Pink Ice Mani

This mani was loosely inspired by Cutepolish. I made my own twist on it. I have been trying and trying to use my CG Snow Globe polish since I bought it. It's just a really thick funky kind of glitter polish. My verdict: only use it for full nail manis and use it as a base under your nail art.

I took note of the pink glitter in the Snow Globe and decided I wanted pink for a base. So here's what I came up with.

And here's my fail art attempt from the day before. I took it off almost immediately because it was just too much art, too much snow, and not really what I was looking for.

I hope I have inspired you to try your take and execution on this mani. CG Snow Globe and pink work very well together!

Christmas Tree Scotch Tape Mani

What do you think?

This week's polish haul: I've been a bad bad girl.

Here's the new additions to my polish family. I ordered some online: Amazon, Bundlemonster, Blog Sale and Nailtiques. Others I picked up at Walmart, CVS, Walgreens and Rite Aid. I'm really pleased with my pick ups this week. A lot of pretty colors.

My new polishes this week!

These are all the bottles I added to my collection this week. The last 4 were FREE. I won them in a giveaway at Amandalanadish's "Just Because Glitter and Claws Giveaway. I really love them and I don't care if they're in tombstone bottles, they are definitely for Christmas and Fall too. AWESOME! Thanks Amanda! The others I picked up around town. I was so excited over the Nicole OPI Rainbow in the S-Kylie Glitter Polish. It was the last one on the shelf and I saw someone do a "dupe post" (www.swatchandlearn.com) comparing it to OPI's Rainbow Connection and they looked identical. So I get two for one nail polish! I wanted to do swatches on my natural nails but school and housework wouldn't allow me. I still ♥ color wheels and I love swatching all my polish as soon as I get it and being able to refer back to the color wheels as a reference.

Today's "Around Town" Haul

Okay, so I had a little free time after school today and I decided I was going to check out the craft store and drugstores to see if they had any new polish. I promised myself I was NOT GOING TO BUY ANYTHING. Well.....this is how it turned out:

I bought some more paint dishes for water marbling and nail art. I picked up a couple new brush sets. I got some Sharpies for my nail art experiment and I picked up some random polishes.

The first polish is a very light blue, almost silver color. The second, is a very shimmery dark nude color that really compliments my skin tone. The third is a cobalt blue that I thought would be good for stamping (SH Insta-dries are supposed to be good stamping polishes). The fourth and final bottle is a green and gold fine glitter polish that will really be good for the holiday season. I only spent $3 on all this though. Which was good. I had a $10 Target giftcard and store credit at the craft store for returned merchandise. So I guess that makes it okay. :) I also scored some free Zoya today, as you saw in my previous post. So today was a good day.

Mountain Lion or Batman....you be the judge! Nail Art.

So, I did a little Halloween mani last night. I liked it. It looks like one of those pictures that could be one of two things. I was trying to make a frightening, toothy mouth. But when I looked at it this morning, I thought it looked like Batman. LOL!!!

Let me tell you a few things I've learned. Acrylic paints are so awesome and easy to paint with and clean up with water. Yay!!!

And I love black polish!!!!! I can't remember ever wearing an all black mani. Until now. I love it! Especially the matte finish. And also, I hereby vote Sinful Colors, Secret Admirer as my favorite polish of the Halloween season. I hunted this polish down after seeing it at a friend's house. It has a glittery black finish that reminds me of leather. I don't usually like black polish. But I'm sold on this stuff. I should have bought 2 bottles.