Today, I managed to snag my major nail polish lemmings- China Glaze Classic Camel and China Glaze Ingrid! :) (I decided to grab Swing Baby as well. I love the Vintage Vixen collection!! Today in Vegas it feels disgusting. I know that I shouldn't complain, but after living in the desert for 2.5 years, 41% humidity is HELL. (on top of the 100°+ temperatures. It makes me think of the days in Michigan where you step out of the shower, and then feel like you have to shower all over again. Humidity is the devil, and the devil is in Las Vegas. I did another relatively simple design today, since a few people expressed that they dug the simpler stuff. I think it sort of has a vintage feel to it as well, so I think it fits with the color collection I used. :) BTW Class Camel was so totally worth the wait. I am in love with this polish, even though it looks horrid with my skin. :-P
(Picture is from Dermelect website)I have been using Dermelect Makeover Ridgefiller for about 3 weeks. Here is what Dermelect says on their website about this product:Anti-Aging Base Coat- Dual Concealer and Nail Treatment
Dermelect Makeover Ridge Filler achieves beautifully natural nails by multitasking to cleverly conceal nail imperfections with a natural pink hue while treating them with
Wow, really? Really? How did nobody's offensiveness radar go off when you named a nail polish after a race of people, colored it to approximate their skin tone, and then asked to possess them? Follow-up question: if you have a white nail polish, do you need to keep this one next to it at all times so that you don't wake up one day to find your white polish bottle lying mysteriously broken underneath a tiny little pillow? In this case, I think OPI named neither wisely nor too well.
Granted, it is conceivably possible that OPI was going with another definition of "moor" (although not likely, seeing as this comes from the "Espana" collection). If we are talking about land forms, though, a moor is about as unpleasant and useless as you can get. Does whoever named this really want a desolate, infertile, and somewhat soggy piece of English countryside? Nor does swapping from "Moor" to "moor" really improve the romantic connotations in either healthiness or happy endingness.
Let's just agree to cut our losses and stick with the verb, then, shall we? I'll moor you to whatever you want. Just promise to stay there.
It's GIVEAWAY time!!! To thank all my lovely readers, (new and old) I decided to do a giveaway!!!
The theme? HOME.
The challenge? I want to see a nail design that reminds you of home, whether it's a place you love to go when you're home, what you think of when you think of home, or what home means to you.
The rules:
You MUST be a follower. When you send your entry, please put your Google ID in the Subject. Also, I ask that after you send the entry, please comment on this post. :) All entries should be sent to thedailynailcontest@gmail.com by August 8, 2010. One entry per person please! Depending on the number of entries, I will post all of them in one post for you all to vote on, or I will whittle them down to a reasonable number if there are a lot. YAY!
Now the important part: THE PRIZES!!
A special thank you to reader Patti, who donated some fun (and a tad naughty- sorry dad) chapstick holder keyrings, and to the First Place winner, an eyeshadow quad palette with choice of colors! Check out her sites Etsy (chapstick holder) and Bella Sugar Cosmetics.
FIRST PRIZE:
The Daily Nail cosmetic bag (hand screen-printed and sewn by yours truly!) Color Club Rebel Debutante Set Sally Hansen Xtreme Wear Nail Color Collection mini set essie Berry Hard Claire's Mood Polish in Calm/Wild Piggy Polish Free Toes Piggy Polish Teeny Pink-ini Eyeshadow quad with choice of colors from Bella Sugar Cosmetics! Naughty Chapstick Holder- ADULT WINNERS ONLY
SECOND PRIZE:
The Daily Nail cosmetic bag (hand screen-printed and sewn by yours truly!) Sally Hansen Lacquer Shine Nail Color Collection mini set Orly La Playa Orly Top 2 Bottom Dare To Wear Inspiring Surrounding Rimmel Tequila Sunrise Revlon Lavender Light LA Colors Live Naughty Chapstick Holder- ADULT WINNERS ONLY
THIRD PRIZE:
The Daily Nail cosmetic bag (hand screen-printed and sewn by yours truly!) Sally Hansen Xtreme Wear Nail Color Collection mini set Orly Bailamos Orly Top 2 Bottom Rimmel Night Before LA Colors Phenomena Naughty Chapstick Holder- ADULT WINNERS ONLY
I have another OPI Swiss for you today, Diva of Geneva. This one's a purplish red shimmer that took three coats. So far, I've only shown you the shimmers from OPI Swiss, but the collection's half cremes - I'll have to get moving on showing you some cremes soon!
