October is shaping up to be a super exciting month for giveaways! If you follow my Facebook page, you'll know that my Fall Hallow's Eve giveaway is set to start up tomorrow, but I wanted to let you guys know that I'm involved in another giveaway currently. The ladies over at My Nail Polish Is Poppin' are celebrating their one-year blogiversary by having a fantastic giveaway! There are a ton of awesome prizes up for grabs including prizes from LynBDesigns, Llarowe, Chirality, Gothic Gala Lacquers, just to name a few!
I saw Leah and Panacea's call for collab prizes go out a few weeks ago and decided to join up for this giveaway. They're both such sweet gals and they deserve an awesome party to celebrate all their hard work this past year. After thinking long and hard (and losing the first package in the mail. Curse you, USPS!), I decided to donate 3 mini bottles of Hit Polish Nail Lacquer from her Halloween collection. Rachel always comes up with such lovely creations and her Halloween polishes are stunning! Check 'em out!
From left to right, this is Witches Brew, Halloween 2.0, and Jack Loves Sally. They're all glitter toppers in a clear base and they are so pretty in person! So that's my contribution to Leah and Panacea's awesome giveaway. You can enter via the Rafflecopter widget below. The giveaway runs through Oct. 20th, since many of the prizes are Halloween-themed, they wanted the winners to be able to have their prizes by the 31st. This giveaway IS open internationally, so those of you not in the U.S. can definitely join in! Ok, enough jawing from me...enter away! Thanks for reading and good luck :)
P.S. If you're answering any questions in the widget that require a blog comment, you need to skip on over to the original post to answer them. Leah & Panacea need to be able to verify the comment on their blog for your entry to count! If you've already commented here on my post, never fear! I'll make sure your entries still count! But, for future reference, head on over to My Nail Polish Is Poppin' for those comment entries :)
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Howdy all! Sunday evening posts always leave me a little sad cuz it means that the weekend is just about over. However, it is impossible to be too sad whilst wearing the fabulousness I have on my nails today! Some of you know of my obsession with Emily de Molly's "Forces" polishes. I now own all three...there's just something about knocking out a lemming that makes your day a bit brighter, yes? :)
Anyway, on to the polish pics!
Dark Forces is a black jelly jam-packed with holographic silver glitters in several sizes of hexes and large dots. Oh how she sparkles in the light!
I really don't have a lot to say about this polish. It's wonderful! The formula is great, easy application, no dragging or balding with the glitters. I'm wearing 3 coats in these photos which gives full opacity.
It's like having a galaxy of tiny, colorful planets on your fingertips! The depth and the layering of the glitters are so lovely.
In my experience so far, Emily de Molly polishes are really worth the price. They retail (on Llarowe) for $13-$15 for a 12ml bottle. I've swatched the other "Forces" polishes here and here, if you'd like to take a gander at their gloriousness as well.
Thanks so much for reading!
Howdy, everyone! Today (well, late last night really) I tried my hand at some stamping. I rarely do anything with stamps, mostly because my plates kind of suck. I've got some new ones coming from Born Pretty Store (btw, feel free to use the code in the side bar for 10% off your order with them) so I'm hoping those will be a bit better. If you'd like to see some examples of excellent stamping, I urge you to check out Kimber's Lacquer Korner. She's a real expert at it and I'm in awe of her skillz!
Anywho, on to my stamping attempt.
I started here with 2 coats of Tidal Wave by Sinful Colors, a barely-there-baby-blue creme. To create the rainbow effect for the stamping, I dropped 3 different polishes on the plate before scraping it in several directions. Llarowe posted a little tutorial on her facebook about the technique last week, so I thought I'd give it a shot. I used China Glaze Sunday Funday, Barielle Cosmic Kiss, and Sally Hansen Hard as Nails Limestone.
I'm reasonably happy with the result. In fact, since this was my THIRD attempt at stamping last night, I'm freakin' thrilled to have accomplished this much. Seriously, new plates cannot get here fast enough! As you can see from my thumbnail in the above photo, the images on these plates really aren't large enough to cover all my nails, even when I manage to line it up perfectly...which really doesn't happen that often lol
How about you guys? Are you master stampers? Or novices like me? Any tips?
Before I sign off for the evening, I want to remind you all to enter my Birthdanniversary Giveaway. I've got 3 prize packs up for grabs and only about 20 people have entered so far, so those are pretty good odds! The giveaway is open through July 18th, so don't miss out!
Thanks so much for reading!
