Pinterest Christmas-y nail art

Hey everyone :)

Happy almost Christmas! :D :e

I have some nail art for you today that I saw on Pinterest awhile ago and LVOED,

and tried my hand at it.

Here's my re-creation of the Nail Network's original mani.

Blah. You can see that after I applied the SV too soon,

a few of the red dots bled :/

Aside from that, I was pretty pleased with this. I thought the original mani was gorgeous, though. Very festive :) Here are the polishes I used:

Zoya 'Kimmy' - dots

So Easy Stripe Rite for silver line

Essie 'Buy Me a Cameo'- base (2 coats)

Color Club 'Ho Ho Holly'- tips

That's it for today!

Thanks for reading :)

Some Santa Stamping

Hey everyone!

It's been a long time since i'd done any stamping

(mainly because i'm no good at it),

but I thought i'd try my hand at some festive Christmas stamping the other day.

I used a stamp from the Konad stamping plate I had in my most recent giveaway.

Here's Santa over 2 coats of Color Club's 'Berry and Bright'.

** Let me go ahead and ask you to forgive my middle finger. The darn thing chipped right before I took these pictures & I didn't have time to fix it ://

'Berry and Bright' is a vivacious red shimmer with blue/purple flecks that can be seen in sunlight. You can kind of see it here, but not as clearly as it looks in real life. 'Berry and Bright' is part of CC's Winter Affair collection. So far I have tried 3 different polishes from this collection, and loved them ALL.

The Santa & Merry Christmas stamp are from Konad stamping plate m12 using white Konad polish.

I attempted the 'merry christmas' stamp a dozen times- and this was the best out of them all. Sad. But my stamping skills are going to be lackluster until I practice with them more, which I never seem to have time to do :/

I liked this mani okay. It was fun and gave me a chance to use my new stamping plate,

but I'm not crazy about it. The plate and the polish are great, I just don't like how I've used them together here.

What do you guys think?

A Merry Affair & blog sale info

Happy Monday!

-.-

Actually, I feel more amicable towards this monday than usual, seeing as how I don't have my horrid MWF class anymore. Be gone, loathsome professor. Mwahahahah.

Um, anyway- on to what you care about! :)

Here's the mani I wore the other night to match a burgundy skirt I wore to the company Christmas party. I've been meaning to feature both of these polishes, so I just killed two birds with one stone.

*cuticles are still scary, but not as bad as lately! Onwards and upwards!

On 4 fingers is 2 coats of Color Club's 'Winter Affair',

and on my ring finger is 2 coats of CG's 'Merry Berry' from the Holiday Joy collection.

'Winter Affair' is a deep burgundy flecked shimmer. It's so vampy! It does lean more on the purple side, but i'm okay with that. Coverage was great, formula was great.

'Merry Berry' is a glossy, berry jelly. It's very similar to Essie's 'Berry Naughty', but is just a tad bit more red. I don't usually like jellies, but this sucker went on beautifully and wore great also! :)

What do you guys think about these?

I love them!

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I've still considering the blog sale,

but for someone who's never done it- it's quite a bit of work to set it up.

I don't want to bother if it's not going to be successful,

so i'm still toying with the idea.

I thought about showing a preview of the polishes in a post to even see if anyone is interested,

but I'm not sure yet.

What do you guys think?

Glitter & Glitz!

Happy Sunday!

Tanner and Layla are coming back to me this today after me being alone for the best few days, and i can't wait to see my baby girl! Although, the alone time was kind of nice. I got some decorating done, gorged myself on chocolate pie without no fear of judgement, and strutted around the apartment with no pants or bra. Boom. Livin' on the edge.

ANYWAY,

here's my fun and festive mani from the other day :)

This is 3 coats of Color Club's 'Ho Ho Holly', and then 2 coats of China Glaze's 'Pizzazz' on my ring finger.
'Ho Ho Holly' is a cheerful green/gold foil from Color Club's Winter Affair collection. The gold is most apparent in the second picture. Application was great, and the brush was perfect for my nail size. It 's almost opaque in 2 coats, but 3 coats guarantees it- along with bringing the color to full fruition. I LOVE IT. Just look at all that glitz!

'Pizzazz' is a clear base filled with multi colored pastel glitter from their Holiday Joy collection. Application was easy enough, but unfortunately, this is a polish we've ALL seen before from SOMEONE (OPI, DL, BL, Finger paints, NOPI, etc.). However, I really love the combo of the glitter with the green foil. Just bright and cheery :)


What are your thoughts?
Do you have either of these polishes?
Thanks for reading :)

Holiday nail mail/haul!

Hey everyone!

Today is my last day of class before Thanksgiving.

I have to work Black Friday so I don't get much of a break,

but it's better than nothing.

Better yet, all my nail mail arrived today!
I've been accruing some of this for quite some time in anticipation for Christmas,
since it's my favorite :)
It's mostly nail polish, but a couple cosmetics in there as well.



These indie beauties from Kawaii Nail Lacquer!

These polishes from China Glaze Holiday Joy collection!

A few polishes from Color Club's Winter Affair collection:

A few from CG's new Cirque Du Soleil collection!