I like Diva of Geneva. It reminds me of a toned down SpaRitual Days of Wine & Roses.
OPI Diva of Geneva Nail Polish, Three Coats
Today I decided to forsake the annual wearing of SpaRitual Lucy in the Sky with Diamonds - it's my mom's birthday today. I figured she's probably too busy in heaven making God bake her a cake to notice...
That's what I have for you today, Dear Reader. Until next time, love and nail polish to you!
I hate that I'm a sucker for advertising but when I saw this smartwater Ad Campaign with Jennifer Aniston it made me want to go for a run, do a yoga a class, pick up my skipping rope and buy a bottle of smartwater!
This my first Ciaté paint pot and why didn't anyone tell me how awesome the formula is?It nearly polished my nails for me and the brush is perfect!Talent scout is from the Festive Fever Summer 2010 collection.A beautiful plum purple cremeHow adorable is the tuxedo bottlePictures were taken in my lightbox, no flash.Fun side note: A sweet friend of mine informed me that in (Mexican) Spanish Ciaté
Today's nail design was quick, I'll admit it, I'm in a rush today- lots to do- Colin Hay concert tonight! woo! The design was inspired by the paint job I saw on the side of a building in southern California, I just thought that it had a really retro vibe to it, which, of course, I love. I also got to use a new polish I picked up from Milani- they have a new collection of nudes out now!! :)
I used Milani Teddy Bare (which is pretty close to Essie Mink Muffs) as a base, with American Apparel Cotton for the ivory line, and Zoya Jancyn for the orange line.
Sorry for the lack of complexity today, I feel kinda guilty when I don't do crazy stuff. :-P
Eyeko Vampira is my kind of color!Beautiful black base with red micro glitter.This is 2 coats of Vampira in natural light.Pardon my tipwear I had already worn this for 2 days when I realized I hadn't taken pictures yet. For Gothic nails! I love those little tittles on Eyeko bottles.Application was awesome, smooth and even.I might need a backup of this!
A couple of Sundays ago, placed an order on BF Beauty for some stamping plates. They finally arrived yesterday (it took 8 working days from Hong Kong to Australia - that's not bad, I don't think ^^) and I could hardly contain my glee. I think I even squealed aloud a few times...
I was too lazy to take each individual plate out of the packet for the photo, hehe.
I was so excited I decided to try out some stamping straight away. Stripped my nails of my matte manicure and painted on China Glaze's Light as Air. Then I used an Australian polish for stamping; BYS' French White.
It's my first time stamping, so it's not a fabulous job; actually, my right hand was rather fail so I didn't use it for photos this time. My favourite nail would have to my left middle finger even though part of the butterfly wasn't stamped on properly. You can only imagine what a disaster my right hand is from this photo, lol.
I used plate C03:
As the saying goes, practice makes perfect, so all I have to do is spend more time on stamping. Oh, and get some polishes which are more appropriate for stamping too - you can see that the white polish didn't come out that well.
Lately, Paramount decided to re-release the movie GREASE in select theaters, but this time with a little twist- it's a SING-A-LONG! They added graphics throughout the movie when there were songs to be sung, and how they handled some of the lyrics was pretty damn amusing. The graphics were amusing, but some were distracting and too much. All in all it was a fun experience. In honor of the re-release, I did GREASE nails!! :-D
Hey y'all! This design was inspired by several different youtube users. Creating this design is one of the things that made me decide on the theme for my youtube contest. Please be sure to enter! I'll do a seperate post for that. Im so sorry I am behind posting here on my blog. I also posted an update video that you can check out. In that I explain what is keeping me from posting as of late.
