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Hey guys! Glad to be getting back to blogging finally! Today I have my very first foray into stamping! I have exactly zero experience with stamping so this blog will be from a complete beginner point of view! Luckily for me I have a few friends in the nail word that are extremely proficient in stamping so I have been hitting them up for advice!  Born Pretty Store asked me again if I would be interested in reviewing items  for them so I took the opportunity to try something new! Here are the links for what they sent me :) Click Link for Stamping set Born Pretty Plate 13 Born Pretty Plate 21 First thoughts: they are really small! I've seen countless posts about stamping and I know they come in all shapes and sizes, but this is my first time seeing any in person! These plates pretty  much fit in the palm of my hand. The first thing I did was peel the blue film off.  Born Pretty Store plates and stamper set (the plates are silver with a blue protective film o...

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...