My Not So New Year-sy Look

Happy New Years Eve everyone, I hope you are enjoying yourselves.

*Some of the products in this post were sent to me by the company in exchange for an honest review. As always, all opinions are my own. For more info you can view my disclosure policy here.*

Well look who's back! I meant to be back the day after Christmas but decided to spend more time with the my family. The older I get the more I realize just how important that is. I had no idea what to do for NYE, I knew it didn't have to be super fancy since we don't go out, but I decided to go with silver and gold.

Pixie Dust Roses

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*The products in this post were either purchased by me or won in a giveaway. As always, all opinions are my own. For more info, you can view my disclosure policy here.*

Since I was already thinking about using the decals that I bought I went ahead and did it. I knew if I put it off it would likely never get done. I borrowed the idea of using a black texture from Erica's Nails and More and used these purple roses from bps.

More Holiday Nail Art

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I decided to try my hand at some free hand nail art since I'm almost out of holiday stamps (I knew I should have gotten the BM holiday set). I think the first time I saw this idea was on Nail by Kayla Shevonne, correct me if I'm wrong. I think these dotted trees are adorable.

BPS Water Decal Review

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Today I have another review for some BPS products to share with you. This time I have some water decals. I've mentioned in the past that I bought a sheet sometime last year and I still haven't used them so this is my first experience with BPS water decals. I did order a couple sets from someone on Etsy but I was not happy with those. If you would like to see them just let me know down below and I'll post those as well. They are cute. But onto these:

AIS: Animals

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First of all let me apologize for my nails and cuticles. I filed my nails way too short and I hate the way they look. My cuticles are super dry, the winter is wreaking havoc on them. I've been oiling them nightly and lotioning multiple times a day but I may need to oil twice a day. I wasn't gonna post today but I just couldn't pass this weeks AIS theme up since I have been loving animal print so much.

Polish Me Silly Candy Cane Kisses and Surprise Me

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Today I have two polishes from a brand that I have been wanting to try for a while now. They are Polish Me Silly formally known as Lush Lacquer. I won a giveaway on their FB a couple weeks ago for two bottles of my choice from their new Christmas collection. I chose Candy Cane Kisses and Surprise Me.

Spellbound Nails 'Twas The Night Before Christmas Collection & Giveaway!!!!

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I am very excited to share today's post with you. It should come as no surprise to you to hear that I love everything Ashley comes up with and that goes double for her Christmas collection. Who couldn't love polishes inspired by 'Twas The Night Before Christmas? I was super excited when she announced her inspiration and previews of the collection, but they are even more beautiful in person! Make sure you stay tuned until the end as Ashley has put together a wonderful gift for you!

AIS: Using Three Blues

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Looks who's back to participating! LOL Sorta seems like fate that this weeks theme was using three blues since I had already planned on something like this since I saw a mani my wifey did last week. And, it should come as no surprise that I went with a gradient ;)

One of My Favorite Things

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I am totally in love with these nails. It certainly doesn't go with our weather as it's been in the 60s and 70s this week but we did get a few flurries last week. For about 15 mins lol. But I love all things snowflakes and have been waiting all year do some.

Glitter Me This Golly, You're Swell

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Today I have a second Glitter Me This holo to show you, thanks to my wonderful wifey. And this one, like the other, is a beaut! I think this one would be nice for someone who likes a more subtle holo.

Color Club Berry and Bright

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Can you guys believe it is already December??? Where has the year gone? It's always bittersweet when time seems to fly by: for me it must mean I've enjoyed my days but then again it just means I'm getting older. Whomp whomp... But one the bright side: it's time to break out those Christmas manis! I decided to start with a nice red from Color Club's 2012 Winter Affair collection: Berry and Bright.

Ellagee Not The Droids You're Looking For

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*The products in this post were won in a giveaway and bought by me. As always, all opinions are my own. For more info you can view my disclosure policy here.*

Today I have the other polish to show you that I won from Ellagee Nails a few weeks ago. I also tried my hand at a jelly sandwich again. I was in love with how these turned out. NTDYLF is described as "a faintly gold tinted base with silver hex, blue dot, and gold dot glitters. Inspired by my favorite droids, R2-D2 and C3PO." 

Turkey Day: A Sorta Fail

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Who's ready for another fail? Well, its only a sorta fail but anyway... I decided that this year I wanted to do Thanksgiving nails because I don't *think* I did any last year. I really can't remember lol. I also decided I was gonna try my hand at making a stamping decal. It seemed easy enough...

This Is Why I Don't Do Free Hand...

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I'm sure by now you've all seen those gorgeous waterfall manis that the Nailasaurus does, as well as quite a few recreations. I have been meaning to try it for quite some time but for some reason just kept putting it off. Now I know why....I'm not sure what this is but it's not waterfall.

