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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