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Hey guys! Today  I have another collab mani for yall today! My friends Danele, Marcella, Aly and I decided to do one more collaboration before the end of the year. We decided to do ornaments based on the Designs Seeds Palate at the end of the post!  I used sooo many polishes for this mani, all OPI! base: I Vant To Be A-Lone Star (2 coats) shimmery topcoat: Happy Anniversary (1 coat) ornament colors: OPI Scores a Goal!, Tasmanian Devil Made Me Do It, Koala Beary, Skull & Glossbones gold: Love.Angel.Music.Baby white: Alpine Snow  whew! 8 all together! For the ornaments I just used a dotting tool, no special technique!   Design Seeds color palate

Howdy! Today' blog is all about the giveaway I'm running over on Instagram! It's not to celebrate a certain number of followers or anything like that, just something fun for the end of the year! All of these items will be given to one winner, chosen at random, on New Years Eve! Yay! If it goes well I would like to do this every year! This is a compilation of almost all my favorite things I have been using this year and as I'm coming to the end of my first year of this newly-launched blog ( I guess I can't say new anymore!) am still loving! Note: Everything in the giveaway except for a couple things where noted was purchased by me! :) First up is a full size 15ml bottle of Danele's oil that I blogged about earlier this week! You can see my review of it here. This bottle of the scent Glazed Christmas Cookie (my FAV) was donated by Danele for this giveaway :) Cuticle Glaze oil Next is a brand new box of Orly Nail Rescue! I recently discovered this stu...

Hey guys! Wow! It's been a while :( My last published blog was over 2 weeks ago!) It feels longer than that. Right from Christmas I just got super busy preparing for the holidays and getting gifts for a Secret Santa Exhange I was in (do yall want a full post on that?) and just the way life seems to explode with business when December 1st hits. Then last Tuesday I decided to trip and break a bone. my poor toe. My first broken bone ever! And THEN 2 days later I came down with a crazy stomach virus that kept me in bed all weekend. Sheesh! So I'm way behind on things and I won't be back to blogging super regularly until after the holidays, probably. But I have a few up my sleeve! Today I have a review! My friend Danele over at Low Country Lacquer  started tinkering with oils this summer and came up with a really awesome cuticle oil! She gave some to me and a few others to try out for a while. And let me tell you, it's awesome! It's all I have been using pretty much si...

Hey guys! I'm squeezing this in inbetween all the cooking and prepping for Thanksgiving! Thanksgiving is my superbowl of holiday cooking and I love it! I finally took a few minutes yesterday to take off my previous mani which was looking a hot mess after 5 days...ugh! I put on Loaded Lacquer "Coconut" which is a white jelly very similar to the nude one I wore last week! You can see the look I created with it here!  Last night after all the kids were in bed I added a little sparkle with some straight nail vinyls from Glam my Mani and Pipe Dream Polish "Cha-Ching!" I am totally in love with this! I wasn't really intending for this to be my Thanksgiving mani but a) I didn't want to wait any longer to use these and b) I am loving them so I don't care if they aren't Thanksgiving-y! I didn't get a chance to get any sun pics of the gold version but I did today...scroll to the end for those! Enough blabbing here are a crap ton of pics! I hope every...

Hey guys! Today I have a mani I did months ago for Nail It Mag! They ask for submissions months ahead of time so you find yourselves doing holiday manis in the summer! Crazy! One of the prompts was for "winter" so I new I wanted to redo my most-pinned mani from last year (it's getting close to 1,000 pins! That's a lot for little ol me!) And what do you know this is the one of mine they selected to be in the December issue! I didn't take any pictures or video when I did this but I am thinking of making a video tutorial for them, let me know if yall want to see one!  Polishes used: base: Zoya Dream white: OPI Alpine Snow White for snowman: OPI Solitare Orange for snowman: Zoya Beatrix black for snowman: OPI Emotions  This is last years version (2013). Not too completely terrible?? My nail shape and picture taking have improved dramatically so that makes for a huge difference in pics. I used almost all the same polishes though! 

