Chanel design nails!

My first attempt at a set of Chanel design nails! Quilted french black tips with the famous double C logo painstakingly hand painted by me using gel. Hehe.

This is a set of sculptured acrylic extension, nail colour painted with gelish (gel nail polish).

Chanel design nails!

My first attempt at a set of Chanel design nails! Quilted french black tips with the famous double C logo painstakingly hand painted by me using gel. Hehe.

This is a set of sculptured acrylic extension, nail colour painted with gelish (gel nail polish).

Some floral lovin'

Can't get enough of these hand painted floral designs... Love it love it love it! It's a pity my left hand cannot paint flowers. SOB.

Nail design from Nail Max! I'm loving the colour combination here. Soft pink shades with pink and purple roses. Awww. Oh and this is Miyake Wong's nails. And yes her skin is flawless and she is still pretty without makeup. JEALOUS MAX.

Nude peach color french tips! YAY! Finally I have some decent nude gel colours. :D

Painted scallop lace on the french line.

Some floral lovin'

Can't get enough of these hand painted floral designs... Love it love it love it! It's a pity my left hand cannot paint flowers. SOB.

Nail design from Nail Max! I'm loving the colour combination here. Soft pink shades with pink and purple roses. Awww. Oh and this is Miyake Wong's nails. And yes her skin is flawless and she is still pretty without makeup. JEALOUS MAX.

Nude peach color french tips! YAY! Finally I have some decent nude gel colours. :D

Painted scallop lace on the french line.

2011 Las Vegas Weekly Awards!

This past Wednesday I was invited to attend an event held by the Las Vegas Weekly, a weekly magazine here in Las Vegas. I was selected as the recipient of the 2011 'Best Blogger' award in the 2011 Weekly awards!! SO exciting!! :) Of course, since I was going to the event, I had to do Las Vegas Weekly nails, so I used one of the copies of when the story about me was in the Weekly last May to work into the manicure. (I was a tad overzealous in getting spare copies to keep, so I had a few issues to spare :-P) Check out the blurb about the award here!

Forgive me for not including my thumb in the picture- I swatched another color over it without thinking before I got around to photographing it. Stupid me. For the texture in the background, I transferred bits of the original article using alcohol onto the white background, then painted the Las Vegas WEEKLY logo over it. :)

My name on the big screen! :)

I used American Apparel Cotton as a base, with Claire's Stiletto for the red, and American Apparel Hassid for the black. Topped it all off with two coats of Seche Vite top coat.

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Hey everyone

Okay so the past week has not been my best. I can say that my computer is up and running again, yay, but I am currently dealing with some other areas of my life. My blog had to be put on hold this week, and I apologize to you all. Things are starting to get back in order so I am hoping to get back into the swing of things soon. I also have had no time to get to any emails or comments, but please know I will. Hope you all are doing good.
XOXO
Erika


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Get Your Groupon On!

Many of you may have heard of Groupon by now, but if you haven't, it's amazing. Businesses in your area (or sometimes online businesses) will over products or services at a hefty discount if you buy during the Groupon sale. I've used Groupon for Barnes & Noble gift cards ($10 for $20), Gap ($25 for $50), American Apparel ($25 for $50), Zipline Rides down Fremont St ($10 for $25), Restaurants for 50%, Redbox coupons, admission to LV shows, Mani/Pedis, movie tix, all sorts of things. You can even purchase them as gifts for a friend! :)

Right now they're running a special where if a friend signs up and purchase their first Groupon by June 13, you get $30!! So Sign up, and then get your friends to sign up so YOU can get money towards free Groupons!!!

I wouldn't recommend something that I don't already use (way too much), so check it out, I think you'll like it- and it's offered in cities all over the US! :)

If you like me, and want to sign up with MY link, here it is! Melissa's Groupon Signup Link

This one is for you Bridgette!

Morning! I know today is Pink Wednesday, but I had a request from a sweet reader, Bridgette, who contacted me about her upcoming graduation, and asked me for a mani idea. She told me her school colors were red and black, and she didn't want it to be boring, my kind of girl, lol, and well red is basically a dark pink, right?

Here is what I came up with.
I used the dots image on the Bundle Monster plate BM19, Professional 10 color #415 Pinky Promise for my base, Wet n' Wild Black for the dots and Sally Hansen Rapid Red for my tips.

I hope you like it Bridgette :)

RESULTS !

The long awaited results of Guess & Win is out!

1. Just Groovy

2. OPI Osaka To Me Orange

3. Over The Taupe

4. OPI That's Hot! Pink

5. Sparrow Me The Drama

6. Makes Men Blush

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Congratulations to Winnie & Kai ! Both of them got 5/6 answers right. Hence, I ranked them as 1st and 2nd prize winners respectively according to the date and time of their entry. Will be emailing them with respect to their prize. (:

For those who did not win, don't fret.

I sincerely thank all of you for your support and your participation.

There'll be another contest coming up soon.

Stay tuned!