Raising the Bar

So, as you probably read, a few posts back, I did a nail art event at Beauty Bar last night! In honor of the night, I did Beauty Bar nails! The walls in Beauty Bar are painted with glitter, so I did stripes of all colors of glitter on all the nails, then added the Beauty Bar silhouette logo on my thumb! (I'll add pictures of the event tomorrow when I have more time)  I broke the middle finger nail, so I just chopped them all off. The middle one is soooo short, it hurts. :(

I used CND Green Scene as a base for the green, ALDO See You in Ibiza for the blue base, Orly Shine as a base for the silver, Orly Luxe for the gold base, Essie Foot Loose for the hot pink base, Essie Vermillionaire for the orange base, and Barielle Grape Escape for the purple base. For the glitters, I used Color Club Object of Envy for the green, Nubar Green Silver Glitter for the other half of the thumb. For the gold, I used Color Club Sultry Diva, the purple, Nubar Violet Sparkle, for the red, I used Milani Melt Down, for the blue, OPI Absolutely Alice, silver on the middle finger is NOX Twilight Disco Darling, Zoya Astra for the pink, OPI Extra-va-vaganza! for the orange, then Amour Rain Glitter for the pinky. For the logo, I used American Apparel Hassid. I then topped it all off with 2 coats of Seche Vite top coat.

Sorry for the quick post tonight- I've been going out of my mind busy lately!

2010 Milani Gems Swatches....

Okay, so while I was at CVS, I saw that they were in the process of putting these out, so I gladly helped the SA with the unpacking, lol. Well I just learned I didn't grab the red one?!?!?!? Guess I'm going back. These are all sooo pretty, and I can say that it's the 1st collection in a loooong time, that I LOVE them all!!!

Here are the 6, out of 7, that I have

Silver Dazzle

Blue Flash (I'm not sure why my camera INSISTED on my hands being a very un-pretty shade of red, but the polish color is accurate)

Purple Gleam

Gold Glitz

Gems, which is a Lippman Happy Birthday dupe!!!

Gold, I LOVE these big hex glitters!! This was 2 THICK coats.

Barielles Elle's Spell

I was able to grab Elle's Spell at Ulta the other night, and just look at how beautiful it is!!! Like I've said before, I'm a sucker for any flakie!!  I tried it over a black and China Glaze's Ruby Deer

Here it is over black

and here it is over the red

Essence Magnetic Polish Giveaway!!! Courtesy of The Lacquerista!!!

Okay ever since I heard about the L'Oreal Magnetic polishes, I have been on the lookout. I have yet to be so lucky to get my hands on any though. Then I heard that Essence is coming out with a few. I was beyond thrilled to find out that the The Lacquerista was having a giveaway for the set!!! Check it out here!!!! Here is her pic of swatches from the collection. Oh and December 5th is the deadline.

To see more pics, read more info and enter the giveaway click here.
ps. if you enter and win, all items must be sent to me, LOL, J/K.
Good Luck!

A Semi Holiday Patchwork Mani....

I decided to do a Holiday, yes with black, Patchwork mani. Well really only because these are the only colors I had in my purse one day during lunch, lol.

I used China Glaze Ruby Deer
Sinful Black on Black
Funky Fingers Sugar Plum (glitter)

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A night home with the cutest Hubby EVER!

I had to share this with you guys! Only you would really appreciate it.
So a few weeks ago on a Friday night, my hubby was feeling creative, lol. We didn't have much planned, but he knew I would be doing a mani, and wanted to join in on the fun. Now, please trust me when I say, that this was all his idea and doing. I wouldn't have been to shocked if he had been drinking, but he hadn't yet!!!! He came to me with an idea he had.....He had an idea of a mani that he wanted me to do, but he was going to try it out first. So he wandered over to 1 of my containers, and started looking for colors. He ended up finding the 2 colors he needed, and got to work.

Oh and sorry for the crap pics, but I only had my cell handy and NEEDED these pics, lol.
Here he is looking for his colors :)

Here he is polishing ever so delicately, lol. I was DYING at this point. He was really into it.

Gotta dry them, HAHAHAHAHAHA

I wasn't allowed to see his final creation till he was done. I must say, I'm impressed. When I told him I wanted a picture, he INSISTED on holding the polish in the pic, like I do!!! Anyways, here was his design.

What is it you ask.................Well, he showed me this pic, and said it was his inspiration!! How cute is that!!!!



Thank goodness he is sooooo supportive of my hobby :)

Tis' the season to be jolly!

Hey guys!

I'm planning to do a set of Christmas Nails for the upcoming season. Meanwhile, I'm opening up my nail art services to anyone who's interested. Do check with me with regards to the charges, depending on what kind of design you're looking for. Rest assured, as I've just started out, my charges will be reasonable. Hope to hear from you soon! (:

Yin & Yang Inspired

Pardon the uneven painting on some of the fingers as this was done past midnight last night! As the name suggests, this was inspired by the yin & the yang. I particularly like this design as it's something different from the usual flowers that I've been working on. It was a tough try as the black curves were drawn free-hand, no tapes or anything like that to split the white from the black. It was even tougher using my left hand to paint on my right! Nevertheless, I managed it. I'm lovin' it on my nails! (:

Of Flowers & Rhinestones

Virgin try with rhinestones on my fingers! And I finally realize why ladies who often go for manicures are so in love with rhinestones. Rhinestones enhance the nail art design much more and makes it look more sophisticated. Two thumbs up!