Glitter Me This- He Peri-winked_led At Me

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Today I have a beautiful purple holo to share with you from Glitter Me This. I picked this up a few weeks ago when the free etsy gift card was available from Wrapp. My girlfriend also got one and let me use it to get another polish from GMT that I will show you soon. But first I give you He Peri-wink_led At Me:

Adventure in Stamping: I'm in the Mood For _____

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Tonight post is a late, late one for me and I hope I can get it in under the wire. I usually like to get the AIS prompts done on Wednesday but this week's wasn't done until 7 this morning. And I really didn't have the drive to edit pics and post but I knew I had to do it. This week's prompt was I'm in the Mood For ___, and I've been craving warm weather and bright sun. I'm so over fall/winter already and it just started.

SinfulColors Thimbleberry

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Today's post has what I consider a fail at the end. But first let me start off by showing you another polish that I've had for a while and are just now using: SinfulColors Thimbleberry. I remember seeing it last year around this time and thinking how pretty it was.

LA Colors Paisley

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I think I've mentioned before that every once in a while one of the little local drugstores around here have LA Colors for around 80 cents, and a few months back I picked up two new to me colors. One turned out to be one of my favorite polishes to date and I have no clue why it's taken me so long to show you guys. I also paired it with one of my favorite stamps, Bundle Monster's paisley.

More Animal Print

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I have a personal question to ask? How do you guys manage to stay happy once the winter months set in? I am usually so happy and upbeat almost all summer longer but once the colder weather sets in I drop into this seemingly unending funk. I've been dealing with this for the past two weeks and I'm thinking I need to win the lottery and buy a house south of the Equator so I can live in the sunshine year-round. LOL

Ok enough moping, onto what you came for...nails! For this look I started with SC Envy, a polish I snagged out of Walgreens' clearance bins a few weeks back for 50 cents! It's a very nice medium green that covers perfectly in two coats.

BPS Texture Minis

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Today I have the pleasure of showing you guys some mini texture polishes from the Born Pretty Store that I highly suspect are great dupes for some of Zoya's Spring Pixie Dust. I don't own those so I can't be absolutely sure but after looking at lots of swatches they look so to me. But I let you decided for yourself.

Adventures In Stamping: Plates Ending in 1

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This weeks Adventures in Stamping  theme is to use a plate ending in one. I decided to use a polish I recently picked up called Broadway Nails Easter Annie for the base and stamp using something besides black or white. I told you guys I would get there eventually. lol

BCA Nails

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This is the mani that i almost forgot to do. As  I was doing the AIS nails for this week I realized that I have yet to do a BCA mani. I know some people don't like to see them, really what's your problem?, If it will remind one woman to get examined then it's worth it, but oh well I wanted to do them. I also wanted to try a Chit Chat Nails style skittlette, so you get that thrown in too.lol

Northern Star Polish Winter 2013

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Hello lovelies, I am very excited to share these polishes with you today. Kristen was kind enough to send me two of her new polishes and cuticle oil to show you. These are from her Winter 2013 collection but I'll have all that info at the end..onto the polishes.

Adventures In Stamping: Halloween

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The theme for this weeks AIS was Halloween. Perfect timing since I had just seen a design similar to this by Diana van Nisselroy that I had been wanting to try. I fell in love with the colors the first time I saw it, and I couldn't to try my hand at it.

Pick-Up Sticks Anyone?

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Today's mani came about after what I was going for kept failing horribly. I was going for monster blood drips and if you follow me on instagram you know how that went. If you don't let's just say it wasn't good. Finally, after getting fed up I just decided to stamp something and call it a night.  I kept the same colors and started with a base of Sally Hansen Limestreet. I was out of topcoat so I added a coat of NL to speed up drying time haha.

Ellagee: Another Notch In My Lipstick Case

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*The product in this post was won in a giveaway. As always, all opinions are my own. For more info you can view my disclosure policy here.*

Today I have a polish that you may remember I used in my stud review from KKCenterHK. It's Another Notch In My Lipstick Case by Ellagee. I won in a giveaway, I can't remember which one though, oops lol. It's part of the Holographic Hit List Collection, which are named after some of her favorite songs and music. How perfect is that?

Adventures In Stamping: Over a Holo

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Yay it's Sunday! Or as I like to refer to it: TV Night lol. Everyone who knows me knows not to call between 8-10. Anyway, onto what you came here for. This weeks theme for AIS was over a holo base. I realized that I only have two linear holos and they are both black so it would have to be a scattered for me. I chose to use Daring Digits Amethyst and amp it up with a coat of Northern Lights. Please forgive these pictures, it's been cloudy out so I had to use the flash.

