Unknown NP + Dice!

My love of nail polish and nail art blossomed about August 2009, and since then I believe I've accumulated over 300 nail polishes. Sigh... I've probably worn about 200 of those approximately, and I rarely took any pictures at all. I regret it. And when I did take any, I never bothered to write down which polishes went with which pictures! ARGH! Oh well. Here is one of those "unknowns" that I had lying around in my hard drive with a stamp of dice!

These pics were taken in May 2010 right before my family and I headed out to Vegas for a week. Hence the dice!!! I honestly can't even recall if this was a Konad stamp or a Bundle Monster stamp. I'll have to figure that part out when I'm not so exhausted. 

Unfortunately, lady luck was not with me on that trip, but it was still a BLAST!!! As always!!

And below... is my Flicker. He's such a big baby. 

On another note... I noticed I have 5 followers!! Woohoooooo!!! Ok, actually only 4 because my hubby is 1 of those. I know 5 is NOTHING compared to everyone else, but the fact that 4 people out there are willing to read my rambling?!?! Kinda scary. ;) All I can say is THANK YOU!!! :) 

Until we meet again! Stay warm & happy everyone!

All items mentioned in this post were purchased by ME! :)

Konad-licious is having a HUGE giveaway! Go and enter!!!



Konad-licious' Huge 1,000 Follower Giveaway!

 

Weeeee!!! Konad-licious is celebrating over 1000 followers! A great blog that I definitely encourage folks to stop by at and take a look-see!


So, what are you waiting for? Grab some coffee, head on over to her blog, enter the giveaway, and read through some of her older posts. You won't be sorry!

Until next time!

Spa Ritual Primitive and Zoya Becca

So I have 2 new colors for you today! Ok, not "new" as in out on the market new, but one has been sitting my untrieds for awhile, and the other I just received as part of Zoya's 3 Free FB promotion.

The first one is Spa Ritual's Primitive:

Ain't it sooooo purty!!! It has this deep dark fuchsia like color in the bottle. When viewed under intense lighting, you can see a bit of a slight purplish duo-chrome factor to it! It is a cross between a creme and a shimmer, I guess you could say. I could be totally wrong in my description! The application was ok, and the above pics are 2 coats topped with SV. I am extremely pale, and this color looks great on me! I'm sure in sunlight this nail polish would wow me, but alas... it is Alaska here, and we are lucky to have 7 hours of daylight right now... all while I'm at work. :(

I'd definitely recommend picking SR Primitive up if you don't have it already. I have a few other Spa Rituals to my collection, and I'll be honest when I say I am very happy with all of them!

The next polish is Zoya's Becca:

Zoya's Becca is a very gorgeous lime green shimmer. I love Zoya for their colors, their Remove Plus, and best of all ... the BRUSH!!! I have itty bitty nails, and the using their nail polish brush is so wonderful. I, however, did have issues with the fact that the above pictures are 3 coats and there is still VNL. If you don't mind VNL, then no biggie.

And back to the paleness of my skin... this was a bad color for me as you can see from the pics. Ah well... It will however stay in my collection most likely because I think it would be a wonderful color to use as a gradient effect for nail art. You can purchase Zoya products at www.zoya.com.

Also, I decided to do some nail art on Becca using purple dots on the corner of my nails. BAD IDEA! It looked like I had the plague on my hands. I forgot to take pictures of that before removing it. Boo.

What do you think of these 2 colors? Do you own them? Do you want them?

Until we meet again!!! :)

My mom's Vegas nails!!!



My mom's VEGAS winter 2011 nails

 I'd say about twice a year my mom takes a small vacation for herself, and she always goes to Vegas. She rarely lets me do her nails because she is a hairdresser, and messing with all those lovely chemicals and having her hands soaking wet most of the day - they just don't last long on her.

Yet, before her trips, she lets me deck out her nails with some polish and Konading, and she always makes sure that I do something that will bring her luck at the slot machines! So, this time she chose the color Oh How Street It Is! by China Glaze. I topped it off with SV, placed a dimond image from a Bundle Monster plate using China Glaze's Millennium, used China Glaze's Fairy Dust to add some pizzaz, and finished it off with one more coat of SV.

What do you guys think? Would you call this a "lucky" manicure? :)

All products mentioned in this post were purchased by me.

Ulta Salon Formula Devious

Ulta Salon Formula Devious

So, last year in March I was fortunate enough to visit Beaverton, OR for work, and was able to stop into my first Ulta EVER! Here in Alaska we are not fortunate to have a place that cool. :( Anywho... I was like a kid in the candy store, and picked up a few Ulta polishes.