Hey guys! This will be a short little blog..... I did a little experiment about a month ago with the Zoya Matte Velvets (which I'm still obsessed with!)  I've been hearing that people are hesitant about matte polish because it doesn't wear well/chips easily. I have such an enormous love for these particular polishes, not only for their quick dry time and amazing colors (although whyyyyyy isn't there a blueeeee) and I just want to keep on blabbing about them! I didn't take a picture of them when I first did them....what is wrong with me, haha! But this was sometime in the first 24 hours I had it on so that's gonna count. I wore a simple mani of Harlow (matte) with accent of Arabella (textured pixiedust) and took pics at the end of each day! note: I did wear a ridge filling basecoat with these. Zoya says to  not wear a basecoat or topcoat with the Matte Velvets, buuuuttttt I did anyway. I do think basecoat helps extend the wear time.  So nothing specia...

Hey guys! Happy Saturday! What is everyone up to?  I am starting my Thanksgiving grocery list! For the past several years I make a huge traditional meal and I love it! It's a ton of work but it's worth it! And the Mr. lives for the leftover turkey hoagie. LIVES I tell you. Haha! What is your fav leftover! I don't usually mix them up in weird ways, I will just make another plate of all the same things! These aren't very Thanksgiving-y but that's ok! These are another collab that I did last week...my friend Danele of Low Country Lacquer just passed her one year mark on Instagram so my fellow Glitter Gals and I decided to sneakily recreate HER recreation of her first mani! So fun! I didn't have the Essie she used so I reached for the closest thing I have...and one of my FAV polishes I have across all brands, OPI Can't Find My Czechbook. I am lucky this in the core line as of right now, if it ever gets discontinued I will be frantically hoarding them! And th...

And it is Friday, how about that! haha! Today I have an awesome "x" design ( yes, I am preeety sure that's the technical term  for this mani) with some of my favorite OPI's! I can't take any credit for this one, though. My good friend Gianna of Nailstorming.com  came up with this for our little collab today! I'll try to keep this short and sweet for today-no rambling haha! The bottle shown in the pic above is OPI Thank Glogg it's Friday, one of the polishes in their fall Nordic collection. I only have a few so farrrrrrr but they are awesome! Yall know I'm a sucker for a beautiful maroon (ok, it's not totally maroon but enough for me) . Other polishes I used are: nude base: OPI My Vampire is Buff orange: OPI Where did Suzy's Man-go gold accents: OPI My Favorite Ornament gold nail: Zoya Cosmo   I loved this mani so much I decided to wear it for the rest of the week...I'm still wearing it now! 

Howdy! Today I just have a few quick swatches. When we had our Tn meetup last month I purchased a buttload of polishes from April of Pipe Dream Polish! I've been so busy I've barely gotten to wear them. I wanted to test a few of them out when I had a moment last week! This is Rhythm and Blues, a blue jelly packed with blue glitter. Blue. I love it. Blue. (this is 2 coats plus topcoat)  Rhythm and Blues This is #mcinspiration, made in collaboration with Amy @mcpolish. It's a gray jelly with pink and black glitters, all things Amy loves! This is super opaque for a jelly, I only needed 2 coats plus topcoat! Yippee!  #Mcinspiration

Hey guys! Ok sooooooo  I'm venturing into the world of indie polishes...which honestly is not something I ever thought I would do! And boyyyyy is it a slippery slope! Now I want them all! So be prepared to be seeing a lot more of these! The base I used is Loaded Lacquer "No Shirt" which a nude super opaque jelly. It was gifted to me by a friend and I'm completely obsessed. It's part of a set of 3 called the "Nude Jiggles" and once I have them all I will do a separate blog on them! The gold is another of my new Pipe Dream Polishes called "Champagne Kisses". This is currently my favorite gold polish! I have another post coming up soon about more fun I had with it! I use nail vinyls for the chevrons and stripes and free handed the dots and cross. And then I took a bunch of pictures the end.     (this is the base color)  I wore this for several days and took a bunch of pics of all my matching sparkly things. I ...