Lastly, UD's Optical Blurring Brush & NYX Jumbo liner in 'Milk'

Day 2: Favorite children's book nail art

Happy Sunday funday!

Today is Day 2 of the children themed nail art challenge i'm doing.

Today's theme is for my child's favorite children's book!

She has many favorites, but one of them is The Rainbow Fish. I'm sure all of you are familiar with this book. I think my daughter likes it best because if the colors, seeing as how she doesn't really understand anything else about it yet, haha.

SO, I went out on a limb and attempted to fish scale nail art using my dotting tool.

(this is prior to clean up, because i wanted a good picture before they got messed up)

As you can see... it didn't work out all that well :( For some reason i have the hardest time with the dotting tool. I think if I made each dot bigger, it would have helped. But oh well.

This was taken outside not long after...and YEP, it already got messed up. My dots were somewhat gloopy, and my topcoat did nothing to help the matter. It got mushed and smushed minutes after I took that first photo. humph.

Here's what I decided to do with my right hand, after the dotting tool art fail.

Easy peasy.

Despite how it turned out,

I really like all the colors I chose.

I'm thinking about doing some nail art or creating an eye look with them in the future...

Here's what all I used!

SO, nail art fail for this day :( But lesson learned, I think. It will be interesting to try again after i've had more practice!

100 Follower Giveaway !!!!

wooooooo!

It took me long enough, but I've finally grossed 100 followers! :D

I actually reached this lovely milestone awhile ago,

but have just now been able to afford prizes :)

Anyway, a big THANK YOU to all my followers,

particularly those of you who read my blog and comment often-

make me know this isn't all just being typed to myself!

But real talk, I really appreciate it. I love hearing what you guys have to say and i LOVE seeing the things you guys do, yourselves!

Talk about inspiration :)

Okay,

on to the prizes!

* the whole Color Club Poptastic collection.

I realize this is a little old,

but they're FANTASTIC neons that are vivid and have a great formula.

Plus I know several people have mentioned having a hard time getting ahold of these when neons are all the rave right now.

Next up,

* Wet N Wild's entire Chrome collection!

This was released several months ago,

but it's been a collection that i've had a hard time finding in the States.

i'm a sucker for these and figured they'd be a great giveaway!

Yay!

I really wanted to have some make up prizes also,

but I just can't afford to do so right now :(

Not to worry though, my next giveaway will include the things I couldn't in this one :)

HOW TO ENTER!
a Rafflecopter giveaway

This ends July 20!!
Unfortunately this giveaway is NOT international because I just can't afford the shipping,
BUT i'm going to try my damndest to make my next giveaway open for you guys outside the States! sorry!

Good luck!

mini haul & updates!

IT'S FRIDAYYYYY!

Sorry for my lack of blogging this week,

this month has been THE most grueling segment of college yet- either at UT or here.

The courseload is ridiculous,

and much of the coursework is super difficult.

However, i'm doing well & just ONE more week of classes!

yusssss.

Real quickly,

I wanted to show you guys my little mini drugstore haul:

Many of the colors from Color Club's Poptastic collection

2 shades from Essie's new metallic collection!

I wanted all of them,

but could only afford to buy the two at the moment :/

Yay!

Can't wait to swatch these bad boys for you guys.

That being said,

I'm probably going to be MIA for the next week...

just until I can get these classes over with.

Then i'll be back with a vengeance!

I've got SEVERAL polishes to show you,

end of June favorites,

4th of July nail art AND makeup looks,

and HOPEFULLY will be featuring some of Lime Crime's new nail polish and liquid liners!!

Ahhh!

So much! Can't wait.

Thanks for reading everyone,

& have a great weekend!!

first Color Club polish!

Greetings from Gulf Shores!

I've spent all day either at the beach or in the pool, drinking margaritas, basking in the sun... and it's just been fantastic. so relaxing.

I was pleased a couple days ago when I found out we had wifi here at the beach house,

but i've just now gotten around to posting about anything.

I brought a few beachy (in my opinion) polishes with me this week,

and today's polish also happens to have been my first Color Club polish. I came across a great deal of these in a Rite Aid a month or so ago but have just now gotten around to trying it.

Without further ado, 'Metamorphosis':

*sorry for the pic, was taken on my phone :/

'Metamorphosis' is from the 'Take Wing' collection. It's a foil-y teal-ish green that can has a subtle blue and pink look in certain light- almost like a duochrome. Unfortunately, I can't find my camera charger so I wasn't able to capture it :(

I bought this because of the duochrome quality it had, but it didn't show up most of the time. It reminded me very much of a peacock, though. Normally this polish would be right up my alley because i love me some metallic/foils, but I already have CG's 'Watermelon Rind', which reminds me VERY much of this polish.

so oh well.

not as unique as I had hoped.

It's a wee bit thin, so I used 2 coats here. It applied really well, also. OH YEAH- weird side note- the chlorine from the pool made this polish VERY sticky. It's super weird and now I can't wait to get it off because it just feels gunky. Anyone know why this happens?...

Anyway, I hope to be a bit more diligent about posting the rest of this week while i'm here :)

Thanks for reading!