I went to a baby shower over the weekend and took some inspiration from the pink unicorn nails I did. Because they are having a boy I tweeked it a little...
I didnt have a baby themed Hex charm I decided to go with a hand drawn duckie since it matched the wrapping I did for the gift!
I made that bow too! With hot glue and a wooden duck thing from Hobby Lobby!
I had so much fun doing all this! Being creative makes me so happy!
Hey everyone! I bought a couple sets of Julie G Frosted Gumdrops from Groupon at the end of April and I want to give you the chance to have your own set! Giveaway is open to the U.S. only.
Orange is one of my favorite colors and this came out so sparkly and jelly like, it really looked like candy. This is three thin coats of orangey goodness (it reminds me of orange soda)
This next color is Sugar Rush
This is only two coats! Its more opaque probably due to the darker color. This is one of my favorites from the set... its my kind of color, a reddish orange!
Also I cant stop singing this song from Wreck-It Ralph (just the English part) S-U-G-A-R Jump into your racing car! Sugar Rush!
This next color is Hot Cinnamon
This red a dream to apply, its also probably the fastest drying (and quite possible the only picture of a dry polish on my blog). These three are more of a jelly/crelly type of polish. They totally look like gumdrops in that aspect. The next three are metallic definitely.
This next one is called Crushed Candy
This is my other favorite from this set! I LOVE this color (its more of a lavender magenta) and consistency. It went on smoothly and opaque in two coats. Its a really nice color and SUPER sparkley.
This color is Rock Candy
I love rock candy. Especially the pops on the cutsey wooden dowel/stick things with the nub at the end! They remind me of a childhood I never got to have (not that I didnt get to have a childhood, but more that I didnt get to have rock candy ]': ) The color is nice too... (wouldnt it be funny if I left it at that and moved on?) I feel like every set that comes out needs a teal, or has a teal (need is such a strong word). I just kind of wish the teal was one of the jellyish ones instead of the metallic, NOT that I dont like it! I do like it, I just wish it looked more like a gumdrop like the first three... also Im not huge on metallics
This last color is Blueberry Fizz, YUM!
Blueberry Fizz sounds so good... I think I'm going to grab some blueberries on my way to work. This is a great rich periwinkle-ish color. It looks great with the metallic edge and went on smooth in two coats.
Overall, I liked this collection. I have no real issues with it. Its unique enough from my other polishes and it will ease me into this texturing craze thats going on now. By that I mean, these polishes are textured, but they are a toned down jelly and metallic version of Zoya's pixie stuff. The grit isnt too intese, but it provides sparkle and dimension. If you dont win this set go out and buy some, at least Sugar Rush (♪Sugar Rush! Sugar Rush!♫) and Crushed Candy, I hear you can get them at Rite Aid.
Good Luck to you all! Please leave me some suggestions for what I should giveaway next time (so far im thinking the bubbly layla polishes IF I CAN FIND THEM DAMMIT!) But otherwise I dont know whats new and upcoming and I need a bit of help... Any suggestions would be great!
This is a short one, just wanted to show you guys my nails for the 5th!
SO... I used Sally Hansen Salon Manicure in Buttercup, Essie in Fear or Desire, Essie In The Cabana, OPI in Strawberry Margarita, American Apparel in T-Shirt and CND in Silver Chrome.
I think these came out super fun! What are you doing for Cinco De Mayo? Im going to work... :'( le sigh
Hey guys, no new polish to report on (although I have a set of Julie G gumdrop polishes sitting here, waiting to be swatched and another set to giveaway... so be on the lookout).
That being said, I went to Walgreens the other day and picked up a bunch of stuff including the latest issue of Nail It magazine. I was hesitant because its 5 bucks which to me is about the same or almost the same as getting a bottle of polish. But I am SUPER glad that I did because I learned new things, read interesting articles (one in particular about men wearing polish), and was inspired to do some nail art.
This is the cover and I was so taken with the model's nails that I wanted to recreate it! They tell you how on one of the pages so it sounded easy enough
First I cut strips of electrical tape for the rectangles, placed them on my nails then used OPI Eurso Euro to paint the nail. Its the same color they used in the picture.
Then I removed the electrical tape and filled in the void with Orly Luck Duck. Despite green being my favorite color I lean more to neon greens so I dont actually have any true or kelly greens. I think I want to go pick up Essie Shake Your $$ Maker... but the one they used for the pic is apparently Essie First Timer... they dont make it very clear. Then I outlined the square in white.
Anywhoo, heres what I came up with!
I love this!!! SO much so that its been days but I still dont want to take it off! Instead I just touched it up! But it will be gone tomorrow :( Im going for a spa day which includes a mani-pedi, so they will wipe it clean.
What do you think? Have you seen this magazine yet? Go buy this now, its fun and has some great pics and product ads.
