Regardless, I only recommend products or services I use personally and believe will be good for my readers.

My Review:  I am a professional nail artist for 8 years, but have been painting nails for over 17 years now.  Over the years I have found that the thing that frustrates me the most is when I'm painting nails some polish doesn't come off easily from your skin around your nails so it makes the manicure or pedicure look bad.  I've used coconut oil, Elmer's glue, nail lotion, and other such tricks and tips to figure out a way to keep polish from getting on the skin around the nails I paint.  So when I saw these stickers, these Nail Cones I was super excited to see that someone was cleaver enough to come up with a permanent solution to this issue and win my business for life.  When I tried these Nail Cones, my sheet was 3 columns with 5 cones per column so 15 nail cones total.  I pulled the first nail

cone off and tried to apply it under my pointer finger nail, but because my nail was so short it didn't stay very well.  So then I pulled the cone next to it off.  As I tried to apply that to my middle finger nail I found that the cut out hole was WAY too big for that finger nail.  So I tried it with all my finger nails: still way too big.  I tried it on my toenails, even on my big toe it was too wide a hole so nail polish would get on my skin around my nail instead of being protected.

Just for this review test, did I manage to get 4 Nail Cones to fit somewhat on my finger nails.  The nail cones that actually fit my nails are on my pointer finger, my middle finger and my ring finger, my pinky finger nail cone was too big even though it was one of the smaller nail cones, and I was unsuccessful at getting a nail cone to fit to my thumb nail.

As I looked closer at the rest of the sheet of nail cones I noticed I only had 3 nail cones that were small enough to use on my finger nails, the rest were WAY too big to use on any of my finger nails and on any of my toe nails.  Needless to say I'm very disappointed that these Nail Cones didn't work the way I was hoping.  However, I honestly feel like it would be an easy fix.  See the Nail Cones are really two stickers, one big that is supposed to fit to your nail and finger, the other that is just wasted sticker.  The wasted sticker part is a circle, so the Nail Cone is a rounded hole.  I feel like if the Nail Cone was more oblong or squared it would fit so much better to finger nails and toe nails in general.  As of right now, I cannot recommend this product.

Pros: cool design, ingenious invention, love the theme

Cons: doesn't work, too big, and wrong fit

My Rating: Thumbs Down

African Mango

Disclosure: I got this product as part of an advertorial.

Details: Omni Herbals Maximum African Mango dietary supplement.  60 capsules per bottle, one capsule per serving size.  Store in a cool dry place protected from light.  Used to help curb appetite, fight food cravings, and increase energy.  To be found online at amazon through the above link.  Omni Herbals are on social networks like Facebook and Twitter.

Disclaimer:I received one or more of the products mentioned above for free using Tomoson.com. Regardless, I only recommend products or services I use personally and believe will be good for my readers.

My Review:  There is no smell, no bad after taste, when taking these capsules.  I have tried this product for the past 2 months.  I have noticed that my food cravings, especially for sugar and chocolate are off the wall.  I've had the hardest time not eating sugar and chocolate while taking this dietary supplement.  So for I have noticed that instead of loosing weight I'm gaining weight.  I'm not very thrilled about this different result given that I've had really good success with other weight loss supplements from Omni Herbals.

Pros: no smell, no bad after taste,

Cons: didn't work, made my cravings worse

My Rating:  Thumbs Down