A Blog with Substance Award!!!

YAYAYAY. Thanks to Cristina from Let Them Have Polish for tagging me for this award, I'm sooo excited!!

Rules for this one:

1. Thank and link back to the giver of the award.

See above.

2. Sum up your blogging philosophy, motivation, and experience using 5 words.

I will try anything once!

 3. Pass it on to other bloggers that you feel have substance in their blogs.


Awarding to:

** Nails Beautiqued
** Another Bottle of Polish
** Goose's Glitter
** All Things Nails
** Miranne's Nails

Thanks again Cristina!!!!

Who doesn't love 14 Karat gold flowers!

Okay, so they aren't real flowers, or real gold, but close enough. I have def been in a Konad/Bundle Monster plate mood lately. This past weekend, I did this mani. I used Sinfuls Black on Black and Claires 14 Karats for the design.

Then with black tips! I think the black tips just complete a mani, well...in my opinion, obviously : P

HOLY CRAP!

Urban Decay is on Hautelook today and everything is TWO FREAKIN' DOLLARS!! $2! Brushes, pigments, eyeshadows, eye pencils, masrcaras, everything!!!

Check out the sale HERE!!

My Quilted Mani....

Okay, so I didn't want to do another Patchwork Mani, so I did this. A friend over on MUA said I should call it my Quilted Mani, since in my Patchwork, I use 3 colors, and this is 4. I love it, so that's what it's called :P

I used China Glaze Towel Boy Toy, China Glaze Recycle, Sinful Black on Black and OPI Simmer & Shimmer.

Loco Incoco!

Rather than posting nothing for the day, since I had zero time to get nails done (every spare minute this weekend has been spent being elf-like or working. Christmas is exhausting!), I thought I'd post a new product that Incoco sent me to check out and review. I'm sure that you all know Incoco for the solid color, glitter, or french tip nail appliques, but now they have a NEW product out, and seriously, I gasped when I opened the box. They're patterned. Yeah, like Minx, but REAL NAIL POLISH!!! I have to say, too, I'm actually reaaaaally impressed with these, they're much easier to apply than the solid color ones. (they hide imperfections in the nail better as well) The patterns they sent are rad, I chose to show this one today because the colors kinda make me think of Christmas! :) I really love these, they're easy to use and look great– they only took 5 minutes to apply!

I know that these aren't technically one of my nail designs, but I wanted y'all to have something to see, plus, this introduces you to a brand spankin' new item that I'm sure you'll dig!

I used Incoco Nail Appliqués, not sure of the design name, there was no label.

Back to elfing.

Congratulations to the winners

Hello My Sweet Nail-Art lovers!
I am hapy to prononce winners of flowers nail art contest.
The winne rof first prize (readers choice) is entrie number 2 made by super talented and very famoust Thriszha from Fub you nails blog. Congatulations !!!
The winner of the second prize (my choice) is entrie number 6 made by Ramona. She runs ANDAYN NAIL blog where she post tons and tons of mind blowing creative nail designs.
I choose this manicure because i believe it is very well excuted, consisten wiht the contest theme, very well executed and hase a personality. I really like it, so congrats to ramona.
Winners please e-mail me your mailing addresses so i can mail your prizes ASAP.
Great thanks for every contestents and Marry Christmas to everybody :)

Playing with Perplex....

So I finally got Revlon Perplex, Chanel's Pradoxal dupe!! I actually grabbed 2, but I'm saving 1 for a give away I'm going to have, along with some other prettes :) I'll probaby have it after the new year!! It really is such a pretty color, and the hidden shimmer is GORG! Here are a bunch of different manis, all using this!!!

Here she is all by her pretty self :)

Then I used my Bundle Monster plate, BM20 to do this design. I just used Sinful's Black on Black for the image

Here I did Perplex with Nicole's Pitch Black Glimmer over top

Annnnnnnd....of course black tips :)

Then I tried it under Barielle's Elle's Spell, and LOVED IT!!! You can really see the flakies in Elle's Spell now.

But add a coat of the Nicole Pitch Black Glimmer, and you have a very fun mani!!!

Pa Rum Pa Pum Pum

Trying to do Christmas manicures from until Christmas day, hope that's cool with y'all! :) Today's is based on the song 'Little Drummer Boy'. I am completely enamored with the Milani 1-coat glitters right now, so I apologize for overusing them! :-D I thought that Red Sparkle would be PERFECT for the drum body!! The gold polish over it shows you what the texture of that polish is like though... very bumpy!

I used Milani Red Sparkle as a base, with China Glaze 2030 from Khrome Collection for the gold, mixed with American Apparel Hassid to shade. For the holly, I used BB Couture Poison Ivy for the leaves, and ORLY Candy Cane Lane for the berries. Topped everything off with 2 coats of Seche Vite top coat.

Rat-a-tat-tat on your dum-dum-drum. (Can't get that damn song out of my head!)

A Holiday layering experiment....

This was a mani that I did, just sort of playing around, lol, but I loved how it turned out. I started with my Sinful's Black on Black, and then added Sinful's All About You. Its an awesome gold, orange, rust colored glitter.

Then, cause I can never leave anything alone, I wanted to add some red to this, just to make it a tad more festive. I had this polish I ordered from Forever 21, and loved it, but it was just to sheer. Well, it was perfect for what I visioned. I love how it was sheer enough to let All About You still show through!

Hello Mr. Snowman!

Hey all !

Last night, my mum asked me, "What are you going to do for my nails on Christmas?" And so, I specially designed this for her! I really like it! Makes it look like snowman is standing on the snow. Really cute design! What do you think?