Happy Thanksgiving!

It's finally here!

Thanksgiving is finally here and all I can say is man, I'm SO ready for some turkey!! 

Of course you all know I procrastinated until this morning to create my Thanksgiving nails and I wanted to do something great and you know I had issues and got super pissed off. But, after a few hours I've finally finished! And with a grumbling tummy I'd like to show you all my Thanksgiving nails for this year!

I started off with a base of Color Club Cosmic Fate, I've been using this color so much lately, it's such a beautiful fall color! When that dried I created everything else with various acrylic paints. When I finished I sealed everything in with two generous coats of Essie Good To Go to get a great shine. 

snooooooop!

While these nails really gave me an issue, I'm happy that I finally got them done because I love them! Charlie Brown is one of my favorite things to watch around the holidays so I always try to fit in one manicure dedicated the them. 

What do you think guys? What are you wearing on your nails today?

I hope all of you that celebrate Thanksgiving have a wonderful day filled with food, family, fun, and of course so much love.

If you're on instagram tag me #pinkandpolishedthanksgiving so I can check out your Thanksgiving nails!!

Thanks loves :) 

A pre-Thanksgiving water marble

Happy Wednesday before Thanksgiving loves!

I hope you are enjoying today, it's snowing here and aside from running around like crazy I'm totally loving it! Yeah I know I'm one of those weird people that love the snow LOL. Never know how much we're going to get though, Massachusetts is so unpredictable.

But anyways, I've done a lovely pre-Thanksgiving water marble manicure to share with you guys today. I made sure to pray hard to the water marbling gods and they answered! They did confine me to two colors though, I tried to add gold and they were like "Hey Kristine! Stop pushing it or you can f*ck off!" ;) Want to check out what I managed to do?

Alright, I started off with a base of OPI You Don't Know Jacques! on all of my nails. Then I taped them off and created the water marble using OPI You Don't Know Jacques! and Color Club Cosmic Fate. I removed the tape, cleaned up, and applied Essie Good To Go to finish it off. 

I don't know about you guys but I'm so loving tone on tone, or close to tone on tone manicures lately. Especially with neutral colors like these. So fall appropriate but they still have so much visual interest. And I mean holo... come on do I have to say more? <3 

If you're celebrating Thanksgiving tomorrow don't forget to do some stomach excercises today! And by that I mean eat, eat, eat! Have to make sure you've got ample room to fill up with turkey ;) 

Talk to you guys soon!
Thanks so much loves :) 

A Thanksgiving Houndstooth

Darlings!

Ready for some more Thanksgiving-esque nails? I'm actually completely smitten with these nails, neutrals and houndstooth, yum! It's a little known secret that I absolutely love houndstooth print, I never used to until I met my best friend. She has been obsessed with houndstooth for as long as I can remember and finally it rubbed off on me. I just can't get enough! 

Ready to get this design started? Let's go! 

I started off with a base of The Little LacquerBean Sweet Irish Cream. When it dried I taped off around my nails and created a gradient using both colors from The Little LacquerBean Chill Chasers Duo, Sweet Irish Cream and Spiked Hot Chocolate. After I removed the tape and cleaned up I stamped over everything with Maybelline Color Show Bold Gold and Bundle Monster plate BM-322 (hey that's my house number! Shhhhhh) Lastly I sealed it all in with Essie Good To Go and that was it!

Best way to hide a less than perfect gradient? Stamp over it! I wish I had taken photos of my other hand, the gradient was horrendous because I was low on time but I stamped over it and it looked just as good as my other hand ;) Secrets secrets!!! 

On a side note, I LOVE the hint of holographic sparkle in this from The Little LacquerBean Sweet Irish Cream. It's just enough to catch your eye but not so much that it dominates the whole design. And this color combination pleases me, so many neutrals yet such a wonderful outcome. 

What do you guys think? 

Oh and incase you've forgotten... 4 MORE DAYS UNTIL THANKSGIVING! Because you know I'm counting down the hours until I can stuff my face.

Thanks loves :) 

Shake your tail feathers

Hey guys!

