Gettin Girlie Has Moved!

Yup you heard right!  Gettin' Girlie has moved!  I have left Blogger and my nail blog now lives at www.gettingirlie.com!  So please change your follow thingies, RSS Feeds and whatever else to make sure you don't lose me! :)
I have set this site to redirect to gettingirlie.com so hopefully this will still post!
See you over there!

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PAA’s Monday Nail Art Challenge–Galaxy Nails!

The PAA Monday Nail Art Challenge for this week was Galaxy Nails!! Oh I was so excited about this one because I wanted to try this for so long!
I have never done sponging before and I wasn’t sure I’d be able to get the effect I wanted but I think it worked out pretty well!
This is also often called Nebula nails, and I’m soooo in love.  I hope this one lasts a while because I really don’t want to take it off!

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Rawwrr! Night Prowl!

I love black… I love purple… I love glitter.  OMG I LOVE BLACK PURPLE AND GLITTER!!  When it comes to me and polish, I’m not sure it gets any better than Wet n Wild Wild Shine Night Prowl!  I’m in love!
It goes on smooth and evenly, it takes two coats (or one if you put it on thick enough) to get a nice cover, and it’s just so damn subtle and pretty!  Ok, not subtle in the way that a nude color would be, but when you look at some of my other more ‘blingy’ polishes I’ve worn, the glitter in this is subtle. 

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PAA’S Monday Nail Art Challenges – Animal, Splatter and Layer

I’m a bit behind on updating my entries for PAA'S Monday Nail Art Challenge, not that I haven’t been doing them, I have… I’ve just gotten behind on my photo editing.  I had to replace my laptop recently and one of the main problems with my old one was that I couldn’t edit more than one or two photos before laptop came to a halt.  It was very frustrating… but now I have an awesome new machine and am back in action!

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World of Warcraft Lava Nails

After trying out the High Def with Silver Shatter I wanted to do something with a crackle polish that had a bit more oomph to it.   My husband and I have been playing a little World of Warcraft recently and I thought, hey… why not make some lava nails!
Here’s a photo for those of you who have never played.  Yes, I actually love you all enough to log in and fly to somewhere with lava just so you could see what I am talking about.  I bet you all know where I’m going with this already!

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Nail Mail From Kati!

Just after I got back from my holiday I got nail mail from my friend Kati. We had planned to swap some polish the next time we met up, but with both our holidays our paths never seemed to cross.  The sneaky devil stuck my polish in an envelope and mailed it!  I was so excited to get this unexpected package!
I immediately sat down to test out these polishes!

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My First Pedicure

This is a post that was originally written for Canadutch, my personal blog. Seeing as it pertains to nails, I thought I would copy it here as well, as I think some of you will get a kick out of it!
Last week my friend Penny and I got together for pedicures.  It was my very first pedicure ever, can you believe it?!  It’s something I’ve always wanted to do but either I didn’t want to spend the money on it or I was freaked out about people messing with my feet. 

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My First Swap!

A few months ago I was contacted by Caroline from Shadow's Nail Art about doing a swap.  I’d never done this before and was a little nervous at first as I didn’t know her or any of the other girls in the nails community.  The thought of buying a load of stuff and sending it off to a stranger felt a bit strange, but after mailing with her a bit I got a really good feeling about her and decided to go for it.

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Monday Nail Art Challenge–Taped Mani

It’s been a while since I’ve taken part in PAA's Monday Nail Art Challenge as I was away on Holiday and then bummed about how my nails were ravaged by camping. Now I’m back though and just in time for one of my favorite themes – taping!!
This theme was largely inspired by Jane over at Nailside, who is the queen of taping.   She’s done more than one mani that I really love and have wanted to try.  I’m still working up the courage to try her Double Lightning Bolt!

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Pink for Suzie!

Recently a friend of mine found out that she has breast cancer.  This is something that has struck far too close far too many times for me.  She has been a real trooper though and her strength and optimism is inspiring.  She has been blogging about her experience and it’s quite an interesting read.  In fact, I find myself wishing that she’d started blogging long ago as I like her writing style.

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See Ya in Two Weeks!

I am off on holiday!  We are going to the south of France to visit my husband’s family and will be taking off on our own to spend five days camping in the Pyrenees!
This is where we will be camping.  Pretty awesome, right?
See you all in two weeks! 

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*Queen Wave* Oh! OH! I’d like to thank my mother and…

Awards! More awards! haha  Oh I love me some awards, have I mentioned? It makes me feel special!  Yes, I really am that easy.
The girls from Haute Lacquer and The Manicured Monkey have sent me the Top 10 Award! Thank you thank you!
Rules:
1. Thank the person who tagged you and link to their blog.

