Essie....I Love Nail Polish!

Hey everyone!! Im back!! Sorry for the hiatus!

I promise this post will make up for it!

Essie Barefoot in Blue

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I Love Nail Polish Once Upon a Starry Night

I recently came across a facebook page that posted a ton of cute nail pictures. Then I started to see that she was creating her own nail polish! At first, I was unsure if she was going to sell them, so I sat back and watched the beautiful creations. Then one day I was browsing on etsy and came across her store!!!!! I snatched some babies up so quickly, I think my keyboard was smelling like burnt rubber!

Here I have Once Upon A Starry Night from her latest winter collection. It is a combination of blue, silver, white, prism, and star glitters. GORGEOUS COMBINATION!!!

I have layered one coat, plus dabbing, of Once Upon A Starry Night, over three coats of Barefoot in Blue.

I Love Nail Polish is currently having a sale of 40% off! Head on over and tell Barbra I said HI!!!

31 Day Challenge 2012: Day 5

BLUE NAILS

Today is day 5 of the 31 Day Challenge! Today is also the first day of the official NFL season and my 'boys are playing!! So what better than to do a Dallas Cowboys mani!!!

Blue polish used: Catrice Nautica

Untried polish used: Catrice Nautica

Come back tomorrow for Day 6!

31 Day Challenge 2012: Day 4

GREEN NAILS

31 Day Challenge 2012: Day 3

YELLOW!!

Today is day 3 of the 31 Day Challenge and 30 Days of Untrieds

Disney Nail Art Contest & Blog Anniversary Winners!!!

First off, thank you to all who entered my contest!! The turnout was amazing and it was extremely difficult to choose a winner!! As the original post said, my daughter chose the Grand Prize Winner, since it was her birthday and she loves Disney!

Here are the winners of the nail art contest....

31 Day Challenge 2012: Day 2

ORANGE NAILS

Day 2 of the 31 days is orange nails.

It is also Day 2 of Untrieds!!!

31 Day Challenge 2012: Day 1

RED NAILS

Today is Day 1 of the 31 Day Challenge!!

I am also doing 30 Days of Untrieds

PCOS Awareness Month

September is PCOS Awareness month. PCOS stands for Polycystic Ovary Syndrome. Nory over at Fierce Makeup and Nails asked if anyone would like to participate in doing a teal mani to show our support for PCOS Awareness month. 

Most of you don't know that I was actually tested to see if I had PCOS about a year ago, thankfully I do not but it was very scary to think that it could be a possibility. So, of course this mani was right up my alley and I had to show my support.

This mani ended up turning out better than I had imagined! For each nail there is actually a meaning behind the design.

For the thumb I chose to do the teal ribbon by using some loose glitter I had. The thumb represents the ribbon and the support that this cause has.

For my index finger I have two coats of OPI My Boyfriend Scales Walls and I stamped using BM-201 with Butter London Slapper (the perfect teal might I add). My middle finger is the same colors but opposite. I chose this stamp because I know that PCOS can be a struggle for women and they may encounter quite a few bumpy roads that are forever changing.

My ring finger is a base of OPI My Boyfriend Scales Walls and a loose glitter gradient of teal glitter. This represents how hopefully, the women with POCS, their symptoms can slowly fade.

My pinkie finger is a base of Butter London Slapper with a coat of Nicole by OPI Somebody Teal Love. This finger represents the light, or shimmer in this case, at the end of the battle against PCOS.

You can also check out Nory's post along with her personal story here!

For more information about PCOS, please visit any of these links:

http://www.pcoschallenge.com/ - Support System to help women with PCOS

http://www.facebook.com/PCOSFoundation - PCOS Foundation

http://www.facebook.com/pcosfight - PCOS Awareness

http://www.facebook.com/pcosdiva - PCOS Diva

Polycystic Ovary Syndrome (PCOS) - Symptoms 

(source: http://women.webmd.com/tc/polycystic-ovary-syndrome-pcos-symptoms)

China Glaze I'm Not a Lion

China Glaze I'm Not a Lion is a gorgeous golden holographic glitter! I'm Not a Lion is from the On Safari collection.