Here's the weird thing... it's taken me almost an entire year later to actually try one of them!!! What is wrong with me?!?! Actually, I asked my hubby to pick a color for me out of my untrieds, and he's the one who actually chose it. Good job hubby!!!

Devious is a beautiful, deep, dark, vampy purple creme. Although my pictures make it lean towards blue. Ugh. It really is extremely opaque, and in reality... I could have used 1 coat, but used 2 for sanity's sake. The finish on this polish was very shiny, but I still used SV as a TC because I am IMPATIENT!

I will definitely purchase more Ulta NPs on any future trips if I am lucky. :) If any of you live near an Ulta or at least within driving distance... count yourself very fortunate! :)

Thanks everyone!!!

Change in YouTube?!?!

WTH?!?! Is it me or did the homepage of YouTube change its look, and I'm too stupid to navigate it now!!! Grrrr...

Was it broken before?!?! No. Do I like this new change? No. Is it because it is confusing me too much? Probably.

What do you think?

So many possibilities...

I'm starting to think that my latest obsession might be with blogging... Nahhhh... not possible!

All I know is that I am in the process of seeing how creative I can be with creating a blog. Should be interesting is all I have to say. I have to admit I have this fear though. See, I read a lot of blogs from so many talented women! Most of them are related to nail polishes, but many related to cooking and fashion in general. Anywho... they are all so very smart, witty, and talented with their words and photos, and I fear... Ugh, fear is for wusses right?!?!?

I honestly don't have much more to say, and unfortunately nothing to show you in regards to any nail polishes or nail art. Boo!

I am however smelling something seriously yummy in the house. My hubby just popped in some bacon wrapped shrimp in the oven, and I believe it is finished, so I'm going to hop into the kitchen and STEAL ME SOME!!!

Gots to Post About This Awesome Giveaway!!!

Also Known As is a great blog I've been following for quite some time, and right now... she has an AWESOME giveaway going on! Check out the polishes below, and go to her blog to ENTER!!!

Image from www.kelliegonzo.com

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China Glaze Tron Collection Part Deux!

Ok, let's hope the rest of my images upload correctly!!! Here it goes...

Ugh, upside down, but better than nothing...

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Gamer Glam, Electric Magenta, Hyper Haute

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Virtual Violet, High Def, Techno Teal

Well, it's better than nothing. And on my hands right now...

Virtual Violet

So is it worth it? The dry time on these babies = FANTASTIC! Seriously, I did my nails in 20 minutes using 2 coats of polish and Seche Vite as a TC. The first coat on each one of these polishes will create drag if you have a tendency of going over the same spot. The 2nd coat though seems to magically meld it all together.

Have you had a chance to try any of the Tron collection?

TTFN!  

China Glaze Tron Collection polishes were purchased by ME!

China Glaze Tron Collection

I'm so new to this picture taking thing, but here goes a shot at it.


First, I did manage to snatch up the 12th color in the Tron collection that was mistakenly left out of the collection when I requested it. Yay! Was it worth it? Yes, just to say I have it. Is the collection worth it? Hmm... I have heard that CG had aimed to create a collection using Tron that would be similar to the CG OMG collection. Since I don't own any colors of the OMG collection (I didn't start my nail polish hobby until only about 2 years ago), I can't do a full comparison. My understanding is that OMG has lots of linear holo. Tron has a very scattered type of holo. Well, enough of me blabbing... here are my swatches. 6 out of the 12 colors because I cannot figure out how to get blogger to quit uploading the pictures sideways!!! GRR!!

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Hologram, Laser Lime, Mega Bite

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Cyberspace, Digital Dawn, 3D Fantasy

China Glaze Tron Collection was purchased by ME! 

How?!

One thing I have got to say... I truly admire the bloggers that I follow. Several of them post daily at least once, many others post a few times a week! I'm lucky if I post once every 3-6 months! I would love to try to post at least once a week, but I go off and get obsessed about something else. Obviously, my obsession here and now still doesn't quite involve blogging. Sigh...

Thank you to all the bloggers who stick to it, and keep me and the rest of the world happy! :)

On another note... I am still obsessed with nail polish, but it is slowly trying to creep into makeup. I shall resist! At least until I find that magical tree that grows money. I know it's out there!!!

My latest polishes include 11 out of 12 of the China Glaze Tron polishes. I've only worn one, and I was surprised that I fell in love with it! It's such a "work appropriate" color too. Not normally my style.

Oh, and the only reason I didn't get the 12th is because I was supposed to, and the lady packaging them up must have grabbed the WRONG POLISH! GRR.

I'll get some pics posted later. I know - I suck at this blogging thing. It's a good thing no one follows me! LOL!!!