The TraceFace Philes 1700 Follower giveaway!

Tracy over at the TraceFace Philes is having a 1700 follower giveaway. Again, I try not to post about these giveaways on my blogger, but the grand prize is my most coveted polish of all time -- GOSH Holographic.  So check out her blog here! And enter the giveaway! Even if you don't win, her blog is awesome! (And will make you want to buy a million polishes!!)

Yeah, everyone in Africa can read Swedish.



Pink Wednesday is here again!!  I admit I've skipped a few of these, mostly due to the striking lack of pink in my polish collection.  Over the past month I've picked up a few new ones so hopefully I'll be able to get some better pink Wednesday mani's in the future!!  I love the idea of 'moon' mani's or reverse french mani's, whatever you call them they look super cool and are ridiculously easy to do.  I've never actually done one, only admired from afar and I think the issue I'm having with it is that it's not entirely perfect.  The moons are different sizes and some of them are a bit off kilter.  That said...I actually kind of like the way this turned out!  I couldn't stop looking at my nails all day!! And I have a new bottle of Seche Vite (which was MUCH needed)  so my nails are back to their glossy, chip free selves! The bright color of this, mixed with the Seche, topped with the fact that my nails were recently shaped gives off the impression of false nails a bit! I've had people asking me all day!  But as always, these are mine! 

Enjoy and thanks for following!! :)

Moon: Ulta Snow White
Reverse tip: Models Own Pastel Pink
Glitter coat: Barry M Iridescent Pink
Top Coat: Seche Vite

Jade Necklace



This is kind of a lazy day nail for me.  I wanted to use my new China Glaze metallic crackle again, since the last time I tried it out it wasn't the best experience.  I'm glad I reserved judgement because this color is AMAZING.  This is the copper crackle and it's really the only one I was even excited about when I first saw the collection online.  I used it over a minty green color because it reminded me of a copper and jade ring I have that I LOVE :)  (pics eventually :P)  I took a close up for you guys (I'm experimenting with new camera tricks!) so you can see the glittery goodness of the crackle.  It has gold, yellow, orange, and copper flakes throughout it and it looks amazing on your nails!  I left these on for nearly a week and that's a record for me!!



Enjoy and thanks for following!! :)

Base is: Barry M Mint Green
Crackle: China Glaze Cracked Medallion
Top Coat: Seche Vite

Recent polish haul and butterLONDON BOGO!



My most recent...and tiny...polish haul.  Most of these were a result of the buy one get one free butterLONDON sale at Ulta today and then some are also the product of a swap I did recently. :)  The top row left to right is Catrice Dirty Berry and Hip Queens Wear Blue Jeans, GOSH Metallic Green, Catrice Sold Out Forever and Hard Candy Black.  Bottom row left to right is Catrice Absolutely Chinchilly, butterLONDON Cheeky Chops and Chuffed, Nicole by OPI Justin Beiber mini set, butterLONDON Teddy Girl, Toff, and Queen Vic.  And just for fun...I'm showing off my entire butterLONDON collection today becuase I LOVE LOVE LOVE butterLONDON!!





Rainbow-y, no?  Starting at the top and working left to right I have: Cheeky Chops, Jaffa, Chuffed, Saucy Jack, Primrose Hill Picnic, Queen Vic, Toff, (second row) Blagger, Henley Regatta, Teddy Girl, Rosie Lee, Scoundrel, No More Waity Katie, Muggins, (third row) Lady Muck, Victoriana, Bluey, Dosh, British Racing Green, Wallis, West End Wonderland, (bottom row) The Old Bill, All Hail the Queen, and Tea With The Queen!  

Thanks for following! (you can read more about my love of butterLONDON here!)

Japanese Blossoms




I keep seeing everyone doing these Japanese cherry blossom manicures and I think it looks so pretty on the nail!  It seemed easy enough so I thought I'd try it out for myself! It turns out it's ridiculously easy and it's pretty difficult to get a bad effect, even if you screw up.  I wish I had made the branches a little smaller but other than that I really ended up liking this art. :)  I used a matte topcoat to mix it up a little bit and it surprisingly lasted about four days with no chips! Bonus! :) Enjoy and thanks for following!

Base color: China Glaze For Audrey
Accents: Barry M Mushroom, Ulta Snow White, OPI Sparrow Me the Drama
Topcoat: Essie Matte About You

Blog Giveaway at Valentine Kisses!!





I don't normally link up to people's giveaways on my blogger.  I enter so many of them and my blog is so small, I don't want it to turn into a forum for blog giveaways instead of what it's supposed to be, which is a journey of my nail art.  But this is an exception.  This blog giveaway is MASSIVE. And awesome.  And it only takes five minutes to enter.  Besides that, the blog is totally worth following, even if you don't win all the cool stuff!! So go ahead and pop on over!! All you have to do is click here!

Julie & Julia

This is another mani from my week of movies.  It doesn't have a whole lot to do with the movie I was watching, other than that the pattern is from a place mat and Julie and Julia happens to be about food.  Actually, the movie wasn't too bad.  I thought it was going to be awful and as it turns out it was pretty cute...I'd watch it again, but I wouldn't buy it.  Then again, I've seen over 3,000 movies and it's becoming increasingly harder to impress me on that front!!  Anyway...the nails.  The pattern is from a vintage fabric swatch which had wheels of white with blue spokes and dots around the egdes.  I thought the shinyness of the Seche Vite made it look too busy so I top coated again with Essie Matte About You (not shown in the picture).  I liked the results  but I'm a bit of a perfectionist when it comes to designs and the fact that the spokes are kind of all over drove me crazy!  I need to work on patience with my manicures!  I have a week of anime still to come and all the freehand is going to make me crazy! :)  Enjoy them anyway and thanks for following!

Base color: butterLONDON Dosh
Accents: Ulta Snow White, Barry M Blueberry Ice Cream, butterLONDON Blagger
Top Coat: Seche Vite

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