PS: what color should I get on my hands and feet at the spa tomorrow? Im thinking purple... or orange... or something neon if its bright enough (like blue?)
OK, so this is my first Hard Candy polish... I decided I needed to get at least one after 3 of my friends (and I dont have all that many friends to begin with, so I can basically/truthfully say ALL of my friends) were wearing Crushed Chromes. Two of them were wearing Crush On Lava, the other was wearing Crush On Caribbean. I like Crush On Caribbean but I have too many polishes that look exactly like it... and when I looked at the huge Walmart display I was drawn to Crush On Tin (and Little Hottie, but we'll save that for another time).
This is a GREAT polish, I am very pleased to say the least. It went on very smooth, had good coverage and consistency It wasnt so thin that it flooded the cuticles but it wasnt so thick that it was sticky.
This polish has a great luminescence to it. It sparkles but also has depth. I think of it as more of a black/gold chrome polish. My boyfriend saw it in passing and said "wow" and I wasnt even showing him my nails!
But that was last night and today I got bored. I wanted to see it matte and I am SOOOO glad that I did because it has a rich-ness to it now that it did not have before. It became so smooth and velvety.
And because I couldnt leave well enough alone I used Shandy plate SH23 to put some sort of abstract gold design on it with Orly Luxe.
I know everyone is all in a tizzy for Crush on Lava, but in my opinion if you buy just one polish from the Crushed Chromes set make it Crush On Tin; you will not be disappointed!
Ok people. This was the first of hopefully a couple more giveaways I would like to do bi-monthly or monthly... depending on how I feel (yes, it is all about me).
That being said I have learned a few things... Firstly, I want to make them longer... this was only a week long giveaway. I am going to try two weeks next and initially I thought if I did a giveaway every month then it would be open all month... but that seems like a hella long time. So we try two weeks next month. Next, I really want to see more promotion of the giveaway. I had a couple people repost it on their facebook, but I couldnt verify it... so I deleted those entries. If you want to repost and you leave me a link, make sure it works... or exists for longer than an hour. I may make it a daily option to repost... maybe. Le Sigh! Can anyone say "learning experience"? And lastly, I would love to hear any suggestions from you guys! I think I am still only doing U.S. mailing only... so far. I may open it up to Canada, maybe Australia (especially since I am so fond of the Aussies... my friends there used to say I was basically Australian with an American speech impediment! Oi Oi Oi), so I would like to hear suggestions more along the lines of what kind of products, where to promote, those kinds of things. Enough of my babble...
WOOT!!!!
So I clicked the "send an email" button... maybe two or three times because I expected something to happen, but nothing did... so I am going to send Kayla an email and it may be her third or fourth one from me, it may be the only one. Either way:
CONGRATULATIONS KAYLA!!!
You are the proud new owner of some Edinburgh!
Make sure to check back here next month because I am giving away a Julie G set of frosted gumdrop polish... I was looking at instagram the other day and I was saw a post from Casey (beauty101blog) about these textured gumdrop polishes available at RiteAid... of which maybe there are 5 in the Denver Metro Area (which is huge). SO since I couldnt really get my buns over to one, she mentioned a groupon about it and away I went! I then thought, why not get a set for next months giveaway since it will take about two weeks to get here anyways? SO LOOK OUT FOR THAT IN MAY!!! Im pretty excited, these will be my first Julie G polishes.
Congrats Kayla, you have 48 hours to respond to my email or I will pick another winner!
Today is the last day to enter my giveaway!!! Go do it, and then look forward to another one for next month... it will be even better (cuz its a set!)
But back to the mani at hand!
So I didnt intend to do this mani at all last night. I really wanted to do a neon gradient with OPI Turquoise Shatter over the top...but I just couldnt get it to look the way that I wanted... then I thought I would do a neon yellow mani with gradient blue dots
(OMG that wheel was a lot harder to photograph than my nails... )
But to get the yellow to stand out I had to put on white undies, and I kept hitting my fingers on the plethora of other things on my desk... so I got fed up and cleaned it all off. I almost didnt even paint them after that, I was so dejected... BUT THEN!!!! I remembered how my friend was complaining about pink nail polish (she NEVER wears pink and how she came about wearing pink polish is a longer story than even I would like to tell)... but anyways, I was telling her to "rock" the pink up a bit by adding a black accent nail and maybe some studs... at which point she confessed that every time I use little accent bits on her nails, like studs or rhinestones, she never keeps them!!! Even the "bitch" hex charm I put on her nails last time I did them...
Anywho, that conversation inspired these nails!
I love neon colors and Warhol is a great polish! Jackie-Oh! is probably my favorite neon pink that Color Club does, but these are pretty similar, enough so that you dont have to have both. This is my first time using Noho, even though I bought it so long ago. I LOVE LOVE LOVE the effect. I cant wait to go buy Soho Mews and Shoreditch Lane...