Anyways...let's get to the inspiration for this design! First thing that made me want to try this design was the red & yellow mylar flakes I received from designernailvideos contest. I could not wait to try the awesome prizes I won in her contest! don't forget that you can get most of the products I won from her website Designer Nail Supply! The ladies that inspired my abstract design were configure1973 for her suberb freehand and also madamluck for turning me on to the $ tree nail art stripers. the half moon tips were inspired by andreajk182, she also has an online nail supply store The Rock Star Nails so be sure to check her out!
Recently, I have subbed to a lovely lady hairtrends4u who has a channel focusing on hair, fashion and general life advice. She also has a website Hairtrends4u where she offers wigs, handbags, shoes, accessories & more!!! Be sure to visit =D Her outfits of the day got me inspired to do a design in the colors yellow & red and I wanted to make a design for her that would match some of her outfits since she is celebrated reachin 1,000 subbies =D . She also inspired the swarovski crystals because she calls her subbies Diamonds.
Another huge inspiration for this design was dollface22772s recent super hot Bonfire design! Soon as I saw it the mylar popped right in my head. God I really love her work and she is cool as ice =D She always inspires us all on youtube and I am still giddy at the fact that she made partner! One thing I was sad about was that I had to take off that falling hearts design a week early cs I wont have time to do my nails this weekend cs I gotta work & me & hubby got a date to the Bob Marly festival =D YAY Roots, rock, reggae mon LOL But anyway...she sells the cutest vintage style jewlry in her Etsy store Littlest Charm Factory. So check it out. Ive got my eye on that angry skull ring. Feels so tokidoki =D
Well ladies I hope you all enjoy this design. There's only one thing I don't like about it...my stupid freehand reminds me of mcdonalds XDDD or ketsup & mustard hehehe. Can you tell Im sleep deprived???
I have another OPI Swiss nail polish for you today, The Color to Watch. It's a kind of dusty lavender shimmer with a blue flash, and was a three coater for me. It's an odd shade, but I like it.
OPI The Color to Watch Nail Polish, Three Coats
That's just about all I have for you today, Dear Reader. Until tomorrow, love and nail polish to you!
I have yet to come across a musical that I DIDN'T like, and CHICAGO is no exception. I LOVE this musical. I love the movie version, and though I've only experienced the soundtrack of the stage version, I adore that too! I love the glamour of it all, the sex, the crime, the Richard Gere?! :-P Anyway, today's nails were inspired by all that jazz...
The 'glow' is far more subtle in person, but the camera really seemed to pick it up.
I got my OPI Swiss nail polished today, and I used Yodel Me on My Cell, a blue shimmer. I also had to cut my nails off this week - I've got some computer stuff to set up, and some of the connections are dang near impossible to do with long nails, so I lopped them off. They'll be back!
Even with the short nails, I needed three coats of Yodel Me on My Cell for it to be completely opaque. Here it is finished with top coat.
OPI Yodel Me on My Cell Nail Polish, Three Coats
I'll have more OPI Swiss Collection to come. Until then, love and nail polish to you!
My computer keeps warning me that a 'hard disk failure is imminent' so I may be out of action for a while. I have a new one on the way and once it's in, service will resume as normal!
Also. I'm going on a short break this weekend which is when my giveaway ends, so the winner will be announced some time next week. So if you haven't entered yet, you have until then. If my computer blows up in that time, you might have a bit longer :D!!
(Waves) Evil Shades website is back up and running!Slightly wonky from the toss back and forth but nothing I can't fix. After all of that I am trying to get caught up on work and hopping to get caught up financially.I don't really have time to post....maybe tonight but no promises.Hugs and thank you all for being the most amazing people on Earth! I love you!
I've always been a fan of all things retro in the art world, and the plates that today's nail art was inspired by are no exception! I love the atomic era art style, so when my friend Chris showed me his plates and suggested they'd make great nail art, I completely agreed. So, I palmed a plate, and headed to my nail art desk, and got to work!