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PAA’s Monday Nail Art Challenge

A while back I joined a group on Facebook called Polish-aholics Anonymous, which was created by Traci from The Trace Face Philes.  It’s basically a group of women who love polish and nail art who came together to share their obsession.  It’s a great place to chat about nails if that’s what you are into and what I like most is that there are a lot of women in there who make me feel a lot better about my little addiction.  Some have hundreds of polish!  So I always have a "I could always be worse…” example! haha

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Zebra Stamping

The other day I wanted to try something cool with some Lego stickers my husband had.  I was going to paint my nails white and add the stickers to the nail and put a topcoat over, it was all very cool in my head.  It didn’t work out quite as I had hoped… The stickers were a little too thick, plastic rather than thin paper, and they wouldn’t stay bent to stick to the nail.  So I gave up.

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Givaway Win Nail Art

I’m really milking this giveaway win, aren’t I?!
I loved these polishes so much I wanted to try to do something fun that included all three.
Cute, huh?  I just love it! I really like dotting, I can imagine it would be even more fun with the proper dotting tools, rather than my homemade jobbies.
I was going to take a photo of the mani with a matte coat, but when I put the matte coat on it looked almost exactly the same!

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Giveaway Win Swatches

Here are some swatches of the polish I won from Traci's giveaway.
In case you missed it, these are the polishes I won. Pretty hot, right?!
This is two coats of It’s Up To Blue. I really like this color a lot!  I’m so weird about blues at the moment though after getting serious staining (even with a base coat) from Finger Paints Teal of Fortune and Essence Let’s Get Lost.  Since my nails were already stained from Let’s Get Lost, it was kind of hard to tell if I got any staining at all from this polish.  I think I’d wear it even if it did stain, to be honest, because I’m just a big fan of this blue.

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Cherry Blossom Nail Art

A while back I saw some Cherry Blossom Nail art by Kayla Shevonne, and I loved it!  I may have pestered her a bit asking for a tutorial and last week she totally came through!  She made it look so easy, but she is an evil trickster! I tried twice and mine didn’t look nearly as good as hers.
I’m just telling myself it’s because I'm new and don’t have as many materials to work with. It makes me feel better.

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Giveaway Nail Mail!

I won my first giveaway! Sweeeeet! I was one of three winners in Traci's 200 Follower Giveaway!  Today a received Orly’s It’s Up To Blue, Oh Cabana Boy, and Shine.  I love the bottles, with the rubbery handles… I need to think of something cool to do using the three colors together.
To be honest, after filling out so many giveaway forms, posting all the photos and links to the giveaways I didn’t think I was ever going to win anything haha but I did!  It was so exciting too!  I guess it’s just like Traci says, you can’t win if you don’t enter.

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My First Franken: Space Dream

Wow, a lot of firsts on this blog… guess that’s part of being a newbie!
I’ve been reading a lot on Facebook and other people’s blog about ‘Frankens’  … basically, polishes that people create by mixing existing polishes they already have.  I don’t have a lot of polish but I did have a few old ones that I never use, so I gathered them up and started mixing.

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Gosh: Green Hawaii

This bottle has been hanging around in my stash for about two months now, and I kept meaning to give it a go but each time there was something else I’d get distracted with.  Today I finally got around to trying it and I’m a little torn.
On the one hand I really like the green and the glitter, but on the other hand, it does that ‘hungry glitter’ thing where the bumps show through even with  thick layer of Seche Vite over top.  It’s not as bad as I’ve seen it happen with other glittery polish but just enough to get on my nerves.

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Glitter Skittles Matte

What’s a girl to do when she has a great Glitter Skittles Mani and she knows it will need to be removed shortly?
Mattify that sucker!!
I think they all look pretty cool with the matte finish, which is funny considering until not that long ago I wasn’t a fan of any matte at all.  Since I got the Essence Matte topcoat I have gotten in the habit of seeing what every mani looks like matted before I remove it.  Sometimes I like it so much I even wear the mani an extra day or two just to have a bit more time to enjoy it.

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Glitter Skittles

After testing out my new Miss Cop glitter that I bought at the market, I wanted to see what it looked like on a black base.  As I was getting everything out I realized I had other new glitters that I haven’t tried yet, and some I’d like to compare.  That’s when it hit me… glitter skittle!!  Well, nine glitter and one flaky but whatever, apples and oranges.

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