UGH! Such a GORGEOUS golden glitter it is!!! The glitter applied wonderfully and had no troubles at all! This is 3 coats applied topped with one coat of Seche Vite.

31 Day Challenge 2012 & 30 Days of Untrieds

Last year a bunch of my blogger friends did the 31 Day Challenge where you follow a list of nail polish related things to do for 31 days on your nails. Well this year I am joining in along with them!!

Here is the challenge (31st day is different from the original) that Sarah over at Chalkboard Nails has created. The challenge starts tomorrow, September 1st for anyone wanting to join us!

I am also joining in with Polished Criminals to incorporate 30 Days of Untrieds. Some of you may remember this challenge that I started last year. I thought it would be cool to get some untrieds out of the way.

Will you be participating this year? I am going to try my BEST to keep up this year and finish it out til the end!

International Haul & Such

This month I had quite the international haul come to my house!! With the help of a few great ladies I was able to get two Catrice collections that I had really been wanting and the Essence Snow White collection.

This is the Catrice Coolibri collection. Thanks to my friend Maddie, I was able to get the whole set!!! She also sent some cute Hello Kitty gummy snacks, a leopard print mini nail file, and glittery nail clippers! Thanks Maddie!!!

This collection is the Catrice Cruise Couture collection. While the colors may seem simple and not unique, they totally are!! Love them!! A BIG Thank You to Caroline from Good Lack, Nail! for these!!!

If you know me and Disney, well, we're inseparable!!! I just had to have everything from this collection and Caroline (my lifesaver) was able to get it all for me!!! Thank you again, Caroline!!! Also a thank you to Marcy for shipping them to me!!!

The HAREpolish polishes I received were Rad Cloud, Magic Mist, Dog Day Dream, and Asteroid Turf. I had gotten Rad Cloud, Magic Mist, and Dog Day Dream from the Llarowe stock. Asteroid Turf I received from HAREpolish's etsy shop.

Deborah Lippmann Between the Sheets and Boom Boom Pow arrived from my Apothica order!!

Finally, from the $0.99 Sinful Colors sale at Walgreens I got only one color!!!

Blog Anniversary Giveaway!!!

Thank you all for following me!!! If you have been reading the past few posts, you'll know this has been coming!!! Here is the entry form to enter to win one of the four polish sets for my giveaway!!! You can also enter the Disney Nail Art contest I have going on! Thank you!!

*Make sure to check out this post to view the prizes and polish sets!!*

a Rafflecopter giveaway

Disney Nail Art Contest!!!

The Disney Nail Art Contest is really simple. Just create something original that is on your own nails  and the nail art has to do with Disney! Anything that is related to Disney you can do on your nails!!

Disney movies, Disney princesses, Disney theme parks, Disney Junior, Disney Channel, etc...

I chose to do Disney as the theme for the nail art contest because Disney is one of my favorite creators when it comes to movies...and my daughter's. Plus, we are going to Disneyland soon and it is one of my favorite places on earth!

With any contest comes rules. The rules are:

1. The nail art picture you submit must be yours!

2. Nail Art can't be submitted if on a fake hand with fake nails

3. No stealing pictures from the internet and claiming them as yours

4. There is no limitation as to how many photos you can submit, but please make sure each submission is a different design

Be sure to check out my original post regarding the prizes!!! Go check out those goodies!!

Your nails are your canvas!! Be creative and let those creative juices flow onto your nails!! You can use anything on your nails that will translate to nail art. For example: acrylic paints, nail polish, stamping, beads, flocking, etc....

GOOD LUCK!

Contest starts August 10, 2012 8:00am pst

Contest ends September 1, 2012 8:00pm pst

Thank you!!! I look forward to seeing everyone's nail art!!

