This glitter is HUNGRY!!

So I wanted to show you another Nubar that I ordered off of eBay a little while ago, called Night Sparkle. I also want to let you all know, I will get to your comments and emails today, I'm hoping. My weekend was sooo crazy, and I had no time to get on my computer. Anyways, okay, I love my Nubar glitters, but this one ate my top coat like it was no ones business!! I will show you exactly what I mean. Okay, this is what the mani looked like right after I applied 2 coats of Night Sparkle, and 2 coats of SV. So pretty :)

Then within 5 minutes, it looked like this :( See the lumps............. This is called a hungry glitter :)

Now, if you're looking for a fix, I was informed that first doing a coat of Gelous, and then your top coat, solves this. I have yet to test this out, but I'm all for trying it, next time I come across a glitter like this.

Also, keep an eye out, because I have another giveaway coming up soon :)

Not what I expected, but MUCH better

Morning! Once again, I ordered some Nubar polishes off of eBay. You know, if eBay didn't exist, I'm pretty sure my bank account would have many more zeros.  Anyways, this one is Star Sparkle. It's loaded with holo glitter, and just looks amazing on the nail. Since I had some spare time at night, I decided to stamp over it too.

Here is 3 coats of Star Sparkle

Then using the Mash plate M60 and Wet n' Wild Black polish, I did this design. I freaking love that it actually looks like I have fabric over top the design!

Oh and, you know how I love my flakie polishes, can you believe I found a flakie lip gloss at Wal-mart, by Hard Candy! I'm also a semi lip gloss hoarder, lol. But this has FLAKES, and ones you can see when you apply it. It's so cool, and a great effect that I just had to share. This one is called Tipsy :)

Here is a swatch on my hand. It's such a light sheer pink, but the flakes, EEEKKK, I love! It doesn't even have a rough texture at all!

Let's get crafty! and a Giveaway question.

Since I'm always trying to come up with fun ways to use tape, while I was in a craft store, I saw these, and wondered why I never tried these!! These work PERFECT, and I already have the next 3 days scheduled, of manis I did with them, lol. Here are the ones I picked up, and the you can see the designs they make on the side of them. They were only $1.99 a each!!

For this mani, I started out with Sinful Black on Black

Then I decided to use this pair first :)

I just cut the tape in half, and this is what it looked like

Then taping off my nail, I added China Glaze Recycle

Then taping them off again, I added Nubar Reclaim! I'm addicted to these scissors now!

Oh and you might see some leftover glue on my middle finger, haha, I was def feeling crafty, and couldn't get all the glue off!  Ooohhh, I can't wait for you guys to see the others!!!

Okay, now I have been collecting a few polishes here and there, about 20, and am ready to host my first giveaway very soon. I would like your advice though. Would you guys prefer it to be a 1 winner giveaway, and that 1 person wins it all, 2 giveaways - that the first winner gets to pick like 10 and the 2nd winner gets the other 10, or 4 winners - with me separating the polishes into 4 sets of 5, and starting with winner 1, they can pick which set, then winner 2 can pick the next set and so on? Hope that makes sense, lol. Since this is for you guys, I would love to hear your opinions. Oh and yes, this will be open to EVERYONE :P

TIA!

XOXO Erika

I'm a Nubar fan now!!

Ever since I got my first Nubar, Verde, I've been hooked on their colors and formula and I even love their bottles. I've ordered about 8 since then, eeekk. I wanted to share the ones I got in the mail tonight. Again, I bought these from eBay.
This one that is soooo incredibly pretty, trust me, in person this is way more pretty!! It's my fave from the 3 tonight.
This is 3 coats of Purple Rain Glitter.

Check out how pretty it is in the bottle!!

This is Reclaim, a REAL HOLO *cough couch* China Glaze! Although since I get home so late, there was no sun, so I tried my best, but it's a true green holo!!

and another holo, Treasure, but this is considered a scattered holo, where as Reclaim is a linear holo. Again, the sun would have been great for this, but I couldn't wait to swatch them. Maybe I'll re-do these and later on do a holo spam post sometime.

These last 2 are slightly blurred so you could see the rainbow in there.

Fault Line Crackle

I forgot to mention that before I removed Nubar Verde the other night, I did try China Glaze Fault Line over it. Now I have heard MANY say that it doesn't crackle as good as the rest of the China Glaze, but I didn't really experience much of a difference.  Here it is with no top coat.

and now with SV on top

Nubar Verde....It's magical!!

Well I finally own a Nubar. While searching eBay for some new polishes, I came across this. So I did what I always do, and googled imaged my heart out looking at swatches, and decided to get it. OMG, thank god I did, it's such a different color that's sooo pretty. I can't even describe the color, it's way to complex. I'll let the pictures say it all.

Oh but I will say, since my lazy butt didn't put a base on, it stained like crazy, grrrr. Well I'll show you how I semi fixed that tomorrow. Okay, onto the mani.

Opposites attract! Guest blog on Grazia Daily

Guestblog over at Grazia Daily!

Hi guys! A while ago I was asked to write a little post for Grazia Daily. Lauren posts a lot of cool nail news this section called Grazia Daily Nail, including her own manicures. I'm extremely honored they have asked me! I made two manicures for them, which you can see in this post. If you want to know more about these please check out the blogpost over at Grazia Daily

Nubar - Indigo Illusion

Hi everyone! How's everybody doing? Since it's sunday I decided I wanted to play around with the lightbox my dear stepdad made! The picture above is made in the box but with natural light, and the picture below is with the lights on. I'm still practising, it's hard to simulate natural light, especially without creating weird shadows!

I'm loooving the polish I'm wearing today, it's a duochrome by Nubar, Indigo Illusion. Duochrome is my favorite finish ever, and this one has so many colors! Blue, pink, yellow, green, it's amazing. The formula is wonderful too, this one's already a favorite!