I'm so excited! Do you know why? Maybe because in less then a week I can eat a disgusting amount of food and not even be ashamed ;) I LOVE Thanksgiving! I love spending time with my family and all that food.... that glorious food! Ugh I just can't wait! So I've decided to do a few 'Thanksgiving-esque' designs leading up to my Thanksgiving nails which I'll show you all on Thursday. Oh and if anyone has any ideas what I should do please let me know! 

This first design I really enjoy. I love this stamp because it reminds me of turkey tail feathers, and add holo to anything and I'm hooked :) Let's get started!

I started off with a base of Lime Crime Milky Ways on my middle and ring finger and Color Club Cosmic Fate on my pointer and pinky. I stamped over my middle and ring fingers with Color Club Cosmic Fate and Bundle Monster plate BM-212. And because I didn't like the way the stamp was near my cuticles I decided to add a half moon to both nails with the same color. I sealed it all in with Essie Good To Go and that was it. 

Mmmmmm dat sparkle doe *.* I love the understated-ness (is that even a word?) of these nails but once they hit the sunshine BAM! Sparkle <3 

What do you guys think? What will you be wearing on your nails for Thanksgiving? Or are you like me and haven't planned that far ahead yet? ;) 

Thanks loves :)

Happy Thanksgiving!

Happy Thanksgiving to all my little turkeys that celebrate!! :) 

Thanksgiving is one of my favorite holidays, food and family always go so well together! You know what else goes great together? Teddy bear pilgrims and turkeys!! Yes, you heard [read?] me right! LOL! I wanted to do some cool nail art for Thanksgiving and I saw THIS photo online and knew I had to use it as inspiration! 

I started with a gradient of Azature White and Pure Ice Gold Dust. I painted the teddy bear pilgrim and turkey using acrylic paints and the leaf designs with China Glaze Harvest Moon. I used NYC Matte Me Crazy for a flat finish and viola! Finished :) 

AND you guys get a special Thanksgiving treat, my 'Cinderella hand' ;) My nails are super short on my right hand because I broke one yesterday :( But oh well I loved this design too much to resist!!

What do you think?! 

I like to take times like these and reflect on what I'm grateful for. I'm so grateful for my family, friends, and my boyfriend but there is another thing, or things, that takes a special place in my heart. I am so truly grateful for all of YOU. Every one of you that comes here and reads my little blog are the reason I do what I do. I paint my nails because I want to share with all of you my love for polish. Your comments and just the pure fact that you stick with me through all of my ramblings and my slightly crazy moments makes all of the time I put in to this blog worth it. I don't ever want to take any of you for granted because without all of you this blog wouldn't be the source of true happiness that it is. So thank YOU from the bottom of my heart :) 

I hope you all have a wonderful Thanksgiving and I hope you stop by again soon ;) 

Thanks lovelies!

Gobble gobble!

Happy Thanksgiving all!! :)

Can I just say I'm SO ready to eat a ton of turkey?! Yum! LOL 

I've got my Thanksgiving Day nails to show you guys.... when I sat down to paint these last night I had absolutely no idea what I was going to do :( So I decided to google "Thanksgiving nails" and see if I could get some inspiration! And whaddaya know? I stumbled upon THESE nails by Miss Jen Fabulous over at Polish and Pearls! And I've discovered that she's so awesome!! So you guys better go check her site out! :) 

Anyways I really liked the whole turkey feather look but I wanted to do something more... you know because I can never leave well enough alone ;) I knew I wanted to do a cute little turkey so I returned to trusty Google and found THIS adorable picture of a turkey! Naturally I tried to recreate this on my nail and I really like the way they came out! 

Whew this is turning out to be quite a wordy post! lol Without any further ado I present my Thanksgiving nails! :)

Colors used:
- Finger Paints Paper Mache
- Sinful Colors Unicorn
- Ms. Pedicure Red
- Wet n Wild Sunny Side
- Black Acrylic Paint
- White Acrylic Paint
- Brown Acrylic Paint
- Light Brown Acrylic Paint

Ugh I hate the fact that I lost the corner on my pointer :( And don't mind the cuticles they're totally hating on me right now ;) LOL But awwwww little turkey baby! 

So what do you guys think? What are you grateful for? :)

I hope everyone who is celebrating Thanksgiving has a fantastic one and all who are not still have a fantastic day!!  

Thanks for reading and don't go far..... in a couple of seconds my giveaway is going to be LIVE!!!! :D Woohoo!