China Glaze In The Rough

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Just a quick post today as I'm not feeling too well and I almost forgot to put one up. This is a polish I picked up at Sally's when my honey went into to buy some hair dye a few weeks ago. It was the Monday after one of their half off clearance sales so there wasn't much left. I wish they had had a few more of the textures left. Oh well, at least they had this one lol.

Halloween Mani #1

Hello ladies, I hope you are all having a wonderful day! I'm super annoyed with our postal carrier but I'll get over it. I guess I just feel that during work hours you should drop the personal calls and focus on your job. But I guess putting it down for three seconds and saving yourself two extra minutes of work just isn't worth it. Ok rant over...

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I can't believe I waited so long to do my first Halloween mani of the year. I was so excited for October to get here and then I got caught up in other things and half the month is gone already! That makes me a saddy pants :( I have another planned, make that two just thought of something else I want to try lol. This look was inspired by one that Nails by Kayla Shevonne posted a few days ago.

Adventures In Stamping

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I'm very excited to be writing today's post. A while ago I found the Adventures In Stamping group on Facebook and I just had to join. It's a great place if you love to stamp. There is always something new happening, whether it be new plates or stamping polish or just advice being shared. I also hear that they do great group buys. But my favorite is the weekly stamping challenge. Everyone gets to vote and then you post your manis on Sunday. I have been meaning to participate ever since I joined but I can never seem to get it together. That's why I'm so excited that I actually manage to get it done this week!

Hit the jump to keep reading....

Nail Pattern Boldness A Good Man Goes to War

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For your viewing pleasure today I have a Good Man Goes to War from Nail Pattern Boldness. Why do I always wanna write Nail Pattern Baldness? I think I've even said it that way a few times lol. This polish was part of her Dr Who collection and even though I'm not a fan of the show, I believe you don't have to be in order to love a good polish.

Spellbound Nails Halloween Thermal Duo

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*The products in this post were purchased by me, at a discount, for an honest review. As always, all opinions are my own. For more info you can find my disclosure policy here.*

I'm very excited to be showing you the thermal duo that Spellbound Nails created for Halloween. She also created 6 other shades based on the movie Hocus Pocus, you can check those out here. They are all so great, I wish I could have picked them all up. But let's focus on what you came here to see...

KKCenterHK Nail Studs

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Today I have some studs to show you guys from KKCenterHK. I've been meaning to do this review for a while and have no better excuse for not other than I just hadn't used them yet. Bad, bad blogger! But, every time I use embellishments I remember just how much I love them, these being no exception.

Incoco Halloween Nail Strips

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I'm doing things a little different today in that I'm showing you the strips before I wear them. I wanted to make sure that you got a chance to see them before Halloween was over in case you wanted to purchase some of them. And lets face it, it might be a while before I get around to wearing them all. So I will show you a photo of each (there are 4), a little about them, and then tell you where to get them at the end...ok? I give the The Fright Night Collection:

WetnWild Swatches

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**please excuse the weirdness of my skin in some of the pics, I have no clue what's wrong with them. The pics look fine before I upload them into the post.**

*The products in this post were won in a giveaway. As always, all opinions are my own. For more info, you can view my disclosure policy here.*

Wow, I can't believe it's been almost a week since I've posted! I've got plenty of material I just haven't sat down and wrote anything out. I really do need to make a better effort here as I've got a few reviews that have to get done as well as lots of other lovelies to share with you. But to day lets start with some swatches of the LE Wet'n'Wilds that were released a while ago. I was so excited to win these from Of Life and Lacquer as I never could find them in my area.

Hold On.....

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*The products in this post were purchased by me. As always, all opinions are my own. For more info, you can view my disclosure policy here.*

The weather has started to take a turn towards fall here (at least I think so, some in my house would beg to differ) but I'm still holding on to the last little bit of summer. To me it never really felt like summer here, and although I generally like fall I'm just not ready to give up my green grass, warm sun rays and the smell of freshly cut grass. So for this mani I went with neons, something I've been meaning to do since May!

Chalkboard Style Nails

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I'm sure by now you've all seen the chalkboard style manis that are going around. I refuse to buy a kit when I can do it with things I already have. Unfortunately my free-hand sucks and I didn't have any suitable stamps so mine is a little wonky.

Windestine When Hearts Collide

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*The product in this post was received as a prize in a giveaway. As always, all opinions are my own. For more info you can view my disclosure policy here.*

Today I have a polish from a new to me brand called Windestine. I don't know much about this brand but I do know that this polish is gorgeous! This is another polish that was part of the package I won from Polished Cousins. I still have a few more from that win that I haven't used yet too.