Nailed to the T Blog Anniversary & Disney Nail Art Contest

WOW!! Its been a whole year since I have been blogging! Happy 1st Birthday blog!! I have a lot to celebrate for this month and have decided to host a 

Disney Nail Art Contest!!!

photo source

This month my daughter, Aubriana, turns 4 and we are heading to Disneyland so I thought a Disney nail art contest would be perfect for this!

There are many ways that you can win some wonderful prizes! My daughter will be picking her favorite nail art and that winner will be the Grand Prize Winner. Then, there will be two runner ups that I will choose. Lastly, there will be a Rafflecopter giveaway for everyone to enter and you do not have to submit a nail art photo.

Now onto the prizes:

Grand Prize winner will receive:

1- $25 Gift Certificate to their choice of Overall Beauty, Llarowe, or Ninja Polish

1 sets of nail art stickers

1 choice of nail polish sets

1st Runner Up will receive:

1 set of nail art stickers

2nd choice of nail polish sets

2nd Runner Up will receive:

1 set of nail art stickers

3rd choice of nail polish sets

3rd Runner Up will receive:
1 set of nail art stickers
4th choice of nail polish sets

Rafflecopter Winner will receive:

1 set of nail art stickers

5th choice of nail polish sets

Polish sets:

1st set is sponsored by Rainbow Honey

1 Full Size of A Little Kindness

1 Mini Size of Pinkie Promise

Rainbow Honey photo source

2nd Set is sponsored by Dollish Polish

1 Full Size set of the Zelda Duo

Dollish Polish photo source

3rd Set is sponsored by Elixir Lacquers and gLORIous

1 Full Size Elixir Lacquers

1 Full Size gLORIous #35 Spectraflair Topcoat

Elixer Lacquers photo source

4th Set is sponsored by Rainbow Honey

1 Full Size of A Little Kindness

1 Mini Size of The Worst Possible Thing

Rainbow Honey photo source

5th Set is sponsored by Candeo Colors and me

1 Full Size bottle

1 mini bottle of Candeo Colors Orchid

Nail Art Stickers sponsored by Overall Beauty

These are some really great prizes!! A BIG THANK YOU to those who donated the prizes for this contest!!

Dollish Polish

Elixir Lacquers

gLORIous

Overall Beauty

Rainbow Honey

Candeo Colors

*There may be more items added as prizes while the contest and giveaway is going on, so look out for additions to the prize packs!!!

I am going to have two different posts after this one. One for the Rafflecopter giveaway and the other to explain the contest and submit your photos. I will link both posts here when the the posts are up. The contest and the giveaway will begin August 10, 2012 at 8:00am pst and end September 1, 2012 at 8:00pm pst.

Rafflecopter Giveaway

Disney Nail Art Contest

Thank you so much for following me and all of your comments are greatly appreciated!!

Indie Feature: Dollish Polish

Dollish Polish The Hero of Time

The Hero of Time is a polish created by Dolly in a Zelda Duo consisting of this one, The Hero of Time, and Hylian Princess.

  

The Hero of Time is a representation of Link, a hero in the game The Legend of Zelda: The Hero of Time.

The colors in this polish represent Link perfectly! Here is Link:

Source

Now I'll show you the polish and let you decide if it's a great representation or not!

What do you think?

Now onto my swatch!

I decided to layer this polish over Icing Shimmer which is a gorgeous nude gold with gold shimmer. I thought it would compliment the gold/yellow glitter in the polish.

 w/flash

 in the shade

 natural light

close up

As you can see, the glitter consists of multiple shades of green glitter, brown, and yellow/gold.

Dollish Polish can be purchased through multiple online stores as well as through the Dollish Polish store. You can follow Dolly on Facebook as well to get shop updates!

I happened to purchase this polish through Overall Beauty's pre-sale a few weeks back. Overall Beauty shipped these super fast and they were packaged so well!! I will definitely be shopping from there again!