So, since I've been feeling pretty under the weather for the last few days, I've become very acquainted with the TV remote. I seem to have caught some sort of bug. *bleck* Anyway. There are a few things I make myself get out of bed/get off the couch for- and this is one!! :) (Groceries is another) Anyway, today's nails were inspired by my buddy, the remote, the clicker, the changer, your children, whatever you call the little thing that allows you to channel surf. :-P
Did you know the Travel Channel has wicked awesome shows? I'm totally addicted. between that, Discovery, History, and ID, I'm totally hypnotized. In addition, can I say I am loving Anthony Bourdain?
After reading so much about matte polishes from other polish blogs, I was quite excited to get my hands on some myself. Cue Orly's Matte Vinyl.
In all honesty, I felt a bit underwhelmed by the polish. I don't think it's Orly's fault, I think it's just that I expected too much from a matte polish. I was so excited to become a proud owner of it that it influenced my expectations from it; I had thought it'd be absolutely fabulous. The outcome? A flat polish finish. I wasn't too pleased with it, so I decided to spice up my manicure and gave it some glitter. Oh, and absolutely defy the entire purpose of having a matte finish polish by 'shining' it up.
Perhaps I was just expecting too much from the polish; I definitely don't love it, but on the other hand, I don't hate it either. If I can just think of something awesome to add to the manicure besides applying glitter...hmmm, something to sleep on, I guess :P.
Everyone knows that this past week has been extremely stressfuland flat out craptasticlysucklios! Today I managed to convince the web host that sucked to give me my money back and release my domain.(OK so I bitched then out and threatened to post their name on my blog, twitter, myspace, scream it from the mountain tops, file a complaint with BBB and I did write an email to the owner directly)
I'm finally getting back to the Nails Inc Sorbet Collection ofter being distracted by new Fall colors for a while. Today's Nails of the Day is Nails Inc Pelham Place, a very pale pink creme. I needed three coats of Pelham Place, which is pretty typical of a really washed out pink.
Nails Inc Sorbet Collection: Pelham Place Nail Polish, Three Coats
That's all I have for you today, Dear Reader. Until next time, love and nail polish to you!
High hats, and arrowed collars, white spats and lots of dollars....
Who'd have thought that a song would inspire a nail design? Well, whether you like the Fred Astaire version or the Taco version, this is a great song, and it DID inspire today's nail design, spats!
I love the name of this special LE collection!Fight Like A Woman! Some of the strongest and most courageous people I've met are women! China Glaze Nail Lacquer Gets the Gloves Ready to Join in the Fight Against Breast Cancer Join China Glaze Nail Lacquer this October in the battle against breast cancer, one nail at a time! The professional line of nail lacquers brings on the fight with three
Sorry about the late post. I've had trouble with my internet connection all day but I finally got it working. Turned out to be as simple as turning the router off and on.. DUH!
This is my new GOSH Holographic. Now I know what you're thinking... Sammy, whatever happened to your budget?
I've been lemming this for a while and yesterday, my darling Mummy was nice enough to buy it for me when she saw it on my nail after I tested it in Superdrug. She is very attracted to shiny stuff and bought one for herself too.
It chips easiliy and application is a bit frustrating but once you get the hang of it it's fine. You just have to make sure the first coat is dry before the next one else you will just smudge off the coat underneath. It says 'Special Formula' on the side and you should buy a special base coat for it. This is probably why.
The picture doesn't show how eye catching this is. I will get another one up soon and maybe a video to show you the full holo-ness.
Plate: Bundle Monster - BM05
Base Colour: GOSH - Holographic
Stamp Colour: W7 - Black
Top Coat of NYC
However, I did spend more money on some Collection 2000 polishes that were on sale in Boots. There was a big tub of them reduced to £1 so it was really hard to resist such a bargain
For them to be reduced I assume they are end of line. But I saw the two 'Maxiflex' shades after in Superdrug and they were in different packaging - well, the same but with black lids so I guess that's the reason for the reduction. The one on the left, 'Moonlight Shine' is great for stamping too!
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