The almost unconventional giraffe

Good morning lovelies!

I've got some more stamping for you all today :) I couldn't stay away from my stamping plates for any longer! What can I say I have a problem so what? ;) I had this idea in my head to do a giraffe mani and if you guys read my posts before you would know that I recently tried and failed on my mom's nails -_- Well I changed the colors up and they're ALMOST giraffe-y :) They basically are but I used white polish instead of yellow... aren't some of them white though? LOL take a look!

Colors used:

- China Glaze Harvest Moon

- Claire's White Stamping Polish

Harvest Moon is still one of my all time favorite polishes. It's just so unique! I'm totally rocking these right now LOL I think I'm going to have to do them on my mom too :) 

What do you guys think?

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Nude-y Kats

Good morning!!

Don't lie... I know you clicked on the post because of the title ;) LOL Sorry I just couldn't resist! And I couldn't think of a better name for my mani :) I've been dying to do some nude ikats lately and just haven't had the chance to BUT it snowed last night so I didn't go anywhere which meant lots of time for nails! Woohoo!!! Therefore I finally got around to doing them wanna see? Well scroll down! :) 

Colors used:
- Lime Crime Milky Ways
- Zoya Zuza
- Stripe Rite Striper in Black
- Kiss Striper in White

So glad I finally got around to doing them! Too bad as soon as I finished I washed a dish and RUINED them! T.T UGH I was very upset! LOL Oh well it gave me a chance to do another mani I suppose. I'll be revisiting nude ikats soon though I can tell you guys that! Now to the next want... tribal nails. Not sure I can pull those off but I'm certainly going to try so stick around! 

So what do you guys think?

Thanks for reading! :) 

Anyone up for more glitter?

Good morning everyone!

Yesterday I was out and about and found myself in Michael's (a craft store) and stumbled upon some beauties!! Tubes of glitter for .99 each! So I did what any normal blogger would do... picked up one of each color ;) LOL The glitter is a tad bit smaller than the glitter you can buy from the Born Pretty Store but plenty easy to work with :) SO wanna see what I created with them?! Beware though they were a HUGE pain to photograph -_- 

Colors used:

- China Glaze Running in Circles

- Sinful Colors Let's Talk

Totally IN LOVE with these! The time was definitely worth it here. The photographs really don't do justice to the glitter it's really quite beautiful in real life! :) 

So what do you guys think?

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Share The Love! A Valentine's Collaboration GIVEAWAY!

Since the season of love is right around the corner we thought we'd take the opportunity to Share the Love with you! In honor of Valentine's Day we've joined forces to bring you another Awesome Giveaway. 

*EDIT* There are now 19 lovely ladies sponsoring = 19 lucky winners!
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Sassy Shelly

OPI Liquid Sands mini set, Shimmer Polish- Alessandra and Kim, 

Burts Bees Lemon Butter Cuticle Cream, crystal nail file

Captivating Claws

Pretty&Polished- Phat Camp, Sea Lore- Arista, Lush Lacquer- Dreamsicle,

Whimsical Ideas by Pam- Kismet's Pajamas, Nostalgic- Way Harsh

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Shimmer Polish- Amy, Lorene and Sonia

Wishes of a Blue-Eyed Girl & Kelara Lacquer

One of a kind custom (made for this giveaway) from Kelara Lacquers- My One and Only, 

Revlon- Girly, Blue-Eyed Girl Lacquer- You Are Not Alone, star and  heart shaped glitters

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Daily Lacquer ~ All You Need is Love Collection (all 5 polishes!)

Lydia's Nails

$15 Gift Card to spend at Llarowe.com

Cosmetish

Essie Sleek Stick nail strips, Essie Hand and Body Lotion

I Love Nail Polish

2 ILNP polishes - All Gold Everything and Purple Stuff

So You Think You Can Paint

$15 Gift Card to  the online etailer of your choice!

JessiGeeWhiz

Valentine's Day 'Give Me' Collection 

6 Glitter Pots, solvent resist glitter ~ great for nail polish and nail art.

Dipped in Lacquer

Julep- Chelsea and Sandra, Vanilla Mint Lip Balm

Plump and Polished

Orly- Forever Crimson, Fowl Play and Mysterious Curse

Enchanted Nails and Fluffy Dog Tails

Sally Hansen nail strips, GAP- Gold Rush, unnamed SOPI mini

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Rimmel London- Celebrity Bash, Rimmel Nail Tip Whitener, 

GlitterLand Baby Pink Heart Glitter

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Metallic Metamorphisis, Split Perso-nail-ity and Altered Reality

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Orly- Angel Eyes, Neener Neener Nails- Butterfly Kisses, Sinful Colors- Cinderella
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Gorgeous Glamour

Ceramic Flat Iron

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Hello all you lovely people!

Today is a VERY special day, though my mom would tell you otherwise ;) Today just happens to be her birthday!!! :D I knew I had to do something super fun for her bday and what's more fun than glitter?! Absolutely nothing!! :) So I went a little crazy here but hey that's ok! Check them out!!

Colors used:

- Sally Hansen Silver Sweep

- Finger Paints Late Night Rendezvous 

So much sparklessss!! 

So here's the thing, my mom doesn't like her birthday... another year older and all that, but I have an idea on how to make it better... if you guys want to help ;)

If you all really want to make her birthday special could you do me a favor? After I started my blog my mom got really interested in it... she has been zentangling for a while now and recently decided that it was time to start her own blog. If any of you reading this are bloggers, then you know as well as I do how difficult it is to start, it can get really frustrating if no one sees what you do and sometimes you feel like "what's the point?" I know my mom is getting frustrated and the last thing I want her to do is stop because she's SO good at what she does!

SO if you want to make her birthday a really special one would you go check out her blog and fb page... and maybe if your the awesomest followers I know you are, would you follow her? I promise you won't be disappointed she's really quite amazing and I'm not saying that just because she's my mom ;) LOL 

Her blog is: HERE
And her FB page is: HERE

You guys are the best!! 

Thanks for reading my super long post :) 

Quit monkeying around!

Good morning!

Ok back story time ;) Last night I was home unusually early so for once I actually had some time to do some good old fashioned nail art! Happy dance!! My problem? I had no idea what to do -_- So I took to Twitter (if you guys don't follow me on there do it ;) @pinkandpolish) and asked for some suggestions. The lovely Swishie Nails tweeted me back and suggested a monkey! So I set off to google to get some inspiration and found THIS picture and went to work!

Oh and if you haven't visited Swishie Nails you totally have to!! She is SO sweet and her blog is fantastic! So go show it some love ;)

Next on the agenda... I would like to inform you before you see my nails that I had to file them down quite a bit the other night :( *sigh* I just couldn't keep staring at that broken corner! LOL So I present my new shorties and monkeys! :) 

Colors used:

- China Glaze Agro

- Wet n Wild I Got A New Com-Pewter

- Zoya Mitzi

- Black Acrylic Paint

- White Acrylic Paint

- Brown Acrylic Paint

- Tan Acrylic Paint

- Yellow Acrylic Paint

Love them! I used the saran wrap technique on all of my nails to get the different greens and "jungle" look. And I did the monkeys freehand. It feels good to do some freehand nail art again I really wish I had time to do more lol!

So what do you guys think?

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