Day 14: Flowers

 Flowers is the theme for today. I was going to do some stamping.... but I decided to try out some freehand and dotting. I guess it turned out ok....

 

 lol yeh, those are my goofy looking flowers. I started out with 2 coats of Barry M "Spring Green" on my ring finger I used some flower shaped "glitters" that I bought from the dollar store as the accent nail.

 

 For the flowers I used a dotting tool to make the "petals" of the flowers. I used Color Mates "Metallic Venom" and...

 

 Color Mates "Look At Me!"

 

 I used a couple of stripers from the dollar store to create the center of the flowers and the flower stems and leaves.

 

 To finish it all up I dabbed on some Orly "Monster Mash" from some grass:)

 

So there you have it... my little flowers.

 

Thanks for reading and check back tomorrow for my delicate print nails :) And remember to check out the other ladies below....

Day 4: Green Nails...w/ Ice Cream

Today is Day 4 of the 30 day challenge set up by the lovely Rachel @ Polished Criminals If you haven't seen/heard about it yet, it's actually 2 - 30 Day Challenges rolled into one. It's the 30 Day Challenge, but you also have to use an untried polish for each mani.

 

Today is Green Nails and my mani ended up reminding me of mint chocolate chip ice cream... what do you think?

 

 I started out with 3 coats of Barry M "Aqua Green" over a white base. This is a very sheer polish so you really need underwear with it, unless you want to do 50 coats lol. This was an untried polish that I also just happened to get in a swap with the same Rachel that organized this challenge :)

 

Please excuse the severe lack of clean up. I needed to get it done so I could get to bed.

 

 I then used 2 coats of Wet N Wild Fergie "Tonight's Gonna Be A Good Night" which is small black hex glitter and larger gold hex glitter in a clear base. This was also an untried polish for me.

 

 I felt this was one of the few original polishes in the Fergie Collection. It seems like a lot of the polishes were dupes of previous WNW collections.

 

 The end result really made me want some ice cream lol. "TGBAGN" was a great glitter polish. I didn't have to fish any of the glitters out or place them at all. It went one great. It is a wonderful addition to my collection and also unique.

 

 

 

Well that's it for today. I hope you are enjoying the manis for this challenge, I know I am :) Thank you for reading and please make sure to check out the other ladies participating in this challenge below. Also keep your eyes open for a giveaway, I'm nearing 300 followers and my blog's anniversary!!!

 

My First Big Swap - Day 13

Day 13 of the 90 Day Challenge

So this is really my second swap, but my first one was a small one and it wasn't over seas. For more then a month I've been chatting with another blogger, Rachel (Polished Criminails) and I feel we have become friends. We even have a few jokes too. We decided to do a swap. It was easy to shop for her since she had a wishlist that was easy to work off of. I don't really know much about polishes overseas so she had a bit of a harder time lol. I looked at some sites and made a small list but I left most of it up to her, and she did a great job. I love everything she sent me.   Ok on to the spoils :)

 When I opened the box and this is what I found :) It made me laugh, but I was not fooled lol

 Rachel is a packaging queen... It makes me feel like I just threw mine in a box and mailed it lol. The jokes also made me laugh. In case you are wondering the answers for #1 is : No eye deer, and #2: Still no eye deer lol I love lame jokes because they are so lame they are funny lol

 I got candy too :) I love the suckers, they remind me of ones I use to eat as a kid. The loose polish is one she has on her blog sale and I asked for it :) Ok, no pics of the actual polish....

L to R: Tropical Sun, Juicy Jules, Aqua Violet, Golden Green 

These are my very first Models Own polishes. They were on my wishlist and I love them all. I can't wait to get more :)

L to R: Ocean, Peachy, Gasoline

These are my first Gosh polishes as well and I can't wait to try them out.

L to R: W7 - (Top Row) Metallic Saturn, Metallic Mercury, Metallic Neptune
(Bottom Row) Metallic Jupiter, Metallic Venus, Metallic Mars
Again this is a new brand to me, but the polishes are gorgeous. They are all duochrome polishes which make them even more awesome. I swatched them and they are almost identical on the nail as in the bottle!!!

L to R: Spring Green, Crock Effects, Dusky Mauve
Lol once again Barry M is a new brand to me. I can't wait to try out the crock effects. If you don't know what it is, it is similar to the crackle polish, but it cracks and looks like scales, like a crocodile :).

Collection 2000 is a new brand to me like all the others. The bottles are smaller then regular polish bottle and it make them look even cuter lol

The Saffron polish does not have a name, this is the one I got from Rachel's blog sale. The Max Factor is "Disco Pink" and the W7 is a clear top coat :) You can never have enough top coat lol :)

And I saved the best for last :) A polish that a lot of people are trying to get their hands on, and I got a bottle because of my awesome friend Rachel (and her bf lol)

Max Factor "Fantasy Fire" WoooHooo!!! This is suppose to be a close dupe for Clarins 230. I was so excited when I found out I was going to be the proud owner of this beauty.

I'm so happy with everything I got and I was able to take a few items off my lemming list. I can't wait to swap again with Rachel. If you want to see what I sent her you can find her blog post here: Polished Criminails

Well that's all folks :) for now anyways lol. Thanks for reading!

Have a great day (or night depending on where you are)!

 Please check back tomorrow for Day 14, and don't forget to check out the other girls participating in this challenge!!

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