Lacquered Lover NYFW Flashback Giveaway

HAVE YOU HEARD?! Lacquered Lover IS HAVING A GIVEAWAY! AND NOT JUST ANY GIVEAWAY! She has custom colored ZOYA sets from the fall 2012 collection  made just for NYFW!

Be sure to enter HERE!  Good luck to all!!

Versatile Blogger Award and Nominees!

Recently, I was nominated by the lovely Melanie of Melanie's Fancies as a Versatile Blogger! WOO HOO!!! Thank you for this. I feel so special as my blog is barely wobbling on its two feet-haha. =]

 After reading up on it, I guess the whole point to is nominate others who are fairly new to blogging. Which is cool because you get to help spread the word that there's new blogs to be read and followed! :)


Here are the rules to this award: 

1. Nominate 15 fellow bloggers who are relatively new to blogging

2. Let them know that you have nominated them.
3. Share 7 random facts about yourself.
4. Thank the bloggers who have nominated you.
5. Add the Versatile Blogger Award picture to your post

7 Random Facts About Me
     
1. I HAVE FIRE RED HAIR(I PLAN TO DO A VIDEO/BLOG POST ABOUT THE PRODUCT I USE AND SUCH AT SOME POINT, SHOULD THERE BE ENOUGH INTEREST)

                                                                           

2. I always said as a kid that when i grew up, i wanted twins...WELL I GOT THEM! AND ANOTHER ONE 17 MONTHS LATER! These are my boys on halloween last year(2012), from left to right- Brock, Liam and Michael(Mikey)

3. I love singing. Seriously, LOVE music and singing and musicals. I sang in middle and high school. Sang at our graduation ceremony and was later asked that summer if i would be interested in singing for sporting events for the local junior college...i had to turn them down as I was leaving for the military, which leads us to random fact #4

4. I was in the Air Force for a little over two years of active duty service. I left for bootcamp a week after my 19th birthday. I cut my career short when shark boy^^ up there decided he was going to become a part of the family about two years too early lol. We wanted the twins to be older before having another child but apparently THAT wasn't the plan after all! So i decided to get out of the military to be a stay at home mom. I always dreamed of having a long term military career but my kids definitely come first.

5. Also going along with the military theme...i met my husband, Brian in tech school..we found out that we were actually a week apart in training and had been in the same squadron for bootcamp the entire time..marching around one another and never even knew it. He said he saw me at karaoke one night but didn't talk to me because he thought i wouldn't be interested. But a week later he saw me again and boy did he get my attention! He was obnoxious as heck<<but he was cute, so i stuck around.. People bet that we wouldn't last six months married and in two months, we will be celebrating our sixth wedding anniversary! look at us now! :)

6. I'm a nerd...no, seriously. Doctor Who, Eureka,  Harry Potter, The Hunger Games, Twilight(ONLY FOR THE LOVE STORY-i could care less about the vampires and whatnot), True Blood, Game of Thrones, Lord Of The Rings, The Tenth Kingdom... I find myself constantly rereading the books and shows/movies. I've always been a bookworm and don't ever plan to change that! 

7. Christmas...i love the holidays so much that i have been banned from certain things until black friday...like peppermint flavored drinks and treats as well as wintery scented candles and/or scentsy and of course...the movies and music.  

I nominate the following for the Versatile Blogging award:

1. The Nail Files

2. The Polish Fox

3. Nails and a Westie

4. Miss Mani Monster

5.Polish & Puppies

6.Aglayanails

7.Southern Sparkle Nail Art

8.Just Skin, Bones and Nails

9.Splashes of Polish

10.Shannail's

11.Neffy's Nail Corner

12.Sugar Coated Nails

13.A dash of this & a pinch of that

14.MommiesManis

15.Me And My Nail Polish

And i have a bonus one!!!

16. Chansi's Mani Madness

Glitter Bomb!

Hey guys, sorry i've been quiet the last week or so. Life can be awfully crazy with little ones running around! My nails have been splitting a lot lately and i had a nasty looking crack starting on my thumbnail so i decided to do a very thin layer of acrylic on my nails...so if they look slightly different, THAT would be why. I tried to keep it as natural looking as possible. What do you think?

 Anyways enough rambling, i have a new mani to share with y'all! This one is glittertastic! Glitter, glitter and more glitter! :)

For this look, i used Nicole by OPI's Glitter Fun from the Selena Gomez Collection, China Glaze's Polarized and Sally Hansen's Xtreme Wear in Rockstar Pink!