Orly Buried Alive

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Today I have Orly Buried Alive to show you. I bought this about a year ago and this was the first time that I wore it. It's one of those colors that you buy because you are wanting to try a brand for the first time plus its on clearance. It actually surprised me how much I enjoyed it.

Rather Boring Nails

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*The products in this post were purchased by me and won in a giveaway. As always, all opinions are my own. For more info you can view my disclosure policy here.*

Today's nail are nothing to call home about but they are pretty so I thought I would share them with you anyway. These are some that I wore awhile ago and then just kinda forgot about.

POP Beauty Violetta

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Today I have the other POP Beauty polish I picked up to show you. This is called Violetta and is probably my favorite of the two, but you guys wouldn't make me chose right? lol Just have a look at this dark magenta beauty.

POP Beauty Tangerine Taste

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Today I have a swatch of POP Beauty's Tangerine Taste. I picked this up a few weeks ago when Sindulge had a sale (big thanks to Lace and Lacquers for sharing that). I got two polishes for under $3, they normally retail for $10 each. I will show you the other one next time as well as some nail art I did with it. But for now on to what you came here to see.

Something New

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Today I have something new to show you guys but I'm not sure if I like the end results. One of my favorite bloggers, Mixed Mama, does a lot of double accent manis and I've always wanted to try one. I knew I wanted to use my new black and white glitter with a neon but I kinda made the rest up as I went.

Raspberry Hearts

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*The products in this post were purchased by me. As always, all opinions are my own. For more info you can view my disclosure policy here.*

Welcome back ladies, today I am showing you the final look of the mani that I did using Raspberry by LA Colors. Apparently I had Valentine's Day on the brain cause that's all I can think of when I see this.

LA Colors Raspberry

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*The product in this post was purchased by me. As always, all opinions are my own. For more info, you can view my disclosure policy here.*

When we were at our local drugstore the other week I noticed that they had a couple LA Colors for 80 cents. How could I pass that up? I couldn't lol...One that I picked up is called Raspberry.

Boo For Subtle Stamping and an Apology

Hello ladies, I hope you all are enjoying your day. It's raining here and I'm sure I've said multiple times just how much I hate rainy days lol

*The products in this post were purchased by me. As always, all opinions are my own. For more info, you can view my disclosure policy here.*

I would like to start off by saying that I'm sorry that I haven't posted anything in a while and I haven't been active on the page. I just seem to have lost my drive when it comes to social media. I'm still doing my nails so I have plenty of material just no drive to post any of it. In order to get back in the swing of things I started with my oldest manis, and today is a stamped mani featuring China Glaze Elephant Walk.

Smushed Roses

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*All the products in this were purchased by me. As always, all opinions are my own. For more info, you can view my disclosure policy here.*

Today I have another one of those post were things didn't turn out quite like you see it in your head. The last few manis I've done have turned out like this. I debate even posting them but in the end I figure why tha heck not? It started off fine, I used one of my favorite yellows: Sally Hansen Mellow Yellow.

Blow Fish Nails

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*The products in this post were either purchased by me or received as a gift. As always, all opinions are my own. For more info, you can view my disclosure policy here.*

I'm gonna try to keep today's post short as I'm running behind (as usual lol). Maybe one day I'll have time to sit down and draft a few post in advance. Yeah right! lol Anyhow, for today's look I started out with two coats of WetnWild's Bijou Blue. I forgot to take swatch pics but if guys would like to see some just leave me a comment and I'll get them for you. My honey got me a few WnWs when she couldn't find the pop art collect a few weeks ago so I might do a swatch post on those. Let me know if that's so something you'd like.

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Wild Monster Mani

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*The product in this post was purchased by me. As always, all my opinions are my own. For more info, you can view my disclosure policy here.*

Today I'm showing you one of my favorite polishes: Pure Ice Wild Thing. It's a gorgeous, funky lime green. I picked this up at Wal-Mart a couple years back so I'm not sure if it's still available.

Born Pretty Store Nail Art Rhinestones

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*The product in this post was provided to me by the company for an honest review. As always, all opinions are my own. For more info you can view my disclosure policy here.*

I love Born Pretty Store, they have some great nail art supplies (and other things) for great prizes and free shipping! When they contacted me about doing a review I was thrilled. I love doing reviews for companies I know and love. I chose to get something I've been meaning to pick up but never have, 2mm colored rhinestones.

Incoco Real Polish Strips

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*The product in this post was provided to me by the company for an honest review. As always, all opnions are my own. For more info, you can view my disclosure policy here.*

Today I have some Incoco Nail Polish strips to share with you. The company was nice enough to send me a couple to review and I chose Electric Wave (green) and On The Dot. I have never used any kind of polish strips before so I was so scared that this was gonna be a disaster!