Giveaway is Closed!

My Milani Glitter giveaway is closed and I will try to announce the winner tonight! It is Christmas Eve and I have a bunch of last minute things to do, so be patient.

I haven't done very much in the way of Christmas nail looks. I am definitely wearing Sephora by OPI Merry Me tomorrow, so I haven't really been trying to come up with any Christmas looks. But I did a quick moon mani on only one nail to show you. This would look great if the sticker had been placed dead center. I swear I'll get these moon manis right someday!



This is three coats OPI Glitzerland (love) plus one coat Zoya Kristi (which looks fab over OPI Glitzerland btw), no flash. Merry Christmas Eve!!!!

Valentine's Day Nail Fail

Three coats Color Club Ghost of Chance, with Essie Pama tips, with flash

I wanted to do something creative and fun for my Valentine's Day manicure. I started off with three coats of the Color Club white from the Halloween set, Ghost of Chance. Then I did my favorite kind of tip, the inverted V, using Essie Pama. This kind of tip is very easy to do free-hand. You just start on one side of your nail and make a line diagonally upwards to the middle of your nail, and then repeat on the other side. With just two strokes of your brush, you have this cool looking tip. So far so good, I liked this look.

Three coats Color Club Ghost of Chance, Essie Pama tips, one coat Color Club Yule Love It!, with flash

I should have left the manicure alone after the Essie Pama tips. But, "What's a festive mani without glitter?", I said to myself. So I did a halfmoon mani with Color Club Yule Love It! (See Yule Love It! by itself) Obviously, this is UGLY. We have a lot going on- tips, halfmoon, glitter, etc. I also must have been half asleep putting the stickers on for the halfmoons because some of them are all crooked and weird. This is a FAIL.

FAIL

After realizing that this mani was best left as an idea in my head, I covered the whole nail with Color Club Yule Love It!. Unfortunately, this is still ugly because there is white showing through and the tips look ugly underneath the glitter. LOL. So basically, this mani stinks. I am removing it and just doing a nice couple of coats of Color Club Yule Love It!. It's a pretty pinky-red glitter and that is just fine for me this Valentine's Day!

More FAIL!

Happy Valentine's Day everyone!!! I hope your Vday nail look turned out better than mine LOL!!!! Any big plans for the day? I'm not big on Valentine's Day, so my plans are to wear the MAC make-up I bought yesterday (Spring Color Forecast!!!!) and watch Glee with the boy.

The Color Club Halloween mini set is still available online at Head2Toe Beauty. Both the Halloween and Christmas sets are still available at a Beauty Plus Salon near you (I just saw them for $7.99 last weekend).

Nail of the Day: Snow Day Edition

Here in beautiful Connecticut, we have a raging snowstorm, nicknamed "Snowmageddon" by some TV reporters. So no one went to work today and I'm sitting at home doing my nails (what else do you do on a snow day?). I decided to try my hand at a halfmoon mani, using the snow-inspired colors China Glaze Frostbite and OPI Alpine Snow.

For this look, I started with two coats of OPI Alpine Snow. Then, I cut a round sticker (you can use any small round stickers or even those hole reinforcing stickers) in half and stuck it onto the bottom part of my nail. I am very impatient, so I did not wait enough time before applying these stickers. Definitely wait until your base color is COMPLETELY dry before applying the stickers to your nails.

Next, I added two coats of China Glaze Frostbite. I painted right over the edge of the sticker to make sure I covered all of the nail not protected by the sticker. When these two coats were completely dry, I slowly removed the stickers.

Two coats China Glaze Frostbite over two coats Alpine Snow, with flash

You can see that my half moons are a bit messy- that is because I didn't wait long enough for Alpine Snow to dry.

Now this might be enough for some people, but I wanted to add something extra. Namely, a coat of China Glaze Nova to make this mani look like a Snow Globe!!

one coat China Glaze Nova over two coats China Glaze Frostbite over two coats OPI Alpine Snow, no flash

I am really feeling this look today. I think it would look cool with silver as the base color as well!

one coat China Glaze Nova over two coats China Glaze Frostbite over two coats Alpine Snow, with flash

China Glaze Frostbite and Nova can be purchased online at 8ty8 Beauty.

Today is your last day to enter our China Glaze Up and Away GIVEAWAY!!!!