   

So for my accent nails, i did polarized topped with confetti fun to help pull out a bit more of the colored glitter pieces from the polarized. as you can see it's a super silvery glitter but it does have some small colored glitter pieces in it..so i topped it off with the confetti fun. i think the bigger pieces from the confetti fun help to make the smaller pieces a bit more noticeable. << pretty sure i just repeated myself twice there haha... my other fingers are the rockstar pink.

I love all three of these glitters,  but rockstar pink has to be my favorite of the three. A friend of mine from my school days, Naomi, had shown me a mani of hers using that color and i instantly fell in love! I spent a month or so searching for it and was over the moon when i found it!

WARNING:PICTURE SPAMMAGE!

     

yay for glitter!! Whenever i'm in a slump, glitter or neon is my go to choice of polish, this time i opted for mega sparkle!  I hope you enjoyed this!

Valentine's Mani Monday

Okay I feel bad that I didn't get a chance to get this mani done over the weekend as discussed on my facebook page BUT I DID get to it today--spite breaking a nail, having an ironing board fall on my head and then spilling red koolaid all over my freshly mopped kitchen...what? what's that you say? It's monday? OH NOW IT MAKES SENSE! =]

So earlier today, I posted this photo on my instagram as a sneak peek to this mani!

Hooray for watermarbeling! Maybe one day I'll get really good at it... The colors used for this watermarbling included Color Club's "MODern Pink", Wet 'N Wild's "Candy-licious" and CG(Not China Glaze, but CG) Pink Candy

I also used CG Pink Candy on my middle and pinkies topped with OPI's I Lily Love You. My watermarbled fingers were topped with China Glaze's Fairy Dust and my index finger is Color Club's "MODern Pink" topped with Kiss Nail Art striping paint in silver glitter for the heart :) Enjoy the spammage!  

                       

      

    

Ignore the weird dots above my cuticles on my index/middle fingers..those are koolaid splatter stains >.<    So there you have it! Hope you enjoyed!

Glittertastic Nubbins!

So since i had to do the chop to my nails after my thumbnail breaking, i decided i needed something sparkly to cheer me up since I'm now rocking nubbins again. I was seriously bummed out about this breakage...I was finally just starting to get some good length(for me) to them and of course, my luck comes along..did i mention it was bad luck?! Damn vacuum filter! Enough with the rambling!

Earlier today on Instagram, i posted this photo as a sneak peek! HELLO HOLO-GOODNESS!!

*drumroll* I give you, Wet n Wild's Black Creme  and OPI DS Coronation topped with Ninja Polish's Hanukkah Floam!

 

So i got distracted while doing my right hand for a half a second and ended up just going from my thumb right to my index finger with the DS Coronation..oops... But i decided ehh why not mix it up a bit?!

 

So much sparkly goodness!!! The Hanukkah Floam is AMAZING. So much sparkle to it! Layered over the black, it almost looks galactic like in certain lights. I had envisioned this a few days ago, and while i wasn't anticipating it being done on my little nubbins, i still love the overall look! 

 A few close ups. I hope you enjoyed this!

Nail Break and TIOT

So this morning...I was vacuuming and was cleaning out the filter when THIS happened :(

Don't mind the black streak on my nail..that was from the attempt at water spotting my nails. You can see that post HERE... But seriously, SERIOUSLY?! The freakin' filter?! NOT happy with the vacuum right now! Oh well! I can't just leave one nail noticeably shorter than the other, so i decided to give them all the chop! 

They better grow back fast! Guess i'll put Essie's grow faster to the test! *fingers crossed* 

Later on, I remembered that it was Tuesday which meant it was TRY IT ON TUESDAY aka TIOT. So I found a polish that i have had laying around that hasn't had any lovin' and boy do i feel bad! Nicole by OPI "baby" blue by Justin Beiber from his One Less Lonely Girl collection is GORGEOUS! I can't believe i had waited so long to try it! 

From left to right- inside with flash, outside in shade, outside in direct sunlight. Such a GORGEOUS sky blue! It applied AMAZINGLY smooth. Completely opaque in two coats. I can't wait to use this baby when it warms back up and i can get a bit of a summer glow! 

Trying to find my Mannequin polish color

So recently, I found Essie's Sand Tropez at Target, when I was in civilization! I have a few other nude colors, but none seem to suit my skin tone..THIS however, I thought, matched my skin rather well!

Below, I decided to leave it glossy and to then matte it to see how it looked.

 

I think it's actually a pretty good match! I'm sure i'll find another one eventually, that might even be closer, but for now, this one will definitely work!

Tell me your thoughts? What polish have you found to be a good mannequin polish?