Summer Fun Challenge, Pool Party!

Hey guys! Back with post 3 of the Neverland Nail Blog's summer fun challenge! This time it's pool party! This had a few idea running through my mind, of course the first being the water, but since I didn't think I could do it, and then Michelle from Sonoma Nail Art did some water like I planned so I changed it up again!!

Since I just went through all of my polish this weekend (those of you that have liked my FB page probably already knew that) I had all my colors separated out on my table which made it easy to find blues that I was interested in using. My original plan was to do a yellow polka dot bikini, a duck floatie, and a beach ball on the blues...but once again changed my mind!

I used China Glaze custom kicks, Finger Paints blue raspberry taffy and Deborah Lippmann let's hear it for the boy, as well as a generic white to do a water marble and boy oh boy am I happy with it! I then used the same white, Zoya Meg, Kimber and Carly on the beach ball. I at first didn't have it outlined and me thinking "oh let's try and make it better!" didn't improve it lol...it looked better without the black outline but I think you can still tell what it is!

Onto the pics! Sorry about the lack of my light box, there is still polish all over my nail table!

What do you guys think?

Until next time! Happy painting!

One Year Blog Anniversary Giveaway! ***closed***

Hey guys!!! My one year blog anniversary is fast approaching (July 5th) so I wanted to do a thank you giveaway to my followers. In one year I've learned so much, and met so many amazing people, some of which I consider great friends. I never realized how big the nail polish community really is! I have a lot of fun playing with my nails and have gone from a stash of nothing to almost 600 in a year.

There will be two prizes for this giveaway, first is two Deborah Lippmann polishes from the Footloose collection, Dancing in the Sheets and Let's Hear it for the Boy. Dancing in the sheets is a beautiful dark blurple shimmer, and Let's Hear it for the Boy is a light blue. (Swatches are from my own two bottles)

Second prize is two sets of Sally Hansen spring 2012 nail strips, one has multi-colored little birds, and the other is multi-colored butterflies, and a nail file with the same butterflies. They are both adorable and from what I've seen can't be bought anymore.

Rules for this giveaway are simple.

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2. Enter with the Rafflecopter widget below
3. Open internationally
4. Good luck and thanks!!

This giveaway is not sponsored by anyone including the companies the prizes are from. All items were bought by myself, all are brand new unused and unopened.

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Summer Fun Challenge, Summer Lovin!

Hey guys! Here today with post 2 of Lindsey from Neverland Nail Blogs summer fun challenge! Each of these is called a "day" but it will be all spaced out over a few weeks time :)

So "day 2" is summer lovin, anything lovey dovey type stuff, but I wanted to go just a little bit of a different route with the same theme. I googled images to find my inspiration, and when I saw the picture (will be down below) I just it was what I *had* to do!!

So colors, once again I used Deborah Lippmann's Let's Hear it for the Boy as my blue base, I then sponged Zoya Zuza randomly over it to give some dimensions like the sky, followed by white for the clouds. The dark green of my watermelon rind is Julep Emilie, the lightest green of the rind is OPI Who the Shrek Are You? and the middle green is the two mixed together. For the pink I used OPI If You Moust You Moust, and sponged just a little bit of OPI The Color of Minnie over it once again just for some dimension, and finally the brown for the seeds is Kleancolor Espresso.

At the end I only had the heart in the watermelon (I used a dotting tool to make the outline of it then just filled in the outside), and I wanted more hearts that weren't so obvious. Both my pinky and my pointer already had the outlines of hearts just from how I sponged (no I didn't plan it lol) so I just added a little more to define the heart just a bit more with a dotting tool, and tada I was done!

I am seriously in love with this mani, summer love!! Everyone knows watermelon is a yummy summer treat that most people love, and who doesn't love a blue sky with fluffy white clouds?

So what do you guys think?

Until next time! Happy painting!

Summer Fun Challenge, Grill Master!

Hey guys!!! Today I start with a summer nail art challenge from Lindsey over at Neverland Nail Blog. Although the pic of the challenges say day 1 etc, this will be spaced out over about a month or so.

Day 1, or challenge one was "grill master", it took me what seemed like forever to figure out something to do, and now after seeing Lindsey's post it's a bit funny because ours are similar! I decided not to go strictly with food, but a BBQ in general! I used a ton of colors, but as the blue background for my sunny summer day I used Deborah Lippmann Let's Hear it for the Boy. A lot of the other colors I had to mix to get the shades I was looking for, but if you'd like to know what I used let me know! :D

So here's the challenge

And here are my pics for day 1! I did a few layers of sponging on my thumb to make it look like a char-grilled burger patty, my pointer has the iconic Webber round red grill, middle and ring fingers have a nice bright sun, some puffy clouds and a picnic table, and finally on my ring finger is a hot dog with mustard, onions and relish...mmm mmm mmm!

What do you guys think?

Until next time! Happy painting!

Deborah Lippmann Across The Universe

Hey guys! Here today using my first Deborah Lippmann! I did these in between baking cupcakes, I'm a multi-tasker ;) I'm making pineapple upside down cupcakes for the party to celebrate Dave's (the old man) dad, and since it was his favorite cake I figured I would do cupcakes for the party :) Yes there will be pics at the end ;)

So Across the Universe, omg it's beautiful! There is a dupe of it made by the Icing, but it's pretty hard to find now, so I just went for the original! This is three coats with no underwear (heh that sounds funny), I added an opal colored ribbon on my ring finger in remembrance of the old man's dad, because we lost him to lung cancer.

A quick public service announcement, PLEASE PLEASE PLEASE stop smoking if you do, and urge family to do the same, not only did we loose him to lung cancer, but my best friends mom as well less than two years ago. These two people were amazing, and left us all way too soon. Please do it not only for yourself, but you children, and families as well.

So what do you guys think? I think it's a beautiful polish, and the cupcakes look good, and according to the old man taste good too (I hate pineapple so that's good for my diet!)

Until next time, happy painting!

Nail mail, my first Deborah Lippmanns!

Hey guys! Sorry it's been a few days since I've posted. We have some bad stuff going on with the old mans family, so if you pray please keep us in your thoughts and prayers.

So enough of the depressing stuff. Some of you know and some of you don't, but DL was featured on Good Morning America, and that day the three polishes I'll be showing you were half off, and free shipping! So I got three DL polishes for $28!! You cannot beat that, I'm too cheap otherwise haha. I guess they ended up getting slammed with orders and it took foreverrrrr for the polishes to get to me. So when they did, freaking FedEx has bad timing. I was napping and that's when they showed up, of course right? ;) Anyway I found it amusing how big the box was for these three polishes :P

So here they are!! We have Happy Birthday, Across The Universe, and Today Was A Fairytale. Okay and let me tell you, TWAF (that looks bad) says "virgin diamond glitter" was in it...what the crap is that you ask? Yea no idea! Anyone else know?




Then I also got a little bit of mail from the bestie too, she sent me OPI DS Saphire, a Milky Way (shame on me!! I'm dieting, haha so much for that!) and a chocolate masque, which I've never tried so I was excited!



Soooo did I use the chocolate masque you say? Why yes, yes I did. And there was enough left over to put it on my old man too...will I show those pictures to you you say? Yes I will! Will he hate me you ask? Yep...probably haha, but oh well ;)




Until next time, happy painting!