Wednesday, July 25, 2012

ZOMG, FRANKENPOLISH!

I said that I had some awesome stuff to post, right? Right.  My first two frankens.  I would like you to meet  Key Lime Pie and Strawberry Cheesecake.  Okay, so the names aren't very creative, but...I digress.




I made Key Lime Pie a while ago.  The bigger shredded glitter ended up sinking to the bottom and bleeding, which helped create the shade of green that it is (so I like it anyway!).  The formula is thick and sort of hard to apply, but overall it looks pretty good.  I like it for my first franken!

I made Strawberry Cheesecake yesterday.  I used a few shades of pink in it, some pink glitter polish, purple glitter polish, gold glitter polish...a little bit of clear polish to give it a bit of a jelly-ish look.  It was fun to make, and I like the way it looked on my nails.  It was pretty easy to apply as well.  :)










Sooo, what do you think?!

Please ignore the fact that my nails on my right hand grow in odd angles (maybe I squished my middle finger as a child? I do not remember!) and my cuticles are dry and gross.  I am working on that!!!

Sinful Colors committed a sin?

I guess they're living up to their literal name now.

I only recently purchased my three Sinful Colors polishes and I like them.  Unfortunately, this morning while reading Polish Pixelle's blog, I found out that the company, owned by Revlon, has stolen photos from fellow bloggers for their pamphlets.  Isn't that crazy?! (AND LAZY!)  Ironically, they weren't even photos of manis that contained Sinful Colors polishes, nor did the techniques written in the pamphlet correspond with the photos.

Me thinks that I shall not be buying anymore Sinful Colors polishes until they own up to what they did and apologize! A big company such as Revlon should know better!

You can read more about this here: 

http://glamonthecheap.blogspot.ca/2012/07/so-here-i-am-doing-post-after-post.html

and here (including photos!):

http://the-swatchaholic.com/?p=6081#more-6081

CRAZY!!!

Anyway...

I did not end up blogging any swatches or manis yesterday, but I did end up creating a franken! I will post photos later; I promise!

Monday, July 23, 2012

Hello there!

Unfortunately, the past few days have been quite busy, therefore I've been unable to post; however, I do have a couple of cute manis to show you this week! I also have some neat ideas up my sleeve, so my nails will be looking pretty funky later on.

I went to Chatters on Saturday and picked up OPI DS Temptation, OPI Don't Touch My Tutu, and a couple of China Glaze Summer Neons (I'm With the Lifeguard and Hang Ten-toes...I think I bought Hang Ten-toes! It was one of the pinks!).

I'll post pictures of these polishes later, but for now...I'm at work.  SHHH, I'm not slacking, I swear! xD

I'm currently wearing Don't Touch My Tutu, and I also have a couple of pictures on my camera, but I'm not sure if I'll post them.  It was a rushed manicure and it does not look very nice.  I really love these OPI New York City Ballet Collection polishes, though! They're sheer, but so pretty!

Wednesday, July 18, 2012

YET ANOTHER giveaway!!! This one's by iHeartPrettyPolish.

(photo credit:  http://xoxo-jen.blogspot.ca )

iHeartPrettyPolish is having a giveaway to celebrate gaining 100 blog followers, and the prize is a bottle of Whimsical Polish (color of your choice!!!) by Pam! Isn't that exciting?! I really wish Pam shipped to Canada, because I'd die for some of those polishes!  They're some of the prettiest works of art I've ever seen.

You should check out iHeartPrettyPolish and this awesome giveaway.  Who knows, if you enter, you may just win. :D

Kayla Shevonne is giving away China Glaze's On Safari Collection!

ANOTHER GIVEAWAY! This is exciting; two very cool giveaways in the one day!

Kayla Shevonne is giving away the FULL China Glaze On Safari Collection! She received a second set of the polishes just after she already purchased them for herself, so now she's doing a giveaway just 'cause she's awesome.


I don't know about anyone else, but I love most of these colors! Here's a photo of the polishes:



Check it out! You  could win some awesome nail polish!

365 Days of Color GIVEAWAY!

Hey guys, Sunny at 365 Days of Color is having a giveaway to celebrate reaching 2000 likes on Facebook! She is giving away 4 mini polishes from her own new Toxic Love Collection.  The colors are so cool; I'd love to get my paws on a few of those, so if I don't win, I'll probably have to buy!


And here's a picture of the awesome polishes (L-R: Chemical Romance, Killer Kiss, Deadly Attraction, and Dangerously Beautiful):


She also has swatches of these pretty colors on her blog if you'd like to see what they look like on a nail.  :)


Tuesday, July 17, 2012

Nothing Mousie 'bout it, but black is back.

Today's mani consists of Nothing Mousie 'bout it (shown in the last post) from OPI's Minnie Mouse collection, and Black is Back from Essence.  The OPI polish has little pink hearts in it, but you can barely tell from the photo in the last post.  I also had to big-time fish for the hearts.  I'm still in love with the polish, though! With or without the hearts, it's sooooo cute! <3

The Essence polish was a bit weird to apply.  It went on fine, but if you didn't do it perfectly, it kind of got a little clumpy. Of course, I fixed it by applying another coat.  I used two coats, but it was definitely opaque in just one.  When that was dry, I topped it off with two coats of Nothin' Mousie 'bout it.  The end result looked like a dark purple fine glitter polish.

Here's a few pictures of just the black polish.  Please ignore how messy it looks! I fail at applying black polish. D:





Now, here's some pictures of the black with the pink glitter on top:









I really wish my camera could capture the true look of this manicure.  It's really so purple-y and gorgeous.  I love it.  I love how Nothin' Mousie 'bout it applied as well.  I would definitely recommend that polish, even if you do have to fish for the glitter hearts.