For Your Thoughts.

Hey everyone! Guess whose birthday it is today? I'll give a hint... he'd be 201 years old today. He sported a lovely beard. He was assassinated by John Wilkes Booth. ;) Ok, if you haven't figured it out yet, its Abe Lincoln!! :-P In honor of our 16th President's birthday, I decided to do penny nails, since he's on both sides!! :-P It didn't turn out as well as I'd hoped, because I quickly discovered it is very hard to paint the detail of a penny on a fingernail with a nail art brush. :-P it'd have to be like a single bristled art brush! lol



I used Milani Sassy Brassy, which to me looks more like copper, as a base, with a mixture of Zoya Raven, Zoya Angelina and Nubar Milk Chocolate Creme for the linework, and Zoya Raven for the black background, topped with Essie Matte About You. Penny art was topped off with 2 coats of Seche Vite top coat to really make 'em shine. ;)

Now, how about your 2¢?

Polish Bloggers Network: Lacquer Link Love 2/12/10

Polish Pixel Pig has found her perfect shade of gray and now she wants to share it with the world. Thanks Zoya!

The Swatchaholic has a wonderful comparison of Chanel Particuliere along with some other gorgeous taupes. A few may be on your lemming list.

Bright Lights Big Color decided to do a tribute to nail art that was inspired by fellow bloggers. Check out her design to see if it was you.

Naive Nails has cooked up a look she likes to call Barbie, but it's not your average good girl mani.

Travels with Euridice has provided some excellent pictures of some glittery goodness! I'm keeping it a secret what prized polish this is. :)

Helen's Nice Things is showing off a shade deemed to to be hot this summer. A Models Own shade in a color that's hit the NYFW runways.

Tuli's Nails brought us some swatches from a brand called S-he Stylezone. Check out the pretty pink one full of HOLO-liciousness.

Daily Polish brings a gorgeous micro glitter purple polish for everyone to view. It may be from a smaller brand, but the name is definitely unforgettable. I'll let you take a look at what it is for yourself, lol.

Now on to our Network Giveaways...

This is your last chance to win the goodies fromTuli's Nails Romantic Valentine's Giveaway. Make sure you've entered for your chance to win!

Can't find the Milani Holo polish anywhere near you?! Well get your chance to snag those pretty Milani Holo's by entering Naive Nails 300 follower giveaway.

A Very Special Giveaway

I don't usually like posts on giveaways on other blogs which is why I post them on my sidebar for your and my convenience but I'm making an exception this time because this one got to me.

Blogging is hard work! First you have to make your blog. Choose a lay-out, think about your content and what you want to accomplish with it and then the real work begins.

Taking the time to polish your nails or do your make-up, taking 50 pictures in different positions and lighting to get the most colour accurate and flattering pictures, sifting through these pictures to find the best ones, cropping and watermarking if necessary, uploading, writing a post, adding the pictures, check your post to see if it looks good, check for spelling mistakes, delete some of the post, adding other paragraphs, double check again and when all that is done you publish the post for people to read.

Sure, we bloggers mainly blog for ourselves. It's a hobby and most of us have fun with our blogs but it definitely helps that people out there take an interest. I'm really happy so many of you choose to check my blog almost daily and sometimes leave a comment. That is half, if not more, of the fun of blogging!

Which is why I would like to point out Jellynat's blog to you. I've been going through her blog and it amazes me that she has been blogging for about 5 months now and only just now reached 50 followers! She has great pics, interesting articles and her writing style is both personal and informative. She deserves more followers so you need to check her out!

To celebrate that she reached 50 followers she is giving away these beauties:



Essie "Mod Squad" (lovely hot pink) and Sinful "Crystalline" (sky blue with light aqua shimmer).

You can click on the pic to go to the giveaway. The giveaway is open to international followers and ends March 1st at 11:59.

And if you are a blogger please point her blog out to your readers. We've all been there and we need to help each other out every once in a while. ;)