Naughty or Nice?

Are you Naughty or Nice?

It's up to you to chose!

If you're Naughty, you'll want one of these collections for yourself.

If you're Nice, you'll want to give a collection away to someone you think deserves it!

The collection includes*:

• Piperita, a Custom Apple from Candied Apple Polish
• A Dream Polish mini collection in Candy Cane
• A mini balm and cuticle oil from 365 Sunny's Skin Care in Jack Frost
• 2 Peppermint and 2 Choco-Mint Mani Bombs from Forever Polished
• Teaspoon of white snowflake glitters
• A sheet of holo snowflakes from Lou It Yourself
• A Holiday Kinderegg
• Italian Peppermints

For a Naughty entry you must be following me, regram this post on IG, making sure to use the tag #00naughty (try not to tag me, it gets crazy confusing) and tag a friend.  You must be 18 years or older to enter, I am in Europe and I can't budge on that, sorry.   Open internationally. No giveaway accounts.  Only one Naughty entry per person, please.

For a Nice entry, comment the post directly, tagging the person you think should win and tell me why!  Share your best stories and spread some holiday cheer!  Again, the person you nominate must be 18 years or older, open internationally, no giveaway accounts, one Nice entry per person.

You can only win once, either entering yourself as Naughty or as nominated as Nice, but you an both enter and nominate!

For a chance to win a runner-up prize, head on over to Facebook and give my page a 'Like', it's a little lonely over there, and tell me what your favorite thing about the holidays is, no matter what you celebrate. 

That's three prizes and two chances to win!

Giveaway ends 15 December with winners to be chosen on the 16th.

This is not a sponsored giveaway.  Everything seen was purchased by me.

Just an aside, if you enter and then unfollow after the giveaway, you will be blocked so that you'll be unable to enter upcoming giveaways.  As you can see, I host one about every month, sometimes throwing in a 'flash' giveaway along the way.  If you have unfollowed in the past, you may already be blocked, sorry!

Head on over to IG and good luck!

 *Not everything is pictured!

Pinterest!

I've been trying to figure out how to organize a Swatch Gallery to catalog all the polishes I've used.  Nothing seemed to work out, until I remembered Pinterest!

Click HERE to head over and see how much I've got done so far.  I had spent a few hours yesterday finding and organizing some of my work!  You can also always find it by clicking on 'Swatch Gallery' in the menu options above!

Vinyls

I wanted to show you what I've been working on!

Last week I got a Silhouette Cameo, a digital cutting tool. I wanted one to make custom stickers and decorations, but realized as it was on it's way to me that I would actually be able to make nail vinyls on it as well.  And I can.  I can take just about any design ever and put it on my nail!!

 This is my first attempt.  It's a free file I downloaded and then shrunk and then sat and 'fixed' making sure all the lines, now smaller, would cut correctly.  I really love how it came out!

A sheet of two of these will be included in my Naughty or Nice giveaway, which starts this weekend!

I'm also currently working on creating a whole bunch of other things, from laces to stripes to little motifs. I can't wait to share more of them with you.

If you have any requests, please let me know!

Duo-Duochrome: A Tutorial

• Apply two duochrome polishes with similar tones (but different accents!) each to opposite sides of a square stamper pad.

•  Using a long and thin striping brush, flick it back and forth, from one side to the other, using soft strokes.  You can chose to only flick part of the stamper, or the entire length.  The amount of your flick with vary the amount of blending the two polishes achieve.

• Set it aside and let it dry about 15 to twenty minutes.  You don't want it to be wet, but you don't want it to be completely dry to the point it flakes.

• Carefully peel it off from the stamper and apply it to your nail like you would the decals in my previous tutorials.

• Tidy up, if required!

This is a fairly complicated look although it's very simple to make.  The effect is completely depended on the duochrome aspect of the polishes you picked and even more intense in varied lighting!

Born Pretty: A Review

My long awaited Born Pretty stamping plates arrived yesterday.  I ordered set 02-10 and it cost $14.39, shipping was free and I applied a discount code.

Sadly, they are nothing like I expected.  They are so disappointing in so many ways!

The designs are not as pictured.

Not only are the discs arranged differently, some motifs are missing all together!  You can see that best in the plates shown below.

The designs are tiny compared to the picture!

Some of them wouldn't even fill the shortest of nubs!  It seems like they shrunk the designs so to fit as many on a plate as they could with no regard to quality or ease of use at all. 

Many of the designs are missing all together!

Most of the designs I had most looked forward to ended up not looking anything like pictured on the site!

The designs are poorly etched.

Many of the designs are wobbly when stamped because some parts are deeper than others.  The fine motifs are very hard to print, the details hard to catch because they're uneven.

I am so disappointed in not only the excessive time it took to arrive to the fact it's not what I had hoped for.  I cannot recommend these plates at all.